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HAB. Pastures, &c., common. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Stem suffruticose, procumbent, coloured. Leaves sometimes 
conjagato-pinnated. Petioles and peduncles hairy. Calyx 
3-4-fid. Corolla Q. Filaments 4, six times longer than the 
calyx, erect. Style somewhat shorter than the filaments. Le- 
gume with the disk glabrous, and the margin setose with stiff 
hairs. 
This species is considered to have originally been indigenous 
to Brazil : it is, however, very common in every part of this 
Island, and found to be a very troublesome weed in pastures, 
from the prickles wounding the mouths of the stock, when they 
are feeding where it grows. The leaves, like those of the pre- 
ceding species, are very sensitive. 
3. Mimosa asperata. Shrubby Sensitive-plant. 
Leaves bipinnate, pinnte 8-12-jugate, leaflets multi- 
jugate with the under surface and margin appresso- 
setose, prickles of the stem and between the pinnae 
slightly hooked, those at the base of the pinnae 
straight, peduncles subgeminate length of the head. 
M. frutescens spinosa et aculeata, siliquis hirsutis, Browne , 
253. — M. asperata, Willd. Sp. Pl. IV. 1035. — De Cand. Leg. 
63. 
HAB, In Gardens. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
A shrub, about 6 feet in height : branches hairy. Heads of 
flowers globose, of a pale pink colour. Legumes about 4 inches 
long, and | an inch broad, pilose, separating, when ripe, into 
joints, corresponding to the seeds in number. 
Browne calls this the thorned sensitive from Panama, and 
states that it was introduced from the Continent. I have fre- 
quently met with it in gardens, but never growing wild. The 
leaflets are sensitive to the touch, but the petiole is not, as in 
the two preceding species, affected. 
XXXVI. Inga. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, 
united into a 5-fid corolla. Stamens oc, exserted, 
shortly (sometimes for the greater part of their length) 
monadelphous at the base. Legumes broad-linear, 
compressed, 1 -cel led : seeds covered with a pulp, or 
more rarely with farina or a pellicle . — De Cand. 
Trees or shrubs, generally unarmed. Flowers spiked or 
capitate, red or white There is a very lofty tree of Inga 
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