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1. A. Farnesiana, Willd. ; DC. Prod. ii. 461. A shrub, 6-15 feet 
high, with zigzag brown slender branches, marked with grey dots. 
Spines stipular only, spreading, subulate. Leaves bipinnate, with a 
petiolar gland; pinnae 4-8-jugate ; leaflets 10-20-jugate, minute, firm, 
linear-oblong, crowded. Flowers in dense peduncled heads J inch 
thick; peduncles 1-3-nate, with a ring of bracts near the top. 
Pod cylindrical, curved, 2-3 in. long, with straight sutures, biserial 
seeds and a pulpy mesocarp, the valves marked with fine horizontal 
striations. Mimosa Farnesiana, Linn. A. indica, Desv. ; DC. 
Prod. ii. 462. 
Mauritius, forming a great part of the underwood of the savannas. Seychelles, 
in Mahe, not common, Horne , 469 ! Rodriguez, a few shrubs near Mathurin 
and in Oyster Bay, Dr. Balfour ! Cosmopolitan in the tropics, but often planted. 
Cassie. 
* A. concinna , DC. Prod. ii. 464, (A. polycephala, DC.\ A. habbasoides, 
Bojer , ILort. Maur. 116), common in Tropical Asia, is naturalised in 
various places in Mauritius, the pods being used by the Indians like 
soap, and sold in the bazaars. It is a shrubby climber, with brandies 
armed with abundant small irregular prickles, 6~8-jugate pinnae, 15-25- 
jugate ligulate obtuse leaflets -f — \ in. long, flowers in copiously-panicled 
small round heads, thick succulent strap- shaped pods 3-4 inches long 
much shrivelled when dry, narrowed into a short stalk, and the 
valves depressed between the 6-8 seeds. Chickakai. 
2. A. heterophylla, Willd. ; DC. Prod. ii. 452. An unarmed tree, 
with slender glabrous quadrangular branchlets. Phyllodia some with, 
some without leaves, strap-shaped, narrowed to both ends, 3-4 in. 
long, coriaceous, strongly closely veined. Leaves bipinnate, with 
1- 4-jugate erecto-patent pinnae, each with 10-11 pairs of oblong obtuse 
leaflets \ in. long. Flowers in short peduncled round heads 
in the axils of the leaves. Pod sessile, strap-shaped, flat, thin, rather 
curved, 3-4 in. long, 6-8-seeded, with both sutures straight. Benth. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 482. 
Mauritius, in the cantons of Flacq and La Savanne. Also Bourbon. Extremely near 
Sandwich Islands A. Koa , A. Gray Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 380. 
* A. eburnea , Willd. ; DC. Prod. ii. 461, a native of Tropical Asia, is 
naturalised in Mauritius, near Port Louis and La Riviere des Lataniers. 
It is a shrub, 10-15 feet high, with the habit of the Grum Acacia, a pair 
of spreading subulate pungent stipular spines at the base of each leaf, 
2- 5 -jugate pinnae, minute 6-8-jugate oblong grey-green pilose leaflets, 
flowers in small round peduncled axillary heads, calyx Ai in. long, 
corolla scarcely exserted, and thin flat strap-shaped pod rather waved 
at the sutures, with 6-10 seeds. Cassie dpiquants blancs. 
* Desmanthus virgatus, Willd.; DC. Prod. ii. 445, a native of Tropical 
America, is naturalised in Mauritius in gardens and plantations round 
