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PART I. 1874
I. Notes on the Tree Ferns of British Sikkim, with Descriptions of three New Species
cmd a few supplemental remarks on their relations to Palms and Cycads. ^y
John Scott, Curator of the Royal Botanical Gardens^ Calcutta. (Communicated
^.Thomas Andeeson, Jf.D., i^.X.^.) page 1
II. On some Becent forms of Lagense from Beep-sea Soundings in the Java Seas.
By E. W. Owen Rtmer Jones. (Communicated by H. T, Stainton, Bsq.y Sec.
L. Soc.) 45
III. On the Habits i Structure ^ and Relations of the Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes
conums. Is. Geoff.). By Dr. James Mitrie, F.L.S., F.G.S., ^c. 71
IV. Enumeration of the Orcliids collected by the Rev. E. C. Paeish in the neighbour-
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I. Notes on the Tree Ferns of British Silckinit with Descriptions of three Neio Species,
and afew supplemental remarTzs on their relations to Palms and Cycads. By
John Scott, Curator of the Hoy at Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. (
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II. - On some Recent forms of Lagenae from Beep-sea Soundings in the Java Seas.
By F. W. Owen Rymer Jones. {Communicated hy H. T. Stainton, Bsq., Sec.
L. Sac.) 45
III. On the Habits, Structure, and Relations of the Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes
conurus, Is. Geoff.). By Dr. James Murib, F.L.S., F.G.S., 8fc 71
IV. JEnumeration of the Orchids collected by the Rev. E. C. Parish in the neighbour-
hood of Mbulmein, with Descriptions of the new Species. By Brofessor H. G.
Heichenbach, f. 133
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V, On the Lecythidacese. By John Miers, Esq., F.R.S., V.B.Z.S., Dignit. et Com-

mend. Ord. Imp. Bras, Roses^ ^c 157
VI. Systematic List of the Spiders at present known to inhabit Great Britain and
Ireland. By the Eev. O. P. Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S. 319
PART III.— March, 1875.

VII. Revision of the Suborder Mimosese. By George Bentham, Esq., F.R.S.,
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I. Notes on the Tree Ferns of British Slkkim, with Descriptions of three Neio Species
d a few ipplemental remarks on their relations to Falms and Cycads Hy
John Scott, Curator of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta [Communicated hy
Thomas Andbeson, M.D., F.L.S.)
(Plates I-XVIII.)
Eead Pebruary 17th, 1870.
1 HE Tree Perns of Britisli Sikkim belong to the genera Cyathea, ffemitelia, and Also
phila,—the former being represented by the only known species in India proper (the
C. spimilosa), Hemitelia also by a single species (which seems to me new, the S, deci-
n
piens, n. sp.), and Alsophila by four out of the five known continental Indian species
and two others which I do not think have been hitherto described I thus recognize
eight indigenous species and it is interesting to note that these may aU be collected
;
three-miles walk from the bungalow on the Cinchona plantations at Eungbee.

I
need scarcely add that such specific concentrations of tree ferns are rarely to be met with
India It is also noteworthy that while the temperate forests at elevations of from
5000-6500 feet abound in a variety of the humbler fern forms, two only of the nobler
forms occur in these ^ ^^ What is therein wanting in variety, however, is largely
pensated for by the number and luxuriance of individuals; and it is by no means
rare to
find both species forming extensive groves, in which are specimens from
40 to 50 feet in
ght, with undivided or branching stems and many-headed coronas
of wide-spreading
g,^^ceful fronds The on the other hand, are in general much isolated,
tropical species,
from the extensive clearances of their habitats by the Lepchas for the cultivation of their
maize, millet, eleusine, and other crops ; so that along whole ranges of those mountain-
flanks, the tree fern rarely greets the eye, and we must needs search for them in tlie
deep recesses of their valleys, by the reeky forest-clad banks of rivers, and other uncul-
tivable places. There are several such refuges in the lands reserved by Government for
cinchona cultivation; and endemic to them, as I have above stated, are, fortunately for their
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2 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.
preservation J all tlie Sikkim species with which I have any acquaintance. Tlieso, I may
state, have been all lately introduced to the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta ; and nearly all
are now thriving surprisingly in a lightly thatched structure, similar to those in use among
the natives of various parts of Bengal for the growth of tlicir " pawn *'
or hetel-pcppcr.
Simple though these structures he, they are most ejQfective, and, indeed, indispensable,
enabling us to grow satisfactorily these shade- and moisture-loving plants, which would
barely survive a single day's exposure in the hot season of Lower Bengal.
The altitudinal distribution of the species is interesting, and in a few cases increases
the range respectively affixed by Mr. Baker in his valuable contribution to fern-f?eo-
gi-aphy {vide Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. pt. 1, p. 305). Taking the genera in systematic
sequence, we have first the Gyathea spinulom, which scarcely occurs above 2000 feet or
descends below 1000 though nowhere common, and decidedly one of the rarest of
feet,
the Sikkim species. The Lepchas very frequently confound this plant with the next,
Eemitelia decipiens, mihi, recognizing them under the name "
of piigzheek-nok," tbouo>h
them better up in plant-lore distinguish it under the names of " panhjum "
those of
and
"pugzHock." They resemble each other not a little in habit and
armature, occurring
also at similar elevations, though S. decipiens has a more extensive range, ascending
to
3000 feet, and of frequent occurrence, especially in the valleys of the
Eungbee and'the
Kungjo. At elevations of 4000 feet AlsophUa lateirosa, the " "
pugzheek of the Lepchas,
makes its appearance, becomes abundant at 5500 feet, ascending
to elevations of 6500 feet
and upwards, as on the birch-hm near Dai-jeeling.
Within this range we have also an
abundance of ^ feopfc7« cmnosa.iU "pashin" of the
Lepchas, a species of wonderful
prohficness, and forming, in its season of verdure,
some of the prettiest and mos t ex-
tensive groves that are to be seen in Sikkim.
Similar though these species are, how-
ever, m
their altitudinal range, A. comom is notably
widely distributed than A. late-
less
**''' '^"^ ""^ *''*' ^'''^* "^ *^^ ^^^' ^'""^ Punkabaree.
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siderable abundance, on the banks of the Darjeeling
and that in con-
road, below Kursiong, thence
upwards
elevations of 6500 feet, encircling and more
or less abundantly interspersed
tlirouc^h
the whole of these moist forest
ranges ; while A. eomosa is rarely
met with until the
Zc r. tl '"" ""^''' "''^^ " ^^ "^ ''' ''^'^
Associated with these are a few
"
subarboreous species, and very many
^''-'l-t of the two. --
Imon f ! attams
of 6000 feet, T
""'r°"'
most gigantic proportions t. The
kinds of humWer
°' ''•= ''"^'' ''" ^"''"^''^'^ -'"'«. -tich, at elevaTon
following are the measurements
habitats.
io Sm.). and regains £rondI«, and wi hout ê^^îZ^^ZZumZ 7'' T. ^' ' ™°"' ^^^^^' ""^
in, in December, when one foUows another
in sô^Z^^^^Xt^.:^''''''
™." ^-^ ^-ly set
^
f "f ^
its «^n of rest and defoliation wiU have
rceurred '.
mZ ' ""'^'•' "^"''^ '"'= ""^^ ""^^^''^^^
^ do not \
''^ "™y adventitious buds
• •!•
"^ • fte
frondless. differ, having aH remained
t This species is also found in the tropical forests, as in the v^Jlev of th„ T„.^, „. ._ . ,.
scarcely attaining
" big " and « little Tucklo.
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MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.
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of a plant of this species which Mr. Gammie "Was good enough to take for me. The plant
was growing by the side of the Darjeeling and Eungbee road, at an elevation
of 5000
feet and, as Mr. Gammie remarks, there were many other
; specunens of larger dimensions
in^ the interior of the jungle. The caudex was 2 feet 4 inches in height, and 2 feet
6 inches in diameter ; stipes 5 feet 8 inches long,
with a circumference at the base of
14 inches ; frond 15 feet 8 inches in length, and 9 feet 4 inches broad and the diameter ;
from apex to apex of opposite fronds was 24 feet. These plants, abundant as they are in
the forest ranges, are strikingly ornamental with their glossy dark-green fronds,
and
surprised me not a little when I first saw them at such altitudes, accustomed
as I had
been to see them cultivated in stoves at home. Under the latter treatment the stipes
are more slender, the fronds less rigid, and the tissues altogether laxer, as is shown
by a
measurement of Mr. J. Smith (Perns, Brit, and Eoreign, p. 333), in which he speaks of a
plant of this species at Kew reaching the height of 12 feet, spreading outwards, forming
a diameter of 34 There are several other handsome subarborescent species {Dipla-
feet.
zmm maxim mi, B. ijolypodioides, D. latifoUum) abundant at the same altitude and ;
here also occurs, though somewhat locally, the magnificent Gleichenia longissima
(G. gigantea, Wall.), with stout 8 to 10 or more feet high, interlacing them-
stipes,
selves amongst low bushes &c., from which they send their large gracefully drooping
fronds. We have also from this altitude, upwards to considerable elevations, the
antique-looking S])h(Bropteris harhata, with its densely hoary-scaled stipes, and such
other interesting kinds as Nephrodium splendens, iV.and crinipes, and
apicifolium,
Folypodium ornatum, all handsome and striking objects in the undergrowth of the
forests*. >
The next of the tree ferns which we find in descending from these elevations are the
AlsopUta ornata and A. contaminans, the latter in two varieties. These occur at eleva-
tions of 3000 feet, and descend in the valleys of the Eungbee and the Eungjo to 1000
feet. A. contaminansy var. Brunoniancty is by far the most abundant of the tropical
AlsopUl(E indeed I haveonly seen a single specimen of A. contaminans, var. a, in the
;
Eungbee valley. A. ornata is also extremely rare, though (unlike its ally A. Andersoni)
* Sikkim, I was much struck on mv return

with which several plants (previously rare in the extreme) had taken to the newly made cuttings of the forest-paths,
and sprung up in abundance. Amongst others which struck me I may note Spliceroptens harlata and Gleichenia
X 7 confined
localities. Now both will soon be amongst the commonest ferns of the mountain ; everywhere
find them springing ui> In abundance along the newly cut pathways. The most strikii feature,
mil
stretches of beautifully diversified bloom, though in the forest-interiors you might have searched everywhere and
found
equally distributed In the

ferns, whose spores are carried in every breath of wind, explanations are easy; but with the AcantTiacece^
alike too heavy for such a transit, and devoid of any apparatus for distribution by birds or animals^
diffi ulty. Clearly they could not have thus been dispersed (as we may presume the spores hav(
conditions favourable to their germination presented themselves), but in all probability have been burieu
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4 MR SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM
it is not confined to these valleys, but is also found in the Khasia and Naga Ilills. A, An-
dersonl is, so far as yet known, confined to the shadiest forest glades of the llunghee
and the Rungjo, where it is found at elevations of from 1000 to 2500 feet, and there by
no means uncommon. It was first discovered by Dr. Anderson, Superintendent of the
Botanical Gardens here, in 1867. I have therefore much pleasure in associating his name
with one of the handsomest of the Indian tree ferns, and one which seems
peculiar to those
tracts on which, and in spite of all the many predictions of
failure, utter unsuitability,
&c. &c., he has nevertheless reared some of the most healthy,
vigorous, and extensive
Cinchona plantations that are to be seen in India*. A. glabra is the
most strictly tropical
of all the Sikkim species occurring in low tropical
valleys, and nowhere ascending, I be-
lieve, beyond 800 feet. At this elevation, however, it is rare in the extreme, becoming
more abundant downwards, and rather frequent in the
moister parts of the Darjeeling
Teraie. In passing through the Teraie, on the Ganges and
DarjeeHng road, I found in
adjoining thicket beyond Gareedlioora several
handsome young specimens of this
species from 4 to 8 feet in height, springing, with many others less advanced stagi
from a prostrated caudex Beyond the Balasun river, in the south forests of the Dulka
Jhar, I am mformed by Dr. Anderson
that it is very abundant
^"^'^"'""''"
"^ *^' *"^° ^''"^ ^^' ^'^^'' ^1*^^^^^^'
T''? ^^^^^ ^re, course,
beyond H
hov!''. 'T-
the hmits of successful Quina- cultivation) are
found on the government-preserved
Cinchona-lands
habitats of the Quma barks, arborescent ferns are usuaUy found associated with the tree
tiieîr pi esence the happy region where reigns a soft perpetual sprin (* Aspects,' vol
In the Darjeeling Teraie, beyond

the region of the tree fern
the dwarf herbaceous
species are also
^""^ ""^ *^^ "^^^ which -haunt the dripping
f« , forests above a verv
few are now seen, and those no
longer perennially verdant, but
accordance with the changed
comporting them Js n k
condition,complete their annual growth in
cold seasons, and pass in
a dormant frondless state the
treT^v
"' ''' a^
subsequent hit mon^"°'^°'-
The general unsuitaWeness of
ILT
these ir!>oU tr, fi..„ û x, •
observant who haye seen the \^ V "^

^^^'S™^*'^
"'"'
'« ^^^^ Patent to the least
""* '''' ''" '^ '""^ -^=--1
forests of the hjher
luXs VheT 7
which .e,.nd
lectedthem
hew ^^..^^ aXnlhTr
in October 1868,
^ ''"^' "^ ''' '^^'^ ^^^^^
extra-Teraie fern-flora I col
within radius of two miles
Bungalow from the Siligoree-Dack
Report
l>een added, aU of which, as I know
M.„ plantations) sprinkled with a few "°' '" '^ '°° ''^"""""^ ^^ «- ="
tore in keeping clear
.l^^^Zl^yZTZV'^'''''
^ ^ '^'^'""' *'-'=*^'' =«'^. ™«sequently,
gap, of bare land. expendi-
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Those marked * are all found in the vicinity of Calcutta
Gleichenia dichotomaj Willd, Nephrodium pennigerunij Hook

Dicksonia scabraj JValL molle^ Desv.
Lindsaya lanceolata^ Lab. ^Nephrolepis cordifolia. Baker.
*Adiantum caudatum, Linn. ^^Polypodium proliferum^ PresL
* — - lunulatum^ Burm. irioideSj Lam.
Cheilantlies tenuifolia, Sw quercifolium, Linn.
varianSj Hook. punctatum^ Thunh.
farinosa^ Kaulf. var. rugulosum^ Labill
argentea^ H.^ K. Vittaria lincata^ Sw.
Onychium auratum, Kaulf. *Acrostichum scandcns^ J. Sm.
*Pteris longifolia^ Linn. '^Lygodium dicliotomumj Sw.
t
crenata, Sw. scandens, Sw.

aquilina^ Linn. pinnatifidum, Stt\
var. lanuginosa^ Hook * japonicunij Sw.
biaurita, Linn. Ophioglossum nudlcaule^ L. fil
*Ceratopteris tlialictroides, Brong * vulgutum^ Linn,
Blechnum orientale^ Linn. Lycopodium cemunnij Linn.
*Aspleniuin esculentum^ PresL Selagmella imbricata, /. Scott.
-. t
Nephrodium extensunij Hook. •

semicordata, /. Scott.
The Gleichenia dichotoma, though very generally distributed in the tropical and
tropical regions of both hemispheres, and extending to temperate altitudes
Sikkim, where it is found at elevations of 5000-6000 feet, is rarely seen in the plains of
Bengal. In the present instance it is not at all uncommon, forming on dry banks near
the Julpigoree road a dwarf rigid scrub (on which the goats browse) from 1 to 2 feet or
so in height. In the moister and shadier localities adjoining, it ascends amongst
branches of shrubs to the height of 6 feet. In the latter habitats it is usually associated
with Dicksonia scabra, Lindsaya lanceolata, Lygodium dlchotomum, japonicum^ and
scandens. The latter species is especially abundant and extremely ornamental, com-
pletely enveloping many of the shrubs, and small trees 20 feet in height Chei
lanthes tenuifolia^ varians, and C, farinosa are locally abundant on many of the dr
banks of the Julpigoree roads inally interspersed with a few plants of Onychiv
auratum. JPteris aquilina, va lanuginosa, I found only in the of old brick
building near the banks of the Mahanudi. In similar habitats, JPolypodium pwictatum
var. rugulosum (which in all spt the fructification so much resembles the last
species), is by no means rare, Ceratopt thaUctroides is an annual, frequent
rainy season in excavations by the sides of the roads &c. ; and very frequently the
banks of these are covered with the drooping branchlets of the Lycopodium cernuuin,
and more rarely with patches of the above-named Selaginellce. Both the latter are
strictly plants of
the rainy season, or at least disappear eai in the cold season.
Ophioglossum nudicaule seems to be an exceedingly rare plant, and was found by
only on dry sandy banks near the Mahanudi. O. vulgatum (if really distinct from
latter) is of more frequent occurrence in moist and shady lands. These plants, howe
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appear to me very doubtfully distinct, and to merge into one another as they pass from
moister to drier habitats, so that they are with difficulty separable.

Economic Vses.—l:h.Q central cellular parts of the stems of three species of the Sikkim
tree ferns are eaten by the Lepchas in times of scarcity, when other and wore palatable
food cannot be obtained ; and when their favourite "mur\\ ah" fails them, they extract from
the tree ferns also a similarly intoxicating drink. Tlie preparatory process is as follows
and the species used are Cyathea sjpimilosa, Alsophila corriosa, and A. Andersoni, They
first strip the caudex of its hardened rind-like substance and the woody laminae, and then
cut and slice into small pieces the central ceUular interior, which they then boil for an
hour, apparently with the view of expelling the tannic and gallic acids, whicli are always
more and then steep in cold water for about twenty-four hours, when it
or less present,
is placed on a plantain or other large leaf and thoroughly dried in the sun, so as to pre-
serve it as required for use. Some eight or ten days previous to its being required it is
mixed and fermented with about one third of its bulk of boiled rice, when, as in the case
of the "murwah," it is placed in the joint of a bamboo,
up with warm water, and filled
sucked through the slender branchlets of a bamboo. This moisture is called by the
Lepchas " rucksliie," and is said to be even more intoxicating than the murwah, though
they much prefer that. It is therefore chiefly used (as Mr.
Mimro, of the Cinchona
plantations,Poomang, informs me) in the early part of the rainy season, when their old
murwa grain is done, and their new unripe. It is noteworthy that they
will not eat nor
extract the »ruckshie» from the cellular matter
of the Alsophila contaminant, var.
£runoniana, though it is entirely free from the woody
bundles, which are the only reason
they assign for not using the Alsophila latebrosa
and glabra. They assure me that the
pulpy matter of A. contaminans, var. Brunoniana,
when eaten, causes nausea, vomiting,
and purgmg, with griping and distention of
the stomach. Such at least is the account
given me by our Lepcha plant-coUectors
and one or two other of their sirdars : anyhow
must possess some noxious quality or another
It
; otherwise the
Lepcha would not trouble
Welf by a hiU-ascent of some 4000 feet for A, comosa, when he
might have an abun-
dance of the other species in proximity
to his dwelling. The Angiopteris evecta is
anothor species used for food by
the Lepchas, much as they would a
yam, by slicing and
"'T" '"' --^-— in which the interior of the caudex,
du W
tte air
f
rent "t
f
^P;:
r.
f ^'^,
'
appendages of a light
is
e
pinky red, and the other in which it is a
" f" '^""^'"^^ ^^"^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ P---^ -y differences, so
th
^ZXt^^
the
two by cuttmg
;
the caudex.
':
I
^''""'^
may
*^^- ^-- ^^- -^-y^
remark, however, that these
- only distingdsh
colour-differences
intermixed
'''^' ^" ^^^^^ ^^^ ^1^ individuals,
The red variety i^ calfbvtT'T'
1
: 1^
ar n few otliers ^T"^^
of the dwarfer and
T''"'''
".^^-^-<' '^^ -^te " Tuckvo-o-do-om."
suhaAorescent species of w1i,V>, ti
There
fronds as regetaHes in their
luxuriant in
curries Itr 7?.,/ ; I
,^''
T
^^^^ ^^ ^^"^ y°™
?"'*««/«««i^«''«. which exceeding
-—
many is
part of sTkZ' J
similarly used, as noS h; D t^Z^
Hook f",
'''' *° '''' ^^^ more "
had in Scotland in olden tiLs
J t^ îlT:£l tTand'T''''''
o , Virtues ascribed to it;
^^ '^"""''
on certain days the
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MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM. 7
Lama, or higL. priest of the Lepclias, lias the interior of his temples and altars strung
with moonwort for one or other of his gods. The Lepchas also, like many other of the
natives of India, cook the insipid tubers of Nej)hrolepis ttiherosa — ^the poorest fare of all,
and one certainly on which man or beast will be more likely to die than live. The
Xepcha, however, in his native would scarcely starve, so well does he know the
forest,
qualities, and so readily can he pounce upon the more or less nutritious roots, the pulpy
stem, leaves, or seeds tx knowledge evidently acquked by hard experience, and trans-
mitted from generation to generation. It seems, indeed, with this race, a parent's first
duty to acquaint his child with the products, nutritious and noxious, of his native
forests ; and the aptitude with which they acquire this knowledge is truly surprising, and
rather the result of the operation of instinct than that of experience or previously ac-
quired knowledge through the senses. Anyhow the necessity of circumstances stimu-
lates the acquirement of such knowledge, and well supports Mr. Darwin's view, that
from innumerable experiments made through dire necessity by the savages of every land,
with the results handed down by tradition, the nutritious, stimulating, and medicinal
properties of the most unpromising plants were probably first discovered.
—
Anatomy of Caudex. The following remarks under this head, though possessing but
slight claims to originality, will, I have thought, be of some service in their negative or
affirmative relations to the statements of other observers, which are in several points very
conflicting and still, in fact, sub lite. Thus, according to Mirbel, the caudex consists
of "a simple fascis of petioles or leaf-stalks" (Elemens de Phys. Veget. i. p. 121), an
.opinion indorsed by Lindley, Balfour, and others in their class-books ; while Schleiden
considers what he terms the attempt " to represent the stem of the fern as merely com-
posed of leaf-stalks grown together, is so entirely at variance with the law of its develop-
ment, and consequently so totally devoid of foundation," that he does not deem it worth
while to contest the point. *'
Germination," he continues, " shows that there is a rudi-
ment of the stem prior to the formation of the leaves and leaf-stalks " (Sclileiden's Prin- *
ciples of Bot.* p. 197). Less decided though apparently similar opinions are held
Mohl ; so also Hofmeister, in his paper on the development of Pteris aquilina (* Higher -^* -,
Cryptogams,' remarks that "the distribution of the vascular bundles in the

p. 225),
unbranched frondless ends of shoots exactly corresponds with that of the frond-bearing
stem, a convincing proof that the arrangement of the vascular bundles in the stem is not
dependent upon the position of the appendicular organs, or the number and form of the
bundles occurring in such organs."
With reference to the mode of ramification of the stems of ferns there is also a
difference of opinion. Brongniart, Hofmeister, and others confine normal ramification
to the bifurcation of theapex of the stem above the youngest frond of the bud, and
explain the frequent lateral position of one fork of the branch by the more vigorous
development of the other. This is the lateral bud ramification of Hofmeister as distin-
guished from normal dichotomy, in which there is an equal development of the bifur-
cated apex of the stem; while adventitious buds are such as make their appearance
underneath the insertion of the youngest appendicular organ, whether on the outer
surface or in the interior of the tissue. This view is, of course, perfectly accordant with
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ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SlKKLM.
B MR. JOHN SCOTT
between the positions of the branches and fronds of the

the frequent definite relations
having regard to those poslilona! rcktions of the
main axis. and
Karsten Mettenins,
do not consider that the ramification of ferns is in any respect
branches and the fronds,
phsenogams, both originating in the development of lateral buds,
difi-erent from that of
positional relation to the appendicular organs. This opinion Mct-
which have a definite
supports by the occurrence of what he considers truly axilbry buds in various

tenius
species ofTnchomanes,3in6. the variously posed infra- or extra-axillary buds of the Da-
valliecs. Under the same category Mettenius places the buds found on the stipes of
I'ieris aquilina and Aspid'mm Filix-mas, though these are evidently, as Uofmeister
remarks, " adventitious buds distinct from the true ramifications of the stems." The
real difference between the views, then, resolves itself into the question whether the
bifurcation of the caudex, and the genesis of buds at the base of the stipes, are cognate
phenomena, and relatively to the main axis analogous to the axillary buds of phgenogams.
Uofmeister replies in the negative, and supports his position by various arguments, which
I shall subsequently notice.
The general structure of the caudex has been skilfully treated by Mohl {vide Martins,
Ic. Plant. Crypt. Bras. p. 40.) ; but as there are still differences of opinion, as I have
above shown, on several important points, and others in which there seems to me a
general misconception, I have taken advantage of the opportunities afforded me in the
Sikkim forests to secure stems of the various species \ and the x'esult of my examinations
of these I now beg to submit to this Society.
The structure of the caudex is pretty clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Of these I may first refer to the various transverse sections shown on Plates I., II., & III*
The section of Alsophila latehrosa (PL I. fig, 2), from a newly cut stem, presents a large
central mass of parenchyma, in which are imbedded a number of isolated fibro-vasculai
1) undies, with a triple series of sinuous woody laminse
on its periphery, and externally
encased in a sort of hardened rind. In fig. 4, it will be observed that the number of the
large isolated woody bundles in the central cellular axis is greatly reduced, . and indeed
chiefly confined to the periphery, while in PL II. fig. 4 they are entirely absent. So
also we find variations presented in the degree of continuity of the
woody laminae, each
loop corresponding to the origin of a frond. This character, however, unHke those of
the isolated woody bundles, is by no means specificaUy
characteristic, but variable even
in the same^ individual, and largely dependent on
the health of the plant, and of course
()n the angular divergence of the frond.
This is well shown by reference to PL IV.
figs. 1, 2, &representing three sections of Alsoj>hUa contaminans.
3,
Pig. 1 represents
a section at two feet from the base, and presents
only three plates arising" from \ frond-
aiTangement, while in fig. 2, of a reduced section
at 8 feet from the base, there are five
distmct plates corresponding with a
f angular divergence of the fronds. The section
from the dried stem (fig. 3) exhibits the
peculiar W-lilê lamina, as generally represented
m botamcal manuals, and, as in fig. 2, is
characterized by a
f frond-arrangement.
1 he additional Y-shaped lamina is simply a
result of the contraction of the ceUular
Zt. I .^^^Jf ^^^^^ ^^^^^^-^ ^

tt« line of origin of a new
frond in the lamina a,
before a union has been effected
with the adjoining lamina 6. Mohl,
in his treatise
MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS
OF BRITISH SIKKIM. 9
Inferred to above (tab xxix.fig. 2), gives a section
of the stem oiAlsopMla e.celea
actangu ar outline, winch I have never of ar
seen any fern assume. This
section presents
nêworthy pecuhanty a so in the peripheral line
of large isolated vascular' bunis
which occur m
none of the specimens that have come under
my observation. I suspect
however, that though in no way distinguished
by Mohl from normal woody bundles'
they are merely isolated masses of parenchyma,
such as we often find dried sections pre'
sentmg, and, mdeed, partially illustrated in
the section of SemiieUa dcoipiem
(PI I
fig. 4). This receives a further confirmation by reference
to the magnified portions of the
above sec ion (Mohl, tab. xxxii. figs. 1 &
2), wliich present no vascular tissue in
the
iponding stratum
The soft central mass consists of parenchyma, intersperied (as in PL I. fig. 2) more or
less wi h, or nearly destitute of, isolated vascular bundles.
These bundles present
externally a layer of hard brown
pleurenchyma, succeeded by a layer of soft
paren-
chyma which surrounds a trachenchymatous axis.
With regard to the development of
these bundles, the generally received
opinion (in unison with the theoretical
distinction
of acrogens) IS, that they grow from
below upwards, and never in any case extend
below
the pomt at which they originated. This
opinion, however, by no means agrees
with
my observations, throughout which I have invariably found
that they originate partlv
trom the axial tissues in proximity to the
hard brown diaphragm of the frond and
partly from the margins of the meshes in
the woody laminw at the point of origin of the
latter This very clearly demonstrable by examination
is
of the nascent fronds of
„.
AUopktla ornala and lateh-osa. The transverse
section of the apex of a caudex of
A latebrosa (PI. III. fig. 3) shows the structure
and arrangement of the young fronds
Now, in examining these, we find as we pass from those on the periphery to those in the
centre the number of free vascular bundles decreasing, and wholly disappearing in the
younger or nascent fronds-a result, of course, equally accordant with either viewôf then:
origm. Longitudinal sections, however, afford us
conclusive evidence, showin- the
vascular bundles in various stages of
development (and, as they appeared to me. aJways
younger and less perfect towards their respective
extremities) in the young frond and
parenchymatous axis. In their centre, or line of separation
of the frond and the caudex
they consist of parallel lines of
trachenchymatous tissue, surrounded by thin elon-ated
cells, which pass by a
gradual transition into the ordinary parenchvmatous
tissue of the
stem, as m
their upward growth they pass by a similar
transition into the cellular tissue
of the rachis
As supporting the view I have taken, I may further remark on the i)arati\
absence of the bundles from the apical
part of the stem, and the non-appearance of
such pward course of development. In all cases in wliich
I have heen able
to tracethem to their extremities, I have invariably
found a developing apex below
and a more perfectly developed tissue upwards,
.passing into a stipe.
Eurthermore, I
have mstance observed upwardly-developing ramifications from
lower bundles
which evidently should have occurred had the theory of
development from below been
correct, whereas aU seem to me confirmatory
of the opposite view, and point to the
inosculations of descending bundles. In A. latehrosa the free vascular bundles are
VOL. XXX.
c
TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.
10 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE
considerably more elongated and less disposed to ramify and anastomose than are those
of A. glabra, so that, as shown in the ahovc-noted plates, their examination is much

simplified. Those bundles from the fully matured fronds I have frequently found to
have a downward extension of from 12 to 18 inches and upwards, while those from
the younger fronds are always much shorter, indicating a certain reciprocity of develop-
ment. I am downward
of opinion that the development of the bundle is continued until
the frond is fully matured. But for such a limitation to the development, the lower
parts of the stem would have been much more crowded (and, indeed, ultimately filled) with
the descending bundles. This is not the case ; and reflecting on the above relations
between the development of the younger and older fronds and tKeir respective vascular
bundles, I consider myself justified in holding the above view of the limitation of the
T
growth of the latter.
As further supporting the view of an inverse or polar development of the free vascular
bundles, I would also direct attention to the very marked difference in the ramification
of the bundles in the caudex and those in the frond. In the latter they are arranged in
planes with an almost specific regularity, agreeably to a correlated development
with the other partwhereas in the former we find them distributed in a most irregular
;
and complicated manner, which appears to me only explicable when we consider them
developed subsequently to the parts in which they are found. Certainly, had they
originated at their lowest point (which must have always been in proximity to the
growing-point, as shown by their appearance in the nascent fronds);
and undergone
development with the other parts of the caudex, they must necessarily
have extended
in nearly straight lines between their points of origin and
attachment to the diaphragm
of the fronds, which, as I have shown, takes
place in their earliest sta-es of de-
°
velopment.
Schleiden, in criticising Martius's views on a similar development of the vascular
bundles of Palms (Principles of Botany,
p. 258), remarks - that he [Martins] has left
the meanmg of the term onward
growth of a vascular bundle equivocal. If it means
that the already existing elongated
cells become transformed into
vascular bundles, it
describes no peculiar process of
growth the vascular bundles were already to be dis-
;
tmguished m their elementary condition : but if it means that the cells themselves of
which the vascular bundles are
composed are produced subsequently, originating above
first and proceeding
downward, this is, I believe, erroneous."
If, as Schleiden states,
ambiguously
Wul 1
^""''
''T (though
"^^'""^^
I can scarcely doubt that his
'^^^^ ^* ^^^^
dMnX 7fZ At r r
development commences in the centre,
extremities), Gaudichaud
tSTle^Z i ^"'"^^^ "^^^^^^ ^^''^
whence an ascending
"^^^^^^^^ ^-^-^h- gen. sur TOrgaô!
'"''"'"" '' ^"^^ "^^"^' ^^-*-- (-d is
fytenfrt^^^^^^^ ti:i '"" '"'""^'^ ^' *^^ ^^^^^-
'^ supported
C T tZW
poift of^^^^^^^^^^^ i^ ,r '""
' ^^^ *^^
^-^-
'""'^ '''''
-d-ates
^-- -y -- observa-
the
on of' 1 T"'^
We, t ctrinced thatTr offT f"' ' ^^^^ ^^^ ^^
the above views require
^^1^-^-% to examine
modification, and that a
port on onVortrroth^^
ly of the woody
bundles develops from both
extremities, while in the others
MR SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM
11
growth is confined to the upper extremity so that we have exemplified in
;
them both the
simultaneous and definite modes of vascular growth This will be best explained bj
eference to the .pplemental plate which I have added, showing a vertical
-!>'
section of
Euterpe olwacea The youngest or nascent leaves are in this wholly composed of
cellular tissue and it is by no means diflicult to trace the origin and development
;
of
those vascular bundles characterized by growth at both extremities.
The first indications
of these are to be found in the younger leaves in the form of
parallel lines of elongated
cells continuous with others similarly characterized in
the stem, wliich by graduated
stages of development pass in the older leaves into the normal
vascular bundles. These /
appeared to me to have their origm on the summit of the stem, on lines

correspondino'
with the axis of the leaves, whence they grow upwards into the leaf
and downwards into
the stem. These are the analogues of, though differing in
structure from, the fi
woody bundles of the Pern stem In all the Palm stems which I have examined
(^ gracilis and Catechu, Etiterpe edulis, Arenga saccliarifi Caruot urens,
JBorassus, Livistona, and Cocos nucifera), I find a further concordance
the course
of these bundles in the stem, which, proceeding from the base
of the fronds, pass moi_
or less into the central parts of the stem, though by no means
at a uniform angle, whence
with a slight outward curve they pass down and insinuate themselves
in a more or less
parallel manner amongst the adjoining bundles. In of the many sections I have
made, however, could I find any traces of that regulated curving
or spiral turning of
the bundles, which is usually represented in diagrams of the Monocotyledonous
st°em.
Henfrey has remarked in his interesting paper on some points in the structure and growth
of Monocotyledons (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 183), " In speaking of crossing, it must
always be recollected that this termused rather loosely, as the upper bundles take very
is
variable courses to get to the outer sides of the lower ones ....
so that it is only here and
there that a section will exhibit a direct crossing like that
usually shown in diagrams."
This is, no doubt, quite correct so far as a continuity of the
individual bundles' is con-
cerned but it fails to show why in every section of a palm-stem (at
;
least in all that I
have made) the fibro-vascular bundles passing from the fronds towards the
centre, but none passing thence to the periphery manifestly
if such had been the :
arrangement, gygyj radial section of any length ought to have shown

at least portio
of the bundles on both courses, which they certainly do not *.
The remarkable and frequently sudden enlargement of tlie caudex of certain palms towards the middle has been
frequently remarked by travellers in the tropics.
Various illustrations of this have been given by
ifartius in his
allace
. In the
observed.
confined to the Arecineae. our
or less marked manner, and afforded me materials for the following observations. „. specimen
.^ „. ^..^.^^
here over 70 feet in height, with a basal girth of
is
caudex of 92 inches, tapering upwards to 63 inches at 5 feet
whence it thickens upwards to 68 inches at 8 feet, to 78 inches at
10 feet, thence undiminished to the top. Now
looking at such a specimen, it is impossible to offer a hint
as to the probable cause for the enlargement. Young
specimens, however, as it appears to me, are more
suggestive. Thus
varying Irom 4 to 8 feet, I observed a few with
very
Ml To illustrate, in one specimen the basal cir-
c2
SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.
12 MR. JOHN
The development of tlie vascular bundles composing the woody framework and sur-
fern-stem, unlike that of the free bundles, is

rounding the central cellular axis of the
In a transverse section of the apical parts of the
limited to their upper extremities.
stem {vide PI. II. figs. 1 & 2) the woody bundles are arranged in a more or less regular
nearly horizontal sui'faco, in oval-ellipsoidal figures

spiral manner, on an expanded,
(indicating the points of origin of the future fronds), passing towards the poriphrry in
the lower sections into sinuous plates. In tracing the development of this portion of
the stem, we find that the generation of cells has but limited radii, and that, towards the
periphery of the flattened apex and before its incipient parts have assumed theii* lateral
position on the stem, all increase is by simple expansion of the already formed cells,
which become from four to seven times as large. It is only by this increase (caused
by cell-expansion) of the bulk of the pith, remarks Hofmeister, that the net of vascular
bundles is lifted up by degrees and projected upon a cylinder. It is easily seen, by
coimtin^ the cells durinsj and after the transition of the net of vascular bundles from
the form of a paraboloid to that of a cylinder, that the increase in thickness of the stem
is not caused by any subsequent new formation of parenchymatal cells, either within the
pith or in the neighbourhood of or between the rudimentary vascular bundles (Higher
Crypt, p. 231). The vascular bundles surrounding the apertures of the incipient fronds,
considerable increase from the numerous

.) was 50 inches, 21 inches at 3 feet, and
top. Again, in a second specimen the basal girth was 23 inches at 4
b'2 inches, decreasing to feet, and again some-
\N^hat suddenly increasing to 27 inches at 5 feet, thence cylindrical. Now in regard to the first specimen (as to all
those in the avenue with unhulged caudices), had been thus
it far infertile, whHe in the other spadices had been
produced, and that where the caudex undergoes an enlargement.
first The spadices are henceforward produced with
great regularity from every axil, the caudex increases
in thickness to the point of origin of the sixth or seventh
epadii, where it seems to attain its normal
diameter, and is continued cylindrically upwards. It thus appears to me
that the bulgmg of the caudex is due to the
additional development of woody bundles from the spadix ; and I am
disposed to attribute such sudden enlargement
as those of Martea ventricosa to periods when every axil gives origin
to a strong and vigorous spadix,
and, on the other hand, the decrease to their frequent
abortion. I have further to
romark that gouty stems have been observed only
amongst the Arecinese, and confined to species with markedly
developed internodes, long sheathing fronds,
and almost stem-encircling footstalks of spadices. In the other tribes
(Borassinca), Coryphineae, and Cocoine*)
the Hgulae are short, the petiole at once passes off,
at a less or more acute
peculiarit
(vide
Palms ').
inflorescence the caudex is cylindrical thronshout. and so also
with centrifugal inflorescences and monocarpic
m rcvêwmg my UtUe acquaintan6e with palms, I can recall
no reallv
'T r"' T ™' «— disproving facts

i-tions to some of our monthly botanical
and horticultural
peilllsotTnor
:; tr : Z^r:T!f:rrif_ ^^!- '^^. -
^he production of an audible report in the bursting
mistake Without
permitted
any report when bursting
turther, that in those cases
in which I have attended to
and other Arecineae, the anthers it, Cocos, Oreodoxa
do not reach maturity
ipadix
splitting up of the interior
days. The disarticulation

m
MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM. . 13
which seem in the transverse sections to have an isolated position, have not really such,
as will be seen by a reference to the longitudinal section of A, glabra (PL V. fig. 2), in
which the woody laminae are continued upwards and along the flattened apex. At this
period of development the structure scarcely differs from that of a young Dicotyledonous
stem, with which type they further agree in undergoing a certain degree of lateral
development, until all unite and form a simple tabular circle with spirally arranged
r
lozenge-shaped openings, enclosing a central parenchymatous mass, and enveloped in a

cellular rind. There, however, the analogy ceases ; and the vital activity, no longer
directed to the lateral development in the periodical addition of layers (as in Dicotyledons)
to these closed portions,
F
is continued upwards in newer cycles.
and a front A lateral
view of the woody framework of A. latebrosa, prepared by maceration, is shown on
PL III. ; and I have also given, by way of comparison, sections from the stem of
Asplenium esculentum (PL XII.). The latter presents a more or less regular series of
lozenge-shaped meshes, from the lateral angles of which two vascular bundles pass oif
into the fronds. In the stems of tree ferns the woody framework is much more largely
developed, and a numerous series of branches proceeds from the whole margin of the
ellipsoidal spaces for the supply of the fronds, and is not limited, as in the herbaceous
species, to the anastomoses of the main bundles. It will also be observed, by a reference
to PL III. fig. 4, that these lateral or frond-bundles pass off from the main framework
in an isolated-cylindrical state, rarely dividing again as they penetrate the diaphragm of
the frond.
The arrangement of the woody tissue in the stems of the dwarf herbaceous species is,
as might be expected, much less regular than in those of the arborescent species. The
irregular distribution of the former is well shown in the various sections of Asjplenium
esculentum represented in PL XII. These differences in the distribution of the woody
tissue in thedwarf and arborescent species are no doubt due to the inverse relations,
pointed out by Spenser, between the formation of woody tissue and the subjection to
mechanical strain. This seems to me borne out by the fact that individuals of the
same species when frequenting different habitats —for example, the Asplenium esculentum
above referred to, which indifferently occurs on dry banks and old walls, or under the
deepest shade (in ditches and by the sides of tanks) —^present considerable differences
in the degree of development of the woody tissue, those presenting the greatest amount
of the latter being invariably the individuals from the deepest and most sheltered
habitats. In the arborescent species we also find considerable differences in the :
individuals from dense forest clad ravines the woody laminae are decidedly thinner
and interposed with thicker layers of parenchyma, the arrangement of the fronds
becomes less regular, and the interspaces are freciuently greatly increased. The. sections
of A. contaminans, represented on Pis. IV. & IX., show this in a very marked manner.
The latter of these, with the distantly arranged fronds, oblong scars, with ii-regularly
distributed inner vascular bundles, is drawn from a living specimen in the fernery of the
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, and presents a striking contrast to the symmetrically
arranged quadrate scars and arcuately distributed vascular bundles which were afforded
•m
by the other section of a specimen which I cut on the Poomong Cinchona- lands (PL IV.
;
TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKTM.

14 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE
amongst moist rocks, comparatively free from all other

fio-. 3). The plant grew
arborescent vegetation, and unsheltered from sun and winds.
The distribution of the vascular woody bundles in the stipes of tree ferns has also very
evident relations to mechanical conditions. In the sections of the diirerent species
represented in PL VII., the woody bundles form rings concentric with the periphery of
the stipes, with either rafter-like strutts passing off at an acute angle from the upper
sides towards the interior, or somewhat irregularly distributed towards the upper
periphery, but in either case increasing the strength of the upper planes. Now in the
large horizontal spreading fronds of ferns it is evident that the greatest pressure will
fall upon the upper side, so that the above arrangement perfectly accords with the
mechanical conditions. In the sarmentose and rhizomatous species similar relations
are obvious, the development of woody tissue in these organs having generally an
inverse relation to the fronds which they support ; and they are very markedly influenced
by habitat. Thus Polypodium phymatodes, when growing in its indigenous habitats,
has a much-hardened parenchymatous stem, studded in the central parts with slender
woody bundles, and a ring of larger bundles near the periphery. In culture, under
shade, it becomes softer and less tenacious in all its parts. So also the sarmentum of
Acrostichtmi scandens, which has a a central pith-like substance surrounded by a layer
of woody matter and an excentric ring of unequal-sized woody bundles (the lar o
corresponding to the sides applied to the shoots around which it winds, and of course
that of greatest pressure), with a more slender peripheral ring of the same imbedded in
an extremely tenacious parenchyma, which again becomes comparatively soft in
individuals grown under shade and shelter. I know of no better illustration of this
hypothesis than that afforded by the Bipterls WalUcUi. This species has a hypogfBOUs
freely ramifying rhizome, rarelymore than half an inch in diameter, with lari>e stout-
textured flabeUiform fronds (posed in vertical planes), sometimes
30 inches in length
and 40 inches broad, supported on slender tapering stipes upwards
of 4 feet in height.
To support and counteract the strain of such a frond demands considerable strength in
both stipe and rhizome, so that what they decidedly want
in thickness must be sup-
plemented by density and tenacity and so we find it to
:
be. The rhizome separated
is
into four distinctpaits—first, a central medullary parenchyma, encased in a thin ring of
woody tissue, which is again surrounded by a thick layer
of woody-textured parenchyma
(corresponding to, though of course essentiaUy
distinct from the wood of Dicotyledons)
and enclosmg all is a hard scaly rind. The
fronds are uniserial on the upper side of the
rhizome, and somewhat distant, while the
slender wiry roots are indifferently produced
from Its whole surface, though most abhndantly
from the underside. The species affects
social habits, andusually found in large patches,
is
thus affording in a partial manner
a mutual protection and support. It
is evident, however, that
even under the most
favourable natural environments, the
support of such large and heavy fronds (which
even mthe dry state weigh three
ounces and upwards), with the root-fixments to
.''' ^"' i'^P-rfeotly secured by an
ordinary amount of
1 1"hT
woodv
1
Taa direct result
ir^'; T'*^
r
Lh off frond-tension.
'''f''^''^''
'-^ '^'^--''^ ' -d I do regard the remarkable increase
That the rliizome and stipes should
not have undergone
1
MR HN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM. 15

a similar increase lateraUy is, I belieye, due to
the flabeUate venation, which radially
concentrating the organizing force in the frond,
thus demarcates and limits the growth
of the stipe m
a much more decided manner than is the case in
fronds with lateraUy
developed segments, in which the stipe blends into the *. rachis
I may
in this place cursorily refer to the opinion
that the trunks of tree ferns are
hollow when fully formed, as stated in most of our
botanical class-books. I can scarcely
think that this is founded on observations of living
or at all fresh specimens, but
that It rather has an origin in the examination of
dry museum specimens, which are then
of course hollow. I at least have seen no such appearances in
the many tree ferns
I have seen growing in their native habitats.
On the contrary, I have found, as shown
m Plate L, representing the basal portion of a trunk
of Alsox>Ula laiehrosa 7 feet hi-h
that there is a greater tendency to consolidation
by the descent of woody bundles from
the fronds than to any rupturing or hollowing of
the internal parts, throughout which at
least a passive vitality is long continued. There is this, however, to be said, that species
vary much m
the tendency to throw out adventitious roots {e,
g. Hendtella decipiens has
those roots confined chiefly to the base of the stem,
while under the same conditions in
* A cognate and, in my
opinion, very excellent illustration of the influence of
mechanical actions on the formation
of wood 18 presented by those hnge buttresses which we find
so common in many of the timber- and
other trees of
India. Probably the Paddlewood of Guiana
{Aspidosjiermum ea^cehum), the Logwood {Ecematowyhn camêcManum)
&e. have a like origin; and I do not doubt that the degree
of fluting will be found to vary in individuals with
their
mechanical and physical conditions. But that this is the case with
Logwood I have evidence from the plants in the
Calcutta Botanic Gardens.
Tectonci
deteriorated by this buttressing process, which seems to me not a specific, but rather a local characteristic. In the
Botanic Garden here the buttresses are generaUy large in
proportion to the diameter of the trees ; and we find the
„„„„ j„,, 1
. , ^^y^ ^^^ distributed in a horizontal manner near the surface—
. .
a result, no doubt
alluvial
dr Even in those conditions, however. Teak springs up with a wonderful rapidity and
vigour, indicating that, for the production of
first-class
of their roots, reduce the size of the buttresses,
and render them less liable to be uprooted in the storms which of late
Visited these parts. The buttresses are thus, in my opinion, simply an efibrt of nature to com-
surface
with deeply penetrating roots comparatively free from buttresses and
with plane unfluted
boles. The accordance of this with when we consider the respective mechanical
conditions. Thus in those with roots more or less acutely penetrating the soiL there
will
ot the axis of resistance in lines concentric
with the main axis of the
and a consequently graduated equality
tree,
in the develpment of the woody layers
as afforded by the plane and rounded boles. Again, in those with roots
diverging at obtuse angles, there must' necessarily
be an isolation in the strains or resisting axes, each root forming •
will
matter in axes continuous with those of the
roots, decreasing upwards with the convergence of these
axes. This
accords with the nhenomPTinTi iti ^t^^ô4^^^r^ v^,,+4-*.^«««^ a^ j -i^ i 11 * .
I have also observed that trees with branches diverging
surface
at more or less acute angles from the main ^
trunk are generaUy more strongly buttressed than those
with
explanation of wl
1
former further illustrating this mechanical theory H
buttresses of a tree are rarely (I beUeve, never)
directly opposite, as might have been expected had
nutrition furthermore, in the Botanic
;
Gardens here— I have not particularly noted
his point elsewhere-the largest buttresses
are, or rather were (for the cyclones have left us few
to look
t) on the side of the prevailing winds.
. ;
»
MR SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM

16
they form a dense mass extending hi jh up the stem),

Alsophila ornata and contaminans F
rooting species there is a greater tendency to a general decay

and that the densely
of the lower parts ; hut this is, again, only when a massive hasis of adventitious roots has
the strain on the hase of the stem. Anyhow, I may state that in no
all hut neutralized
uninjured specimens extending a foot ahove the
case have I seen the interior decay in
gr oun d-le vel
>S'ifm5.— Ramification of the caudex of tree ferns is occasionally pro-
Bamificcdion of
duced hy the suppression of the terminal hud, more frequently hy the development of
adventitious huds. Hofmeister, as I have stated in my prefatory remarks, further
divides the former mode into those in which the hifurcations are equally developed, and
those in which one of the forks forms the principal axis and gives to the other a lateral
position. To the former he applies the term Dichotomy ; the latter he distinguishes as
lateral huds. The application of the latter term in the sense mentioned is apt to mislead
and indeed the distinction appears to me superfluous. Practically these so-called lateral
shoots are ultimately in many cases undistinguishable from those having an adventitious
origm. Hofmeister, indeed, maintains that there is a " real difference between the
internal structure of the forked branches of the stem, and that of the place of junction
of the principal stem with the buds which I have regarded as adventitious and seated
on the stipes. The former exhibit throughout their entire length the peculiar structure
of the stem, while the collar of the latter, on that part between the principal axis and
place of origin of the bud, exhibits the characteristic arrangement of the vascular bundles
of the stipes" (Hofmeister, 'Higher Cryptogams,' p. 266). Differences in the internal
structure of the two forms of buds are by no means and in all cases thus easily distin-
guished ; and certainly in the buds of tree ferns which have come under my observation I
have in no case found such distinctive characteristics as the above; adventitious buds,
though presenting a structure somewhat akin to that of the stipes in an incipient, have
little in common with them in the mature state. I have examined many of those buds in
nearly every stage of development on the Alsophila gigantea and comosa, both of
which are
singularly prolific.In both these species the adventitious buds most frequently occur
on the outer base of the stipes, though they are by no means rare
on the interspaces
between the fronds. Now these differently posed buds present
differences in structure
the former directly communicating with the interior
of the stem, through the frond-
meshes, while the woody laminse are interposed in the
latter. These stlpal buds, being
thus manifestly in a very similar relation to the
main axis as are the displaced lateral
axes of the forked end of stems, a considerable similarity
in structure might be justifiably
assumed. This is confirmed by observation. Differences
in the developmental force of
the axis of a fork are generally manifested in
the incipient stage growth is more or less :
completely suppressed in the weak axis ; the latter is

forced out on the side of the stem
and presents a contraction at the collar {vide PI. X.
fig. 2) similar to that
of adventitious
buds, from which it scarcely differs
in structure. ^
The disguise is thus in many cases
, ^
cry complete, so much so that a
long-latent and subsequently developed
main axis is
only dostingmshable from the
adventitious buds by its more complete
and direct union
with the interior woody framework;
and even this is also much disguised
when a
MR SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM 17
vigorous hud developed on the young and softer parts of the stem. With all this simi-
is
larity of structure, however, there can he no

question as to their affinities (as urged by
Hofmeister) being other than analogical, and that they are distinct from each
other and the
axillary buds of phaenogams Their homology with the latter organ has been suggested
by Karsten, and espoused by Mettenias The latter author has endeavoured to support
this view from the apparently axiUary partition of the buds in several species of Tricho
manes, and the transitional condition of those in certain Hymenophylla and
Bavalllce,
which, with axillary buds, have others spinging from the upperside
of the superposed
frond These are but isolated instances, however, and my opinion are casual rela
tions, inasmuch as we find in both Trichomanes and
DavalUa axillarv buds on certain
portions of the rhizome, while others gularly posed on various parts,
a and by no
means confined to the line of the fronds Moreover, in many cases, those buds are truly
the result of bifurcation of the main axis ; and as such there is no reason
why they might
not be occasionally subtended by a frond, and so assume an apparently axillary
character.
This is by no means a rare phenomenon in the erect tufted caudices of
Trichomanes j ava^
nicum and in some of the Indian sarmentose species in the latter, buds (the results
; of
bifurcation) appear on the frondless end of the stem, and have
not unfrequently an
axillary relation to a subsequently developed frond.
In the proliferous tree ferns buds most frequently occur on the exterior base of the
stipe, and, though not uncommon (as in Alsophila comosa
and glabra, vide Plates X. &
XI.) in various extra-axillary positions, I have never observed them in the axil of frond.
a
The Alsophilce referred to are, remarkably prolific, and, singularly enough, occur in the
extremes of altitudinal range of the Sikkim species, viz.A. glabra in low tropical valleys,
while the habitats of A. comosa are the temperate forests. In the normal conditions of
growth of the above species a varying number of adventitious buds are always being
produced; but for a full exhibition of their wonderful prolificness it is necessary to
examine plants which, through some other, have received a check in the deve
lopment of the main axis. I was much struck with this in an uprooted plant of A,
glab) This plant I found on the banks of a mountain-steam near the Ganges and
Barjeeling road, in the Sikkim Teraie, whence it had no doubt been brought from higher
elevations while the stream was flooded, as no other plants of its kind were to be found
in the vicinity. Anomalous, therefore, did it appear to observe in a single uniform line
of 15 feet, twenty-three young plants of A. glabra, varying from 6 inches to 4 and
8 feet in height. Certainly I thought they had been artificially planted, and should have
gone onin that belief but for the prostrate and still vegetating stem whence they had their
origin,and to which (with many others in less advanced stages) they were yet attached.
The production of adventitious buds in A. comosa is similarly copious, and more in the
natural process of growth with a vigorously developing main axis plants are by
no means rare in which the exterior bases of the stipes in the older parts of the caudex
are studded with shoots and buds in various stages of development. By these means the
individual plants frequently attain most bulky proportions ; a plant which I measured
had an caudex 20 feet in height, and presented from 8 feet downwards an elongated
erect
cone, with a base 10 feet in circumference, formed by the conjoined adventitious roots
VOL. XXX. D
and steins of sixty fairly-developed frond-beariD g shoots, varying from 2 inches to 6 feet
in length, and from 3 to 13 inches in circumference. A. gigantea never (tlmt I have

seen) attains these proportions; and there is another note-worthy difference in the deve-
lopment of In A. gigantea simply pinnatifid fronds are produced
their respective buds.
almost contemporaneously with the appearance of the bud as a distinct organ on the
stem, or before it is larger than a mustard-seed. On the other hand, in A. comosa,
from the appearance of the fronds, there is generally a considerable development of the
axial parts {vide Plate II.), which assume apyriform shape, enveloped upwards in brown
subulate scales, and below in a fascicle of short, slender adventitious roots. Thus ere a
single frond has appeared they have a sufficient amount of independent vitality to be
separated from the parent stem, and give rise to new individuals, presenting in this
respect an analogy to many other proliferous hill-j^lajits.
The normal forking of the main have observed in three of the Sikkim species,
axis I
viz. Alsophila latebrosa, A. ornata, and A. gigantea. In the two latter, however, rami-
fications occur much less frequently by this process than by the production of adven-
titious buds,which I have never observed on the first-named species indeed ramification :
in any form is rare in the extreme in this species ; and of the many specimens which I
have seen of it in the Sikkim forests, one only was branched, and that, singularly enough,
in a very striking manner, as is partially shown by the representation (Plate I.). This
specimen had a clear erect bole 25 feet in height, whence, nearly in a verticil and pro-
bably by division of the terminal bud, proceeded seven stout symmetrical
branches. I
have said by division of the terminal bud, which I consider the more
probable origin of
these shoots, as aU were in unbroken continuity with the
main stem, and in this respect
differed from those originating as adventitious
buds, which, moreover, I beHeve, as
just stated, are never produced by this species.
At about six inches above tlie pseudo-
verticil one of the shoots bifurcates, as shown
on the plate ; and again, at a hei-ht of
about 2 feet, two others are forked, thus producing
a ten-Jieaded specimen. The indi-
vidual shoots are aU very perfectly developed,
varying in length from 5 to 12 feet in cir-
cumference from 7 to 13 inches, and each surmounted
by a corona of intertanglinr. fronds*.
In the sketch of a triple-headed specimen (Plate
IX. fig. 8) of A. ornata which I found
m Sikkmi, the origin of the ramifications
is very clearly shown.
The constriction
evident on the mam stem, immediately
under the divisions, indicates the
partial arrest
Wh tT.
m
though
t the 'T of:
majority "r '" *^' '^''^'^
instances division occurs without
^"^^^^^-
any apparent cause
^' *^- -i--g force,
The
structure of the stem in the above case
had all the appearance,
J^^îT^noZ
b
When
as one that would indeed have been a prize to any
ikntations, and not in the midst of an 'nnii
nnfrequented
addition to the museum.
an aajoimng bustie, who had seen ns measuring

portion of the stem, inelnding'
the io^^^Z^TTZX
"""^ Tv ''"*
'
''""' "^^ ?'="'•
""^ ^^"*^"» «"«™ ''^'1 ^Pared
^ '-'« »' »»
*» âTO a
was hacied and miêed. ° ° ' '
not even this remnant : all
,MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.
19
trifurcation, the dwarfed (and wliat Iwas disposed to regard as the original) axial bud
occupying an apparently median though somewhat deflected
position on the same plane
as the other two. The dissections, however, show that
this is not the case, but that it is
simply the result of a bifurcation repeated on one of the
axes, the bifurcation of the
terminal bud giving rise to shoots A and B, the latter undergoing a secondary furca-
tion, and giving rise to G, a few lines higher. The points of origin of the different forks
thus differing so slightly in the transverse sectional drawing,
we find all presenting much
the appearance of having had a consentaneous origin.
With reference to Hofmaster's
mode of distinguishing buds from normal ramifications, the difficulty is here
exemplified.
In the primary forks we find the shoot A, from the more vigorous
development of the
shoot B, laterally displaced and suddenly contracted at the base,
presenting very slightly
more continuity with the main axis than do many lateral buds, which
readily shows the
difficulty there must be in cases of more complete
suppression (of such terminal shoots)
to distinguish them from ordinary lateral buds.
This we will here attempt to exemplify more fully by reference to the very viviparous
A. comosa, a specimen of which is represented in Plate II. We there find
that nearly
all the young buds originate around the exterior
base of the stipes, and always below the
diaphragm of the latter. The stems of these adventitious buds are ultimately
continuous
Tîth the woody base of the stipes, and, as a matter of
course, with the interior woody
structure of the stem, as shown in the transverse section of ^. comosa,
Plate II., fig. 4.
.In structure these are very different from those originating on the other parts of the
stem, m woody parts are reduced to a slender root-like process, connected
w^hich the
with the external woody laminae of the stem, and always readily distinguishable
as adven-
titious buds. These, I suspect, are the normal adventitious buds of Hofmeister, while the
others seem to me to hold an intermediate position between those and
the lateral buds of
that author. Though thus by no means so easy to distinguish the different forms of
it is
adventitious buds from bifurcations of the apex, there can be no question,

as Hofmeister
has rightly insisted, that the ramification of the vascular cryptogams
has only an
analogical relation to the axillary position of the branches of
ph^nogams. The buds
of Trichomanes, which Mettenius considered truly axillary,
are much too variable to
afford any satisfactory conclusion, as are also those of the DavalUce, as
admitted by
Mettenius.
The Stipal ioc?/?i.—Around the external base of the frond of all tree ferns (vide
Plate VIII.) we
find a series of irregularly shaped perforations, filled, in the mature
I
state, with a brown, glossy, carbonaceous

powder. The various appearances they present
are shown under the respective species ; but it is difficult
to conjecture what purpose they
serve in the economy of the plant. Though placed
directly in the bud-region, they in
no case give origin to these ; nor do rootlets ever protrude from them. They are
found
in the earliest stages of the frond's development, and are then filled
with a green cellular
tissue ; and as they are on the same plane as the fleshy parenchyma
of the frond, I have
been frequently disposed to consider them the aborted tracings, corresponding
to the
costse, of a strongly auricled-frond-bearing progenitor. This view seems to me sup-
ported by the fact that similar iêrforations are continued up the sides of
the frond,
d2
'
I
20 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM
as is shown in the figures of A. latebrosa, which are doubtless abortive jjinnoe. More-
over the basal and lateral loculi hare primarily the same contents; and indeed the
ultimate difference —
by no means important namely, the reduction of the contents
is
of the basal cells into a loose brown sporoidal matter, while the upper or lateral retain
their original cellularity, though not unfrequently we find their contents passing
gradually into one another. Hugo Mohl (' De Stractura Pilicum Arborearum,' p. 45,
§ 12) describes these organs as occurring in several Brazilian species of Alsophila, and
gives various sections of them in tab. xxxt., but offers no opinion
as to their signifi-
cation in the economy of the plant, further, indeed,
than a reference to that of Martins,
who had suggested thea analogy with the antheridial organs of other cryptogams, prior,
of course, to the detection of the true sexual organs by Leszczyc-Suminski. Their ana-
logical resemblance to the imbedded axiUary capsules of Jsoefes and the pulverulent
contents anyhow shows that Martius's view was more
than a mere unfounded hrpothesis
Mf Schleiden, Prineip. Bot. p. 194) ; and, indeed, there may be still those who' in spite
of Schleiden may
(perhaps not incorrectly) be disposed to regard them as the
aborted spore-cases of some ancient progenitor.
It is curious that a somewhat correkted
organ of dubious import should also occur in
Lycopods. Karl Miiller was the first to
detect this organ, which he describes in
his paper " on the Development of the
Lyoopo-
diaêiB," in the Bot. Zeitung, July
31st, 1846. This, which he terms an " acces-
sory organ," he finds present in all
stages of the plant's existence. In the terminal bud
of the germ-plant it is fully developed,
and placed between the bud of the branch and
the bud-envelope. It is again
met with in the axils of both forms of leaves
in the ;
termmal bud It occurs soon after the
development of the leaf from the stem, and is
rSm tat ". " " '''° '^""'^ '^^"'^^^ "'•= oophoridium and the anthe-
^'^T;
'"'"• ^^^^"^ Py"f°™
numW o?
number of i r r:
delicate transparent parenchymatous
' " ^ °^ ^^
cells filled
^l^^P^. ---ting
with a flnelv "ranular
of a
and thus contmues unt.l the

annual growth of the plant completed,
is when it wither
'^^^^^^
apprrmation L its re^^LZ »S- *" -^ê even an
buds which are often Tpt C •
'
Z. ' ,
^"'^"^""^ ''P^'^" *" ""^ *« °'=°'^^ i° those
musTi
howler it '""" "' ^'^"'^ «""''»"- «"^
Here,
-^..fl.^
"
...J:_x.'
""^y bet
^^ H
forgotten
,
.w
that in our case the ceUs /.ever h„™ „,„».
°'^'^^-
contents which thev have ^''''^' '^^^^ ^

in the loenli nf 7 '
garded as buds. Are thev abortt I \ / "• "' ''"'' ''''"'''''' °'Sans
<=°'^^«1^''^tly they cannot
be
''
W
to
be brought t:^^'
tZoT^^"'*
solve the question "
WitlZt 1 .
? Reasons
T^' ''' '^'^ "^"^ ^° »^« -adequate

really are, I
I
cann
have found that, n th
arrested. f.h..<.
L
t
eat
„'-."'''' "
think thttlv?
Sf .
"
'"'^ ""^ '^^^°^- -gans
n ""^''^ ^^^ development
t^'"^' 1
'"^
of the main nxi» T,t r.

has been
"P^"'"" ^^ *° -'''^t Ihese
21
that the production of adventitious buds in the genus
Lycopodium by no means a is
frequent occurrence ; and I have as yet observed it on two
species only, L. nummularis
folium and a handsome new species akin to Z. FJilegmaria, which has
been lately intro-
duced to the Gardens from Sumatra.
Defoliation. —HYiQ fall of the frond is in general gradual ; and in Sikkim one only of the
species is truly deciduous. This, as I have previously remarked, is the Alsophila comosa^
which casts its leaves about the beginning of August, and so remains for from four to
five weeks, when another cycle of fronds is rapidly unfolded. The fall of the leaf in
this plant during August is singular and anomalous. Through all those wide forest^
stretches every tree and bush in the height of their rainy season is in vcrdui:e, while this
tree fern, like some imperfectly acclimatized intruder, stands bare and leafless. The
fall of the leaf in this case therefore cannot be attributed
to the ordinarily assigned
causes, such as change in the season, nor the other less or
more potent influence of
axillary buds. It is, indeed, difficult to conjecture as to the cause
of defoliation in
this case. Its congener, AlsopUla latehrosa, is in full verdure, as
are all their more
humble congeners. I have carefully examined the base of the fronds
of this plant, and
compared them with those of other non-deciduous species, without
findin"- any
planatory difference. In all the species we find the parts much as H. Von Mohl
described them as having place amongst phjenogams. A"separating layer" of cortical
tissue, originating in the axillary side of the leaf, extends downwards, and ultimately
forms a complete line of demarcation between the stem and distant
parts of the leaf
With this process of vegetation, corresponding to the maturity of the frond,
all further
development of the distant parts of the frond ceases (and we may
suppose that it will
tend to direct the sap-current into newer and younger channels), the
separating layer
becomes hard and woody, and forms a clean detaching surface. This " "
separating layer
appears as a very thin membrane in the earliest stages of development
of the frond, and
forms a distinct line between the distal and proximal parts of the *. leaf A similar
membrane is, I believe, more or less distinctly present in all leaves, forming a line of
demarcation between the axial and lateral organs. In many
cases, as in nearly all
monocotyledons, and generally in aU lax-textured petioles, a slight
constriction in the
nascent leaves is the only indication we find of this organ, which becomes absorbed in
the more rapidly developing longitudinal tissues. In dicotyledons, on the other hand
with a more equable development of the tissues, the
separating layer is very generally
present, increases in thickness with the transverse
tension of the leaf, and forms a
distinct articulating surface,
whence, as they individually reach maturity, they drop
'^-
from
the axis. Such are the phenomena presented in the
fall of the leaf of A. comosa and
a
few other ferns, though here, as in endogens generally,
the majority undergo decay from
above downward to the hardened bases of the stipes,
which often retain their attach-
ment to the stem for several years.
which
Edinburgh,
1866, by Dr. M"^Xab. It is there shown that the incipient leaf is divided into proximal __
and portio
- hypophyU" and "epiphyU" of Dr. M=Isâb,
the latter giving rise to the lamina, and the former to^the
7\xZ'Z
organ B
J
Circinaiion, though not peculiar to ferns, is certainly one of their most strikin"
characteristics. The adaptation of the circinate mode of yernation to the development
young fronds is very evident when we reflect on their early isolated position on
of the
—
the ajds and their acrogenous development unlike what occurs in Palms and
Cycads,
both of which are characterized by a straight vernation, though singularly enough
wc
find in all class-hooks the latter order as " frequently represented
hy a circinate verna-
tion." This occurs in no Cycad which I have had an opportunity of seeing ;
certainly
not in the genus Cycas, which, if I mistake not, is the one
referred to by authors.
In the Indian species of this genus I have found a simply
all
involute vernation,
the edges only of the pinnte roUed inwards, and in
no case have I observed the
rachis rolled spirally downward. This, as in palms, is always straight ; the fronds,
an-anged in large clusters, form a mutual protection
to the young unfolding parts
rendering a circiAate vernation superfluous and,
indeed, impossible. In ferns, as I have
said, the arrangement of the parts
is altogether different. In these we have a flatly
paraboloidal terminal apex, on which the
young fronds are almost horizontally arranged.
The increase of the number of ceUs is entirely
confined to very short apical radii, beyond
which all increase IS by a simple cellular
expansion ; this goes on rapidly, so that
the
horizontally placed fronds and other
parts are, as Hofmeister expresses it, "
lifted up by
fronds and consequently mcreases their liability to injury, which, however r

IS
'^'^ tolJZU
a? Tver? fa't™!
''
f K'- ^"^ '^^'^"-
^^^^ '>'^^"' ^ ^^
LelSenttf
development of !
oeUs u 7 ^
passmg mto '"r""'
a similar expansion
"'''''*"'^-
this
^« '^^^ ^-t ^ -ntrifuga
(i e. the development of the
^xis) Wasmg outwards, we might theoretically
;
assume that the lonSra L/el p
apparent even in the '"^""*"^«

rudimentaxy sta!
meut proceeds so do the
Se fro.lf f"'
?
"'""' '"r'*^"*
^' *^"= frond-develop-
^^
differences Tt?. ^ ,
marked, in the first instat^Ty Tm"e liW^ "' *'^ ^"° ^^' ^-°- --
""'"'^'''' """^ ^"^^'^^
^^fttnT^t ZTT
cellular extension, thus hj .unple
givin/thel™7 .
from all chances'of injS °'^*'"^'^"' """'' ^'^-^^
a comparatively rare
mode T
of vernation .h.Z
°"™''' *''=»* circination,
(Broseracc»>), and further, afI
economy of these plants-^n
Z XlS^'^?! ''^'''-''^ '=h='-'=terize
Sun-dews,
ou the manv
many inlk
opinTn wS
insects „,.,-„i,T°
wHch haunt and
hi
^^'?''
^
tv
^"^'^^ ^'1^ f
""l! f^^^
be
^^^^ ««-« Purpose in
'readily admitted on
the
r«fl.nH.„
reflecting
renderin
^dering very necessary ?°° *'"^ "^^'^^^^^
some such protectiv ' ^^^^-V
that afforded by a
T^ -
— eirlatc mode of veil:
of the Boragine*
and others
ers, has n 2'
has, I believe,
I
'''•
"°'*'°" '"
'''''"''''
'^'
"^^-^^pi
inflorescence,
more relation to the
as in
fertiUzation of
i
MR SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.

