SUB-ORDER MIMOSEZ. 
I. ADENANTHERA SERIES. 
Adenanthera (Fr., Condori—figs. 15-19) has regular hermaphrodite 
flowers, with a short, hollow, cornet-shaped receptacle, bearing a 
Adenanthera pavonina (Red Sandal-wood Tree). 
Fig. 15,— Habit. . 
calyx of five? valvate teeth, and a corolla of as many alternating 
1 Adenanthera L., Gen., 526.—J., Gen, 
349, — Gmrty., Fruct., ii. 149.— Lam, 
Dict., ti. 76; Ill, t. 334.—DC., Prodr., ii. 
446. — Spacn, Suit. & Buffon, i. 61. — 
Ewnpz., Gen. n. 6820.—  B. H., Gen. 590, 
n. 378.—Clypearia Rumpu., Herb. Amb., iii. 
t. 109, 111, 112.—Stachychrysum Bos., Hort. 
Maur., 114.— Gonstt Bram., ex Apans., Fam. 
des Pl., ti. 318 ? 
2 The flowers are exceptionally tetramerous. 
The gyneceum very rarely remains rudimentary, 
so that the flowers are male. 
