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44.. Mimofa triquetra, or three.fided mimofa ^unarmed, 
procumbent; leaves two-paired; heads roundifh ; Items 
compreffed below, three-lided above. Stems (lender, a 
foot high ; (imple, fmooth, compreffed at bottom, above 
ftriated and three-fided. Leaflets fcarcely an inch long, 
with about twelve pairs; pinnas linear, blunt, mucro- 
nate, fmooth, appearing in the magnifier to be ciliate- 
derrate. Flowers in a globular head, the fize of a pep¬ 
per-corn. This is wrongly placed under the name of 
nutans, among the fpeeies with Amply pinnate leaves, in 
the Syftema Vegetabilium, Obferved by Koenig in the Eall 
Indies. 
25. Mimofa natans, or floating mimofa : leaves bipin- 
nate, two-paired, or three-paired; leaflets thirteen-paired; 
heads oblong; Item flexuofe, rooting at bottom. Stems 
herbaceous, angular, fmooth, floating, putting out root¬ 
ing fibres at the lower joints. Leaves petioled ; pinnas 
lmall, the inmoft fmaller than the others, linear-oblong, 
quite entire. Peduncles axillary, folitary, five inches 
long ; (pike oblong, nodding before- flowering-time ; the 
lower florets a little more remote, barren and larger. Le¬ 
gumes compreffed, an inch long. 
Loureiro has conftituted anew genus out of this fpeeies 
under the name of Neptunia. He fays that it is culti¬ 
vated in Cochin-china for falads, being faftened to flakes 
in the water, that it may not float away, as it is entirely 
detached from the earth. 
26. Mimofa virgata, or long-twigged mimofa : unarm¬ 
ed, ereft, angular ; leaves bipinnate ; fpikes ten-ftamen- 
ed, the lower ones caftrated males. Spike roundilh, nod¬ 
ding. Flowers ten-ftamened, yellow; the lower ones of 
the fpike without ftamens or petals. Native of the Weft 
Indies. It flowers in July and Auguft. 
27. Mimofa punftata, or fpotted-flalked fenfitive-plant: 
unarmed: leaves bipinnate; fpikes ereft ; flowers ten- 
ftamened ; lower ones caftrated. This riles with upright 
branching ftalks fix or feven feet high, becoming woody 
towards the root, but not perennial, (at lead they are not 
fo here in any fituation, the plants always decaying in 
winter ;) they are fmooth, and the leaves are compofed of 
four or five pairs of long winged lobes, which have about 
twenty pairs of lmall leaves ranged along the midrib ; 
they are fmooth and rounded at their points, of a full 
green on their upper fide, but pale on under. Thefe 
lmall leaves contract themlelves together on being 
touched, but the footftalks do not decline at the fame 
time. The flowers are produced upon long footftalks, 
which come out from the wings of the leaves, and are dif- 
poled in globular heads which nod downward ; they are 
j’ellow, and all thofe which have petals have ten ftamina 
in each, but thofe fituated round the border have neither 
petals nor ftamina ; thofe on the upper part of the fpike 
are lucceeded by pods an inch and a half long, aild a 
quarter of an inch broad, which change to a dark brown 
when ripe, inclofing three or four compreffed (liming 
black feeds. Browne calls it the larger J'mootH J'enfitive, 
and fays that it has been introduced into Jamaica from 
Come oilier part of the world ; probably from the conti¬ 
nent of America. 
28. Mimofa Pernambucana, or flothful mimofa: unarm¬ 
ed; leaves bipinnate ; fpikes drooping, five-ftamened, lower 
ones caftrated; ft'em decumbent. Stems feldom more 
than two feet and a half high, and fmooth. Leaves com¬ 
pofed of three or four piiinas, which are (hotter, and the 
leaflets much narrower than’in 1 the 23d and 27th forts; 
the heads of flowers are fmaller, and the pods longer and 
narrower. It grows naturally in all the illands of the 
Welt Indies, where it is called the (lothftil fenfitive plant, 
becaufe the leaves do not conttadt on being touched. 
29. Mimofa arborea-, or rough tree-mimola: unarmed ; 
leaves bipinnate; pinnas halved, acute; ft'em arboreous. 
