456 BENGAL PLANTS. 
(Mimosa, 
disarticulating lomentum, the 1-seeded joints separating when | 
ripe from the persistent sutures ; subseptate or continuous within. 
Seeds ovate or orbicular, flattened. 
Stamens as many as petals; rachis of leaf bristly; stem bristly and 
prickly ; pinne digitately congested ; sutures of pod very prickly; small 
undershrubs prdica 
Stamens twice as many as petals; rachis of leaf smooth ; stem prickly 
but not bristly ; leaves 2-pinnately compound ; sutures of pod unarmed 
or with only a few prickles ; large shrubs or small trees ..,... rubricaulis, 
705. Mimosa puprca Linn.; F, I. ii. 564; F. B. Li, 291; B.D. 
M. 557. 
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In all the provinces, by roadsides. : 
An undershrub. Hind. Lajalu, lajwati; Beng. Lajak. 
Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal; C. Bengal. : 
A straggling, prickly shrub. Hind. Shiah-kanta; Beng. — 
Shiah-kanta, kuchi-kanta; Santal. Sega janum. a 
301. Acacia Willd. 
Sometimes spinescent ; stipels 0. Flowers in cylindric spikes & 
globose heads ; peduncles axillary solitary or fascicled, or terminal 
panicled ; bracts usually 2, at apex or in middle, less often at base 
of peduncle ; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5 or 4, rarely 3, connate in 8 
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ovate or compressed ; funicle filiform or subarillate. 
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tFlowers in elongated axillary spikes; spines short, slightly recurve": 
* Pods thin, fist, sutures riot sinuate:—[p. 457] 
