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MEXICO.— SUPPLEMENT. 



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Hae. Tepic. — The same plant exists in Andrieux's collection of the Mexican Plants, from San Felipe, 

 (n. 402.) 



2. M. sensitiva, Linn. — De Cand. Prod. 2. p. 416. 

 Hab. Acapulco. 



1. Inga anomala, Kunth, Mini. p. 70. t. 22. De Cand. Prod. 2. p. 442. — Acacia grandi- 

 flora, JVilld. 



Hab. Tepic. — We have the same species from the neighbourhood of Mexico, gathered by our late consul 

 there, Mr Mackenzie. It is a splendid plant, and De Candolle suggests that, together with Inga Houston/. 

 which has the same copious long bright red stamens, it might form a distinct Genus. 



2. I. ? patens ; caule petiolisque aculeis brevibus uncinatis sparsis, foliis bipinnatis, pinnis 

 sex trijugis, foliolis ovatis ovalibusve oppositis brevissime petiolatis glabris terminalibus 

 plerumque majoribus, spicis elongatis densifloris pedunculatis axillaribus terminalibusque 

 subpaniculatis, staminibus sub 20 corollam 4-petalam vix duplo superantibus. 



Hab. Realejo. — This seems to be a tall growing plant, with woody branches, glabrous everywhere except 

 the young shoots. Leaves copious, pa tent, and, as well as the branches (especially the younger ones), 

 furnished with numerous, scattered, small, curved prickles. The main rachis bears 3 pairs of distantly placed 

 pinnae, each pinna bare of leaflets below, having on its upper half, 3 pair of rather closely set leaflets, the 

 largest of them less than an inch long; these vary somewhat in shape, being ovate, oval, or obovate, upon very 

 short petiolules, of a texture between membranaceous and coriaceous, paler-coloured beneath. In the axils of 

 the upper leaves and upon the extremity of the branches where the leaves gradually disappear (thus forming 

 a sort of panicle) the spikes are situated, 3-4 inches long, shortly pedunculated, and growing singly or 2 or 3 

 together. The flowers and stamens seem to be yellow. 



3. I.? Guatemalensis ; piloso-sericea, caule petiolisque aculeis validis rectis fulvis, foliis 

 bipinnatis, pinnis 6-8 tri-sexjugis, foliolis oblongo-ellipticis subsessilibus mucronatis, rachi 

 spinula terminata, spicis densifloris terminalibus subpaniculatis, staminibus sub-20 flori- 

 bus 4-plo longioribus. 



Hab. Realejo. — Apparently a low shrub, with woody branches which are angular, especially the younger 

 ones, and these clothed with short silky, rather tawny hairs and beset as well as the petioles and rachis 

 which bears the spikes, with stout, straight, fulvous, scattered prickles, the largest of them almost a quarter of 

 an inch long. Leaves numerous. Pinnas and pinnula? rather distantly set, the latter one-half to three fourths of 

 an inch long, more or less silky especially beneath, as are the younger ones. Spikes 2-4 inches long, with 

 longer stamens than the preceding species. Calyx and corolla (of 5 small erect petals) silky. We have 

 seen no fruit of this or the foregoing species. 



1. Poinciana pulcherrima, L. — DC. 

 Had. Ilealejo. 



2. P. insignis, Kunth, Mini. t. 44 De Cand. Prod. 2. p. 484. 



Hab. Acapulco. — These specimens entirely agree with the figure above quoted of Professor Kunth. The 