This is a lofty tree, with an upright fmooth trunk, co'- 
vered with an afh-coloured bark. Branches diverging, 
bent down ; and, with the petioles and peduncles, rough¬ 
haired. Leaves feven-paired, with feventeen-paired leaf 
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lets; the lowed fmaller. There is a variety which is 
fmooth, with leaflets from twelve to fourteen, and twenty- 
feven pinnas. In Jamaica, where it is found in mod parts 
of the ifland, it is called mountain or wild tamarind-tree ; 
it grows to a very confiderable fize, and is looked upon as 
an excellent timber-wood. It is a native not only of 
the Weft Indies, but alfo of Japan and China. 
30. Mimofa julibriffin, or fmooth tree-mimofa : arbore- 
feent; leaves bipinnate; pinnules cultriform, acuminate ; 
all the flowers perfeft. This is a tree with a fmooth afti- 
coloured bark ; the branches as it were in whorls, tube¬ 
rous at the bafe, nodding at the end. The flowers are all 
perfefr; one in the middle larger than the reft, with a 
one-leafed five-cleft calyx; a tubular five-cleft corolla, 
with ovate concave fegments, the tube twice or near 
thrice as long as the calyx, fomewhat villofe, and when 
examined by a magnifier appearing to have lucid dots 
fcattered over it; from the bottom of this the neftary, 
ftriated, fmooth, bearing the ftamens on its edge, as in 
monodelphous flowers. The other flowers are fmaller, 
-and fcarcely one or two of thefe produce fruit. The fta¬ 
mens are five times as long as the corolla, (lender, ftraight, 
flelh-coloured, from twenty to twenty-eight in number. 
Fruit from four to feven inches long, and an inch wide ; 
pedicelled, flat, drawn to a point at both ends, margined, 
yellowilh on the outfide, firft greenifli and then white 
within, and never opening. From both futures fpring 
branched nerves, and the edge is (lightly repand, fome- 
times finuated here and there. This fpeeies has been con¬ 
founded with the preceding. It is a native of the Levant, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
31. Mimofa comofa, or bearded mimofa: unarmed, ar¬ 
boreous; leaves bipinnate, trijugous ; pinnas (nine or 
ten-paired) oval, retufe at the bafe; flowers panicled, 
monadelphous. Native of Jamaica. 
32. Mimofa lebbeck : unarmed ; leaves bipinnate, qua- 
drijugous ; pinnas oval-oblong ; flowers monadelphous, 
in bundles ; Item arboreous. This is cultivated in thte 
gardens at Cairo, where it flowers in June, and becomes a 
large tree ; but Haffelquift does not afeertain whether it 
be a native of Egypt. Linnaeus however and Forlkahl 
give it as indigenous of Upper Egypt. The Arabs call 
it lebbeck, which Linnaeas has adopted for the trivial name. 
33. Mimofa odoratiflima, orfweet-feented mimofa : un¬ 
armed; leaves bipinnate, quadrijugous, or inultijugous; 
leaflets oblong, blunt; panicles rod-like; fpikelets glo¬ 
bular. This is a lofty tree, with villofe fomewhat hoary 
branches, and hoary petioles. Leaves large, three or four 
paired, with glands towards the lower pinnas and within 
the upper ones. Flowers white, very fragrant. Legumes 
flat, coriaceous, much refembling thofe of M.latifiliqua, but 
narrower and lefs Waved. Native of the ifland of Ceylon. 
34. Mimofa fpeciofa, or bladder-lenna-leaved mimofa: 
unarmed; leaves bipinnate, fub-quadrijugous; pinnas 
generally nine-paired ; leaflets oblong, fmooth ; a gland 
above the bafe of the rib. This is a very elegant tree, 
quite fmooth all over. Trunk round, with an even afli- 
coloured bark, marked with tranlVerfe ferruginous little 
warts. Leaves fmooth, alternate ; rib roundifh, about a 
foot long, having a little above its origin an oval, feflile, 
confpicuous gland. Flowers numerous, feflile, or on 
very fllort peduncles, extremely fweet, in a hartdfome 
head, at the top of which is one flower different from the 
reft, and abiding longer, which is probably the only fer¬ 
tile one, though all appear to be hermaphrodites; calyx 
yellow. 
35. Mimofa vaga, or draggling mimofa.- unarmed'; 
leaves bipinnate ; outer pinnas' larger, curved-in, pubef- 
certt. This is a middle-fized tree, with lpreading branches. 
Leaves four or five-parted; flowers umbelled, many- 
ftamened, with tomentofe calyxes, according to Linnaeus ; 
white, fubtermihating in a panicle terminating in heads, 
and about twenty ftamens, longer titan the corolla, ac¬ 
cording,to Loureiro. Native of the Eaft Indies; Cochin- 
china, and Brafil. 
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