﻿382 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. [Bichrostacliys. 



centi-liir ti . Pinnae 5-6-jugae ; glandulse parvae subsessiles v. ; foliola multijuga, 

 anguste linearia, ad 2 lin, longa. Spicse globosae densse, pedunculo infra spicam nndo v. 

 interrupte paucifloro. Legumen sublignosum, pubescens, 2-3-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum, 

 marginibus valde incrassatis. 



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Mimosa bicolor, Hels. et Bqj. ! MS. 



■ Hab. Madagascar, Bojer (in flower), Ferville (in fruit). 



2. D. PLATTCARPA, Welw. Ajpont. 676. Hamuli et petioli pubescenti-hirti. Pinnae 

 10-18-jug9e ; glandulsB parvse, stipitatae ; foliola multijuga, anguste linearia, ad 2 lin^ 

 longa. Spicse cylindraceae. Legumen f-lj poll, latum. — Oliv. ! Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. 333. 



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Sab. Tropical Africa : Upper and Lower Guinea. 



This and the preceding species are readily distinguished from all others by the narrow leaflets. 



3. D. ciNEREA, JFight et Am. ! Frod. 211. Puberula. Pinnae S-lO-jugse; glandulae 

 ssepius breviter stipitatae (inter dum sessiles ?) ; foliola multijuga, oblongo-linearia, J-l 

 lin. longa. Spicae cylindracese. Plores parvi. Legumen 3, rarius 4 lin. latum 

 Wight, Ic. t. 357 ; Fedd. Fl. Spiv. t. 185. 



Mimosa cinerea, Linn. Spec. 1505; Eoxb. ! Corom. PL ii. 39, 1. 174. 

 Desmanthus cinereus^ Willd. Spec. iv. 1048. 



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Acacia cinerea^ Spreng. Syst. iii. 143. 

 Acacia Dalea, Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814, i, 69. 



Sab. Tropical Asia : East-Indian Peninsula. 



This and the following species are certainly, as observed by Oliver, very closely allied ; but the Penin- 

 sular specimens appear to me to have always much smaller leaflets and flowers, and a narrower pod than 

 D. nutans, and the glands of the common petiole are usually less stipitate. 



Desmanthus callistachijs, DC. Prod. ii. 445, described from a cultivated specimen from the Courrant 

 garden in Teneriffe, which I did not find, or overlooked, in De Candolle's herbarium, is distinguished by 



being 



D. nutans^ 



I should therefore be disposed to refer it rather to the D. cinerea than to 



further 



4. D. NUTANS, Benth. / in Soolc. Journ. Bot. iv. 353. Puberula v. glabrescens. Pinnae 

 5-12-jug8e ; glandulge stipitatae ; foliola multijuga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3, rarius 4 lin. longa. 

 Spicae cylindraceae. Legumen 4-5 lin. latum.— 0^i?7. 1 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 333. 



Mimosa nutans, Pers. Syn. ii. 266. 



Desmanthus nutans, \)C.Wmdi.u..4^4!Q. 



Mimosa sanguinea {Ergell y Dimmo), Bruce, Trav. vii. 147, 148, t. 6. 



Mimosa bicolor, Schum. ! et Thonu. Beskr. PL Guin. 326. 



Caillea dichrostachys, Guill. et Perr. ! Fl. Seneg. i. 240. 



445, Mem 



Prod. ii. 44 



WiUd 



Mimosa 



Mey 



Acacia adenostylis, Fenzl ! in Flora, 1844, 312. 

 Dichrostachys caffra, Meissn. ! in PL Krauss. ex 



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Piptadenia 



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Mab. Tropical Africa, apparently common tbrougbout, extending into extratropical 



