﻿512 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE/f!. [Acacia. 



pedunculo caducum. Legumen stipitatum, planum, curvum, glabnim v. glaucum, 2-5- 

 poUicare, 2-3 lin. latum, valvis tenuibus vix venosis. 



Mimosa eburnea, Linn. f. Suppl. 437; Roxb. Corom. PI, ii. 54, t. 199 (excl. leg.?). 



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Mab. Tropical Asia : East-Indian peninsula and Upper India. Perhaps also Aden in 

 Arabia ; but the specimens from thence are not in fruit and are therefore doubtful. 



A. Eoxburghii, Wight and Am. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. 276, was founded on Roxburgh's M. ebumea, who 

 figures the pod (detached) as twisted like that of ^. planlfrom, but flat (not turgid) like that of A. ebumea. 



the two species. The specimen of Roxburgh's in the 

 Banksian herbarium mentioned by Arnott cannot now be found there; and I have not seen the^. Camp- 

 bellii, Arn. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xviii. 333, which, according to T. Thomson, is the same species. The 

 flowering branch figured by Roxburgh appears to me without doubt to represent the true A, ebumea in a 

 very young flowering state. 



confounded 



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Africance stenocarpce. 



340. A. Seyal, Delile. FL Eg, 142, t. 52. f. 2. Glabra v. puberula. Spinse minores 

 breviter conies, auctse demum eburnese, tenues, 1-3-pollicares, basi interdum insectormn 

 ictu inflatae. Pinnae 3-9-jug8e ; foliola 8-20-juga, lineari-oblonga, 1^-2^ lin. longa. In- 



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volueellum infra medium pedunculi caducum. Legumen curvulum v. subtortum, planum 

 glabrum, 3-6-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum, valvis coriaceis longitudinaliter venosis. 

 Schweinf.! in Linncea, xxxv. 348; Nees, FL Offic. t. 336; Oliv.! FL Trop. Afr. 

 351 ; ILayne, Arzneih, x. t. 30. 



A. GirafiE, Sieb. ! Herb. Seneg. n. 45 non Willd. 



-Sa^» Tropical Africa, ranging over the greater part of the region, extending perhaps 

 to Arabia and southern Palestine, but the specimens uncertain for want of the fruit. 



Var. fistula, cortice albo, foliolis 3-4 lin. longis.— O/ir. / /. c. 

 A. fistula, Schweinf. ! in Linnaea, xxxv. 344, 1. 11-14. 



Sab. Tropical N'orth-east Africa. 



341. A. Eheenbeksiana, Sapie, Arzneik. Geto. x. t. 29. Glabra y. puberula. Spto 



tenues, aucte ultrapoUicares. Pinnae 1- rarius 2-jug». Foliola S-lO-juga, oblonga, 

 obtusa, 1-11 un. longa. Involucellum infra medium pedunculi eaducum! LegumeB 



Lneare falcatum us^ue ad 4J poll, longum, 2-3 lin. latum, inter semina sinibus latis 



contractum.-,Sa«,m/. .' in Zimwa, xxxv. 352, t. 15, 16 ; Oliv. ! Fl Trot> Afr ii 352. 



A. Ehreniergii, Nees, PI. Offic. t. 334. ^' •' 



Hah. Tropical North-east Africa : Nubia and Abyssinia. 



342. A. STEKOCARPA, SooM. I A Hick. Fl. AJ>y.s. i. 238. Glabn. v. minute pube- 



rula. Spn.» mmores recte. Wssnn. v. obsolete ; auct. pauc*. valida,, semipollicares. 

 Pmn» 4-10-jug^ ; fohola 10-20-jusa, linearia, acutiuscula, 1-2^ lin. onga Inyolu- 

 cellum medium versus v. prope basin pedunculi caducum. Legumen lineare rfanuni, 

 curvum 2-4.pol,icare, ad 2 Hn. latum, inter semina non contractCvalvr^e^ftrio" 

 Stt? "•'°°^'^-^^*^"^"^-. - ^»-''- — • 355, t. 17, 18 ; on. ! Fl. Trap. 



A. Giraffa, Hochst. ! in PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



Mab. Tropical North-east Africa : Nubia and Abyssinia. 



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