﻿514 MR. G. BENTHAMON THE MIMOSE^. [Acacia. 



Subseries 3. Basibracteatae. Fedunculi ima basi hracteis parvis stipati, cceterum 

 ehracteati. Spices cylindracece v. elongatce, rarius glohosce. Legumen bivalve. 



* FycnanthcB AmericmKje ; Jlores in capitulo globoso v. spida ohlonga detmssime imbricati 



regulariter spirales. 



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348. A. sPHiEROCEPHALA, Cham, et Schl. ! in LinncBa, v. 594. Glabra. SpinaB minores 



tenues, 1-2 lin. longse ; auctse 1-lJ-pollicares, inflatse, albse, basi connatae et ad 3 lin. 



latae. Pinnae 6-8- rarius multi-jugae; foliola 10-20-juga, linearia, 2-4 lin. longa. Capi- 

 tula globosa." Legumen ignotum. 



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Mimosa cornigeraj Linn. Spec. 1505^ pro parte. 

 Acacia cornigera, Willd. Spec. iv. 1080, pro parte. 

 Mimosa campechiana, Mill. Diet. n. 21, ex char. 



Eab. Tropical America : Mexico and Central America ; also Porto Bello, Billberg. 

 The A. cornigera of botanical gardens has been most frequently this species. 



349. A. SPADiciGERA, Cham, et Schl. ! in Linncea, v. 594. Glabra. Spina minores 

 tenues ; auc1« l|-pollicares, inflatae, lividse, basi connatae, J poll. lat». Pinnae 2-4- 

 rarius 6-8-jug8e ; foliola 15-20-juga, linearia, 3-5 lin. longa. SpicEe cyHndrace^, den- 

 sissime imbricatae, 6-9 lin. longae. Legumen sessile, obliquum v. falcatum, crassum, 

 glabrum v. vix tomentellum, IJ-poUicare, ad 4 Un. latum. 



Mimosa 



Willd 



Rab. Tropical America : Mexico, near Vera Cruz, Central America, (Ersted ; Panama 

 Cuming, n. 1270 ; Santa Marta, Furdie. 



the horn-like spine 

 flowers very closely 

 to the same species. 



Cuh. i. 462), Wright 



but with innumerable small 

 and they apparently belong 



" Amerkuna: laxiftor^. Spic^ eylmdracecB v. elongaU fioribm distmctu v. mbdisdtk. 



350 A AMENiACEA, DC. Frod. ii. 455, e. ic. Me.ieana. Glabra. SpiuiB tenues, 



auctse ^25.polhcai;es. Pinnae l-jnga, : foliola 2-6-juga, obovali-oblonga, 3-6 lin. longa, 



veuosa. ^ Spica, pollicares, floribus confertis nee imbricatis. Legumen ignotum 



Journ 



5 ..XXlCll Ig 



Sab. Subtropical North America : Mexicano-Texan region 



351. A. PLExiCArLis, Benth ! ^ EooJc. Land. Journ. i. 505. Glabra v. junior pub. 

 rula.^ Spm^ tenues auct^ subsemipollicares. Pinn^s^pius 2.jug^ ; foliola paris ultimi 

 «-juga, pans infenons 2-3-juga, obovato-oblonga, membranaceaS:4 lin. longa. Spic. 

 tr'':r::J''^'^''' ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^™' ^—^ ^-Pomcare, pollicem latu'm, vLis 



crasso-coriaceis. 



Hooperia ariorea, Buckl. inProc. Acad. Philad. 1861, 453. 



JIab. Extratropical Nortb America, Mexicailo-Texan region 



(rCknown ' ^ ' A.fl..icaun. The flowers and fruits of the garden-plan 



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