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Acacia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^E. 533 



distinguished 



glabroTis 



forms may appear when exhibited in a few marked specimens, it becomes impossible to define distinct 

 varieties amongst the numerous intermediate ones. The species, abi 



America 



Magdalena 



XXI. Lysiloma, Benth 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 595. 



con 



firmed as more 



MimosesB with monadelphous 



stamens it is the one which comes the nearest to Acacia ; and the pod at first bight appears to be that 



Leucana. Acacia, and Albizzia, thin and flat, with thickeiunl more or ins 



like 



maturity 



genera 



Mimosa, the intermediate thin Takes ultimately falling away from them, or perhaj 



gula 



every 



very distinct ^^perips, 

 n Lys llama with th<» 

 are very iKarly those 



spread Aliiz^ia Leblek ; and the foliage, althougl, really distinct, is m many _re^ 



similar, that I had at first thought it might have been an introduced specimen of that spec 

 indumJntum and form of the leaflets are different ; the floors are, on examination, readily c 

 It I, ,,„ nod. as far as I have been able to ascertain, opens partially only along the imicr 



mgni 



margin 



in all other Lynloma$. 



Z t if noTauiTeT wh f he species of this genus have large membranous stipule, to the young 

 W,;hieh!orl* remain long peLten, although in most fruiting and many flo.enng specimens 

 they have all, or nearly all, fallen away. 



. Floret umbeUati. Zeguminis margo interior (an ,emper ?) dehiscen,. 

 oWa ?X;L4rho..ea. |-Xfpomearia. Sta.ina ult^pomcana. 



Taboga 



near Panama, Sutton Hay 



Hamuli pctioli 



,ax ^ c^..^^, pifhecolobii Saman ct Albizzue Lebbek. Jtamoa p«ioi. cv 



Arbor 20-30-pedaUs v. procera, ^^^^^f~2. delaps.. Foliorum pinn« .ecu. petiolum 



inflorescentia ferrugineo-tomentos. ^tipul^ a spe— J ^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ 



......... al.ndiila in medio petiolo mfra jugum mtenus pi^in^ 



distantes. 



summi parva. 



obovata, 1-li-pollicana, 



ililiuia. *^ — 



sa^piusque minora, omnia obtusissima v. retuM, 

 P..lnnnuli axiUarcs, 1-U-poUicares. Umbc'lW 



ra demum glabrata, saows .u^.^o.. ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ p^^.^^^^j 3_^ 1^^ ,„^^^ „t, eaiy 



.ptaenlum -^l^-l-^^osum. Bracteas non v.d. Bores 





rufescente 



laris, 3-4-linearis, 

 ima basi adnatum 





crassiore indiviso, valvis 



partim dehiscentihus 



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