23
the flowers than any merely protective agency ;
anyhow this is highly probable from the
relations so^ well explained by Herbert Spencer
{vide ' Principles of Eiology,' chap. x.
p. 146, vol. ii.). It is there shown that aU radially symmetrical floWers have vertical
axes, and that deviations from this symmetry are in aU probability adjustments to
the
fertilizing process. Mr. Herbert, adopting Darwin's views, reasons thus :— « So
long as
the axis of a flower is vertical and the conditions
similar all round, a bee or butterfly
alighting In be as likely to come from one side as from another ; and
it will
hence
hindrance rather than facilitation would result if the several
sides of the flower did not
afford it equally free access. In Hke manner, flowers which are distributed over a plant
m such ways that their disks open out on planes of all
directions and inclinations wiU
have no tendency to lose their radial symmetry but flowers so fixed as to open
out sideways in tolerably constant altitudes have their petals
differently related to insect-
agency ..... A
long undermost petal or Hp, by enabling the insect to
settle in such
a way as to bring its head opposite to the opening
of the tube, aids its fertilizin
g
agency ( p. 153). Now, in the cases of circination referred to
(for example, in Myosotis),
we find first radial symmetry
of the flowers with a second arrangement, so that
^
as the
stem unfolds the flower passes from the inverted to the upward
position of the mouth
and ultimately, and probably after the fertilization, assumes a
lateral position on the
axis. Thus, as I believe, circination, though subserving (as in the above
^ cases) distinct
ends in the plant's economy, has been acquired through " natural
selection," which,
"working" Mr. Darwin weU expresses it in reference to somewhat cognate cases
(as
vide Origin of Species,' 3d ed. p. 213) « for the good of each being,
*
and taking advantage
of analogous variations, has sometimes modified in very nearly
the same manner two
parts in two organic beings, which beings owe but little
of their structure in common
to inheritance from the same ancestor."
I will now summarize the peculiarities and affinities of tree ferns, commencing
briefly
with the development of the embryo plant.
1. The first product of the spore is
the prothallium, with its antheridial and arche-
gonial cells, which by a fertilizing process give origin
to an embryonic body, whence
proceed the fronds and caudex.
2. In the earliest stages of the caudex transverse
sections exhibit only one vascular
bundle. The point of origin of this in the stem is predetermined by the first frond,
whence the longitudinal axis of the nascent fibro-vascular bundle
is directed. This
fibro-vascular bundle grows upwards and
outwards into the first frond, with which it is
subsequently simultaneously developed ; again, from
the lower end of the bundle a _
branchlet passes out into the first root. With
the development of the primary frond
and root there is a simultaneous and somewhat rapid
apical growth of the young stem,
and a continuation of the primary vascular bundle to
the point of origin of the second
frond. A similar
development of the stem and vascular bundle is continued until the
appearance of the sixth or even the ninth frond. In all the Sikkim species
of which
I have had an opportunity to examine young plants,
the frond-arrangement is thus far
tristichous, and the angular divergence, of The stem is now veiy per-
course, one third.
ceptibly increasing in thickness, and depressed or flattened at the apex; the angular
24 MR, JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.
divergence of the fronds gradually passes into the pentastichous; and the until now solitary
vascular bundle gives off branches to each frond. These run up the stem in a wavy
manner, anastomose laterally at the points of origin of the fronds, and form a pcri-
pherical network, similar in all respects to the arrangement of the fibro-yascular system
in the fasciculate herbaceous species.
3. The pentastichous arrangement of the frond is in general adhered to until the stem
has attained some five or six inches in height and from three fourths to one inch in
diameter. By the time the stem attains the above height the vascular system, which
previously consisted of slender cylindrical bundles, is now much more developed, forming
narrow laminae, and thus reducing much the diameter of the interspersed
meshes. The
diameter of the stem undergoes a rapid increase the angular divergence
; of the fronds is
reduced ; and their five-ranked arrangement gives place to
a more complex one. The
development of the stem thus proceeds; and on its attaining the
height of, from ten
inches to one foot, we find that the softer
and more ceUular-stemmed species (e. g,
A,comosa, A.contaminans) have nearly attained the full
diameter of stem, and the fronds
their normal arrangement— condition
a which is in general attained at a much later sta-e
m such species as A. latebrosa, A. glabra, and
others characterized eased
development of the fibro-vascular system
Longitudinal sections of the stem now present
the foUowing appearance and for ;
il ustratiye purposes I
select A. glubm as presenting the
greatest development of the
hbro-yascular system, and consequently
the most complex conditions. In this
species
we have a most complicated anastomosing of
the woody bundles, which, originating
at
base of he stipes, pass downwards
into the interior of the stem, and either
curte outward
e«v ITm
extrem ty free S'
' •'" "' *; ^"^^'^'""'"^^
the inner and cellular parts of
^"""'^ '''^''''' °^ -i* '^--
the stem. Enclosing these are
--^-
lower
the
woody lammce, consisting fct of two
blackish-broVn exterior lamina,, fol
owed by tw
shatum
Saturn 'ot
of si rfr' r^
soft pale-brown trachenchyma.
'''
mixed with
'''''''^'' P^^'^"°'^^"-' surrounding a
thin-sided parenchymatous
eenL
bundles proceeds from the

oritin^'a^ tttroTtVV^'T wf ' centre, or point of
woody bunrir:;;^:^;,
extremities ascend
t£^^^
The downwn.^
^LTaLl
.i, • ,
'^^ °^ tS fit™t.rr
^^^ ^^^^^
^"
i^ which their
" "^
upper
"^^^^^
tluis the frond's
8-11 feet,
tce^dlg
while the
tTT.T
descLling' ellr t L
'
'''^" '""^
' ''"="*'^ "' ^'°"'

'
;/;» .T"
inches,and in one case only hav! I
found it aUain 2 fleT
^^^'^^^
"^ ^^^^ &»- 10-18
6. The other woody bundles of
the stipes are riven oiF bv f1,„ i , -
stem, and form a peripherieal ^ ^'"^^^ ^"""^'"-^ °^ ^^'
layer in the stinr T, !
Wow the diaphragm of the stipe Is isolated
bifurcations in the stipes,
I have in
Sis IZr ,
", '''' "^'^ ^^™^"'^
'"^'''''''''
quent^ occui-s with
no instance detected anvt? ""'T'""'
their lower extremities
in the caudex
"'' " " ^"
^ The continued descent of
iêe woody bundles in th;
.udices of those species so
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MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH

SIKKIM. 25
characterized,and the consequent compression of the surrounding
cellular tissue
render it denser and harder, so that the
lower parts are always much harder and
more woody than the upper. Mechanical strains are
also potent agents in the increase
of the dense deposits and we have further, in
; the general distribution of the woody
system, a peripheral woody casing surrounding a
cellular core, the simplest though not
the least effective mode of resisting such tensions
8. In transverse sections the woody framework appears
in from three to five detached
peripheral laminae, the difference in number being
due to variations in the frond-arran ce-
ment of the different species. The interspaces indicate the
position of the fronds and
vary m
width, according as they are more or less near
the axis of the latter, as explained
by their lozenge-shaped appearance in the
longitudinal sections. In fresh sections the
woody lamm^ usually present concavo-convex surfaces, less commonly irregular wavy
outlines sections of dried specimens, On the other hand, the laminse present
curvatures, according to the less or more regular drying of the stem. In this process
the
laminae are frequently broken; so that there are frequently more of them than
normallv
characterize the species.
9. The transverse sections of the apex of' the stem have a
somewhat complex arrano-c-
ment, representing the nascent woody system, and
indicating the points of orio.in^)f
several successive cycles of fronds.
The points of origin of the fronds are thus organically
predetermmed by the vascular system and their distribution
; can have nothing whatever
to do with the distribution of this, and
of course infinitely less in its
compaction
The idea of the caudex as a product of the coalescent
bases of the fronds is wholly
unfounded
10 The caudex of ferns retains its solidity to tlie last, and has, as above explained
a tendency to increase in density and
hardness. It
a mistaken notion of authors to'
is
represent the stem as frequently hollow at the
base by the rupture of the central cellular
axis This view could only have been founded on the
examination of dried caudices in
which, as a matter of course, we find the ceUular
parts irregularly ruptured or, indeed
wholly absent. Such results do not occur in the
living plant, or at least could there
only
be the result of physical injury or the destructive
inroads of the boring beetles
11.The distribution of the vascular system in the
caudices of the" dwarf herbaceous
êcies diifers only in the degree of development from
that of the arborescent species
lôngitudiual sections exhibit no continuous
strata; all are short and detached
and
wanting m
the regularity of distribution of the arborescent
kinds, though the general
woody filaments, as in young individuals of the latter,
foi-m a peripherical network with
more or less regular lozenge-shaped meshes. The
fibro-vaseular bundles of the fronds
are given off along the sides of the meshes,
and pass into the stipes in a laminar form
m this respect differing from the arborescent
species, as also in the entire absence of
the
free woody bundles. In those species where one bundle only passes into
the stipe it is
given off at the upper angle of the mesh.
The distribution of the fibre vascular system
is very clearly shown to be in no way
causally effected by the disposition of tlie
fronds l,v
an examination of the tubers of Nephrolepis tuberosa, in which
we find radiatiu- from
the solitary vascular bundles of the stolon a number
of thin wii-y fibres variously aMsto
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26 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM,
mosing, and forming a polygonal network concentric with tlic cellular knob. Again, in
no respect do the elongated frondless ends of the shoots of such sj>ccics as Acrostichum
{Stenosemia) scandens, Folypodium {I*hego])terls) jûnctatwm^ and other widolj creep-
ing species, differ from the frond-hearing parts.
12. Adventitious roots originate indifferently on the cortical region and the interior
woody laminae. Those originating in the former region are most abundantly produced
and A. coutaminans) and give quite a shagreen-
in certain species (Alsophila latehrosa ^
like covering to the stem in their younger stages. It is only in the moistest forest
n
tracts where these undergo any considerable degree of development and that stroi D ;
thick matting which so frequently surrounds the caudex (exceeding by many times the
diameter of the latter) composed of those roots which spring from the interior
is chiefly
laminae. The points of origin of the adventitious roots are by no means fixed, appearing
in all the interfrondal spaces of the caudex. In no case, however, are thev continua-
tions of the free woody bundles, nor do they partake of their anastomosini? character,
though greatly exceeding them in their tendency to ramify
The diaphragm or " separating layer," between the proximal and distal parts
.
of the frond, occurring (as I stated above) m

both deciduous and nondeciduous
species, can scarcely, in my opinion, be regarded as a truly
causal agent in the phe-
nomena of defoHation. Von Mohl and Eichler, who have studied the subject, and
were the first to detect the « separating layer," afford but slight grounds for the suppo-
sition of its causal relations to the faU of the leaf; nor do they afford us any sort of
explanation as to how this secondary growth may have been initiated. With regard to
the first point, while admitting certain incidantal relations
which might haye justified
the adoption of the views of Von Mohl in the
absence of any positive evidence of a
negative character, we have the occurrence of the « separating layer "
somewhat indif-
ferently in deciduous and non-deciduous species, as, for
example, in the tree ferns noted
above: then there is the regulated specific
periodicity of the fall of the leaf, which
must take into consideration as probably related
to those physico-vital processes less or
more active m all vegetable development. The fall of the leaf occurs, as we aU know, at
:t'':y^:":^^^^!'Z^''^
.'^'^'^''^ - -^-'l-^. j-t as m aoral periodicity,
faruTble t J r^'^'^''^'rf^'^^
- - -"elation of conditions less or more
n.ore
Kesôl
trees grown m ''T
in the tropics t
°'
*^'" ^"^'^"'*°"-
"
become evergreen-the Cherry
'''^ "^ ^'^^^ t'^^t deciduous
for example. Of this I know
nothmg from personal observation
; hut if like the Vine, the Pear, and the
Tp e wS
periods of Vernation and def
o"^th Lif d^ê ^ê tfaTi^f^ ''''''
susUined by the continued evolution

shed with considerable regularity
twice a vpnr
of young shootsTnT
fircf «+ +i.
W^ T^tSj^Z'Z
i .. ./
'-k-k
the ushering in of the hot, 'and
~ment of the cold season.
agL be wee^ L tt^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In view of the foôTg
evidLct
t *'^?
TZ tT
^^^
f r
.
'"'
""d"
to heheve that we must yet continue to regard
these VnoênT:' tleTesulTo^r;
i
porary cessation of the vegetative forces, "brought about by the vicissitudes of climate, or
at least specific periodicities of rest and action in the vegetable economy.
+
I may now briefly remark on the probable causes which may initiate the secondary
growth or *' "
separating layer of the leaf. This I am disposed to attribute to mechanical
strains and an acquired habit of disarticulating at certain periods. In support of tbis
view I may note its occurrence at the point where the strain must evidently be greatest,
near the junction of the leaf with the stem, or where the flexibility of the petiole is lost
in the comparatively inflexible stem and in accordance with this or the greater down-
;
ward strain of the generality of leaves, we find the separating layer originating in the
axillary side of the leaf, thence growing downwards at right angles to the plane of the
leaf: possibly an examination of phyllodia might show a simultaneous growth from
either side. The commencement of the above organ is early apparent in the constriction t
of the petiole adjoining the '*pulvinus." Several illustrations of a disformiiig character

might, as I am aware, be adduced ; but it is to be remarked that many such are only
apparently and depend on more or less evident modifying agents, as, for example,
so,
the loose thickened tissue and great sheathing petioles of many monocotyledons, which,
equalizing the strain, leave no traces of constriction or " separating layers."
14. Circination, protective in the unfolding leaves, assists in the economy of fertiliza-
tion when characterizing the inflorescence, and in both cases is the result of an unequal
T ri
development of the cells on opposite sides of the rachis.

15. The lacuncB at the base of the fronds of tree ferns have been compared by Lindley
to the perforations in the rhizome of NymphcBa; but these, as shown by Trecul, and
as from personal observations, can confirm, are simply the base of decaying adven-
I,
titious roots. Martins, guided by analogy, suggested their affinity with the antheridial
organs of other Cryptogams. The subsequent discovery of the antheridial organs has
displaced this view, though their analogy with those of Isoetes and. Zi/copadium renders it
by no means improbable that they may really be abortive representatives of those organs.
They have also relations to those accessory organs described by Karl Mueller as occurring
in the axils of the leaves of Lycopods, though here, again, we are alike in utter ignorance,
as admitted by Mueller, of the import of these organs. After a full consideration of the
above views, I am rather disposed, as I have above stated, to regard them as the aborted
costas of a sessile strongly auricled frond, in which view I am supported by a line of
very similar perforations on the lower parts of the rachis, in the plane of the primary
divisions of the frond, of which parts they are clearly abortions.
16. The scars of the frond in the fully developed caudex are arranged with great
regularity, and, from their varying angular divergence in closely allied species, afford
good discriminating characters.
17. The and bifurcation of the caudex occurs frequently in several species,
prolificness
tliough we rarely find both characters strongly pronounced in a single species. In pro-
liferous species the buds are most frequently on the exterior base of the stipes, also in
various extra-axillary and lateral positions ; but in no case have I observed them truly
axillary. Adventitious buds are in certain cases with difficulty, as I have above ex-
plained, distinguishable from normal bifurcations of the axis. This is especially the case
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28 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH STKKIM.
in those buds which, originating on the base of the stipes, have a direct connexion with
the interior parts of the stem by the meshes of the fronds, as compared with the fre-
quently occurring early arrested ramification of the stem. The buds of tree ferns arc all
truly adventitious, and distinct from the axillary buds of pheenogams ; and in no case
have I observed them on the surface of the frond, as in many of the dwarf herbaceous
species. Eamifications of the main axis are producedby suppression of the
either
growing point and the development of lateral shoots, or by simple or more or less com-
pound bifurcations. Illustrations of these have been given. The prolificness and axial
I •amifications of the dwarfer species of ferns are in no respect different from those of the
arborescent species.
18. Concludingremarks on the anatomical relations of the Caudex.—ThOi arborescent
ferns present somewhat complicated affinities, and, it must be admitted, no
very close
relations beyond their own alliance, which may be largely due to their
ancient origin.
So far as known, they appeared first in the Devonian period, were largely
represented,
and apparently formed one of the most striking features of the succeeding
Carboniferous
flora, whence they have persisted, without any marked
change, to diversify and enrich
all subsequent floras. The tree ferns at the present day, as in their most ancient repre-
sentatives, are characterized by a soft cellular central part, surrounded by a woody
cylinder, which again enveloped in a hardened cortex, exteriorly
is
marked by lar-e
elliptical or rhomboidal scars, left by the fall
of the fronds, and also (as in the Psaronites
of the Permian period) by a dense mass of
adventitious roots much exceeding in thickness
the caudex. The frond-arrangement also,
as indicated by the scars, is similar in
ancient
and modern species. Thus in the majority of the
latter the arrangement is quincuncial,
as was the case m
Caulopterls prlmceva and others of the
Carboniferous epoch or a-ain •
as mAlsophila glabra, the scars are in continuous

Knes parallel to the longitudinaraxis
of the caudex, as was likewise the
arrangement in the ancient Ft^choj^teris
macrodis-
2 In those epochs there was no lack of related
""' "'"^
forms, as the gigantic Lepidoden^
r;r ". T '' *^^ '""'''^ ^^^^^^*^ *^^- --y closely with
cTads
Lw find tl! r\^"'
'"' ''^ '^"^ P"^^'^ ''
'-- ^' ^- ^^^-^-^
^™^^^ ^-^ -^-' tion; and
--^ i^ -uld and
L u
structure
;;:; a^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The relations, as founded on the
structure of the stem, when we
own aUiances are perhaps, upon the pass bevond their
whole, closest with Palms, thourrthey
to have much also eem
cnai-actenstics. In both diampfiWôn j i -. .,

— ^"^^^
^^^J sm
both the stems are
2eJ ^ Sh J '"T '^''^' S-^^h is strictly apical
29
normal thickness has been attained, all further peripheral increase ceases,
and the
axis grows upward in a cylindrical form. In Palms the growing point is conical, and
in tree ferns terminally flattened ; so that in the
one case the nascent vascular hundles are
almost horizontally arranged on the apex, in the other they are, from the
s —-
beo'innin
^^ô
vertical ; but in both all cellular increase of the body of the axis
has ceased ere the fronds
have attained their full development. Another point in which they agree, is in the
development of a system of free vascular bundles, which, originating in the apex
of the
stem, grow upwards into the fronds and downwards in the axis. In other respects they
present many important
points of difference, as in the free anastomoses of the
fibro-
vascular bundles, and the formation of a woody circle surrounding the central
cellular
axis, which, however, is partially represented in certain
Palms {vide Plate XII.), as JEJu-
terj)e oleracea, by a dense zone of vascular bundles, which very
distinctly separates the
central, in which cellular tissue predominates, from the pcripherical and
essentially
vascular. The tissues of this median zone are developed, I believe, exclusively from
below upwards, the growing points surrounding the apex of the stem, and passing out-
wards into the fronds. Dense though this zone is, the bundles do not, in any case that I
have observed, inosculate with each other. Another important difference is presented in
the passage of these bundles to the fronds. In Perns small ramifications of the bundles
only pass into any given frond, while in Palms the entire bundle enters the frond. I
need scarcely remark that there are also important differences in the minute structure of
woody bundles of Perns and Palms, the former being much more simple, though
apparently sunilarly limited in their period of growth. In thus noting the structural
affinities and differences of the stems of tree ferns and palms, I by no means ascribe to
them an equal grade of organization ; tree ferns are decidedly inferior in rank. They
have, however, sufficient in common to justify the opinion of their being differently
diverged and progressed forms of a common ancestor, which must have been of great
antiquity, considering that both apparently presented much the same characteristics
L
in the Carboniferous epoch as they do now.

The anatomical relations of the caudex of tree ferns to the less perfectly developed
dicotyledonous stem is of much interest in theoretical natural science, as
showing us the
graduated steps by which the simpler condition of the fibre- vascular system and stem-
structure of the arborescent Filices is related (and that mayhap ancestorially) to that of
the more highly developed dicotyledon. The vascular system has been well distin-
guished by Schleiden as " simultaneous," « definite," and " indefinite." The first two
modes of developement are almost peciiliar to the higher cryptogams and monocoty-
ledons, though the first is the more especial characteristic of the former, as the second is
of the latter class, while the indefinite mode characterizes nearly the whole of the dicoty-
ledonous division. In the present remarks it is necessary to notice those only of the
latter series presenting the least-perfect forms. This, I believe, is represented by the
Nymphseas, which present the following anomalous arrangement a central parenchy- —
matous mass, interspersed with variously directed isolated woody bundles, with an hre-
gular circle of larger bundles surrpunding it. Prom the latter branches proceed through
the external parenchymatous mass towards the appendicular organs, and present a vcrv
complicated arrangement. The vascular system is destitute of the cambium layers, and
apparently simultaneously developed with the apex of tlie stem, inasmuch
examination of longitudinal sections) we find it as largely developed towards the apex
(though naturally less hardened) as in the lower and older parts. Cell-development
seems to me confined to the flattened apex, aU further poriphcrical increase being due to
cell-expansion, asshown hy the enlarged size of the latter as compared with the former.
Waving, then, the difference in the anatomy of the bundles and the other structural and
morphological characteristics of Fymphajas and Ferns, we have evidently a considerable
analogy in the growth and development of the main axis, in the apparently
simultaneous
development of the vascular bundles, with an absence of the cambium layer, and
in the
origin of the adventitious roots from the base (generally) of
the rootstalks of the leaves
all characters common to both forms.
The affinity of the nymphseaceous stem
with the mouocotyledonous has been urged by various authors and
tliere can be no ;
doubt they have many characters in common ; indeed, if we have regard to stem-
structure only, the characters, aberrant though they be, are more strongly mono- than
dicotyledonous. Here, however, we must be guided by the
embryo, which, as shown
by tlie authors of the ' Mora Indica,' p. 235, is truly dicotyledonous. .
Slight stress
can be laid on Treeul's objection that
the cotyledons are retained within the
seed,
which seems to me but a natural adaptation
to the conditions under which
germi-
nation usually takes place. The slightest
reflection on the function of
these organs,
and the fact hat the seeds often germinate
under many feet of water, teaches us how.
by he survival of the fittest," the
ordinary mode of development
may have been de
parted from by arrestmg the cotyledonary
development, economizing L then fLble
leaf to the surface of the waters.
The degradation, so to speak, in the structure
of the
rntlri J Ja S T
that^ r T.
:; irnt lYStirirf-n- ^'"-T'^
•
^
''-'" °"
^'"^ ''"" ^^^''"^"y
"'^ '--
bmlding-up of the woody structure,
^<=''^-<'' S-^^-tion after
it of hich interest to i..T

is ,? .
The iatere in th—^^^^^^^ '' ''^'^ ^1^°- -der its reduced action.
order, and the ImpZuveW^^^ '" ''"' ''^°' ^y^^<"^^*^« P^"-'^ of the
'""if
if.
SO many
ôltZtZZ^^t^fSn:^''
under these
V.
/""^^^^
cliaracters in
common
^^^ *^^« "f r'"°"^-
retrograded and presented T ^^^
conditions in
which Z^ZItt^:: /"? 71 ?
tree
"''
wifl.
^^"^^"^^^^ ^~ *^-* '^^
and the
most enwll t^^
placid
-atomical characters, which
differ only L ^^ ': «-- ^^-
geners and which they
have so unchangedly
de^r^^^^^^^^ f^'^
^""^^'^^ ^^"
many long geological periods.
retatedt^^
*^^ S:euerai 1
nro^....;.. .through
^^''^''^^ progression
o
to
and the di.erenee of
dimension." And.'agli
IIS emarks, " I believe it would
:
MR JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM. 31

not be difficult to prove that
the modifications of woody tissue in ferns occur
all
in every
essential point in the Cactacese and the
succulent Euphorbiace^." With reference to
this I have to remark that the arrangement of the vascular
bundles in the first stages
differs but little from, that characteristic of
the young shoots of dicotyledonous plants in
general,and that ultimately they seem to me to find their closest
relationship, struc
turally and physiologically, in Cycads, more
remotely with Nymphjeas. They (the
Cacti) have thus but a very indirect connexion with
the Perns ; and I should not have
noticed them here but for Schleiden's remarks, from
which I may assign the following
reasons for differing
In Cacti, the composition of the stem is :— 1st, a central parenchymatous mass ; 2nd,
a zone of vascular bundles separated concentrically, and also
in a partial manner radially^
by thin cellular layers ; and, 3rd, a largely developed cortical
parenchyma. In Cycads
the general arrangement is much the same, the difference
being more in degree than
kind ; thus, the concentric zones have thicker layers of cellular
matter interposed, and
the intrusion of the cortical parenchyma in vertical planes
is very much more marked,
giving to. the wood a peculiar tendency to split up, when dry,
into thin radial laminae!
Such, then, are a few of the more prominent structural relations
of Cycads and Cacti,
to which I may add the following physiological ones. It is well known that Cacti are
singularly tenacious of but not so generally
life ; it is known that Cycads possess
the same quality in an equally high degree. An uprooted Cycas, even in ordinary
forest shade, will produce adventitious roots and an abundance of adventitious
buds
from all parts of its stem ; so also with Cacti, though with much
less facility when the
stem is otherwise uninjured. Again, when the stems of a
Cycas are broken o&, the
surface is readUy closed over by a development of the
cortical and intravascular
parenchyma, whence adventitious buds sooner or later proceed. In
Cacti the intra-
vascular parenchyma is less active than the cortical ; and
we find that under similar
conditions to those noted in Ci/cas a thick surrounding " "
caUus is developed from
the cortex, while a few cellular papiUse, " embryo
buds," are the products of the
intravascular cellular layers. In all the above characters therefore there is a con-
siderable similarity between Ci/cas and Cacti. There is thus evidently a wide gap
between the anatomy of the stems of Cacti and tree ferns, between which,
if I mistake
not, ISTymphseas may be very naturally interposed, as combining a living type of exogenous
flower structure with an acrogenous development of the stem.
With regard to habit and arrangement of the reproductive organs, the tree ferns,
as has been frequently remarked, have considerable affinity to Cycads ; but from my
observations their further relationship by a circinate
vernation is unfounded. I have
been particularly observant on this point, and write from
repeated examination of
plants in their own habitats as well as those in the
Eotanic Gardens, Calcutta ; and in no
case have I seen cii-cinate fronds
on a Cycad. While I now write I have before me the
young unfolding fronds of the foUowing species :— Cym^ circinalis, Linn., C.
Bumphii,
Miq., C. revolula, Thunb., C. siamensis, Miq., aU of which have
a straight vernation,
with involute pinnae ; and this, I suspect, has been the origin of the opposite
view now
80 generally adopted by authors, apparently on the authority of Linnûs and Uoxburgh's
.
C. circinaUs, and Thunberg'sboth of which are singularly inapplicable.

C. revoliita,
Indeed the close imbrication of the fronds in the bud of Cycads

renders all but im^
possible a gyrate vernation, which, for my part, I shouldhave as soon looked for in the
choicest of a florist's roses or camellias. The vernation and other characters of a few
Cycads are shown in Plate XII.
The Ophioglossacese have more characters in common with
Cycas than the Poly,
podiaceae, e. g. the straight vernation, the distribution
of the sporangia on the margim
of a spicate branch, as in Ophioglossum, or in
glomerate tufts, as in HelminthostJhyg
In the latter and perhaps most higldy organized genus
of the OphioglossaccEe we have
the nearest approach to Cycas in the
stem-structure. This stem consists of
'a central
column of parenchyma, surrounded by compact
vascular lamina, a thin layer of
elongated thm-sided cambioid tissue, merging
into the main parenchymatous
mass
which IS agam enveloped in a thin rind,
and thus much resembling the
developing
apex or young frondless shoots of Cycas,
with this diiference, that while the
pient
fronds are ssiyely enveloped by the sheathing
hases of their cycUeal predecessors
as Palms, those of Cycads have an independent r
origin Such some

pomts of approxâtion between Adder's-tongues of the
and Cycas, i. e. before the latter hv
as uxned their h,gher and
eharaeteristic structure. These relations, however are"
nmch theoretic interest as showing
retrogressively a converging
higher to the lower grades of structure.
tendency
lenaency from
irom the
tte So
In concluding this part of my commvmioation, I hav ery great pleasure in acKnow-
ledging my
deep indebtedness to Br T A,irpr«n. "•' .^'-''"l"^'""^^ "» acknow
Gardens here, who has ever been as rL^^^ !^ .^'^^ ^°t-- T'
ready to afford me 'T™*'^'''^-'
the necessary
"^-c»oaij. lacmties
faciUties for
tor the
examination of the tree fevna «f «;«,- •
i, •
tlie
placing in my han^ ^ÎZlH^r '^ *'^« ^^^ ^--*^' -^ also for Icindly
Description of the Species

w
Ctathea, Sm.
Sori on a vein, or
in tlie axil of the f k*
™°'
Involucre globose,
inferior,
™^
coverinrttf 1T ^f'^'""'
"^'^^ted^ g'obose or elongated,
forming a n.o. o. less
or subtropical.
^.r^^Zl^ :^l r^ ""^''"^ " '""^ '""'"^'' """
Stipes often '»=^gm.-Arborescent. tropical
aeuleated
°"''^"=''- FronL
^'^ds simple or pinnate, or
(Syn. Fil. „.
p. ,«.
16.) deconipoundly pinnate.
1- C. SPINULOSA Will
fronds glabrous,
'"P;*^'
'
^/*
J^l'' ZtZl
"* 1
f-S^^
swttaccid ; ptnnulea
-Seated, often dark purple-
««r.nl„.r ....-xu obloncr. ap,„v,;„„t„ , ,
^ ^
serrulate, with small °' ^'''''^"late ; lobes acute,
.
bullate scuIp. rZ ti, . ,
to the costules
irregularly.
;
(Sy„.
involucre g bos
M.
tWn -«-t»™"«.17
''''^'^*'
''" ^f--' «1-?
fragile, soon breaking
''
p. 23 Vll C^
%
and
El. vi.
p. 25 ;
pug.hoek " of the Lepchas

MooJs Ind m'' 273 Lh ^^
^l
^''^
'"^
P' ^^'
" ''"''' ^''' = H-"^-
JJ
' *' ^Ô « Pauhyum
This
iêpcbas, indigenous
to their own tropical yalleyl and
MR SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.
83
SO got With mucli less difficulty than their
own favourite the A, comosa (« iâshln ,
of the higher altitudes, Q. spinulosa is known to the Lepchas under the names of
"panhjum" and " pugzhock "—the former name being applied to a somewhat
dwarfed form, with caudex rarely exceeding 6 feet
in height, found in the drier
yalleys of the Teesta, the latter to the fully
developed form, 30-40 feet high, of
the valleys of the Rungbee and the Rungjo, up to
an elevation of 2000 feet. The
specimens from the valley of the Teesta were brought
to me by our Lepcha col-
lectors but I have myself seen a few specimens of it in the valleys
;
of the Eungbee
and the Rungjo. When seen from a little distance, it might
be mistaken for
Jlemitelia decipiem, n. sp., though readily distinguishable
by its much more flaccid
membranous texture and the formed involucres. The caudices below
differently
are always enveloped in a dense matted mass of
strong adventitious roots, and
upwards with the strongly armed bases of the persistent stipes,
handsome corona
terminating n — a
of pale green fronds. These are from 5 to 8 feet long h/l4r-24>
~
inches in diameter.
Hemitelia, Br.
F
Sori globose, dorsal upon a vein or veinlet. Receptacle elevated. Involuc7-e a scale situated on tlic
underside of the sorus, varying in size and shape and texture,
oiten inaistmct, and often very
deciduous.— Mostly tropical and arborescent, with the habit of
Cyat/iea, a connecting link, as it
were, between the latter genus and Alsojjhila, consequently
often difficult to recognize. (Svn
b K :/
Fil. p. 27.)
Hemitelia decipiens, n. sp. Arborescent caudex occasionally dichotomous, 30-40

;
or
more feet high, covered upwards with the persistent bases of the past year's
fronds,
and downwards with a mass of adventitious roots ; stipes of a
mahogany-brown
colour, strongly aculeate at the base, paleaceous, muricated, furfuraceous, and
of a pale brown colour upwards ;/?mc?5 10-12 feet long, somewhat
rigidly coriaceous,
glabrous, with a few small fringed bullate scales on the
costules, drying of a
blackish green above, greyish green below primary pinna
; 20-30 inches long,
9-12 inches wide, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate pinnules 4-8 inches
; long, and
10-12 lines broad, pinnatipartite segments linear-oblong, acute, falcate, serrate;
;
veins once to thrice forked, or pinnate, with 3-5 veinlets

; sori conspicuous, copious,
close to the costule, and below or upon the axil

of the lowest fork, usually on more
or less contracted segments with recurved margins
; involucres deciduous, varying
in size from a small scale at the base of the sorus
to large, semicalyciform, 2-lobed
or irregularly broken; paraphyses small,
miovm.-Âlsopliila decipiens, Bedd. Fil.
Brit. Ind. t. 311.
Hab. Sikkim, near the junction of the Rungbee and the
Rungjo, at 2000 feet elevation, and in the
Poomong Cinchona plantation at 2500 feet.
This is the " piigzheek-nOk " of the Lepchas. In my notes which I attached to the
specimens of this when coUecting I had referred it to Hemitelia but in
; subsequent
examinations of dried specimens, too mature when gathered, which showed
but slight
traces of an involucre, I doubtfuUy placed it amongst the AlsopMlcB,
near A, late-
VOL. XXX.
f
34 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM
hrosa. It has been published by Beddome [vide '

Ferns of Biltish India/ t. 311) as
an AlsopUla, had young specimens, which show it to be a
Lately, however, I have
true Hemitelia. It is perhaps most closely allied to, though I believe truly distinct
from, the more strongly muricated forms of iT. WalJccrcBy especially thoso with the
more elongated falcate segments. Under Cyathea spinulosa I have noted its resem-
blance to that species ; it also considerably resembles certain of the more strongly
armed peninsular states of A, contaminans. Aside from generic characters, however,
they are easily distinguished by the opener sinuses and less strictly dichotomous vena-
tion of H. decipiensj and the glaucous hue of the underside of the fronds of A. con-
r
taminans. They also differ much in the structure of the stem, the interior of the stem
of H. decipiens being abundantly interspersed with fi'ee woody bundles, which are
rly absent in A The fronds are also heptastichously arranged in a
f angular divergence in the former species, with long persistent bases; in the latter
the angular divergence is f the
, stipe altogether less woody, rapidly decaying down to
the stem, and leaving upon it, as in the truly articulated species, prominent ovate
scars, 4 inches long by 2 inches wide. I may here note that the origin of the Lepcha
name, " pagzbeek-nok," or the black pagzbeek, is from its resembling, in armatui'e and
development of the fibro-vascular system, A, latehrosa, their "pugzbeek ; " the adjective
has its origin in the darker-hued stipes.
Alsophila, Br.
ôri globose, dorsal on a vein or in the forking of a vein. Receptacle mostly elevated, frequently villous.
Involucre absent. ferns of Cyathea and
Hemitelia. (Syn. Fil. p. 31.)
1. A. LATEBROSA, Hk. Stlpes aculeate at the base, muricated

upwards, dark maho-
gany-brown in colour; primary pinncB oblong-acuminate,
12-24
inches long,
6-8 inches broad ; pinnules lanceolate-acuminate, 3-4
inches long, \ an inch broad'
and cut down nearly to the rachis into numerous,
linear-oblong, blunt slio-htly
toothed lobes on each side texture herbaceous,
; upper surface dark ^reen n^ked
'
lotver surface naked, or slightly
hairy and scaly ; veins all once
forked sojn
•
elevated, conspicuous, occupying

often the lower two thirds of -
the seoment •
Hook. & Baker Syn. M.

p. 43 ; Moore, Ind. Eil. p. 52 ; Bedd.
S. Ind. p. 19 M.
-^, - -^,r--^^''^ .^.c.,c.*w,.,
t. &S rolypodium latehrosum. Wall.
vvau. uat.
Cat. n. 318
318. - -
" Piigzbeek" of
^
by many of whom it is called " Surungo-paluh,"

or temperate paliih.
the Lenchas ^
Hab
iveral of the Sikkim plants which I have examined

have what aDDeara in m. * t tt
different in texture from the buUate
scales of the rachis Lfco
t genus, hut for the absence of .nv nf,.«. .;.„.• '..Z!
'"^ ^^^.^^)' T.
L'almost
taT ^^^^ ""^^t I
' ^'^^'^ôid
justify theix
distingui
tiate individuals with which they are associated,
and to which they pa?
be impossible to determine to which
.uld
of the two some specimens
(Lmn.xxiv. p. 294\ differs from th^ aKa^^ f^^^. :„ ^-u. .^, /3
inches long by 4-0 inches wide,

reduced pinnules, and less
elevated reêptados!
—
MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKTM. 35
3000-6000 most
and at the lower and higher elevations noted ahove it is but sparingly distributed.
_
The extreme forms when seen growing are so very dissimilar in general appearance
that, but for the many intermediate forms, they might he regarded as specifically distinct.
It is the first of the tree ferns which greets the eye in the ascent of these hills by
the Ganges and Darjeeling road, as at Kursiong, where there are several fine groves
and many isolated plants. These, however, rarely exceed 20 feet in height ; and it
is only at elevations of 5000 feet and upwards that we find them with fully de-
veloped, simple, rarely forked caudices, 30-50 feet high. In one specimen which
Mr. Gammie was good enough to measure for me on Sinchal, at an elevation of 5200
feet, the caudex w as 43 feet high and 7 feet in circumference near the base. I pre-
sume, however, that the girth-measurement was taken round the large cone of adventitious
roots, as the thickest specimen which I have seen measured only 4^ feet round the
clean caudex.
2. A. coNTAMiNANs, Wall. Stipes and rachides paleaceous at the base, purplish brown,
glossy, aculeate, with short prickles tipped with a gland : fronds ample, coriaceous,
glabrous, black-green above (when dry), glaucous beneath; j^rimary pinnce 2 feet
and more long, oblong-ovate, acuminate; pinnules sessile, 4-5 inches long, J to
nearly 1 inch wide, deeply (nearly to the costule) pinnatifid, linear -oblong, sub-
falcate, entire, the fertile ones often more contracted, with margins (when dry)
revolute, obscurely crenate; veins once or twice forked; sori nearer the costule
than the margin, a minute shallow-lobed and cut membrane surrounding the base of
the receptacle after the capsules are fallen. — Syn. Pil. p. 41 ; A. contaminans.
Wall. Cat. in Index ; Bedd. Pil. Brit. Ind.
w
t. 85 ; Folypodium contaminans. Wall.
in herb. 1823 ; Cat, n. 320. " Paluh-doon " of the Lepchas.
•
Var. jS Bnmonianay Wall. Cat. n. 7073 B.) unarmed, stipes densely pulverulent
(A.
segments more elongated, 5-7 inches long, j-l inch wide, obtuse sori extendin a ;
nearly to the apex of the segments. A. glaucescens, Wall. n. 7074 ; A. TFallichiana,

'*
Pr^sl, Tent. Pterid. p. 62. " Paluh of the Lepchas.
The normal form of this species is a rare plant in Sikkim, becoming more abundant
in the Khasia hiUs, and frequent in the Malayan peninsula and islands of the archi-
pelago. The var. j3, on the other hand, is one of the commonest of the tropical tree
ferns of Sikkim, equally abundant also in the Khasia and adjoining hill-ranges, ex-
tending to Burmah, the Malayan peninsula and islands. In Sikkhn its altitudinal
range is from about 2000-3000 feet var. a rarely exceeds 25 or 30 feet in height, and
:
from 3-4 feet in circumference : var. /3 is altogether more graceful, with a tall and
slender stem, from 30-50 feet high, and 1-3 feet in circumference, conspicuously and
regularly marked with the large scars of the fallen fronds. The base of the stipes
and young unfolding fronds are in both densely clothed wath long glossy chestnut
coloured scales, and throughout covered (more densely in var. /3) with a yellowish grey
puberulous matter. The fronds are from 10-18 feet long and 4-8 feet wide. The
F 2
36 MR SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM
4
glaucous hue of the fronds beneath will distinguish it {A. cantaminans, var. Brunoniana
from Hemitelia Walkerce, with which it has a very considerable resemblance in habit
structure of stipe and rachis, form and texture of pinnae This ipecially the case
when those forms of K. Walker ce with imperfectly developed involucres (scarcely cos-
tules) and elongated slightly falcate segments are compared with tlie less-feriile speci-
mens of A. contaminans, var. Brtmoniana.

I was at first disposed to regard var. j3 as a good and distinct species, as it is always
readily distinguishable from var. a in Sikkim by its non-aculeate stipes. An examina-

tion, however, of an extensive suite of specimens from the hill-ranges of Eastern
Bengal, Burmah, and the Malayan peninsula, clearly shows that they are but forms of
one species The var. /3 is, I think, without doubt the A. Bnmoniana, Wall., as there
seems to be no other species at all approaching the description of the Sp. Fil. in the
Sylhet mountains.
3. A. CRN ATA, sp Arborescent', stipes paleaceous at the base, slightly muricated

and, as well as the main rachises, of glossy purplish brown colour fronds
; hi
tripinnate, 7-9 feet long, 3-4 feet wide, herbaceo-membranaceous, upper surface
glabrous, brownish green when dry, lower pale green, sparingly scaly on the rachis
and costoD primary pinna oblongo-lanceolate, rather abruptly contracted into a short
;
deeply pinnatifid apex cost a d costules slightly scaly below, glabrous above;
pinnules 3-5 inches long, 6-8 lines broad, sessile with one or more of the basal
gments petiolate, and more or less lobato-serrate ; segments oblong, or lin
oblong when fertile, slightly falcate, obtuse, crenato veins variable imple
to thrice, usually once forked, or pinnate, with 3-5
veinlets ; sori between the costule
and the margin, small, extending on the more fertile specimens to near the apex
of the segments, with a few delicate caducous
buUate scales at their base Daug
- - )j
pash of the Lepchas
2500 Dr. Anderson and I have also

collected it tliere and on the banks of the Rungjo.
It is an exceedmgly handsome with a somewhat slender caudex, from 20-40
species,
feet high. It is allied to A. comosa, but easily
distmguished by its nearly glabrous
rachises and costse, the latter being
scaly belo'w, and "the more compound
venation,
which is nearly always simple in A
and in the hving plants, by its
bifurcatin caudex void of
7""""/"^^ "^ those
^^««^ aaventitious
adventitious budbuds so copiously produce(
Iw+L. f
by the former, Tl
and the large development of woody bundles
in the interior of the stem
In the latter character it resembles A.
latehrosa The Lepchas indicated by their
native name daug-pashln recognize its resemblance to A. jj
comosa, theii pashin
and " dau o ignifying warm, from its being found
in tlie moist tropical valley
I have
med «" siruh-nalfih."
also heard it called
or fL^
siruh-paluh," r.T. ^<\»r^. « ^xi,-i,
the black paluh »>
"^
4. A. coiiosA, Hook Unarmed stipes paleaceous,

with long linear-subulate scales
pale brown, as well as the
rachises, which are
tawny-viUous on the upper side
fronds herbaceous and scaleless
primary pmncB 14-16 inches
long, 6-8 inches
37
wide; pinnules oblong-acuminate, from a rather broad and.
truncated sessile or
shortly petioled base, serrated two thirds of the way to the costule, pinnatifid, with
very narrow sinuses lobes close-placed, oblong, serrated
; ; veins rarely forked'; sorl
orange-coloured, rather distant between the costule and. the
margin, nearer the
latter (in Sikkim plants always near the costule) ;
receptacle small, very slightly
elevated.— Syn. Eil. p. 41 ; Bedd. :Fil. Erit. Ind. t. 84 ; Folypodimi comomm,
Wall. Cat. n. 319. " Pashin " of the Lepchas.
Hah Sikkim, in thetemperate forests, at elevations of 5000-6000 feet. On the east-by-south-east
tiank of the mountain Sinchal it is very abundant, and there
forms beautiful groves.
"pashin" of the Lepchas, an interesting and remarkably proliferous species,
It is the
producing adventitious buds from nearly every part of the surface of the
caudcx and
the bases of the stipes, a peculiarity which might very naturally
be suspected, in the germination of the plant's own spores amongst the
appendages of
the caudex. It is truly a specific peculiarity, different degrees of organic
connexion
between the buds and caudex being evident, as I have shown above, in every
dissection.
This power of reproduction by gemmse, though a weU-known character
of the dwarf
herbaceous species, has not, so far as I am aware, been hitherto noticed in the
caudex
of the tree ferns. Ey the continued production of new buds and the growth of the old,
together with the profusion of adventitious roots to which they give origin, many
of the
plants attain very bulky proportions. Thus one of the plants which
I measured on the
east flank of Sinchal, at an elevation of 5200 feet, much
exceeded in thickness, I be-
lieve, any that have been previously recorded. This had an erect caudex "26 feet in
height, with eleven main ramifications on the lower parts, varying
from 6-10 feet in
length, and 10-16 inches in circumference. Six other fuUy developed shoots from 5-8
feet long had been lately broken off, and then lay by it.
The circumference at base of
main caudex was 9 feet 10 inches, and immediately under the first ramification, at
a
height of 4 feet, 7 feet 6 inches fronds 11-13 feet 4^-6
; lorn?, feet broad, with stout
stipes 4J inches in circumference at the base. Another, whose dimensions I had from
Mr. Gammie,was 21 feet and 7 feet 8 inches in circumference, with 54 shoots in various
stages of development. It presents another peculiarity in the fall of the fronds ; in
allthe other species this is effected gradually, while this is strictly deciduous,
and this,
singularly enough, at a period when the surrounding vegetation is
all in its highest
vigour. This is about the middle of August, and of course during
the periodical rains,
when latent vegetation in any truly indigenous plant would indeed be an anomaly,
but preeminently so in the case of ferns, which above aU others delight
and are most
luxuriant (each in own
its habitat) in that period of the year when the temperature is
highest and the degree of atmospheric humidity greatest. Of the many ferns inhabiting
those forests I know of none which affords a parallel to A. comosa; all others
are
vigorous and verdant ; it alone stands in great groups, with bare, bulky, and
unshapely
caudices, conspicuous in their barrenness, and looking like the imperfectly
habituated
denizens of other climatic conditions.
The extreme height of this species is, I beHeve, about 25 feet but this; is only attained
in the least-proliferous individuals and much more frequently we
; find these at from
. "
10 to 20 feet, with fronds 6-10 feet long and 4-5 feet wide, the stipes invested with
brown mahogany-coloured scales.
5. A. A:n^dersonii, n. sp. Arborescent; candex 20-30 feet high; dtpcB muricato-aspe-

rous, ebeneous, rather densely clothed below, sparingly upwards, Trith. lanceolate-
subulate deciduous scales; main racMscs tawny-villous above; fronds 8-10 feet
long, herbaceo-membranaceous, pilose primm^j piniKS oblong-laneo(Îate, acumi-
;
nate, 12-30 inches long, and 6-9 inches wide pinnules 3-5 inches long, 6-12
;
lines wide, shortly petiolate downwards, oblong-lanceolate,

pinnatipartite, with
narrow acute sinuses, and an attenuated serrated apex; segments
broadly ob-
long, blunt, serrated ; vems simple or once forked, and more or less hairy*; sori
6-14 on each segment, conspicuous, globose, arranged in
slightly oblique Hues
towards the costules, and nearer the latter than the margin
; capsules mixed with
jointed, deciduous hau-s.-Bedd. Pil. Brit. Ind.
t. 310. "Paluh-nuk" of the
Lepchas.
m* In the moister parts of the vaUeys of tlie
Runghee and the Rungjo, at elevations of 1000-2300
feet [Dr. T. Anderson, myself, and others]
This species is most closely allied to A. glabra, but at once distinguished bv the softly
tawny-yillose fronds, and the sori more nearly parallel with the midrib than in that
pec.es. It has also a much less proliferous
_
habit than A. glabra : indeed it is rare to
see specimens with even three ramifications from the main
_ caudex and these always ;
origmate from adventMous buds, nerer,
that I have seen, by bifurcation
of the axis.
t IS the 'paluh-nok' of the Lepchas, or the
black "paluh, as distinguished by its
dark ebony-coloured stipe from the
light mahogany-brown of
those of their " paluh
T™'' '" ^~''^^- '''^°"«'' '""'='^ '''' '=°-»"^«» than the latter species,
is'bv
r7 "°"
t
"' °*^"
LJiZrZl tT' °' '''' ''''''^ '^^''^^
'''°'""'' ^f ""'^^ """^
-^* t'-^"- sterns and
*^'^' -"h its dense corona
SautMv' i^lf ^7" °/
oT beautifully graceful fronds,
ot
from 18-20 feet in diaieter.
' '''^"^ ^'^P^^"-' P«l«— at the base, and, as well

Î'lT'J'r^-
rachises purple ebeneous, . as the main
poUshed ; fronds subcoriaceo-membi
Csif V
sessile, lower ones
"' "°" '"* ^°"^'
petiolate. from a truncated
'''^'^ apexf--«fi^
base. oblnL.'
p
^,""1'
oblong-acuminate.
upp :
3 -6
^t the
inches
;
rZ ?f primary
long, 5-9 lines wide, pinnatiiid

lobes triangular or rounded,
from one fourth to halfwlvto tTl *
^^^^^ ""'" TT 7
sorion most of the lobes
rarely oyate
^Tated !
'
I 7
^'""'**'' ^'•"^*'*^
'
''^^ '^^^^
^ JneraUv J^Z'^^l « ,
ing to the apex of the

lo^-Z^TX- Mo tT t •?
^ '"'''''''' '"'' ^^'^"^^
Cat. n. 180; Pol!,po4in„.

Wall. Cat. p. 6.; Pol^.oîum
giganteur..
.e^êalle,
C Cat „ 321
Han^lt f
l? ." T'""*
MS. KlS^^^^
-faiuii-Jiup
'^'"
Hab In Sikkim strictlv confi.P^ f. .T.. ..„„:. . ,, of the Lepchas

tions of 800 feet.
Darjeel
—
Gareedhovra
in the forests of the Dulha Jhar, from two to three miles south of the Balasun river, and about six
miles from Punkabaree.
An an exceedingly proliferous and occasionally dichotomous

interesting species, with
caudex. In the Sikkim valleys it varies from 6 to 15 feet in height, and in this respect
differs from the lofty specimens of the Khasia hills, Malayan peninsula
(50 feet high,
Wall.) and islands. It is, as remarked in the Sp. Eil., " so variable in the form and
size of the pinnules in our copious specimens, that it is scarcely possible to dejine them
"
in words on some specimens 2-4 inches long by J an inch broad, on others 6
*'
inches long and 1 inch broad ; segments also varying much in length and in the deptli
a
of the I may add, it also varies much in the venation, and even in the position
of the sori, though the more or less Y-shape is very characteristic. These variations
shown in many figures of the pinnae of this species from two plants which I collected
Sikkim In the first three specimens, from one plant, the venation varies from simple
to forked, with the veinlets occasionally uniting again before they reach the margin ; sori
on one segment and placed nearly on the margin, in the other tending to the
parallel to
triangular arrangement, though distant from the costule. In the series from the other
plant the venation is simple and forked, the sori are marginal and ohliquely tending
towards the costule*
DESCIMPTIOJSI OE THE PLATES.
Plate I.
slender
ihowing
towards the upper extremity^ and the reduction of the interspaces between the fronds b being
01 origin of th< I
30
given off. Nat
epidermal different
enren
chyma (c'), a stratum of parenchyma and a central layer of pale-brown trachenchyma
(c*),
mass, with imbedded fibro-vascular bundles, e. Nat

Fig. 3. Longitudinal section of the woody laminae of the above prepared by maceration^ showing the
arrangement and shape of the frond-meshes —with recurved margins, from which branches are
given off to the latter. Nat. size*
Fig. 4. Transverse section of the caudex of Hemitelia decipiens; the references are the same as in fig, 2;
adventitious roots concretions of cellular tissue resembling the free vascular bundles. ^Nat. size.
Plate II.
Figs. 1 & 2. Lower and upper surfaces of a half-inch-thick section of the caudex of Alsophila comosa at
the growing-point: fig. 1, upper; fig. 2, lower surface; a-fl*, fronds In differeat stages of deve-
lopment ; h, the incipient wbody laminae arranged on the flattened apex, indicating the points
of origin of future cycles of fronds^ c. Nat, size.
Fig. 3. Lower section of the same, showing the normal distribution of the vascular system : a, epidermal
laver; b, adventitious roots; c, woody laminae; d, central parenchyma; e, hases of fronds in
various stages of development. Nat. size.
Fig. 4, Another section of the same^ with similar references, showing the derangcuncnt in the distribu-
tion of the vascular system caused hy the development of adventitious buds, /. In the most
perfectly developed bud secondary ones are observable as round protuberances of cellular
matter^ g. Nat. size.

Figs. 5 & 6. Outer and inner view of the base of the stipes of the above^ showing the stipal loculi arranged
in an intramarginal line. Nat. size.
Plate III
Figs- 1 & 2. sur
pinnse
locul internal sur-
face^ with similar references, showing the enlarged oculi : c. the

fibro-vascular bundles of the stipe. Nat, size.
Fig
bases
b, woody laminae, showing the demarcation of the points of origin of future fronds {c c) and illus-
vascular system
organs. Nat
Fig. 4. A lateral section of the above, similarly prepared, but
representing more, clearly the arrangement
and peculiar ramifications of the vascular bundles:
a, stipal loculus; b, scales of the stipes;
near
apex of the axis. Nat
with its eloneratcd free
bundle s
frond ; d, Troody
laminae e, the inosculatory and ramifying bundles.
;
Nat. size.
Plate IV.
gs- 1, 2,
& 3. Transverse sections from and
f . „ , .
living-
^ " dnV«l
^^^^^^ n%^^c^\r.c.. r.f a ^
caudices of A. contamtnans. var. Brunontana, -
from I
fig. 3, from a dried caudex.
ri«.
.. W;;;:'';^ °f ^''"Ma; S'c'Ora a, epidermal layer ;
Stipes -f
o, vounff ;
rronrls p i„^:
: *, adventitious roots ;
'
., base of
,
central parenchyma.
' •
' ' —
wnr,#i-rT
J
. ,•
^"""-^ '-'jiii'iiiueu
, .
out into tne

_
1
/
'
ff, Kat. size.

