﻿MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. 



The following genera are limited to one of the two hemispheres : 



349 



America. 



Elephantokhiza 



Plathtmeota 



Old World. 



2 sp., Brazil, approaching on the one hand 



Xtlia 



African Entadce 

 Brazilian Piptadi 



the other the 



STKYPm^ODEKDRON . . . , 



Tetraplettra 



Adenanthera 

 Gac^'ebina. . 



Xerocladia 



DlCHROSTACHTS 



9 sp., Brazil and Guiana. No close affinity 

 except a general one with the 4 follow- 

 ing Old-World genera. 



2 sp., extratropical or subtropical South 

 Africa, near the Entadce of the same 

 country. 



1 sp,, East India and the Archipelago, M'ith 

 no immediate affinities. 



SCHEANEJA 



Ltsiloma 



Albizzia 



6 sp., of which 2 Brazil to Columbia, 4 

 Northern, Extratropical, or Central, all 

 forming more appropriately an Ame- 

 rican section of Mimosa than an inde- 

 pendent genus. 



10sp.,Columbian,WestIndian,andMexican, 



quite unrepresented in the Old World. 



3 sp., tropical Africa. 



3 sp. 2 tropical Asia, 1 tropical Auatrulia. 



1 sp., Mascarcno. 



1 sp., South Africa. 



The above four genera distinct, but gene- 

 rally allied to Stryphnodcndron and 

 Prosopis. 



7 sp* 4 African, tropical or southom rob- 

 tropical, 1 Mascarene, 1 Indo-Austra- 

 lian, 1 Australian tropiraU A distinct 



genus, generally allied to PrOiopU and 



Jfeptunia, 



40 sp., Africa, Mascarcno Islands, Asia 

 find Australia, slightly corresponding tx> 

 the American section Orthohhmm of 

 Ptihecolohhtm (2 Mexican Bp.). 



Enterolobium 



Serianthes 



Archidekdrok" 



)., Brazil to West Indii 

 tion of PithecoloUum, 



Inga 



Afponsea 



About 140 ep., spread over all parts of tro- 

 pical America, 1 or 2 sp. only crossing 

 the tropics north or south. 



3 sp., BrazU. Properly a secUon of Tmja. 



5 sp. 1, Malacca and the Archipelago; 4, 



islands of the South PaciJic. 

 2 sp., tropical Australia. 

 The last 2 genera perhaps sections of Piilic- 



cohhium. 



The distribution of the species in the two ^-^f^'^^H^^^l^^^UTTt 



in the following table, in which I have -tj^- ed ^t "t 



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regions from each 



m tne loiiowmg tame, TJ 7/ Mcpfher witliout definite limits ; but I hare teen aHe 



other, as being too much blended together mUioui c 



to distinguish 5 Old.mrld regions, with but very few overlapping sp.oies which 



to 



ipeated in two or more colmnn 



