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duncled heads ; corolla slender, much longer than the minute calyx ; stamena 10 : tube 

 shortly exserted; legume straaghtish, lanceolate-linear, stipitate, glabrous: valves charta- 

 ceoMS.— Plum. Ed. Burnt, t. lO./.l.— Mimosa, L. Inga, fT.— A shrub; leaflets 6"'-12"', 

 peduncles 18"'-3"', corolla 4'", stamens 18"'-15"' long; legume 4"-S" long, 4'" broad: 

 stalk 1'" long. — Hab. Dominica!, Imr.; S-ImoslI, Anders. ; S. Vincent 1, Guild.; Trini- 

 dad !, Or. (where it is perhaps not native). 



346. C. Guildingii, .Se«M. / Unarmed, glabrous; ^»»«« 1-Jjj^a/: leaflets Z-2-jugal, 

 semi-eUiptical, bluntish, inferio'r decrescent, rhomboid ; flowers sessile, in peduncled heads; 

 coroUa slender, 3-3 times as long as the calyx ; stamens 10 : tube shortly exserted ; legume 

 curved, lanceolate-linear, long-tapering below : valves chartaceous, with very thiclc margins, 

 —leaflets 3"-8"', peduncles 2"-l", corolla 6"'-o"', purple stamens 2" long ; legume 5"-4" 

 long, 3"'-2"' broad. — Hab. S. Vincent!, Guild.; introduced in Trinidad !, Lane. 



§ 4. Stamens 20-40.- — Leaflets broad, 8-10-jugal.' 



, 247. C. comosa, Benth. Unarmed, glabrous; pinnae Z-2-jugttl: leaflets lO-S-^'a^a/, ^ 

 obloug-trapeziform, broadly truncate at the base, oblique above ; flowers sessile, in peduncled, 

 corymbose heads ; legume curved, lanceolate-linear, compressed, stipitate, glabrous : valves 

 coriaceous. — Mimosa, Sw. I Inga, W. Pithecolobium, Benth. — A shrub, 15'-20' high : 

 habit of Pithecolobium wicradeninm , but devoid of petiolar glands ; leaflets 5"'-6"' long, 

 2"'-3"' broad ; corolla 5-3-fid, 3'" long'; legume 3"-2i'' long, 3'" broad above, tapering below 

 into a 6'" long stallc. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sm., rare on mountain rocks of the northern districts. 



Sect. 3. Caulanthon. — Flowers sessile: heads fascicled,lateral. Corolla slriate,h-dentate. 

 Stamens 20, connected into a slender ^ exserted tube. Legume Jlat-compressed, not elas~ 

 tically, and tardily dehiscent.- — Leaflets large. 



248. C. latifolia, Gr. Unarmed, glabrous ; pinna \.jugal: leaflets distant, 2^1i- 

 jiigal, elliptical, pointed, oblique at the acute base, inferior alternate or solitary ; flower- 

 beads sessile or shortly peduncled on thte branches of the foregoing year ; corolla tubular, 

 much exceeding the minute calyx ; staminal tube long-exserted ; legume slightly curved, 

 linear-oblong, rounded at the base, repand on the slightly thickened margin : valves cori- 

 aceons, glabrous. — Br. Jam. 1.1,9,./.%. Plum.Ed.Bumi.t.^. — Mimosa, i. Inga, TT. Pithe- 

 colobium, BenthTl — This is P. Browne's Zygia, erroneously referred by De CandoUe to an 

 African plant : but Oaulanthon might as well be regarded as a distinct genus from the peculiar 

 dehiscence of its legume. — A tree, 25' high ; leaflets 5"-2" long: an orbicular (or obsolete) 

 gland between the upper pair ; flowers crimson or rosy ; corolla 4'" long ; stamens about 

 1" long, connected to the middle; legume 5"-4" long, 10"'-8"' broad. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Wils., March, on the banks of the Wagwater, S. Andrews ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, 

 Cr., at Cai'oni. 



Sect. 4. Saman. — Flowers pedicellate. Calyx tomentose, not striate. Corolla ^-dentate. 

 Stamens connected into an included tube. Legume filled with jpulp. — Leaflets broad : 

 petiole glanduliferons. 



249. C. Saman; Gr. Unarmed; branchlets velvety-pubescent; pinna i{-2-S)-jugal, 

 leaflets t-2{-V)-jzegal, obliquely obovate, or obovate-oblong, blunt, shining-glabrous above, 

 pubescent beneath : petiole bearing glands at the base and between the piunse ; flower-clus- 

 ters long-peduiided ; calyx shortly pedicellate, tomentose, subventricose, a little exceeding 

 half the pubescent corolla ; stamens 20, shortly connected ; legume straight (or curved), 

 linear, subsessile : valves coriaceous, glabrous : thickened margins pubescent. — Jacq. Fragm. 

 i.9. — Mimosa, /acj. Inga, JP". Pithecolobium, 5raW. C. tfxhnloesL, Benth. I — A lofty tree; 

 leaflets 3"'-8"', peduncles 5"-2", pedicles 2"'-l"' long ; corolla yellowish, -6'" long ; sta- 

 mens light-crimson, nearly 2" long ; legume 8"-4" long, 8"'-5"' broad, pulpy within : 

 valves flat. — ^Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica I, Al., common in salt-ponds, (" the seeds for- 

 merly having been brought over from the continent by cattle ;") S. Lucia ! ; [Nicaragia !, 

 Venezuela!, Brazil !]. 



88. ENTEROLOBIUM, Mart. 



Flowers of Calliandra. Legume broad, circinate, with the insertion in the middle of the 



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