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Spec. Cuan. An armed tree: thorns stipulary, or often solitary, 
large, leaf and flower bearing : leaves bipinnated : pinnze 1-2 pairs, 
with a gland between each: leaflets 3-10 pairs, with an odd one on 
the outside below the lowest pair, linear-oblong, obtuse, sessile, the 
uppermost pair obovate: peduncles axillary, 1-2 together, bearing 
a single globular head of small whitish flowers : stamens very long : 
legumes large, many-jointed, much curved, woody, slightly sca- 
brous, afterwards shining. 
Coromandel, flowering in the hot season. 
(4) I. KAWAHURUNEE. 
Ident, Voigt. Hort. Cale. p. 258. 
Syn. Mimosa heterophylla, Roxb. ft. Ind. III. p. 545. 
Srrc. Cuan, ‘Tree: leaves bipinnate: pinnz 2-3 pairs: leaf’. 
lets 3-6 pairs, rqundish-cordate or lanceolate, with a gland between 
each pair of pinne and leaffets: panicles axillary, crowded with 
globular heads of flowers ; legume spirally twisted, 6—-8-seeded. 
Silhet, flawering in February and March. A useful timber-tree, 
' (5) I. umprosa. ( Wall.) 
Adent, Wall. Pi, As, Rar, IL, p. 23.—Don’s Mill. II. p. 393. 
Spec. Cuar. Large free armed with straight stipulary thorns : 
pinne 1 pair, each pinne bearing 3 broad leaflets, the lower one 
the smallest; leaflets oblong, obtuse, oblique at the base, acute: 
petioles bearing a small flat gland at the apex: peduncles axillary, 
solitary, bearing globose heads of white fragrant flowers, 
Silhet, flowering in March and April. 
GENUS LXV. DESMANTHUS. 
Polygamia Wonecia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Desme, a bundle, and Anthos, a flower. The 
flowers are collected into bundles or spikes, 
Gen, Cuar. Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants, unarmed ; 
leaves bipinnated: spikes axillary: flowers white, with the fertile 
filaments usually yellow: calyx 5-toothed: petals 5, distinct or 
united, or wanting in the neuter florets: stamens 10, rarely 5: fila- 
ments in the lower flowers of each spike sterile, dilated and mem- 
branaceous or filiform: legume thickly membranaceous, dry, flat: 
seeds naked. 
(1) D. warans. (Willd.) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 270.—Dec. prod. TI, p. 444, 
Syn. Mimosa natans, Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 553.—M. prostrata,, 
£am.—Neptunia oleracea, Lour.—D, lacustris, Willd.—D. stolo= 
nifer, Dec. Ll. c. ; 
Engray. Rheede Mal. IX. t., 20.—Roxb, Cor. IT. t. 119. 
