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Glabrous or nearly so ; leaves 1| — 3 in. long, leaflets 2 — 3 lin. long, ....A. Farnesiana. 

 * * Woody climbers, ivithout stipulary spines, but the branehlets armed along their 

 whole length with sharp recurved prickles. Flower-heads globular. 

 x Pods fleshy-coriaceous, often somewhat constricted between the seeds. 

 Leaflets in 10 — 20 pairs, up to \ in. long ; flower-heads small, yellowish, . . . .A. rugata. 

 x x Pods dry, chartaceous or thin coriaceous, flat. 

 Ovary and pods pubescent. 

 Leaflets in 15 — 40 pairs, 3 — 6 lin. long ; flower-heads small, white, in panicles, 



..A. caesia. 

 Ovary and pods glabrous. 



Leaflets in 8 — 20 pairs, \ in. long ; peduncles tawny tomentose, A. Intsia. 



Leaflets in 30 — 40 pairs, 2 — 3 lin. long ; flower-heads the size of a large pea ; panicles 



and young branehlets puberulous or tomentose, not pruinous, A. pennata 



As preceding, but branehlets and panicles pruinous ; leaflets up to \ in. long ; flower- 

 heads twice the size, A. pruinescens. 



1. A. eerruginea, DC. II. 458 ; Bth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 I. 508. and in Linn. Trans. XXX. 518 ; WA. Prod. 1.273 ; Bedd. El. Sylv. 

 t. 51. — (Mimosa ferruginea, Roxb. El. Ind. II. 561). 



Hab. Burma (according to Beddome). 



2. A. Catechu, Willd. sp. pi. IV. 1079 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 9 ; 

 Bth. in Linn. Trans. XXX. 519. (Mimosa Catechu, L. f. Suppl. 495 ; Roxb. 

 El. Ind. II. 563 and Corom. PL II. 40. t. 174). 



Var. a. genuina (A. catechuoides, Bth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. I. 

 510 ; Mimosa catechuoides, Roxb. Corom. PL II. t. 175 and Fl. Ind. II. 

 562), young parts all slightly appressed pubescent but soon glabrescent ; 

 full-grown leaves glabrous or the leaflets ciliate, the rachis slightly pubes- 

 cent ; spikes shorter and thicker, like the calyces more or less appressed 

 pubescent ; corolla about twice the length of the calyx. 



Var. /3. Swdra (A. Sundra, DC. Prod. II. 458 ; Bth. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. I. 510 ; Mimosa Sundra, Roxb. Corom. PL III. t. 225 and 

 Fl. Ind. II. 562; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 50), all parts glabrous or the very 

 young shoots slightly pubescent ; full-grown leaves and rachis quite gla- 

 brous ; spikes elongate and slender, quite glabrous ; corolla glabrous, 

 about § longer than the glabrous calyx. 



Hab. Var. a. common in the dry forests, rarely in the lower mixed 

 and savannah forests of Ava and Prome, extending into the Irrawaddi zone 

 of Pegu ; var. /?. apparently in Ava. — Fl. Begin of RS ; Fr. CS. 



3. A. Stjma, Buch. in Voigt Hort. Calc. 260 ; Brand. For. Fl. 187 ; 

 Bth. in Linn. Trans. XXX. 519.— (Mimosa Suma, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 563 ; 

 A. Catechu, Bth. in Hook. Lond. ; Journ. Bot. I. 510, non Willd. ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 49. 



Hab. Ava ? 



4. A. leucophloea, Willd. sp. pi. IV. 1063 ; Bth. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. I. 103 and in Linn. Proc. XXX. 513 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 



