﻿Neptunia.} MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEJE. 385 



2 lin. longa. Capitula ovoideo-glo^osa. Flores inferiores pauci masculi. Legumen 

 breviter nunc brevissime stipitatum. 



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Sab. Tropical and nortliern subtropical^ "< erica: Paraguay, Weddell; Lima and other 

 parts of the Peruvian coast, Bomhey, Cuming, n. 1027, and others ; Costarica, (Ersted ; 

 St. Domingo, S chomhur gk \ Dominica, Imray; Key-west, Florida, Jxibegel^ n. 206 (dis- 

 tributed as Acacia lutea), and apparently also Texas, Wright, n. 167, Berlandier, n. 

 2021, Emory Expedition, n. 303. The species may, however, prove to bo a variety of 

 N. lutea, distinguished chiefly by its much smaller flower-heads and the stipes of the 

 pod scarcely ever above 1 line long. 



*** Capitula glohosa, fiorihus inferiorihtis neutris v. mascuUs perpaucia v. nulUs. 



Stamina 5. 



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7. N. GHACiLis, Benth. ! in Hoolc. Journ. Bot. Iv. 355. Procumbens v. adsccndcns, 

 labra v. puberula. Pinnae 1-2-jugse ; foliola G-20-juga, oblongo-lincaria, 2-3 lin. Ion 



Pedunculi 1-3-pollicares. Legumen oblongum, 4-6-spermum. — Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 300. 

 Hob. Tropical and eastern subtropical Australia. 



8. N. MONOSPERMA, F. Mucll. in Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 300. Glabra. Pinnae 

 2_3_juga»; foliola 20-30-juga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi infra-semi- 

 poUicares. Ovarium 2-ovulatum. Legumen suborbiculatum, monospermum, 3-4, rarius 



5 lin. latum. 



Hab. Tropical Australia : N. coast, also N.W. coast, A. Cunningham. 



Neptunia acinaciformis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pars i. 51 {Desmanthus acinaciformis, Span, in Linngea, 

 XV. 198; D.piisillus, Zippel), from Timor, is insufficiently described for identification. The number of 



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stamens is not mentioned. 



Nept 



Desmanthus trispermus. Span, in Linnaea, xv. 198, also from Timor, is named only, without any cha- 

 racter, and must therefore be cancelled as a species. 



XVI. Desmanthus, Willd. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 592. 



The herbaceous or suffruticose species of this genus run very much one into another ; and probably a 

 careful study of better specimens than we possess of some of them may induce 



of their number. It is doubtful how far the size of the petiolar gland, or the exact proportions in lengtl 

 and breadth and shape of the pod may be constant. The shrubby D. 

 however, a remarkable exception. 



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arhorescens 



1. D 



viRGATUS, Willd. Spec. iv. 1017. Glabriusculus, erectus v. decumbcns. Pinntf 

 l-7-jug»; glandula majuscuk; foliola 10-20-juga, oblongo-lincaria, 2-3 lin. longa 

 Capitula pauciflora. Stamina 10. Legumen rectum v. subfalcatum, 2-pollicare v. Ion 

 gius, IJ-IJ lin. latum.— 0//i7. FL Trap. Afr. ii. 331. 



Mimosa 



Fruct 



Mimosa 



300. 

 . 445 



D. leptophyllus , H.,B. et K. Nov. Gen. ct Sp. vi. 264. 



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