Fig. 5. Transverse section
of the same, .ith similar
references. Nat. size.
Plate V
true bifa ginating m
rie'in of ^
.
fronds; dy central parenchyma; e^ fibro-vascular bundles

the third and least-developed shoot.. Nat. size.
lase of the frond of the same, showinsr the form and arranp-i Nat
Fig. 3, Longitudinal section of the base of a young stipe, exhibiting the diaphragm (a) of the frond.
Nat. size.
Longitudinal i
also in a division
of the stem. vigorous
others. The same as in the above ; /,
to the partial decay of the young fronds; g k h have reference to the following sections.
Nat. size.
Fig. 5. Transverse section of the undivided caudex of the above at the point g in fig. 4, showing marked
irregularities in the distribution of the vascular system^ and a partial lobing of the caudex,
indicating the commencement of the subsequent bifurcations
...
: j, an adventitious shoot ; k, ad^
,
ventitious roots enveloping the epidermis. The other letters correspond with the previous
figures.
Figs. Qk7. Lower and upper surfaces of sections at the points h and i in fig. 4. Fig. G exhibits the
lower surface^ and shows a ternary segregation of the woody laminae, and the origin of another
\--
adventitious shoot at the point Z. Fig. 7, of the upper surface, exhibits clearly the completed
4
ternary division, m^ horizontal woody plates continuous with the main woody framework, but
unprojected laterally, apparently from the derangement of the vegetative forces, consequent on
the trifurcation of the caudex. The other references agree with those above. All the above
sections are of the natural size.
Plate VI.
Fig. 1. External portion of a dried caudex oi Alsophila latebrosa cleared of the bases of the stipes, so as
form of the scars in that snecies. Nat

scars, exhibitinfir the free woodv bundles
parts
Nat
Fig. 3. with its woody laminae^ showing below a portion of the loop of a lower
Dff of a marginal series of bundles, i, which pass along the periphery
,phragm of the frond, exhibiting the arrangement of the free vascular bi
e, Nat
rhizome of Polypodium prolifi
matous axis; ^, vascular bundles giving off branches to the fronds, c. These branches, it will
pass off indifferently from the inosculations

Nat
tubers of Nephrolepis cordifolia
vascular fibres on the main parenchymatous mass. Nat
Neph
ded
knob-like bases Nat
Plate VII.
esculentum^ showing the irregul
vascular bundle '
tree ferns. Nat. size.
VOL. XXX. G
Fig. 2. Portion of the woody framework of the same, prepared by maceration : c, the cont'
meshes, b. Nat
Fig. 3. same near the base of candex, with the irregularly diRtributed
tlie
vascular bundles (a) in the parenchymatous axis (b), the epidermal la}
buds (d) ick matting of adventitious roots (/). Nat. siee.
Fiff.
&• 4 axis, which shows a considerable reduction in the diameter
of
regular tribution of the vascular system. The references agree with
figure. Nat
(fi
upwards, as shown in the higher section (fig. 6) . Nat
ferns
amerences m
the arrangement of the free vascular
system in the respective species • fil
7
CâlAea sjnnuh.a. near the hase fig.
; 8, higher up on the .stipe ; fig. 9. Alsopkila ';
fig. W Acontam^mns, var. Brunoniana; fig. 11. A.

latehrla
omala; fig. 12. A. c<mom; fig. 13. A. An-
dersm.u;^Z-î- -A. glabra. AU nat. size.
Longitudinal and transverse sections
of the rhizomes of Acro^tUhwn
,candem. The vascular
'^'"'' '^"' '' *°
r r ''cr
The
rarely.
' ""
transverse sections exhibit a larger " ^"""^^ ''-^-' -" -cnia?L: ;t
central bundle, îth a median
ring » zone of
The h,ctened bundles, a, correspond with the side of

the attachment of the rhizome.
transTerse
pulyinus b, transverse section of rhizome
;
and
same longitudinal
of rhizome and stipe.
Nat *>
Plate VIII
showing the large obovate
scars, the
are still
^^ uuiuvv me some
scars on the nght hand. Nat
Hemitelia decimens
stipes partially enveloped
in the dense ,
'^^=' "'""^
mrorT P'^'"^'^'™*
T
'«'^^' "f «'<'
loculi are shown
base, fig. 3.
around the base of
Nat. size.
' "^^^ '*7'
""'^'
t"^^*^^
1 adventitious roots.
^'™-J' ''"* -«- clearly
The stipal
in the detached
Plate IX.
of the caude. of
A. cntamnan., var. Brun
below m the adventitious roots,
upwards in The scars
vascular bundl-
'01 a stipe, showing
the basal loculi,
which are very
&ular shapes. Nat. on this species^
size.
Trifnrcated apex of the
caudex of ^. ornata
WZ
.ue owners, originate "'" '"
^. almost entirely fi-om tl,. 1, r! "'^'^ ^P-^cies,
unlike
unli
Lnear verticiUate manner,
aa shown in
[he
'**'' '"'^'^'^^ '"^^ m
Kg. 1. Portion of the caiidpY of

Plate X
J ^ .
near the upper

nortinn r.f « . t.„+
dex, as shoAviner best the frond-scars

completely hid in the lower parts with the adventitious roots. At the lower left-hand corner
ffure
in yarions stages of development are shown. Nat. size.
Fig. 2. An aborted shoot of a normal bifurcation of the main axis^ which is now with difficulty dis-
tinguishable in structure from an adventitious bud from the base of the stipe a, epidermal :
layers ; b and 5'^ the inner and outer strata of the woody laminae c, vascular bundles of the
;
shoot ; dy a loculus of the stipe ; e^ e, part of a progeny of buds which surrounded the whole
surface of the shoot ; /^ the partially decayed apex.
Fig* 3. Base of stipe^ showing loculi and adventitious buds.
Fig. 4. Section of base of stipCj showing diaphragm.
Plate XI.
Fig. 1. Portion of a young caudex of AlsopMla Andersonii^ with the stout persistent bases of the fronds all
densely covered with scales.

Fig. 2 is the base of a stipe denuded of scales, to exhibit the disposition and form of the loculi, which
are in both respects very irregular. Nat. size.
Fig. 3. Portion of the caudex oi A. glabra, which, unlike most of the other species, has the long pci-
sistent bases of the stipes overlapping each other in linear lines, giving it an appearance alto-
gether unlike any other tree fern with which I am acquainted. It is singularly proliferous,
giving off buds somewhat indifferently from stipes and caudex. The lineal superposition of the
fronds is the cause of another peculiarity, in the adventitious roots having first an upward
ascent until they reach the broken extremity of the frond below ; thence they pass downwards
in a curving radial manner, as shown in the figure. Nat. size.
J I'
Fig. 4. Base of stipe of A. glabra^ showing loculi and adventitious rootlets.
Plate XII.
Fig. 1. Longitudinal section of half the apical portion of the 'caudex oi Euterpe oleracea, exhibiting the
arrangement of the vascular system: a, the central parenchymatous mass sparingly interspersed
with woody bundles ; ^, a dense zone of the latter, curving round below the flattened apex to the
developing bud j c, the looser-structured external zone, with the bundles partly arranged parallel
to the axis, and partly in an irregular curving manner ; d, the latter bundles, which have their
origin at a later period than the former, and are, moreover, characterized by growth at both
extremities, the upper growing up into the frond, the lower downward in the caudex ; e, bases
of the fronds, with the nascent inflorescences, /, in their axils ; each frond, it will be observed,
originates in the sheathing base of its predecessor. Nat. size.
Fig. 2. Apical section of the stem of Cycas revoluta, Thunb., exhibiting the straight involute venuition,
and differing from palms in the free origin of each frond on the apex, as is the case with tree
ferns : a, central parenchyma ; b, woody layers ; c, the external layers of parenchyma, inter-
spersed with fibro-vascular bundles.
Fig. 3. Seedling plant of Cycas Rumjjhii, Miq. (C. circinalis, Roxb.), four months old, in longitudinal
section : d, the central vascular bundle of the main root ; e, adventitious roots ; /, the hardened
J-
spermoderm ; g, the perisperm ; the other references as in the previous figure. Nat. size.
The venation in this species also is straight aiid involute; and the young frond at the stage
represented in the figure is not unlike the fertile branch of the Ophioglossums.
-r
Fig. 4. An unfolding frond of Cycas sphcErica^ Eoxb., showing the involute character of the vernation.
Nat. size.
g2
M MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM
eedling of Cycas pectinata^ Griff.^ wliich also sliowSj even from

curvature
rachis. Nat
Plate XIII
_ ^
spinulosa^ Wall, : fig. 1. Portion of a frond^ nat. size; fig. 2. Portion of the rachises îtli iv;
pinnae; fig. 3. An upper view of a portion of the rachis; fig. 4. Segments with sori, magnified
Magnified
Plate XIII.
II
b.
F
Alsophila latebrosa^Kodk. : fig. 1. Portion of a frond ; fig, 2. Portion of the ractis; fig. 3. Pinn« : all nat.
size. Fig. 4. A magnified soriferons segment; fig. 5. A magnified barren segment. shoTving tie
•f
characteristic
Plate XIV.
Hemiteli
fig. 3.
Pmnse, nat. 4-7. Magnified segments exhibiting the venation and variations
size ; figs.
in
degree of development of the involucre; fig. 8. magnified barren segment; figs. 9-11. A
agnified
Plate XV.
contaminanSy Wall., var. Brunoniajna
unarmed lower and

surfaces; fig. 4.. A magnified sporiferous segment; fig. 5. Portion of the strongly armed rachis
of Alsophla contaminans, Wall., for comparison
with the unarmed rachis of the var. Bruno-
gnified barren segment, showing the
venation ; fig. 7. Pale* of the base
the stipCj nat. size.
Plate XVI. A. r
of a frond ; fig. 2, of the rachis, showing the upper surface

and fig. 3, of two pinnae all
:
Magnified fertile pinna ; and fig
pmna
•
Plate XVI
Wall portbn of a frond;
fig. 1.
: fig. 2, of the rachi., showing the npner surfaces
and fig. 3, of two pinna all :
Magnified
show A
Plate XVII
Portion of a frond; fig. two pinn*: nat.
2, of size. Figs
!:S !!!r ''' ''/
/T" '^'^-
howing the jointed
*^ l^""- «^rae, showing
hairs
fig. 5. A
Plate XVIII
from a single plant, showing
form the diff'crence*
Nat
gs. 1 6> f ^C
2i. and t?,T
3 :r^
M«^^fi t^^'- h a
^''--^
.
'^^ -nations
^-^xatiuus in ine m
the position of the son;
^""^ ^ ^ ^^^ magnified segments to show the

ariability
)ility of the venatin. '
'
-X- -,.
W ff . B^cK cJel
7wJ J.Ki-JtCh ITffp
Tigs . 1 AibopLila. la.tjc"brosa j7a>.

Hemitelia. decipiens ScM.
Trans, Linn, Soc.Yol.XXX.Tab.2.
t.-
e-.-
-^^y.z
» -
Fiiy7
i't^.f
Fy^.5
W.H.KbliaJetL-hK J-Tf .FiIa:Ti imp .
AlsopKila, corcnoQcL ,Rh.

HANS XXYT
J NTitca ijaap
laleLrosa. Hh.
.
TRAKS.LiNK.SocyOL.XXX .TaB
^:^5?t?^^?j
r-^_ r-^7^ '--"
•
..,i^:v>''f^'*«*^.,
J.
W. £ Rtdi
, del ct HK .
J H. FiLdh. I Jji*
^•^ ^ 2) Alsophilaj contaminans

/r,^
,
/I
.
AT 1 .1
yar.nrajwraami
.
RATSiS INN OC.VOL XXX T m
Ti^- 3
F^s
• jC' /
'
4— ^
Ti^.-j
W.H.Fitck<lel.cb.]xilL
J IT.Filck mg
Alsophila orna^ta. Sootb
.
TRAKS.LlNN.Soc.VoL.XXX.rAB.G.
Ti^.l
^V^.HJitch.dsl.etijbh. J.HFitdii
Fiyl'2 . AIsopTnileL laiêbroscu. Fh.
Fi^ 4 . Polyp odiTim proliTerum Fre^l
Fw 5 lieplu? ol cpis cordjfblia> Bah>r
. . .. .
RAN s.L INN S OG.VOL yjxiAB.
:p^-3
T>1^6.
^^5 TufZ.
Tl^ 1
Ji y^^.1.
^8
Ftt^W. Tu^.d
a.
Tvg.n Ti^. 11.
Tt(f,13
Ks-^S.
WH.Fitdi.arlcbiitJi. J.N ,FiUh. • 1 «
^'i?s 1-6 Aspienium 680ulentum Prt'S-V .

Fi^s .7.8. ("ya i\\ e a. sp inu 1 o s a.
9 j^s ophila 1 aiehro s a . Hh lO.Alsophila. contâminans. WaR.mnrury. r/f/t
Alsophila. ornauba. Soott. J2. Alsophjla. comosa,

14. Als ophi la. dlabrcL Hh. 13 Alsophila Andersoni SouU
15. Acrostichurn scazidens i^. 16 Pofypodium phymaiodes. i/
.
Tr/^s. Linn. Soc Vol.XXX.Tab. 8
Fo^'.Z
W.H.Fiicli J.N.KiLch.iiiip
dfil. et IitK
/I^.l. Cyd^thecL spin-ulosa.. ^^/

Tin 2.HemiteliaL eciDiens . Soolb.
.
TllANS.LlNN.SocyOLXXX.lAB.9.
^Hl'iUK.aftlfttitX, ^^ z J.NPitcK %\*
Tvg 1. AlsopMav contaumina^ns . WaJL. var.BrmtoruxxMM/

^?^.2.Alsop}iila orn a/tOv .
Scotb.
.
I
T R/Js[S.i.lNN OG .YoL XXX Tab .1 .
W, H. Fj UK dd.ti Uh J.N.I'iLch nop
Al SOpTnila^ GOVnOSdj M .
NAN.<? I INK Soc Vo» '
U Tar II
r^ I
4.
WW te
7-
^^ J JN flick i^
1
r 2 nn
1
<rt Andcrsoni 5xi
^ : t « I
HANS. LINN, OOC. VOL .XXX TAB
Ji*ftt/2iuif
W.H.FitcKdclBbliili.
Fig 1 , Eutieppc oleraccoL MaH Fig. 3 . Cp a.i5 Rmnphii %

revom ta TA lUl.
Trans Linn So o .Vol XXXTab.IS,
. . .
VH.FitAia^
J}<Fit,c>;.;TTTL-
Alsophila. latebrosa., WalL Cya^tliea. spinulosa.. Wall.
.i
RANS.LINN.OOC XX.K IAB.l'A-
Wiifibck dd.cblitK JKFuoh imp
em etel IcL ecip lens 5^^

TfiANS.LlNN.Soc.VoL)0(X.TAB.I5
'''-^'^
<i=let.latix. rrtr
J L«.L k*^
Al s op 1 a zoTv\^3j[mx\^rv'^fi6IlNdr.BriMC7iMm'.
Trans .LiKN.Soc .Vol. XXX. Tab. 16
f
f
I
*
I
'^^
« P'toh JllX
J IN"J" itch .mp
AI_sop]iila comossL, J^^, Al sophll a. ornaia.^ ScM.

'I'hans Likn.S V< XXX Tab 1 7.
J N. Pitch imp.
A SO pKil dL And ersoni 5a^.
8
Iran s.Linkt. SocVoLXEdAB .1
WH.Kfx:li,ad.etJith J.''^^':^--li.iinp.
A] so lia dlabrcL#i;
;
1
45
,s
II.— 0^ some Recent forms o/ Lagense /ro??i Deep-sea Soundings in the Java Seas.
By
F. W. Owen Rymer Jones. {Communicated hy H. T. Stainton, J?«^.,
^S'^^. X. Soc.)
(Plate XIX.)
Bead June 6, 1872.
Having devoted my
time for some months past to the investigation of some packets
of mud from deep-sea soundings in the Java seas, which were kindly transmitted to
my father by Lieutenant A. Eoss, one of the officers on hoard H.M.S. *
Serpent/ sent
out on a surveying expedition in the latter part of 1868, I propose giving the results
of my labours in a series of papers treating of the Eoraminifera therein contained,
beginning with the simple monothalamous group Lagena, many varieties of whicli,
I believe, have not hitherto been figured. Though much valuable information regarding
the minute organisms of the Poraminifera has of late years been brought to light, yet
their distribution is so extensive both in a fossil and in a recent state, and they play so
important a part in the economy of our earth, that our knowledge of them, even
morphologically speaking, is still very incomplete. From the pole to the equator and
from the equator to the pole, in littoral deposits and through every varying grade
to the abyssal depths of ocean, these microscopic atoms teem in incalculable myriads,
steadily increasing in numbers, and silently but surely forming, with the accumulated
shells of ages, one of the most, if not the most, important of the potent agents in the
remodelling of the surface of the earth.
t
The sounding (Xo. 2) from which aU the forms figured in this paper were drawn, was
brought up from ar depth of about a mile and a quarter (1080 fathoms), ten miles south
of Sandalwood Island (lat. 8° 30' S. long. 115° 10' E.), October 13th, 1868 ; and when
brought up to the surface, the mud " had a greenish look and was very soft, with a
consistency of jelly. Its temperature was 47° F. and when the hand was applied
;
it felt like ice." When I received the packet, it had the appearance of a thick cake of
dry light-grey mud *.
Amongst the forms which are most powerfully represented, both as regards number
and size, those of the Rotaline series seem to claim the precedence. Botalia is abundant,
and occasionally attains a good size (comparatively speaking for all the forms from this ;
sounding, with very few exceptions, are extremely minute). Discorbina and Flanor-
hulina are abundant, but smaller. The UvigerincB and Bulimin(e are plentiful and well
developed but BoUvina, though well developed, is more rare.
; Texttilaria is abundant
and its uniserial variety, the Bigenerina of D'Orbigny, is occasionally met with ; while
Cristellaria is rather rare and feeble. Nod6sa7Ha is well developed but not very
abundant, as also is its Dentaline variety, more
though the scarce. latter is still
Globigerina is common. NummuUna is rather rare but its variety Operculma ammo-
;
noidesy Gron., is more abundant. Cornuspira is present, though moderately rare ; and
* Vide note on page 69.
";
46 MR. F. W. 0. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAA'AN DEEP-SEA LAGENÊ.
the Miliohe *, including Biloculina, QmnquelocitUna, TbHIocnUna, and otlier varieties are
not uncommon. In tliis sounding I have also met with a few very perfect Rotaline
" casts," probably of Operculina,
The T olij cy stin(B are also abundantly represented by many very beautiful forms, some
of which I belieye are new to science.
The DiatomacecBy too, are very numerous, and are well represented by Coscinodism
Oampylodiscus cli/peus, Amphiteiras ornately Asteromphahis eleyonSy Cerataulus turgidus
and Triceratmm famis, Ehr., the last of which is rather rare, though the quadrilateral
form of this species is very common.
The "tests" of Foraminifera are plentifully met with, and present great variety of
shape and texture, some being merely an agglomeration of irregular coarse sand grains
while others are composed of smooth, stmight sponge-spicules, sometimes loosely inter-
woven, or compactly and longitudinally arranged; and those of a third variety are
formed by a very translucent exudation from the contained living body, which is
strengthened in parts or all over by small sponge-spicules, sand grains, and mmute
shells of Botalia.
The valves of Ostracoda appear in considerable abundance amongst which are those ;
of Cytliere clathmta, Eeuss, Bairdia

amygdaloldeSy CytJierideis maculatay CytJiereis
lacerata, EeterodesmiisAdamsii, Brady, and many other varieties.
The spicules of Sponges which are met with so " Spongitenkalk
profusely in the
of Germany, and in the Upper
Greensand and Oolitic and Carboniferous Limestones of
our own country, are also abundantly
present in these seas, and form an important item
m the sedimentary deposits of the
present deep-sea bed. Their forms are very varied
and beautiful, presenting so many
diversities of shape that the study of these alone is
^
full of mterest.
The spmes of Echini also are not by any means uncommon, many of them being very
elaborate and perfect.
The LacjencBy
which are now under consideration, weU
are tolerably abundant and
aeveioped m
this sounding, though
as a rule they are very small. The largest forms
i nave met with
measure about ^
of an inch long by -^ of an inch wide, the
wUh an 1? }Tt. ^^' ^'* ^^^ P^^f^^* Entosolenian forms (those provided
Tl ZTtr\ " "'""*^ '"^^ *^î^ ^^^^^ measured no more than

'''''^ ^'^^^- ^^^^^g' therefore, a rough calculation,
^ of an
and
aUowinAo/.I^ ^''.
the shelWaUs, which

a great majority of them u.
ôl^kll^^^^^ f
miLZ ""^^" "^"^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^
these
t n .
about 58 000
: C?^^;^^^^^^
i
• ,
T
"'' '
^'^^'"''^^
^^"'Î
^^ the Paris basin is estimated to contain
'
'"' ""'^^^^^^^ ^^^^-ted the number of these minute

or,^ni.!:'i;ZZ'"A
Such an array^,
nûres ru ^^^^^ the ^^ ^^
Antilles at upwards of 3f ^-m
mihion.
y even for one cubic our
mch of this mud passes far beyond
«
i'-^'-ci-taueuus, itisbyn^
with
wiin vmiTio. .^ ' arenaceous, and vitreous
vitr
young Bpecimens ,
the shell-wAlk
»ueu wans nf v
ot x^t.-
which are as transparent
J
;
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN.'E. 47
appreciation ; but when we consider that this is repeated throughout the whole length
and breadth of ocean, we may
indeed fling arithmetic to the winds.
There is, perhaps, no family of the Poraminifera which presents such a varied and
rich collection of forms of such marvellous delicacy and exquisite beauty of contour as
the Lagenidse; and yet withal, they present a simplicity of structure and decoration as
beautiful as it is simple. Masks, amphorae, goblets, water-carafes, and flagons all have
their representatives among this mimic throng yet all are so delicately sculptured, and
;
present so great a variety of shape and surface-decoration, that it would be difficult to find
a more perfect type of grace and elegance than some of these microscopic forms possess.
The wider a survey one takes of the Poraminifera the more closely do forms which,
taken separately, are entirely differentiated as regards shape, approach each other
through so many intermediate gradations, that it becomes far from easy to define the
proper limits of each family ; and it is this which makes a natural classification of them
SO difficult of attainment. Nor are the Lagence exceptions to this variability ; for
though, as a rule, there is throughout a general family likeness, yet they differ so
greatly, both as regards shape and external decoration, that it becomes extrcmoly
difficult to define with precision any peculiar characteristics of sufficient limitation
and unvarying combination to separate them from each other even specifically.
With regard to the isomorphisms of Lagena they are by no means uncommon. With
Nodosaria Lagena blends so imperceptibly that becomes a matter of uncertainty to
it
" "
which group some of these forms belong, while some of the wild growths bear a degree
of resemblance to Tolyniorpliina. I have in my cabinet a two-chambered form, occupyin
.
the neutral ground between the two-chambered Lagencd and Nodosarice, which takes
decided Dentaline curve, the eloniâtcd
_ja,i,(_û. necks bein^]:
ii^v^^cj K^vîXiQ excentric,
v>-a.v.^îi. vi xw, though
wx*v,
q the septal line :
very constricted, and thus preserves the true Nodosarine character. Among the Millolie
this isomorphism is very remarkable, one porcellaneous form being monotlialamou«, and
having the shape of a subglobular neckless flask, the exterior of which is ornamented
with three small longitudinal riblets on either side. Another has the fcirm of a very
narrow elongated flask with a well-formed external neck, the older chambers being
enclosed within the flask and lying close to one of the sides. somewhat similar A
occurrence is observable in some of the arenaceous varieties of Miliola, where the last
r,
chamber becomes greatly enlarged, and encloses the smaller ones within its walls.
These points of similarity, however, are of no importance, as these shells in otb
respects differ so materially that they are widely separated. .
thougli
The shell-walls of the Lagence are usually perforated with pseudopodial orifices,
this characteristic is subject to great variation. In some shells these canal-pores appear
to be entirely wanting, the walls being beautifully smooth and of glassy transparency
Parker and llupcrt Jono«
while in others, such as L, Icevis, Montagu, figured by Messrs.
(Foram. from the N. Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, p. 340, pi. xJii. fig. 22), the forami
occupy only the lower third of the sheU. Sometimes, as in L. marginata, Montagu,
(PI. XIX. fig. 28), they are clustered round the margin of the shell in a wide horseshoe-
Islands, is flgurod by Mes^^rs.
like band. A somewhat smiflar example from the Hunde
Parker and Rupert Jones xiii. fig. 44). In one shell (/.. marginata) these
{loc. cit. pi.
. -
48 MR. F. W ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN^
pseudopodial orifices are irregularly dispersed over the shell-surface, hut leaye a small
irregular patch near the middle of each side, smooth and imperforate ; while in others
tte
tubuli take an oblique direction, radiating from the centre (Z. radlafo-marginata
Parker and Rupert Jones, fig. 33).
This peculiarity is seen in greatest perfection in theii* recent form from the Australian
coral-reefs (loc. cit. pi. xviii. fig. 5 a). Some of the two-chambered varieties, howeyer
present both the oblique and straight
foramination in the same shell the
style of
primordial chamber sometimes having them radiated, while in the second chamber they
pass directly from without to the In some of the costate
interior (figs. 60, 62).
Lagen(E, such as the L. shiato-purwtata of Parker and Rupert Jones, the pseudopodial
passages are said to be confined to the base of each riblet, at either side of which
they
form a single row of punctations.
Not unfrequently these flask-like forms are provided with an internal tuhe, which, how-
ever, is not seldom absent. When present, it shows
great variabiHty, sometimes passmg
in a straight line to the bottom of the cavity, where it terminates (fig. 36), or even bends
round at right angles and runs along the bottom for
a short distance ; or, on the
other hand, the tube is cut short at any intermediate point between the orifice and the
base. In others it becomes greatly flexed, taking a more or less serpentine form, or is
sickle-shaped (fig. 1), while occasionaUy it takes a sigmoid curve, or even curls round
at the top Hke a pig's tail. The mode in which the tube terminates is also variable.
In some^ it ends abruptly, without any apparent increase in diameter towards the
^
end while in others the free end becomes patulous or

;
trumpet-shaped, and in a few
cases It widens out like the
bottom of a sailor's trouser-le,
o
This mternal tube is not, however, pecuHar to the
LagencB, though its appearance is
most commonly observable

among these sheUs. A similar tube is also present in some
01 i\i^ FolymorpMncB and in the
ultimate segment of forms of Bentalina legumen, D'Orh,
ot wliicH I possess
more than one example ; in chamber
some of these sheUs the anterior
IS also
produced mto a long
slender external neck. Among some members of the
'''*'''''^ *^^'
TJTT . r
^' "^^^ ^^" developed, as I have before me a three-cham.
iTÛ T '^^'^'''^^^ ^^^^^ each

lormed mternal\ stolon-tube. ?^ chamber of which is provided with a weU-
^ ^^^^ endeavoured, as far as possible, to follow the nomen-

clitlflf^'''^? ^^F^
'ôS^, I T' ^''^'' ^^^
^-P^^^^ J--^ -^ -t forth in Dr. Carpenter S
iM^î '
T''
^' *^^ :Poraminifera.' I have, however, reverted to the
Z2^Z^frf
Great "Rrifnm '
/p o
^'''' ^^^^ôn
" "-^c.iu»uu
" (Monograph
\,ivionograpn »Un
'On the Jiecent
tne Eoraminifera
Recent ijoramuiii--
JaS A T fw^frol t,
''''' P- *' ^
preference to that of mlcata of Walker
and
mleA
var. Lk Jl '-T!,,
"°' ""'y ^""^^ tiê employment
of such terms as L.
*.
Buch ritf V"*"'''=*"^'
'' ^-f ^"^'---
•
^^^- ^^"^''"'' ^''e '^^^^ ^se of, it would

has pointed out, but,
create on *
mind a wroao IZ^ '"i'"^"'
wWeas" "li
With regard
Th f'
"'^'"''''^ ' f-
'™'*'*'^*'oi of the name
" --Id
i-fer that the sheU
vulgaris obviates aU this.
is ribbei
to .nl •«
*' '^'^' "^ *^^ S^°"P P=^«^ «<> ^perceptibly by so man?
gradations into
eaSt" "T"'
each other, that
close!?
structures the most dissimilar are found to be
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGENÊ. 49
connected by intermediate links, and can therefore be regarded only as varieties of one
specific form, as Messrs. Parker and Eupert Jones have already observed. Many of the
shells here delineated, which have not, to my
knowledge, been hitherto drawn, present
many features of interest to the students of these Microzoa. These I have for the most
part arranged as subvarieties of forms already named and I have endeavoured, as far as ;
expedient, to add as few new names as possible to the already too perplexing medley of
synonyms.
I do not expect the following pages to be exempt from those
which are so apt faults
to creep in when studying such minute forms as those here described; but as all these
shells have been drawn and studied by me while in a recumbent position on an invalid's
couch, I trust that all defects will meet with a lenient criticism. Shut out in a gront
measure, as I unavoidably have been, from access to many of the works of reference, and
unable to retain the few I succeeded in obtaining, except for a very short time, I have
1
had to contend with manyand therefore, if through these pngos there are
disadvantages ;
errors of synonymy or the like, those who have learnt from experience* the dilliculiles
which a person cut off from the advantages of our libraries, and never allowed to a^înne
even a sitting posture from one year's end to another, has to contend with, will, I am
sure, look, with an indulgent eye on all minor shortcomings.
Those who are desirous of becoming more thoroughly, acquainted with th(*se andotlu'r
roraminifera cannot do better than to study Dr. Carjiontcr's 'Introduction to the study of
the Foraminifera' *, and the monograph by Messrs. Parker and E-upcrt Jones on those of
the N. Atlantic and Arctic Oceans f, and their several memoirs on the nomeuchiture of
the Poraminifera {, and, for those of our own coasts, the excellent monograph hy Prof.
Williamson. The Paris basin and several recent deposits have been well explored by
M. d'Orbigny while the fossil forms from several foraminiferous deposits in Germnny
;
have been copiously figured and described by Prof. A. Reuss, who has furnished us with
a series of pictures unsurpassed both as regards numbers and excellency of drawing, and
one of whose memoirs is entirely devoted to the LagencB §.
To the valuable information thus accumulated I now append these forms from th*'
abyssal depths of the Java seas, with the hope that they may help to extend our
knowledge of these marvellous little beings, and awaken the curiosity of many to senreli
for themselves among this uninteresting-looking *'mud," which forthwith, touched as
it were with a magician's wand,

« Shall have a voice, and give them cloriuent teachings.'*
Lagexa yriGARis, glohosn.'iS.oni^^M. (Pigs. 1, 2.)

Williamson, var. {Entosolenia)
passing through every intermediate
Shell free, symmetrical, of very variable bhape,
stage between a globular, ovoid, and cylmdrical contour. External walk •smooth.
« t
.minifera,' by W. B. Carpenter, M.D., F.K.S., assisted by W
(RaySoc
t In Phil, Trans.' London, 1865, vol. civ. pt. i.
Hag. of Kat. Hist.' 1860-1803

Wissenschaften in Wien, Band 4G, Abth. i. 1863
§ " ifonoj Acad, der
VOL. XXX.
u.
MISSOURT n
BOTA-NICAi-
GARDEN.
";
ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN^

50 MR. F. W
hyaline or semiopaque, very coarsely foraminated some while m
others the m
entirely wanting orifice central, circular, and more or less lipped
pores are very fine or ;
extremity, and most commonly communicating with the interior

situated at the anterior
slender, straight or flexed tuhe of very variable length, some-
by means of an internal,
abruptly or becoming patulous at the free end. The base of the slieHis
fimes ending
in some a widely rounded form, which even becomes flat or
very variable, presenting
while in others it is furnished with a small mucro, or becomes
dimpled in the centre,
passing into the apiculate varieties figured by Prof. Eeuss, and
very peaked, insensibly
be no line of demarcation. The anterior portion of the
between which there seems to
in some being very bluntly rounded, while in others the reverse

shell is equally variable,
is the case.
Prof. Eeuss figures a form under the name L. emaciata, the only difference being in
its more slender and elongated shape ; but this difference, together with that exhibited
by the square variety, L. inornata, of D'Orbigny, passes by so many intermediate grada-
tions into the egg-shaped and globular ones, that they cannot with propriety be
separated.
The amount of variation among this species is very remarkable ; and at first sight it
seems difficult to regard them all as belonging to the same species ; but like as the leayes
of the oak or the ivyvary greatly even on the same tree, and yet present unmistakahle
points of resemblance between one and another, so among the shells of this group,
though their contour is extremely variable, yet they present so great a family likeness,
both as regards shell-structure and absence of ornamentation, that it would be wrong to
separate them.
These forms are, as a rule, symmetrical ; but in a few cases this uniformity of contour
is impaired. These examples, however, are only adventitious.

shell-wall— the
Occasionally one meets with shells having a suture-like mark on their
shell having most probably been accidentally broken, and repaired by the contained
foraminifer (fig. 2).
Lagena VULGARIS, Williamson, var. apiculata, Eeuss. (Eigs. 3-5.)

The shells of this variety are in all respects simUar to those of the L. (Entosolem)
globosa, saving that in these with a
more or less truncated or furnished
forms the base is
mucro of very variable length. These varieties seem to form an intermediate ^^
between the the L, glohosa, and X. l(Bvi8 on the one hand and the Z. distoma on the
other. Messrs. Parker and Eupert Jones unite under this name several forms, the base
of which is provided with an aperture very

; but though such shells are undoubtedly
closely alUed to the apiculate varieties, apiculatioQ

yet many forms occur
in which this
of the base assumes a more curved
caudate character, and forms a solid and sometimes
basal appendage and therefore I apertiii^
; am disposed to regard those with a true basal
as belonging to the distomatous o'
series, and to admit, under the name apictilafa,
those structures which, though These ,liells>
produced at the base, are still imperforate.
however, pass so graduaUy from propr iety
those with a rounded base that I question the
of separating them from
L. glohosa and L, Icevis, except for the sake of convenienc
Occasionally one meets with remar kablC'
abnormal growths, many of which are very
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN.E. 51
a form of L. (Entosolenia) squamosa, var. hemgom, wliich has

Prof. Williamsoii depicts
the appearance of two similar forms joined at their bases while Messrs. Parker and ;
Rupert Jones delineate three fossil structures of L, Icevis (pi. xviii. figs. 10, 11, & 12),
from the Grignon beds (Eocene), which take on a second lateral chamber. A rather
interesting " wild " growth from the Java seas is depicted in fig. 5, in which the flask-
shaped form not only takes on a second upper chamber, but the walls of this cell become
double, and enclose a third, while a fourth chamber extends up the whole length of the
exterior of the opposite side.
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. fisstirina, Reuss. (Pigs. 6-8.)
The chief distinguishing characteristic of this group is the compression of the orifice
into a wide " "
ornithorhynchoid beak ; and Prof. Reuss has therefore raised it to the
rank of a special genus, under the name Fissurina. It, however, so narrowly resembles
Lagena in all save the compression of the aperture, that it has been considered by
Messrs. Parker and Rupert Jones to be insufiiciently differentiated to be separated from
them, from the fact that among the compressed forms of Lagena^ many of which are
included by Prof. Reuss in this genus, the orifice would naturally have a tendency to
become flattened in proportion to the amount of compression of the lateral walls, espe-
cially where there is no internal tube to counteract this and therefore the chief charac-
;
teristic of Fissurina loses its generic value, especially as in fig. 8 is delineated a form from
the Java seas in which the shell possesses a decided external neck— an occurrence
which more effectually breaks down the partition-wall between Lagena and Fissurina.
Still the compression of the septal aperture undoubtedly does occur even among forms
provided with an internal tube (figs. 7, 8) and therefore I have for the present retained
;
the name as that of a varietal form. Pig. 6 somewhat resembles the JP. apiculata of
Reuss (Monogr. taf. vi. fig. 85), but is more produced, while fig. 7 is an elegant entoso-
lenian variety of the more elongated and tubeless F, ohlonga^ Reuss.
Lagena vulgaris, "Williamson, var. gotUca, Nov. (Fig. 9.)
Shell ovate, tapering towards the anterior, gently rounded at the base. Walls thin,
hyaline, smooth, and finely foraminated. Internal tube very short and stumpy.
The external decoration is very remarkable, consisting of several delicate, narrow,
fourths up the shell, where they
longitudinal bands of mUky whiteness, passing three
curve over and form elegantly pointed arches. These are about six in number, and are
appears slightly broken at the

very sUghtly, if at all, raised from the surface. The shell
orifice, and is at present the only one of the kind I have met with.
Lagena vulgaris typica, Williamson. (Pigs. 10-13.)
These forms resemble L, glohosa in aU its many modifications of contour, the chief
difPerence being in the possession of an external neck. The base of the shell ako varies
in outline, sometimes being 10, 11 and L. clavata, WilUam-
more or less apiculat^ (figs. ;
MISSOURI
BOTANICAi-
GARDEN.
MR. F. W ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN^
52
gently rounded 12), presenting

(fig. very variable and elegant shapes
son pi. 1. fig. 6), or
vases, &c. The extremity of the neck is generally surrounded Ly
of wat^r-carafes, a
rim, which occasionally curves over, forming a deep lip (fig. H).
thickened marginal
structure depicted in fig. 11, there projects from the centre of the lase
In theglohtilar
what appears to be an extremely short and narrow infernal tube, which apparently com-
municates with the exterior.

A similar tube I have also observed in a form of L. striata, and also in L. jperhm-
marginata (fig. 47) but, owing

; to the extreme minuteness of this tube and the smallness
of the shell, its presence might easily be overlooked.
In the symmetrical form, of which fig. 13 is a copy, the stolon-tube is produced into a
well-formed straight central neck, the rini of which becomes thickened, and is ornamented
with a few slender recurved spines round its external margin.
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. glacialis, Nov. (i'ig. 14.)
Shell, symmetrical, amphora-shaped, widest just above the middle, from which it
tapers towards the base, where it is bluntly rounded. Anteriorly it contracts into a pro-
longed wide neck, which in this specimen appears to be broken. Shell- wâll transparent
and glassy, composed of irregular plates of shell-substance, which crowd together and
overlap each other like a field of broken ice.

- -I
r
No internal tube.
f-
Lagena vulgaeis, var. semistriata, Williamson. (Fig. 15.)

Shell fiask-shaped, more or less elongated, resembling the typical form in its numerous
gradations of contour. The .posterior portion is ornamented with a variable number of
fine striae, which are sometimes very feeble, or, becoming more apparent, pass up the
exterior, not unfrequently as high as the upper third of the structure. In some the
beyond the base, forming a coronal of sharp spikes, or the shell is pro-
striations project
vided with a small mucro. The walls vary considerably in different individuals as
regards perforation and hue, in some white
being densely foraminated and of a dirty
colour (fig. 15), while in others they imper-
are transparent and glassy and apparently
forate. Anteriorly the shell tapers into a sur-
neck, which
more or less elongated is
mounted at the orifice by a ** turned " rim. in some

This neck is generally smooth but ;
rieties, such as the Oolina roram.

striaticollis of D'Orbigny (Yoy. dans. I'Am^r. Merid.
p. 21, tab. 5. fig. 14), it is ornamented with a neat of decora^
spiral. This peculiar style
tion, however, is not confined to these forms, being ^^^
observable in L. striata (fig- 18)^
also m L. sulcata (fig. 26), where
becomes greatly developed.
it
Fig. 15 somewhat bu
resembles the smooth L. vulgaris, var. clavata, of Williamson;
the base is not so conical. striated
These semistriated forms unite the smooth with the
vaneties, and are most
probably but incipient growths of L. striata.
T ^
lAGENA vuLOARis, Williamson,

var. s<m<„, Montagu. (Kgs. 16-20.)
The general shape of some-
these flask-Uke forms elliptical,
is subslobular or widely
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN^. 53
I
- ' If- ,
times subcylindrical and elongated, passing through every intermediate modification of

contonr, while the shell-walls are glassy and transparent, not unfrequently being some-
what opaque and finely foraminated.
The exterior ornamented with a variable number of thin trenchant riblets, which
is
pass longitudinally up the shell-wall, terminating sometimes at the base of the neck or
extending up its sides, and also occasionally project from the base, forming a more or
less wide coronal (fig. 20). Sometimes these striations are more or less interrupted
(fig. 18), some ofthem occupying the middle portion of the flask only.
The greater number of these forms taper towards the anterior more or less gradually
into a well-formed external neck, though examples occasionally occur which are deficient
in this respect. Among these is one which somewhat resembles the X. Uaiduifjcn^
Czizek (Reuss, Monogr. p. 326, taf. iii. fig. 41), the only apparent dilTprence being that
in the shell depicted by that author the neck is external, while in that from the Java sea
the tube is introverted.

The L. amphora of Prof. Reuss, from the Septarian clay of Pietzpuhl (taf. iv. fig. 57),
is a slightly bulged variety. In a somewhat slender form there is a snuill swellin o
near the top of the neck, which resembles the cicatrix on the body of a wounded
earth-worm, the small portion Of neck-tube above this being slightly bent out of the
axial line — giving the appearance of having been broken, and repaired by the contained
microzoon
Around the base of the neck of the globose form depicted in fig. 18 are observable a
few feeble parallel rings of exogenous shell-deposit.
In the entosolenian structures (figs. 19, 20) the walls contract towards the anterior
into a very stumpy lipped neck, while the base is rounded or sharply npiculatc. The
shell- walls are more glassy and the striae fewer in number than in the preceding figures,
being reduced to about six. These take their origin from the margin of the rim, and ps"*^
longitudinally down the sides to the base in transparent trenchant lamella), which arc
sometimes narrow and become incorporated in a small basal mucro (fig. 19), or,
becoming more strongly developed, terminate abruptly near the base, formuig a con^nal
of knife-like edges encircling the rounded and smooth base (fig. 20). A still greater
modification of surface ornamentation is occasionaUy met with among members of this
group. In one ectosolenian form these riblets are reduced to four. These nre formed
by the bending over of the apertural rim of the neck, and pass down the sides in very
width at their commencement, but, gradually

strong blunt ribs, which are of unusual
narrowing as they approach the base, project in the form of long thick spines.
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. striato-areolata, Nov. (Figs. 21, 21 a.)
transparent, glassy, ornamented with a consideiablc numbor

Shell subspherical,
a few of which are continued partway up
(upwards of forty) of fine longitudinal striae,
the neck. Anteriorly the flask-walls pass into a very long, straight, smooth tube of
Walls minutely foraminated.

unusual length, and of equal diameter throughout.
This shell, through some accident, got broken after I had made a drawing of it
a misfortune which has proved beneficial, as it has disclosed the surface of the babe
i
54 MR. F. W. 0. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAY AN DEEP-SEA LAGEN.E.
•vvhicli is very remarkable. The longitudinal strijr, instead of being continued

to ih
centre of the base, or projecting from it in a coronal of sharp spikes, as is
frequently th
case among
these striated forms, suddenly discontinue their rlL-likc decoration
at th
extreme base of the shell, and all the striae spread over the external surface of
the base
and, anastomosing with each other, form an irregular network, the meshes of
which have
no constant size or shape (fig. 21 «).
This union of the striated and areolated styles of decoration on the same shell is as
far as my observations have gone, very uncommon.
Lagena vulgaeis, Williamson, var. caiidata, D'Orbigny. (Fig. 22.)

SheU symmetrical, ovate or subcylindiical, widest at the
posterior half, gently taperin^
towards the anterior, which is more or less
produced into an external neck ; sometimes
provided with an internal tube {JSntosolenm
tjhlosa, var. lineata, WiUiamson, pi. i.
fig. 17) posteriorly the shells are slightly truncate or gently

;
rounded, while the extreme
base IS provided with a solid mucro of variable
length, which frequentlv assumes a more
caudate character, and is often slightly
bent. The exterior of the sheU is decorated with
a variable number of longitudinal
stri^.
In fig.
22 these are also supplemented by a few shorter
ones, which are confined to
the neighbourhood of the
base. This form, though retaining a general resemblance to
the i. caudata of Eeuss,
differs from it in many respects,
being much more elongated,
and tepermg very graduaHy
into a slender external neck, the orifice at the end of
Winch IS surrounded by
a thickened rim. The basal mucro is more slender and
shghtlybent.
SheU-waUs finely perforated.
Lageka vulgaeis, WiUiamson,

var. desmoÛra, Nov. (Figs. 23, 24.)
''^''''*^' ""^^^^^ sometimes elongated, flask-shaped, passing anteriorly
int!l'fm?5^^''^;
^l^^der neck, the end of which patdo lUS
Ind tlvv T ^''^r^''''^ becomes sHghtly I
rf
tot
are ^-t^^
Internal tube of variable length. Externally the
menl«r ntcf t ^tl^\™^^'

^^^
P--.^ '-m
^' ^^ *^^ ^^'^^ is
the base to the
very thick, being gently

co.
curved
internallv hii+ ^
''"" '"'""^^^
tZt2^1^r ' ^^^ -^^ -1- - ênt at Ln angle of about
35"
t1 f 0^^^^^^^ ^"^"^ '^ --t P-âbly adventitious.

Ia ^ iig.
^4 IS very transparent and
^ symmetri
svmmetricaL
symmetrical, having a mucli
shorter
oi-ter T^PoV
«t :\
neck anrl ,.„._
iT.f. i
and uXont ,71?' ^^ '^ ''' ^"^^'^"^ ^^^'^ The shell is more
to
o'-âmentation of figs. 19 & 23 ; for in addition v>
the longitudinal
band, ^ f
of transparent
transmrftî shell .... 7
o.,„„ <;i,w
^''^"'^0*
'"""'*• on "s
its exterior, there is ™
is a wide trenchant riW
This paLrn ifS^d rr '"^"""^ '''''"'^ *° ^"^^ '"''^ ^^
inter
side of each " cl>aia
twine under
and oyer ^/i. ?i, *® ^''*' °^ exogenous sheU-deposit, which
^^""^ °*1^« ty
nately. turns, forming a large ^^^
and a small link
MR, F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME LAGENvE. 55
Lagena vulgaris, Wmiamson, var. sulcata, Walker & Jacob. (Pigs. 25, 26.)
This variety, which has heen chosen hy Messrs. Parker
and Rnpert'^Jones as the typical
form of Lagena, passes through every modification of
contour from the subglohular to
the flask-shaped or more or less elongated structures, the
external neck also bein- often
absent, or, when present, of very variable length, as
also is the internal tube" The
external waUs are furnished with a variable number of
thick londtudinal ribs which
often.blunt or rounded (fig. 25), passing from the base to the
neck, which is some
times left smooth. Not unfrequently these ribs take a somewhat
spii'al direction, as h
seen in the flask-shaped form depicted by Messrs. Parker and
Rupert Jones (Trans! Roy
Soc. vol. civ. pt. i. 1865, pi. xiii. fig. 24), and sometimes, chanîni?
o""o their character on tli
external neck, wind round it in an nterruptcd, oblique spiral (fig. 2(1)
encircle it with a number of transverse parallel rings. This character is also
obscrvabl (
on varieties of L. striata (fig. 18), and is seen in great perfection on a recent

form of
L. Uspida, Eeuss (fig. 50). Messrs. Parker and Rupert Jones have unitrd the
L. striata, L, interruj^ta, and Entosolenia costata of Prof. Williamson with this sulcatc
variety, to which ought to be added the L. filicosta, L. mucronulata, and L. Villarfh'hiHinu,
L. Isabella, with its variety L. raricosta, D'Orb., of Rcuss (Monogr. taf. iv
figs. 50-56).
• These sulcate forms appear to be of rare occurrence at this depth (1080 fathoms), the
only entire specimen I have met with being that delineated in fig. 25 ; there are,
however, a few fragments of stronger and better-developed examples (fig. 26).
The form of which fig. 25 is a representation has the ribs very blunt and rounded,
some projecting slightly from the base, and extending in more or less interruj)ted and
wavy lines to the orifice, which is wide in diameter and lipped.
I
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. marginata, Montagu. (Figs. 27-32.)
Shell compressed, subglohular, lenticular, pyriforra, or flask-shaped, passing througli

very diverse forms, from that of a compressed sphere to that of an elongated flask.
This group constitutes the Compress^ of Prof. Reuss, and is one of the most varied of
aU the Lagence, The base is most generally widely rounded, though occasionally some-
what apiculate. The anterior is furnished with a more or less elongated neck-tube,
which in some of the entosolenian forms is often absent. The mode in which this
external tube is " set on " is subject to great modification, gently tapering in some from
the flask-wall, while in others it is inserted very abruptly. The shape of the orifice is
likewise inconstant, sometimes being circular, while in some of the entosolenian forms
it is more The periphery of the shell is encircled by a wide thiu
or less compressed.
marginal keel of transparent shell-substance, which varies ^catly in dificrcnt indi-
viduals, sometimes being hardly apparent, while in others it is very large. In some
forms this thin ridge becomes greatly thickened, appearing more rib-like (figs. 34, 85),
and gives rise to sharp spikes towards the base ; while in other structures the pnriphery
becomes bluntly angular (Williamson, Monogr. pi. i. figs. 19-21), and is supplemented
by a smaller ridge on each side of it. In many forms these marginal outgrowths aru
very wide, and double, united so as to form one, like the membranes of a leaf (figs. 38, 39),
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56 MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN^
or are separate, and three or four in number (figs. 40, 41), in some of which varieties
the lateral shell-wall ornamented with a few irregularly disposed trenchant costse
is also
«
(fig. 40). This marginal keel is sometimes strengthened by a scries of sharp straight
spines, which project into it from the periphery of the shell (fig. 42). In fig. 43,
however, these spines are somewhat modified, and assume a flat triangular shape
resembling a circlet of shark's teeth.
The foramina, from within to the exterior, and are scattered
as a rule, pass directly
broadcast over the whole surface. But even this is found to have its exceptions; for in fig. 28
they occupy only the margin of the. shell, crowding together round it in a broad band.
The shell-walls are for the most part smooth, glassy, and finely foraminated, not
unfrequently becoming considerably coarser.
These compressed forms vary greatly in their degree of compression, some being so
little flattened that, were it not for the marginal border, it would undoubtedly be more
appropriate to place them amongst the typical. Z. vulgaris, especially as this marginal
fihn is seen to be in a very incipient state in many of the forms here depicted. It seems
undesirable, however, to separate these less compressed and keeled forms from the true
margined^ ; for the shell delineated in fig. 28 is evidently a form of the L. {Eiitosolenk)
J
marginata mentioned by Messrs. Parker and Eupert Jones (Monogr. p. 349), and has
the circumambient layer of shell-deposit still undeveloped round the sides and base.
So completely do these forms pass into each other throusrh numberless intermediate
o
gradations^ that any classification of them similar to must necessarily be
the present
artificial—though, for the purpose of identification,
it is useful thus to create, as it were,
several nucleiaround which each company can be congregated.
A few of these marginate organisms have their exterior covered with more or less
blunted knobs, which are dispersed over
the whole surface, and form an intermediate
link with the Aspek^ of Prof.' Eeuss.
^
Among these sheUs the marginal keel is found in every stage of development, some-
time's making
appearance at each side of the neck or extending with a greater
its or less
development round the periphery.

The example delineated in fig. 27 is very cylindrical, and " squared" at the two ends,
the keel bemg
confined to the base, and appearing the sheU
unusually thickened, while
is destitute of either external or
^
internal tube.
The orifice is
provided with a circlet of tooth-like of the
processes similar to those
entosolenian varieties figured
by Prof. Eeuss (Monogr. taf. i. figs. 1-12) ; but this
characteristic seems to be rare
in the forms from this the only example
sounding, as it is
I have noticed which it m occurs.
&'
It is not uncommon to find among these structures examples in which the periphery
i^s turnished with two
supplemental ribs, which become incorporated in the shell-wall.
''"^^ '"" 7^'"^ ^^' '' *^^ '^'^ ^^^y considerably in contour, sometimes being
solwW '"^ f-^-^-l^-ian, whHe the same
xZt wTrf L observable on
resemblance to that figured by Prof.
ectosolenian
(Monogr.
7lt^, S21) ' WiUiamson
%. 28 is a somewhat flattened
form, gently rounded external
tube
at the base. The
k
L
is short, bounded by the transparent " keel," which extends about one third down the
sides, where it disappears, and again becomes apparent round the extreme base in a very
narrow ridge. Internal tube bent towards one side, and ending halfway down in a
trumpet mouth. smooth and semitransparent, tlie foramina being confined
Shell-walls
to the margins, where they cluster and form a wide band.
r
"
In some of the entosolenian and marginate structures two wide supplemental plates "
are observable, one on each side of the circumambient keel, but confined to the base only.
!Fig. 29 is a very symmetrical bottle-shaped form, provided at the centre of the base
with a small mucro. External neck wide and well developed, with a thick lip round
the orifice, from either side of which arises tlie marginal border, and passes down to the
base. Walls bulging, and coarsely granulated. Hue pale brownish-yellow. No in-
ternal tube. . .
appear to be essentially the same as the form depicted by Messrs. Parker

Pigs. 30, 31,
and Rupert Jones (Monogr. pi. xvi. fig. 12). The walls are very glassy and smuuth,
and the peripheral margin translucent. In some examples the anterior portion is very
pointed, but wide and rounded at the base, to which end the marginal keel is sonicthncs
confined, while in others the shell becomes more
and the transparent border passes
oval,
entirely round in a moderately wide and thickened band. In fig. 30 the bhell bccomuii
more lenticular, the flattened margin bemg well developed and very trenchant. The walls
are sometimes considerably bulged, as is seen in the form delineated in fig. 31, which repre-
sents a similar shell as seen from a three-quarter basal view. The internal tube is very
vari able.
A remarkable modification is observable in fig. 32, the shell being compressed and thc^
walls considerably bulged, while their exterior is covered with numerous short acicular
spines ; the external neck is very slender ; and the periphery of tlic shell is encompassed
by two narrow keels of transparent shell-substance.
Lagex\a vulgakis, Williamson, var. radiato-marginata, Parker and Rupert Jones.

(Pig. 33.)
Shell very compressed, entosolenian, encircled at the periphery by a thickened trans-
semitransparent, the pscudopodial passages taking an

parent rim. Shell-walls smooth,
canal-pores are more strongly developed in the form
oblique radial direction. These
from the Australian coral depicted by Messrs. Parker and Rupert Jones (Monogr.
reefs,
pi. xviii. fig. 3).
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. spinicosto-margimta, Nov. (Tigs. 34-3(5.)
form in general outline but the waUs are

Shell very closely resembling the preceding ;
canals pass directly from within outwards.

somewhat more bulging,
and the pscudopodial
The thick marginal"rib is still present, and gives rise to from two to four blunt or acicular
spines, which project from the basal portion of the shell. In fig. 31 the spmes arc
blunt and only two in number, projecting from the point of junction of the side waU
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58 MR. F. W. 0. RYMER JONES ON SOME J A VAN BEEP-SEA LAGENÊ
and tlie base. The shell has a very short internal tube ; and a few blunt bosses are irre-
gularly disposed over the external walls.

Some forms are provided with an additional pair of spines, ^\ hich occupy the extreme
base, and the knob-like protuberances are absent from the shell-walls.
In the lenticular form depicted in fig. 35 the spikes arc still present; but the outlyinf'
pair are removed a little higher up the sides, the intervening space betAveen them beinc
occupied by a thin film of transparent shell-substance, which passes round the base. The
internal tube is also deficient. Prof. Williamson has figured a young form from Shet-
land (Monogr. p. 10, pi. i. fig. 21 a) the base of which is furnished with a row of about
nine sharp, feeble spikes.
In a more elongated and pyriform example represented in fig. 36 the periphery is
encompassed by a narrow marginal border, which projects at the centre of the base into
a two-pronged spike, one of which (perhaps originally both) bears at its apex a small
round knob.
Lagena vrLGARis, Williamson, var. clypeato-marginata, Nov. (Fig. 37.)

Shell subovate, somewhat shield-like and compressed, very broad at the base, and
rapidly narrowing above, where it is produced into a tolerably long neck-tube, the walls
of which are very solid
throughout, especially at the apex, thus giving more the appear-
ance of a straight canal than of a neck properly
so called, which also passes into the
interior in a very short straight
internal tube. Prom the middle of the base" project two
spikes (one only being seen from each lateral aspect) which are sometimes short
, very
and blunted.
The periphery encompassed by a wide marginal " outwork " formed of three layers
is
of shell-substance, which
are strengthened and united for a considerable distance by a
transparent rim along their outer
border, originating at the anterior end, and, passing
under the basal spike, overlap the
base of the flask below the insertion of the spme. The
two outer layers are tolerably
regular in outline, and pass round the base in a gentle
curve. The middle one, however, projects
beyond these, and is extremely translucent
and n-regularly serrated. The
greater part, especiaUy the anterior portion of this com-
pound margin, is not so
glassy, being more opaque, and striated
having a somewhat
appearance The walls are smooth, transparent,
and very finely foraminated.
ine sHeU appears as
though it were formed by the union of valves-an
two shield-like
_
.^TT ""^"^ '' *^' "^^^^ noticeable from
ii ^'T'^
their each terminating in the long
^'"^'^'^ P^'^^^^
spine.
^^^^^ i^^te^d of over each spike ; but this, though
Ugen^ TtaeAKis, Williamson, var.

pelasnmârgmata, Nov. (Figs. 38, 39.)
witl. xni^r ;L£"\r" " '"^ ''°"'P--«d, its external waJIs densely
coverj
b anuies. The periphery of the shell marg"^
is encompassed by a wide
\
1
layer of semiopaque shell-substance, wMcli in fig. 38 is also finely granulated, thougli
to a less degree tlian the shell-walls proper.

In the lenticular form (fig. 38) the internal tube extends nearly to the bottom of the
and passes out at its upper part, forming a short external canal embedded in the
cavity,
outlying film, and widens out at the aperture, where it becomes lipped. The marginal
lamina appears to be double, being formed by two layers which are united like the mem-
branes of a leaf, and passes down the upper part of the shell in a wide even band. In
fig. 38 this regularity of outline suddenly ceases round the basal half of the periphery,
the marginal layer becoming irregularly and deeply ro welled.
liAGENA vTJLGAUis, Williamson, var. bracteato-marginata, Nov. (Figs. 10, 41.)
Shell subspherical, somewhat compressed, entosolenian, the tube passing to the ex-
treme base of the cavity, where its free end becomes patulous. Anteriorly (he tube
passes out of the flask to a variable distance, resembling more a canal than an external
neck, as it is still embedded in the shell-substance. Around the periphery project tlircc
or more wide lamelliform plates of great transparency, parallel to each other, though
quite distinct, the middle one often being the most prominent. Tlic marginal burdcr of
those layers is tolerably even at the apertural end of the shell; but it becoines very
irregular round the basal half, where these filmy plates sometimes become so translucent
that it is often difficult to follow their outline, and to count with certainty the number
" sometunes
lateral walls of the shell are also
furnished with a greater
of plates." The
whore there are three on either side.
or less number of trenchant riblcts, as in fig. 40,
whitish, semitransparent, and coarsely foraminated, wJiil {•
In this form the walls are

others are more opaque, and of a light brown tint.
frok the preceding sheU, being very smooth and glassy,

Fig. 41 differs considerably
while the walls are apparently imperforate. The marginal plates are about four m
compactly than in the above-mention od examples,
number, and are laid side bv side more
and evenness throughout, the scrmtcd
and pass round the periphery with more regularity
the extreme base. Around the margin of
portion being more regular, and confined to
also an additional narrow flattened ridge, which
(and immediately on) the shell-wall is
the extreme base, on each side, pro-

becomes the walls at the
lost in upper part while at ;
to that observable in fig. 37.

jects a thin pointed spine, similar
Lagena vulgaeis, Williamson, var. spinoso^marginata, Nov. (Figs. 42, 13.)
densely fornminat^d External n^^k

Shell subglobular, lenticular, or ovoid, smooth,
the upper end of tlie structure and
long, straight, and naiTOW, passing abruptly from
patulous, lipped, and sometimes "scalloped" round
smgle or
it.
double la>cr ol
^^^^
sJ eU
margin of the shell is ornamented with a wide
which passes two thirds up the neck, and becomes incorporated its walh. m In - 42 fi
strengthened by a series of lon^,

^his band is single, and of film-Uke transparency, and is
circumference of the shell, and form a

slender, straight spines, which radiate from the
middle of the base these .pines become
single and paraUcl row round the flask. At the
60 MR. F. W ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA. LAGEN^
longer and somewhat bent ; and at the anterior extremity, near the point of
rather
insertion of the neck-tuhe, they are deficient, their place being supplied by long fila.
mentous appearances, which are apparently minute canals. Tho walls in this specimen
are very coarsely foraminated, and the tubular neck considerably elongated, being about
once and a half the length of the ovoid portion. This tube still contains what is
apparently the dried sarcode stolon of the once Hving Foraminifer. A form in all
respects similar to fig. 42, but which, unfortunately, was accidentally broken, had an
additional row of shorter spines around the periphery, but recurved, so as to form a
secondary circlet bent back over the margin of the shell projK^r.
The form delineated in fi^. 42 is somewhat defective —the flask-walls being broken, and
the marginal film incomplete at the base.

In the more lenticular form (fig. 43) the shell-walls are more transparent, and finely
perforated, while the external neck is considerably shorter. The marginal border appears
to he composed of a double layer of shell-substance ; while on each side of this the spines
triangular processes of a milky-wliite

of fig. 42 are represented by a circlet of short, flat,
hue, somewhat resembling a shark's teeth, and wHch project from the periphery of the
visible a very minute

shell. At the centre of the base, below this outlying border, is
transparent spike.
Lagena. vulgaris, Williamson, var. alato-marginala, Nov. (Fig- 44.)
Shell symmetrical, fiask-shaped, occasionally somewhat elongated. Walls sparsely
scattered over with smaU granules. External neck short, sometimes formed by the
gradual tapering of the shell-walls, or more abruptly inserted. Internal tube short.
Sometimes the diameter of the flask is widest below the middle, or the walls become
more straight, while the base is gently rounded. The periphery of the shell is enc(
passed by a narrow thickened keel, which is sometimes transparent or some\^ hat
granulated of the
(fig. 44), and disappears about halfway up the neck. Along the sides
d
neck appears a second pair of marginal outgrowths, the summit of
which, originating at
the neck, pass down two terminate some-
its sides over the before-mentioned keel, and
what abruptly some pomt along the anterior half of the sheU. These
at wing-lilê
processes are crowded with small granules along their inner margin, their outer border
remaming of glassy transparency.
LiGENA VTJLGAuis, WiUiamson, var.

clamito-marginata, Nov. (Fig. 45.)
SheU ovate, very sUghtly bo^
compressed, transparent, tapering slightly towards
ends, rounded at the at th
base, and narrowing wide neck,
anteriorly into a short
summit of which is situated
the aperture, surrounded by a thickened rim. In
%'^f^
tube
'"''^^^'^ " " Internal
n^Z 'T^'^t ^^^^^*V ^^^S^^ soda-water-bottle."
^^"-' ^-d «%l^tly widening towards free end.
its
ZZ:T^X^\^^^^^^^
EhoU r > n .
''"^ '"^Î^^-^^ l--^^^form keels," which
^^ encompass
gtbe
the
Cst f T' T"f

largest, and
^"'* '^^^^ ''''
d projectmg furthest
from the
'-'^'^^ ^-t^-^1
flask
the %
middle one hem i
I
t
MR. F. W. 0. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN.E. 61
The shell is further decorated by four longitudinal rows of blunt or rounded bosses, a
few mmute granules being also sparsely scattered over the otherwise smooth surîce.
Lagena vulgahis, Williamson, var. pertuso-marginata, Nov. (Fi^-s. 46, 47.)

_ »
These elegant, symmetrical, flask-shaped structures are chiefly

characterized by the
perforation of their shell- walls, the external surface being covered with "
deep pittings,"
in the hollow of each of which the pseudopodial orifices most
probably open. In fig. 46,
which appears to be a young the pittings are smaller and the walls transparent;
shell,
while in the more opaque form, delineated in fig. 47, the perforations are larger, and are
visible only partway up the neck, the upper half of which suddenly becomes imperforate
and glassy. The anterior of these shells tapers more or less gradually into a well-developed
external neck, the orifice of which, in by a patulous and lipped
fig. 46, is encircled
border. The periphery of the flask is encompassed by a marginal keel, which in ^v^. 16
is very narrow and translucent, passing completely round i\w ba«?e
and up tlie sides of
the neck; while in fig. 47 it presents a more plicated ajipearancc and is more opaque, in
addition to which it is absent at the extreme base, and also at the upper part of lie t
neck. The base of this form (fig. 47) is provided with an exceedingly short basal tube
of very narrow diameter, which projects into the shell. This would seem to indicate the
existence of an orifice at the basal end also and on subjecting it to a high magnification
;
such appears to be the case. The tube, which measures about t^\,o of an inch in lenirth
3 0^0 of an inch, in diameter, communicates with the exterior of the shell by ;j
orifice of equally small dimensions, but which does not project externally beyond tl
shell- wall. A basal tube in all respects similar to the above is also present in fig. 12.
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. helophoro-marginataj Nov. (Fig. 48.)
Shell subglobular, compressed ; walls thick, of a dirty white hue, widely curved at the
base and anterior end, and covered with blunt rounded bosses. Internal tube flexuous,
reaching almost to the bottom. Anteriorly this tube 2)asse8 out into a short neck, the
orifice of which is thickened by a " turned *'
rim. Around the periphery of the shell
passes a narrow, trenchant, keel-like, transparent band, which extends along either side
of the external neck-tube, enveloping it, and giving it the appearance rather of a straight
tubular canal than of a nisck. At the base this projecting keel forms two transparent
and blunt horns, between which is a third and smaller one.
In external ornamentation this form bears a close resemblance to the L. aJtpem and
X. rudis of Eeuss (Monogr. taf. vi. figs. 81, 82); but, unlike them, it is prnvided with
the marginal keel and external neck-tube.
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. siliqua, Nov. (Fig. 49.)
Among the innumerable protean forms which arc found monothalamout among these
organisms, one occasionally meets with shells which depart «^ crrcatly from th^ true
Lagena character, that it becomes a matter of some difficulty to determine whether they
are true varietal forms or merely abnormal growths.
The shell represented in fig. 49 is perhaps one of the most remarkable, diffcnng c(m-
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62 MR. F. W. 0. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGENiE
siderably from the ordinary Lar/eme, yet still presenting points of resemblance which are
nnmistakahle.
The general outline of the whole organism is somewhat spindle-shaped —heing very Iom,
and gently tapering towards either end, not unlike a pair-oared " outrigger."
About the middle of the whole length of tho structure is situated the central cavity,
which is small, ovate, and compressed, but slightly peaked at its basal end. From the
middle of the antenor portion of the flask extends a rery long, slender, and straight tube,
which, passing through a second chamber, enters a long straight neck, the orifice of
which is sm^rounded by a coronal of short blunt deuticulations.

