﻿(J48 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 



rhomteo-ovata, lateraliter rostellata, lineam longa, plurinervi-rugulosa. Calyx dentatus 

 Petala prommenter carinata. Legumen (immaturum) sessile, planum, 2-3-pollicare. 

 Hab. Central Australia. 



P. 503, Acacia Siebeeiana. 



Prosopis dubia, GuiU. et Perr. El. Seneg. 243. 



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P. 557, Calliandra Houstoni. 



Anneslea falcifolia, Salisb. Parad. Loud. t. 64. 



P. 562, Albizzia Lebbek 



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M. Cub. i. 466 ( 



P. 564, after Albizzia cakescens. # 



A. LiTTOUALis, Teijsm. et Binnend. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind, xxix. 259. Eolia de- 

 scripta fere AlhizzicB Lehhelc var. foliolis subtus pubescentibus. Capitula pauciflora, pani- 

 culata, floribus sessilibus A. procerce. Legumen semipedale. 



Hah. Amboyna. 



This must be very near A, procera, but is perhaps specifically distinct. 



P. 573, PiTHECOLOBIUM UNGUIS-CATI. 



P, guadalupense , Chapm. YL S. U. States^ 116. 



Besides the numerous variations in the form and size of the leaflets in diflferent specimens of this species^ 

 those of the fruiting specimens have often a much more coriaceous aspect than those of the flowering 

 ones. 



NOTES ON PLATES LXVI. TO LXX. 



These Plates are not intended to illustrate the pods characteristic of the several genera 

 of MimosesB (for they would have been too numerous), but to show the great diversity 

 exhibited, not only in one and the same genus, but even in some of the most natural 

 subordinate groups. 



Plate LXVI. exhibits the pods of twenty-two species of Mimosa and SchranUa, the 

 two genera forming naturally a single one. Their chief common character consists in 

 the unity of the prominent margin or rim. It neither splits into two with the valves, as 

 in the case of most genera, nor separates transversely with the enclosed valves, as in 

 tlie few species of Acacia, Albizzia, and PUhecolobnun which have a more or less articu- 

 late pod. The seven species occupying the first row all belong to the section Eumimosa 

 with isomerous stamens. M. floribunda is one of the commonest forms althouo'h fre- 

 quently more setose-aculeate, consisting usually of three or four very flat articles. 

 M. dolens represents also the pod of a series of species, very convex, containing one or 

 two seeds, and sometimes opening at the end only, the two articles scarcely marked ; and 

 sometimes even the rim appears to split at the end. The remaining five are monotypic, 

 or nearly so. J/, desmodioides, if seen alone, might, from its indumentum, as well as 

 from its shape, be easily mistaken for a true Desmodium. M. glabra has the persistent 

 rim nearly as broad as the enclosed valves, and the lines separating the articles are 

 obiiciue, which I have not observed in any other species of the genus. M. eriocarpa and 



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