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and I have found them occasionally breaking up into articles in several otliers ; but in all the species they 

 appear^ sometimes at least, if not generally, to fall away without any transverse separation. 



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Petiolus glandulifer {in cceteris eglmidulosus). 



. 192. M. UNCiNELLA, PozV. Diet. Suppl. i. 80. Fruticosa, glabra v. cinereo-pubcrula 

 Aculei infrastipulares solitarii v. gemini, recurvi. Pinnge sub-S-jugse, petiolo basi glan- 

 dulifero ; foliola sub-12-juga, linearia, obtusa, parva, puberula. Capitula axillaria 

 pedunculata. Legumen lineare, falcatiim, glabrum, margine exteriorc recurvo-aculeato 



-Char, ex Foir. 



Acacia uncinella , Desf. Cat. Herb. Par. ed. 3. 299. 



Sah Cultivated in the Paris Garden. 



I have not seen this species^ which is as yet doubtful. A specimen in Herb. J. Gay, given to him as 



a 



M 



M. acanthocarpa, which has long been in Europcai 



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botanic gardens. 



193. M. EEVOLUTA, Benth. in Rook. Journ. Bot, iv. 409. Fruticosa, glabriuscula. 

 Aculei infrafoliacei v. infrastipulares, solitarii v. gemini, subrecti. Pinnae 2-6-jugae ; 

 glandula scutellata sub jugo infimo et interdum ad juga 1-2 ultimk; foliola G-10-juga, 

 oblonffo-linearia, acutiuscula, 1-2 lin. longa, glabra, costa submarginali. Capitula 



pedunculata, axillaria v. summa racemosa. Legumen sessile, curvum v. circmatum, 

 4 lin. latum, margine aculeato, valvis indivisis. 



Acacia revoluta, Kunth ! Mim. 84, t. 26. 



Rah. Tropical America: Caxamarca in Peru, Rumholdt and Bonpland; Bolivia, 

 Brydges, D' Orhigny, n. 487. 



The Bolivian specimens have rather more numerous pinnge than Humboldt and Bonpland's ; but all 



species 



Aculei infrafoliacei 



Legumen scepitis margine aculeatum 



194. M. DEPATJPERATA, Benth. ! Bl Rartw. 13, et in Rook. Journ. Bot. iv. 410 

 Fruticosa, glabriuscula. Pinn^ l-2-juga3 ; foliola 2-3-juga, ovato-orbiculata, linea bre 

 viora, cano-puberula. Capitula axillaria, breviter pedunculata. Legumen ignotum. 



Brux 



Wisli 



Rob. Tropical America : Mexico, plains of Actopan, J. G. Graham, Karwinski. 



195 M. ZYGOPHYLLA, Benth.! in A. Gray, Bl. Wnght i. 61. Fruticosa, glabra. 

 Pinnse l-juga3 ; foliola 1-juga, suborbiculata, glabra, l-ll Hn. longa. Capitula axil- 

 laria, longiuscule pedunculata. Legumen breviter stipitatum, 1-li poll, longum,^ 2-2i 

 lin.latmn, subfalcatum, glabrum, margine nudum v. parce aculeatum, valv" - 



Rah. Subtropical North America : Mexican-Texan region, Gregg, 



196 M MONAKCISTRA, Benth. ! Bl. Rartw. 12 et in Rook. Journ. Bot. iv. 410. Fruti- 

 cosa incana. Pinnae 2-4-jugie; foUola 5-6.juga, oblonga, obtusa, vix Imeam longa, 

 subtus puberula. Capitula axillaria, pedunculata. Legumen ignotum ? 



Rah. Tropical America : Mexico, Aguas Calientes, Rarticeg. ^ , ., 



An hue pertinent specimina fructifera manca Berlaudieri n. 2251 et 3145?, fohis subconformibus. 



