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MIMOSE^. 557 



dpresso-villosi, breviter pedicellati. Xalyx latus, ad 2 lin., corolla 4-5 lin. longa 



Legumen sub-4-pollicare, j poll, latum, crassmn, dense villosissimum. 



Mimosa Houstoni, Lher. Sert. Angl. 30; Banks, Rel. Houst. t.26. 

 Acacia Houstoni, Willd. Spec. iv. 1062 ; Bot. Reg. t. 98. 

 Jnga Houstoni, DC. Prod. ii. 442. 

 Acacia metrosideri flora, Schlecht. Linnseaj xii. 567. 



Sah. Tropical America : Mexico, about Vera Cruz and Jalapa. 



Scarcely to be distinguished from C. grandiflora by the fewer pinnae, rather larger leaflets and flowers, 

 and perhaps by a broader more densely villous pod. 



It has been usual to add to the synonyms that of Gledifschia inermis, Linn. Spec. 1509, wliich, howcvrr, 

 is scarcely correct. Linnsus took up the name and diagnosis from Duhamel, who had tlius designated 



the thornless varie 

 widely diflPerent plants : 



named 



of a 



The 



and taken up by DeCandolle as Acacia javanica, although nothingis known of itk^sidca the foliage 

 young seedling ; from this source Linnseus appears to have taken hkhabitat and short d.xripUou. 

 other reference is" to Miller's excellent figure (Ic. t. 5), which indeed represents the C. Hondo,,',, hut .... 

 only have been quoted by Linn^us at second hand, or through some inadvertence or mistake in copying. 



99 C GUANDIELOBA, Henth. ! in Hook. Journ, Bot ii. 139; Land. Journ. iii. HI. 

 Ferrusineo- v. subrufescenti-pubescens. Pinn^ 15-25-jug^ ; foliola SO-GO-juga, oblongc 

 uZfa, obtusiuscula, 2-24 Hn. longa. Capitula pauciflora, ^^V^^^^f^ 



mores adpresso-villosi v. glabrescentes, breviter pedicellati. Cal x ad Ii 

 4 lin. lon.a. Legumen 3-4-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum, crassum, villosum. 



racemosa 



lin., corolla 3-4^ Im. long 



Mimosa grandiflora, Lher. 

 Acacia grandiflora, Willd 



1074 j Colla, Hort. Bipul. t. 9. 



Mim 



Linnsea 



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CaUiandra Kmthn, iientn.m xiuu... .^^^ • ^ . numerous collectors. 



Hab. Tropical America : Mexico and Guatemala, sent by n 



f in Eooh Unci. Journ, iii. 112. Pubescens Pinn. 12 



100. C. PAKVirLORA, 'Bentl 



Capitula mmima, pa 



juga, ; foliola 30-40-juga, linearia '''"'^^'J^^J^lx,^,,^l^,. Florcs scs.iles, glabri 

 ciflora, paniculata, paaiculis ramulis peduncu ^ ^^^^^^ grassura, lignosmn, pule 



CrW^r^aHlin-louga. Stamina 10-12. Leg 

 ulum, 24-pollicare, 4 lin. latum 



Acacia pachyloma. Mart. ! Herb. J^i- -Dxct». - ^ ^nd Matto-rosso ; 



m.. ^Trojical America : ^^^:^Z^Sr^.2 »a ... to.aU, .... 



TUe habit and foliage are those of Mmosa 



Buiiv 



XXIII. Albizzia, Durazz 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL i- 596. j^^ ,i,hout the fruit, from corrc^p-di.M 



The species with large leaflets are very difficuU d^^ g^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^,^ ,,„, ,,^,,,,,,«, 

 .... .. ^.......„7./..-.«, . and F. Mueller proposes to un ^^^^^^ 



species of Pitheco 



so strongly marked as to 



r ^f of oriority : but the differences m irm. a.y ; ^ ^.^er hga. The onlv 



approach iu the pod of the two genera « bet^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^.^^,^ ,p„,,a 

 tha and montana, groups whicn aie 



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