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502 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E 



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I have not seen this species; the fruit, as described, and most of the characters are those of A. tortuosn 

 in which, however, the stipular spines are always more or less confluent at the base. 



301. A. ATRAMENTARIA, Beuth. ! in Eook. Lond. Journ. i. 392. Glaborrima, 



cescens. Spinse validae, majores (in speciminibus suppetentibus) vix semipollicar 

 Pinnse 2-7-jug8e; foliola 15-20-juga, linearia, 2-3 lin. lons^a. Lesrumcn i?laberriinii 



glaucum, curvum, crasso-compressum, 3-4-pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum, valvis dc 

 vexis, oblique sublongitudinaliter venosis. 



Prosopis astringens, Gill. ! in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 204. 



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Sab. Extratropical South America : Mendoza and San Juan. 



The foliage is that of the glabrous forms 

 to characterize it as a distinct species. 



a 



pod appears to be sufficiently different 



302. A. FARNESIANA, TFilld. Spec. iv. 1083. Glabra v. puberula. Spin^e tenues, 



teretes, minores 2-4 lin., auctse semipollicares v. paullo longiores. Pinnse 2-8- vulo-o 4-5* 



jugae ; foliola 10-25-juga, linearia, ad 2 lin. longa. Legumen oblongum cylindraceum v. 



fusiforme, crassum, tui-gidum, rectum v. curvulum, glabrum, 2-3-pollicare, i-| poll, latum 



et Griissiim.—£enik. FL Bras. Mim. ; Fl. Austral, il U9 ; Ollv. Fl. Trop Afr ii 346- 

 Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 52. -r- ^ • . > 



Mimosa farnesiana, Linn. ^^ec. \^0Q. 



Vachellia famesiana, Wight et Arn. Prod. Fl. Penins. 272; Wight, Ic. t. 300. 



Farnesia odora, Gaspar. Descr. Naov. Gen. Leg. 1836, cum ic. 



Mimosa scorpioides, Forsk. Fl. ^g. p. Ixxvii., nomen tantum. ' 



pedunculata, Willd 



Mimosa 



WiUd 



A. acicularis, Willd. ! Enum. Hort. Berol. 1056. 

 A. leptophylla, DC. ! Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 74 ; 

 A. lenticellata, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn So/ i 



World but so generaUy cultivated for the perfume of its flowers and 



frequently 



only into East India 



bl^hed as an eseape fron. cultivation, that it is difficult to d "e vVr itTreX' 

 TexasTot pe ll?"' TT' "^ ^ r ''' '^'''''"' ^-■^-' ^-« noTtll Ch 1 ^ 



n\Thi:iSTui":: inhrinw::;''^:r ''^ ''-''-' ^^^ -•'^-^^-^ 



also really indigenous in southl^^ fl^ca VuH^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^f'^'^^'' -"^ P^'^^I'^ 

 northern tropical Africa, and the Me'dHLtfl\^o: ''''' "'^^^ '''*'' "'^^ ""° 



A. Burmannkna, DC. Prod. ii. 461, insufficiently described from tw. • 

 coneously referred to A. ,„.„,. .,a to A. c.«.,l ^Jl^^^y ^L:^^ l 



303. A. CAVENiA, Sooh. et Am ' Bot Beech 21 V 

 guenda foliolis vix semilinea lonsiorih,,, »f i ' • ' , "^' /<»""?»««'»« distin- 



speciei varietas.-C««„. J/ C«f t 12 T"""" ^"'''°''' '' -"--Hter illius 



Mimosa cavenia, Molin. Hist. Chil. 163. 



A. aromatica, Poepp. PL Exs. n. 177. 



A. adenopa, Hook, et Am. ! in Hnnt -r..^ ht- _ -. „^„ 



Burman 



