﻿Mimosa.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 411 



pubescens et strigosa. Pinnae infrapollicares ; foliola multijuga, linearia, 2-3 lin. longa, 

 glabra. Legumen sessile, crassum, oblongum, verrucosum, raargine lato, valvis indivisis. 



Fl. Bras. Mim. 



Sab, Tropical America: South. Brazil, Sello. 



This species may require further cionfirmation. I described it formerly from a single fruiting specimen 

 in the Berlin Herbarium\ The only specimen in the collection now lent me from thence, has neither 

 flowers nor fruit. 



XVIII. SCHRANKIA, WiUd. 



Benth. et Hook, Gen. PL i. 593, excL Sect. Rhodostachya. 



The genus is now limited to the capitate species with diplomerous stamens. The spicule 5-androus 

 snonies nrove to be true Mimosm. 



* Species Austro-Americancc, peduncuUs 1-3 lin, longis. 



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1. S. LEPTOCARPA, DC. ! Frod. ii. 443. Pinnoc 2-3-jugae; foliola 10-20-juga,-3 G lin. 

 longa, venis vix conspicuis. Legumen tcnue, S-^-poUicarc, long(3 rostratuni, aculcis in 

 marginibus 2-seriatis, in valvis 1-2-seriatis.— i^/. Bras. Mim. ; Oliv. I Fl. Trop. Afr. 



ii. 336. 



Sah. Tropical America : common in Brazil; also in Guiana and Columbia. Found 



' Mm— 



also in Tropical Africa and Java, but probably introduced. 



2. S. HAMATA, Sumh. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1042. Pinnae 4-5-jug8e ; foliol 

 multijuga, 3 lin. longa, crassiuscula, venis impressis. Legumen 3-pollicare, rostratnm 

 nndique dense longeque setoso-aculeatum. • 



Mimosa tetragona, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 56. 



Sab. Tropical America: On tbe Magdalena, Humboldt and Bonpland; La Paila 

 JSolton. 



\ 



typical 



Humboldt 



Kunth had not seen it ; but the one of Holton's in the Hookerian Herbarium answers precisely to 

 WilldenoVs character, both as to the prickles of the pod and the impressed veins of the leaflets, \v{iich 

 are both exceptional in the genus. 



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Species Americce borealis v. centralis, pedunculis semipollicem et scepius poll 



ewcedentibtts 



3. S.ACIILEATA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1041. Aculei sa^pius distanti^s, rccurvi. Pinn 

 2-3-jug8e; foliola 8-15-juga, 2-3 Un. longa, obscure venosa. Pedunculi subpollicnre 

 Legumen breviter acuminatum, 2-3-pollicare, aculeis pluriseriatis ssejiius brevibus. 



Mimosa 



Sab. Tropical America : near Vera Cruz, in Mexico, Schiede, Ferd. Mueller 



in leffum 



•Texas or Mexico 



4, S. -UNCiNATA, Willd. Spec, iv. 1043. Aculei crebrL Pinnae 4-6-jug8B; foliola 

 multijuga, lf-3 lin. longa, subtus v. utrinque elevato- venosa. Pedunculi 2-3-poUicares. 

 Lecmmen ' acutum v. breviter acuminatum, 2-3-pollicare, undique dense aculcatum. 



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Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. dmer. I 400 



3 m2 