This second chamber laps round the anterior portion of the ovate central cavity in the
same axial line, its side walls being moderately straight, and its anterior inner wall
gently arched, though the outer ones taper into the long external neck. At both sides
of the central cavity the walls of this chamber are continued, passing down in the form
of a very narrow, blunt, angular ridge, which, encompassing the whole basal half of the
central cavity, project in one long flattened and tapering basal apophysis, the ex-
tremity of which is solid and slightly blunted.
Oneach lateral aspect of the shell are two remarkable lamelliform riblets, one on
either side, which, emerging from the shell- walls of the foremost cavity, pass down in a
very narrow ridge, and, extending round the base in two plate-like kyers, reach far
down the basal prolongation, where they gradually disappear in the more sohd shell-
substance.
This shell, which is unique in my of
cabinet, unites in its structure the characteristics
the marginate with those of
the apiculate series, though the amount of apiculation is
exaggerated beyond that of any

shell I have seen in the latter group.
Its walls are semitransparent pseudo-
and smooth, and are perforated with rather coarse
podial orifices.
Lagena vulgaeis, Williamson,

yar. hispida, Eeuss. (Eig. 50.)
Shell of very variable or more
contour, being sometimes globular, sometimes ovate,
narrow
Jrow and elongated the or is
; base widely rounded. Anteriorly the sheU gently tapers,
produced more or less are
abruptly into a long slender external neck. The shell-waUs
densely covered with
lowever, these spines
thin spines, which are
sometimes continued up the neck. In ^
%
are small, and absent abruptly
from the neck, which is inserted very
mto the chambered pai*
portion, and is ornamented
throughout a number
ivith of
'''^'''^ to
''"''''P^ *^^ entire neck from its junction with the body
end th t!
''''^^^'' ^^^ aperture,
A .n^T. 'T'° ^^^^^^ t^S^ther towards the terminal
less deZi
^^^^^^^^^^^
T "' "PP^^^^^^^ is also observable in
'''''''''''''
X. striata
^' ^'<^^^ô-y (Voy. dans
(fig.
TAmer.
18), though
3leM
in
^'^ flas'^
'' ^ "^"^^ brownish white. meets with
one
shap^llr,^ till f "^''"^''^ ornamentation
Occasionally
surface
bein?
densely
«lens_ely covered
coyered wL
with mnute
*'''' greatly modified (the
form
COB'
j-
ma
«e«ng lini ^""^"^ wHcb seem to
between .r? and
protuberances), »
. between the I^yi,,,^
,^4 ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^_ j^^^^^_ ^^^^^ ^, essent*
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA
LAGEN^. 63
the same as the fossil form depicted by that
author (Monogr. taf. y. fig. CO) from the
Septanan clay of Pietzpuhl, near Potsdam, and
which Prof. Reuss raised to the rank
of a special genus under the name of X.
oxy.tomu. These characteristics, however, are
too variable to be of importance.
Lagena vulgaris, var. squamosa, Williamson. (Fig. 51.)

Shell subglobular or ovate, slightly compressed,
somewhat prolonged anteriorly, at the
centre of which is situated the aperture. Walls semiopaque and of a dirty white hue.
Internal tube short. The external surface is ornamented witli numerous brge
ai-eola3,
arranged in longitudinal rows, each series of areolar spaces
being so disposed'' thai fhe
transverse walls of each alternate with those on either side of
it.
In the form here depicted these depressions arc very large and four-sided,
^ their lateral
diameter being generally greatest. These quadrilateral spaces, however,
have a ten-
dency to become hexagonal, the shell being evidently a marginate variety
of JSJ. squamosa,
scalariformis, of Prof. Williamson- (Monogr. p. 13, pi. i. fig.
30), thon-h the 1
gitudinal ridges in the form here delineated (fig. 51) arc almost straight
instead of
being zigzag, and are, together with the transverse ribs, very well
developed and
trenchant. The periphery of the shell is encompassed by a well -developed
marginal
keel.
Dr. Macgillivray has noticed this compressed character in his Lagcnula

reticvhita
(• Molluscous Animals of Aberdeen,' p. 28), wliich Prof. Williamson, however, considered
to be merely adventitious but the shell here depicted, the only reticulate form I have
;
met with in this sounding, has this peculiarity very apparent ; and I am therefore
inclined
to regard it as a normal variety of the Reticulate with which
series, it forms an inter-
mediate link.
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. ampiilla-distoma, Nov. (Fig. 52.)

*
This shell closely resembles some of the varieties of L. glohosa, having the 8haj)e of a
distended globe, the walls, however, being roughened by exogenous shell-deposit. From
the anterior of the shell there projects an internal straight tube, passing three fourths
down the cavity, and terminating in a trumpet-shaped orifice; at the centre of the ba'^'',
however, there projects a short external tube in the same axial line as the internal one.
Owing to its roughened exterior, it cannot be classed among tlic smooth forms of
X. disioma-polita of Messrs. Parker and Eupert Jones; and therefore it must, for flu;
present at any rate, be considered a separate variety, for which I propose the de'îcrnation
X. ampulla-distonia.
These distomatous organisms are connected with the smooth cntosolcnifln varietlcji
through the apiculatc forms, to which they arc closely allied, the base of the shell hdx\^
more or less drawn out and perforated (see, for eioimple, fig. 53). Mch-rs. Parker and
Rupert Jones have united these with the apiculate varieties under the names L, apicu-
^ta, Eeuss, and cauduta, D'Orbigny (Monogr. p. 358) ; but as I have already adoptiHl
D'Orbigny's name caudata for the striated form depicted in fig. 22, which also in
this respect resembles his OoUna caudata, I have united the organism depicted in fig. 63
64 MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGENiE
with the variety L. distoma-polUai Parker and Rupert Jones, restricting the designation
X. apiculata of Eeuss to those structures which, though more or less produced and
pointed at the hase, are still unprovided with an aperture *.
Lagex A VTJLGAEis, Williamson, var. cf/sôma-po/Zâ, Parker and Hup crt Jones. (Pigs. 53-57.)
This elongated distomatous variety, which is generally smooth, scmitransparent, and

finely foraminated, is suhject to considerahle modification of contour. Most commonly
it is a slender fusiform shell, tapering towards each end to a narrow tuhe, one of which
is sometimes prolonged into a well-formed neck, with a flattened rim encircling the
aperture, the other tuhe, though occasionally long, not unfrequently being very short
and undeveloped.
In some forms (fig. 56) the greatest width is in the middle of the shell, where it
becomes decidedly angular ; and the axis of the shell in this particular form is slightly
curved. Messrs. Parker and Rupert Jones figure a somewhat similar example from the
Red Sea and Australia, which, however, is perfectly straight (Monogr. pi. xiii. fig. 8).
Sometimes the greatest diameter is removed nearer one end, and the shell becomes
more or less amphora-shaped (Messrs. Parker and Rupert Jones, Monogr. pi. xiii. fig. 21),
several examples of which occur in these soundings ; or the walls taper equally towards
each end, both the necks bemg equal and very slender (fig. 55).
An elongated smooth form is depicted in fig. 53, the anterior being provided with a
fissurine orifice,
communicating with the interior through a straight internal tube, while
the base gradually tapers into a second narrow
infundibular prolongation of considerahle
length.
Arather interesting modification of the
distomatous series is observable in fig. 54.
In this form the chambered portion, or shell

proper, is more or less elongated, narrowing
at ei^ther end, the upper part passing which in
into a very long and neck-like extension,
fig. almost as wide as the ilask-shaped body.
54 is also
The lower end of the shell is
shghtly drawn out, and fm-nished with equal in
a basal aperture, which in some forms is
diameter to that at the opposite end,
but in fig. 54 is much smaller. In the figiu-e here
delmeated this long tube appears broken; my
and in a somewhat similar structure in
cabmet, which is even more elongated,
though the neck is slightly narrower in diameter,
both ends seem to be defective,
so that how far it extended when entire I am unable to
say. Shell-waUs smooth and semitransparent
A still
more remarkable form is depicted long,
in fig. 57. It consists of an extremely
smooth, and symmetrical
distomatous structure, having the appearance of two simple
flasks which have sprung
from the base of a third in the shell-walk
same axial line, the
bemg continuous throughout.
The largest of these portions has the form of a long,
narrow, truncâted cone, tapering at
gradually towards one end almost to the extremity,
the apex of which is situated
a very smaU circular orifice. « " end of thi^
At the basal
^.,1..Z^T.:
therefore the above-describea .,
sheU
I ''.f™
""* """ "">
and aU the succeeding
'^7 striated diatomatou, fonns in this soundmg,
of
f
that
organism snbyarieties
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN^
65
portion the shell- waUs contract for a short distance, hut soon
hulge out again, and form
a second flask, with the two hases in juxtaposition. The hody of this middle
chamher is
rather stunted, its strengthhaving heen apparently expended in the formation of a very
disproportionately long neck, which again widens out into a
symmetrical flask-shaped
body, more ovate in form and somewhat wider in diameter than the preceding
chamher,
the anterior part being also produced into a short straight neck. The shell is unique in
my although I have met with a few forms which might possibly be fragments
collection,
of similar organisms, and would seem to connect Lagena with Nodosarina.
Lagena VULGARIS,- Williamson, var. distoma-patera, Nov. (Eig. 58.)
Shell somewhat goblet-shaped, with very bulging walls, slightly contracted round tli
top, where it terminates suddenly. Posteriorly the walls are well rounded ; and from tii
middle of the base projects an external tube of variable lenj^th and diameter. This tul)
IS formed by the inflection of the shell-walls, and terminates
very abruptly. The shell
is of a dirty
white hue and very coarsely foraminated, the external walls also some-
times becoming irregular with exogenous shell-deposit. The basal tube has evidently bcvn
slightly broken ; whether this is the case with both ends I do not know ; but I have
met with many forms of this shell, and, though varying slightly in contour, they all
present very little difference

from the example here delineated.
In general outline this somewhat resembles the smooth form shown in fig. 54, the
neck being deficient and the basal tube more perfect.
Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. Janeta, Nov. (Pigs. 59, 59«.)
This shell is perhaps the most remarkable and interesting of all the distomatous
forms, having a peculiarity of structure which unexampled in any other of these
is
microzoic forms. The shell-walls throughout are smooth and glassy, being also apparently
imperforate. The anterior portion of the structure has the form of a very elegantly
shaped flask, the base of which is rounded, and provided at its centre with a very small
circular orifice. This flask rests in, and opens into, a small " cup," which has a slight
constriction round and is perforated at its posterior extremity. From the base
its walls,
of this cup the shell-walls form a long tube, which commences by turning suddenly to
one side, out of the axial line, and, envelopiug part of the side wall of the cup, makes the
channel of communication only half the width it would otherwise have been. It then
takes a downward course, though still at a considerable angle, and, widening gradually as
itmcreases in length, terminates very abruptly, after ha^-ing attained more than half the
length of the entire structure.
an adventitious or a
"V^'iiether this is normal groAvth, I leave for future investigations
to solve. Por the present, at any rate, it must be enrolled as a distinct variety.
I'ig. 69 a represents a sectional outline, showing more clearly the details of the
structure.
I^GENA VULGARIS, Williamson, var. hicamerata, Nov. (Pigs. 60-62.)
Shell consisting of two chambers, the primordial one being more or less globular, and
ÔL. XXX. K
66 MR. F. W. 0. RYMER JONES ON SOME JATAN DEEP-SEA LAGEN.E.
sometimes compressed. The second chamber encloses the anterior portion of the primor.
into which the latter opens by a rery " sessile" and wide central aperture. Tliis
dial one,
orifice, however, may be provided with a short-lipped neck. The second chamber is
generally very large and flask-shaped or globose, the walls being sometimes very bul
5^^S
and produced at the anterior end into a long, central, more or less slender stolon tube
The aperture sometimes dentate, or

is is encircled by a smooth lip, the outer margin
5>
which is occasionally " scalloped
The form depicted in fig. 60 appears to be more allied to the marginate series, the
primordial chamber being lenticular, compressed, and surrounded by a well-developed,

thick marginal keel, terminating on each side of the aperture, which is central, " sessile,"
and inside the second chamber. This second portion is also slightly compressed, embracing
the primordial one at about its anterior fourth. In outline it is somewhat bottle-
shaped, tapering forwards into a weU-developed neck, which swells out shghtly at the
apex, where it is largely dentate.

This chamber issomewhat bent out of the axial Hne, and is not unlike a champagne-
bottle— a simile which the dentate aperture rather strengthens.
Along the two sides of the neck also extends a transpai-ent ridge, which, however, is
more developed on one side than on the other, and is soon lost in the shell-walls, which
are semitransparent, white, and densely forammated. These canal pores are differently
disposed in the two chambers, those of the larger one passing directly from within out-
wards, while those of the primordial chamber take a radial direction, similar to the form
depicted in fig. 33. .
A double-chambered Lagena is represented in fig. 61, the primordial one of which is
provided at base with a small central mucro.

its
The walls are finely foraminated and
ornamented with about fourteen deHcate longitudinal riblets. little above the middle
A
it becomes enclosed by neci
the second chamber, into which opens through a stumpy it
This portion of the structmê is much larger, presenting the appearance of a very bulging,
symmetrical, smooth flask, passing nect, wMcli

at the anterior end into a weU- develop ed
in this example is somewhat broken. perforated,
The walls of this flask are also finely
but, unlike the primordial
chamber, are perfectly smooth and ribless.
Fig. 62 closely resembles being
fig. 61 in ^general outHne-the upper flask, however,
much more bulged, and the termination.
neck more fully developed and lipped at its
Ihe external margin of orna-
this rim is also prettily "scaUoped," and the neck-walls
mented with a few minute
and feeble tubercles scattered over it. . ,
ihe primordial chamber margmal

somewhat compressed, and encircled by a
is thick
êel, which bears a smaU of this
mucro at the centre of the base. The inferior portion
hamber is decorated with a few coafinj
feeble riblets,
which are very rudimentary, and
weU-
^.^^^^^^^ «^-^ber, however, is ornamented with about fourteen
delwT;
iÛT
Eetfrir""? 'f ^
'''"'"^ ^^^ ^^^^y foraminated
"'^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^- -V
but;
(tbo e occupying the

in the primordial one th^
central partj^^
The primo^^
Cher It^^^^^^
chamber P-«-^- d-ctly from witlun outwards.
appears broken one.
short immediately anterior
after entering the base of the
k
;
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAVAN DEEP-SEA LAGENiE. (57
These double-chambered forms might possibly, at first sight, be regarded as be-

longing rather to the Nodosarlce than to the Lagenm ; but from a careful examination of
the forms which have come under my own observation, I am inclined to consider them
true varietal forms of Lagena.
+
Dr. Wallich depicts an elongated and striated two-celled form (North Atlantic Sea-
bed, pi. V. fig. 18; and Messrs. Parker and Eupert Jones, Monogr. pi. xviii. fig. 13),
which may be regarded as either a two-chambered Lagena or Nodosaria scalaris^ Batsch
but the development of the upper chamber in the forms delineated in figs. Gl <fe G2,
together with the several minor characteristics which they have in common with other
LagencBi allies them more intimately with the former than with the Nodosarine series.
INDEX TO THE PLATE.

Plate XIX
Fig. 1. Lagena vulgaris, Williamson, var. [Entosolenia] globosa, Montagu, x 200 diameters.
Fig. 2. The same : shell which has apparently been broken and repaired, x 300 diam.
Fig. 3. L. vulgaris, Williamson, var. apiculata, Reuss, x 300 diam.
FifiT. 4. The same : shell provided at the base with a caudate appendage, x 200 diam.
« form, front view, showing elongated side-chamber, x 300

Figs. 6, 7. L. vulgaris, Williamson, var. fissurina, Reuss, x 300 diam.
Fig. 8. The same, provided with an external neck, X 400 diani.
Fig. 9. L. vulgaris, Williamson, var. gothica, Nov., x 300 diam.
Fig. 10. L. vulgaris, typica, Williamson, X 200 diam.
Fig. 11. The same, x 400 diam.
Fig. 12. The same subglobular flask, provided with
;
a minute internal basal tube, X 200
round the orifice, x 300 diam
?, Nov., X 200 diam.

ata, WilUamson, x 140 diam.
Fio- MontaETU. x 400 diam.
furnished with a few transverse rings on the neck, x 200 diam
•m, the riblets being reduced to about six, x 200 diam.

Fig. 20. Ditto, ditto, the riblets projecting from the base, x 300 diam.
Fig. 21. L. vulgaris, Williamson, subvar. striato-areolata, Nov., X 100 diam.
base, showing the areolae, x 200 diara.

Fig. 21 a. The same : magnified portion of the
Fig. 22. L. vulgaris, Williamson, var. caudata, D'Orbigny, X 100.
Fig. 23. L. vulgaris, Williamson, var. desmqphora, Nov., x 1 iO.

Fig. 25. L. vulgaris, Williamson, var. sulcata, Walker and Jacob, x 300.
ornamentation of the neck, x 200 diam

Fig. 26. The same fragment, showing
: spiral
2
.
68 MR. F. W. 0. RYMER JONES ON SOME JAY AN DEEP-SEA LAGEN.E
Fig. 27. L. vulgaris, Williamson, mr. marcftnataj Monta^ : subcylindiical form, sliowing dentate coronal
round the orifice, x 300 diam.

Fig. 28. The same : shell in which the foramina cluster round the margin in a mde band, x 300 diam.
Fig. 29. The same : symmetrical bottle-shaped form^ marginal keel defective, x 200 diam.
Fig. 30. The same : lenticular form^ ha\ing the marginal border verv wide, X 140 diam.
Fig. 31. DittOj dittOj three-qnarter basal view, x 110 diam.
Fig. 32. The same : shell bordered by a double marginal keel, walls covered with acicular spines,
X 140 diam.
Fig. 33. L. vulgaris, WiUiamson, var. radiato-marginata, Parker and Rupert Jones : shell in which the
pseudopodial passages take an oblique direction, x 1 10.

Fig. 34. L. vulgaris, "Williamson, var. spinicosto-marginata, Nov, marginal border giving
: rise to spines
towards the b&se, x 140 diam.

Fig. 37. L. vulgaris, Williamson, subvar. cJypeafo-marginata, Nov., x 200 diam.
Fig. 38. L. vulgaris, Williamson, svihvsir. petasma-marginaia, Nov., x 140 diam.
Fig. 39. The same : fragment of shell, X 50 diam.
Fig. 40. L. vulgaris, Williamson, subvar.
bracfeato-marginata, Nov., x 200 diam.
Fig. 42. L. vulgaris, Williamson, strengthened by
subvar. spinoso-marginata, Nov. : marginal layer a
row of thin spines, x 50 diam.

Fig. 43. The same periphery surrounded by a row processes,' X 200 diam.
:
of triangular tooth-like
Williamson, subvar Nov. : marsrinal keel supplem
wing-like processes, x 200
45 L. vulgaris, Williamson, subvar. by a triple,
davato-marginata, Nov. : periphery encompassed
keel, X 300 diam.
46. L. vulgaris, Williamson,
subvar. pertuso-marginafa, Nov. : young shell, x 200 diam.
47. The same older shell, : furnished at the base with a minute internal tube, x 140 diam.
vulgaris,WHliamson, subvar. helopharo-marginata, Nov. with
: margiuate shell, covered
round bosses, x 140 diam
Pig. 49. L. vulgaris,
Williamson, var. siligua, Nov diam
Williamson, var. hispida, Reuss : subglobular form, the neck ornamented
number of ring
l?ig.51. -t-. VM/^âm, Williamson, var. a
«gtt«mo5a, Williamson : shell-waQs compressed, encompassed
peripheral keel, x 200 diam.
•^' "'ÛLGARis, Williamson, var. distoma, Parker and Rupert Jones.

Fig. 52. L. vulgaris, hy
Williamson, subvar. ampulla-distoma, Nov. : subglobular form, walls roughened
exogenous deposit, and furnished
at the base with a short external tube, X 120 diam.
ig. 53. L. vulgans, WiUiamson, subvar. distoma-polita, Parker form
and Rupert Jones :
entosolenian
with fissurine aperture,
x 200 diam.
'^""^ '^'^ ^^teiiding out into a very long and wide "
p!^"
It m^ '""'' •
neck,- x 200 diam.
'^°°^'''^ '^^ '^^^^^^ spindle-shaped
Fi!' la 1' '"^^ ''
form, x 100 diam.

'^^^'^^ "°S^"' ^°"^^ ^^^* ^'^^ «f
vt .7 ^' ''
^^^ î-1 line, x 140 diam.
three-chambered distomatous form, x 100 diam.
*ig. ^8
Fi^' 58. T"'
i.tmâm
T t""^'*'^'
Williamson, subvar. with »
distoma-patera, Nov. : sheU somewhat goblet-shaped,
basal tube, x 200 diam,
Kg. 59. L. »??a™ Williamson, var. Janeta.
Nov. : flask-shaped
'^ structure,' communicating
with a W
basal tube, x 300 diam .
:. ;
MR. F. W. O. RYMER JONES ON SOME LAGEN.E 69
Fig. 59 a. The same : sectional outline of^ x 300 diam

Fiff. 60. L. vulgaris, Williamson, var. bicamerata. Nov.
foramina 40
Fig two-chambered shell, the lower end of which is delicate
diam
Fig. 62. The same : two-chambered shell, the upper chamber of which is ornamented with costse, which are
. also visible at the extreme base of the primordial chamber, x 140 diam.
Note. 4
The temperature of 47° F. at 1080 fathoms may seem somewhat higher than might he
expected at that depth ; but this portion of the ocean is so enclosed by shoals and reefs,
that the deeper and colder waters of the more open seas are in a groat measure cut off
and consequently, though its depth is considerable, its temperature is much higlicr than
at equal depths in the outer ocean. A similar contrast is observable between the tem-
perature of the Sulu Sea and that of the China Sea, as shown by observations made by
Commander Chimmo, the temperature in the former being as high as 50° F. at the depth
of 1778 fathoms.
The thermometers used for these soundings were " Johnson's patent metallic spring,"
placed in stout perforated gutta-percha cases.

Traks.Linn.Soc! •Tab 19.
>
7*: Wp^^t *
-- :.-.-; —.^- . ..V ;,---': ^. '-.^
.
71
L
n
III. On the Ilahits, Structure, and Belations of the Three-handed Armadillo (Tolypeutes
conurus, Is. Geoff.), By Dr. James Murie, F.L.S., F.G.S., Sfc.
(Plates XX.-XXVI.)
Read February loth, 1872.
CoNTElfTS.
I. Introductory and Eemarks concerning Habits. VI. Myology.

II. Measurements of the Body, Head, and Limbs. Muscles of the Hind Quarters.
III. Body exteriorly. Spinal and Cranial Muscles.
As in Motion and when rolled up. Muscles of the Fore Quarters.
The Dermal Armour. VII. The Skeleton.
Chambers for Limbs and Tail. Skull and Mandible,
Tegumentary Aspect of Head and Feet. The Spine.
IV. Apparatus for drawing the Body together. Sternum, Costee, and Pelvis.
V. Visceral Organs. Pectoral and Pelvic Extremities.
Contents of Abdomen &c. VIII. Eelations to Eeeent and Fossil Genera.

Chest, Mouth, Larynx, &c. IX. Description of the Plates.
Vessels, Brain, and Nerves.
!• Introductory and Remarks concerning Habits.

On the vast continent of South America, the present home of the Edentates or Eruta,
now and again remains of colossal animals turn up, which, studied in the light of
anatomy, reveal the existence of an ancient fauna typical of more recent forms, These
old denizens of the tropical glade and plain, whilst foreshadowing the construction now
borne by their comparatively tiny heirs of the realm, yet, ancestral-like, possessed solid
characters of their own. Such characters, though firmly impressed on their skeletons,
less conspicuous than the majestic magnitude of the animals themselves To the
travellersand naturalists who have exhumed, under difficulties, those heiiiooms of past
that they should press
ages, aU honour is due. No less creditable is it to palseontologists
on through toil and moil revivifying to the wondering multitude snatches of that Ion (T
zoologist and anatomist supply

vista of the cainozoic times. Here the labours of the
data from the present fauna which unfold the known and often explain the unkno^N
frequently of hijjhest
Thus what may be supposed trivial details are afterwards
service in expounding abstruse points.
Preceding writers have sufficiently called attention to the anatomical and palseontc^
gical memoirs on the Loricate section of the Edentata,

^ in which the names of Cuvier,
Owen, Bapp, Lund, and Burmeister take a first rank The latter, as Director of the
Museum at Buenos Ayres, has lately kindled afresh the interest concerning fossil Eden
U9
detenmnation of the remain
" (Trans. Koy. Soc. 1865, p. 31)
Osteology of the genus Ghjftodon
!
72 DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
tates, and in his series of splendid monograplis Las shed a lialo of honour on the institu-
tion with which he is connected. Lon^ may this tried sarnnt be spared to continue the
good work
live Armadillos are far from uncommon in the menageries of this country ; never-
theless few, if indeed any, of the three-handed species Lavo hitherto been imported,
except the subject of the present sketch. Its rarity is equalled by its being one of the
most interesting forms of the group. Of the organization of the species, save carapace
and skeleton, in part, there is, I believe, no published record. To make good this gap in
the literatm-e of the Edentates is the object of the paper now laid before the Fellows of
the Linnean Society.

The animal, a full-grown male, was received by the Zoological Society, in exchange,
March 4th, 1865 and it lived and was exhibited in the Resrent's Park Gardens until
;
June 8th 1866. Por a considerable time was kept in one of the monkey-cages along
it
with some other species of the Armadillo tribe. This afforded a good opportunity for
watching and comparing the habits of the different kinds.
The deportment of the conmioner species, the Weasel-headed Armadillo {Basypus sex-
cinctus) and the Peba {Tatusia peba), is in many ways very different from the Mataco or
Three-banded Armadillo {Toli/peutes conurus). This contrast is the more marked, seeing
that the bodies of the two former are (one would suppose from the number of their
movable zones) better adapted for bemg coiled together than is that of the more rigid-
shielded latter ammal. Be this as it may, when in confinement the following peculi-
arities are very evident.

The Peba and Encoubert by no means sluggish animals, which their heavy and
are
squat figure seems to betoken. In the large as
cage they walk and amble about generally
if intently tracking some faint
scent or searching for earth-hidden edible treasure hither ;
and thither they wander, carrymg their

head down-fixed and sniffing, their tail almost
trailing on the ground behind,
and their stout somewhat waddling body supported on
the full length of the soles of
their feet.
Kot so Tolypeutes ; for his is the active sprightly messenger, in
gait of a Hght-footed
spite of more solid cuirass.
The body is more lofty and narrow, the legs longer, slenderer,
and the fore ones with immense and dis-
nails. The tail usually hangs perpendicularly,
tant from the ground, as is the head. on tiptoe,
But, strangest of all, he poises himself
and, as if on hasty errand,
trips trot, trot forwards and trot, trot backwards, ever speeding
m ceaseless journey.
The commoner Armadillos seem three-
heavier sleepers during the daytime than is the
banded species. The latter,
as I shaU more particularlv describe, at such times rolls
itselt mto a ball the a
; former bend themselves snugly together, but without assuming
spherical figiure. & .7 o
*^' '^""^ ^''^^ ^^^ meat,

h.î.^n^/"'^"''' S^^^^ to ail-namely, bits of raw chopped
rf V ^""^ ^'"^^ ^^^
tf\ ^^-
These they appear to relish and thrive on. I«
Tain f. . .
^y '"^P^"^ *^' *"^^^« ^^^^' '^^^^^ is rapidly protruded and with-
J
f
spiral
Sr.t
recoil rtto %rm€coi)%a.
peculiar .t"'
"^"^ '' ^^^^^^ ^*^ -^tl^-S lite the elongate
^ thrust and
J,
I.
— : —
DR J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 73
Lastly, I may incidentally recount a scene of drollery between the Armadillos and tlieir
mischievous companions the monkeys. and when in high spirits, the latterOccasionally,
take to teasing the former. Watching the harmless and defenceless Basypus issue from
his sleeping-box, one monkey, more bold and fuller of fun than his brethren, would sud-
denly catch hold of the Armadillo's tail and drag him backwards. With frantic glee and
chattering, the monkey's companions join and all who can lay hold, haul might and ;
main, and tumble and toss about our scaled friend to their heart's delight, in spite of his
scratchings and struggles. But once caught, again shy and a touch would send Arma- ;
dillo bolt into his sleeping-berth, only to emerge thenceforth as dusk approached and the
enemy retired to rest. With Tolypeutes such a game was not so easily played ; the short
tail, in his case, was tucked in ; head and legs followed ; and there lay a solid ball, wliich
they poked about rather suspiciously, and did not quite enjoy the long sharp claws, or
were suddenly scared and fled as the sphere started to its feet and set off at a rapid run.
In the subjoined footnote ^ I make some extracts from travellers who have witnessed
the Armadillos and our species in their wild state.
* A free translation from Azara runs thus conurus]

of the 36th degree. It is the only species of this family that, when frightened, hides its head, tail, and foro legs by
hall
the ground. It walks always with the body contracted, and more slowly than the other species. The fore and
legs are weaker ; and the claws are so little adapted to dig the earth, that I doubt if they are used for that purpose.
It is fourteen inches long without the tail, which is two inches and two-thirds in length ; the root of it is not round,
with scales, shaned like larsre srrains or nroiectincr knobs. It has three
dorsal bands, broad above and narrow at the ends. gul It has
five toes to the hind foot, and four to the front ones. Apuntamientos^ vol. ii. p. 161.
Armadillo
injury
found
form by means of fire. Tlu
three
making turns.'' ffist. of

arwin ^Journal of the Voyage of the "Adventure" and "Beagle,"' (vol. iii. p. 113) remarks :—*' Of
Arm
and the Apar [Tolypeutes tridncfus?']. The first
than any other kind. A fourth species, the Muh
.
'] only extends as far south as the Sierra Ta-
palguen, lat. 37° 20'. which is north of Bahia 1 The four species have nearly similar habits ; the ]*elndo,
however, is nocturnal, while the others wander by day over the plains, feeding on beetles, larvae, roots, and even
small snakes. three
tessellated corneous has the power of rolling itself into a perfect sphere, like one
covering being nearly inflexible. It
kind of English woodlouse. In this state it is safe from the attack of dogs ; for the dog not being able io take the
whole into his mouth, tries to bite one side, and the ball slips away. The
a better defence
than the sharp spines of the Hedgehog. The Pichy :
a very dry soil ; and the sand dunes near
favourite resort. In the course of a day^B rido
near Bahia Blanca
several were generally met with, le was perceived it was necessary, in order to
catch it, almost to tumble off one ftio nnimal burrowed SO Quicklv that its hind
quarters had almost disappeared The Pichy likewise often tries to escape
before one could alight.
ground
VOL. XXX. L
•
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'
II. Table op Measueements of the Body, Head, and Limbs

inches.
ofnose to tip of tail in straight line 12-75

13oay._TotaUength from tip
(depth) opposite movable zones 3-30

Vertical thickness
along curve in the middle line of back 2-65
Scapular shield.— Length a
2-80
Length at lower edge from angle to angle
anterior angles
'
1-85
Distance between its
Distance between its posterior angles • 300

Length along the middle of back '
1-80
Three movable zones.—
curve in middle line of back 6-30
Pelvic shield.— Length following
3-75
Length along lower edge from angle to angle
anterior angles 3-65
Distance between its . .
posterior angles 1-10

Distance between its . ,
2-90
Thoracic chamber. — (Fore limb) antero-posterior measurement
(Fore limb) depth, taken from free edge of scapular shield . . . 2*90
Abdominal chamber. — (Hind limb) antero-posterior measurement 3'40

3-70
(Hind limb) depth .
Isthmus sej)arating the chambers for the fore and hind limbs rio
Head. —Length from end of snout to occipital end of cephalic shield 3'20
Lenj^th from snout to the inner cantlius ' l'G5
Length from snout to root of car . . ,

•2-40
Width at level of the ears .... 1-40
Length of gape ' 1*1^
Distance from end of snout to anterior end of sternum ...•-.•• 4*00
Ear. — Long diameter 1'25
Width . _ \ . . . LOO
Eye. —Length 0-35
Tail .
—Length from the hinder edge of anus to end of tail .
2-70
Length of the free part 1-80
Width at the root 1-40
Width nine tenths of an inch from the apex 0-50

. . .
Thickness (depth) at root 0-80
Thickness nine tenths of an inch from the apex 0-65

. .
Teats. —Two in number ; each in length ^

0-15
Distance from end of sternum to line joining the teats 1-10
Distance between the two . . .

0-90
Distance from a line joining these to the ^'SO

root of the penis
Penis. —Length 4-50 I
Diameter at root 0-90

t
Diameter at end of prepuce (glans) - .

0-25
Anus.— Distant from the posterior margin of penis 0-75 I
Diameter .... 0-30

Fore limb.-Extrcme length from ^'^
axilla to point of longest claw .' .*
Length from olecranon to root of 3' 10

carpus
Length from root of carpus to ^'^^
end of longest claw (in a straight line) . •
Greatest breadth of the palm 0-45

Claw of second toe, length in
Claw of third toe, length in
a straiKhUine .'
,..''...• 0-60
a straight line 1-40

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DR- J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. Tf)
Inchon.
I.
Fore limb.— Claw of fourth length in a straight

toe^ line 0'8()
Hindlin^b. — Length from groin to extremity of longest toe^ with limbs fully cxtcDtlcd . 4'nr)
Length from knee to ankle ..•...•.. 2'50
Length from extremity of heel to end of middle toe I'SO
Length from extremity of heel to end of inner toe 1 '30
Length from extremity of heel to end of outer toe 1'20
Greatest breadth of the sole of foot 0'60
III. Description of the Body Exteriorly.

1. Aspects ichen in motion^ rolled tip, and extended.
Tlie 'attitude of tlie animal g life
dvirins: XiXV. and „^^^ nmnin^
Ct^V^ wlien .....x..ô about was sucli tliat tliti
cephalic shield looked almost directed forwards and the dorsal line of the body formed a
;
tolerably even curve from the one end to the other. The body Avas supported upon tlic
tips of the great claws of the fore limb and upon the anterior callosities of the hind limb,
the heel being raised. In this attitude it moved at a very rapid trot. PL XX. repre-
sents the animal in the said act. The drawing, an accurate copy from a photogrnph, is
very characteristic, although it is from the dead body, which I fixed ia as life-like a
posture as possible.
The tail, in spite of its massive defensive armour almost indissolubly welded to the
bones at its termination, is nevertheless provided T\Hith the same musculo- tendinous dis-
trihution which obtains in such perfection in those mammals whose lengthened caudal
in every direction. Lateral, and

appendage an instrument empowered with movement
is ^
especially upward motion of the tail in Tolypeutes is necessarily of a limited kind, and
lashing or curling is per force checked but, on the other hand, an almost hinge-like
;
perpendicular to
movement is attained in perfection. Usually the tail hangs nearly
the end of the pelvic shield action of the body the tail is flapped
but in the roUing-up
;
inwards, upon the abdominal parietes.

and lies flattened alongside the head
the anterior aperture of
When the animal coiled itself up, the cephalic shield closed
the scapular shield, the ears being folded up in the interval between the two. The
of the free zonc^s
]?osterior angles of the scapular shield, passing over the lateral scutes
which closely overlap one another, fitted into the groove between the margmal scutes ot
the greater part of the scutes of the anterior trans-

pelvic shield and the incurved lateral
up on One side of the head,
verse row of that
shield. The extremity of the tail passed
between the cephalic shield and the scapular shield ; a small interval, however, by which
the animal could and the approximated edges
breathe, was left between the head and tail
«f the scapular retracted into chamtes, which

shields. In this position the legs were
flaccid condition ol the body
^•ill
be described. By extension
after^vards I allude to the
^hen the spine is partially straightened the movable zones apart below. The head t lien
folded or partiall) <ô,

Jiangs loosely forwards, the tail backwards, and the limbs drop,
into their
respective chambers {vide PL XXII.)
2. The Dermal Armour.

Tlie scapular shield, three moval.V
dermal avmour is divisible into a cephalic shield,
scutes, sucli a«
^"nes, pelvic are no nuchal
But there
shield, and the caudal armour.
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76 r>R. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
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exist in Daspptis seccGinetus : the interment of tlie back of the neck is quite soft and
flexible, presenting only a few scattered longish hairs.
Cephalic Shield.— This is end being pointed, and

ovoid in contour, the anterior
the
posterior end narrow and rounded. Its length is three inches, and its greatest
width is
1-5 inch, the position of the greatest width being 2*3 inches from the anterior end.
It
consists of a series of principal marginal scutes and scales, enclosing a number of central
scales, and flanked anteriorly by some lesser marginal scales. The principal marginal
scales are twenty in number. There is one in the middle line behind and one in the
middle line in front. The the main quadrilateral, the outer edges bein»
scales are in
straight ; but there is a certain tendency to become pentagonal in front. The posterior
nine are larger than the others, and their inner edges are obliquely bevelled off. The
median scales are altogether ten in number
four succeed each other in the middle line
;
from before backwards, without interruption; and two similarly occupy the anterior
portion of the space between the principal marginal scales but a pair of scales meet in :
the middle line between the first and last-mentioned series ; and another pair of scales are
placed between the third and fourth, counting from behind forwards, and the marginal
scales. The hindermost median scale is rounded behind and at the sides, and has a
straight anterior margin. The second is nearly square, inclining to be hexagonal. The
third is nearly triangular, and the fourth lozenge-shaped. The surface of these median
scalers is much more distinctly granulated than that of the posterior marginal scales. The
secondary lateral scutes are small, and
skirt the anterior third of the lateral edges of the
shield. There are five on the right side, and four
on the left ; they are longer than thej
are deep, and are moderately
smooth on the surface K
Scapular Shield.-ThQ scapular
shield has seven complete transverse rows of scutes.
Tlic first anterior row fringes the
margins of the anterior aperture of the shield, which
lias the form of an arch 2-3
inches high and I'S wide. The second row from the front runs
strictly parallel with the first. The third row is parallel with the second. In the fourth
row the middle plate is thrown a little backwards by the meeting of the next two plates
^"^^ ^^® ^^^^""^^ portions of this fourth

th ^"^Â r* ^^^
' row are separated from the third at
^^tercalation of four incomplete rows between the fourth and the third.
m! row meets the
Th e fnith
fourth at the margin ; but between the mardn and centre there
Bunneist
trans-
Uti
of the Panochthus
^^'^^^^^ {Tolype
{-Loiypeutes conurus) has the cephalic shield very simudi w .--
h ih
^'"'''P^^^^S differences of the plates of which it is composed.
lecUoa the vortin«l
,.„.j,. ,. .
L
^^^^Â
'^ ^ prolonged oval,
with an amitp m.r.,;. T,io.i. „« ^„, „» .i,„f .
In
o.^
the ITataco of our
in front the sides an

col
rounded.
symmetrical •, and
""'^ oy a pair of
symmetrical plates siDgle
down town rrlo +;,« ^ .
between the eyes, and, furthermore, four symmetrical ones in xf
^"^ '''^ î^^^^mference of which

St four
of the central group there are nine plates, on each side
occipitalTn"'
^^^ '^^''^''^ ^""^^ ^""^ orbi»l
projecting. very diminutive
plates over each
there we
eye, andTur T ^^^^ ^^'^^^''' °''
Besides there are five
^^^^ ^'^^ anterior to the eyes forwards towards the nares. In a"'
forty-fon^ plate'"''-'' 1 ^^^^^-sîeld, part ^^
which
her species of
LuL 1 2| inches long and 1| inch wide
is at its posterior
^«MM
c&nnot r : If *-_ "- ^ ™*al ,MeM ,.3 lejl ion as _. 3fataco
publico d^
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
77
is an intercalated incomplete row. The sixth row meets the fifth at the margin, but
there is an intercalated incomplete row at the side. The seventh and hindermost row is
parallel and contiguous with the sixth throughout.
There are twenty-three scutes in the and twenty-nine in the seventh row.
firsts
The scutes of the first row are granulated on the surface, with bevelled and acute
free
edges, and quadrate or pentagonal in contour. The other scutes are quadrate, penta-
gonal, or hexagonal. Those of the seventh, in the middle line especially, are considerably
longer than they are broad.
The edges of the scutes which form the lateral margin of the shield are straight and
bevelled off, without projecting points. Here and there short hairs project from the
hinder edges of the scutes ; but this is more especially at the sides, the hairs being very
few and short or absent on the middle part of the shield.
Movable Zones. —The scapular shield fits loosely from side to side, although its
parts are firmly united together. It is connected by a fold of soft and flexible integu-
ment with the anterior edge of the three movable zones ; and tliese zones arc similarly
united with one another, and with the anterior margin of the pelvic shield.
The folds of skin are so disposed that each movable part overlaps that which lies
behind it. There are twenty-five scales in the first movable zone, and there are twenty-
seven in each of the others. The middle scales in each row are oblong, and O'O inch long
by O'o inch wide. They diminish in length at the sides, and lessen in width. The
two terminal ones from the others in being more nearly square, in hu\ Iiig their
differ
posterior edges nearly free, and in being devoid of sculpture on their exterior. Tlie
lower scute of the second is almost triangular ; and a flat brush of long hairs projects
from the free marj»in „^^^ integument
„^ the
Q^^^ of ^^^v^g beneath it ; but these terminal scutes are not
rccm-vcd or pointed.
The total length of the middle scute of the anterior zone is 1-6 of an inch ; and of this
0*75 of an inch is covered by the scapular shield.
:PeloiG Shield.— The pelvic shield is shaped like a quarter of an cg^, the small end
being posterior. It is very convex from side to side, and also from before backwards in
tho middle line of the back. It presents fifteen complete transverse rows of scutes,
extending right across the shield from one margin to the other. These scutes are for the
most part hexagonal and granular upon the surface. The marginal scutes have bevelled
edges; but only a few of those of the hindermost row present any points. They arc
tuberculated on the surface, except those on the margin and the tuberculation ;
liiis often
a rosette-like pattern.
The fifteen rows of scutes are all parallel, and in contact with one another, except the
middle portions of the fourteenth and fifteentli, between which is left n triangular space
9
occupied by one central scute, surrounded by seven others.

The number of scutes in the fifteenth row is about thirteen. In the most anterior row
there are twenty-five scutes. The marginal scutes in this front row are bent-in differently
from the others, and have a certain resemblance to tlic corresponding scutes in the free
zones.
The Tail.—rhe short tail is so broad and flattened at its base as to be almost triangular
MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARiMADILLO.
DR J.
•i
flattened from above dowiiTvarcls at the base but towards

it is also miicli
; tlie
in outline ;
flattened in tlie rererse way, or from side to side.

extremity 'it is
are arranged quinciincially rather than in regular zones. On tlie dorsal

The scales
basal parts of the tail there are coarse rounded tubercles,
surface of the middle and
intervals, while on the under surface and the extremity these are
separated by widish
plates. space on theA middle and under surface of the tail,
flattened and overlapping
0-9 of an inch from the anus, is smooth and dev oid of scales. At the
for a distance of
the scutes are so arranged as to form a kind of lateral ridges.
root of the tail
the carapace of Tolypeutes, in the
Numbers of Scutes.—On my examination of first
importance to count with precision the total number

instance, I did not deem it of of
composing the cuirass. Subsequently, on studying Biir-

scalc-covered osseous pieces
meister's masterly memoirs, I foimd he had computed the number of tesserse associated
in the coat of mail in some of the great fossil Glyptodonts. By this time I had cut up
my three-banded Dasypode and what with injury

;
to the pieces, and inherent difficulty
of mastering count of the smaller units of dermal armour, what I here reckon must be
taken as but an approximation pour servir. Thus on the cephalic shield I made out
some thirty on the t9p, and twenty of unequal sizes round the edges, or about fifty
in all; on the scapular shield at least 340, whereof seventy are marginal. On the
three mo-vable zones the numbers already mentioned are equivalent to seventy-nme.
The pelvic shield contains close upon, if not somewhat more than 360 pieces, including
those of the ischial arches. The tail, with great and small bony scutes, has no less than
130. In rough computation, then, the total number of segments or tesserae would be 960,
or possibly even between that and 1000.
3. Special Receptacles for Limhs cmd Tail.
Chamber for icithdrawal of Fore Limbs.—The outer surface of the shoulder is perfectly
free, and covered with spine of
integument bearing very long brown hairs as far as the-
the scapula, and nly then reflected on to the inner side of the scapular hield.
shield, A
a
chamber is thus formed
ned between the shoulder and pectoral shield, into which the fore
limb can be retracted

This chamber is bounded behind by the integument which passes from the hinder part
of the thorax to the the inner

inner side of the second free zone. As already .mentioned,
wall of this chamber is covered
is constituted
by the integument of the shoulder, and
with very long hairs, from the
between two and three inches in length, which proceed
dges of the oval horny the
scales of 0"-15 magnitude. In this respect the inner waU
of
chamber presents a striking H^'

contrast to the outer wall, which is almost smooth.
but a few such there
.scales scattered where
here and there until towards its convex part,
are some three of tue
or four rows of
small horny plates, forming a kind of continuation
lôniy plates of
the proper scapular
shield
'^"^ '''^'' '^'^""'^
M. fig. 8).
front part ofth
abdoLr^T ^^ ^^^ f^^-e Hmbs and the thorax, the
'^^ ^^^^^ with long
and m
more
or; or 1 'T
less distinct
scales.
''''^^''' ^^ ^^^ hind
The root of the penis and
limbs, are covered
circumference of anus,
J ^
boW
a most free loose an
from these appendages itself the
: and upon the penis
^-tegument is devoid of hair or
scales
;
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 79
Isthmus of Skinfolds. —That which in the table of measurements is spoken of as the

isthmus, is a fold of integument which passes obliquely, like a kind of diaphragm, from
the region of the penultimate and antepenultimate rib to the first, second, and third
movable zones and the pelvic shield. This fold of integument forms the front wall of
a chamber which reaches to the middle line of the back above, in the dorsal and lumbar
regions,and to the summit of the ilium at the point of junction with the carapace. It
is bounded behind by the junction of the ischium with an inward process of the pdvic
shield; and by the last-named structures it is separated from the caudal chamber.
,
—
Chamber for withdrawal of Hind Limbs. Just as the inner wall of the chamber for the
anterior limb was formed for the shoulder, so this chamber for the posterior limb is
bounded internally by the posterior wall of the thorax, the lateral ^valls of the abdoiiuii,
and the lateral walls of the pelvic region. This inner boundary is not nearly so hm'ry ns
in the case of the anterior chamber, there being far fewer scales and only shorter and
scantier hairs. The inner lining of the outer wall, formed by the intcgunicnt of the
be absolutely smooth, except towards the lower aperture of the
pelvic shield, appears to
chamber, where a few scales extend upwards in continnntion of the pelvic shield.
Tail-chamber. —BQtwQQn the two last-mentioned chambers on each side there ia a sort
of chamber for the root of the tail, bounded at the sides by the integumcut covering the
conjoined ischii and process of pelvic shield, and above by the termination of the pelvic
shield, which forms a kind of arch l"-3 wide. Longish hairs fringe the iiif('gument
where it passes from the underside to the lateral boundaries of this chamber.
4. Tegumentary Aspect of Head and Feet.
Skin of Head.—TliQ integument of the head beneath the shield has no bony scutes
under the eye or elsewhere. On the snout the hairs are short and scanty for the most
part; but upon .the sides of the cheeks, lower jaw, and partly gular region, ihon IS a
great number of small bony plates, with thin convex borders, whicli project forwards
of the snout, between the
and from these brown hairs proceed. The
long extremity
nostrils themselves are completely terminal, and tlu'
smooth and bald. The
nostrils, is
septum narium is only 0"'07 at its narrowest. Each nostril is about 0"-7 wide, and is
almost divided into two passages by a fold of integument proceeding from the outer
wall of the nose downwards and inwards.

forming a kind of funnel, the
The Uar.~The concha of the ear is Yery remarkable,
along a line directed from above
marg of which naturally fold upon themselves
obliquely downwards and forwards. The concha thus comes to have au anterior
not quite as broad as the posterior

division and a posterior lobe. The anterior lobe is
one when the two are folded to-ether, the latter overlapping it by 0"-lC. ^^ hen the
two lobes of the ear are completely spread out, it presents an oval exi)ansion, the mar
Tlie proper aperture of the
of which is slightly notched at the two lines of folding.
meatus auditorius Hes between the anterior and posterior folds, a narrow elongated
and is
sHt about 0"-2 in length. of this slit rises into an undulatmg ndgt^
The posterior lip
^îch margin of the posterior lobe. The anterior l,p i«
is continued down to the lower
MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
PR J.
ridge, which.curves round the upper curvature of the

produced into a latter,
Similarly '
posterior lobe at the base of a small elongated elevation.
}A' way npon the
lower half of the anterior lobe, there is a longitudinal
rido-e upon the rid g'
f t oTthis
disconnected from it on the same side, a smaller one. When the two
and above it and
folded together, the ridges which have been described interlock.
lobes of the ear are
the lobe is covered by numerous minute horny scales, which homy
The outer surface of
aU round the margins of both lobes, and on the inner surface of
scales are continued
far as the ridges, where they die away. From the outer surface of the
each lobe as
these scales are far more scanty than from that of the anterior lohe. A
posterior lobe
extends from the zygoma, just behind the eye, to the under surface
fold ofintegument
row of scapular scales, and connects the sides of the head and neck
of the anterior
with the scapular shield.

^^^^._The fore foot exhibits only three toes Of these three toes the innermost
*.
is
the lon^'est, irrespectively of the .claw ; but the .middle toe is by far the stoutest. The
middle and inner toes are connected together as far as the root of the claw by a web-Kke
membrane, and the outer toe is similarly enclosed to the base of the claw.
The nails are all convex forwards on their dorsal surface, and deeply grooved on the
palmar surface.
The innermost nail is not much curved : and its inner edge is thinner and more pro-
duced than its outer edge. Its end is obtusely pointed. The middle nail is very strong,
and greatly curved backwards upon the inner side, thin and produced on its
; it is thick
outer edge, and truncated at the extremity. The outermost nail, the smallest of all, is
nearly straight. It is thicker on the inner edge, produced and thinner on the outer
edge, and sharply pointed at its extremity.

There is this pecuharity to be noted, that in the fore limb the longitudinal axes of the
second and fourth digits, if produced, are the axis of the claws of those digits ; but that
is not the case with the axis of the middle digit, which is only coincident with that of
the basal half of the claw, the distal half having a gentle twist outwards.
The scales which have been mentioned as covering especially the fore and inner face
of the fore limb become particularly large upon the dorsal surface of the manus, and the
hairs which proceed from theh- inner edges are very long. Three such scales He on the
inner side of the innermost digit poUex or of the
but there is no trace externally of a
;
dio The palmar surface is covered by a bald and wrinkled integument, on which
there are no callosities.
The hind limb is exceedingly different three hroad

from the fore limb. It presents
truncated nails, that of the before
middle digit being broadest and most convex from
backwards, while two smaller di
and pointed nails con-espond to the hallux and little
Tlie anterior portion of the

of the sole of the foot corresponding with the undersurface
throe middle digits body was
forms a broad callous cushion, on which the wei-ht of the
1 Ti /^
by
„ ^ 'The specimen livin been informed
,
ilr^Bartlett and Dr.
Peters, has only
to be the normal
three fro. Museum
numher. In oth.r r..r...,. a
;milar."—P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 381.
J.
H
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MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 81
evidently supported during life. A deep fold, occupied by wrinkled integument, sepa-
rates it from the hinder diyision of the foot, which bears the two lateral didts.
Each of these lateral digits sends in a little rounded cushion directed downwards and
inwards, and which probably contributed its share in supporting the body, while the rest
of the sole of the foot, as far as the heel, has a thin wrinkled integument.
Scales, with subjacent pencils of long hah-s, extend over the dorsum and sides of the
foot, as they do over corresponding regions of the manus.
IV. Appahatijs for drawing the Body etc. together.
Muscles of Carapace and subjacent Layer.
Protractor of the Scapular Shield. —There is a broad muscle which extends from the
posterior part of the zygoma and meatus auditorius (outwards and backwards when the
head is protruded) to the inner surface of the second row of scutes in the pectoral shield,
and spreads out over the anterior fifth and lateral part of the shield.
Contractor of the Scapular and Pelvic Shields.—T\ie rest of the inner surface of each
half of the pectoral shield is occupied by the broad and sheet-like anterior attachment of
a digastric muscle. The posterior fleshy fibres o^this muscle are similarly attaehod by a
broad expansion to the inner surface of each lateral half of the pelvic shield. The two
portions are connected beneath the movable zon6s by a flat silvery tendon, the fibres of
which cross each other, the deeper ones passing in front and to the outside, backwards
and inwards, while the superficial fibres take a course from ilic front and inside back-
wards and outwards. A broad aponeurotic membrane extends from the region of the
hindermost ribs to the front edge of the pelvic shield and the outer edge of this mem-
brane, which forms the basis of the partition between the anterior and posterior limb-
chambers, and plays the part of a sort of pulley. I may further remark that
• tlic
the six-banded Armadillo, rediKM^d

numerous slips which ascend from the contractor in
separate from the great fore-and-aft
to three in Tolypeutes, are in the latter partiaUy
plane of muscles {vide figs. 7 & 8).
Protractor of the First movable Zone.—A from the edge

muscle uf
arises
and inscrf d into the
movable zone (its third outer scute), near the middle line, is <
anterior part of the spine of the scapula. The action of this muscle is to puU the
pula backwards ; or, if the scapula is fixed, its fibres draw the anterior mo\
forwards.
a small thin sheet of muscle proceeding from
Retractor of Scapular Shield.—There is
and passing forwards and upwards,
the vertebral angle (antero-superior) of the scapula ;
shield at about the middle Hue.

it is inserted into the front part of the pectoral
both unroUers of the carapace, and they arc
These two last-mentioned muscles are
retractors of the sliield when the limb is fixed.
and forms a layer quite boneath

Panniculus Car nosns.—This is but feebly developed,
fibres but the fleshy constituents arn
the preceding. It is, as usual, a broad sheet of ;
fascia, or loose fibrous tunic,

very scanty, giving it more the appearance of superficial
the middle line of the back
than of a true muscular envelope. It is attached towards
VOL. XXX.
^
from about opposite tlie last two ribs, and extends to the lumbar and the fascia
crest of the ilium by a very delicate web of areolar tissue intermixed with
t
tendinous
fascia. This spreads out in a fan-like manner, the posterior insertion being
the
surface of the hind low down as the knee, reaching inwards, and
hmb as
being united
with the icner edge of the flexors of the back of the log. The anterior and
abdo^C
insertions of the panniculus are lost in the superficial fascia and skin covering the a "11
and median hne of the abdomen.

The weak condition of this muscle, as also
attachments, tends to show that
its
it e f
httle into the rolling-up action of the body and carapace. It rather seems to be
rela d
and loose while the limbs are being dra^vn towards each other as they are retracted
*
their respective chambers.

The foregoing muscles, besides their interest as appurtenances to the
mechanism
whereby movement of the one portion of the carapace towards the other
is effected
possess an additional interest homologically. Before collating argument thereon
I
shall advert to the researches of
the Italian, Prof. Alessandrini^ as showing
that'in
species of Dasypus, which have less power of rolling
and unrolling themselves than
Tohjpeutes, carapace -muscles similar in kind obtain. Cuvier^ in JD. cinctus, has more
particularly illustrated the subjacent sheet, or
what more commonly goes by the name of
panniculus carnosus. In Chlamy dophorus truncatits, HyrtP fully notices the distribu-
tion of the latter, and expresses
absence of the shield-contractor, so conspicuous m other
genera of the loricate Dasypodes.
By way of comparison I select the
Apteryx and the Hedgehog, for these reasons, that
they equally have marked and
well-defined cutaneous muscles, and that Owen and
Cuvier's terms are distinct,
though evidently applied to homologous structures in the
classes Aves and Mammaha.
In the Apteryx* our English
anatomist defines :—1, a constrictor colli, situate at the
npper back part of neck,
with chiefly transverse fibres ; 2, sterno-cervicalis, enclasping
integumentonim Armadilli
I -vrould, however, more particularly
Bologna, torn. vii. 1856, " Cenni sull' An

'''^'''''^*'' '* octodecimcinctus Linn."
, In this, tab. 13. fig. 1, he demonstrates the inner
muscular layer f t^T"'
°'''''^'™^^'
'!^*'' ^^*^ ^*« offshoots to the movable zones. I append part of his description
of the same Invertin'
\°''^^'' ""^ ^^ ^^^^ paragraphs, that the main muscle(= the beUies of my contractor of the
-apular
-capillar andTeM
and pelvic'°f .\
shields) may take precedence!
mobili. ed in Darte ancora le vicine

i'"^^^™^^, sm quali anzi fissandosi, posterionnente
xone stessp . fo -v p
/
dwtinate aUa '
integumenti molli, interposto aUe singole zone mobiU, manifestamente
adduzione delle
teriori sono ^^ ^''^"^^ ^triscie anteriori hanno la medesima estensione, ma le due pos-
pii brevi."— Z ^^'IV^^'^®*
I
C Edentaten,' 2nd ed. p. 65)

triige
Maximilian von Neuwied,
^sandrini's inferences.
x™. Z.»..lc *-'

'
^l-4^~ ™'-.'- 1B55, p. 29.
the lower nuclial region ; 3, sterno-maxillaris, almost like an anterior continnation of

the last mentioned ; 4, dermo- trans versalis, oblique upper postnuclial fibres ; 5, platysma
myoides, with a gular distribution from the three foremost dorsal
; 6, dermo-spinalis,
spines to the scapular region 7, dermo-iliacus, between iliac and scapular regions.
;
8, dermo-costalis, joins the preceding, and comes from the seventh and eighth costal
appendages ; 9, dermo-ulnaris, from the last to back of elbow-joint ; 10, dermo-humeralis,

abdomen to humerus.
Cuvier's lettering and nomenclature* of the skin-muscles of mammalia runs:
1, fronto-occipital (occipito-frontien) ; la, sourciliers (fronto-sourciliers) ; 2, fncien ; 3, cer-
vico-facien ; Sa, dorso-occipitien ; 4, thoraco-facien ; 5, dermo -hum^ricn ; 5«, portion

scapulaire ; 55, portion dorsale ; be, portion lat^rale ; hd, portion vcntrale ; be, der-
m
mo-coccygien. Excepting Sa, muscules or muscular slips corresponding to the abov

are shown in his dissection of Erinaceiis (Myologie, pis. Ixxiv. and Ixxv.). The names
of themselves sufficiently denote their situation. I may as well note that in the same
savant's drawings of Dasypus sexcinctus (I. c, pi. cclix.) nos. 3a, 4, 5, and be, are Icltend
accordingly.
Having in view, then, the determination of what cutaneous muscles obtain in the
Three-handed Armadillo, as indicated by those of the struthious bird and the Insin Hvore,
I think we may correlate what has been denominated protractor of the Bcapulav sbuhl
with Cuvier's facien, cervico-facicn, and thoraco-fticicn divisions, and partially with the
and sterno-maxillaris of Apteryx, The protractor of Ihe firsl
so-called sterno-cervicalis
movable zone appears to be homologous with the dcrmo-transversalis and dermo-spiiiah's
in the bird, and with the scapulaire portion of the dermo-hunn'iien in tl»c mammal; it
agrees also with Cuvier's " acromio-maxillaire." ' In the same way* the retractor of the
scapular shield in Tolijpeutes most nearly corresponds with " la portion dorsale du dermo-
humdricn," though evidently also combining and functionally the avinc and regionally
mammalian slips named in the preceding sentence. After what has been said, there is a
difficulty in ascribing the precise counterparts of the digitations to the movable zon cs
though these may bear a relation to exuberant quill-slips— to Owen's dcrmo-costalis, or
ofiPshoots of Cuvier's p. laterale ; at all events the zonal digitations (" striscie muscolari"
of Alessandrini) in Dasypus sexcinctus are the counterpart of the fascicles in Tolypa'tca.
With regard to the contractor of the scapulo-pelvic shields, it undoubtedly coincid

its action, situation, and true homology, with the orbicular muscle of some authors m
the nedgehog, with Cuvier's main "portion laterale des muscles pcaucier^," in the sarao
bound up with his " dcrmo-cocrygicn." In

animal ; and moreover may
include
it or be
"
some respects it answers to Owen's " dermo-iliacus in the Apteryx, the derm o-co«= talis
envelope of feeble panniculus cainosus

being related thereto. Respecting the deeper
in the Mataco, its throat-area, the strips to the fore limbs, the belly part, and that
to the groins particulars with what, in the struthious fom, is specified

agree in most
dermo-humoralis it also
as platysma myoides, constrictor colli, dermo-ulnaris, and ;
dermo-humdricn, thoraco-facicn,
pertains distinctly to the « portion ventralc, laterale,
&c. in the Insectivore.
' '
Myologie/ and '
Lesons/ 2nd ed. torn. iii. p. 594.
* I^". "'• P- ^^•
M 2
34, DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
The hinge of generalization unfolding the homologies and significance of this pseud
complex system of cutaneous muscles, I believe, turns on the fact that the whole
belon
to a single or partially double fleshy envelope, the panniculus carnosus. In some
casf
this is most expansively distributed, in others reduced to a minimum. In one group of
vertebrates a limited portion alone may be
well developed, which portion, on
the con-
trary, is feebly represented, but not utterly absent, in another series of forms.
Occa
sionally the fleshy fibres are very thick within a circumscribed area, and serve a
special
purpose in the animal's economy. Again, even when moderate in quantity,
a set of
fibres, by attachment or otherwise, may acquire prominence, and receive a name
accord
,
Equally in Mammalia, Aves, and some Eej)tilia, superficial fasciculi, few
or
numerous, emerge from the main mass, and act separately or in combination with
the
diifused sheet, as erectors &c. of the tegumentary coverings and appendao'cs. On the
other hand, deep-placed bundles, sparse or abundant, interblend with the subjacent
muscles and fascige of the head, body, and limbs. Although generally recognized, and
differently named, from position, course of the fibres, or functional aptitude, the so-called
individual muscles of this harmonious fleshy cutaneous tunic thoroughly decussate the
one with the other. In this respect, therefore, the whole may appropriately be considered
in unity for it is only very exceptionally that beUy and tendon are
; present, or clear lines
of demarcation other than devious direction of
fibres obtain. It is foreign to the pur-
port of the present paper to support the foregoing
broad assertion by amplitude of proof.
The subject of itself is most interesting in a variety of ways and towards
; its elucidation
I trust ere long I shall find an opportunity
of throwing together my notes and reflections
thereon in the form of a separate
paper. In the present instance of Tolyêutes I
have distinguished by names afresh,
as applied to their actions, the several muscular
s ips of shields and
zones, desiring thereby to
accentuate their uses rather than suppress
luem m a homoloffical cloak
V. The Viscera.
-F
1. Contents of the Abdomen.

