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Spec. Cuan. Annual, floating and throwing out roots: stem 
partly swollen and inflated: leaves bipinnated; pinnz 2-3 pair: 
leaflets 8-12 pair: stipules obliquely-cordate: peduncles axillary, 
Solitary, longer than the leaves: flowers on solitary spikes: sta~ 
mens 10; legume oblique at the base, oblong, faleate, 6-8-seeded : 
flowers small, reddish. 
Tanks throughout the Concan and Coromandel Coast. Silhet. 
Assam. Flowering nearly all the year. 
(2) D. rrieverrus. (Willd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 270.—Dee. prod. II. p. 444. 
Syn. Mimosa triqnetra, Vahl. Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 552.— 
M. uatans, Linn. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 756.—Pluk. t. 307. f. 4. 
Sprc., Cuan. <A bi-triennial, prostrate plant: stem compressed, 
triquetrous below: leaves bipinnated : pinnae 2~3 pair: leaflets 10- 
12 pair: stipules subulate: peduncles axillary, solitary, either 
naked or with two caducous bracts about the middle: flowers glo- 
bular-headed : legumes linear-oblong, equal-sided, 4—6-seeded =: 
flowers vellow. ¥ 
Coromandel. Common in pastures about Surat. Flowering: near- 
ly all the year. 
(3) D. vireatus. (Willd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 270.—Dee. prod, Il. p. 445. 
Syn. Mimosa virgata, Linn. 
Engrav. Bot. Mag. LI. t. 2454,—Jacq. Vind. t. 80. 
Spec. Cuar. Suffrutieose; stem erect, angled: leaves bipinnat- 
ed: pinnee 3-4 pair, with a large concave gland between the lowest 
pair: leaflets 15-20 pair: peduncles axillary, about as long as the 
leaves, naked, bearing a globose, few- flowered head : legume narrow- 
linear, many-seeded : flowers small, white. 
Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS LXVI. DICHROSTACHYS. 
Polygamia Moneecia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Dis, two, Chroma, a colour, and Stachys, a spike. 
The spikes of flowers are of two colours. 
Grex. Cuar. Calyx 5-toothed : petals 5, distinct or united : sta- 
meus 10: filaments in the lower flowers sterile: anthers of the fér- 
tile ones glanduliferous: legume thick and coriaceous, curved and 
twisted, somewhat jointed, indehiscent: joints J-seeded: sceds 
naked. 
