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MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Acacia. 



Rab. Tropical Asia : Eastern provinces of India and the Archipelago ; perhaps also m 

 Mauritius ; but Sieber's specimens, n. 252, may possibly have been cultivated. 



The peculiar fleshy pod, often articulate, of this species, does not appear to me sufficiently to warrant 

 the establishing it as a distinct genus without any other character, when the habit and foliage so closely 

 resemble those of A. pennata, that without the fruit it is sometimes scarcely possible to distinguish them. 



The inflorescence is less paniculate. 



Series 6. Pilicinjg. 



Frutices inermes, erecti, hirsuti v. glabrati. Pinnae pluri- v. multijugae, petiolo com- 



muni eglanduloso; foliola multijuga, parvula. Capitula globosa v. ovoidea, summa 



paniculata, inferiora saepe axillaria. Mores pedicellati. Stamina alba, nunc pallide 



fulva V. rosea. Legumen planum, valvis tenuibus, marginibus nerviformibus cras- 

 siusculis. 



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431. A. VILLOSA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1067. Villoso-hirsuta v. rarius glabrata. Pinn® 

 4-10-jug8e; foliola 12-30-juga, late oblonga, obtusa v. acutiuscula, 2-4 Hn. longa. Pe- 

 dunculi plerique axiUares, summi pauci paniculati. Legumen longiuscule stipitatum 

 1^2-poUicare, 5-6 lin. latum. 



Mimosa villosa, Swartz ! Fl. Ind. Occid. ii. 982. 



Mimosa arborea, Linn. ! Herb, et Spec. 1503, quoad descr., ex61. diagn. et syn. 

 Acacia lophanthoides, DC. I Prod. ii. 457. 

 A. carbonaria, Schlecht. in Linnsea, xii. 571. 

 A. V almzuelana , A. Rich. ! Fl Cub. i. 462. 



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A. Cumingii, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Joum. i. 525. 



Hab. Tropical America : Central America, South Mexico, and West Indies. 



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form in Jamaica. 



occurs 



432. A. FiLiciNA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1072. Piloso-hirsuta v. glabrata. Pinnae 5-20 

 jugae ; fobola 10-60.juga, Hnearia v. lineari- oblonga, acuta v. obtusiuscula, 11-2 rariui 

 fere 3 lin. longa. Capitula pleraque paniculata. Legumen stipitatum, 1-2 rarius 3 poll 

 longum, 3-5 lin. latum. 



Mimosa filicioides, Cav. Ic. i. 55, t. 78. 

 M. ptericina, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 74. 

 M. anaustissima. Mill. ! Diet. n. 20. 



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acia penicillifera, Lag. Elench. Hort. Matr 

 umiellifera, Kunth ! Mim. 100, t. 31. 



Wiss 



xii. 569, ad 574. 



' A. hirfa, Nutt. ! et^^. texensis, Torr. et Gr. ! Fl. a,, ^luer. i. ^ 

 -A. glabrata, 'A. elegans, 'A. hirsuta, A. cu^idata, et A. stip^l 



A. Hartwegi, Benth. ! PI. Hartw. 13. 

 'A. elegam et A. tnsignis, Mart, et Gal. ! in BuU. Acad. Brux. x. pars ii 313 



A. angulosa, Bertol. Fl. Guatem. 42, ex descr. 



^afi. Tropical and Northern subtropical America, Mexico Tptt^^c a..^ A 1 n ^ ^ 



America, Columbia. ' ^'' ^^ Arkansas, Central 



Now that I have had a very large number of specimens before me from a orp^t ^. ' , r . .- t a ^ 

 the characters derived from the degree of hairLss. the numhTJ "IJll Tf ^ ^' ^*^*^T' ] t' 