^" "" ^*'^'"»'~^ riscera.~1h<, unusually large Uver occupies tte
kfMffn "^"^f f l^ypoctondrium aud its left lobe
the stomach!' ; also lies completely in front of
°^ ^"^ stomach occupies

and botwirti!!'^ comparatively a small space behind the liver;
^Ploen conla
'
"ftl
7''*™' °^ ^^^ '^°'^^''^ ^^^^ "'« ^"lêd
^ *°''' ™-
*"'"«'l
kidney
dorsal
is the
side,
M
a Ion" anterior ll„ lo'ê, turned towards the
, T'^'
^°^''' '^^''^ Posteriorly. omentum, which
'connects the soil wÂt ' The lesser
inner surface "'""^'"^ '""^ °^ *^^ '*°"^°'>> P^^^''^ ^""^ ^^^ '^'^^^^ "^ ""
of the 1
^''^'''' ^'^ extremities of the lobes free. The great
o.ueut.im is
continuouf tt ^l^
^""^ ^'^'^^^ °^ ^'°™ of tie
"tomucU whole len^tl
its
""'
^^'^ Sweater curvature
T
then '' *^^°°* ^^^^'^
^ continued back duodenum, mi
is reflected unwn.^ v , on to the
P »ards and backwards,
forming a distinct omental pouch or sac. The
86
foramen of Winslow is of a moderate size, and lies between the duodenum and the free
inner margin of the right half of the liver.
These parts, the lobe of the Hver, the stomach, the spleen,
left
the left kidney and
part of the intestines, occupy the whole of the left half of *
the abdominal cavity The
right half of the cavity contains, in front, the middle
lobe of the liver, and behind
the chief portion of the convolutions of the intestines,
and deeper the right and caudate
lobes of the liver, with the right kidney.
As soon as the oesophagus has passed through the diaphragmatic
aperture and entered
theabdommal cavity, receives asi investment of peritonaeum.
it
This, the gastro-hepatic
omentum &c., is adherent to the oesophagus and cardiac end of
stomach ; and its layers,
uniting on the opposite side, form a sort of of mesogastrium,
which fixes the lower end of
the oesophagus and cardiac end of stomach to the spine.
The stomach itself I shall further make allusion to, but here note that the duodenum
passes at once to the right side of the spine, and then turns backwards alongside of the
vertebral column. It then goes to the upper and posterior part of the brim of the pelns,
and is there fixed by peritonaeum.
Transferring our description of the visceral attacli-
ments to the rectum, I may observe that this is very wide. It passes up
the middle line
of the vertebral column as far as the pyloric end of the stomach,
where, becoming a truly
large intestine, it makes a loop, passes over to the right side of the spine, and bends
back to near the level of the upper end of the right kidney. It ihm is flexed
ui)on if bcif
forwards, and, suddenly narrowing, passes into small intestine without forming
a diver-
ticular caecum. The part of it which arches across, obviously corresponds to the trans-
verse colon, and is bound to the vertebral column by a comparatively small mesocolon.
The mesocolon continuous backwards with the mesentery, which extends as far as
is
the brim of the pelvis. The mesentery stretches to the right side of the body and to ;
the greater part of its bi'oad plaited margin the several coils of tlie small intcstijic arc
fastened. The last one and a half inch of the great intestine is, properly speaking, con-
tained in the commencement of the mesentery.
To a most serviceable description and figures of the viscera separately, Alessandrini has *
superadded a ventral view of the opened body, with organs in situ of an adult male
-D. sexcinctus, and of a full-grown
? foetus of D. Q-cinctus. In both the exposed portion
of the liver is much greater than in the present (fig. 10, PI. XXIII.), and, on tlic con-
trary, the stomach and greater intestine occupy a less prominent position. The said
relative disposition does not altogether agree with what I have met with in dissections of
the same species ; albeit in them the
great breadth and fulness of the anterior mass of
the liver is considerable. Hyrtl's figure'' of the eviscerated parts of Chlamydoplioruf^
supports in resemblances Alessandrini's delineations.
—
Stomach, Intestines, ^c. The gastric crgan is pear-shaped, the elongate pyloric
extremity narrowing into the duodenum. The cardiac end is somcw hat dilated ; and
the gullet enters about the
middle of the viscus. The rough measurements of the
stomach, when distended, are 1] in short, and 2\ inches in long diameter. The wall of
'
Memoir, 1856, already referred to, pi. xii. & pi. xvii. fig. 2. ' Tab. v. fig. 1 of bis Mon»"rai>h, p. IH.
DR. J. MUBIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO
86
thin, that of the pyloric end thicker. The inner coat of the
the cardiac division is form er
in permanent rugce superiorly, but mfcnorly and in the pyl

almost wantinc^ end
marked, though not very numerous. Some three or four narrow, forked
they are well
folds exist within the surface of the lesser curvature and right moiety
hut sweeping of
reaching from the oesophageal aperture towards the pylorus.

the posterior^wall, Several
similar kind well nigh at right angles to the former, floor the great
others of a curva-
The thickening of the pyloric parietes is due to increase of the submucous and
ture.
muscular coats, besides the additional free mucous folds. To the naked eye the mucous
membrane appears almost smooth ; but with a hand-lens many apertures of gastric glands
and between the latter the character is finely villous.
are visible ;
The small intestines are 52 inches long, and with a nearly uniform diameter of about
f of
i/A an
ax± inch
xj^yj^ thouo^hout!
cxxw^g fair-sized A
Peyer's patch lies within a } of an inch of tlie
pylorus and others

; are met with at wide intervals. Valvulte conniveutes are wanting.
A nipple-like process, 1 inch from the pyloric ring, marks the aperture of the pancreatic
and common bile-duct. There is no cjecal diverticulum, nor ileo-csecal valve. The divi-
sion between ileum and colon is indicatedby an enlargement of the latter. Near its
commencement, where widest, this simple colon is no more than an inch in diameter;
and it narrows steadily for a distance of 5 inches or more, the last 3 inches (or what
r ,1
corresponds to rectum) again widening. The entire length of the great gut is
9J inches.
In the stomach being less round, the cesophagus more to the right, absence of
pyloric division, no valvular protuberance (although the pylorus is thick, and orifice
narrow), Toli/peiites coincides with the six-banded species of Dasypits and Chlamy-
dophoms, and not with the Peba {Tatusid), But in deficiency of a pair of short csecal
appendages it agrees with the latter, and differs from the two former \ Again, the
gut is altogether very much shorter than in either genera compared.
The thick bifid spleen, with free limbs of unequal length, firmly adherent, by a short
is
gastro-splenic omentum, to the lower left end of the stomach. It is less than a couple
of inches in extreme length.
Owen ^ mentions that this organ is broader and flatter in
D.sexchictus than in J), (Tatusia)
peba; and in the former he observed that "asmaU
supernumerary spleen was lodged in
the head of the pancreas." In own dissections my
of these animals, with shght
difference of size, no variation obtained from Tolypeutes.
The pancreas is also thickish,
Mesenteric glands are
but flat, nodulated, and
numerous, the
in. in diameter. H -
most common a spHt

size and shape resembling
*^''' '^^^'^^ ^^'""^ aggregated
Z Im^ in a
proportionally is of enormous
semicontinuous mass.
the whole
^rT"f. \ ''T'' volume, occupying, as said,
Uhe le t hypocôndrium,
nf
and on the right side descending as far as the summit of the
of
"^ ^^^'^'^* ^^'^^^ tlê liver into right and left moieties,
wLh ther-^;.
nght t
IS
. u
fully as big as the left, a
divided by
viz. as 3 to 2. The left moiety is
TUJ.
fi« i
Alwandrim, Cenn
; Edentaten,' 2nd ed. p. 11
'^•. "-
pis.
Loc at. T» 1 KT
p. 157. 3 &c. J
Hyrtl, I c. p. 47,
a
PR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 87
deep fissure, extending from the front surface of the liver obliquely inwards and back-
wards to near the middle of its posterior surface, into two lobes, an inner and an outer
(4 and 5, fig. 11), of which the inner is by far the smaller. The right moiety is divided
by two externally deep fissures, which extend from the convex anterior and outer surface
of the liver nearly to its posterior face, into three lobes —an anterior, a middle, and a
posterior (3, 2, 1, fig. 11). The anterior of these is the smallest ; and its convex anterior
face is marked by a deep groove, which extends towards the middle line, and ends
towards the falciform ligament. The under surface of this lobe carries the gall-bladder,
which is elongated, straight, and fusiform, and half sunk in a deep fossa. On the left
this lobe is bounded by the median fissure, posteriorly by the transverse fissure, into
which the vessels enter as usual. The space or region of the under surface of this lobe,
between the gall-bladder and median fissure, answers to the lobus quadratus. The part
which might be regarded as the lohiis Spigelii is prolonged backwards, and passes into the
other two divisions of the right moiety of the liver. The posterior surface of the second
of these (1, fig. 11) is concave, and exactly receives the convexity of the kidney. After
t
having been thoroughly soaked in and therefore much contracted, I noted that
spirits,
the left lobe (No. 5) measured 2 inches by \\ across. No. 4 was less, and No. 3 above an
inch in diameter. Nos. 2 and 1 were each about a couple of inches long and from
1 toIJ inch at widest.
The right coronary ligament is connected with the posterior superior nngle of this
division, and passes thence to the spine, and is continued upwards by the side of the
spine to the diaphragm.
The free edge of the falciform ligament extends from the notch which divides the right
and left halves of the organ to the under surface of the xiphoid process. The ligament
itself passes back along the under surface of the diaphragm on the one hand an d the
front surface of the liver on the other, to the place of reficction of the coronary
Hgaments.
The left coronary ligament takes its origin opposite to the last rib, and is continued
thence, presenting a freemargin backwards to the left lobe of the liver, to which it is
attached, about three tenths of an inch from its free margin.

In species examined by myself— among others the Weasel-headed Armadillo, D. 6-
cmctus {=D. encoubert)\ the Peludo or the Hairy Armadillo, JEuphradus villo6U8, the
Pichy or Little Armadillo, UupJir actus {= Dcisypus) minutiis, and Cachiamc, D. {Taiusia)
peha—ihQ liver is essentially identical with that of Tolypeutes in the number and
difference, that the latter peculiar
general disposition of the lobes &c. Eut there is this
genus has a larger mass on the right side drawn and covered by- gut—
out posteriorly
condition or variation, possibly an adjustment, reconcilable with its remarkable po\v ir
of {CJilamy dophorus) has a liver, in divisions and general

body.flexion. The Pichiciago
than with the IVFataco.
figure,most nearly agreeing with the commoner Armadillos
mentioned in th.i relative
Kidneys.— T^hQ situation of these has been incidentally
rotund nppearancc, and so
position of the viscera. The left one had such a remarkably
See Alessandrini. 14 &c. likewise Cuvier's remarks, ' LC9

I. c. fiff. 6. tab. ;
pR^ J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
gg
lumbar cavity, that at first sight I was inclined to regard it as a

filled the deep great
examination and its structure quickly dispelled. It was 1-35 inch

tumour, which further
The dimensions of the right renal organ
were somewhat under
long and ll inch thick.
and it reached a trifle further backwards, the area in advance being partially occu-
this
pied by the middle, right, and caudate lobes of the liver. The capsule of the kidney is
this case was very firmly bound to the lumbar pcritonseum, and with
strong, and in little
envelope. In a transverse section displaying the sinus &c., the infundibula

or no fatty
are seen to be few but deep.

Alessandrini affirms
+
he found traces of lobulation in the kidneys of foetal Armadilloes,
instancino- D. novemcinctus^ {Tatusia peha ?). In the numerous examples of the group
examined by myself, adolescent or adult, the surface has been smooth and without indi-
cation of lobular sulci. In aU, the shape and position is similar to the above, any differ-
ence rather depending on the configuration of the bones and fleshy bed than in the glands
themselves.
Each suprarenal body caps the rotund kidney, and thence Hes close and firmly against
the side of the spine. Its figure is trihedi*al, J an inch in diameter and flattish.
Genitalia. — In the Armadilloes the male intromittent organ is long, but in Tolypeutes
inordinately so. In the flaccid condition it is more than one-third the entire length of
the animal {vide table of measurements, antea p. 74) ; consequently, when erect, it must
exceed this. Such great antediluvian Loricate forms as the Glyptodons {Soplo;phorus,
Tanochthm, &c.) must needs, therefore, have been provided with amazing genitalia. Did
the same proportion obtain, say, in Cetacea, which also have a conical penis ; then in the
larger species this organ would attain a magnitude of between 20 and 30 feet— a thing
monstrous and absurd. Owen^ suggests of the penis of the Armadillo, that it "has a
disproportionate length in relation to the mechanical obstacles to coition presented by

the body-armour."
Tolyj)cnte8y in the construction of its generative parts, accords with the living genera
Dasijjms and Tatusia. There are a pair of Cowperian glands, in shape and size hke
small flattened French beans ; and their
ducts open in the floor at the fore part of the
bulbous portion of the urethra. The
prostate gland has a long diameter of about f of
an inch, with breadth and thickness quadran-
in proportion. Its figure is somewhat
gular, but in this case mth
the left upper border defective and eccentric. The con-
tracted small urinary bladder
was more pyriform than in the dilated oval figure of that
otDasi/pus men
by Professor Alessandrini ^ I did not observe that medio-anterior
termmation of the urachus alluded
to by Owen in i). Q-cinctus \ The urethral bulb is
moderately full and roundish,

the crura immensely strong for such a small animal. The
pair of long retractores
of the penis, the bulbo- are
and the ischio-cavernosus muscles,
^êll developed. Posteriorly the corpus spongiosum is of large
calibre, and diminishes by
acgrccs lorwurds, terminating \
thmly at the orifice of the urethra. The testes, of con-

'HQerablc size, as m
the other Armadilloes,
are lodged within the abdomen ; and there is
Antt. of
^' ^^' ^'^ '^'''' *^' ''^'^ "^^^°« «^ Chlamydo^horus to be non-lobiilate
Yoi, m. %!«
Yelbratos ô\\^'
, p. 0o8. ,
jr.
p. 1^7.
,. tab. xiii. fig. 8. VP. Z. S. 1831,
an inguinal cremasteric band connected

The superior and mferior extre-
therewith.
mities of. the epididymis (globus major and minor) are each elongate and of good size.
There are no vesiculae seminales.
2. Thoracic Tarts and Midriff.
Eeart, Lungs, and Trachea.—No speciality is exhibited in the heart.

The lungs are each three-lobed. The two anterior together are about equal in dimen-
sions to the posterior division. The middle lobe is narrow and remarkably elongate.
When the lung is inflated, it meets its fellow of the opposite side, and thus they encksp
the cardiac apex. The posterior lobe, when short—though, under other con-
contracted, is
ditions, it must necessarily be considerably lengthened, and with an inward or semispiral

twist behind, to fit the thoracic pocket beneath the fleshy ligamentum arcuatum and
lesser muscle of the diaphragm.
I counted fifteen soft flexible rings in the trachea, from the cricoid to the bronchial
fork. These do not meet behind. The tube altogether seems narrowest in the middle,
and slightly wider below. Its length is 1'3 inch: and each bronchus is less than
\ an inch
In Dasypus 9-cincfus, according to Owen \ Rapp ^ and Alessandrini ', there are but
two lobes to the left lung and three to the right, though the latter*s figures point to an
incision or semidivision of the sinistral upper lobe. The last-mentioned anatomist
demonstrates quadripartition of the right lung and a trifid left lung of 2). Q-cincfns ; but
in Owen's specimen there were three lobes on both sides. Chlamj/dophorus * agrees witli
the Peba in lung-segmentation. It has 16, the Encoubert 13, and tlie Peba from 18 to
22 tracheal rings.
—
and action of Walls of Chest. Eegarding the diaphragm, its construction
Fleshy Septa
and attachments, though answering to what in common obtains among tlic greater
number of mammals, is yet worth separate mention on account of its being functionally
accessory to the visceral displacement during flexion of the trunk. There is a large
trefoil central tendon girdled
by a fleshy plane with ordinary fastenings. The so-called
ligamentum arcuatum externum and internum run together ; and this backward exten-
sion of the greater muscle of the diaphragm is fleshy and not ligamentous. It extends
from the last rib rearwards to the diapophyses, parapophyses, and rudimentary transverse
processes of the two lumbar vertebrae behind that to which the posterior rib is partially
articulated. It is also inserted upon their bodies, and, by a narrow angular union with
the opposite moiety, leaves a small aortic opening. What corresponds to the lesser dia-
phragmatic muscle of human anatomy is thoroughly muscular in Tolypeutes and it ;
spinaUy mingles with the greater, as above described. Its left (and not the right) crus
is best developed, and proceeds beyond the oesophageal cleft, quite up to the inferior vena
cava. Indeed a few muscular fibrillse from it even appear to encircle that vessel.
It is not a little remarkable that the representative of the quadratus lumborum muscle
'
' P. Z. S. 1831,
p. 143.
S ( xaud
' ilemoir I. c. p. 308, tab. xiii. fig. 7, and tab. xn. figs. 3 & 4.
* Hyrtl, I. e. p. 45, pi. v. fig
XXX N
4
IS SI tuated entirely within the thoracic cavity. It is recognizable in weak narrow muscular
fasciculi, which lie alongside the spine and heads of the ribs, from the 8th dorsal back-
The said fleshy part terminates in five or six semiimited, flat, weak, suhequal
wards.
tendons, which are inserted on the lateral surfaces of tlie bodies and anterior zygapophyses
of the 9th, 10th, and 11th dorsals and two anterior lumbar vertebrse \ I may furtbr
remark in this place that although the rectus capitis anticus major does enter the chest,
its volume is small and insignificant as respects power- of dorso-vertebral curvature.
The series of intercostal muscles, both external (which, as usual, cease at the junction
of ribs and costal cartilages) and internal, are strong so are the levatores costarum
;
which are very manifest, and, indeed, all things considered, powerful to a degree. Some
few fibres I differentiated are analogous to the so-called subcostal muscles of Man. The
weak, and stops short of the xiphoid bone and cartila
sterni is
D s
I shall again have occasion to show that the chief axis of movement in the spine
during the act of flexion is between the second and third lumbar vertebra}. The thorax
of under ordinary circumstances, has a considerable antero-posterior or spinal
itself,
—
curvature and when the body is bent, one well nigh equal to that of the sacral region.
In this posture, moreover, the ribs are thrown widely out, particularly the five hindmost,
the costal cartilages are thrust forwards and in part override, and the ensiform sternal
segment, by relaxation of the abdominal muscles, yields and falls downwards. It further
results that the abdominal viscera are shoved forwards ;and as the lungs and heart are
necessarily confinedand pressed against by the liver and diaphragm, their bulk dimi-
nishes in proportion. The heart then tilts well to the left ; the lungs bulge out poste-
riorly, 80 that the liver well provided with stowaoê-room.
is Moreover it seems to me
that those muscular fibres of the diaphragm which surround the inferior vena cava so
compress it as to prevent the return of the blood towards the heart, the return of blood
to the heart being temporarily through the superior cava.
3. Caviti/ of Mouth, Laryngeal Apparatus, ô,

Valate and J)entition.-~~The palate is long, narrow, and elliptical in configuration,
and from anterior apex to pharyngeal
arch measures 2^ inches. Of this nearly 1 inch
behind (chiefly soft palate) is smooth and flat ; the remainder (hard palate) is ridged-its
antenor moiety being slightly
concave, the posterior moiety or mid third of the whole
pn atal surface having a
tendency to median raphe. There are and one
eleven distinct
mdehiu e ndge. The fourth, sixth,
and eighth do not arch quite across ; the remamder
do and uU have a more or
; less forward curvature.
Tins specimen presented
no difference in its dental br
formula from that enunciated
With reference
n
to tho thoracic re^'ftn
^ c,f rn i i
G^^lamychpliorus
„
of quota-
4.
^2^
tion
^^rt«hn.
Z c D <.
l^ZZ
sr
hmHali J apoDhvTtr
7
'^ T'r^''-^-^-
tmncaius, one sentence of Hyrtl's
S-« --culum,
"^ ''"^'''*-
is
in interne thoracis ambitu reperiundu.>c
^'^^°^^* ^^^^^'^^^ P^°î^« ^^'^^''' ^^^*^°^' ' P"^"

worthy
''''''' '""^'"" '^'''^'''' ^"

U.rioril>u. ftoracis
vortehns .^^^ '1^'''^^
^^^ ^''^^''' ^^^^^^^°^ ^^^^^^ ^^*^^^"' '' '''
columnam deorsum cnrvahif
hfinim .y.A^^'...: ^. » Pt. flmr.pi i^ ar^'f. nunfl Ouadratus Im-
MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 91
4
Cuvier Apar (three-banded species), viz.

^
of 1' premaxillaiy denticles being absent.
The foremost and the hindmost tooth are smaller than the intervening series, the former
in the lower jaw barely protruding beyond the gum.
%
Glands, Tongue, and Fhart/nx.~-Bj reference to the excellent plates of Wilhelm von
Eapp and Antonio
^ Alessandrini ^, showing in inferior views the peculiarities of the
salivary glands, and comparing these with the partial dissection in profile of our speci-
men (fig. 12), it is evident that their salivary apparatus closely correspond. One remark-
a small sac or salivary reservoir) has been successively and inde-
able structure (to wit,
pendently described by Winker \ Jager ^ and Owen % in the 9-banded Armadillo. The
observations of the latter on 6-cinctus, Alessandrini and myself on other genera and
species, and Hyrtl ^ on the Chlamydophorus pretty well establish the fact of this salivary
F
sacculus &c. being common to the Armadillo group. I need not, then, recapitulate dif-
fusely : suffice it to mention that enlarged submaxillary glands reach backward almost to
the sternum ; several diminutive ductlets collect the secretion into the sacculus, situate
under the mandibular angle, whence it is conveyed by a long duct to the symphysis
menti, and there penetrates the lingual membranes. The parotid is small, has an addi-
tional socia parofidis ; and there is a series of sublingual glandular crypts which, inside
each horizontal ramus, are firmly attached to the periosteal membrane.
When within the mouth, the tongue is a couple of inches long ; but it can be thrust out
very considerably more. Ordinarily, from the tip to the fra}num it measures 1 inch.
In its elongate conical shape the lingual organ is exactly like that of the otlier Arma-
dilloes; and it has the same finely villous surface, which seems almost smooth to the eye.
There are also a pair of fossulate papillae on the dorsum near the root .
The muscles composing and acting upon the tongue seem to be a modification of wliat
Owen describes in the Great Anteater^ the decussation of fibres and constituent layers
being less complicate. I could not differentiate what he denotes sternoglossi, but in
their place observed that the relatively voluminous sternohyoidci and stcruothyroidci
were closely incorporated and sprung broadly from the inner surface of the manubrium.
An imperfect division forwards is attached to the thyroid cartilage, representative there-
fore of sternothyroid. The uppermost layer goes to the hyoid bone {~ sternohyoid), is
fastened to the front and sides of the anchylosed basi- and thyrohyals. Moreover the
1 f " Op. ck. tab, vii.

Ossemena Fossiles,' 3rd ed. tome v. p. 123.
L. c. tab. xli. & tab. xvii. figs. 2, 3.
* t
Dissert, sistens observ. anat. de Tatu novem-cincto,' Tiibing. 1824, p. 10 .
* Quoted by Eapp. The original paper I have not seen.

Armadillo
of Verteb. ' Monog. p. 42, tab. v. fig. 3.
'
Further consult authorities already mentioned. Truthfully delineated by Alessand
tab. xiii., and B. 9-cinct%is, fig. 6, tab. xvi.
and hyoid arches and tongue the following
• Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. iv. p. 125. muscles of the mandibular
. /«,,o^.;T^^T•f,•fp^ fônstrictor salivaris, ceratohyoidcus, stylohyoideus,
figured
gterno-lossus, gciuogloMUB
sternothyroidei, cricothyroidei, thyrohyoidei, intercornualis, (
e hyopharyngcus,
pharyn
eus
2
'
THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO

J. MURIE ON
92
„. here, but is continued superflciaUy on to the under
,
appear to stop
r
muscle does not merges into what I take
^^.^ ^^^ ^^ definition,
tongue, ana,
surface of the
to he the mylohyoid- »* "« " ^ ^^^^^ ^^^,^^. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^_
^^^^ ,t the inferior root.

n
" ll Ve, lût together form a long, flat, narrow,
''i:: ^'^'ftSi h V
inner margin of each half of the horizontal mandiju^
tapelg'pt e ttd
to the lower
aho.e
to the hyoid, bemg contmuous as said, with the
attached
rimr and po teriorly
two long narrow bands, with symphysul and
the preceding ai-e
Z^loidei. Beneath hyoglossus muscles
pf
San attachments, to wit, the geniohyoidei.
are
Jhe
affixed
P-'
to the ceratohyals The
do not
gemo-
Zt in the middle line, and posteriorly
structurally compound Rearwards their internal
hyoglossi are very characteristic and
between the geniohyoidei andtheir exterior more
to the basihyal ;
portions are fastened
weak and narrow slip, situate ,n front of the hypo.
a
fo the epihyals. Each
styloglossus is
origin of the stylohyal proceeds forwards and jom,

Glossal nerve, and from the cranial
and opposite the dovetailing of the gemohyoglossus.
the hvo-lossus muscle outside
of stylohyoid, and a better-marked broader stylo-
A nanow weak sUp, representative
The oonstrictores and other pharyngeal musdes
pharyngeus are readUy distinguished.
I did not follow with desirable accuracy.
the fauces are well defined and from the prominence of the
The isthmus and pillars of ;
lateral glosso-epiglottic membranous folds a pair of fair-sized fossa

middle and two
are very distinct, each, however,
obtain at the rear of the tongue. The small tonsils
recess, the fore part of which they occupy. The velum pen-
being hidden in a faucial
name, as constitutes a wide-arched curtain, which m

dulum palati is worthy of the it
contracted condition reduces the pharyngeal passage to an opening jo

the usual
When looked at from the front (see sketch, fig. 19). this narrow
inch in diameter.
nporture appears split in two by the epiglottic septum, and superiorly is overhung hy a
relatively large and thick uvula.

shown displays the
A second sketch, also of natural size, which I have in jSg. 20,
In this the three
pharyngeal cavity, the soft palate being divided and thrown hack.
of depressions
fracnula, or glosso-epiglottic folds, are hrought into relief, as are a couple
between them and the epiglottis. The pharyngeal cavity is of a good size, its
tolas
hranous walls only of moderate thickness and thrown into a few lateral parallel
deepish elliptical-
hclow. On each side of the larynx is an external laryngeal fossa,
is
shaped and 0-2 inch long. Although the mucous surface is somewhat smooth, it
plentifully supplied with glands.

being well
Tlie oesophagus is some 2^ inches long, and rather wide, its fleshy coat
its
developed. Superiorly there are several longitudinal but inferiorly
narrow plicae;
inner lining extremity,
is smoother. Here and there, especially towards the pharyngeal
are
are small raised seed-shaped glands everywhere,
; but besides these, and distributed
minute orifices or glandular puncta,
Eyoid and Xarynx.—The thyro- and basihyals together,
are bony, firmly anchylosed
i^nd with an anterior Laterally
mesial carina. Each osseous moiety is 0*4 inch long.
It exhibits a widish spear-shaped emarginations-
plate, with deepish and wide basal
The middle keeled basal division has a superior articular prominence for the attachment
of the ceratohyal, and below is produced into a broadish terminally blunt (barely bifid)
apex. The depth of the hyoid at its carinal aspect is 25 inch. The ceratohyal is a
small nodule of bone, with bursal and a free fibroid connexion with the basi-, thyro-,
L
and epihyal. The latter bone is stoutish and 0*3 inch long. The stylohyal is slenderer
and fully longer, its cranial end being tipped with a short cartilage.
As respects the larynx, it is composed of very soft flexible cartilaginous material,
a restricted narrow triangular area at the pomum admni and inferior margins of the
alone
^^ showing
;
ossific deposit. The thyroid alae are inflated and rounded, with a
pronounced middle antero-inferior widish cleft. Superior and inferior cornua are short.
In front the cricothyroid membrane and space are large and transversely diamond-
shaped. The cricoid cartilage forms a complete ring, and anteriorly presents consider-
able depth. Posteriorly it has a broad and somewhat chevron-shaped outline, with a
central most unusually prominent ridge. Besides, the lateral edges are also much raised,
leaving a deep depression for the cricoarytenoid muscles. The triangular arytenoid
cartilages are flat but fau-- sized ; and from their anterior apex is a small cartilaginous
offshoot, answering either to the cartilage of Santorini or Wrisberg \ The epiglottis
is a wide and large leaflet, very soft and and apically

flexible, slightly notched I The
0*2 inch long, narrowed behind and there is an absence of
fissure of the rima glottidis is ;
pouching in the interior of the larynx.

The variation of figure &c. of the larynx in Dasypiis and Tatmia is but slight, the
depth and fulness of the thyroid and cricoid cartilages being, mayhap, relatively greater.
by the inner laryngoul

Ilyrtl {I. c. tab. vi. fig. 5), in a magnified view, shows a section
and in his text refers to the vocal cords &c., obviously not
aspect of Chlamydophorus,
unlike the same in Tolypeutes.
parts, the thyrohyoidei arc well
Among the muscles attached to the foregoing
representatives of cricothyroidci,
developed ; and there are fair and clearly differentiated
with normal attachments. Others
posterior cricoarytsnoidei, and arytseno-epiglottidei,
doubtless are present, but less appreciable from their small size.
4. Taso- Nervous Arrangements
single vena cava descendens and one ascendens.

Vessels.— I distinguished but a
The arch of the aorta, as Owen^ observes of Da^ypus {Tatusia) peba, splits mto mam
innominate, wherefrom a right
trunks precisely as in the human subject-i. e. a short
carotid and subclavian artenes
subcla.-ian and common carotid are derived, the left
issuing separately from the arch.
intemnente, clrco«tenzn
del Wrisberg mancano
Alessandrini remarks, " Le del Santorini e
'
cartilagini accessorie
Armadilli I'organo descntto i piutto.to
avvertita anche dal piu volte lodato De B^pp, asserendo in genera che negU
308)
the soft palate (P. Z. 8. 1831
through the arch of
,ain
p. 144). Under certain c(
peutes.
• P. Z. S. 1831, p. 143.
;
.
j)j^ J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
pass over the broad in a groore immediately in front of

first rib
The subclavians the
axiUary plexus of nerves. The brachial artery accompanies the median nerve through the
Gruber ' has akeady recorded in Dasi/pm
supracondyloid foramen, as Wenzel tricinctm.
line marking junction of the last lumbar and first sacral vertebra,
At the intervertebral
aorta sends off on either side an artery equivalent to the external
the abdominal ihac!
to the inside of the process of the sacro-iliac synchondrosis, and, reachmg

This passes the
pelvic basin, proceeds to the middle of the groin, becoming the femoral. In its com^seit
tiny tendons of the psoas parvus, afterwards obliquely crosses the psoas ihacus
lies upon the
and gracilis ere reaching the adductors &c. About a quarter of an inch below the
orin-m of the external iliacs, another pair of arteries, internal iliacs, spring from the stem
of the aorta abdominalis. Each of these dips behind the deep pelvic muscle, reenters the
pelvis at the sacrococcygeus gluteal and other branches were not foUowêd.
:
As I did not dissect in detail the peripheral yascular subdivisions, I am unable to say
if Tolypeutes presents the retial peculiarities offered by the six-banded Armadillo, to

which attention has been directed by Profs. Allman^ Rapp^, and others ^ My rapid
examination, however, seems to point out that its arterial distribution is of the type
prevalent amongst other loricate edentates, not excepting the curious Chlamydo-
5
pkorni
Brain,— As, regards the brain, I carefully extracted this and placed it in spirits ; but
unfortunately an accident befell the specimen ere I was prepared to figure and describe
it. This is to be regretted, as hitherto it has not been investigated. The deficiency has
to some extent been temporarily supplied by Professor Gervais ^ in a sketch of a cast of
the cerebral cavity of Toli/peutes tricincttis. He remarks, " L'Apar a les lobes olfactifs
encore plus gros, surtout plus larges et deja separes de la partie anterieure des hemi-
sphtjres par une sorte de collet ; ses hemispheres sont allonges, a plis egalement rares
son ccrvclct est plus large et moins long."
Judging from Gervais's illustrations, it presents in contour closest agreement with
FHphradits (Dasi/pns) sexcinctus, somewhat less with E. villosus (=I>. vellerosus, Gray),
and still less with Priodontes gigas. The accuracy of
Gervais's figure and his remarks
arc substantiated in my outline of the interior basis cranii, Plate 26, where, moreover, the
large maxillary and frontal sinuses have been opened up.
Figures of the brain of Basijpus peba,
given by Eapp '
and Alessandrini \ and of
Daeypm by Turner \ seem to confirm the above statement.
sexcinctus
The iV(?rFe8.—Eamifications of
these were traced in a fugitive manner. There is a
relatively voluminous bundle of infra-orbital
nerves, important in connexion with the
naso-bl)ial parts. Many of the twigs He between and underneath the upper and lower
icvatores muscles. The facial nerve is likewise large, and, emerging from the upper part
M^ dJAead. d Sci. d, St. Petersb.
1867, tom^ ' » 92.
; Txans. Brit Assoc. 1843, p. 68. Oi>. .V. p.
Gefusssystem dor Edentaten,"
Hyrtl, Denksch. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, 1849. Mnne-Edwards,
PhvsioUtllr^
literature NviU
•
bo
Hyrtl, mouog. on
W ""''
^' ^^^' ^^^^' ^'''^'' ^ discussion on retia
Chhmydophorm cited.
generaUy, copious references to the
•'
L» formes cercbrales des fidcntcs » "N-,M,„
^''^'''' ^^ ^^'^^^' 1869, pL
'
Of fit tab. viii fi«
8'
3 . ;
Memoir I
!""• ton., v. p. 41, ii. fig. 8.
•
• c. tab. xvii. fig. 9. • p- 31-
Journ. of Anat. 1867, vol. i.
.
of the parotid gland, crosses the masseter about its middle. The hypoglossal nerve goes
in front of the stylohyoid muscle, and enters the root of the tongue, where the hyo-
glossus and geniohyoglossus muscles meet. The lingual nerve pursues its course iu
advance of the hypoglossal. F
Notwithstanding abbreviation and thorough anchylosis of some of the neck-vertebra,

the ordinary number of the cervical nerves obtains. The 1st nerve appears to issue from
the foramen on the outside of the atlas, and to be distributed to the muscular tissues
hard by. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th nerves are united separately from as many foramina in
the coalesced trivertebral axial division. The fourth nerve is much thicker than the two
preceding ; and the three together constitute the cervical plexus, the first being apart, as
in Chlamydophorus truncatus.
The brachial plexus is formed by the 5th to 8th nerves inclusive, and a com-
municating branch from the fourth. The long thoracic is only partially derived from
the fifth. The median and the ulnar nerves are each a thick cord and the latter passes ;
through the internal condyloid foramen. At the sole of the foot the radial nerve is
large, intimately adherent, and partially distributed to the palmar fascia as well as
muscles. The increase of neurotic power concomitant with thickness of cord doubtless
contributes to and has considerable influence on the tension of the ^reat nail-borne foot.
Of the lumbar and sacral plexus, I noted that the crural or femoral trunk cnmc chiefly
from the foramina between the second and third lumbar vertebra?, entirely posterior,
therefore to the quadratus lumborum muscle, but anterior to the ilium, and outside the
peculiar long lumbo-iliac (psoas) ligament. The femoral nerve lies on the surface of the
ilio-psoas muscle, and, in company with but exteriorly to the femoral artery, proceeds to
the groin. What answers to the obturator nerve is made up of branches from the 3rd and
4th lumbar nerves. It lies to the inside of the psoas parvus and close to the synchon-
drosis, passes just inside the pelvic brim, and escapes posteriorly through the obturator
foramen
The most notable of the nerves composing the sacral plexus are those constituting the
ischiatic— the remaining posterior branches being diminutive, covered by and supplying
the infracaudal muscles. The pair of largest cords contributing to the great sciatic
emerge from the foramina just within the pelvic basin.
YI. MroLOGY.
In comparing the muscular structure of the present form with others of the Armadillo
tribe, I shall have occasion more especially to cite the annexed authorities, with recourse
illustration of points at
and affain ^jyj writings
^«,i^ to ,»xj.l,^^j- on allied Edentata &c. in
« Tatou ft six bandes
1. Eecuen de Planches de Myologie,' Cuvier et
' Laurillard,
pis. 259, 260.

1865. Abstract Med. Times and Gaz. ITis MS.
2. Hunterian Lectures bv Huxley,
« '
of Lects. 8 & 9, however, containing notes of dissection of Basypus Q-cinctus, he has
kindly placed at my disposal.

3. « Limb B. 6-cmclusr Galtoii, Trans. Lmn. Soc.
The Muscles of the Pore and Hind in
vol. xxvi.
ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
DR. J. MURIE
96
of several Armadilloes, in Macalister's paper
muscular anat.
4 References to
Nat. Hist. vol. iv. 1869.
A n and Mag
gym
Denksch. d. k. Aiad. d. Wissensch. m ^ leu. 185o, vol. ,x. pis. i. to v.

nuro coml,"
1. Muscles of the Hind Quarters.
musculo-aponeurotic strip of the tensor vaginae femoris answers

In Tolvpentes the
description given of it by Mr. Galton in msypus, save the sixth
tolerahly weU to the clear
in drawing the femur forwards, upwards, and sHghtly inwards,
dorsal hand It assists
points heing the anterior iUac spine and front of third trochanter. In
the main fixed
it is partially hidden by the gluteus maximus.
the attitude of walking
fibres of the gluteus maximus are thin, the strongest being
situate
The muscular
posteriorly, whilst the interspace between great and third trochanter
superiorly and
transparent fascia. By tendinous fasciculi it stretches from the anterior
comprises only
of iUum along the dorsum of the sacrum to where the pelvic shield
crest or spine
{i. e. the osseous arch), and with an attachment to that bone Its
the ischial tuberosity
upon the third trochanter encloses that process as a semilune.
tendinous sheet of insertion
unites with that of the tensor vaginae femoris, the aponeurosis of the
The anterior fascia
two passing on to the surface of the vastus externus as low even as the outer condyles and
the patella, whUe the posterior part of its tendinous fascia runs well into the anterior edge
of the biceps femoris muscle.
Its actions are chiefly an anterior and posterior movement, together with a semi-
rotatory motion and abduction of the limb from the side of the body.
Similar to the above in other Armadilloes—though, in the Pichiciago, Hyrtl '
speaks of
as if composed of three, portions.
The gluteus medius and minimus are inseparably united, and of a somewhat rhom-
boidal form. They have origin from the superior scooped surface of the prismatic-shaped
ilium, and are inserted into the whole of the upper border of the great trochanter. They
edge
together arc much stronger and fleshy than the gluteus maximus ; and the anterior
and upper surface of theu* origin is tendinous superficially. From the direction of their
fibres a power of drawing the head of the limb forwards and inwards is indicated.
Galton ' seems to thmk the gluteus minimus is absent in the 6-banded species, though
other writers » aver confluence with the gluteus medius.
Beneath the precedmg, as in Dasypus, there is a narrower elongate triangular muscle,

which, I agree with Galton, represents side of the
a pyriformis. It springs from the
sacrum, at the large ovoid ilio-sacral and trending
space (= great sciatic foramen),
rearwards is inserted by a stout of the great
tendon into the posterior upper border
trochanter. The thick cord of the
sciatic nerve runs beneath it.
Behmd the last a pair of feeble the surface
gemeUi obtain. The anterior comes from
L. c. omnem
p. 39. "Portio tertia, omnium maxima, non per
^ solium «^ <1,Vf„^ +r..-hc.T,f.raTn teminatiir, sed
•|?»n«, ab hoc trochantere
ad
• I. e. p, 650
yrt
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO, ©7
bone immediately behind the sacro-sciatic space the posterior is implanted rather
of the ;
on a small nodosity of the ischium above the obturator foramen. Neither reaches
npwards to the sacrum; and both pretty well conjoined are inserted by a short tendon
behind the trochanteric fossa.
Close to, but further back than, the gemelli is a longish goodly-sized quadratus femoris.
This springs from the vertical plate of the ischium in front of its tuberosity, and descends
to the third trochanter. The sciatic nerve goes beneath it, but superficial to the gemelli,
thus dipping between the two.
I distinguish, under the temporary name of ischio-femoral, a long, narrow, fleshy band
on the same plane as the quadratus femoris, but its origin placed considerably behind it
and converging below. It lies and crosses obliquely the surface of the biceps femoris,
springs from the ischial tuberosity and partly, by extension of fascial tendon, from the
arch of the pelvic shield. Inferiorly it is inserted on the third trochanter behind and
somewhat lower than the quadratus femoris.
None of the authors quoted mentions this extra muscle, unless it be included in their
bicipital divisions. I apprehend avine and reptilian characters in it, inasmuch as in some
birds there is a somewhat similarly situate muscular strip, which passes from the side of
the tail to the middle of the feniur. In the kingfishers I name this " caudo-fcmoral."
Mr. Mivart^ describes and figures in the Iguana tnherculaia an accessory muscle,
designated and another as femoro-caudal. The latter nearly corrcspondR
ilio -peroneal,
with that of Tolypeutes, though agreeing more with my caudo-fcmoral in the bird.
As regards the gemelli and quadratus femoris in Dasypm and Chalmi/dopJiu/uHf these in
the main coincide with the condition extant in the three-banded Armadillo.
According to my reading, the biceps femoris in Tolypeutes has but a single head of
origin, viz. from the tuberosity of the ischium and the side of the bone in advance
of that process. The anterior moiety of origin is strongly tendinous. The fleshy tibr^'s
forming the belly of the muscle broaden out as they descend ; and some proceed nearly to
the middle of the fibula. The insertion, however, is an extensive aponeurotic fnscia,
which, partly wrapping round the limb behind, stretches from above the outer femoral
condyle down to patella, head of tibia, and the fibula as far as the malleolus and even the
OS calcis, being attached to the latter by rather a strong tendon.

Cuvier's drawing, fig. 2, q^ denotes greater fulness of this muscle, but no counter-
indication of duality— in this, therefore, agreeing with Huxley's observation and sin-
gleness of its origin in the same species, D. 6-cmctus. Galton (Z. c. p. 554), however, look*
upon it as made up of two distinct factors. His anterior division is in some respects
suggestive of my ischio-femoral slip ; but it includes considerably more, as its main part
terminates by fascia heelwards. His second, postero-superior division, with origin from
ischial tuberosity, he mentions has connexion above with the gluteus maximus, and below
with the gastrocnemius. Chlamydophorus has a biceps essentially, as I have above de-
next pair of muscles along with it en masse.

scribed, Hyrtl (/. c. p. 40) even grouping the
The very long semitendinosus springs chiefly by thin fascia from the postero-out^rr
surface of the ischium, close to the lower roughening of tlie arch ;
and its insertion is about
»
P. Z. S. 1807, pp. 789-794, figs. 15, 16, 17, 18.
VOL, XXX.
MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO
98 DR. J.
edge of the tibial shaft, by a broad, thin, but nevertheless strong

middle of the inner
the
the semimembranosus, and gracilis. The semimembranosus
anoneurosis common to it,
thin at its ischial origin, which is before and beneath that of the
is broader but equaUy
behind those of the adductor magnus and quadratus femoris. Its
semitendinosus, but
thicken towards the insertion, which is by a very strong round tendon
fibres narrow and
of the neck of the tibia. This tendon is hidden by the fibrous sheath
upon the inner side '
of insertion of the gracilis muscle.

_
semimembranosus, act m producing
^ :, .
semitendinosus and flexion of

These two muscles,
along with the biceps, also cause a withdrawal of the leg into the
the lower leg ; and they,
by the direction of their forces being altered through the partially
abdominal chlmher,
the latter muscle at the popUteal space.
fixed aponeurosis of
from the junction of the ischium with the pubis, also along the
gracilis arises
The
whole length of the pubic brim of the pelvis. It is broad
symphysis and nearly the
below, its aponeurotic insertion into the tibia is extensive,
above,with thin fleshy fibres ;
mmgling, as aforesaid, with that of the semitendinosus.
the ' Recueil,' and Galton*s description, show
The letters r,8,uin the illustrations in
absolute identity of the three last-mentioned muscles in Dasypus.

The rectus femoris is tolerably well developed. It £as a very strong tendon of origin
from the superior [inferior] spinous process of the ilium ; and there is a second head, faintly
indicated by a diminutive slip of fleshy fibres, situate towards the acetabulum. Its
patellar insertion is separate, and in front of those of the vasti muscles. Of the vastus
extemus and internus, the former is much the larger and stronger. Its muscular fibres
fill the mtcrspace between the base of the great and the anterior free edge of the third
trochanter. The fleshy fasciculi of the vastus internus interweave with those of the vastus
extemus m front. Crureus absent, or is not to be differentiated from the vasti. In
D. Q-cinciu8f according to Galton, the rectus division of the quadriceps extensor has but
a single point of origin, the vasti agree with those of Tolypeutes, and there is no distinct
crureus, as is the case in Chlamydophorus.
Hyrtl, in his myology of the last-mentioned animal, the * Pichiciago *
of the Chilian
Indians, alludes to the sartorius muscle in these terms :— " Sartorius insoHta plane
cxcolUt origine, dum non ab ossis ilei spina, sed a tendine psoico enascitur. Proceram et
macilcntam cum adductorum et ad

sistit fasciolam, quae insertione femorali decussatur,
intomam articulationis genu regionem delabitur, ubi cum adductorum tendine robusto,
ad tihiara pcrgente, coalescit " {L c. ' Planches de

p. 39). The editors of the posthumous
Myologie ' have, in the right groin of the animal, a muscle
figured in pi. 260 and lettered
*W, couturier, ileo-pretibien",(= about the
sartorius), which appears to come from
middle^ of Poupart's Hgament, In
descending towards the inner aspect of the knee.
Galtou's dissection of the same is
species of Dasypm, a description of a delicate sartorius
^cn (;. c. This arises from the outer edge
r. 553). diagonally
of the psoas parvus tendon,
traverses the thigh to the
fascia on the inner face of the knee and leg. He regards its
acboa as equivalent to a kind

of « tensor fascia femoris internus," the origin being
^quc. Notice is taken by him of the editors
diversity of opinion between Meckel and the
'
Anat. Coron. vnl tA r^ ^qq /t? x. ^j \

\
'

99
of Ouvier^s 'Legons'S of the abnormal position of the sartorius in the M (Bmdt/pus),

which Macalister ' afterwards decides in favour of the great German anatomist.
In
Tol^pentes, a small abnormally attached sartorius, I believe, does exist, although
in my
notes of the dissection I appear partially to have confounded it with the tensor
vaginse
femoris.
however, a very apparent though small pectineus, spoTven of by
There is,
.
Hyrtl in the
Chlamy dophorus and Galton in the 6-banded Armadillo—in this case springing from the
pubic rod in front of the ilio-pectineal eminence, and passing towards the root of the inner
trochanter.
Adductores.— Instead of there being only a single adductor muscle, as interpreted by
Galton in Basypm e-cinctm and depicted by Cuvier and himself, I find there are at least
three, if not a fourth division, in Tolypeutes and a many-headed adductor obtains in
;
Chlamydophorus, That which I take to be an adductor magnus, as in Man, converges

in two planes, and is relatively large and strong. It has origin from the whole of the
front of the upward (horizontal) and descending pubic rami, and from the ischial surface
around the posterior border of the obturator foramen. By its insertion, the posterior
and somewhat flattened superficies of the femoral from third trochanter to botli
shaft,
outer and inner condyles, is occupied. The muscle answering to adductor longus is
smaller than the preceding. It springs in close relation witli it above and on the upper
(outer) end of the horizontal ramus of the pubis, and inferiorly it is fixed to the posterior
surface of the lesser (tibial) trochanter. The adductor brevis at the pelvis comes from
the outside of adductor longus, and it goes to the inner edge of the femoral shaft below
the tibial trochanter as far as midway between it and i\\Q inner condyle. There i^,
moreover, an additional slip of fleshy fibres lying beneath the two last-mentioned muscles.
This has an origin betwixt them, and is inserted upon the sharp inner edge of the lesser
trochanter.
I defer notice of the obturatores until mentioning the inner pelvic and subcaudal
muscles.
The tibialis anticus has a broad origin from the whole of the outer surface of the tibia
(excepting just above the malleolus), also from the interosseous membrane. Its tendon
is inserted upon the entocuneiform, but not to the metatarsal. In D. sexcinctua Galton
mentions it as likewise possessing a considerable fibular origin ; but he, Huxley *, and
Macalister ^ agree as to a single inferior tendon ; so does Hyrtl ^ in the Chlamydophormt
" ossi naviculari insertum."
An extensor longus hallucis is wanting. It is present', though small, in the last-men-
tioned animal and in the six-banded Armadillo. In the first an external malleolar,
and in the second a fibular origin is assigned it.
* (2nd ed.) voL i. p. 519.

« Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1869, vol. iv. p. 04.
' Paper quoted p. 558. *

MS. Ilunterian Lectures, 1865.
• Ann. k Mag. N. H. 18G9, vol. iv. p. 65. * L. c. p. 40.
Recorded by Huxley and Galton termed extensor proprius hallucis by the latter (7. c. p.'502); apparently th-'
'
;
wane lettered ii\ fig. 2, pi. 259, ' Planches de Myologie '=slong extenseur du pouce (peronee-aus-onguier) ; it is the
est hal. proprius of Hyrtl and Macalister.
o2
100 DR. J.
longus digitorum is equal in bulk to Its tlie tibialis

origin antieus.
The extensor is
heads of the tibia and fibula, and from the anterior edge of the
from between the shaft
_. !„++.. r.nnp for half its length

len-th. The muscular belly divides into three nearW
.!.,•„
of this latter bone nearly
above the maUeolus, whereof the outermost of these divisions bifur

qual-sized tendons
sHps to the foui'th and fifth digits, the fourth being the longest of the
cates and sends
tendon goes singly and broadly to the fourth digit. The innermost
two. The middle
divides in the middle of the dorsum, and sends two broad and flat slips to the
tendon
second and third digits.
the m
Encoubert, according to Iluxley \ divides but into a pair of main
This muscle
fibular division as above, the tibial splitting and supplying 2nd, 3rd, and
tendons, the
toes In Galton's^ dissection a treble division existed. The middle tendon
joined by the outer slips of the extensor brevis, then parted into two, terminating in 4th
and 3rd digits ; the inner tibial tendon was joined by the median short extensor muscle, I
subdivided into two, but ended with tripartite tendon on the back of the 3rd and 2nd toes. \
Moreover there was a fibrous junction of the latter with the tendon of the extensor
proprius haUucis. Divided into four tendons, going to as many outer digits in the
^^ F
ChlamydopJiorus.
The extensor brevis digitorum is composed of a few fleshy fibres, which come fi:oni
the outer malleolus, the external lateral ligament, and the anterior upper edge of the os
calcis. The fibres divide into two separate slips, ending in thin tendons, which join
beneath those of the long extensor, going to the 2nd and 4th digits. Trom the slip
joining the 2nd digit a very minute secondary slip of muscle, ending in a still finer
tendon, could be traced coming from it,was lost in the long tendon of the
and, mingling,
3rd digit. I observed a small sesamoid bone in the latter tendon at the joint. Huxley's
and Galton's observations and Cuvier*s illustration (fig. 2 1) of D. 6-cinctus nearly coin.
cide, the fleshy e. b. d. being somewhat trifid, and joining the tendons of the long ex-
tensor as above mentioned. Hyrtl alludes to quadruple tendons in C. trtmcatm and the
Dasypodes.
Peronei.— Comparatively weak in muscular fibre ; the p. lon^s has origin from the
fibula, the anterior surface of its head and upper fourth of the shaft of the fibula. Its
tendon commences at the middle of the leg,

glides under the outer malleolus, and pro-
ceeds deeply across the foot to the
proximal ends of the 2nd and 1st metatarsals \ The
p. brevis is much larger than the preceding both in belly and tendon. It springs from
the upper half of the outer
and slightly backward aspect of the fibula, the strong external
ligament separating it and the
peroneus longus above. It has superficial tendinous
hbres in nearly the whole
of its belly but the real tendon commences about the upper
;
end of the lower thhd of

the fibula, passes in company the longus
with the tendon of p.
m the groove below the outer malleolus, distal
and is inserted into the outer side of the
tna ot Uie fourth metacarpal
bone. Besides the foregoing, I mani-
made out bv careful
>
' L. c. p. 560, pi. 44. fig. 5.

* Qdton makes mention of
ar origin in 2). Q-dnctus, of tbe
and foUows in detail the relations
pJwtar tendon finally ending
DR. J.. MURTE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 101
pulation the presence of a peroneus tertius and p. qninti digiti. They are very delicate,
but nevertheless clearly appreciable. They arise by sparse muscular fibres from the outer
posterior surface of the external lateral ligament of the knee-joint, appearing continuous
with the p. brevis. Their fine tendons continue downwards along with that of the
p. brevis, and, after passing the outer malleolus, continue along the outside of the foot.
Ap. longus, p. brevis, and p. quinti digiti have been alluded to in the Armadillo by
Huxley and Macalister. Galton (p. 559) more specifically describes a p. longus and
pp. brevis and tertius in the D. sexcinctus. The two latter are united above, have
r
femoral, patellar, and fibular attachments : the tendon, which terminates under the
5th metatarsal, he ascribes to p. brevis ; the other, which is inserted outside the proximal
phalanx of the same digit, he regards as that of p. tertius. Hyrtl assigns a p. longus
and p. brevis to Chlamy dopJiorus {I. c. p. 42).
. There are two heads, as usual, to the gastrocnemius and its insertion below is the os
;
calcis. This muscle is of considerable size, and offers no variation in other Armadillocs,
though, by including the soleus, Macalister makes it appear as three-headed {I. c. p. 65).
t
The plantaris along with, but beneath, the external head of origin of the
arises
gastrocnemius. It has a strong muscular belly, but is so incorporated with the gas-
»
.trocnemius as to be with difficulty separated until, becoming tendinous, about halfway

down the leg. Its tendon, a long round one, passes to the inner side, and is inserted
into the os calcis, the plantar fascia not being a continuation of it as in Dasijpus sex-
cinctus. The largest of the three muscles of the calf is the soleus. It is llcshy for the
whole length of the fibula and head, some of its fibres, the deepest, reaching the os
calcis and; these are tendinous superficially. The soleus is in apposition deeply with
the combined flexors (f. com. and f. long, hallucis), which lie to its inner side. It is similar
in the 6-banded Armadillo ; and Hyrtl notes in C, trimcatus four plantar fascicular
fasciae proceeding to the sole of the foot, aiding the long digital flexorcs (/. c. 41).
In Tolypeutes the superficial plantar fascia is strong, and has attachment to the os
calcis and inner malleolus. It entirely covers the sole, being firmly adherent to the
plantar sesamoid bone and vessels, as also the tendons of the deep flexors. It sends
sHps more or less to all the digits ; the second and third only are perforated. In i). 6-
cinctus the plantar fascia, a continuation of the plantaris muscle, has a trifid division on
3rd dibits being acted on by its tubular prolongations.

the sole, the hallux and 2nd and
In relation to the other muscles of the calf of the leg, the pophteus is large. At the
usual origin on the outer femoral condyle there is a small sesamoid bone, The
continued nearly halfway down
of the popliteus is the inner posterior aspect of the tibia.
Although Mr. Galton speaks of a double head to this muscle in the 6-banded Armadillo,
as does Hyrtl, dophor us, neither makes allusion to its containing a sesamoid
in Chlamy ;
and Macalister distinctly avers there is none in Dasypus,

Flexor longus hallucis and flexor communis digitorum are conjoined. Their fleshy
helly, of moderate bulk, occupies the whole of the posterior surface of the interosseous
membrane, and about the middle fourth of the shaft of the tibia. Together the muscles
form a strong tendon, a above the malleolus. This lies in the deep groove of the
little
:

DR J. MURIE
102
continues on to the sole, broadening out as it is transformed
lower Dart of the tibia, and
ossicle. The ossicle is 0-25 inch long, nearly flat, or but very
into a thick solid
sesamoid
surface, but wedge-shaped deeply, and with a bursa between
sU^htly rounded on the it
Prom the distal end of the plantar bone five tendons, placed
and the tarsal bones.
they go to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th digits respectively.
semicircularly, arise ;
which is a small one, they are very broad and strong, and each has
Excepting the fifth,
previous to insertion.
small sesamoidei
extensive fibular origin,, this long compound flexor has essen-
With the exception of an
tiaUy a simUar arrangement, in Dasypus 6-cmctus (Huxley, MS. notes, and Galton
mem. cited, p. 41) takes cognizance of the plantar ossicle and
p. 557). Hyrtl (in
flexors in D. setosus (=the 6-banded species), in !>. novem-
nexion with long digital
cinctus {=Tatmia peba), and in D. gijmnurus (^Xenurus unicinctus), remarking of
ChlamT/dophoms that it possesses a trihedral cartilaginous nodule in place of the hone,
the distal tendons, however, being five in number.

In the hind foot of this specimen of Tolypeutes conuriis there were three lumhricales
the first from the superficial and ulnar side of the second tendon of the flexor longus,
and which is same digit

inserted into the fibular side of the the second lumbricalis ;
springs from between the second and tliird tendons, and is inserted upon the ulnar side.
of the thkd digit the third lumbrical belly arose from between the third and fonrtli
;
flexor tendons, and it ended upon the fibular side of the third digit.
In his account of the anatomy of the six-banded Armadillo, Prof. Huxley* stated he
met with six lumhricales in the left foot :

— one to the fibular side of the hallux ; one to the
tibial side of the second toe, and another to its fibular side ; one to the tibial side of the
third digit ; one to the tibial side of the fourth toe ; and, lastly, one to the tibial side of
the fifth toe. In the right foot of the same animal there were seven lumhricales in all,
the additional one going to the fibular side of the fourth toe.
r
Mr. Galton^ recounts
having found seven lumhricales, with an arrangement corresponding to the right foot in
Iluxlcy's specimen. Cuvier's drawing, pi. 260, does not justify conclusions therefrom;
and Hyrtl, while admitting plantar lumhricales in the curious Chilian Pichiciago, leaves
their number and insertions untold.
The tibialis posticus has origui by a somewhat laterally compressed aponeurotic tendon
from the head of the fibula, and by fleshy of the tibia
fibres from the back of the shaft
to thn inner side and below the popliteus, as far as the upper end of the lower fom'th of
the shaft. Its tendon, rather a strong behind the

one, glides in a separate groove
inner maUeolus, passes beneath the in-
the internal lateral ligament, and is inserted into
ternal cuneiform bone. The small extra This
tibialis posticus of Owen is also present.
arises perfectly separate
from the last, viz. from the inner malleolus, as a slight muscular
'^ "" ^'^'^'"^ '''*'' *^^ ^^^'^ ^'^^ proximal end of tbe
^^""^ ^^ *^^
Wi^T If
P'''^'^'' ""^
^""^^^ **'*^' P^^t^'^'^ ^"loiiS tlie rather to be

t J''?^"?/ '^
DasypodidK would seem
rule than the exception. met
Owen', as above Unted, distinctly notes its having been
'
MS. note, of Extern, lecture., I860. «
U. ' 138.
p. 663. P. Z. S. 832,
1 p.
I
MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO, 103
with by Mm in B. G-cinctus was alluded to by Huxley^ as a differentiated muscle going

; it
to the sesamoid. Galton^ in the same species of Armadillo, very clearly describes the
relations, course, and insertions of the compound tibialis posticus, and observes, " May
not the latter of the two muscles described above be regarded as a " tibialis posticus se-
w
cunclus vel internus ?" He also takes notice of the fact that in Cuvier*s * Myologie ' ^
the
last differentiated slip is lettered as tibialis posticus and its companion as flexor longus pos-
ticus. A second tibialis posticus obtains in Chlami/dophorus^, the two-toed Sloth ^, the
OrmtJiorhynchus ®, several other vertebrates, and occasionally, as an abnormality, in Man'.
2. Inner Lumho-pelvic, Caudal^ and Belly-muscles,
In an earlier section, antea p. 90, I have drawn attention to the small quadratus lum-
borum as being quite within the cavity of the chest, a trace of its tendons only emerging
beyond the diaphragmatic crura. Psoas muscles, again, are so aborted as to leave the
lumbar region meagrely clothed, indeed almost fleshless, a perfect contrast therefore
to what obtains in some of the Marsupialia, Camivora, and Eodentia. This one might
not be prepared to find ; for from the remarkable facility with which Tolypeutes curves
the body and again unrolls the supposition that
it, the loin-muscles would take an active
share therein seems plausible. But, on the other hand, our animal and the Armadilloes
generally have but feeble saltatory power and habit^; and, as has been shown in the throe-
muscle expanded within the carapace scorns to

banded species at least, the great digastric
supplant lumbar contractUe effort. But, looking to adaptation of parts, the absence of fleshy
for greater spiwie results,

masses within the loins serves well the economy of Tolypeutcs ;
during the curvature of the body.

conducing to the neat packing of the abdominal viscera
Psoas ligament.—I apply this term to a weU-marked and unusual ligament, in some
measure almost taking the place of psoas muscles. Somewhat like a backward con-
simulating a rearward extension
tinuation of the quadratus lumborum, or, indeed, rather
on each side of the bodies
of the crural tendons of the diaphragm, there is beneath and
proceeds towards the pelvic brim.
of the posterior loin-vertebrse a stout tendon which
fastened to a ventral carinal process of the second
Anteriorly this springs from or is firmly
slightly outward divergent course, is continued
lumbar vertebra, and therefrom, with a
the anterior inferior spmous process of
to and inserted on a small eminence answering to
ligament is about 1^ inch long, narrow, flat,

the ilium in human anatomy. The psoas
partly covers and mingles with the super-
and glistening, and at termination
its pelvic
It appears to have an important
ficial facial structures of the sacro-iliac synchondrosis.
movement at the loms turns on a pivot
bearing in spinal flexion, forasmuch as the hinge of
and third lumbar vertebrae. Thus its
at the intervertebral cartHage between the second
partiaUy regulating the curvilinear
office may be compared to a guy-rope steadying and
tension of the pelvic parts to the spine in advance
' I*!- 260.
Hunterian L. c. p. 558.
HjTtl's Monograpli
Galton « On of Cychthurus didactt/lus," Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist
tte Myology
Orniihorhtfncl! jyarnâxi
424. and his memoir
'
See Wood's Remark, Proc. Boy

P. Z. S. 1S32, p. 135.
Witneas Prof. Owen's remarks on the movements of the Uvlng Armadillo.
;
MURIE ARMADILLO
104
denominated psoas ligament, may be critically considered by others

What has heen the
muscle. It certainly is altogether devoid of fleshy
homolo-ue of a psoas parvus fibre
an additional factor suggestive of the latter. This, for contrast,

and moreover/there is
psoas parvus. It is a tiny slip posteriorly inside the

then I shall regard as so-caUed
composed of slender fleshy fasciculi coming from the sides of the third
hgament, and and
vertebrae, and inserted by a delicate tendon on the inner aspect of the
fourth lumbar
ilium, just below the last.
muscle answering to the ilio-psoas of Galton and psoadiliacus of Macahster

The is
clearly of a compound character in Tolypeutes. That moiety which best answers to a
psoas magnus covers the ventral surface of the ilium by a layer of flesh, and is inserted
by a strong tendon on the upper point of the lesser femoral trochanter. The narrower
outer segment, or iliacus, springs more from the edge of the bone, and descending along-
side the first, in close proximity to it and the rectus femoris, is muscularly fastened in
front of the lesser trochanter below the femoral neck.

