﻿390 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. IMimosa. 



(in serie lOma polyspermum) valvis in articulos secedentibus v. in paucis* specicbus 

 indivisis, margine setoso v. nudo, nee simplici serie aciileato. 



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Series 1. Sensitivse. Serhce pei^ennes erectcs. v. scandenteSy rariiis annu(s v. frtitices. 

 FinncB unijiigce. Foliola hijuga, majusculay hasi dimidiata, marginibits nerviformibus 

 et appresse ciliatis rarius nudis ; interius paris infimi minimum hasi cequale v. defidens. 

 FedmiGuli inferiores axillares, mperiores in racemtim terminalem scepius dlspositi. 

 Capitula globosa. Mores 4<-meri v. rarius hinc inde pauci 5-meri, Legumen planum^ 

 valvis in articulos distinctos secedentibus. 



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1. M. Velloziana, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 185. Subscandens, glabra. Aculei sparsi, 

 recurvi. Poliola ovato-lanceolata, acutata, glabra v. subtus strigis paucis conspersa 

 majora sesquipollicaria. Legumen subpollicare, ad 4 lin. latum, glabrum, margine 

 setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim. 



M. viva, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 33, non Linn. 



• Var. jiramenensis, foliolis majoribus, leguminis setis marorinalibus minimis nee 



elongatis. 



M. Jiramenensis 



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Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro, San Paolo, Goyaz and Bahia ; 

 North Brazil ; Columbia, Panama, Seemann, Fendler, n. 91 ; Guatemala, Bernoulli (with 

 the pods very slightly hoary pubescent when young) ; Guanaxuato, (Ersted\ the variety 

 jiramenensis in North Brazil and Columbia. 



2. M. SENSiTiVA, Linn. Spec. 1501. Subscandens, pubescens v. hirsuta. Aculei sparsi. 



Foliola ovato-lanceolata, acuta, subtus v. utrinque appresso-villosa, majora 1J-2J poll 



louga. Legumen saepius | poll, longum, 3 lin. latum, pubescens v. villosum, margine 

 rigide ad facies parce setosum.— i^^. Bras. Mim. 



M. floribunda, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 130, non Linn. 

 M. litigiosa et M. malitiosa, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 138. 



Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia, Minas Geraes, Para and Bio Negro. 



This, the preceding, and the three or four following species, pass so nearly one into the other that they 

 would probably aU have been included by Linnaeus under his M. sensitiva ; but the one he had specially 

 in view, founded on the exceUent figure and description of Breynius, Cent. 31. 1. 16, is, without doubt, the 

 common Brazilian acute-leaved viUous one to which the name is here restricted. 



3. M. ALBiDA, Sumb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1030. Scandens, cano-pubescens. 

 Aculei sparsi, rari. Foliola ovato-lanceolata, aciitiuscula, utrinque minute cano-pube- 

 rula, majora subsesquipoUicaria. Legumen subpollicare, cano-pubescens et piHs rigidis 

 appressis strigosum.— ^o/?^^. / Mim. 2. t. 1. 



M. sensitiva, Lodd. ! Bot. Cab. t. 249, et hortul. plur. 



Sab. Tropical America : Pacific coast, Lima to Panama, Sumboldt and Bonpland, 

 Bomhey, Matthews, n. 440, Cuming, n. 1025 ; Acapulco, Sinclair. 



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4. M. FLORIBUNDA, Willd. I Spec. iv. 1031. Subscandens, pubescens v. hirsuta. Aculei 

 sparsi, recurvi. Foliola ovato-lanceolata, acutiuscula, supra glabra, subtus dense strigoso- 

 viUosa, majora subsesquipoUicaria. Legumen subpoUicare, ad 3 Hn. latum, undique 

 longe rarius breviter setosum.— ^ooAr. Ic. Fl. t. 373. 



