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^^^'"'^'•] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 



19. A. RHOMBiFOLiA, Benth ! in Sook Lond. Journ. iii. 87. Pubemla v. folia 

 brata. Pinnae 2-3-jug3e; foliola 3-6-juga, obovali-oblonga v. rhombea, obtusa, 

 culata, basi sursum latiora, majora l-li-poUicaria. Plores glabri, pedicellati. Calyx 

 1-1 lin., corolla ad 3 lin. longa. Legumea ignotum.— 0/iv. ! Fl. Trop, Afr, ii. 358. 



Mimosa yluberrima, Sclium. et Thonn. ! Beskr. PI. Guin. 321. 

 Albizzia glaberrima, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 88. 



Hah. Western tropical Africa. 



Thonning's specimen, which I saw in Vahl's herbarium at Copenhagen in 1846, appeared to me to 

 differ in no respect from the other Senegambian ones except in being more glabrous; the young branches 

 and petioles are pubescent, and are so described by Thonning, notwithstanding the name. 



** Flores in capitulo longiuscule pedicellati. Capitula in racemum mhcorymhoaani 



disposita. Foliola infrapoUicaria. 



20. A. RETUSA, Benth,! in Rook. Lond. Journ. iii. 90. Glabra v. inflorrscculin 

 tenuiter cano-puberula. Pinnae 4-6-jug8e; foliola 6-10-juga, obovato-oblonga, obtusa, 

 J-f -pollicaria. Capitula pedunculata, subcorymbosa. Plores puberuli, pedicellati. Calyx 



1 lin., corolla 3 lin. lon^a. Staminum tubus subexsertus. Legumen ignotum. 



Hah. Tropical Asia : Philippine Islands, Cuming, nn. 1223 and 1593. 



21. A. PEDICELLATA, Baker I in Hook. FL Bid. ined. Puberula. Aculci (v. spinie ?) 

 solitarii, infrafoliacei, crassi, uncinati. Pinnse 4-10-jug8e ; foliola 15-20-juga, late ob- 

 longa, obtusissima, 6-9 lin. longa,-glabra. Capitula peduuculata, subcorymbosa. Kores 

 adpresse villosi, in rhachi liueari longiuscule pedicellati. Calyx IJ lin., corolla IV-rc 

 3 lin. longa. Legumen 8-pollicare, 2-2J poll, latum, avenium. 



Hab. Tropical Asia : Malacca, Maingay. ■ „ , , 



Arbor procera. Aculei (an revera epidermales ?) m A. ruf,. aut A. MilkUii simile. Muucul. «.u 

 ram! floriferl apbylli, crassi, ferrugineo-pubesoentes, 6-8 -poUicares, apicem versus pcduncdo, plunmo. 

 fasdculatos ferentes, specimira tameu infloresceutiam imperfectam ostendu.t, et quoad fol.a I.aud I»>„a. 

 Capitulorum seu spicarum rhachis 1-1 J lin. longa, nee ut in plerisque speciebus convcxa tantum. 



•»• mores m capitulo breoissirnhne pedieeUati v. .ubsemles corolla 3-5 i,a lo,^^ 



Feaunouli Jonocephali, anllares, ad nodos fa^cicraati v. ad a,,ccs rancor.,. L, e.t.r 



7^ace?nosi. . , ^^ 



centi-pubescens. Pinn. 3-6-iug.; ^ ^■S:,^X£r'£:::Z^^^ 

 liter pubescentia, 6-9 Hn. longa I-^-^"" f f ^"7;^,. V„,„,eu ^.C-poUicn- 

 pedicellati, yiUosi. Calyx fere 2 hn., corolla 4^» Im. lon,a. 



i-1 poll, latum.— OZ«P. M. Trop. Afr. n. 361. 



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In,af^uginea, GuiU. et Perr. ! F'- ^^''S .'■ '^^ ^ specimina fructifera, n. 521. 



Acacia malacophylla, Steud. ! m Schimp. PL Abyss, quo i 



Inga malacophylla, A. Kioh. Fl. ^'>y^'-]f'''^2 ""^ I,,, So. Nat. scr. 4. xiv. 376. 

 AlU^zia malacophylla, Walp. Ann. n. ioT ; loum. - 



Hab. Nortb tropical Africa : Senegambia «°^ ^by ssm ^^^^^^ ^^^ .__ ^^^.^^ ^ 



id en tit 



perhaps 