An obturator internus is said to be wanting in Dasi/pm^ and Chlamy doplioms^ ; but in
Tolypeutes a thin fleshy sheet covering the interior surface of the ischium around the
obturator is evidently the muscle in question, in spite of the difficulty raised, viz. ossifica-
tion and obliteration of the lesser sciatic notch. There obtains likewise a well-developed
obturator extcrnus agreeing pretty well with that of Dasypus (Galton), and not so
bound up with the gemelli &c. as in Chlamydophorus (Hyrtl).

T have already made my remarks on the pyriformis, and here, along with the obturators,
specify an anomalous sacro-pelvic muscle. It may be (and this is not improbable) a
deep layer or division of the pyriformis. In this case it is so distinctive that I class
it separately among the inner pelvic muscles, and append the cognomen of oblique sacral
to it, the rather to mark its presence than denote its importance. Its origin is from the
pelvic surface of the narrower portion of the sacrum, and in a broad fleshy layer fills up
the great sacrosciatic space. Its posterior border impinges upon upon the infracaudal,
the sacrococcygeus, and the obturator internus. The sacrosciatic nerve escapes at its
fore border and lies on its dorsal surface, separating it therefore from that previously
described as a pyriformis. Its fibres and those of the latter do not coincide in direction,
but pass at an acute angle to each other.
This oblique sacral certainly does not belong
to the category of the ordinary caudal
muscles, neither does it answer to the obturator tertius met with by Mivart and myself
in Hyrax capenms\ Without being absolutely identical, it best harmonizes with the
tJIki lygeus of human anatomy, and partially with the same muscle in the Hyrax.
Depressores caudse.-Of these, three
pairs are easily made out, their fleshy bellies being
fuUy developed though flat. That
to which the name infracoccygeus or infracaudal is
plicablc ^^^^^^ ^^® «f the sacrum posterior

to its narrowing at the
space; the middle sacral artery
runs between the muscles of opposite sides. The muscle
docs not become tendinous
until reaching the proceeds within
chevron bones, thence
the mail-clad tail for
about half its length
Tnuw. Linn. Soc vol . xxvi. p. 551 and Ann
Hyrtl, I c. p. 39.
346, figs. 9, 10.
:
Tne sacrococcygeus, lying outside, has a broader origin, which does not extend so far
forwards as the last. Its caudal tendons, one to each vertebral element, are most delicate
-
towards the end of the tail, yet tough and the reyerse of weak.
The third, a short fleshy muscle, is covered almost entu'ely by the sacrococcygeus. It
answers partly to the ischiococcygeus of some mammals and birds. Of a widish trian-
gular shape, apex behind, it is spread out on the ischium inwards from below the neigh-
bourhood of the tuberosity to the outer margin of the infracoccygeus. Posteriorly it is
r
fixed to the lower surface of the incurved arch of the pelvic shield, viz. on the rear angle
r
of the hind-leg chamber of the carapace.

Whilst the first-mentioned pairs of muscles "flex the tail itself, the third pair act on the
pelvic shield, forcibly dragging it down and at the same instant forwards as the animal
rolls the body together.

Levatores caudse. —These are also three ia number on each side. The levator cauda*
externus and internus commence by aponeurotic fascia which lies close against the
spinous edge of the sacrum, in proximity to the end of the spinalis dorsi &c. and there not
readily separable. As the transverse processes of the sacrum broaden, fleshy fibre in-
creases ; and this again diminishes and separation of the caudal tendons follows, opposite;
the arch of the pelvic shield. The usual distribution of tail-tendons takes place within
the bony tunnel (vide fig. 12, Tab. XXIV).

'
The lumbo-caudalis^ a small muscle lying outside the preceding, is narrower and
weaker than the ischiococcygeus. It springs from above and inside the ischial tubcr-
6sity, terminating by a partially compound tendon on the side of the root of the tnil,
opposite the posterior apex of the arch of the pelvic shield.
The external oblique muscle of the abdomen arises

' by ordinary digitations from cighf
or nine of the posterior ribs, the digitations however being short. It has also attach men <
to the whole of the last rib, the lumbar fascia, transverse processes of the loin-vertebrae,
remarks on the internal oblique,

and anterior spine of the ilium. I omitted registering
but noted that the rectus abdominis narrowed anteriorly, and reached, but barely pro-
however, is very considerably

ceeded beyond, the xiphoid cartilage. Poupart's ligament,
abdominal parictes in the fli^xtxl
accentuated, and conspicuously defines the rear of the
the hollow just within, and seem to pcvr
condition of the hind limbs. The testes fit into
out at the abdominal ring.
3. Cranio-facial Muscles
the following scries

Belonging to the face I took note of
long levators or retractors extending bct^-.'n,
1. The uppermost of a pair (or three ?)
of the maxillary bone by a Hat floshy

orbit and snout, springs from the oAital surface
straight forwards to the root of the
belly. This develops a large tendon which proceeds
upper narial cartilage. . ,
partiaUy overlaps tbo pr. -
although situate inferiorly,
2. The next, similar in character,
an infraorbital and jugal attachment. At
ceding at its w.^^^ It has somewhat more of
two, the tendons of which continue
the side of the superior maxilla it splits into
Trans. ZooL Soc
remarks on this muscle in the iTanatec <tc.,
p
XXX
MURIE ARMADILLO
106 DR. J.
being fixed to the lateral cartilage of the nostril the other

direction forwards, one ;
mrallel
downwards and terminates on the lowest lateral cartilag
more deHcate, goes more
branches of the infraorbital nerves so intertwine with the
-sesamoid ?) The terminal
latter be mistaken for nervous cords.
'tendons as to make the
region there a short,
is broadish, entirely fleshy layer, which
3 From the infraorbital
towards the upper lip, near the angle of the mouth.
strikes obliquely downwards
levator labii inferioris corresponding in part with the nasal retrac-^
4. There is a long
single and weaker than these ; it blends rearwards with the fibres of the
tors', but quite
cheek-muscle or buccinator.
possesses a widish area and intermingled with It Ijehind is
The orbicularis palpebrarum ;
and jugo-orbital insertion of the protractor of the first movable

theforward extension
zone.
The buccinator is weU developed, as also are the horseshoe-shaped fibres of the orhi-
cularis oris.
As far as made out, the masseter is single, broad, and with a wide attachment to the
mandibular angle.
The moderate-sized temporalis, besides a usual coronoid insertion, runs weU down
and outside the ascending ramus, in a groove which extends, below the level of the teeth.
There arc two strong fleshy pterygoidei.

I shall compare the foregoing with the admirable description and illustrations of the
muscles of the nose, lips, and jaws of the Great Anteater {Myrmecophaga pibata\ given
by Prof. Owen. It becomes apparent ceteris paribus, that our loricate specimen, in its
fleshy facial development, presents a much greater likeness to the large hairy edentate
tbun the elongate tenuous snout-formation of the latter would warrant » Prom this we
may infer that the type is preserved, however much the contour of physiognomy is
altered. As another corollary we may admit that, though narrowed and lengthened, the
juisal rctractores are in verity homologues of the naso-labial levatores of Man.

Owen specifies a levator nasi, the counterpart of my No. His
1.retractor anguli oris,
mtractor aloe nasi, and retractor labii superioris are comprised in Tolypeutes by the com-
pound muscle numbered 2 above. In it a tertiary and not binary tendinous distribution may
have been present, though not detected by me, the nerves, fascia, and tendons being
involved together in a tough matted structure.
agree as to a We
retractor labii inferioris,
thougli in the Anteater it possesses

a more distinct superficial maxillary origin. Wat
is named accessorius ad orbicularem oris by Owen, No. 3 in Tolypeutes,
is Differences
in the other muscles may be ascribed solely to the longer, shallower head of Myrme-
'ôphaffa juhaia. In Chlamy dophwus truncatus, Hyrtl mentions the presence
{I. c, p. 30)
of levator anguli oris,
zygomaticus, levator labii superioris or retractor rostri, besides the
usual jaw-muscles.
4. Muscles of the Spine, the Neck,

and the Bach, superficially.
^^^'' ^^ *^^ ^^^1^' a paucity of flesh the
H^l}^!!'"'^} T'^'' compared with
gth of their tendons
Trans. Zool. goc,

. ;
I
The sacro-lumbalis belies its name, reacliing neither the sacrum nor loins. Its costal
attachment is narrow and thin, covering the ribs a little way beyond their angles ; it has the
ordinary subsidiary tendons, the foremost being inserted into the head of the first rib. I
did not make out an extension of cervicalis ascendens with clearness.
The thickest part of the longissimus dorsi is where it lies under the eave of the last
three dorsal and first two lumbar metapophyses.
I
These processes in a manner protect it
iand this more flesby part lodged in the bony groove doubtless exerts a pulley-action in
tTie return spring of the spine from its flexed condition. As it has an insertion upon the
last three cervical vertebrae, this anterior portion, which is strong, comes under the defi-
nition of transversalis cervicis, as applied to the muscle in Man and other animals.
The spinalis dorsi, though not voluminous, is certainly compact. It occupies the trough
between the metapophyses and spinous processes. Immediately beneath is a very appre-
ciable development of semispinalis. The component fascicular bundles of this cover two
vertebral laminae each, but lie well against the spines, posterior to the first dorsal. In
the neck the s. colli has a flatter position. There is another fair-sized deeply placed neck-
muscle outside the and with attachments (from cranium to last cervical) indicative
last,
of its being a complexus major. Whatever significance may be borne by the long spinal
muscles in Tolypeutes, as regards reflection when the body is inturned, it is ol)vious from
Hyrtl's description and Cuvier*s plates that there is hardly any variation in the other
Armadilloes
Unless the part described under the cutaneous sheets may represent a cephalic end, the
otherwise weakly developed trapezius has no forward or occipital extension in Tolypeules,
The more evident constituent of the muscle is a tenuous dorsal layer coming from the
firstand second, and expanding towards the sixth and seventh vertebral spines the ;
pular insertion covers the triangular space of that bo Cuvier, fig. 2, pi. 2C9, denot
greater expansion of the cucuUaris and Meckel's', Macalister' s, and Galton*s observation
;
substantiate its duplicity in Dasijpus. The latter writer, in admitting two fact les
portions occipitale et dorsale " of Cuvier, notes that the first arose from the neck for five
inches behind the occiput, and was inserted
without clavicular fastening along the sca-
pular spine ; the second had attachments from the third dorsal rearwards to the lumbar
" muscle, stretchin
g He describes [1. c. p. 527) moreover acromio-basilar o
from supraocclput to the metacromial process (Parker) this is Cuvier portion ccr-
vicale " of the trapezius, and also regarded as an accessory division thereof by Meckel
&c This last differentiated segment is analogous to a small roundish muscle met with
by me in Tobjpeutes. It sprang from the back of the skull, outside 1.he rhomboideus
capitis, and, running parallel with it, terminated in the said acromial projectio Accord
ing to Macalister^ in the Armadillo, with a clavicular insertion, the above acromio-b
strip of Galton is a levator claviculse or trachelo-acromial (omo-atlantic, Baughton\ cer
humeral, SumpJiry). This decision, as regards Tolypeutes, I might acquiesce
clavicular levator otherwise seemingly not being differentiated ; but Galton speciaUy d
tinguishes the presence of acromio-basilar and levator clavicula? in the same specimen
" MyologT of Bradijptis,'* I c. p. 52.

* Prench trans, vol. yi. p. 222.
P2
PR, J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
Qg
condition of the cucullaris similar to tliat in Dasypxis obtains,

In Chlamydophoms a as
(=acromio-basilar ?). Hyrtl {I. c. p. 33) suggests the
name
additional part
also the of
" capitis extensores " to the planes in question, and afterwards shows the rhomboidei
much as I shall describe.
and levator scapula are I
The anterior of these, that to which r. capitis^ is applicable, springs

Bhomboidei.— by
from the back of the neck, and, at first fleshy and round, thickens
strong tendon and
goes backwards to be fastened into the supraspinous fossa between the
broadens as it
the anterior scapular angle. It lies entirely outside the

metacromial process and inser-
tion of the protractor of the movable zones, and in its course it crosses the spmous and
other muscles of the neck. Ehomboideus major and minor are united, and at their origin
(second to fifth dorsal vertebrae) they are intimately connected with the Ion 8
dorsi. They have an insertion upon the scapula, its surface and vertebral border of spine
except so much as is occupied by the serratus magnus.

Equally in the three- and many-banded Armadilloes and the ChUtmy dophorus there is
no trace of an omohyoid. U
The splenius in Tolypeutes is very long and narrow, but of tolerable bulk. By short
tendons it springs from the second, third, and fourth dorsal spines, and by a single smalj
but moderately strong tendon is fixed to the paramastoid (?) behind the meatus auditorius
externus. Assimilation of splenius capitis and colli obtains in Chlamy dophorus ; and the
next pair, as in Tolypeufes, are separate. There is a fulness in the first of these, the
complexus major, which arises from five anterior dorsal and two or three of the posterior
cervicals, being occipitally attached anteriorly ; the other, complexus minor, comes fron^
r
the cervical transverse processes, and cranially is lodged beneath the tendon of the
«; plcnius.
I
J
The deep, short muscles of the back of the neck are fleshy, and altogether form a
defined V-shaped area between axial spine and occiput. Though partially coalesced, thq
usual divisions can be traced. The rectus capitis anticus major is mesially tendinous,
outwardly fleshy, and with oblique fibres. Anteriorly it is adherent to the basiocciput,
about the middle lies on the outer margins of the cervicals, and posteriorly enters the
cavity of the chest to the third dorsal body.
There is a smaller, i. e. r. c. a.„niinor, with
normal attachments.- A representative of longus colli reaches from the second t9 sixth
cervicals its inner possesses obHque,
; its outer moiety longitudinal fibres
Whether owing to nuchal semi-anchylosis or related to the disposition of transverse
processes and considerable calibre
of the cervical plexus of nerves, &c., a scalenus anticus
IS deficient; and what trifling development of muscle there is appears to be homologous
with the posticus, or,
s. mayhap, in addition, the s. medius of an opinion Man—
enter-
taincd by Hyrtl (/. c).
Respecting sterno-mastoid
I need alone repeat the often
fact that the authors so
7' unanimously in genera of the
^^^.A T^ Armadillo tribe separation into
mT\
Partial !h T
'T'"'^''
attachment of .
'^'^^ ^ ^''^^'^
the latter to the
^l^^M^r
cartilage at the sternal end of the
breadth of the former, and a
clavicle,,
'
Thb U the oocipito-scapular
segment of Galton,
Macalister. and others, andin part levator scapnl^ of Hyrtl.
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. l09
Galton's ^ grapMc description of the condition and relations extant in D. 6-cinctm

answer admirably to Tolypeutes.
The most interesting point is the Y-shaped elongation from opposite sides of the inner
dinsions to the xiphoid. What relation does it hear to the anomalous variety in human
myology the so-called *museulus sternalis/ *
prsesternalis,' *
rectus sternalis,' *
ster-
nalis brutorum and '

' thoracicus ' of various anatomists ? Professor Turner's observa-
tions^ and account embrace complete argument on the question. He himself,
historical
with others, considers it a remnant of panniculus carnosus, as opposed to opinions

advanced of its being an upward continuation of the rectus abdominis, a do^mward
extension of sternomastoid, a muscle sui generis, or mayhap allied to the supra- or
stemo-costalis. From a study of the data, I am inclined to hold a middle view. In the
human subject it may retain a special name in favour of its variable nature and possible
junction of two different muscles and layers. To my mind Turner's excellent delinefi-
tions &c. prove that it has nothing to do with the supracostales (primus and secundus^),
whose plane is deeper and direction of fibres nearly at right angles. Again, it cannot
be confounded with rectus, since the latter, when produced to the foremost ribs (whether
aponeurosis or otherwise), passes beneath the supracostal *. Its transitory con-
nexions to tiie pectoralis major and obliquus extemus none have advocated as supporting
its claim to be a production of either ; nor do I think there are good grounds to justify
such an assumption. It may be admitted as unique in Man, forasmuch as it fre-
quently conjoins sternomastoid and external oblique &c. ; but this by no means implic^s
absence of its representative elements in animals. On the contrary, by its very Irre-
gularity is its composition best evinced. Where alone developed inferiorly (posteriorly,
" origin" of Turner), it is a true homologue and rudiment of the panniculus (" thoraco-
facien" of Cuvier), as Hallet, Turner, and Galton surmise; but its superior end, iji rela-
tion to sterno-mastoid, does offer similarity to the rearward prolongation of that muscle
existing in Tolypeutes and other forms—to wit, the opinion held by Bourienne, Tliiclc,
and Henle. The difficulty thrown out by Wilde and Turner of its lying on a plane beneath
the platysma myoides strengthens rather than weakens its tegumentary character ; for
in many mammals (I may specify the Manatee) an almost distinct sheet of the general
robe of the panniculus starts from over the sternum, passes forwards beneath the trans-
verse platysmal fibres en route to the malar arch. The latter anatomist's cases, figs. 4, 5,
and are those that best uphold continuity with sternomastoid ; but should it be shown
6,
hereafter that in verity, tendon and does not become

goes superficial to,
or otherwise, it
thoroughly fused with, the manubrial extremity of the sternomastoid, then undoubtedly
the musculus sternalis is none other than a remnant of the lower mammalian cutaneous
"
sheet. ' .
'
L. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 5C8
capeiisis,"
An at
a pair on each side are occaaionally met
Although the supracostal in animals is ordinarily single, yet
^tness Lemur catta, " Anat. of the Lemuroidea," Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii
continuity
not real, continuity with

sternalis, may this not have heen a develonment of eupracostal in apparent,
THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
DR. J. MURIE ON THE
110
Attachments nine anterior ribs, transverse
magnus strong. pro^
Serrati -The s. is
postcemcals, and, as usual, scapula. There does not appear to

cesses of two or three
and the s. posticus inferioris might be taken for a contiuua.
be an s posticus superioris ;
dorsi. It arises by from the fascicular tendons

metapophyses of
tion of 'the latissimus
lumbar vertebrae and its muscular insertion is into the 3rd
the last three dorsal and 1st ;
6-cmcfus has a double s. magnus, one to 1st and 2iid

and 4th hindmost Damjpus ribs.
6th cost« (Galton) Chlamydoj^horus 8 front ribs, and united

the other to 3rd to ;
ribs,
to levator
The
scapulae
Latissunus
(Hyrtl).
dorsi and dorsi epitrochlear muscles bear intimate relations. One sheet
. ,. ^ w
muscle
duplex is interwoven with the rhomboidei and with the posterior
of this associated
serratus, and comes from the 6th to 9th dorsal spines. As it Avinds over the posterior
an^le and the scapula, its fibres become distinct from those of the rhomboidei, and have
(posterior) border of the scapula, at the middle blending

an'âttachment to the inferior
the thence it descends to the olecranon region and
with the scapular head of triceps ;
fascia beyond. The second division springs fleshy from the posterior border of the
scapula, m
junction with the teres major ; but it also 5tli derives origin from the thorax,
continued out to the shaft of the humerus,
to 2nd ribs near their sternal ends. It is
terminating in a strong tendon. Described at greater length, and comprising lumbar
fascia, the above pair of muscles are essentially alike in Dasyjûs and Cklamydophorus\
Cuvier's fiirures* are in concord with Galton's observations". Huxley's memoranda I
ppend as a footnote
5. Muscles of the Fore Quarters
Pectorales.— From its comparatively great length, the p. major would seem to have
more retractile than adducting power. It extends abdominally half an inch behind tne
xiphoid cartilage, there narrow and tapering. It reaches forwards to the manubnum,
clavicular cartilage and
but is meagre in costal attachment, though fastened to the inner
bone for about a third of the inner edge of the
its length. Its tendinous insertion is
prominent deltoid process, fascia continuing to the forearm. What may constitute a
deep layer of the preceding, or, as lief, a pectoralis minor, is a long narrow strip, with an
from the 5th and 6th sternal it goes

origin ribs. In trending outwards and forwards,
over the surface of the biceps, and there, weak and tenuous, is fastened in part on its
tendon, while some fibres continue upwards towards the shoulder-joint. The preceding
condition answers well to what is recorded of the pectorales in Chlamy dophorm .

Huxley
assigns a wide clavicular origin to the describes a
p. major in JDasypm sexcinctus, and
Hyrtl, I, c. p. 33. He tcrmB the two divisions « vertebral et costal."
Rccueil,' pis. 259, 260.
L.c. p. 531.
The notes of
thus :— " The
* Prof. Huxley's dissection of D. extraordinary
sexclnctm ruu latissimus dorsi has an
origin by a broadness of fibres, which ît^
near the junction of the sternal and vertebral ribs, interdigitating
arise
thoM of the Berratus and external where tie
obhqne-and an ordinary origin, which is exceedingly extensive, and
fiDtcs converge, pass over, most part
and become connected with the angle are for the
of the scapula. These latter
coutmuou. ^th the very large ' accessoiy
dorsi epitrochlear,' which of
passes down on the back of the arm as a sort
^tensor, and «i mserted flexor
partly into the fascia covers the
covering the olecranon, partly into that which and
humerus.
^^' ^^' ^"^' ^' '''* '* ^' "^^^'^^ Soes to the ordinary insertion into the
(iTucUm^resr'^
I
f
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. HI
I
p. minor—that also referred to by Meckel, but which doubtless is the subclavius \

Cuvier's sketches rather reciprocate my determination. Galton's observation, echoed by
Macalister, points to absence of a p.
minor and of clavicular origin to the p. major. The
ensiform origin in the " Tatu " Meckel ascribed as influencing respiration during the
rolling up of the body K In Tolypeutes it doubtless deflects the xiphoid segment, but
that to give stowage-room to the abdominal viscera, the assistance to respiratory function
probably being a sequence.

A distinct subclavius arises from the expanded end of the first rib, close to the stemum.
It passes under theconnected to that bone and to the deep cervical fascia,
clavicle, is
being finally inserted upon the tendinous arch between the coracoid and acromion.
Hyrtl recognizes it in his monograph ' ; but it has been mistaken by others, as mentioned,
for a p. minor, though Gait on has correctly appreciated its character ^
There is a supracostalis derived from the sternal end of the 1st rib ; thence it covers
the outer halves of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sternal ribs, extending beyond to the 5th, 6th,
and 7th by a thin glistening fascia. This, the sterno-costal muscle of Cuvier, I presum^^
is the rectus thoracicus lateralis of Macalister ^ With the latter author, however, I do
not agree in recognizing it as a prolongation of the rectus abdominis. In its oblique
inward diagonal direction to that muscle, the fact that the rectus in many instances runs
beneath it with quite a separate first costal fastening, and the occasional presence of a
second external supracostal, we have similitude to additional though abnormal scalcni, or
deep pectorales, rather than to extension and differentiation of the abdominal rectus.
>
to
—
Humeral Extensors. The deltoid has an extensive origin, partly from the outer half
» of the clavicle, partly from the acromion process and scapular spine to its expansion,
thereafter mingling with the dorsal fascia. Meshy below, it is fastened to the outer
humeral neck and deltoid process, excepting what is occupied by the pectoraUs-mnjor
tendon. The scapular head of the triceps is very broad, one border, as already stated,
intermingling with dorsi epitrochlear. Its olecranal insertion is extensive, according
therefore with the enlargement of this ulnar process. The long humeral division of the
muscle is smaller than the preceding ; and the third shorter head has origin below the
an anconeus externus, there is a wnll-

teres major. Besides what may be regarded as
marked and fleshy representative of an anconeus internus, the " epitroclilco-anconcus '*
of
•
Prof. Wenzel Gruber \ The presence of the latter in D. Q-înctm is attested by Curler
and Galton \
P. 32, * L. e. p. 528.
ed. torn. yi. p. 372.
'
'
MS. HuBterian Lectiires. " French
• Ann. Mag. N. H. July * -Reeneil, pL 260 u'.
] 869, p. 55.
' Loc. cit. p. 539, pi. 44. fig. 2, e a.
•
Mem. d. 1. Acad. Sci. d, St.-Petersb. torn. x. 1867. In his diseertation on this anomalous anconeus m Man and
• •
ir i
Armadillo (^Dasijpus tridncttis), tab. ii. fig. 3, m u dissec-

animals, Gmber sp^ciaUy depicts that of the Three-banded
which I quote at kngth
tion of the right axilla and fore limb. He has given a foil description of the same (p. 20),
kommenden auconcua fleischig bc-
in his own words :-" von dem latissimus dorsi
Bedeckunglage.-Der muskel ist
uka cntspnngcndcn dnans mt^rnu.
deckt. Er Hegt zwischen
dem triceps brachii, dem nur mit einem kopfe von der
nervus ulnans und uTjer einen
^d dem epitrocHeua entspringenden muskeln im sulcus epitrochleo -anconeus iiber den
von dor medialen flache des olecranon entsnrineenden 6Kn. breiten und 3-4 lia. brciten floischkopf dos flexor d.g.-
;
THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO.
PR. J. MURIE ON THE
112
little, if any, variation from tte recorded examples
muscles offer of
The scapular ans
The subscapu reaches but does not
Chlcmi/dophon,s.
dL«, Xatusia, and
supraspinatus slightly overlaps the bone
cartilage. The at tk
fo bTyond the ossified
° end fiUs the fossa, save what space pertams to the rhomboideus
k and at its vertebral
of the first movable zone. Like the above, the infraspinatus has
cMitis and protractor
insertion. As major starts from the mferior
the teres
posterior
an ordinary humeral
projecting scapuhu; angle, it is in close junction with the second
border of the downward
its humeral insertion is below and deeper than the latter.
divisionof the latissimus ;
teres minor.
There is a rudimentary
double-headed, its scapular tendon strong compared
Of humeral flexors, the biceps is
The powerful distal tendon gUdes in the lower humeral groove

with the coracoid one.
coronoid process to the pit beneath, the coronoid eminence actmg as a
and over the
flexion. In Dasppus both singleness and duplicity of origin and insertion
fulcrum in
observers \ the neck of the radius receiving a share
have been met with by different
of the terminal tendon. Chlamy dopliorus has a biceps agreeing best with that of
Tolf/peutes. I find the coraco-brachiaUs to be single, with a usual origin in conjunction
with the biceps. It has but a moderately fleshy beUy, and a very slender insertion upon
the inner condyle over the supracondyloid arch, therefore equivalent to the coraco-
brachialis longus of Prof. John Wood I This condition is that mentioned by MeckeP in
the Tatu, and similarly figured by D. 6-cinct'Us— though. Galton \ with

Cuvier in whom
Macalister coincides, describes a second head of origin (short variety of Wood) in tlie
Tatter species. The flat, strong brachialis anticus comes from behind the humeral
neck, curves forwards below the deltoid bridge, and terminates by tendon in the coronoid
pit of the ulna, along with but outside the biceps.

A single supinator muscle alone is indicated, this in itseE being indefinite. Some
fascia with obscure fleshy fibrillse comes from below the brachialis anticus, and appears
to go to the radial neck. Both s. longus and s. brevis are deficient in Chlamy dophorus
but in Dasypns a muscle better developed but with similar relations to that in Tolypeidei
obtains. Iluxley " and others regard it as a supinator brevis.
torum profundus hinubergespannt. Gestalt.—Der muskel hat eine dreiseitig pyramidale gestalt mit einer medialen
vordcrn und hintern fliiche. Grosse.—Der muskel hat eine lange von 1 z. ; eine breite von 2 lin. am urspninge
und 5 lin. an der insertion there.

; eine dicke von 3 lin. muskel ist der absolut dickste der bis jetzt untersuchten
Frsprung.—Der muskel entspringt mit einer mit keiner ver-
kurzen und sehr starken sehne vom epitrochleus, aber
langcrung von die innere wand des dem ganzen
canalis supracondyloideus humeri darsteUenden knochspange an
hintern rand der l-lj Hn. dicke nervus medi-
coracobrachialis zum schnitze des durch den canal durchtretenden
anus mid der vas. brachiaHa des olecranon
sich ansetzt. Insertion.—Der muskel inserirt sieh an die mediale flache
vor den anconeus longus fleisch-
und zwischen dem anconeus internus und ulnaris intemus medianwarts von einem
kopfe dos flexor digitorum anconeus
profundus, welcher ihn von der ellenbogengelenk-kapsel scheidet mit dem
mUrnuB und ulnaris intemus bei andem
ist der muskel an der insertion-steUe verwachsen. Nerve.-Dieser kommt wie
thveren, die den muskel besitzen, vom nervus ulnaris."
' l^^-ôrded single-headed has met
by Galton and MacaHster, papers with Prof. Haughton,
cited ; but the latter,
w.th u double-W^^
Joum. of Anat. 1868, p. 285.
^Joum.ofAnati867.p.51.
^
ât. Comp. (Paris) vol. vi. p. 280.
c.
p. 534, pi. 44. figs. r& 2, c B, c B^ and c b». '
MS. notes, dissection of D. 6-cinctus.
MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO 113
Extensores carpi radiaKs longior et brevior are met with in distinctness. The
former fair-sized, lias origin below the supinator, and between it and the external con-
dyle As its distal tendon, at first broadish, narrows inferiorly, it passes over the end of
the radius,and is inserted upon the protuberant internal knuckle and top of the trapezio-
trapezoid bone. The latter, second muscle is more compressed, and starts by tendon from
the external condyle, but ends by a fleshy insertion on the outer edge of the radius
to about the middle of the bone. With of belly, the carpo-radial extensor
the six-banded Armadillo is provided with two terminal tendons, one to the indicia!
metacarpal, the other to the third metacarpal \ In Chlamydopliorus an indicial ten-
dinous insertion is alone mentioned.

The extensor communis digitorum is derived equally from the external condyle and the
intermuscular fascia. It divides into a pair of tendons above the wrist-joint. The
one enlarged middle the lesser goes
broader and much the the
stronger supplies digit,
being fastened to the powerful rigid claws as

to the fourth or outer digit, both partially
well as the bone. Hyrtl, in CMamijdophorus, and Meckel and Galton, in Dasijpus, state
2nd, 3rd, and 4th digits receive tendons, the latter authority figuring ' two
that the
intercommunications whilst Huxley alludes to a tendinous expansion
oblique phalangeal ;
L the back of the manus.

smaller muscle arising from the external condyle outside the common
There is a
the outer groove on the back of the distal cxf romity
extensor. It passes separately to
qual-sizpd tendons The srrallcr ond
of the ulna, previously splitting into two
outside of the fourth digit The larger inner one has a double
shorter g to the
the top of the root of the fourth toe, and by
insertion, viz. broadly into
the great clawed third Besides attachment to car])0 (
tendon on the outside of

with an inner recurront tci.lon fixed to tli
metacarpal fascia, the latter is in connexion
the third in the opposite left Hi
communis No
was sent slip diffit
part an mcdius digiti Besides

above evidently represents an extensor minimi, and in e.
This has an ulnar and interosseo-mcmbranal

the foregoing, an extensor indicis is present
terminal phalanx of the inner second di
^nd it'sends a flat tendon on to the
but extensor primi and sccundi
Ther is, moreover, an extensor ossis metacarpi,
upper outer surface of the ulna
internodi. The form of these three comes from the
membrane It winds round the
below the olecranon, and partly from the interosseous
and is inserted into the trapezium
radius, arching over the long radio-carpal extensor,
and minimi
In the 6-banded Armadillo, Galton
3fi
efully registers
proximal phalanx of the outer di
digiti, with a single tendon to'the metacarpal and
phalanx of 4th nnd ungual
an ex. annularis, with tendon bifurcating to proxmial
, _
„ .„,.,il...
snuDu^^to 4.. i
with large tendon to the mdex and a

phalanx of 5th digit; an ex. indicis, a
radial side of the pollicial mcta
the
the poUux; an m. pollicis, terminatmg
slight iation absence of pollicial
Compared with these observations, a Jh
r; o7r
carpal.
.hat Mcêl -avers of the Tatu
tendon to the i icis : .: pomcis' is
•
Z. e. fig. 5, pi. 44
* Galton as cited.
320
4 Comp. (Frencb ed.) vol. vi. p,
Anat.
• L. e. pp. 542, 543, and figs. 1 and 2
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VOL. XXX.
THE THREE-B.VNDED ARMADILLO.
DR. MURIE ON
lU J.
the CUmwjdophonts. Hyrtl speaks of a " radialis

•
a-nêement in '
. 1 . n rprtain
externus ^^
of considerable size witti an inner condylar and inter-

panaris longus
I found a the flexor muscles beneath
firmer connexion witli Its
fasil derivation, and
muscular
well to the inner aspect of the hmb palmar
ends m a powerful
fascia,
tendon placed
sesamoid ossicle, spreads more thm ly over nearly the entire palm,
Ihich/fastened to the
and outer toes. Exceptmg the slight division this pal- m
ending m
shps to the middle
The termination of the
perforated tendons to the digits. radial
maris'there are no true
the fascia, as alluded to in the description of the brachial
adherent to
neiWis intimately
palmaris brevis, but which, more strictly speakmg, represents
plexus What I may term
rather a fleshy derivation from the superficies of the palmar
a flexor brevis man us ^ has
ending in tendons, one on either side of the inner-
ossicle- it divides into two slips
and
Huxley (MS.) hints separation of a palmaris longus inserted
most or second digit.
other observers speak of its complete fusion with the
into the fascia of the manus but ;
flexor sublimis in Dasyjpus.

possesses an olecranal origin and insertion into the pisiform
The flexor carpi ulnaris
bone. The flexor carpi radialis is smaller, and with a much shorter belly, than the
about opposite the upper end of the lower third

preceding. Its lower tendon commences
and, going behind the styloid process, lies in a groove in the scaphoid
of the radial shaft,
trapezio-trapezoid bone. In apposition with the radial
and is ultimately inserted into the
flexor, a representative of pronator radii teres is derived from the inner condyle and inter-
Its widish tendon of insertion occupies the third lower quarter of the
muscular fascia.
shaft of the radius upon its internal aspect. As regards these three muscles in the
genera Dasi/ptis, Tatusia, and Chlamy doj)lioms there is no distinction worth mention ;
and
neither in them nor Tolypeiites is there a pronator quadratus.

The next muscle or set of muscles includes representatives of flexor sublimis, flexor
profundus digitorum, and possibly flexor longus pollicis. Without tearing asunder the
divides into several great

fleshy fibres it cannot well be separated above ; at the wrist it
digital
tendons fixed to the proximal end of the palmar ossicle ; and at the further
extremity three fresh tendons are furnished. Reducing the upper mass to apparent
constituents, I resolved these into five. 1. The portion simulating a flexor subhmis is
but moderately bulky ; it comes from the internal condyle, intermuscular fascia, and
partially adnate fellows, and below forms superficially a strong tendon attached to the
inner prominence at the proximal portion of the

end of the palmar bone. The 2. largest
muscular combination arises from the mner surface of the of the inside
olecranon and whole
of the ulnar shaft, a short slip moreover sprmging condyle.
separately from the internal
This double-headed portion, which possesses broadly on
a tendinous exterior, terminates
the palmar bone, there occupying prominence
superficially its proximal end, except the
restricted to the previous division. slips
3 and small cord-like
4. Beneath are two
'
Mem. cited, p. 38.
i
• See an account of this muscle 6 '^^

by Mivart and myseK in Hyrax calends, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 341, fig- ;
remark* conccnung the palmam

brevis in Dasyprocta cristata, P. Z. S.l 8fifi. n. 402. fi^. 2.
endin*^ in tendons somewhat fused to the last. They arise chiefly from the sigmoid notch
under the first-mentioned muscular division. 5. This, the shortest and deepest division,
arises from the whole of the interosseous memhrane and posterior surface of the shaft of the
fibula. It has a more muscular insertion than the others into the entire hreadth of the
proximal end of the palmar ossicle, but deeper than the foregoing. The palmar bone in
0'5 inch long, 0"3 inch broad at its upper end, where widest, and 0*2
question is about
inch in ""reatest thickness. It is heart-shaped the proximal
; end is bifid, or with well-
marked tuberosities ; the distal extremity has a blunt apex. Superficially it is convex,
but deeply concave or with a longitudinal broad mesial furrow.
As already intimated, three tendons are derived from its digital extremity; these
proceed respectively to the toes. The middle one is enormously broad, thick, and cor-
Then* length bears a

respondingly powerful, the others much though strong.
less so,
of the digit, the innermost being longest. In all three toes secondary
ratio to that
are developed over the joint at the root of the clawed phalanx but the
sesamoid ossicles ;
alone possesses within its substance an additional tiny sesamoid, which is

middle tendon
situate close to the palmar bone.
Meckel, Cuvier, Owen ', Huxley, Macalister, and
Six most competent anatomists, viz.
preceding complex and remarkable muscle in the fore limb

Galton, have investigated the
rendered by the last-mentioned author is the most critical in
of Bim/pus. The account
illustrations have an inherent diagrammatic value,
detail, though the Prench savant' s
of the thing. It appears to me that what

and Owen's terse summary catches at the gist
Cuvier. Owen, and Galton
is recognized as suhlimis includes my long palmar ; and while
state it to have two, Meckel adds a third pollicial tendon. My 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
mass &c. of flex. prof, dig., and Owen's two portions

divisions are Galton's 1st muscular
Owen's 3rd portion (longus pol-
of same. My 5th part more nearly corresponds to
Mve terminal tendons are given off
licis) and Galton's 2nd, with its accessory parts.
diction and homological rclatiou of
from the palmar ossicle. Allowing for difference of
agrccmen with that of
parts, it results that this compound muscle in Dmypus beai-s close
deficient in pollicial tendon In Chla..ydaphon^
Tolypeutes, the latter necessarily being
the muscular bellies are a counterpart of the preceding, Ilyrtl being d°ubt as to m
however, dividmg to the
the palmar aponeurosis,
division of long palmar and sublimis,
he remarks =-
derived from the palmar ossicle,
four outer digits. the tendons
Of
poUice, binos °^t;^<=''t-
" Plexor
digitorum brevis, quorum singuU digiti, excepto /^
perforated tendons all these authors
manner of dirital ensheathments and absence of true
a
ss ur
less or more
mure agree
ai^rce to
lu. , -.^ ^„r»;cfnT.nrl
.stered
notes were duly re
,
After having dissected the feet, a mishap befel them ere my

concerning the smaU deep muscles. I clearly made out s rong
specified by J-*^^"^"/
Galton in J^J^
Dasypu. but
flexores breves. These were fewer in number than ,
in absence of precision I omit further notice of them.
1 (( Weasel-headed Armadillo
Osteology of the
already
Q2
t
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO

IIQ
«
YII. Of the Skeleton.

After Cuvier's excellent chapter in Ms Ossemens Eossiles \ wherein the hony* *
frame-
Three-handed Armadillo is brought into comparison with others of the
work of the
Turner's critical summary of characters of Tolypeutes tricinctus\ Owen's
trvouv,
notices of osteological specimens in the Hunterian Museum ^ Giehel's article \ where

submitted to descriptive analysis, Gray's ^ Burmeister's ^ and others'
T. conurus is
remarks, my instituting a long and minute verbal account of the skeleton would be super-
fluous. I have preferred to figure most of the bones separately, or in connexion (where
relation of segment is concerned) along with a characteristic
, view of the flexed skeleton.
r ^^
Thus the greater number of parts needfal for comparison in a palaeontological point of
view, are rapidly surveyed and readily comprehended. I limit written material, there-
fore, to the more equivocal portions, or such as have hitherto been meagrely dwelt on.
1. Skull and Mandible.

inches.
Extreme length of the cranium 2'9
Greatest width (at descending portion of jugal) 1*4
Breadth at the mastoidal region I'l

Length of the palate • # . • . . 1'8
Each row of teeth in length 1-3
Diaraetcrj from the outside of one condyle to the other . . ^ . . . • 0*85

Tlie prcemaxillie in length (superiorly) ^
0'7
Greatest depth of the skull without the mandible . • • 1*0 ?
Extreme length of the brain- cavity . . . . , 1*6

Its narrowest diameter (at orbito-sphenoids) 0*6 +
Its widest diameter (which applies to olfactory and temporal regions) . . 0*9
Lower jaw in extreme length • . . 2*4
From the anterior root of ascending ramus forwards 1*55
Height^ from tip of coronoid process dropping perpendicularly 1*0
In the view of the interior base of the skull (fig. 51) a portion of the frontal has been
removed, which exposes a large surface of the frontal and maxillary sinuses. These are
very extensive, and occupy within a trifle of the cranial breadth at this part. The
general direction of the main septa is radial to the ethmoid bone, many transverse
and oblique minor partitions to these constituting the distinguishing loculi. Besides
these, laterally and in front, there is a very capacious
maxillary chamber. This reaches
from the front of the zygoma forwards nearly the whole
length of the superior maxillary,
and it matcriaUy produces the skuU's maxillo -frontal
breadth. It answers to the
nntnim of nighmore in human anatomy. At the sides of the thin ethmo-vomerine plate
Sur
t
.mm
I
Osteol
^'"'^^'^^ ^'' GiirtcltUere;* in Zoitech.

! 7Z Catalogiies and « EntomophasoiLs
f. d. gesam. Natnrwis. (1861), Band, xviii
i80 d. La Plata,' vol. ii., and ' Analea d. Mus. Pub. d. Baenoa Aires,' vols. i. and ii.
(
«
. ;;
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. II7
(partiaUy visible, fig.51) are the upper nasal passages, here rather narrow than otherwise.
them and in front is the reduced continuation of the frontal cells. The shell
Outside
the hone in the entire area spoken of is thin, and remarkably so at some parts. Thus
of
whatsoever be the office of these air-cells, every provision is made for them, as they claim
maj or share of the front of the skull

a
Prof. Gervais's cast in outline of the
,
cranial cavity of Tolypeutes tricinctus (aheady
mentioned) amply characterizes the figure of the interior osseous basal view of that of
T. conurus. a broad
There trapezoidal
is olfactory section, a lengthened slightly forward
tapering cerebral or mid division, and a short but wide cerebellar portion. The level of
the first is considerably higher than that of the second and third. The cribriform plate
of the ethmoid is completely cellular in structure ; the crista galli is thick, rounded,
centrally ridged, and with a marked upward and forward inclination, the top being
perforated by many foramina. The parietal areas are relatively narrow, vertically high,
and impressed with but few and faint sulci. In this specimen the transverse suture
between the orbito- and basisphenoid has imperfectly coalesced, leaving a linear fissure
hut, I find, in other genera of the Armadillo its closure is also long delayed. The optic
foramina, of fair size, pierce the bone in front of the said suture and the sphenoidal
fissures at each H. N. Turner remarks, as characteristic of the Dasypodidse, that
side.
•*
foramen rotundum is included in the foramen spheno-orbitarium " {I. c. p. 211)
the
such appears to be the case in Tolypeutes, though in my T. conurus I may record the
presence of a minute foramen midway between the sphenoidal and carotid apertures.
Internally this was more notable on the right side ; but although I passed a bristle into
it almost 0*2 inch, I could detect no exterior aperture. The reverse was the case on the
left side, where interiorly an was barely visible even with a magnifier ; but exteriorly,
orifice
equidistant between the foramen ovale and the sphenoidal cleft, a foramen of some deptli
existed^ but which I could not make out to communicate interiorly. I am left in doubt,
therefore, if this be an occluded representative of foramen rotundum. There is a wide
and relatively long groove for lodgment of the trunks of the trifacial nerves and the
Casserian ganglion. The foramen ovale is more elliptical antero-posteriorly and further
distant from the sphenoidal opening than in the larger-skulled Euphr actus {E. villosus).
The foramen spinosum is not behind the foramen ovale within the skull, as in the last-
named genus, but to the inside, and situate between it and the carotid groove, though
exteriorly it opens in front of the foramen ovale. The trihedral periotic has a consider-
ably forwârd elongate apex ; and the fossa behind the prominence of the semicircular
canals (equivalent to the sigmoid groove of the lateral sinus in Man) is excavated deeper
than in most of the Armadillos. The latter feature tallies with the weU-developed
flocculus of the cerebeUum. one Hue within the fossa is the scale-
Lower than and
covered fissure of the aqugeductus vestibuli ; an emargination of the bone below this, and
a foramina lacerum,
trifle
aqu^ductus cochleae. The
in advance, hides the clefts, viz.
medium, and posterius, are each long and patent a narrow bar of bone separates the
;
^rge anterior condyloid foramen from the jugular fossa ^
^ This and the the Apar {Dasypm iToly^mte.-] tridncm) arc

si^bsequent descriptive footnotes on the bones of
fôf. Owen'B own comments attached College of Surgeons hy Mr. Charles Darwm
to the specimens presented to the
MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO
118
configuration of the cranium of Toltjpeutes, Turner, Owen,

Regard no' ihe exterior
salient characters, to which I shaU only add remarks
and gTcM demonstrated
have its
for reasons afterwards to be specified. Those authors justly

on the tympanic region,
imperfect annular nature of the tympanic, and its differing, there-
dlude to the laminar,
of certain other Armadillo genera.
fore from that
In T, conurus I find the tympanic to be f of a circle (0-25 mch diameter), deeply m

inner aspect for the reception of the membrana tympani. It is fastened
srroo; ed on its
ledge at the fore part of the descending mastoidal element, and,

behind to a circumscribed
free in circumference, impinges anteriorly and above upon the broad end
whHe partially
the latter nearly completes the In the recess at the back
of the malleus :
a postglenoid foramen leads into the cranial diploe above, a

of the jaw-articulation
secondary communication opening outside behind the root of the zygoma. At the fore
between and the glenoid surface, is a considerable-sized

margin of the tympanic, and it
oblique opening, with downwardly continued bony groove, which I apprehend to be
the Eustachian foramen ; for alongside and immediately beneath is a cleft, converted
into a tunnel by membrane &c., answering best to the fissura Glaseri. Inward from
these is the carotid orifice, all but continuous with the foramen lacerumposterius. Below
the tympanic plate a roughened exostosis on the petrosal is apparent ; and on removal
of the tympanic and auditory ossicles this so-called tympanohyal becomes more
spu ous. The cochlear prominence is moderate, partly hiding the fenestra rotunda, the
diameter of this aperture being obliquely towards the anterior condyloid foramen.
The fenestra ovalis is situate O'l inch hiorher. The names of these fenestrae are reversely
:i ppropriatc as regards shape ; and the latter is the smaller of the two. Encompassing
them rearwards is a well-marked furrow, apparently equivalent to the aqueduct of
Fallopius, overarching which is the mastoidal segment. This barely evinces trace of
n styloid process, the narrow ledge in its position supporting the tympanic as aforesaid.
Above, and close by, however, is a stylo-mastoid foramen ; behind, a short nipple-
shaped mastoid process, posterior and at the root of which a large mastoid foramen
obtains.
Of the small car-bones, the malleus has an expanded trihedral base, tenuous centrally,
and thicker at the margins that on the right side in this specimen possessed an outward
;
paper;
return le/ I am not aware of their having been published in a separate
Osteological Catalogu )y they are likely to escape the notice of writers^ I here append them m
a nowhat connected form. Affixed to the quotations are the numbers of the specimens in the said vol. ii,, transposed,
Bver, to the regional distribution of the bones, and not numerically consecutive.
The tyrnpanic a distinct lamina of bone bent in a half circle ; the membrane connecting its inner and under
is
with the lower part of the petrosal is not ossiBed buUa as in the
so as to form a continuous tympanic
usual
pruoon. There is i The lachrymal the face outside the

is large, and forms a triangular plate upon
orbit. The alisphen
cnpsule. There axe

:illary
maiiUaries, and the same number on each ^'
side of the lower jaw (2307)
apical (capitular) recess. The long process curves round the tympanic ring. The
handle presents its thin edge to the tympanic membrane, and is bent sharply downwards
and obliquely forwards. The incus has a more bulbous body, its limbs wide apart ; the
stapes appears to be perforated.
2. The Spine, Chest, and Felvis.
According to my computation there are 7 cervical, 11 dorsal, 4 lumbar, 12 sacral, and

11 caudals in T. cotiurus,=3i total of 45 vertebrae. Prof. Giebel, in the same species,
mentions {I c.102) that there are 7 to the neck, 14 to the back, of which 11 bear costjB
p.
(dorsal), and 3 ribless (lumbar), 3 more, attached to the ilium; 3 free follow these, and
another 3 are attached to the ilium, behind which are 2 longer ones (in all 11 sacral),
followed by the encased tail-vertebrae, the numbef of which he does not state. The
subjoined footnote ^ contains Owen's annotations on the spine of T. tricinctus in tho
^ Vertehrce and Pelvis.
Atlas. — ** It has bo large transverse processes ; the sides of the vertehra appear to be truncate ; thoy present near
the hack part a rudiment of a parapophysis and diapophysis. The side of the vertebra is perforated anterior to them,
and leads to a canal which bifurcates, one branch terminating within the neural arch, above tho articulation for the
condyle, and the other perforating the neural arch. There is also a foramen at the back part of the htcmal arch,
above the articular surface for the odontoid. There is no spine either above or below the vertebral ring" (230S).
Cervicah and Dorso-lumhar* — ^' The spine of the third cervical has completely coalesced with lluit of the dcntatu,
which is thick and high, but more extended forwards than backwards. The spine of tho foia"th cervical is applied
to its back part. The neural arches of the succeeding cervicals have no spines, but form thin transverse bars of
fifth X
are strongly bent backwards. Their bodies are extremely broad in proportion to their length or antcro-posterior
diameter. The articular bed for the head and tubercle of the first
last cervical and first dorsal vertebra. Ten vertebrae show the impression of the articulation of the head of the ril»
in addition to the first dorsal ; and the neurapophyses of these eleven dorsal vertebra) are directly perforated by the
spinal nerves. The articulation for the last rib is as equally di\-ided between the two contiguous vertebra; as is
that of the first rib. The prominence supporting the articular surface for the head of the rib answers to thf
'parapophysis,' just as the prominence supporting the articulation for the tubercle of the rib repreBcnta tlic
'diapophysis.' The prominence in the first lumbar vertebra which articulates with the under part of the
anapophysis of the last dorsal, repeats or tallies with the prominence in that dorsal which articulates with the
bead of the last rib : it is therefore a '
parapophysis.' The dia])ophysis projects, as in the dorsal vertebra;, from
the upper and outer part of the base of the short and thick anapophysis; and this anapophysis presents, as in other
ArmadiHos, two articular surfaces, one above for the under part of the metapophysis, another below for the upper
part of the parapophysis. tenon and mortice joints, as Cuvier has described
Thus the vertebrae are interlocked by ;
but it is by distinct parts of the vertebr^B from those which form the corresponding joints in the backbone of
serpents" (2297).
Sacn sacrum
The anterior tuberosities of the iHa and the posterior tuberosities of the ischia are distinct epiphyses in this young
specimen the former are supported sacral veriêbra, which also develops laterally t^\ •>
;
by the metapophyses of the first
articular pubic bones together at the symphypi'^.

parapophyses. Ossification has not so far advanced as to unite the
"The posterior genus
sacral vei same
Jiasypîs " (2298).
Caudals rugous
„„.
Jynd of exostosis.
The
which relates to thfi atf p Metapophyses begin to be developed upon
I
^20 DR. J.
but as to the numbers of yertebrse in tlie said specimens I

nunterian Museum ; make
out formula
tlie to be C. 1, D. H, L. 4, S. 12, C. 12 46. =
ago enunciated of the neck of the Armadillos, " L'axis ne fait
Baron Cuvier long deja
troisi^me dans de tres-jeunes sujets avec Tage la quatri^me s'y

qu'un avec la ;
unit
dans les vieux oette anion va plus loin " (Oss. Poss.
egalement, et probablement v. 131).
Giebel alludes to T. comrus as having 2nd, 3rd, and 4th soldered ;

and such I found the
condition in my specimen. Both body and processes of 2nd and 3rd were completely
but whilst the body and lateral processes were adnate in the 4th, the neural
fused ; arcli
to a certain extent was free. Owen's observations in other respects apply to the cervical
series of my different species. What he says further concerning the dorsal and lumbar
vertebra holds good, though I may add a few words by way of appendix to his and
Giebel's descriptions,
A notable feature in the spine of the Three-banded Armadillo is variation of angle
and curve ; these are partly of a The 1st to the 5th neck-vertebrae,
permanent kind.
under ordinary circumstances, have a decidedly upward tilt. Those vertebrae hinging
upon 5th and 6th are freely movable upwards and downwards as a whole, 2nd, 3rd, and
4th being totally rigid between themselves. The 6th cervical has but little freedom, and
7th still less : the two form the promontory of an angle dividing the neck from the tho-
racic cavity. The bodies of the three foremost dorsal vertebrae are inclined almost
perpendicularly to the long axis of the spine ; and the succeeding dorsals continue on-
wards to the loins by a sweeping curve which is on a less or more horizontal plane.
Thence the pelvis forms a great arch, its hinder end nearly assuming the vertical, whicli
is completed by the armour-clad tail. The caudals, in contrast to the cervicals, flex
downwards and forwards.

Among the extinct Uoplophoridse or Glyptodontes (notably the genus Panochthm of
Burmeister and Eoploplioms of Lund) there obtains a most unusual anchylosis of three
vertebrrD— to wit, the so-called " trivertebral bone " of Huxley. By him it is regarded as
a union of the 7th cervical and two foremost dorsals. Burmeister, on the other hand,
contended that it was three anterior dorsal vertebrae in union, although this authority in
his later memoirs seems to have modified his opinion in favour of the former view. It is
highly interesting, then, to find in

Tolypeutes an approach to the unique condition
exliibitcd by those old armour-plated giants in this particular, furthermore to trace in
the living three-banded Armadillo
evidence of two other peculiarities of the fossil forms,
viz. a partial ginglymoid jointing in
the lumbar region, and a synovial articulation
betwixt manubrium and first
mesosternal piece. The condition of the parts certainly
v? not precisely Hke
that of the fossil genera ; stiU
one may assume that what obtains is a
first stage of anomaly..

Perchance it may help to explain difficulties as regards trunk-
flexion m
the extinct^solid cuirassed
forms, or at least strengthen the clue to affinities
and habits.
°
the h,« o.ad.1 vcrtobrr. and

continue after the ante™,
H««pophr,c. .„, articulated to the
interspace, between
As respects the representative of the Glyptodon " triyertebral bone " in Tolypeutes, tlie
of the last cervical is firmly soldered to the first dorsal. An intervertebral line of
body
demarcation barely appreciable except at the outer margins. Between the lammse a
is
deHcate fissure can in part be traced. The spinous processes are separate, the cervical only
impingmg against the root of the dorsal indeed in this case the fragile diminutive
^ ;
7th cervical spine was broken off during manipulation, whereby an incomplete arch is
shown in my plates. Of the two vertebrae in question their transverse processes and
associated articular facets are alone apart. The cervical transverse process is slightly
the longer of the two, bears a trace of bifurcation, and appears to have no vertebral
foramen at its foot as has the vertebra in front of it {i. e. 6th cervical). The body of the
2nd dorsal, while closely adnate to the 1st, exhibits a shade less of anchylosis than be-
^
tween the latter and 7th cervical. Its long neural spine is free, and rakes backwards like
that immediately preceding it.
Separation between the 2nd and 3rd dorsals is more marked ; and, as far as I could
make out, the fore thoracic flexion takes place betwixt them. The remaining dorsals
have thin intervertebral cartilages, and but very slightly play upon each other.
A small, backwardly extending, tuberous ridge on each side of the inferior surface of
the body of the 2nd lumbar announces the presence of haemapophysial elements, which
otherwise are wanting in the spinal column, save the tail. The final lumbar vertebra is
firmly anchylosed to the sacrum and ilia ; the penultimate is securely fastened to tliat
behind, but without osseal adherence. Between the 3rd and 2nd there is, on the con-
trary, such freedom of movement that the .pelvic region flexes upon this interrertebral
space in an up-and-down direction, equivalent, in fact, to a kind of giuglymoid arll-
culation. What I have termed the psoas ligaments, fastened anteriorly to the h;rmal
processes, are the lower stays of this restricted lumbar joint. The first and, indeed,
second lumbar act somewhat in unison with the posterior dorsals, so far as angular tilt
of the dorsal lumbar region is concerned.

In my specimen ossific union had taken place between the tuberosities of the ischium
and the transverse processes of the last sacral vertebra. The final sacral and 1st (5audal
parts act upon each other as a ginglymus and ; the solid armoured tail (as one indivisible
piece), in bending downwards and forwards, carries with it the posterior arciform and
inflected apical portions of the pelvic shield {vide figs. 8, 9 & 35). In other words, while
the pelvis and its superincumbent shield descends, its posterior short incurved arch
assumes a horizontal position, the rounded teceral plate of the root of the tail fitting
into the semflunar cavity on the lower surface of said arch and terminal border of
of the transverse
carapace. There further results a ligamentous union between the tips
processes of the 2nd caudal and the pelvic shield, and between the latter and ischial
t
caudal with its rearward

tuberosities. Again, the first moves freely upon the second
former as well as of the last
less yielding
successor ; the transverse processes of the two
sacral possess Thus the 1st caudal in some respects resembles a
sliding articular facets.
fulcrum ligamentous bindings, that remarkable
; and, what between the one and the other
inversion of the border of the pelvic shield la
tail and forward sweep of the terminal
accomplished
ÔL. xsx. R
.
n
DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-B/VNDED ARMADILLO
22
Felvic admeasurements.
inches.
anterior spinous process of ilium to tuberosity of ischium in a straight line 3'6

Length from .
Length from anterior spinous process of ilium to obturator edge of acetabulum ... 2-0
Length from ilio-pectineal eminence (=mid-acetabulum) to outer pubo-ischial tuberosity 1-3
Greatest vertical depth, viz. a line from sacral spine to symphysis pubis 2-0
Narrowest exterior diameter, viz. behind anterior iliac processes (which are a trifle wider) 0-85
Widest outward diameter, at front edge, rim of the acetabulum 175

Width from spine to spine adjoining the lesser sciatic-foramen notches I.45
Diameter taken across the tuberosities of the ischium I.75
Vertical or conjugate diameter of the brim of the pelvis 1-7
Transverse diameter of same , .TO

The obhque diameter (sacro-iliac synchondrosis to opposite outer pubic brim) .... 1-6
From the pubis to the spine of posterior ischio-pubic outlet .1-4

The inner or ischial diameter of the same 1-45
r
Greatest oblique diameter of posterior pelvic outlet . ,

'
. . . . 1"5
The outline of the brim of pelvis is somewliat egg-shaped, the symphysial being rather
wider than the sacral end. The posterior or ischio-pubic outlet, a segment of an oval
in figure, is considerably wider and shorter. The slender symphysis pubis is a wide low
bridge of bone, with distinct centres of ossification from the outspread descending limbs
of the arch. Another point I may as lief note is the presence of a double tuberculous
(dcvation {sp, fig. 35) immediately adjoining what represents an abortive lesser sciatic
notch.
The strong flat and broad first ribs are so firmly fastened to the manubrium as almost
to restrict tliis costo-sternal arch to short antero-posterior movement during the
rcspirafory act. There is not al^solute anchylosis, as M. Nodot ^
and subsequent writers
affirni is the case in Glyptodon ; but it is possible that, as age advances, a true bony
II may also result iiiTolypeutes. Withal it is but a grade of solidification; for
otlu nvise, as concerns respiration &c., the functional effects must have a certain
identity. The 2nd rib has a long ossided costal cartilage (sternal rib), which arti-
culates laterally with the manubrium. The succeeding four ribs, with increased and wide
arching, possess proportionally very
lengthened sternal appendices. These latter are
ahnost entirely true bone, the
semicartilaginous part being that attached to the ribs
and by a synovial joint, as Parker^
has shown in Tatima, Xenurus, and Dasyfus.
Durmg the rolUng-up action of the body the
six anterior (true) ribs and inner segments
have a tendency to be huddled
together and override. As a provision, the sternal pieces
are widest outwards and between each other there exists an articular facet. The
;
sternal appendix of the 7th

(foremost false) rib is united by bone inwardly to the 6tL
i he last (11th) nb is longer
than the 1st, and distinguished from it and the 2nd by being
sti-aighter.
°
Each piece of the hreast-bone has

an interest attached to it; and as a chain of bones
their construction is admh-ably adapted to the animal
modified positions which the
iCay boc. Monog. 1868, Shoulder-girdle and sternum,"

p. 205, dL xxiii.
t)R. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 123
*
assumes. There appear to be five bony segments in all, a number less by one than in
most Armadillo genera. The anterior and posterior are fair-sized, the intermediate
I
ossicles small, the 4th especially so. The stout manubrium (prêsternum) is shghtly
keeled, emarginate anteriorly, or with short claYicular forks. Besides articulations for
1st and 2nd ribs, there are additional facets at the rear outer border for the 3rd ribs-
further a slightly concave articular surface, which receives the convexity of the second
piece (mesosternum) . This opisthocoelous sternal joint corresponds to the Glyptodon
condition, commented on by M.
Serres and others S and by Serres presumed to be a
mechanism concerned in head-retraction. In the embryo Dasypinse, however, Parker has

proved {I. c. p. 206) that it is the rule rather than the exception. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
sternal bones, each octagonal-figured, diminish serially. They are articulated synovially
with four ribs apiece. The 4th diminutive segment is barely visible ventrally, being
partially overlapped by the 6th costse. The xiphoid resembles a flattened caudal
vertebra, but with an outspread cartilaginous apex. It freely articulates by a double
concave facetupon the posterior tuberous surfaces of the inner ends of the Gth sternal
ribs, which meet and exclude opposition with the 4th mesosternal ossicle. The joint is
a true ginglymus and when the viscera are pressed forwards the xiphoid is thrown down-
;
wards and forwards.

ft
3. Pectoral and Pelvic Limbs.
The clavicle is exactly an inch long. It is a thin, uniformly slender rod, with a slight
middle forward curve ; the inner moiety is flattened towards the ribs, the outer reversely
so, or anteroposteriorly compressed. The truncate acromial end is a trifle cxpnndcd, the
opposite tapering ; and this latter is connected with the manubrium through the interven-
tion of a flexible cartilaginous bar, 0*2 inch long. It is mainly the presence of this pliant
sternal attachment that determines the great freedom of motion of tlic scapula &c.
The shoulders being thus readily thrust forwards, conveniently permit of packing and
infolding of the limbs, consentaneous with curvature of the body.
My illustrations of the segments of the limbs of T. conurus elicit the characteristic
points, and, with Owen's remarks on T. tricmctus\ supply what is wanting in detail.
Journ. Anat. ct PhpsioL

oerres, ijompt. Kend., May and June i»t)i); nuxiey,
ilarch 1866 ; Burmeister, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1866, &c.
Fore Leg.
The coracoid is short and obtuse. There is
Scapula.-" The clavicular lialf of the long acromion is an epiphysis.
represented by a subtriangular coarsely ossified
a tubercle beneath the glenoid cavity. The suprascapular element is
cartilage attached to the base of the scapula " (231 0).

