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183. Mimosa Xanti Gray. A bush 6-10 feet high. 

 The leaves are three nerved at base; the legumes are an 

 inch or more long, with an elongated linear tip, usually 

 3-4 seeded and setose upon the margins, sparingly so 

 upon the sides. Very abundant. — San Jose del Cabo. 

 Todos Santos, Sierra de la Laguna. 



184. Mimosa distachya Cav. ? A spreading bush 

 2—3 mm. high, glabrous; thorns scattered, curved: pinnee 4 

 pairs, the lowest a third the length of the upper one; 

 leaflets on lower pair 1-2, on the upper 3-4, obovate, 

 obtuse, apiculate, oblique, 2-3 nerved at base; petaloid 

 stamens numerous; legume 3-4 cm. long, setose-hispid 

 on the margins and both sides, the valves breaking into 

 3-5 joints. It differs from the description and flgure 

 of M. distachya in being entirely glabrous and in the out- 

 line of the leaf, and from AI. laxijiora in its setose-hispid 

 fruit. — San Jose del Cabo, Todos Santos, La Paz. 



185. Mimosa laxiflora Benth. — Comondu and prob- 

 ably at La Paz in flower, the species from the latter 

 place uncertain on account of the lack of fruit. 



186. Leuc^na retusa Benth. ? A slender shrub 

 10-15 feet high ; stems in clusters of several with short 

 ascending branches, the flowers borne at the top. In the 

 specimens the petiolar gland is just below the lower pin- 

 nai ; these last are however often absent, but their places of 

 attachment are always represented by scars as is the case 

 in Dr. Watson's L. laiiceolata where, they appear to have 

 been small and soon deciduous. 



187. Acacia filicina Wifld. — San Jose del Cabo, 

 Todos Santos. 



188. x\cAciA amentacea Benth, Differing from 

 Pringle's 2526 of 1889 i'^ having puberulent leaves and 

 pods. — San Gregorio, Comondu. At Todos Santos a 



