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MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 



lAlbizzia. 



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Flores in capitulo pedicellati. JPedmicuU axillares v. hrevlter racemosi. Corollcs 

 scepius ad 3 lin. longce v. longlores {exce^ta A. glabrescente). Foliola pleraque pol- 



long 



16. A. Le 



Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 87. Glabra v. minute puberula 



oblique ovaK-oblonga, obtusissima, subsessilia, basi 



icemosi. Mores 



Pedunculi lonsiusculi, fasciculatii, subr 



Pinnae 2-4-jug9Bj foliola 4-9.-ju^ 



deorsum latiora, |-2-pollicaria. 



pubescentes v. glabriusculi, breviter pedicellati. Calyx lJ-2 lin., corolla ad 3J lin. longa, 



Legumen J-1-pedale, 1-1 J poll, latum, glabrum. — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. 358 ; Bedd 



Fl. Sijlv. t. 53. ■ 



Mimosa Lebhek. Linn. Snffio. 1503. 



WiUd 



Mimosa 



Willd 



r 



Mimosa Sirissa, Roxb. ! Fl. Ind. ii. 544. 



Acacia Sirissa, Ham. ! in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5265. 



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Acacia macrojjhylla, Bunge ! Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 20. 



Alblzzia latifolia, Boiv. in Encycl. xix. Siecl. ii. 32. 



Ingq, borbonica, Hassk. Ilort. Bogor. 291. 



Inga leucoxylon, Hassk. in Flora, 1842, Beibl. ii. 103, Hort. Bogor. 292. 



Mwos«/c^M05a, Eottl. ex W. et Arn. Prod. Fl. Penins. 275. 



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Sab. Tropical and temperate Asia and Africa from Senegal and Egypt to Burmab 

 China, and Japan ; but in many places planted. Introduced also into the West Indies 

 and South America. • , 



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This species, as observed by Fournier, differs from the three following African ones in the leaflets havin«- 

 the lower side dilated at the base instead of the upper side ; but the character can scarcely be carried 

 further, for in the subsequent species, with more numerous leaflets, the dilatation is often equal, or some- 

 times rather broader on the upper, sometimes on the lower side, in difi'erent parts of the same pinna. 



Acacia Habbas, Link, Enum. "' " 

 leaflets twice as large. 1 know c 



Mimosa 



Hort. Berd. ii. 444, is described as being allied to A. Lebbek,^yf ith the 



Mimosea, and it is certainly not the Mimosa Habbas 



17. A 



Welw. in Oliv 



Pinnae 2-4-jugoe ; foliola 3-6-j 



FL Trop. Afr. ii. 359 



Tomentoso-pubescens 



tusa, basi sursum latio 



maj 



Flores breviter pedicellati, pub 



brevissime petiolulata, oblique obovali-ellipt 



Pedunculi fasciculati, long 



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ob 



li-2-pollicaria 



Caly 



2 poll, latum 



Legumen " 4-1 0-pollicare, \\- 

 ILab. Southern tropical Africa. 



18. A. GLABRESCENS, Ollo. ! Fl. Tfop. Afr. ii. 357 



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lin 



oUa 5-6 lin. long 



Pinnae 1-2-j 



foliola 4-6-juga, breviter petiolulat 



Minute puberula, mox glabrata 



obtusa, basi sursum latiora, 1-2-polli 



oblique oblongo-rhomboidea 



breviter fasciculato-racemosi 



long 



Legumen ignotum 



Plores puberuli, pedicellati 



Pedunculi pollicares, ad apices 



ramorum 



Calyx 1 lin., coroUa 2h lin 



Hab. South-eastern tropical Africa. 



Foliola fere Macrophyllarum sed nuraerosiora et ssepe 

 flores longiuscule pedicellati. 



Inflorescentia A. procera accedit. sed 



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