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Sub-order III. Mimose^. Petals regular, strap-shaped, valvate in 
bud. 
Stamens definite (10). 
Flowers in spikes. 
Pod very large, woody, jointed * 
Pod large, curved, coriaceous, not jointed * 
Pod small, with a wing down each suture 23. 
Flowers in round heads. 
Pinnae of leaf digitate . * 
Pinnae of leaf pinnate. 
Pod small, subsessile, linear * 
Pod large, flat, stalked * 
Stamens indefinite 
Stamens free 24. 
Stamens connate 
Pod straight, flat * 
Pod spirally curved * 
Entada. 
Adenanthera. 
Gagnebina. 
Mimosa. 
Desmanthus. 
Leucjena. 
Acacia. 
Albizzia. 
PlTHEOOLOBIUM. 
# TJlex europaus, Linn., the common European furze, is natura- 
lised in Mauritius on the hills of Nouvelle Decouverte. It is a bush, 
with abundant rigid spiny branchlets, leaves of seedling plants trifolio- 
late, of mature branchlets simple or abortive, bright yellow flowers with 
the structure of Genistece , calyx with two deep obscurely-toothed lips, 
and a small oblong flattened few-seeded pod, scarcely protruded from 
the calyx. 
1. CRO TALARI A, Linn. 
Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5, distinct, subequal. Corolla papi- 
lionaceous ; petals equal in length ; standard round or oblong unguicu- 
late ; keel narrowed into a long upcurved beak. Ovary sessile or stalked, 
2- or many-ovuled ; style abruptly bent upwards near the base, bearded 
down the inner side ; stigma terminal. Stamens all united in a tube 
slit down the top ; anthers of two kinds. Pod oblong or cylindrical, con- 
tinuous within. Seeds globose, few or many. — Herbs or shrubs, with 
simple or digitate leaves, and flowers in axillary or terminal peduncled 
racemes. Distrib. Round the world in the tropics. Species 
200-300. 
Leaves simple. 
Pod much protruded from the glabrous calyx. 
Stipules large, foliaceous, persistent 1. C. verrucosa. 
Stipules minute, setaceous, deciduous 2. C. retusa. 
Pod not protruded from the very silky calyx * C. fulva. 
Leaves 3-foliolate. 
Pod oblong or cylindrical, many-seeded. 
Stems clothed with spreading brown hairs * C. in c ax a. 
Stems with a few adpressed minute white silky hairs . * C. striata. 
Pod globose, few-seeded * C. vasculosa. 
Leaves 5-foliolate * C. quinquefolia. 
1. C. verrucosa, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 125. A robust erect sub- 
glabrous annual, 2-3 feet high, with acutely quadrangular branches, 
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