Hume rus. « curved
above the inner condyle ''
(2300).
Manxis,—'' The
metacarpal
with the metacarpal
the index is and the trapezium. Tlie unciform^ also supports part
..edged between that metacarpal, the trapezoides,
finger and the rudiment of that of the
of the middle of the fourth
metacarpal, as weU as the short cubical metacarpus
fifth. The index dirit has three nhalanês. The medius and anflularis have each two, and resemble each other m
The chief peculiarity.
grea
Specimen is the very
2
THREE-BANDED ARMADILLo".
DR. J. MURIE ON THE
124
ThP CoUe-o-of-Surgeons
skeleton, however, from the present specimeB mdiffers tie
the fore foot, which appeai-s to be the normal number in the

digits to
possession'of four
ffenus
of tlie tibia and fibula, wbicb are soldered together into
Unlike tlie distal ends
extremities of the radius and ulna possess each a separate epi-
bony piece the inferior
approach and adhere by a thin fibro-cartilaginous film. The
phys These latter
fades of the radius is triangular, slightly concave, and with a descend-

inferior articular
process. The radius glides upon the scaphoid and semilunar
inn- tubercle or styloid
oblong, transversely subcompressed and its depending semi-
bones. The ulnar end is ;
plays in the cuneiform and pisiform trough.

lunar' articular facet
*
large pisiform is applied against the cuneiform, so as to exclude

The proportionally
latter from the pahn. Trapezium, trapezoides, and os magnum are coalescent.
the
What appears to represent the first two on the dorsum articulates with the scaphoid,
metacarpal, and, partiaUy, a corner of the mesial metacarpal. The magnum,

indicial
chiefly abuts against semilunar and unciform, though a small
anchylosed with the last,
scaphoid. The unciform grasps the outer knuckle of the mid
facet is in contact with the
metacarpal, and presents a narrow facet towards the proximal metacarpal of the outer
(4th) digit. ^Posteriorly it is in contact with the cuneiform, and, by an angle, touches
the semilunar. To its outer margin a longish sesamoid is affixed. On the palmar aspect
the 08 magnum is marked by the more prominent backward extension of the mid
metacarpal.
Comparing the foregoing annotation on the manus of the 3-toed animal with Owen's
4-toed specimen {mfra^, the differences consist only in greater anchylosis of inner meta-
carpnls, magnum, and trapezio-trapezoid, with entire absence of the 5th digit.
It is in a great measure owing to this soldering of the main carpo-metacarpals, thereby
producing rigidity, and to the enormous development of palmar sesamoid bone actmg as
support, brace, or fulcrum to the well-knit muscles and broad tendons of the palm, that
tlie animal is empowered to tread upon the very tips of its fore claws.
The powerful femur, contrasted with humerus, is noteworthy, though the character is
foot ; a second sesamoid is attached by ligament to the apex of the large palmar one " (2304). '* The scaphoid is tk
Bmallcdt of the four hones of the proximal row. interspace between

The large pisiform articulates to the posterior
tho lunaro and cuneiform, and forms, with the lunare, a large articular cavity, upon which the palmar patella plays.
There is no distinct trapezium ; if its homologue exist in rudiment, it is connate with the trapezoides. The magnuni
has coalesced with part of the base of the great cubical metacarpal of the digitus medius. part of the base
The outer
of that metacarpal rests upon the unciforme, of the
which also supports the small, but thick, cubical metacarpus
annuliin?, and the rudiment of the metacarpal but two pna-
of the minimus. have each
The medius and annularis
number
Hind Leg.
cj-c—«' The shaft at the
is bent inwards above the base of the third trochanter. There is a small ossification
iartilag
epiphysis " (2313).
i'M— "The Bcai

^ ^ ^„^ ^^^ ^„y Auieiiur Luoerosiues, xne inierspace oetweeu wui'^" ---
the
undorpart of the entocuneiform ^th

bono. The metatarsals and the phalanges of the middle digits are preserved,
ungual
•
PR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 125
belonging to the ^roup rather than a generic distinction. The trochanters

are
equally large, the 3rd rather low in position. The inner, larger condyle descends
furthest. The patella is elongate and narrow.
Tibia and fibula are coossified at either extremity. Their proximal articular surface
is convex, with a mesial sulcus ; their thin distal end biconvex, or with a middle ridge.
An and an internal malleolus are fairly developed. The former fits into a
external
grooved facet on the outer border of the astragalus the latter clasps the said bone ;
behind. There
considerable lateral compression of the tibial and fibular shafts.
is
As respects the 5 -toed hind foot, departure from the normal type is less obvious than
in the manus. The calcaneal process is of medium lensrth,
QW.., ^^^
and „«„
has « slight inward
a „^.
swerve. The inner border of the naviculare sweeps broadly round the astragalus ; and,
as Owen observes, its plantar aspect is doubly knuckled. Upon the outer one of these
and an inferior tuberose enlargement of the cuboid are two opposing facets and a narrow
gutter ; in this the deep-keeled surface of the strong plantar sesamoid slides. Subsidiary
sesamoid ossicles underlie each phalangeal j oint.
1
H
Some measurements of the long bones of the extremities.
inches.
Scapula. —In extreme length (coronoid process to vertebral border) 2"35
Greatest width of vertebral border • • . I'^fj
Diameter^ tip of coracoid process to anterior vertebral corner . . • • 1'65

Humerus. — Extreme long diameter 1'8
Ulna. —In extreme length .•.,, 2'1
Its olecranon process, tip to upper edge 0*7

Radius.—Upper articular surface to end of styloid process ......... r37
Manus. — Greatest length, of wrist-joint
viz. to point of claw phalanx of mid digit . 1'7
Femur. — In extreme length • 2'(*>T)
Perpendicular height, summit of head to end of inner condyle .... 2'3
From upper end of 3rd trochanter to lowest point of outer condyle . . . IS

Tibia.— In extreme length . . . .
2-35
Fibula. — Head to malleolar extremity

J
2-3
Pes. — Greatest length, end of tuber

viz. calcis to tip of mid ungual phalanx . . . 1'7
h
VIII. Considerations respecting the Relations of Tolypeutes.

Without attempting a comparison of all the minutiae, I shall be content to glance at
the points indicative
of alliance, or expressive of functional correlation. The giôup
Loricata, including the famiHes Dasypodid^ and Glyptodontidse, is in some ways a
natural and well-defined one. Nevertheless in it characters crop up directins:, like
finger-posts, to other family relationships. Whilst the Glyptodontes exclusively belong

to the
postpliocene epoch, some of the Dasypodes, on the contrary (exemplified by the,
genera Euphractua and

Tolypeutes), disinterred from the same strata, have survived up
^ the present time, and
that, it seems, without perceptible variation in their organi-
zation. From this it may be inferred that the bulkier forms have been exterminated
^y undetermined causes, which agents have not succeeded in altering or decimating the
iindersized genera. two sorts invaUdates the idea
The contemporaneous existence of the
1
DR. J. MURIE
*
126
the posttertiary epoch. Whatever other geographical
transmutation during
of
01 .n..r
their
" T1 . ..prf .in as vet not fuUy

worked out, it
inhabited
is quite
by the
evident
two
that
families
a
in
partly similar
question.
TsoltlmZ^^^^ at one period
the cainozoic with the recent Loricate fauna
of the chain connecting of
As a link -
Three-handed Armadillo claims paramount interest this because "
SoutirAmerica, the
organization, and because of its exceptional habits, which
of its intermediate structural
of explanation of anomalies in the Hoplophoridge or Glyp
together afford a glimmering
track the significant imprint conformation of the
todontes To read aright or
unknown in the mammalian, indeed in the vertebrate series,"
pinal column hitherto
the latter fossUs, is of itself justification for the present
puts in reference to
is Huxley it
memon*
with theirs not bemg a precise and never can it be so
Biolodsts are taunted
observations enable safe deductions to be drawn. It is by the
till piles" of conscientious
that astronomers, like the prophets of old, dare to predict the
fruits of accumulated labour
whereon human foot has never trod, and eye alone seen. Thus the
Mure path of orbs
'
present, and the future are indissolubly linked, ai d every step brings to
past, the
a clearer meaning of living things.
The latter shows

:uU tndnctus (Linn.).
Dr. Gray viae
the supraorbital bony nodules, a specific character. (Woodcut used by permission of ;
ISO.-,, p. 380, and B. M. Cat.)
DESCEIPTIOK OP THE PLATES.
Tabula XX. '
Fis. L Life-size representation of the animal in its usual trotting attitude. Drawn from a photograph
early
Murie from the dead
according
Tab. XXI.
Fi?. 2. A utmost
profile of the right side
of the carapace, up but not to the
&c, when the body is rolled
limits of its closure.
. ;

127
Fig. 3. Appearance inferiorly when the body is bent together. This figure shows how the head, tai], and
limbs are packed within the partially closed carapace. The body is less bent than in the
ure
r
Fig. 4. The palmar surface of tlie riglit fore foot.
Fig. 5, Sole of the left hind foot as far as the heel.

These four drawings (Nos. 2 to 5) are exact copies of photographs from the dead animal; in
the case of figs. 2 & 3, the body was flexed into a position similar to what had
been observed
during life. Each figure corresponds in dimensions to nature. The lettering, applicable
to allj is as subjoined.
Cp^ cephalic shield, /&#

Sc^ scapular shield. drawn
PVy pelvic shield. hf & hj^, right and left hind feet ; the sole and
T, tail. Fj_
nails of same peering out of their re-

Z\ first, spective chambers.
Z^j second, movable zones. Tchy tail -chamber.
Z^ third. Psy penis retracted and bent alongside tlio tail
ea^ ear. II, III, IV indicate nail-digits, fore and liind

ey^ eye, its surroundii . foot respectively.
Sn, snout where bare. A, heel.
+
c, callous cushion or pad.
Tab. XXII. r
Fig. 6. A view of the under or abdominal surface of the animal, with head and tail cxtendc^d, and tlic
limbs more or less withdrawn into their shield-cavities. This figure is slightly less than natural
-
size, and lithographed from a photograph by Dr. Murie.

^y> Eye seen closed; ea^ ear upturned; Sc, scapular, and Pv, pelvic shields; Q?, lateral
margin of cephalic plate ; Z', Z^, Z^, movable zones intumed
post-inferior end of the pelvic shield; Ay the wide anal aperture; Pe Pe^, penis; hf,
hind foot and leg partially withdrawn ; HI ch, left-hind-k
three nails being visible between the pointers; Fl ch, unoccupic
portion of the fore-leg chamber.
Tab. XXIII.
diagrammatic Tl
latter has been removed to about the median line of the back.
.pular and pelvic shields and three movable zones of the left side, seen on the
drags Drawn
slightly less than natural size oCTanh, and from
The Csps, contractor of the scapulo-pelvic
on edge in fig. 7 and below in fig. 8, where

shields Sc, scapular, and Pv, pelvic shields, seen
their marginal scutes and scales are visible; Z^Z", Z\ moyable zones, their cut edges and
inferior surfaces terminally tipped with fiairs.
Fig. 9. Tolypeutes conurus in profile, when rolled up as in fig. 2, only in this case in a reversed attitude, or
IT
on the left side. dermal armour
the body, head, limbs and tail stowed in the least possible space Part of t])e togiiment
away
remains on the limbs. 7)
Litho
.nnii
graphed from
. .
THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO
128 MURIE ON THE
hf, hind foot
shoulder over the scapula.
Sh,
fore leg in
thoracic region. ff,
Rbj ribs on the
ar f pelvic sh
hip-joint.
Hp, prominence of
preceding
K
abdomen, displaying the visceral relations.
Reduced sketeh of the opened
Fig la
L, liver; St, stomach; spleen; duo, %
glimpse of the duodenum; it, coils of smaU
ileum
^^, left testicle.

being absent; Pe, penis;
abdominal cavity, the stomach, intestines, &c. being removed.
Fig. 11. Another sketch of the
urmary
î, gaU-bladder; L, liver; 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, its several lobes.
Tab. XXIV.
Muscles
tail. The limbs of the left side have been taken away.
1
asp, anterior spinous process of ilium. Tz, trapezius.

f
tb, ischial tuberosity. Lad, latissimus dorsi.
ar, parts of arch of pelvic shield^ the inner Dep, Dorsi epitrochlear.
articulating with tuber ischii. T^ & T\ triceps,, first and second divisions,
tu, tubercles studding dermal bony armour D, deltoid.
of dorsal surface of tail. Pma, pectoralis major.
pi, osseous plates ventral superficies of tail^ Ba, brachialis anticus.

also anchylosed to the caudal vertebrse- Ecr^ & *j extensor carpi radialis^ longior and
Inc, infracoccygcus. brevior.
L
Sc, tendon sacrococcygeus. Ecd, extensor communis digitorum.

Lee & i, Levatores caudae, extemus and in- El, extensor indicis.
ternus.
r
Emd, extensor medii & minimi digiti.
Led, r(^prcsentative of lumbocaudalis. Ecu, Extensor carpi ulnaris.

GmXj gluteus maximus. Ecu, Flexor carpi ulnaris.
I
Tvf, tensor vaginae femoris. Fs

*
& Ep, combined flexor sublimis, pro-
Rf, rectus femoris^ in part. fundus J and longus pollicis.
Ve, vastus externus. Bhc, rhomboideus capitis.

Bf, biceps femoris. Ah, acromio-basilar^ or levator claviculse
M
Admff^ adductor magnus. muscular slip.

8m k t, semimembranosus and -tcndinosus. Co, complexus.
*, slip of tendon from cutaneous muscle^ and gl, submaxillary and parotid glands.
acting on pelvic shield. T, resenôir or sacculus of the submaxillary
Goj gastrocnemius.
gland.
So, flolens.
^d, Steno's duct.
k
L
Flh Fed, flexor longus hallucis and flexor

Ma, masseter.
communis digitorum. Bu, buccinator.
P\ peroueus longus.
Te, temporalis.
PS a
9
ft
} poroneus brcvis, tertius, and quin-
op, orbicularis palpebrarum.
tus tendons.
^y zygomatic muscular fibres.
Eld, extensor longus digitorum.
Oo, orbicularis oris.
pe, penis.
ton, infraorbital plexus of nerves.
Eo, external oblique, nasict
8mg, serratus maguus
\ 2, 2^ 3, 4, retractores or levatores
I
(its digitations)
labii (consult text)
;

129
Fig. 13- The distended stomach and the spleen.
<£, oesophagus ; duo, duodenum ; sp, spleen.
Fig. 14. A transverse section of the kidney, showing calyces, papilla, &c.
Fig. 15. A dissected view of the genital parts, the penis being cut across towards its root.
UB, urinary bladder; Pr, prostate gland; Cgl, Cowper's gland, below and anterior to which
is a section of the crus penis; Be, bulbo-cavernosus ; Isc, ischio-cavernosus, in part; Rp,
retractores penis severed.
Tab. XXV.
Fig. 16. Heart and lungs of the Three-banded Armadillo, somewhat in the position they assume when the
body is rolled up, but shrunk after immersion in spirits.
1, 3, 3, lobes of right and left lung; i^ innominate artery; rs^ Is^ right and left subclavlaus
TCj ICj the common carotids, right and left.
Fig. 17. A view of the mouth, soft palate, &c.

Fig. 18. The tongue (7^ as retracted within the lower jaw, the fleshy gums being left attached.
cpy circumvallate or fossulate papillae ; cr, coronoid process ; cd^ condyle.
Fig. 19. Sketch of the interior of the mouth at the root of the tongue, to display the isthmus and pilluri*
of the fauces when contracted. About aatural size

Tj tongue; /o, tonsillar recess; u, u\Tila; ep, epiglottis dividing the pharyngeal paspnge.
Fig. 20. Another sketch of the faucial cavity, the velum pendulum palati being cut through and reflected
and the glottis &c. exposed.
rff, rima glottidis ; <?jt?, epiglottis ; gef, glosso-epiglottic folds.

Fig. 21. The hyoid bones, the larynx, and the upper portion of the trachea in profile and of natural
dimensions.
Fig. 22. The same parts in front, i.e. their inferior aspect.
:— T, thyroid cartilage; C, cricoid cartilage; m, crico-
\
The lettering to these is as follows

thyroid membrane or ligament; tr, trachea; bh and th, united basihyal and thyrohyal
elements; ch, ceratohyal; eA, epihyal; sh, stylohyal tipped with (^) a cartilaginous apex.
Fig. 23. Bones of the right three-toed fore foot of this d specimen of Tolypeutes commas, shown in three-
quarters lateral view —that is, partly from the front and outside.
same
sesamoidea
remain.
surfaces
right manus.
^, scaphoid; /, Innarej c, Cuneiform;
three forcffoine: figures
pisiform m, magnum «, unciform mc, metacarpals
; /, trapezio-trapezoid ; ; ;
sesamoidea
%- 25. The right hind foot, its upper articular superficies.
%. 26. foot, the tarsal, metatarsal, and phalangeal
Sole, or under view, of the bones of the same
sesamoid ossicles being left in place. .
m, iv, v. Of the tarsal bones, a» signifies

In these two fi.o.,res the dirits are marked i, ii,
cb, cuboid; c\ internal cuneiform

calcaneum: na, navicnlare;
cuneiform ; c', external cuneiform ; s, several sesamoid bones.
Fig. 27. atemtira
The
sternal
s
XXX
. : ;
DR. J. MURIE ON THE ARMADII

130
neck-vertebrae are exhibited with less angularity than is natural to

cartilages. Tlie tlie
parts.
atlas 3, 3, 4, coalesced bodies of the axis, third, and
C the cervical series ; 1, ; fourth
rcrtebne; 5, fifth; 6, sixth, and 7, the seventh nuchal segment; c/, clavicle; /, fibrocar-
tilaginous inner end of clavicle (the precoracoid piece of Parker) ; R\ first rib; sr", sr\ second
and sixth sternal ribs ; m, manubrium or praesternum; j?, xiphisternum ; *, terminal cartila ge
of same.
surface
and showing in part the open spinal canal.
C, cervical series ; 1, atlas ; 2, 3, conjoined second and third vertebrse ; 4, partially separate
arch of the fourth cervical; 5, 6, 7, succeeding cervicals, the last somewhat adherent to the
dorsal ; 2)', first dorsal ; D^, second dorsal vertebra.
Fig. 29. A front view of the seventh cervical and foremost two dorsal (= the trivertebral bone of Huxley
in the Glyptodon) vertebral ribs and manubrial portions. Letters as in the two preceding figures
and all these of natuiâl dimensions.
Fig. 30. Posterior surface of the last sacral vertebra and anchylosed ischial tuberosities, showing the
articular facets of ischia whereon the bony arch of the pelvic shield play during cunâture of
the body and inflexion of tail.
/i, tuberosity of ischium; ^, wide transverse process of sacral vertebra; 5, body; c, spinal
canal; 7?/, postarticular facet; af^ process surmounting auterior articular facet; Wj neural
spine.
Fig. iiL Sketch showing foreshortened view of the fleshy snout and open nares; Uy narial orifices, with
incurved sesamoid cartilages.

Fig. 32. Dissection, lower aspect of, of jaws, neck, and chest. On the left side a superficial, and on
the right a deep layer is exhibited. Reduced to about -| nat. size. Lettering employed
as undermentioned
On right side. On left side.
Ch, gcniohyoidcus. Mhj mylohyoideus ; Ma^ masseter.

%; styloglossus. Shy, stylohyoideus ; /, trachea.
hi/, hy])()glossal nerve. Sthy sternohyoideus.
ffjj hyoglosstis muscle. Stm, sternomastoid, and Stm* its thoracic
ra^ carotid artery. extension.
Hama^ rectus capitis anticus major. Clrrij cleidomastoid ; Dj deltoid.
Cj)x, cervical plexus of nerves (included Pmi, pectoralis minor, near insertion.
within dotted line) Pma. pectoralis major; By biceps.
Bpx, brachial plexus of nerves. Ty triceps^ its third and fi.rst divisions.
Sh, 8ub('hivius muscle.
Aiy anconeus intemus.
Spc, supracostahs.
Lad, latissimus dorsi ; Eoy external oblique.
reatly reduced sketch, in profile, of some of the pelvo-femoral muscles

Os, a portion of the so-called oblique
sacral muscle as it traverses the great sciatic foramen
m, great sciatic nerve at diiferent parts of its course Ge, gemelli
; i7, iliacus ; Py, pyriformis ;
% quadratus femoris j Rf, rectus femoris ; Fe, vastus externus ; Adl, small portion of the
adductor lougU8 //, the ilio-femoral strip of muscle adductor

:
; Bf, biceps femoris ; Admff,
magnui Smb & i, semimembranosus and -tendinosus trochanter.
;
j 1 the great, and 3 the third
I'j
diaphragm
part
been exposed by rrrnent of
mid
;:;

131
Dph, diaphragm, Q/, quadratus lumborum emerging from

vc orifice of vena cava. chest.
oe, oesophagal openings beneath which is the IpSj ilio-psoas muscle.
aortic cleft. Pe^ pectineus.
H; heart. Lj lung.
infracaudal
aOj abdominal aorta, Scy sacrococcygeus.
psl, psoas ligament. IsCy part of ischiococcygeusj at origin
-
akuy external iliac artery and anterior crural Osj oblique sacral muscle.
nerve. Pj pubic arch.
iij internal iliac arterial division 0/ obturator foramen.
Tab. XXVI.
Pig. 35. Aside view of the eudoskeleton of Tolypeutes conurus, minus the limbs, in illustration of the
curvature of the spine and the manner in which skull (in outline) and tail are tucked together
when the body is rolled up : compare figs. 2, 3 & 9. Nearly nat. size. A cut portion of the
inferior arch of the pelvic shield remains in situ.
Fig. 36. Bones of the pelvis and tail, from above, the carapace being removed. Reduced in size.
Letters in this and preceding figure correspond, and are as follows:— C, cervical rcvteLraej
a
1/ atlas; 2,3, coossified axis to third; 4, 5, 6, 7, remaining ncck-picccs; x, xiphistermim
(arrow) pointing between 2nd and 3rd lumbar vertebrae denotes the axis or hinge of cur-
vature of the posterior part of the spinal column ; s, spinous process, or ncurapophysis
m^ metapophysis ; h^ h^mapophysis ; af^ articular facets^ or anterior zygapophyiics ; pf, post-
articular facets (= postzygapophyscs) ; b^ body and haemal process ; t, transvcne pro<x'S>
chy chevron bone (= hoemapophysis) ; Z*, last lumbar vertebra ; ass, anterior tupcrior f^pinr
(crest of ilium) : aisj anterior inferior iliac spinous process; a^ acetabulum; ffsf, great sriatic
foramen; ofy obturator foramen; p, pubic arch; sp placed between two tubercles equivalent t(*
a double ischial spine; tb, tuberosity of ischium; ar, section of part of the bony arch of the
exoskeletal pelvic shield.

Fig. 37. The left humerus, its anterior face. Of natural size.
dj deltoid eminence ; cf^ condyloid foramen ; h, head ; o, outer, and i inner tuberosities.
Fig. 38. Exterior surface of the same bone.
Fig. 39. A lower segment of the humerus on its internal aspect.
Fig. 10. Left radius and ulna on their outer aspect.
Fig. 41. The same bones as seen from behind.
U, ulna; R, radius; s, sigmoid notch ; o, olecranon; st, styloid process of the radium.
Fig. 42. A segment of the right scapula, to exhibit by a post-inferior view,>, the glenoid surface, and
a, the inner curvature of the acromion.

Fig. 43. The outer dorsal superficies of the same entire shoulder-blade, also of nat. size.
a, acromion; m, metacromion; c, coracoid;^, glenoid fossa ;

pi, ossified post-inferior angle.
Fig. 14. Left femur, from the front /' and f third trochanter.
: f greater, lesser,
rig. 45. Inner border of same thigh bone A, head.
%
:
46. Front aspect of the left tibia {T) and fibula (F) ; ep, lower epiphysis.
^\ 47. Their united inferior articular surface, L e. part of ankle-joint. This and last nat. size.
% 48. A foreshortened view of the hinder end of the left lower jaw.
cr, coronoid process ; cd^ condyle ; «, angle of mandible.
^g- 49. Inferior base of the skull of the Three-banded Armadillo [Tolypeutes comrus) .
'^g- 50. Skull and inferior maxilla in profile.

. .
MURIE ON THE ARMADILLO

132 DR. J.
bra
Fig. 51. Cranium from above.
aiT
Che lettering iu them bears correspondence,
figur
na, anterior apertures of nares.
N,
aj)y anterior palatine foramen.
OS, prenasal ossicles
Jia, foramen laceruna anterius.
Pmx, premaxillaiy bone.
fifUj foramen laccrum medius.
Mx, maxillary (superior).
fip, foramen lacerum posterius.
Fj frontal.
Lj lachrymal,
mSy maxillary sinus (= antrum maxillare).
fsy frontal sinuses.

Mqj malarôr jugal
cffy crista galli (preethmoid)
Pa, parietal.
opy optic foramen.
Sq, squamosal.
sp^ sphenoidal fissure.
Ty, tympanic.
Boj basioccipital. fo^ foramen ovale.
Bs, hasisphenoid. .
fsy foramen spinosum.
Psy presptcnoid. fry ? foramen rotundum.
iSj alisphenoid. vCy Vidian canals,
Osy ortito-splienoid, ^flj carotid aperture.
E, ethmoid (cribiform plate) pff, postglenoid foramen.
P/, palatine. tyhy tympanohyal ossicle.
srygoid me^ meatus auditorius internus,

nf] aCj anterior condyloid foramen.
/, mental foramina, frriy foramen magnum.
m, nuistoid process, la, depression of lateral sinuses.
mf, postmaîtoidal f< aJ angle of lower jaw.
e, condyle.
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Trans. LiNN^ SocyoL.XXX.TAB.22
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133
TV Enumeration of tfie Orchids collected by the Uev. E. 0. Parish in the neighbour"
hood of Moiiimein-i tvith Descriptions of the new Species. By Frofessor H. G.
Beichenbach, f.
(Plates XXVII.-XXXII.)
Read April 17th 1873.
Moulmein had been visited by Wallich's coUectors, by Dr.

The neio-hbourliood of
by
by Dr. Griffith, the eminent English botanist, and
Heifer tbe° German botanist,
English collector for the firm of Messrs. Veitch.
Thomas Lobb, the
William Hooker acknowledged the receipt of very interest
Beo-innino- with 1859, Sir
o^"^""o
from Mr. E. 0. Parish and Dr. Lindley spoke very
m^ Moulmeinese plants coming ;
few specimens of Orcliids he obtained from the same

hi^lily of and
the sketches, of a
and more Mouhneinese Orchids appeared in the trade,
source. At the same time more
Fhalcenopsis Lowii and a crowd of wonderful Dendrobia
amongst which the beautiful
were kept secret. It was, however,
were the most striking. The names of the collectors
were sent by Mr. Parish and Colonel Benson.

afterwards well known that the plants
specimens and sketches sent
The rich Kew Herbarium contained several interesting
home 1871 he brought with Inm a
hv the first-named gentleman. When he came in
drawings, with analytical sketches, which
beautiful collection of careful water-colour
of specimens and copies of the
have proved exceedingly trustworthy. The collection
possessor. Havmg been
drawings were presented to the Kew establishment by their
collection, I have compared them with the

invited to undertake the examination of the,
my duty to acknow-
types preserved at Kew and with those in my own collection. It is
correctly. I have theretore

ledge that Mr. Parish had done his best to name the plants
affixed to aU the new species here described Mr. Parish's as well as my own name.
generally widely spread over the
The Indian terrestrial Orchids, which appear to be
and even Northern Australian
In'dian, Southern Chinese, Southern Japanese, Mahiyan,
most strikmg plant is tne
areas, contain a few very curious things, among which the
more than thirty years ago by my unlortunate

beautiful Gymnadema Helferi, discovered
countryman.
Up i. tt + +1
to tne*»
the Malayan types.
The Epiphytes show a great tendency to approach
Assam species appear, such as
elevation of 5000 ft., where some of the Himalayan and
Calauthe biloba, Fhalcenopsis Parishii, Ccelogyne precox, ^'i^^^^^^^^^'^'f

'"'^^'vprv
find numerous species with a decided Malayan aspect or
numerous Erias and Bolbophyllums, the

^^^l^'^^^^^^
Thrixspermums, liieiasises, Trichocrlottis
o
mentioned as proofs.
lienantheras, Appendiculas, and Podochiluses may be
new hght upon ^^âny, none
Excepting, perhaps, those plants which throw an entirely
are more welcome long time. I may name tuo oi tnai
than such as have been lost for a
insufficient materials
kind: 1. Dr.Lindley's Oheronia Myosurus, named from very
T
XXX
134 PROF. REICHENBACH ON THE ORCHIDS COLLECTED BY
gathered at Taka, in Nepal, 1821 (and unluckily combined with an Eria of the
sectio
Fhreatia, the Upidendmm myosurus of Porster), has appeared once more in the
present
and in such a state as to enable me to give a full description.
collection,
2. Much more fortunate for us was the rediscovery of the genus

Monomeria of Dr
Lindley. It has only been found once by Wallich's collectors. When Dr Lindley
described it, he regarded it as the only Orchid that had no petals, though he afterward
found a similar instance in Aviceps; and I have observed it in ^n Acianthus. The
Lindleyan dictum as to Monotneria proves, however, to be a mistake, very easily
under-
stood from the miserable state of his specimen. The petals were ascertained to be
present in the Moulmeinese plant and I afterwards observed them in the Nepalese
;
plant also. Thus the plant would have been degraded to a very
indifferent BulhophyU
Imn if Mr. Parish had not observed that it bore the full poUen-apparatus
of the VandecB,
I have the fullest belief in the statement, but feel very
sorry I could not see it myself*
since no anthers were at my disposal.
It is a very cumstance that Orchids appear to change a good deal under
climatic influences. Such altered forms I have retained as subspecies; but to any .__
who judged the plants not by dissection of the flower, but by general appearance, they
would appear to be new species, as, for instance :^ CQ?%y?^^ ochracea,
subspecies con-
ferta, a stout little plant, exceedingly unlike
the taU Assam form and Bolbophyll
cupreum, subspecies stemsepalmn.
Aerldes crassifolimi might be mentioned as a third
instance. It is closely alhed to
Aerides falcatum, Lindl. {A. LarpentcB of gardens),
of which the geographic origin ap-
pears to be unknown up to the present day.
I have been induced, however, by the very
different shape and thickness of the
leaves, to keep it as a species, the more so as the
colours of the flowers are very different.
I may have made a mistake in doing so.
Vegetable morphology, finally, has gained
something by the coUection of Rabenaria
pelonoidcs, a JLahenaria having six nearly
equal parts of the perigonium, like a ^cilla or
an Ormthogalum, without any spur. It is
a very remarkable instance, bearing a highly
curious analogy to the weU-known
JDendroUum normale, Pale, and the Aclinia of Grif-
fith, notes on which, by
Dr. Lindley, are to be found in the Journal
of the Linnean Society,
vol. 111. pp. 9-11.
Bulhophjllmn Umniscatum, however, is the greatest glory of all the discoveries of

Mr. 1 arish, a Bulbophyllum having,
at the point where the chief vascular bundle of the
sepals ends, a long, thin, nearly
cylindrical, horny body, half pellucid, with ten wmgs
radiating from the thin filiform
axis, like the spokes of a wheel. This organ is deciduous-
Whether has any use in the economy of
it
the plant, or is a beautiful ornament only, we
do not know ^^^
^^""''^ flowered at Kew and a
T^ f
• 1 -ar ; figure was given by Dr. Hooker in the
Botanical Magazine for
1872 (tab. 5971). The minute investigation
of these
exceedingly difficult, on
account of their thinness and want I
of entire peUucidrty
hopL to give a better account
Ino ^^-x« i,-4.i ,
J. ,
in a short time. The o.lv
^ only
""V fT..'..
thing
i-iA^ni? L'V.
like
liJie .!,........«
those
inose organs
origans w
which
l\LiJ fT""^
threads are represented
'' ^^ ^- ^^^^^'« J-^-- genus ^^/m«.^te, whei
^ *
in lieu of the petals.
After these few general
remarks I proceed to give the list of the species, with
THE REV. E. C. PARISH IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MOULMEIN 135
descriptions of those whicli I regard as new under the authority Parish and
Keichenhaoh
Catalogue of the observed Sp
A. MONANDRY. 27. Thunia Bensonae, HooJc.f. Bot. Mag. t. 5694

28. pulclira, Rchb.f. in Flora, 1872, p. 276
I. OPHRYDEiE.
29. Galeola altissima, Rchb.f. Xenia, ii. 77?
angustifoHa, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch.
1. Aceras
P.283. 3. Vande^.
Platanthera Susannse, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch.
2.
30. Monomeria Crabro, Par. et Rchb. f.
p. 295.
31. Thecostele alata, Par. et Rchb.f.; Thecostele
/
Zollingeri, Rchb. f, Seem. Bonpl. v. 37
p. 276.
constrictus^ Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. (1857) ; Xenia, ii. t. 147 p. 133; Cymbi-
!
4. Peristvlus
300.
dium alatum, Roxb. !
p.
Orch 32. Acriopsis indica, Wight, Ic. t. 1748.
5. goodyeroides, Lindl. Gen. et Sp.
33. ]siv iimcd,, Reinw. in Flora, 1825, ii. 4;
p. 399.
Blume, Bijdr. 376 ; conf Syll. PI. Ratisb.
6. Parishii, Rchb.f.
Habenaria pelorioides, Par. et Rchb. f. 1829, L.
7.
34. Calantlie biloba, Lindl. Fol. Orch. ; Calanthe,
8. tipulifera. Par. et Rchb.f.
Rchb n. 5, var. obtusata, Par. et Rchb. f.
9. chlorina, Par. et .
f.
10. digitata, Lindl Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 307. 35. Eulopbia graminea, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch.
11. spatulsefolia^ Par. et Rchb. /. p. 182.
36 andamensis, Rchb. f. in Flora, 1872,

12. vidua, Par. et Rchb. /.
13. corjinbosa. Par. et Rchb. /- p. 276.
37. bracteosa, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch.

U. trichosanthaj Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch.
324. p. 180.
II- Operculat-^, 38. Cyrtopera Macrobulboii, Par. et Rchb.f.
39. Cymbidium tigrinum, Par. Bot. Mag. t.

1. Neottiaceê.
5457.
15. Cnemidia semilibera, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch
40. Parishii, Rchb. f.
p. 463. Bot. Zeit. 1862,
Lowii, Rchb.f. in
41. Phalaenopsis
16. Wight t. 1727.
p. 214.
17.
42. /
18.
p. 410.
19. Griffitliii, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc.
43. Wiffhtii, Rchb. f
i. p. 188.
p. 214.
20.
/.
4.4 /
21. Monochilus flavum. Wall
Chron. 1872, p. 699. J '
Orch. p. 487. Hook

45. ttonia Ch^mpioni, -
^fVi firia moulmeinensis. Par. et Rchb. f.

Journ. yii. p»35.
23. Haemaria discolor, Lindl., var. Dawsoniana,
46. Luisia brachystachys, Lindl., ^
/•
/
/. in Walp
2. Arethuseve. 47
p. 622.
/ Bot. Zdt, 1863,
25. flabelliformis, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch 48 /
p. 415. p. 38.
26. primulina. Par. et Rchb.f.
maculata, Par. et Rchb.
f.
49
t2
Fnor. RrirHEJciAtM cut the onrmp^ cdi f
•^
..î bt
136
riiM "^îA*/ •• r* A II
Of*
»»' » \ •'^
1' p.ur fe ifc^ i.i*U r«w
t T» Ii
Sft
u-i^ t
51.
n M f i
fku <¥•
CO. M 1 vifi^
XfTpr r h L
•'Û^.
UrAk/. Xi »• ^ f I 4 r
•8.
S4. n*^ ii m m^-hp. t !l,
«&»^ W p KW.
53
Ik Om ^%(M
ill. p. SI9 : P *k i^ni
%
9. Om. Orr* rr •»t iw. a«iGi--
.J%] t.
5«. C JIM i»P7 c^ y

71.
ii. S *^
tsT«A. MtkL /w /••* if
p.5::>.
I Kf IPI WHt
Dtiiro H V
f \l JUkkf H tip. Au. tL
PlÎ
59 OSTpkjlIift. Huii. Got. W <^. Oti
XITI. .*/ ( <•
-l
12S. P-
^^^
60 , iUMk f. m ZiH. lift;. ifflîM.
p. 159.
61 lUU. f.m 4
P 2
62. ^\ HtM,/, Hamk, Cmi. IVr. wi Ji^.f.
Zeti. 1M5. ^ T-.X rt im Gm4,
!«©, p. 674. U^ ft. Ortk Coek«. n. I
.
ns t eretilnliii, V\ii\,Gm.ftÔmk.V^\ Vl
Aiendft Lma.Le,24!i Htkk.J.
!H7l, ,t
p.9^« 171
p.
Pm.HiUUf
67. Thrix,', rniBTn n.*
r, HRcJkkf.
68.
IMS,
6U. Ittnifcram, i<cM /. in C«rrf. Ohr«« liyiH. 97
p. 786.
70 (^vtUwiiBi /IcjW./
71
\.
Blu,^, Byd. p. J91.) *« ^^''^
i'*^**
Rchk, /.
;/j
7^. Aeride. 1
f'liiufltt, P«r. e/ /If Ad. !rW
/ •uk vt p. ">C
73. ^\ Ifhtiiiittin, lliaii«rrHi.fl/.5y*"
JLiiwir. Gem, et .-/> Ore* ion D» .afw*i^
p. 238. '••^ '' '''**'^*
101 LrU WMMBdjilHt,
THE BfV. «. f FARIîll TllB !fF!nnBOURH^>OD OF MOULM 18 I
i02. En 1
J
138. Dr* 'robin m mtiltiil.tniiw, Par. etRchh.f.
103. t
I"!. L»mdl. m Jou::. IMm. tSoe. iu.
itoiulata. Par. ti H'M /, p. 8.
105.
1$:. IK^|M, Hw. h A. A.Hotm. 1 HuO, p. 216.
Anil, WrAA. / !• II ^./» -lo* '^ Ik ifOi 188 ptA ljyg!'^**nin, Pmt.elPckb.f.
106.
107.
/{rM. /. I« F**. /-^ ? I 137. biMlM fulmsi, Par, rt Rckb. f.
^4l 1 Pindkjrîtm, Par, tt Rchb. f.
in«. bol(^;k)ii*A, Par, "* Rtkk / 189 PuUu, Prkk. f. im Bot. /^t. 1663,
p- Ir JM. MtHf. t. 5-1^.
no. 140 fnnit*''>«iNtroum . Prhh. /. f»» B©#. 7.rit.
111. e)<.n||Btl, Griff /iMtt. itt /im

89e. III. p. 19. 141. Dt \oiuADum, Part. Mag. i. p. 1G9, ^,
Hi. -^, Liudf Tf •

l^y. IttC Mhe
p. 7tf. iNdS, p.
113. \m,UmdlHl >^ p. SO II? «'i •abriUagn^, fAn^t. im Jowm. Liun.

111. yikhlHi, J^ndML g IW lial.l/.» " . "ui. p. 15.
10«. 113. enuneiuitiuu, 8m. im Act. Ihhn. 1 :'j:i

f
115. p. 246.
116. hTb Lmi//., Pikrf FT. CaI. i 144. tutum, Umdi. Bot. Peg- 1840, jrwc.
p. ir'> p. 110.
iir. affinb, Or|/. yofii/. lu. p. ib« 145. , Rckb. J. imGard. Chron. 1867,
118. mrruiu. ....f ir k. Bot, M^ u p-bi^r.
5415. 146 lutfioiinn. in Boi. Mag. t
119. rrlupndobQnwn, Par. rt RtM.f. 6441.

120. concolor, Par. ei Jltkk. /. 147. *- I
lie. Par. im C^d. Ckrtm. 1865,
151. oonTallarioidos, Lmil. Gem. €t 8ft. Orrh p. 114.
148. dixantHum, Rehb. im Card. Ckrom.

p. 10. J.
122. (ka^pusy Rtkb. f. tm . 2W/. \^>%, 1865, p. 67}.
416. 113. anfoUitam, Lindl. Gtn. et Sp. Orch.
p.
123. Crlffithii, nÂ./. Xnmm.u.^\K^. p. 7'^

124. flonhnnda, UmiL Bui. Ay. 1810^ 160 mipidafnni, WuO., Lindl. Bot. Reg,
Miac. p. 56, 1841 , 3/«c. p. 7^
125 ringea*, Hckk./ im P^tt^ 18M,r :?• 131 pcguanum, Lindf. m Juwrm. Linn. Sac.
12G, iwmil.i, Unitl Om, ft ^p. Or, ',. p. 68. ui. p. 1 9.
127, lucrgucnM^ Lintfl.mJmm. I '->
pvcT'ftX'hTUin, Lfftd!. in Joum. lAmn
ai, Sw. 152
iii. p. 52. 8m
128. Cr)iitochilu8 bicaincratum, Lindl 1839
mcinLi, Pmr rt Rtm, f. Ijo.
85 fr>. bri \iflorum, Undl. in Jmtm
5. AIalaxidi
129. Dcndrobimu rowtm, Wnff/. lul rmm. Lindf. im Joum Soc.

.-». .
ifel. /J^.
1811, 3ruc. p. 86 (D. tobttna, LiMtf. «i iii. p. IS.
Jowm. Lhn. Soe, îtchiamun, Batem. im Bot. Mag. t.
lu. p. 4). 155.
130. Hook.
atpopui pureiun , Mtg. Vt Imi. Bat. m, 5 VU {$ub D. barbulato obiter ; cfir. f.
Bot.Mag.t.59\S).
131.
tcrminale, Par. et Pchb, moachatum, TTall. Pt. As. Rar. ii. p. 83,
J.
156.
132.
culoplotum, Undl. in Jtmm. L inn Soe. L 195.
ui. p. 4. Pa^. Mag. xi. p. 145.
i::. Dulhottsianum,
Par. in Bot. Mag. 187. Bulbopbyllum Lindleyanum, Griff. Notul

158. Dendrobium ciliatum.
5430. P 287.
t.
1 59. — xanthophlebium, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 188, - gracile. Par. et Rchb. f.

- limbatum. Par. et Rchb.f.
1857, p. 268. 189
160. — Jamesianum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 190 - triste, Rchb.f. in

- odoratissimum, LindL Gen.
Walp, Ann. vi. 253.
191 et Sp. Orch.
1869, p. 551.
161. — draconis, Rchb. f. 1863, p. 55.
192 radiatum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch

p. 214.
162. — infundibiilum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. p. 55.
Soc. iii. p. 16. 193. stenobulbon, Par. et Rchb.f.
163. — cumulatum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 194. lasiochilum. Par. etRchb.f.
1855, p. 756. 195. pumilio. Par. et Rchb. f.
l&i — parcum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 196. picturatum, Rchb. f. in Walp. Ann, vi.
1866, p. 1042. p. 262.
165 Coelogyne, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 197. retusiusculum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron.
1871, p. 136. 1869, p. 1182.

166. — pumilunij Roxh. PL Ind. iii. p. 479. 198. — bootanense. Par. et Rchb. f.
167. — fagax, Hchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1871,

199. Griffithianum, Par. et Rchb. f.
p. 1287. 200. tripudians. Par. et Rchb.f.
168. dcnsiflorum, Lindl. in Wall. PL As. 201. merguense. Par. et Rchb. f.

Rar. 34, t. 40. 202. Blepharistes, Rchb. f, in Flora, 1872,
169. — • Chrysocrepis, Par. et Rchb. f. in Bot. p. 278.
May. t. 6007. 203. Drymoda picta, Lindl. Sert. Orch. p. 8.
170. Bulbophyll am oblongum, Rchb.f. in Walp. 204. Malaxis Myosurus, Par. et Rchb. f.
Ann. vi. p. 349. 205. iridifolia, Rchb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi
171. — pictum. Par. et Rchb.f. p. 208.
172. nasutum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1871, 206. ensiformis, Sm. in Rees'sEncycl.
p. 1482. 207. Griffithiana, Rchb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi
173. — Lobbii, Lindl., /S. siamense, Rchb. f. in p. 208.

Saunders's Refugium, ined. 208. Bruuonianaj Rchb. f. in Walp. Ann. n.
171 — mvLCvanihxxm, Lindl. Bot, Reg. 1844, t.l3. p. 209.
175. — capillipes, Par. et Rchb.f. 209. Liparis paradoxa, Rchb.f. in Walp. Ann. vi.
176. — moniliforme, Par. et Rchb. f.

r
p. 218.
177. pemcillium, Par. et Rchb. f. 210. /v/3
178. lemniscatura, Par. in Bot. Mag. t, 5961. Rchb. f.
179. lemniscatutti, /3. tumidura. Par. et 211. Jovis-pluvii, Par. et Rchb.f.
Rchb. f. 212. stenoglossa. Par. et Rchb. f.
180. — alcicorne. Par. et Rchb. f. 213. Par, et Rchb. f.
bistriata,
181. — xylophyllum, Par, et Rchb. f. 214. Pachypus, Par. et Rchb.f.
182. — khasyanum. Griff. Notul. p. 284. 215. spatulata, LindL Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc.
183. — sicyobulbon, Par. et Rchb. f, p. 189.

18 k — cupreum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 216. condylobulbon, Rchb.f. inHamb. Gart.
p. 183 i
subsp. steiiopetalum, Par. et ZeiL 1862, p. 34.
Rchb. f. 217. luteola, LindL Gen. et Sp. Orch.
185. — parviflonim. Par. et Rchb. f. p. 32.

186. — • auricomum, LindL Gen. et Sp. Orch. 218. Microstylis Rheedii, Li7idL Gen. et Sp. Orch.
p. 50. p. 21.
THE REV, E. C. PARISH IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD MOULMEIN 139
Microstylis Walli Gen. et Sp 222. Cypripedium villosum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron.
Orch, p. 20. 1854, p. 135.

biloba, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 20. 223. ParisMi^ Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869,
220
pp. 814, 1858.
B. CYPRIPEDIEjE.
221. Cypripedium concolor, Par. in Gard. Chron.
1865, p. 626.
Descriptions of new Species and j notes upon some of those described before.
w
I. Oprrtde^.
3. Gymnadenia Helfebi, Uchb. f. Flores purpurei, seu albi, seu albi purpureo striati
seu viridi-flavi. Labellum latum seu angustum.

Lindl. Elorum sepala viridi-bruniiea eliq organa
4. Peristylus constrictus,
eburneo-alba.
Peristylus Parishii, Ecbb. f., tuberidiis

6.
maximis oblongis, caule vaUdo pedali,
vaginis amplis cucullatis, foliis 3-5 in medio caule rosulatis oblongls acuminatis, superne
bracteseformibus, racemo plurifloro nunc subsecundifloro, bracteis

vaginis 2-3 abrupte
superantibus, sepaHs triangulis, pctalis triangulis, labcUo
lanceolato-acuminatis ovaria
triangulis, calcari globoso apiculato ovario pedicellato duas tortias
medio trifido, laciniis
ad dodrantem br Planta sicca nigrita
ultrapedal valida, caule calamum
7. Habenaria pelorioides, Par. et Hcbb. f.,
• •
cuneato-oblongis acuminatis, tribus bene evolutis, vagmis

columbinum superante, foliis
racemo plurifloro dcnsiusculo,
in caule quinis in bracteas lineares acuminatas abeuntibus,
bmcteis flores inferiores sequantibus, sepalis semilanceis limbo microscopice ciliolatis,
binerviis, labello cuneato lan-

quinquenerviis, petalis ligulatis obtuse acutis brevioribus
cum petalis minute ciliolato, antherse canalibus
ceolato acuminato trinervi ecalcarato,
elongatis, cruribus stigmaticis productis paralleHs Amherst, 1862
Side view of flower. 3. Column, seen from above.
Plate XXVII. I. Habenaria 1.
3. Side view of column, showing tbe insertion of sepals and lip over the base.
ultrabipedalis, tuberidiis oblongis, foliis

8. Habenaria tipulieera. Par. et Kcbb. f.,
prope sex poUices longis, ultra unum

medio caule lineari-ligulatis acuminatis, ad 4, ^
elongate plurifloro laxifloro

pollicem latis, foliis bracte^formibus superne ad 2, racemo
sequantibus, pengonio
usque pedaH, bracteis triangulo-acuminatis ovaria pedicellata
cuneatis ligulatis obtuse
connivente, sepalo summo triangulo uninervi, sepalis lateraHbus
tripartite lamina transversa
acutis, petalis ligulato-falcatis uninerviis, labello supra basin
elongatis, partitione
supra unguem, partitionibus lateralibus divaricatis setaceo-caudatis
a basi constricta plus minus clavato
mediana lanceolata porrecta, anthera obtusa, calcari
stigmatica adnatis, bracbus stig-
tertiam partem ovarii canalibus juxta
^quante, bracbia
maticis cocbleatis.
Hue omnino videtur pertinere

Obs. Glossula tentaculata, ^^•^^P^''™'',^^ JP^'^'J
"
et calcan Quae
" laudantur ab
nostrae. Kecedit rosula foliorum altius inserta, ovariis ""
coclileato-convoluta babco Bursiculsc

^
iU. Lindley
bursiculs, bas e-o bracbia stigmatica
Valde aflinis est Teristylu
semper organa exigua, nunquam adeo speciosa, conspicua
arisfatm Lindl. !, a quo P. exilis Wight ! herb, non differt, dum icon t. 1698 plantse
nostrê similis, labelli lacinia media basi cornuta recedit, de qua descriptio Wightiana
omnino silet.
9. Habenaria chloeina, Par. et E-cbb, f., ultrabipedalis, validiuscula, tuberidiis a
tenui basi stipitata oblongis obtusatis, vaginis baseos laxis, foliis evolutis ternis seu
quaternis ligulatis acuminatis ad qiiinque pollices longis, duos polices latis, foliis
superioribus in bracteas abeuntibus, senis seu octonis, superioribus angusto-lanceolatis
cuspidato-acuminatis, paulo imbricantibus Tacemo cylindraceo densifloro, bracteis tri-

angulo-setaceis ovaria pedicellata inferiora attingentibus margine scabris, sepalo dorsali
ovato acutiusculo tri- ad quinquenervi, sepalis lateralibus triangulis deflexis, quin-
quenerviis, petalis ligulato-falcatis binervibus, labelli tripartiti partitionibus lateralibus

snbulato-linearibus partitione media Kneari paulo brevioribus, calcari a basi filiformi
clavato ovario pedicellato tertia breviore, antherse canalibus ultra crura stigmatica
obtusata porrectis, staminodiis ligulatis. —Elores in alia icone Parishiana simpliciter

flavo-yirides, in alia icone ejusdem coloris et brunneo maculati. Primum sunt virides,
dein paucimaculati, demum maculatissimij tandem brunnei ex cl. Parish. Prope

Wagroo.
Similis H. acuifercB, Lindl., calcari multo longiore subsequali, nee abrupte clavato
gaudet.
10. IIabenaria digitata, Lindl. Sepala viridia. Sepalorum partitio superior
viridis, inferior ac partitiones labelli virides, basi albse. 111. Bentbam, Australasicas
Orchidcas describens, banc ab H. digitata^ Lindl., eo differre monet, quod partitiones
pctalorum in hac approximatae in ilia distantes. CeterUm II. digitata est planta micro-
phylla, hvcQ macrophylla, platyphylla.
11. IIabenaria spatul^folia, Par. et Rchb. f., humilis, caule vix spithamseo, foliis
spatulatis oblongis obtuse acutis ternis, usque poUicem latis, quatuor pollices longis,
pedunculo basi mediove folio uno vaginiformi instructo, racemo uni- seu bifloro, bracteis
ovatis acutis retinerviis ovarii pedicellati rostrati tertiam partem aequantibus, sepalo dorsali
ovato acuto ventricoso cucullato, sepalis lateralibus obliquis ovatis acutis deflexis, petalis
ligulato-falcatis obtuse acutis binerviis, labello supra basin tripartito, partitionibus fili-
formibus acuminatis, lateralibus . . . ., partitione mediana sepala lateralia superante,

calcari filiformi apice valde clavato acuto ovario pedicellato sublongiore arcuato, anthera
erecta gracili, canalibus clongatis, cruribus stigmaticis abbreviatis. — Similis Hahenam
vidiKe, sed foliis, bracteis, inflorescentia biflora recedens, defectu ac
nee non scabritiei
pctalorum figura divcrsa. Sepala lateralia etiam Candida yidentur. Labelli partitionuin
lateraliiun apices onmes deleti.
12. n VIDUA, Par. et Rchb. f., caule subpedali, foliis cuneato-li

acuminatis approximatis evolutis quaternis, caule superne minute scabro papilloso, fohis
in bracteas abeuntibus duobus, racemo novemfloro laxifloro, floribus porrectis, bracteis
triangulis acuminatis seu elliptico-acuminatis quam ovaria pedicellata scabra bene
rostrata quater brevioribus, sepalo dorsali ovato obtuso acuto cucullato, sepalis late-
ralibus triangulis demum convolutis retusis retror sis, petalis triangulis binervibus obtusis,
THE REV. E. C. PARISH IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MOULMEIN. 141
tripartito partitionibus omnibus filiformibus acuminatis, lateralibus erectis, par-

labello
mediana deflexa, antheras canaLLbus elongatis, cruribus stigmaticis inferne canali-
titione
calcari filiformi apicem versus ampliato acuto ovario pedicellato sublongiore.
bus adnatis,
Occurrit floribus duplo minoribus. Icon Parishiana sepalum dorsale et petala offert
reliquas partes virides.

alba,
XXVII. II. Habenaria vidua. 4. Flower, side view. 5. Sepal. 6. Lateral sepal. 7. Ex-
plate
panded lip. 8. Column, lateral sepal, and ovary, side view. 9. Column, seen above.
13, Habbnaeia corymbosa, Par. et Kchb. f., ultratripedalis, caule inferne calami
cycnei crassitudine vaginis multis retusis, foliis evolutis cuneato-ligulatis acuminatis
quinque poUices longis, plus unum poUicem latis, foliis in bracteas abeuntibus ad
tredecim distantibus lanceolato-acuminatis, inflorescentia densissima superne corymbosa,
bracteis lanceolato-acuminatis ovaria fusiformi-rostrata capillaceo-pedicellata baud

fequantibus, sepalo dorsali oblongo acuto, sepalis lateralibus semioblongis acutis deflexis,
petalis bipartitis, partitionibus lineari-setaceis, labelli tripartiti partitionibus lincari-
subulatis, subsequalibus, antberae erectse canalibus porrectis, cruribus stigmaticis acutis
porrectis, staminodiis ligulatis erectis.
11. Operculat^.
1. Neottiace^.
17. Cheirostylis malleifera, Par. et Rclib. f., pusilla, vix tres polliccs alta, totu
Iva, caule crassiusculo, foliis evolutis 3-5, vaginis amT)lis, petiolis bene brcvioribus,
laminis oblongis acutis, racemo paucifloro, bracteis triangulis acuminatis unmcrvns

ovario subsequalibus, sepalis anguste triangulis, lateralibus alte connatis, petalis falcatis
obtuse acutis, labellooblongo ventricoso antice tridentato, dentibus lateralibus triangulis
abbreviatis, dente mediano ligulato acuto porrecto, callis in fundo gemlnis manubrio
brevissimo, callo ipso semilunato, malleifor mib us, columnar cuspidibus geneticis bene
evolutis.— Simillima Cheirostylidi parvifolics, Lindl., quae labelli indole ac pube ovarii
recedit.
18.CflEiRosTYLis pubescens. Par. et Rcbb. f., bene spithamgea, foliis ad sex a basi
seu supra basin aggregatis, vaginis amplis, petiolis tenuibus laminae sextam aequantibus,
laminis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, pedunculo puberulo triangulate, vaginis parvis,
racemo usque septemiloro, bracteis seniilanceolatis ovaria pedicellata subsequantibus,

altius conuato, sepalis
ovariis calvis, sepalo dorsali obtuse galeato cum sepalis lateralibus
lateraUbus alte coalitis bidentatis, petalis obtusangule dimidiatis, labelli basi ampliata
utrinque lamella una ceterum incumbente,
serrata basi adnata dein in unguem apice
liberum supra divergenti biloba, lobis

laminam apicalem incumbente, lamina terminali
antrorsis subquadratis apice dilatatis, suppositis
extus serratis, rostelli lobis ligulatis
ligulis sursum apice angulato- dilatatis.
20. bumilis, carnosus, crassus,
Axecochilus albolineatus, Par. et Ecbb. f.,
vagmis arctiusculis, brevioribus, lammis oblongis

petiolis brevibus lamina quinquies
acutis, s^pius obliquis, linea alba per pedunculo glandipih, squamis
medium et reti albo,
XXX
in bracteas abeuntibus duas, bracteis cucullatis triangulis acuminatis ovaria supe-

perigonio extus pilosulo, sepalis triangulis obtusis, petalis falcatis, calcari
rantibus,
pedicellate multo breyiore acuto sulcato (bine apicibus appositis geminis), labell 1
ungue marginibus involutis antice acuto inflexis, callis rhombeis serratis geminis in basi,
lacinia antica utrinque setis ad sex elongatis, lamina anteriore trifida, lacinia media
triangula minuta, laciniis lateralibus porrectis divaricatis dolabriformibus, columnae
lamella anteposita adnata forcipata, rostello bidentato.
22. Et^ria motjlmeinensis, Par. et Ecbb. f., ultrapedalis, caule validiusculo, foliis
sparsis, vaginis foliorum hyalinis amplis, petiolis angustis, laminis cuneato-oblongis,
yaginis in caule superne glandipili tribus distantibus, racemo laxifloro rhaclii et bracteis
dorso et margine glandipilibus, bracteis ligulatis acuminatis unineryiis oyaria pedicellata
calya baud gequantibus, sepalis triangulis acutis uninerviis, petalis dimidiato-semioyatis

acutis unineryiis, labello basi yentricoso, istbmo canaliculato, apice acuto in portionem
anticam expansam quadrato-bilobam extus denticulatam incumbente callis flabellatis
duobus in fundo baseos yentricosae, carina parya anteposita abrupta.

Huic speciei affines sunt tres
JE. ahhreviata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orcb.. 481, quse ungue (istbmo) ante labellum apice
dilatatum bilobum optime recedit, sed eandcm carinam et utrinque callum ostendit.
E. anomala, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 185, labelli parte posteriore bumili, carina
humillima (nou lamellaeformi) callo laciniato didjmo utrinque et ungue ante labelli
apicem inyoluto bene recedit. Praeterea sepala extus et oyarium bene pilosa.
E. lanceolata {Dossinia lanceolata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 186), nostrse quain
maximc affinis, optime recedit lamellis in yentre geminis^ quod jam in India acdura-
tissime dclincavit ill. J. D. Ilooker.
23.II^MARiA DISCOLOR, Lindl., var. Dawsoniana, Rcbb. f. Nuper cl. Blume Ludisw
nomen utpote quod antiquius Lindleyano nomini praetuKt. Hsec sunt documenta In :
Dictionnaire classique d'llistoire Naturelle, yiii. Peyr. 1825, p. 456, sub Goodyera :
" On
a ddcrit rdcemmcnt en Angleterre, sous le nom de Goodyera discolor, une autre plante,
mais qui no nous semble pas appartenir a ce genre. EUe en differe surtout par son
labellc non concaye mais offrant h sa base une petite bourse bilobee, par son pollen
dont les deux masses sont caudiculees et sans glandes. Nous pensons que cette espece
forme un genre nouyeau, que nous decrirons sous le nom de Ludisia, V. ce mot." (A. E.)
In vol. ix. tamcn (1826), sub littera L, Ludisia non occurrit. Apud Lindley, Orchi-
deai'um sceletos, p. 9: " Hcemaria {Godyera discolor, Ker)," nomen tantum, sed in
Endlicbcr, * Genera,' p. 214 (1837) Reemaria, Lindl., inseritur cum descriptione et in
Lindley * Genera et Species Orcbidearum* (1840), p. 489, pariter adest cum descriptione.
Ex bis patet, " A. R.'* (Acbille Eicbard) plant am stabilire yoluisse, sed id non fecisse,
eum dubium baesisse. 111. Lindley contra stricte genus proposuit. Inde genus Eichardi-
anum non accipiendum esse declare, ut omnia ilia genera bypotbetice introducta.
2. Arethtjseje.
24. PoGONiA VELUTiNA, Par. et Rcbb. f., sequenti elatior, folio amplo cordato elliptic
acuto utrinque bispido, pedunculo subspithamaeo, yulgo bifloro, yaginis quaternis ampli s
,
acutis, bractea triangula minutissima pedicellum ovarii bene evolutum vix

cucullatis
ffiQuante, floribus nutantibus sou porrectis magnis, sepalis petalisque cuneato-lineari-
lanceolatis, labello circa columnam voluto oblongo obtusiusculo sepalis subbreviore seu
breviore, columna valida clavata. —Flores magni ultra pollicem longi, purpureo-virides.
Labellum album nervis purpureis lineaque mediana fulva.
26. PoGONiA MA.CULATA, Par. et E/cbb. f., parvula, folio reniformi-elliptico acuto
sinuato nis^romaculato, pedunculo quadrivaginato, racemo unifloro seu bifloro, bracteis
triauo"ulis minutis, floribus uutantibus, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, sepalis late-
ralibus in mentum minutis simum productis, labello rbombeo acuto utrinque medio
unidentato omnino loevi, columna clavata. —Polia ex pictura Parisbiana obscure viridia,
maculis in disco atropurpureis in plicis inter angulos. Tiores virides, labelli nervi
obscurius virides. Columnse apex purpureus.
3. YANDEiE.
30. MoNOMERiA Ckabro, Par. et Rcbb. f. Videtur generis species primaria in

ex distributione Wallicbiana. Sine dubio exstat
paucissiniis berbariis reperiri et nonnisi
in berbario Wallicbiano. Ego vidi in berbario Lindleyano et Hookeriano et tandem duo

ipse exemplaria obtinui ex coUectione Wallicbiana, quae nunc mea, olim domini Maille
Parisiensis erat. Omnia specimina flores gerunt, qui examini baud idonei, forsan aquae
fervidae quondam immissi. 111. Lindley petala nulla reperit, sed ex icone Wallicbiana
(Sertum Orcbidaceum, Prontispiece) seriem dentium parvorum pingere jussit dominam

Drake. Ego tandem ipsissima petala in flore Wallicbiana plantse reperi, dum jam prius
Rev. Parisb in ilia planta, quam. prope Taok, Pebruario 1871, nnicam legit, eadem
apparatum pollinicum detexit valde diversum
^ w
indicavit. Idem vir oculatissimus
ab illo, quern ill. Lindley noster in mancis floribus reperit. Adsunt pollinia quaterna sub-
parallela, caudicula rigida linearis, atque glandula bene separabilis. Hinc planta vere
Muxillarm affinis evadit. Diagnoses utriusque specie! bic edo.

Mommeria barhata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orcb. p. 61, pseudobulbis cylindraceis mono-
pbyllis, f oliis petiolatis oblongo-ligulatis (ultra T latis) apice amplis bilobis, pedunculis
semiovatis fimbriatis
erectis plurifloris, ovariis pediceUatis prope semipoUicaribus, petalis
latis, labelli columnse pede curvo.

carinis multicrenatis,
buc ducitur, ex icone
{Bendrobium tripetaloides, Roxb., quod in berbario Lindleyano
autbentica in berbario Kewensi asservata est Bulbojphyllmfi auricomum, Lindl.)
f oliis petiolatis oblongo-

Moiiomeria Crabro, pseudobulbis pyriformibus monopbyllis,
plurifloro porrecto, ovarus pedi-
%ulatis m"latis) apice attenuatis bilobis, pedunculo
carmis mtegerrimis,
<Ûatis pollicaribus, petalis triangulis fimbriatis angustis, labelli
columna recta.
Blepharistidis
Planta b^c rhizoma videtur habere longe scandens iHi BulbophylU
basi vaginis paucis luridis
^cbb. f., ^(luale. longior,
EoUum ultrapedale. Pedunculus
plus triple brcyiores
superne violaceus, pediceUatis
multiflorus. Bracteee ovariis
violaceo-tristriatum
Sepalum dorsale o
vat o -triangulum, acuminatum, citrinum, extus
Sepala lateralia acuta, vulgo paraUelacontigua
oblongo-ligulata, apice introrsum obUqua,
144 PROF. RETCHENBACH ON THE ORCHIDS COLLECTED BY
flava, maculis violaceis. Sepala flava, apice violaceo-marginata. Labellum violaceu

marline laminae flarum. Columnse utrinque limbo curvo apice acuto.
Plate XX VIII. 1. Side view of flower. 2. Anterior view of column with petals. 3. PoUij arium
from Rev. Parish's drawing. 4, Bud. 5. The same^ lateral sepal taken away for showing column,
petal, and lip. 6. Lip, seen from above. 7. Lip, seen from miderneath. 8. Column and anther fallen.
From Dr. ReichenhacVs sketches.

