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LEG-UMINOSjE. 
[Acacia. 
Port Louis, and has been gathered by Mr. Horne in the Seychelles, on 
lie St. Anne, and was found several times by Dr. Balfour in Rodriguez. 
It is a glabrous shrubby perennial, with virgate branches, unequally 
bipinnate leaves with rachises ending in a small bristle, 3— 4-jugate 
pinnae with a gland beneath the lowest, 15-20-jugate small obtuse 
oblong membranous leaflets, minute pentamerous polygamous flowers 
in small round peduncled axillary heads, 10 free stamens, narrow linear 
flat coriaceous smooth 2-valved pods with 20-30 small seeds. 
* Albizzia Lebbek , Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 87 (Acacia 
Lebbek, Willd.; Bojer, Hort. Maur. 116), spread through the tropics of 
the Old World, is naturalised throughout Mauritius, Bodriguez, and 
the Seychelles, both in the plains and on the hills. It was brought 
from Bengal by Cossigny in 1767. It is an unarmed tree, 20-40 feet 
high, with a round head, thick trunk and rugged bark, abruptly bipin- 
nate leaves, 2-4-jugate pinnae, 4-9-jugate large obtuse oblique-oblong 
membranous leaflets, flowers in dense round heads, downy calyx £ in. 
long, gamopetalous corolla, indefinite monadelphous very long stamens, 
and a large firm flat coriaceous pod \-l foot long, 1-1J inch broad, 
6-10-seeded, with straight sutures. Bois noir. 
* PitJiecolobium dulce , Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 199, 
(Inga dulcis, Willd . ; DC. Prod. ii. 436), a native of Tropical America, 
now widely spread in the Old World, is naturalised in Mauritius on 
the Pouce and in other places. It is an erect tree, 30-50 feet high, 
with a pair of erecto-patent stipular thorns, bipinnate leaves, with 
pinnae and leaflets both unijugate, the latter oblique-oblong rather firm 
obtuse 1 -2 in. long, flowers in small round peduncled heads panicled 
on elongating branchlets, gamophyllous corolla, indefinite monadel- 
phous stamens, and a spirally-curved flat strap- shaped pod 3-4 in. 
long with thick sutures, veined valves, rather turgid over the 6-8- 
seeds, which are enveloped in a white fleshy aril, which is eaten by 
the negro boys. 
Order XXXIY. KOSACE^]. 
Blowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx free ; sepals 5, imbricated, 
joined in a tube at the base, Petals 5, obovate, with a short claw, 
inserted at the throat of the calyx. Stamens free, indefinite, inserted 
at the throat of the calyx ; filaments filiform ; anthers minute, didymous. 
Carpels 1 or many ; ovules in the Mauritian genera two, erect or pen- 
dulous ; style sometimes basilar. Fruit dry or fleshy. Seeds exalbumi- 
nous. — Our plants shrubby ; leaves alternate, stipulate, simple or com- 
pound ; flowers in panicled racemes. Distbib. Cosmopolitan. Species 
about 1000. 
Carpel solitary, style basal . . 
Carpels numerous, style terminal 
1. GtRANGERIA. 
* Rubus. 
