id.] I. LEGHMisosa!. (J. G.. Baker.) 289 



121. PXFTADENXA,.Benth. 



Erect trees, imarmed or prickly. Leaves 'bipinnate. Flowers small, in, 

 dense spikes, hermaphrodite, pentamerous. Calyx campannlate, shortly 5- 

 toothed. Petals 5, Tsdvate, eq^ual, lanceolate, cohering at the hase. Stamens 

 10, free, as long as the corolla ; anthers tipped with a deciduous gland. Ovary 

 stsiked,- many-OTuled ; style filiform, stigma terminal. Pod long,, thin, strap- 

 shaped, flat. Seeds brown, compressed.— Disteib. Species 30, all the rest but 

 two from Africa Tropical American. 



1. P. oudhensls, Brand. For: Flor. 168 ; Benth. in Tram: lArm. Soe. 

 xxx. 366. 



OuDH, in forests under the base of the hills in Gonda, SieM, Thmrvpson. 



A middle-sized tree, armed with large conical prickles, glabrous except the inflo- 

 rescence. Piimm 4, long-stalked, each of a single pair of nearly sessile obtuse 

 obovate coriaceous leaflets 2 in. long. Panicles axillary, much shorter than the 

 leaTes ; spikes dense, 1-1 J in. by f in. Calyx minute ; teeth obscure. Petals i in., 

 lanceolate, greenish-yellow. Stamens just exserted. Pod 9-12 in. by | in., with a 

 long stalk, nearly straight. Seeds 15-20. 



122. PARK.! A, B. Br. 



Tall, unarmed trees. Leaves hipinnate with very numerous leaflets. Flowers 

 in dense long-peduneled heads, each suhtended by a coriaceous persistent ligu- 

 late bract with a spoon-shaped tip. Calyx tubular, shortly 6-cleft. Corolla 

 tabular, cleft half-way down, the segments subvalvate. , Stamens 10, exserted, 

 ibe filiform filaments united in the lower part with each other and the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers narrow, glandless, the pollen cohering in irregular masses. Ovary 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod large, flat, 

 strap-shaped, coriaceous, finally dehiscing. — Disi'EIB. Species 8, cosmopolitan 

 in the tropics, mostly American. 



1. P. big'landulosa, W. 8r A. Prodr. 279 ; glands of petiole 2, leaflets 

 linear-ligulate 150-200 to a pinna. Mimosa pedunculata, Bx>xh. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 551. 



Maiat peninsula, Eoxbiergh.. Elsewhere cultivated. 



Eachis of leaf downy, 1' ft. or more long ; pinnae 40-60, 3-4 in. long ; leaflets 

 1-nerved, rigid, J in. by ^ in. Peduncle under a foot long in the specimens seen. 

 Cdyx J in. ; tube glabrous; teeth pilose. Immature pod downy, narrowed gradually • 

 into a long stalk. 



2. P. Xtoxbur^hil, G. Bon Gen. Syst. ii. 397 ; gland of petiole solitary, 

 leaflets linear-ligulate 100 or more to a pinna. P. Brunonis, Cfrah. in Weill. 

 Cat. 5288. P. biglobosa, Benth. in Hooh. Journ. iv. 328. Mimosa biglobosa, 

 Soxh. J7. Ind. ii. 551, non Jacq. 



Assam, Silhet, Bntiii., Maxat Peninsitia. — Distbib. Malay isles.. 



An erect tree,, 40-60 feet high. Zeci/'-rachis a foot or more long, glabrous or 

 pubescent; pinnse 20 or more, 3-4 in. long; leaflets 100-120, ^-\ in. by ^ in., with 

 rarely any other- veins than the costa perceptiblei Pedimcle 1-1 J ft. ; flowers in tur- 

 binate heads 2-3 in. long. Cdh/x \ in. ; tube cylindrical, glabrous ; lobes pilose. 

 Pcd 1 ft. by 1-1^ in., narrowed into-a 3-4 in. stalk. 



3. P. leiophylla, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soo. Senior, xlii. 2, 73 ; leaflets' 

 broad-ligulate 50-60 to a pinna, piimse 20 or more. 



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