SUB-ORDER MIMOSEiE. 



I. ADENANTHERA SERIES. 



Adenantherc? (Fr., Con dori— figs. 15-19) has regular hermaphrodite 

 flowers, with a short, hollow, cornet- shaped receptacle, bearing a 



Adenanlhera pavonina {Red Sandal-wood Tree). 



Fig. 15.— Habit. 



calyx of five 2 valvate teeth, and a corolla of as man)- alternating 



1 Adenanthera L., Gen., 526. — J., Gen,, t. 109, 111, 112. — Stachychr, - i B . 



349. — Gjertn., Fruct., ii. 149. — Lamk., Maur., 114.— Gonsii Beam., ex Adams., I\ 



Diet., ii. 7G; III., t. 334. — DC, Prodr., ii. <£e* JV., ii. 318? 



446. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, i. 61. — 'The flowers are exceptionnilj tetrnn* 



Endl., Gen., n. 6820. — B. H., Gen., 590, The gynaecenm very rarely remains rudimentary, 



n. 378. — Clypearia Rumph., Hero. Amb., iii. so that the flowers are male. 



