IOO T/ie Flowering Plants of Western India. 



Note. There is a great general resemblance between the many 

 species of this sub-order, so that anyone who knows any of the 

 Acacias would be able to recognize without much difficulty most of 

 the species here mentioned as belonging to the family. 



(a) MIMOSE^E. Stamens generally 10. 



53. NEPTUNIA. Herbs with flowers in dense round heads 

 or spikes, stamens exserted. 



54. XYLU. A tree with flowers in round heads and large 

 woody pod. 



55. ENTADA. Woody climbers with tendrils, calyx minute, 

 pod very large, jointed outwardly. 



56. ADENANTHERA. Trees, pod strap-shaped, swelling at the 

 seeds. 



57. PBOSOPIS. Prickly trees or shrubs, pod turgid, spongy 

 inside. 



58. DIOHEOSTACHYS. Prickly shrubs, the lower flowers of 

 the spike with long staminodes, pod strap-shaped, indehis- 

 cent. 



59. MIMOSA. Shrubs or herbs with sensitive leaflets, flowers 

 in dense round heads, pod flat and jointed. 



(b) ACACIE^E. Stamens indefinite, much exserted. 



60. ACACIA. Prickly shrubs or trees with yellow or white 

 flowers in round heads or cylindrical spikes ; stamens free, pod 

 various. 



61. ALBIZZIA. Large unarmed trees, flowers in round heads, 

 stamens united at the base several times as long as the corolla, 

 pod long, thin, strap-shaped. 



(a) MIMOSEJS. 



53. NEPTUNIA. 



N. triquetra. Prostrate, creeping, with flattened sometimes 

 angular stems, and occasional small thorns, pinnae 2 to 3 pair, 

 leaflets 8 to 15 pair, oblong obtuse, heads of flowers on very 

 long stalks which have one or two bracts half way up. Corolla 

 green or yellow, staminodes of lower flowers bright yellow, pod 

 linear, very thin. 



This is abundant in ditches and pastures at Surat, which is the 

 only habitat given by either D. or G. H. has W. peninsula and 

 Bandalkand. It is not an aquatic plant, though growing in moist 

 places. 



N. ol&racecby floating, pinnae 2 to 3 pair, leaflets 8 to 15 pair, 

 obtuse, stipules obliquely cordate, flowers in spikes, pod oblique, very 

 thin. Tanks in the Konkan (D.). 