*
31. Thecostele alata, Par. et Ecbb. f. Ex icone Rev. Parisbii, pseudobulbi breviter
ovoidei costati, valde aggregati. Pedunculus pendulus. Perigonia albida, hinc flavo-
lineata, maculis purpureis. •
Plate XXIX. 1. Parts of flower, seen from above. 2. Side view of flower, sepals and petals
absent. 3. Lip, front view. 4. Top of column. 5. The same, oblique view.. 6. Anther, 7, Polli-
>
narium.
34. Calanthe biloba, Lindl., |3. obtusata, Par. et Rchb. f., labelli laciniis anticis
obtusis. Ex icone Parishiana sepala et petala brunneo-atropurpurea, labelli lacine©

laterales disco flavse, nervis brunueis. — Planta major quam Sikkimensis. r
38. Cyrtopeea Macrobulbon, Par. et Rclib. f., pseudobulbis subspligericis, foliis ob-
longis acuminatis, pedunculo validissimo, basi vaginis paucis approximatis, medio

squamis quibusdam lineari-setaccis bracteaeformibus, apice longe racemoso, bracteis
liTuîri-setaceis, ovaria pcdiceUata sequantibus sen superantibus, sepalis ligulatis acu-
minatis, pctalis cuneato-ovatis acutis, labelli mento obtusangulo conieo bene producto,
lamina oblonga apice triloba, lobo medio obtuso longiore supra discum asperulo et
pilosulo, lobis lateraliljus obtusangulis bene brevioribus, antberse vertice appendice
semiovata.— Sepala et petala brunnea. Labellum flavidum, maculis in loborum discis
rufis. Columua alba, antbera purpurea.
40. Cymbidium Pabiseii, Ecbb. f., juxta C. ehumeim, foliis ligulato-linearibus acutis,
pedunculo paucifloro ad tri-floro,^ vaginis scariosis lanceolo-falcatis acuminatis, floribus
magnis, sepalis oblongo-ligulatis acutis, petalis oblongo-ligulatis acutis, labello a basi
angubta flabellato-dilata.to, anticc trifido, laciniis lateralibus oblongis acutis antrorsis,
lacinia media cuneato-ovata acuta undulata sericeo-tecta ac sericeo-fimbriata, callo in
disco antico bilobo cum apiculo utrinque sericeo-villoso.— Prope C. ehurneum, Lindl
(pio ptiulisper minus, Lum hsec scribo babeo ad manus typos Lindleyanos (Myruns )
Griffith) et flores ex horto Veitchiano. Bracte^ in hoc nunc longiores, petala semper
longiora, acuminata. Bene recedere videtur callo ac pube ac laciniarum figura. La-
bellum album purpureo-striatum ac maculatum.—Meritissimo cl. Parish dicatum,
ccrte pulcherrimum omnium CymUdiorum.
LuiSL^ BRACHYSTACHYS, LiudL, Q. FLAVEOLA, Par. et Rchb. 1, floribus fiavis
hypochilii disco toto purpm-eo, striis in labello purpureis.

(Ex icone Parishiana.)
47. LuisiA PLATYGLOSSA, Rchb. f., scpala atropurpureo irrorata. Petala flavida
pm-pureo aspersa. Labellum flavum.
49. LuisiA rRi:iruLijfA, Par. et Rcbb. 1, validissima, foliis teretibus crassis paucis,
i-acemis paucifloris, sepalis oblongo-triangulis obtusis
brevibus, petalis cuneato -oblongis
acutisve, hypochilio carnoso sellaeformi
parvo, epichiKo triangulo basi obtusangulo,
antice hinc lobato ottuso. — riores ochroleuci. HypocMlmm violaceum. Glandula basi
lunata.
XXX. I. Luisia primulina. 1. Plower. %. The same, side view, 3. Column and base of lip,
Plate
side view. 4, 5. PoUinaria.
64. Saccolabium Geiffithii, Par. et Ecbb. f., vultu AngrcBci distichi, Lindl., cauli-
erectis sen ascendentibus densissime disticbe foliatis, foliis ancipitibus tr o

bus
racemis unifloris axillaribus paucivaginatis, sepalis peta-
utrinque paulo obtusangulis,
ligulatis acutis, labello pandurato acuto, calcari saccato brevi.— Specimina paucos
lisque
Eolia 2-3'" longa, If' lata. Plores candidi, minuti. Juxta specimina
pollices "alta.
sicca et iconem b. Griffitb in herb. Lindl.
Saccolabium bipunctatum, Par. et Rcbb. f., caule gracilento radicante superne

66.
apice insequali bidentatis ad 5" longis, J" latis, peduncuHs
foliate, foUis lineari-ligulatis
brevissimis, sepalis petalisqne lineari-falcatis, labeUo trifido laciniis late-
subbifloris
ralibus ligulatis obtusis valde abbreviatis, lacinia media ligulata acuta longe producta,
callo in fundo inter lacinias, callo membranaceo superne denti-
calcari brevi saccato,
3'" Sepala et pctala flava.
culate utrinque in fundo.— Sepala et labeUum ad longa.
Lacinia laterales purpureo prsetextse. Calcar viride (colores ad

Labellum album. 4.
ic. Par.).
Rcbb. caule ascendcntc validiusculo,

67. Thuixspermtjm leopabdinum, Par. et f.,
apice insequaliter bilobis, ad 6" longis,

radicibus aeriis plurimis, foliis cuneato-ligulatis
non dimidio sequantibus, rliacbi coni-
l-i" latis, racemis abbreviatis, folia prima anthesi
brîoribus, sepalis triangulis, pctalis
pressa, bracteis triangulis, ovariis pedicellatis bene
lateralibus anguste triangulis obtusis, lacinia media
paulo angustioribus, labelli laciniis
calcari clavato oblongo
carnosa rotundula multo breviore, gibbere didymo
•
superposito,
flavum maculis purpureis.
a«uto multo longiore.— Perigonium ex icone Parisbiana
media alba, macuUs purpureis. Calcar
Labelli lacinije laterales ejusdem coloris, lacinia
cylindraceum album.
in herbario Lindleyano.
Thrixspermtjm htstrix, Ucbb.
71. f. ? Eadem planta adest
:Mergui, Griffitb n. 1066 !
falcato, Lindl., sed

72. Aerides crassieolium, Par. et Ecbb. f., valde affine Aeridl
bilobis nee pergameneis elongatis,
recedere visum foliis crassis abbreviatis apice insequali
mediana expansa ecannata. Plorum
labelli partitionibus lateralibus latioribus, partitione
lacinia media obscurior Calcar
color demum in bac specie rufo-purpureus, labelli
flavidum, apice viride

Pedunculi vaginae ac bractcae
75. Thelasis pygmâ, Lindl. Dense csespitosa.
brunnese : flores viriduli

Labellum candidum, apice maculis
79. PoDocHiLus LrcESCENS, Blume, saltern Lindl.
paucis purpureis.
albido-purpurcum, Par. et
83. Geodortjm citrinum. Jacks, in Bot. Eep. t. 686, ft
purpureo disco flaTido.
RcL. albido-flavis, labello
f., foliis melius petiolatis, floribus
callis in labeUo nullis.
REICHENBACH ON THE ORCHIDS COLLECTED BY
146 PROF.
4. Epidendre^.
(Erects) unielora, lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orcli. 43. G. biflora, Parish,

87. C(ELOGYNE
Upidendrum, Griff. Posth. Pap. tab. cccxiii. EeUcissime
Gard. Ohron.l865;;p. 1035.
iudigitavit, hanc bifloram veram esse Coelogynem unifloram, Lindl, et
nuper Parish
cl.
labelH. Basin labelU ab ill. Lindley baud bene visam esse denies
quidem conductus colore
laterales in ipsissimo berbarii specimine typico demonstrant.
C(Elogtne (Erects) ochracea, lindl., subsp. coneerta, Par. et Ecbb. f., bumilis,
88.
pyriformi-conicis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-acutis geminis, pednn-
compacta, psendobulbis
obtectis apice plurifloris, bracteis oblongo-ligulatis ovaria
culis tota basi vaginis nitidis
pediceUata longe excedentibns, sepalis petalisque ligulato-lanceolatis acuminatis, labello
laciniis
trifido, lateralibus rectangulis, lacinia antica elliptica acuta, carinis per discum
ternis cruribus basi angulatis, lateralibus extrorsum exsilientibus.—Eorsan propria

species, sed cbaracteres ad separandam speciem idonei nulli in promptu, nisi forsan ovaria
pedicellata adeo brevia, quod tamen et dispositione loci explicari potest. Color florum
ex iconc Parishiana exacte talis, qualis in Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 1846.
Plate XXX. II. Ccelogyne ochracea. 6. Plower, side view. 7. Lip. 8. The same^ expanded.
89. Ccelogyne (Erects) graminifolia, Par. et Rchb. f., psendobulbis seriatis pyri-
formi-ligulatis costatis diphyllis, foliis linearibus acuminatis valde strictis, racemis basi
a vaginis contectis ante pseudobulbi formationem paucifloris (3) erectis, bracteis anthesi
dejectis, sepalis lanceolatis, petalis linearibus acutis, labello trifido, laciniis lateralibus
ubtiisangulis, lacinia media cuncato-ovata acuta, carinis geminis per longitudinem incras-
satis, intcrposita antice carinula incrassata tertia.
90. CffiLOGYNE (ERECTiE) LENTiGiNosA, Lindl. (Hook. Boti Mag. t. 5958). A simili
C. (rinervl, Lindl., cnergetice differt carinis ancipitibus rectis, nee plipatis.
92. CcELOGYNE (Prolifer^) RIGID A, Par. et Bcbb. f., psendobulbis approximatis

oblongis ancipitibus, Mnc -costatis diphyllis, foliis petiolatis lato-oblongis acutis ultra-
spithamseis duos pollices latis, pedunculis nudis, sub inflorescentia pauciflora stricta seu
fractiflexa distiche vaginatis, sepalis triangulis, petalis filiformi-linearibus, labello basi
subsaccato trifido, laciniis lateralibus erectis obtusanguLis, lacinia media cuneata elliptica
biloba, carinis geminis plicatis per discum carina tertia parvula interposita. —Elores illis
Fholidotarum valde similes, vix ultra dimidium poUicem longi, paUide ocbracei, labelli
carinis fusco prsetextis.
93. C(elogyne (Prolieer^) ustulata, Par. et Ecbb. f., rbizomate brevi, pseudo-
bulbis aggregatis fusiformi-ovoideis diphyllis, foliis petiolatis ovatis acutis, pedunculo
gracili sub racemo paucifloro, vaginis distichis brevibus, bracteis ovatis obtuse acutis
florcs subtcquantibus, sepaHs ligulatis acutis, petalis linearibus, labello trilobo, lobis
lateralibus semiovatis, lobo medio retuso lobulato, carinis geminis obscuris per discum,
columna apice ampliata.— Pseudobulbi sesquipoUicares. Eolia duos pollices longa, duaa
pollicis tertias lata. Flores minuti iUis Coelogynes micranthce subtequales. Coelogyne
THE REV. 1
E. C. PARISH IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MOULMEIN. 147
Havida satis recedit foliis, pseudolDulbis aggregatis, &c. Flores ex icone Parishiana
flavidi, brunneo prsetexti.
95. C(ELOGYKE (riLiFER^) Cycnoches, Par. r

et Echb. f., pseudobulbis cylindraceis
brevibus dense seriatis dipbyllis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis acuminatis, racemo

paucifloro antbesi bracteato, bracteis spatbaceis ovaria pedicellata superantibus, sepalis
lineari-ligulatis, petalis linearibus, labello trifido, laciniis lateralibus antrorsum acutis,
lacinia media ab isthmo brevi cordata transverse ovata acuta, carinis per discum ternis
depressis in basi lacinise anticse dilatatis.
Affinis CcelogyncB hrtmnece, a qua bene recedit ipsa statura duplo minore, bracteis antbesi
persistentibus, carinarum indole insequali, floribus viridibus fusco prsetextis. LabcUi

dimidium superius viride, dimidium anticum albidum brunneo pictum.
101. Eria (Conchidium) Pleueothallis, Par. et Ecbb. f., pseudobulbo minutissimo a
vao-inis tecto, monopbyllo, folio petiolato oblongo triangulo apice insequali obtuse biden-
tato coriaceo, pedunculo capillari unifloro elongate laterali sericea villoso, bractea acuta
ovarium pedicellatum sequante, sepalis ligulato-triangulis trinerviis pilosulis, lateralibus
(supremis basi saccata obtusangulis, petalis linearibus, labeUo ligulato antico trilobo,
!)
lobis lateralibus obsolete angulatis, lobo antico transverse trilobulo, carinis obsoletis
geminis ante lobum anticum.— Pusilla. Polia vix duos poUices longa. Pedunculus vix
pollicis longus. Plos illo Brim floribmidce, LindL, adbuc minor. Ex iconc Parishiana
I
flores candidi striis purpureis. LabeUum album lobo antico flavo. Striae in labello
purpurese.
Plate XXX. III. Eria Plewothallis. 9, 10. Flowers. 11. Upper sepal. 12. Sepal. 13. Lip, seen
Column, side view. 16. Anther-case, underside. 17. Polli-

from above. 14. Lip, side view. 15.
narium.
103. Eria (Conchidium) Paeishii, Lindl. & Eclib. f., affinis Erice Jerdoniaucv, LindL,
pseudobulbis depresso-spbgericis minutis, vaginis demum in rete solutis, foliis geminis
ovatis acutis margine ciliatis, racemis sessilibus unifloris sou bifloris, mento obtuse
tumido, sepalis trianguHs, lateralibus alt e coalitis extus prope calvis, petalis linearibus
trinerviis, labello ligulato acuto brevissimo.— Perigonium ex iconc Parishiana tcstaceum
basibus atro-brunneis.
Echb. affinis Urits JerdmiiatKS, Lindl.,
104. Eria (Conchidium) ustulata, Par. et f.,
^
pseudobulbis depresso-sphEericis, vaginis in rete fasciculorum vasorum demum solutis,
abbreviatis ciliatis et bine asperulo-

foliis in pseudobulbis juvenibus geminis ovatis acutis
racemo sessili nunc

papulosis, bifloro, perigonio extus hispido, sepalo summo triangulo
acummato, sepalis lateralibus basi'

saccatis, apice Hberis, dentibus uncinatis deorsum
versis, petalis lanceolato-falcatis trinerviis, labello oblongo-acuto
undulato, umbone ipsa m
basi. —Elores ex icone Parishiana atro-brunnei.
105. Eria (Conchidium) dasyphtlla, Par. et Eiclib. f., rhizomate rcpente, omnibus
\ aginis hispicUs, foliis spatulatis pilosis geminis nunc soUtariis, pedunculo
obtuse coriaceis
exserto hispido apice bracteato, ovarium hispidum longe non sequante, mento
bractea
obtuso, sepalo summo angusto triangulo, sepaUs lateralibus multo majoribus, petalis
ligulatis acutis, labello rhombeo retuso obtusanj'ulo, columna obtusa.

148 PROF. REICH ENBACH ON THE ORCHIDS COLLECTED BY
L
Planta a me semper pro Bulbojphyllo habita, uti ab ill. Lindley, donee cl. Parish poUi.
narium inspexit. Acrosticho minuto comparabile. Eolia earnosa a Parish dicuntur.
Near Henzai-basin, also road to Meta-Tavoy, PcmÂ.— Mergui, 18 Jal. 1818 ; Leonga
river on Mangifera, Heifer (hb. Hook. !) ; Sikkim, Dr. Hooker Xurz ! !
108. Eeia (Ania) hologlossa, Par. et Echb. f., toto habitu simillima Urm bicotmi,
Pchb. f., racemo sublaxiore, bracteis triangulis ovaria pedicellata longe non sequantibus,
sepalis lineari-ligulatis acutis, petalis subsequalibus, labello ecalcarato oblongo, obtuso

ntrinque ante medium nunc minute angulato, carinis ternis per discum lateralibus pli-
catis, carina mediana longiore subrecta, antherse vertice inornato.
109.Ekia (Muscicolje) mtjscicolAj Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 47. Hue refero
Parishianam plantam ob apicem cuspidatum recurvum labelli, sed vix crediderim Uriam
DalzelU, Lindl., yere esse diversam.
110. Eeia (Phueatia) peupusilla, Par. et Rchb. f., pseudobulbis depresso-sphaericis

costatis, pedunculis ex caulibus novellis basi vaginalis gracilibus teretiusculo-filiformibus
bivaginatis, vaginis brevibus triangulo-ochreatis apice racemosis (racemis nunc nntan-
tibus ?), bracteis scarioso-membranaceis triangulis uninerviis, mento modico, perigonio
tenuissimo, sepalis triangulis uninerviis, petalis Uneari-falcatis uninerviis, labello Kneari-
ligulato unincrvi basi subsaccata. —Plores albi uti crystalla sacchari. Oolumna et
ovarium viridia. Etiam a Lobbio in herb. Lindl.
119. Eria (Hymeneria) Eeiopsidobulbon, Par. et Echb. f., pseudobulbis oblongis

minutissime insculpto-rugosis, junioribus basi vaginis 6 membranaceis foliisque 2-3 ligu-
latis acutis quintam ovarii pedicellati puberuli partem subsequantibus, mento obtus-
t
augulo, sepalis pctalisque falcatis acutis, sepalis extus pubescentibus, labello a cuneata
basi medio trifido, laciniis lateralibus angulato-falcatis, isthmo angustissimo, lacinia antice
cordato-obreniformi cum apiculo in sinu.
120. EiiiA (Hymeneria) concolor. Par. et Pchb. f., pseudobuUbis cylindraceo-abbre-

viatis (3" altis) paucifoliis, foliis membranaceis ligulatis acutis, racemis lateralibus ad
quinquefloris, rhachi parce pilosula, bracteis ovatis acutis ciliolato-dentatis ovaria pedi-
cellata dimidia scabrula baud sequantibus, mento obtusangulo, sepalo dorsali ligulato
aeuto, sepalis lateralibus triangulis, petalis linearibus acutiusculis, labello trifido, laciniis
lateralibus anticis obtusato-rectangulis, lacinia antica porrecta ligulata retuso-emarginata
tota iucrassata, carinis incrassatis ternis a basi in basin lacinise anticse. —Elores illis
IIri<s Grijfithii, Echb. f., sequales, ex icone Parishiana flavidi. Labelli laciniae laterales
virides, carinee brunneae. Cl. Eev. Parish observavit banc ex pseudobulbis junioribus
foliatis Julio, dein ex vetustis aphyllis Eebruario florere.
128. Cryptochilus meirax, Par. et Echb. f., pseudobulbis depresso-turbinatis, fibrarum

fasciculis simplicibus non reticulatis, floribus ante folia evolutis, bractea membranacea
spathacea acuta pcrigonii basin superante, ovario calvo, sepalis alte comiatis acutis,
lateralibus basi in calcar spurium obtusum ciliolatis,

coalitis, petalis cuneato-ovatis acutis
lamina intus pilosa, labello obtusangulo anûlis baseos obtusatis,
Q«.i^y trianffulo
UJ.XCliij^L4.1.iy undulato,
KA.i±U.U.S.iX\J<^ aiX-j
)
bilobo in basi
5. Malaxide^.
Dendrobium ATROPrRPrRETJM, Miq. pi. Ind.Bat.iii.644— Oar«/sô^^y?/Mmrti?ro-
130.
purpureum, Bl. Rumphia, iv. 241 Apormn concinnnm, Lindl. MSS. distr. Wallich.
;
131. Dendrobium (ApoRrM) terminale, Par. et Bchb. f., caule tenui ancipiti, foliis
(ex icone Eev. Parish in vita) approximatis ensatis (siccis nervosis) abbreviatis, floribus
subterminalibus, mento curvulo triangulo obtuso, sepalis triangulis, petalis linearibus
cuneato flabellato bilobo, lobis obtusis, callo carinali nullo.
acutis, labello
Aporum micranthum, b. ill. Griffith, facillime distinguendum carina unica a basi usque
ante apicem bifidum excurrente, ibi abrupta (cfr. Calc. Journ. iv. t. xvi. f. 7).
133. Dendrobiiim (Aporum) multielorum, Par. et Bcbb. f., caule validiusculo anci-
piti, foliis distantibus triangulis ensatis, floribus lateralibus sen terminalibus, nunc gemi-
natis, mento bene angulato producto, sepalis ligulato-triangulis, petalis linearibus obtusis,
labello ligulato flabellato emarginato lateribus lobulato, carinis obscuris elevatis geminis
a basi usque ante apicem. —Plores flavi. r
Plate XXXI. II. Dendrobium multiflorum, 5. Flower, front view. 6. Sepals and lip, expanded.
7. Column, anterior view.
136. DENDROBirM (Eudendrobium) pachyglosstjm, Par. et Bchb. f., caulibus usque

quinque pollices longis, tenuibus sulcatis vaginis junioribus nigro liispidis, foliis in supe-
riore caule linearibus acuminatis, floribus lateralibus solitariis seu geminis parvulis,
sepalis triangulis, lateralibus in calcar extinctoriiforme obtusum extensis, petalis linea-
ribus acuminatis, labello cuneato oblongo-ligulato apice trilobo, lobis lateralibus obtu-
satis, lobo medio brevissime producto semiovato, carinis geminis per discum, columna
apice bidentata. —Flores in icone cl. Kev. Parish musei Kewensis albidi. Sepala brunneo
striata. Labellum albidum, basi brunneo-tristriatum, apice viride. Apud nos sestuario
gaudet striis viridibus, et tale depinxit Bev. Parish in icone, quas in herb. ill. di. Lindley,
mutuata.— Simillimum est Dendrobium attemiatum, Lindl. ! Typi tamen recedunt caule
multo breviore, foliis longioribus, pluribus, longius persistentibus, labelli lacinia autica
majore porrecta crenulata multipapulosa, laciniis lateralibus crenatis. Certe non idem.
137. Dendrobium bambus^polium. Par. et Bchb. f., juxta D. salaccense et luzonenscj

Lindl., caule calami columbini erassitudine, vaginis arpophyllaceo-scrobiculatis, foliis
distichis linearibus acuminatis, siccis papyraceis, usque T
longis, I" latis, florum fasciculis
lateralibus 1-3-floris, sepalo summo triangulo, sepalis lateralibus triangulis in mentum
retrorsum obtusangulum extensis, petalis cuneato-ovatis acutis, labello ligulato flabellato
antice obscurissime trilobo obscurissime obtusangulo, apice
retuso, medio utrinque
bilobo.
Simillimum Dendrobium h(smoglossum, Thw. (Thw. Hook. f. Enum. PL Zeyl. 429 !), bene
recedit labello acuto,
quod ipse vidi.
138. Dendrobium Pindleyanum, Par. et Bchb. f, pseudobulborum articulis a basi tenui
clayato-incrassatis, vaginis parvis, foliis cuneato-lanceolatis acutis apice bidentatis, pedun-

cuHs uni- bifloris, basi cuneata ovato- triangulis,
sepalis linearibus acutis revolutis, petalis a
labello cuneato oblongo obtuso integro hinc microscopice denticulato, toto disco velutino
asperulo, lineis verisimiliter inornata.
asperulis 5 ante callum basi abruptum, columna
VOL. XXX. X
' -
Simile D. crassinodi, Bens, et Eclib. f., cujus nodi dilatati ac breviores, sepala et
petala lilacina, labellum disco flavum, ceterum album lilacino marginatum striolis pur-
pureis qûibusdam in basi.
142. Dendrobitjm scabrilingtje, Lindl. (D. hedyosmum, Batem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5515).
Hbbc planta ab ill. nostro Lindley in Borneo insula fuit indicata. Cum egregius collector
Lobb ibi aeque ac in Burmah collegerit, facile conjiciendum, eum lapsu quodam plantam
inter Borneenses transtulisse.
166. Bendrobium pumiltjm, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc.

ipsissimum D. pu- iv. 6, est
milum, Roxb. Ic. et Roxburgbii descriptio diagnostica (El. Ind. iii. p. 479) usque ad
!
" where it blossoms during the rains," est verae plantse. Omnia reliqua pertinent ad
Eriam flavam^ Lindl., quae in eadem tabula Boxburghii repraesentatur. Griffithii de-
scriptio brevis quidem, at certe primitus optima (Notul. iii. 315). 111. beatus Lindley
veram habuit plantam, sed florem, ebeu spurium, forte D. pygmcei.
r
!
Csespitosum, parvum, pseudobulbis a basi tenui elongatis subtetragonis nitidis, usque

4" longis, diphyllis, foliis oblongis obtuse acutis, floribus solitariis terminalibus, sepalo
dorsali triangulo, sepalis lateralibus subaequalibus in angulum obtusum extensis, petalis
linearibus acutis, labello ligulato flabellato bUobo. —Plores albi, labelli disco flavo.
Plate XXXI. I. Dendrobium pumilum. 1. Flower, side view. 2. Sepal. 3. Expanded lip. 4. Side
view of column.
169. Dendeobittm (Dendrocortne) Chrysocrepis, Par. et Bchb. f, caulibus adultis

a basi tenui dilatata compressis paucifoliis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis acuminatis
carnosulis, pedunculis ex pseudobulbis vetustis lateralibus unifloris, mento angulato,
sepalis lateralibus ligulatis acutis, petalis latioribus obtuse apiculatis, labello ab ungue
latiusculo elongato calceolari, apice retuso involuto paulisper fisso, utrinque lobulo
superposito insiliente, extus velutino, intus pilis incurvis pluribus, columna brevissima
antice villosa.— Juxta JD. euphleUum, Rchb. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. valde
1859, p. 7,
diversum labello, ac caule vix dubie tetragono. Caules in D. Chrysocrepide juyenes
subtcretes, foliis 4 sen 5, "vaginis ancipitibus, adultiores evadunt plani, ac laterales ramos
edunt.
171. BuLBOPHYLLiJM (Trias) pictum, Par. et Rchb. f., pseudobulbis turbinatis anrni-
latis monopbyllis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, pedunculis unifloris,
sepalis abbreviatis lato-triangulis angulatis, petalis
cuneato-ovatis apiculatis bene brevi-
oribus, labeUo oblongo-ligulato acuto utrinque
medio dente erecto obscuro obtuso parro,
columna antice in angulis omnino aequali, anthera proboscidea elongata angusta.—Albo-
viridulum maeulis pluribus purpureis, ex icone
Eev. Parish.
175. BuLBOPHYLLUM (Monantha) capillipes. Par. et Echb. f., rhizomate teH-
diusculo annulate, pseudobulbis distantibus,
pyriformi-fusiformibus tenuibus monophyllis,
basi^ a fibris stipatis, foUis
cuneato-ligulatis acutis, pedunculis tenuissimis valde abbre-
viatis, bracteis
, sepalo dorsali triangulo, sepaHs
lateralibus ovato-triangulis multo
majonbus, omnibus septemnerviis, petaHs
oblongis apiculatis septemnerviis sepalo dorsaU
BubsBquaHbus, labeUo in columnae pede
elongato oblongo obtuso acuto, utrinque medio
angulato-dentato, cucuUato, columna ebrachiata.
THE REV. E. C. PARISH IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF
MOULMEIN. 151
icone Hev. Parish sepala et petala straminea venis rufis.
Ex Labellum purpureo-Tiola-
ceum. Columna extus flava, antice brunnea. Pseudobulbi usque poUicarea. PoHa
usque 6 poUices longa, dimidium poUicem lata. Plores mire ludunt illos
Folystachy^
OttoniancB seu P. pubescentis, Rchb. f., quibus sequimagni.
Ortum pedunculi atque
bracteam examinare non potui.
Plate XXXII. I. Bidjôphyllum capillipes. I. Sepals and petals expanded. 2. Lip, oblique side view.
3. Column-
t
176. BULBOPHYLLUM (Monantha) monilipoeme, Par. et Echb. rhizomate tenui

f.,
fibrose, pseudobulbis depresso-spbaericis monopbyllis seriatis rbizomati adnatis, foliis

...... pedunculo capillaceo tenui basi vaginata, bractea cupulari,
floris elongati
mento abbreviate, sepalis ligulatis acutis, dorsali trinervi, lateralibus quinquenerviis,
petalis bene brevioribus ligulatis obtuse acutis, labello liffulato
guiaiu outuse
obtuse acuto,
acuto margme
posteriore utrinque erecto, basi rotundata, columna biseta, setis erectis.—Plores minuti
21 lin. longi, flavidi
r
177. BuLBOPHrLLUM (Ptiloglossxjm) penicillium, Par. et Pchb, f., pseudobulbis

pyriformibus baud valde distantibus, monopbyllis, foliis petiolato-oblongo-laneeolatis
acutis, pedunculo folium spithamseum longe excedente paucivaginato, apicc longe race-
moso, bracteis triangulo-setaceis ovaria pedicellata subsequantibus, sepalis triangulis,
petalis oblongis obtusis brevibus ciliatis, labello a basi latiore acuminato
papillis fili-
formibus multis plumoso, columnse angulis aristato-porrectis.
<
BuLBOPHYLLTJM (Lemniscoa) lemniscatum, Par., /3. TUMiDTJM, Par. et Ecbb. f.,

179.
pedunculo porrecto curvato superne valde tumido, racemo deflexo, bracteis lato-triangulis
xantbinis (nee lineari-setaceis acuminatis), ovariis valde hispidis, sepalis ovato-triangulis
hispidis decidue lemniscatis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis uninerviis, labello cordato trian-
gulo crasso obtuso brevi, columnse aristis incurvis.
180. BuLBOPHYLLUM (P-acemosa) alcicoune, Par. et Rcbb. f., rhizomate repente

valido, pseudobulbis minutis monopbyllis, folio cuneato spathulato oblongo obtuse
acuto, 4'' longo, supra \" lato, pedunculo gracili ima basi bivaginato, superne distanter
bivaginato, racemo nutante multifloro, bracteis triangulis uninerviis minutis ovaria pedi-
cellata subsequantibus, sepalis triangulo-ligulatis obtuse acutis ad apicem prope connatis,
petalis ovato-triangulis unguiculato basi sagittato laciniis
subserratis uninerviis, labello
erectis, ligulato carnoso obtuso, columnse brachiis tridentatis. —Plores ex minoribus,
albidi, lineis atropurpureis . Labellum flavidum. Simile Osyricerce crassifolice, Bl.
181. BuLBOPHYLLiJM (Pacemosa) xylophyllttm, Par. et Rchb. f., juxta B. khasy-

amm, GriflP,, rhizomate repente valido, pseudobulbis distantibus subnullis (seu valde
paryis), foliis petiolatis late oblongo-ellipticis carnosissimis, pedunculis tenuissimis,
vagmis duabus acutis folium capitatis, bracteis triangulis ovaria
subsequantibus, floribus
pedicellata subaequantibus, dorsali triangulo, sepalis infe-
floribus bene coriaceis, sepalo
noribus semiovatis
obtuse acutis, petalis ligulatis acutis trinerviis brevioribus, labello
carnoso ligulato
obtuso flexo utrinque supra basin angulato, columnse brachiis tridentatis,
dente medio
majore.—Flores viriduli, minuti.
x2
PROF. REICHENBACH ON THE ORCHIDS COLLECTED BY
152 -
(Eacemosa) sicyobulbon, Par. et Echb. f., rhizomate

183. BuLBOPEYLLUM valido
monopliyllis, folio cuneato oblongo-ligulato acuto, pedunculo valid

conicis
pseudobiilbis 1
florida porrecta, vaginis in basi pluribus, sursum duabus laxis amplis,

usculo parte
densifloro, bracteis linearibus acutis uninerviis Acres subaequantibus,
racemo plurifloro
oblongo-triangulo breviusculo trinervi, sepalis lateralibus ligulatis acumi-
sepalo dorsali
quinquenerviis longioribus, petalis triangulis hinc dentato-serratis aristatis uni-
natis
nerviis, labello carnoso basi utrinque falcula parva antrorsa ligulato, margine velutino,
columna biseta, setis erectis. (Etiam Lobb in berb. Lindl.)

184. BULBOPHYLLTJM (Eacemosa) cupRErM, Lindl., snbsp. stenopetaltjm, Par. et
Echb. f., psendobulbis conico-turbinatis, monopbyllis, foliis cuneato-ligulatis acutis,
racemis s cernuis, bracteis lineari-setaceis ovaria subsequantibus, sepalo dorsali

5
triano-ulo abbreviato, sepalis lateralibus triangulis porrectis, petalis minutis triangulis
inteo-errimis, labello porrecto ligulato acuminate basi rotundato utrinque unifalcato,
columns setis aristaeformibus erectis.— Elores flavido-aurantiaci.
185. EuLBOPHYLLUM (Eacemosa) parviplobum, Par. et Ecbb. f., rhizomate repente
valido, pseudobulbis spbaerico-depressis, monopbyllis, foliis a petiolorum basibus ligulatis
acutis, pedunculis gracilibus parce (5-) arete vaginatis, superne longe racemosis, minuti-
floris, bracteis triangulis uninerviis ovaria pedicellata non eequantibus, mento angulato,
sepalis triangulis trinerviis ciliatis, labello a basi cordata linguaeformi obtuso medio piloso
crasso, columna triseta, seta postica plumosa, setis anticis calvis acuminatis. — Plores
albidi, minuti, illis B. penduli adbuc minores. Labellum viride. Affine B. auricomo.
186. BULBOPHTLLTJM (E Lindl. Ee vera petala sunt

ipsissimis typis Lindleyanis. Prius ob bas cilias a b. Lindley non descriptas nominatum
fuit B./ceniseciiy Parish ! Ipsissimus tamen Eev. Parish plantam esse eandem felicissime
nuguravit.
188. BuLBOPnYLLXJii (Eacemosa) geacile. Par. et Ecbb. f., pseudobulbis dense aggre-
itis depresso-sphsericis siccis gibbosis, pedunculo capillaceo basi vaginis paucis acutis
distantibus, apice longe racemoso, bracteis triansjulo-setaceis ovaria pedicellata sub-

tcquantibus, sepalis triangulis tri- quinquenerviis extus hispidulis, petalis linearibus i
nerviis, labello cordato ligulato obtuso ancipiti, columna triseta, setis acutis paulo loi
oribus. Plores breves atropurpurei, bene secundi. Eacemus valde tenuis.
189. EuLBOPHYLLUM (Eacemosa) limbatum, Par. Echb. f., pseudobulbis

et rotundulis,
vaginis in fibras solutis, foliis cuneato-oblongis apice minute bilobulis, cartilagineo-
marginatis, superne obscure viridibus, inferne luride violaceis, racemo erecto basi pauci-
vaginato, apice racemoso paucifloro, bracteis triangulis scariosis ovario pedicellate non
acqualibus, mcnto valde obliquo, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuso, sepalis lateralibus li-
gulatis obtuse acutis, medio obtusissime carinatis, petalis brevissimis lato-linearibus,

apice triangulis erosis, labello triiido, denticulatis,
laeiniis lateralibus trianguHs, superne
lacinia medio lato ligulato carnoso papiUoso ciliolata, carinula una in basi, cariuulis
duabus divergentibus, una utrinque in columna trigona apice

laciniam lateralem exeunte,
obtuse tridentata.— Sepalum dorsale transparentibus.
rufum, punctis plurimis flavis
Sepala lateralia linca mediana viridi, flavidis-
ceterum omnino brunnea, maculis pluribus
THE REV. E. C. PARISH IN THE MOULMEIN 153
Sepala viridula apice atropurpurea. Labellum atropurpureum . Columna flavida, antice
et limbo
atropurpurea. (Ad vivum ex liorto Saundersiano.)
193. BuLBOPHYLLiJM STENOBULBON, Par. et Rchb. f., rhizomate longissime repeute

pseudobulbis teretiusculis apice attenuatis monophyllis distantibus, foliis cuneato-
tenui
oblongo-ligulatis apice bilobo obtusatis paulo attenuatis (2J" longis, |" latis), pedunculis
pseudobulborum et ex rbizomatis vaginis 3-5-vaginatis, vaginis angustis apice
ex basi
racemosis floribus ad 3, bracteis triangulis ovaria pedicellata non sequantibus, sepalis
lio'ulatis trinerviis, petalis oblongis obtusis trinerviis tertia brevioribus, labeUo

o"-^" "O
triano-ulis
a basi cordata ligulato-lineari obtuso, columna brevi apice biaristata. —Mores minuti,
vix 2 lineas longi, flavi. Pseudobulbi duas pollicis tertias longi.
194. BULBOPHYLLUM (CiHUHOPETALUM) Par. et Ecbb. f., pseudobulbis
distantibus ovoideis costatis monophyllis, foliis cuneato-oblongis obtusatis, pedunculo
unifloro, sepalo dorsali ligulato acuminato, sepalis lateralibus a basi cuneata ligulatis
subliberis apice cob^rentibus, petalis falcatis acuminatis ciliatis, labello ancipiti compresso
utrinque angulato in ungue peltato pilis sericeis antrorsis multis vestito, columna apice
sexdentata, dentibus geminis apice linearibus porrectis, reliquis minutis, angulo utrin-
que juxta foveam.— Olim ab ill. Griffitb detectum, nunc iterum lectum.
195. BuLBOPHYLLrM (OiuPvHOPETAltjm) ptjmilio, Par. et Hcbb. f., valde affine
B. retusmsculo, Ptchb. f., sed floribus nutantibus, sepalo dorsali apice attenuato, sepalis
lateralibus rectis, nectortis recedere visum, ne dicam de staturaduas tertias imminuta.—

Pseudobulbi distantes, conici, monopbylli; folia cuncato-ligulata acuta. Pcdunculus
gracilis, bine ultra duos pollices altus, capillaris, apice pauciflorus, umbcUatus. Bractcae
triangulo-setacese ovariis pedicellatis plus duplo breviores. Scpalum dorsale triangulum,

triangulum, anceps. Colurmia
triuerve, nervis clavatis. Labellum a basi sagittatum,
nervis atropurpurcis. Sopala latc-
apice erecto bicornis. Sepala et petala albido-flavida
ralia flava. Labellum flavum, intus basi purpureum. Columna flava.
Par. et Rcbb., rhizonmte longe

198. BuLBOPHYLLTJM (Cirrhopetalum) bootanense, f.,
cuneato-oblongis obtuse
repente, pseudobulbis distantibus conicis monophyllis, foliis
acutis convolutis ovaria

acutis, pedunculis bifloris (ex Griff, trifloris), bracteis oblongis
acutiusculo brcvi, sepalis late-
pedicellata dimidia non jequantibus, sepalo summo ovato
petalis semilanceolatis
rahbus oblonffo-lisulatis convolutis, mento basilari obtusangulo,
columnai auriculis ercctis
acimiinatis, labello semisigmoideo carnoso flexo ancipiti,
maculati. Cirrhope-
aristatis.-Plores ex icone Rev. Parish viriduli brunneo-purpureo
talum bootanemis, Griff. Notul. Griff. Ic. Plant. As. pi. ccxcix.
iii. 286 ;
Dorsal view of flower. 6.

Side
Plate XXXII. IL Bulbophyllum 4. Side view of flower. 5.
bootanense.
view of 9. Pollinia, back side view.
column and lip. 7. Sepal. 8. Side view of column.
Par. et llchb. f., pseudo

199. Bulbophyllum (Ciubhopetalum) Griffithianum,
cuneato-oblongis acutis, pedun-
Mbis distantibus, conico-tetragonis monophyllis, foliis
dorsali triangulo sctaceo cUiato,

culis arete bivaginatis, floribus umbellatis, sepalo
bene
petalis triangulis acuminati*'
sepalis lateralibus cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis acutis trinerviis,
columnar auriculi. obtusatis.
ciliatis, labello
ancipiti sigmoideo utroque latere incrassato,
—

I
Cirrhopetalo gamosepalo, GrifP. comparatur, Notul. 206,

A Eev. Parish cum quod
labello acuminato sepalisque lateralibus punctatis recedere videtur.— Flores ex icone
Eev. Parish albidi, brunneo striati. Columna purpureo maculata.
200. BtJLBOPHYLLTJM (Cieehopetalum) TEiprDiANS, Par. et Uchb. f., pseudobulbis
depresso-conicis, foliis ., pedimculo

. .vaginis arctis ternis distantibus, apice prono,
racemo breviusculo disticho, bracteis latis scariosis brevissimis ovatis apiculatis deciduis,
sepalo dorsali perbreyi oblongo acuminato ciliato lacero fornicato, sepalis lateralibus
ligulatis acutis in arcum connatis, petalis triangulis margine ciliato-fimbriatis acuminatis,
labello carnoso pandurato brevi utrinque incrassato, pilorum fasciculis tecto, columnce
setis utrinque productis.— Ex icone Eev. Parish sepala ochracea. Labellum violaceum.
Petala ochracea striis geminis violaceis. Columna albida, bracteis violaceis. Simillimum
Cirrhopetahim WallicUi, Lindl. !, jam bracteis acuminatis elongatis, facillime distin-
guitur, quae persistunt.
201. BrLBOPHTLLrM (Cirehopetaltjm) meegijense, Par. et Echb. f., rhizomate

repente, pseudobulbis oblongis costatis nitidis monophyllis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis
obtuse acutis, pedunculo bivaginato apice bractea lanceolata brevi unifloro, sepalo dorsali
triangulo acuminato ciliato apice clavis deciduis fimbriatoj sepalis lateralibus linearibus
acutis tortis valde longioribus, petalis triangulis ciliatis apice clavis deciduis onustis,
labello cordato-triangulo obtuso carnoso, columna apice utrinque obtusangula. Color —
floris albido-flavus. Sepala et petala purpureo striata. Labellum purpureum. Columna
flavida. Hsec ad iconem Eev. Parish.
Ohs, Professor Oliver kindly informs me that a living specimen, sent by M. Berkeley,
jun., shows strictly five-angled pseudobulbs.
204. Malaxis (Obeeonia) Myosuetjs, Par. et Echb. f., caespitosa, paucifolia, acauhs,
foliis prope cylindraceis minutis papulis obtectis, pedunculo basi paucivaginato, superne
cylindracco racemoso, bracteis lanceis, margine microscopice denticulatis, sepalis trian-
gulis obtusis, petalis linearibus, labello oblongo, apice longe bifido laciniis filiformibus >
utrinque quinquedentato, quasi bipectinato, dentibus superioribus ternis obtusis, infe-
rioribus acuminatis. Oheronia Myosurus, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 16, descriptio et
planta Wallichii, excl. syn. Porst. ; planta Wallichii in herbario Lindleyano, n. 1947 e,
Nepalia, 1821 ; planta Wallichii in herbario Hookeriano, n. 1947, lecta ad Taka

Nepalia), Martio 1821. — ^Polia usque 5 pollices longa. Hucusque omnino obscura.
211. LiPAEis Jovis-PLTJVii, Par. et Echb. f., affinis Liparidi paradoxes, Echb. f., foliis
membranaceis 2-4 nunc limbo albo viridique tesseUatis, cuneato-oblongis acuminatis

bene nervosis, pedunculo longe exserto apice racemoso, racemo plurifloro, bracteis lineari-
lanceolatis deflcxis, floribus minutis, sepalis linearibus, filiformibus, labello
petalis
columnae per unguem adnato dein cordato oblongo acuto, columna apice utrinque
quadrato-auriculata.
212. LiPAEis stenoglossa, Par. et quateriiis

Echb. f., spithamsea, foliis membranaceis
a vagma longiuscula ovatis bene acutis, summo quidem i-aceino
foHo multo angustiore,
laxifloro, bracteis trianguHs quam ovaria pedicellata Jnfima subbrevioribus, quam reliqua
i
REV. E. C. PARISH IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD MOULMEIN 155

THE
lineari-ligulatis lateralibus obliquis, petaHs anguste Hnearibus
brevioribus, sepalis
I
apice retuso bilobo, columna gracUi apice utrinque rotundato alata

Xuo lio-ulato
BiSTRiATA, Par. et EcLib. f., humiUs, pseudobulbis cylindraceis (P),

213 LiPAUis
diphyUo, foliis pergameneis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis api-
amplo vaginato
caule florido
rliachi supeme anguste
alata, bracteis triangulis uninerviis
plurifloro,
culatis, racemo
sepalis lineari-Hgulatis, petalis Imeari-fiHformibus, labeUo
ovaria pedicellata
^quantibus,
retuso denticulato, columna apice ampliata.— Flores virides.
Uneari-pandurato apice
basi duse brunnese a cl. Parish observatse.
LinefB in labelli
bumilis, pseudobulbis crassis breyibus pyri-
214. LiPABis Pachypus, Par. et Rcbb. f.,
folio pergameneo cuneato ligulato acuminato, pedunculo alato

formibus monopbyllis,
Uneari-acuminatis ovaria subsequantibus, sepalis Hnearibus trinerviis,
racemoso, bracteis
labcUo cuneato flabellato emarginato-bilobo crenulato ima
petalis lineari-filiformibus,
bicalloso, columna basi et apice ampliata.— Elores viriduli.

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CONTENTS
PAET II.— 1874
V. On the Lecythidacese. B^ John Miers, F.JR.S., V.F,L,S., Dignit. and Commend.

(h'd. Imp. Bras, Rosce^ ^c page 157
+
VI. Systematic List of the Spiders at present knoion to inhabit Great Britain and
Ireland. By the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S 319
: a;
157
V. On the Lecythidacese. Bt/ John Miers, F.B.S., V.F.L.S., Bignit. and Commend
Ord. Imp. Bras. Bosce, ^c.
(Plates XXXIII.-LXIV.)
Read June 5tli, 1873.
The great family of the MyrtacecB was divided by De CandoUe (in 1828) into 5 tribes '
1. Chamcelaucew, with a unilocular ovary and fruit; 2. Leptospermece, with a dry

multilocular fruit; both tribes confined to Australia; 3. Myrtece, with a softish
drupaceous more or less plurilocular, cosmopolitan in their origin, aU these
fruit, —
tribes being distinguished by opposite leaves, marked by pellucid dots 4. Barringtonlem, ;
with a drupaceous fruit and alternate impunctate leaves, all natives of the vast regions of
1
Asia, Africa, the Malayan and Polynesian islands 5. Lecythldece^ with leaves always ;
alternate and impunctate, a hard fruit opening by an operculum, with many solid
nuciform seeds, or several imbricated winged seeds ; its flowers have numerous stamens
r
seated upon an expanded process quite peculiar to the group ; they are wholly confined
to the New World. Subsequently (in 1842) he united the two latter groups into his
4th tribe, Barringtoniece ^.
Lindley (in 1830) ^

regarded the foregoing characters as of sufficient value to warrant
the separation of the Barringtoniacece and Lecythidacece as distinct natural orders —
view originally suggested by E.ichard and Poiteau *.
More recently Bentham and Hooker ^ combined the 4th and 5th tribes of De CandoUe
with their 4th tribe Barringtoniece, which they divided into 3 subtribes, 1. Barrlngtonicic,
2. Lecythidece, 3. Napoleonece,
arrangement of Lindley for many strong reasons. The leading characters
I prefer the
which mark the LecytUdacece as a family distinct from Myrtacece are not only their
alternateimpunctate leaves, but the epigynous (not perigynous) insertion of the stamens
they have also the large conspicuous petaloid development exclusively belonging to this
group, and upon which the stamens are seated; they have likewise fruits and seeds
^
remarkably different from those of Myrtacece.

De CandoUe first showed, in his analytical drawings of his first three tribes of MytHacece \
that their numerous stamens, with long slender filaments, are all seated upon a
perigynous disk agglutinated to the tubular portion of the calyx, the petals being fixed
at the same time upon the outer margin of this disk, often regarded as a part of the
calyx; and this portion, so united with the disk, forming the most conspicuous character
of the Myrtacece, is called the hypanthium, by Berg : it is persistent upon the fruits of
that group, the disk being marked by cicatrices where the fallen filaments were arti-
culated upon it.
Prodr. iii. 207. »

Mem. Myrt. p. 54.
' If at. Syst. p. 46 ;
Veg. Kingd. pp. 739 & 754.
* ilem. ilus. xiii. 141. »
Gen. Plant, i. G05.
• Mem. Myrt. pla. 1-8 for the Chamcelaucuce and Leptospermece, pis. 9-21 for the Myrte<x.
VOL. XXX. Y
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MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.

^gg
present, the consideration of true Barringtome^B will be deferred until the

Por the
have been fully examined, premising that Gustavia must certainly Iq
LecytUdacea
transferred to the latter group
LecyMdaceie there is no hypanthium in the sense above indicated ; hut the
In the
stamens, always very small and short, are borne upon as many append-
very numerous
upon a basal ring adnate upon a narrow flat annular epigynous disk and
crowded
ao-es,
;
expanded into a peculiar development, called by Berg an urceohs,

this ring is always
should bear the more appropriate name of an androphomm, long
hut which, by right,
This process is signally manifested in Gustavia, offering
before given to it by Mirbel \
excluding it from the BarringtoniecB, where it has been erro-
an undeniable reason for
neously placed.
InGustavia (Plate XXXIII. a) the inflorescence, in its general features, resembles that of
most LecythidaceiB its large yeUow flowers,

;
upon pedicels, having in their middle 2 short
bractlets, possess a calyx adnate to the ovary, with a raised border, which is either short
or longer and divided into 6 acute sepals it has 6 or 8 very large

and nearly entire, is ;
petals, unequal in size, imbricated in aestivation, severally inserted by their claws between
and the base of the androphorum, where they are all agglutinated together, so
the disk
that, after fertilization of the ovary, the petals and androphorum, stiU united, faU off
The androphorum differs from that of most others in this family in being
together.
expanded all round it is very large, in the shape of an orbicular broad shallow
equally :
superposed plates agglutinated together, sue-

cup, and seemingly composed of several
on their broad free margins, into
cessively smaller in diameter, aU alike deeply cleft
numerous subulated segments, standing in many imbricated whorls which curve inwards
gradually lengthening outwards,

toward the style, the inner series very short, the rest
the semidiameter of the cup. These
until those of the outer series are nearly as long as
segments have generally been mistaken for the filaments of the stamens ;
but in reality
clavated at their
they are not so, being subulated divisions of each plate, truncated or
extremity, where the true filament is inserted, this being terete, very slender, and usually
pores. This
shorter than the linear 2-celled anther, which at first opens by 2 apical
into 6 cells, with many
feature is well depicted by The inferior Berg \
ovary is divided
expansion of
ovules in each, severally suspended by distinct funicles from the placentary
mentioned, the
the central axis it is crowned by the sepals and
; annular disk, as before
in the centre.
vertex or space within the latter being flattish, with a short conical style
The epigynous disk subsequently acquires a peculiar development in the frmt—

pyxidium ahou
spicuous feature throughout the whole family. The fruit is a globular
the size of an apple, flattened on by a band (the msx%
its summit, where it is encircled
vestiges o
disk) enclosed within two parallel zones, the lower one formed by the
and o
decayed sepals the upper one denotes the inner margin of the enlarged disk,
;
6-ceUea,
the line of its opercular dehiscence : the pericarp is coriaceous, normally
the
Mirbel, Ek'm. better
rcecium, as opposed to gyncecium,
' is
i. 2-40. 1
wtole systetfi of male organs mrlfir f.hp titlfi of andrOTohorum, wMle this
limited, as is here done, to that peculiar system of male organs found

* In Mart. Flor. Bras. fasc. IS. fah ^T^ flo- 14
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHlDACEiE. 159
a thick fleshy column in the axis attached to the operculum, when, on the ripening of
the fruit, the dissepiments and placentae become resolved into a pulp, which envelops
the seeds, all escaping together with the decay of the operculum. There are usually
6 seeds in each cell, nearly the size and shape of a common bean, suspended within the
pulp by a fleshy tortuous funicle of nearly its own size ; the testa is polished, crustaceous,
with a large annular micropyle ; a thin inner integument invests an exalbuminous embryo,
consisting of two large oval plano-convex cotyledons, conjoined near the hilum by a
small terete radicle, and embracing within their margin a conspicuous plumule.
In Couroupita (Plate XXXIII. b), as in the following genera, we find a floral structure
analoo-ous in its peculiarities to that of Gtistavia, but offering a difi'erent appearance,

owing to a modification in the form of its singular androphorum. The flowers are large,
supported upon a short pedicel, with 1 bract above and 2 below it, all very deciduous ;
the free portion of its adnate calyx rises above the ovary in the form of 6 smallish fleshy
very convex sepals, somewhat imbricated in aestivation ; it has 6, rarely 7, very large
concave coloured petals, of unequal size, deeply imbricated in aestivation, their claws
being inserted between the epigynous disk and the staminiferous ring of the andro-
phorum, all The androphorum is large, with a
these fixed together as in Gustama.
shallow cup-shaped annular ring at its base, covered by numerous short appendages,
each bearing a stamen ; but this ring does not expand equally all round as m Gustama ;
on the contrary, enlargement takes place on one side only, under the form of a ligulur
its
fleshy plate, twice the length and as broad as the basal staminiferous ring, bare between
its parallel margins, coiling gradually inwards, and considerably at its extremity, where
itforms an inverted globular hood, concealing the ovary and basal ring ; the interior
of this hood is densely echinated by numerous subterete appendages, truncated at their

summit, where each bears a stamen, consisting of a short thread-like filament, sup-
porting a small anther of 2 collateral oval cells, bursting outwardly and longitudinally.
The staminiferous appendages of the basal ring differ from the others only in being much
shorter. By analogy we may infer that this androphorum, as in Gustavia, is composed
of many superposed plates agglutinated together, gradually shorter in length, fringed l)y
the incision of their marginal extremities into numerous segments or appendages,
assuming an imbricated and echinated appearance. We may sec that this structure
is not hypothetical but real, by a section made across the fleshy plate of the ligula, when
it is seen marked by many particoloured lines indicating a stratified structure analogous
to the inner bark of Lecythis, which beaten when diy resolves itself into many mem-
branaceous sheets. The vertex of the ovary of Couroupita, within the area of the
epigynous disk, is much elevated in a pulvinate form, and is deeply hollow in the
middle, where a short thick conical style is seen, surmounted by a 6-rayed sessile sul-
cated stigma 6-celled, with several ovules in each

; the inferior portion of the ovary is
cell, in a double series, suspended by separate funicles from the bihimellar placenta?,
which extend from the upper part of the axis into the cavities of the cells. This pla-
centation is considered by Dr. Criiger to be normally

' parietal, as in Cucurbiiacece, the
radiating parietal lamellary placentiE (dissepiments) having their ovuligerous margins

in Linnaca, xxu p. 7 4.
On the development of the flower of Couroupta, <
2
160 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.
the cavity of the cells, leaving the axis hollow this circumstaiice,
introflected into :
suffices to make an ordinal distinction between MyrtacCiB and LecytU-

he adds, alone
'
structure of the ovary in Couroupita is correctly described, though wrongly
dacece. The
by him. It appears to me to differ little from the ordinary axile pla-
interpreted
only divergence arising from the hollow style, a hollow continued to tlie
centation, the
placentae branch near the summit into
off the cavities of the ceUs,
point where the
below that point for the greater portion of its length.
leaving the axile column solid
in Couroupita surinamensls as being superior'; this appears

Dr. Bero- ii""ures the ovary
the species I have seen it is certainly inferior. The fruit has
to me a mistake, as in all
Poiteau and others it is a heavy globular pyxidium, like a

been well described by ;
one near the summit, denoting the small oper-

cannon-baU, showing two zonary lines,
vestiges of the sepals the operculum does not

culum, the lower one marking the ; fall
off, as 'is usual in the LecytliidacecB,

but is drawn inwards by the contraction of the
central column attached to it. The \-l pericarp, in. thick, consists of 3 layers-a thinnish
endocarp, and a thicker intermediate suhfleshy
hard ligneous epicarp, an inner thin osseous
There is some descrepancy in the details of different authors regarding the
mssoca'rp.
structure but all agree that the operculum does
;
not fall off. Aublet states ' that the epi-
carp is ligneous and 2 lines thick— that the endocarp is thin, hard, and brittle— that the
mesocarp between them is thicker, succulent, and fibrous,^ which at maturity becomes
necessary to bore two
deliquescent. He adds that in order to preserve the fruit it is
holes on opposite sides, to allow the fluid mesocarp to escape, when the endocarp he-
Poiteau corroborates the same facts ^ adding that the osseous

comes detached and free.
endocarp is 1 line thick, the epicarp rather thin, though firm and crustaceous, and that,
after the escape of the deliquescent mesocarp, the detached endocarp rolls about freely
within. Aublet gives a figure of the endocarpic lining thus detached, which is quite
any indication of the continuity

spherical, rounded and smooth at the summit, without
of the axile column with the stigma, or of the endocarp with the summit— a circumstance
extreme tenuity of
which admits of great doubt it is more probable that, owing
:
to the
when violently shaken, and
the brittle endocarp at its summit, it easily breaks off there
of another
thus becomes detached as described. Dr. Berg figures a section of the fruit
but, from
species from Surinam,and corroborates the facts stated by Aublet and Poiteau;
the incompleteness of the drawing, no light is thrown upon the doubt I have stated.
placenta, as m
The endocarp is 6-7-celled, divided by dissepiments, which with the
Gustavia, are resolved into a copious pulp ; this, exposed to the air as it escapes throug
odour; from
the opercular opening, becomes purple or dark red, emittin^
by a thic
aO to 40 seeds are enveloped in the pulp, each suspended, as in Gustavia,
in diamete
These are broadly ovate, less than half an inch )
funicle of half its length.
clothed by veiv ,
the outer tunic being somewhat coriaceous, and with the funicl6
articulated hairs; this testa splits along one side round the large micropyle,
is ex
allowing the nucleus to escape ; the embryo, covered by a thin integument,
cotyledons,
buminous, globular, consisting of a terete radicle and 2 fleshy foliaceous
(
Flor
» Aublet, PI. Guian. ii. pp. 708, 711, tab. 282. ' Mem. Mus. xiii. p. 152, tab. 7 (6)
;;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEtE. 161
which descend and then ascend in a Mppocrepiform manner, being corruo-ately

first
plicated as in Couratari and Cmîniana.

Bertholetla (Plate XXXIII. c) has an inflorescence in axillary or terminal racemes
shorter than the large leaves, its flowers being nearly sessile, with 3 deciduous bracts
at
their base they are easily recognized by their calyx, the free, cup-shaped portion of which
;
is divided into 2 large fleshy concave sepals, notched at their apex by 3 small teeth
they have 6 oblong coloured petals, sHghtly reflected at the apex, and patently expanded,
unequal in some of them often cleft, appearing like 9 petals these are fixed by their
size, ;
claws, agglutinated between the androphorum and disk, as in the preceding genera. The
androphorum resembles that of Couroupita, but differs in the echinated appendao-es of
the hood, which are obtusely subulate, and void of stamens the inner surface of the ;
cup-shaped ring, however, densely furnished with short club-shaped appendages, each
is
bearing a fertile stamen with a short slender filament and a small oval 2 -celled anther
and is well figured by Poiteau^ and by Berg^; the inferior ovary is turbinated, 4-grooved,
4- rarely 5-celled, with about 5 sessile ovules in each cell, radiating from the axis ; its
vertex is slightly concave, with a long, terete, incurved style in the centre, surmounted
by a minute, globular, papillose stigma. Its pyxidium greatly resembles that of Coii-
r&upita in size and shape, marked by two zonal lines, the lower one, some distance below
the summit, caused by the vestiges of the fallen sepals, the upper one forming an oper-
cular opening only half an inch in diameter; when dry it is covered by a thick brittle
hark-like epicarp, which in one species peels off irregularly, leaving a ligneous or sub-
6SSC0US shell : within are seen the remains of 4 coriaceous dissepiments ; the columella
is too thick to allow of its escape at the summit, and, shrinking by drying, sometimes
draws the operculum attached to it into the cavity of the fruit : for the same reason the
seeds cannot effect their escape, and remain in the shell until it rots upon the ground :
the 4 cells contain about 20 to 30 dry seeds, closely compacted round the columella, to
which they are attaclied by a hilum near their base. Eerg asserts' that the seeds are
enveloped by a yellow fleshy pulp, which, by desiccation, leaves each enclosed in a di-
stinct sort of cell : the fruits I examined afforded no trace whatever of any such pulp
and Bonpland, Poiteau, and Schomberg, who examined them in the living state, and give
abundant details concerning them, are all silent as to the existence of pulpy matter we :
have, however, direct evidence on this point, in a specimen belonging to the Linncan
Society, where a cluster of 5 seeds, evidently the contents of one cell, are agglomerated
very closely together
upon a portion of the columella, without the slightest trace of any
pulp or of any funicle we have here, therefore, a strong proof of the inaccuracy of
:
Berg's statement regarding? the fact. The seeds, well known as the Brazil nuts of the
shops, are easily distinguished from Sapucaia-nuts by their acutely trigonoid form, well
figured by Poiret, Bonpland, and Berg ; the outer covering, or testa, is thick and coria-
ceous, with broad
longitudinal channels at the angles, filled with numberb of spiral
i
^ Mem. ilus. xiii. 149^ tab. 4. fig. 6.

Fl. Bras. tab. 60, appendages of the hood.
I. c. on the fourth line of figures, the last of which shows the sterile
' In Mart. Fl. Braa. 7 /• n 170
2g2 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.
branching raphe a solid nucleus fills the testa, covered by

vessels belonging to the ;
a
very thin integument ; it has no albumen, homogeneous in substance~in fact is

is
a
gigantic radicle, as in Lecytliis, with extremely minute cotyledons, situated at the ex-
tremity contrary to the hil um : these are generally overlooked ; but at that point
two
converging grooves may be seen, caused by the overlapping of the edges of the minute
cotyledons, so smoothed by pressure as to be scarcely visible except under maceration ;
they are better seen in a longitudinal section of the nucleus, when beneath them a
roundish plumula is distinctly perceptible, from which a line extends all round, parallel
with the periphery, which marks the line of union between the external lamina of the
exorhiza and the internal neorhiza, which forms the main body of this gigantic radicle.
This view of the structure is confirmed by a specimen in the Kew Museum, where, in a
ffcrminating seed, the plumula expanding into the nascent stem is seen forcmg its
way between the minute cotyledons, while at the opposite extremity the mammiUary
point of the neorhiza protrudes downwards to form the root. The account given hy
Berg is, that although the nucleus seems " pseudo-cotyledonous," it is in reality dicoty-
ledonous, adding in a parenthesis the words of Martins ^ : — " Cotyledones tamen 2 adsunt
plerumque ingequales, commissura arctissima sibi per transversum seminis applicitae;
rostellum (radicula) fere in medio semine laterale, parum conspicuum." In accordance
with this account, longitudinal sections are given to express his meaning ^ where 2 large
superposed cotyledons, horizontally in contact, show in a chink on one side a small
imbedded radicle at the point of their union. Any one who cuts through a Brazil nut
will see that Berg's description is wholly incorrect ; and it is deeply to be regretted that
so palpable a mistake on this important point of structure should mar the value of the
' Plora Brasiliensis. I

copious analyses in a work of such beautiful execution as the
may add, also, that my view of the structure of the embryo is essentially the same as that
given by Bichard I
half
The genus Zecythis (Plate XXXIY. a) is numerous in species ; but more than one
demonstrate the
of those referred to it by authors belong to other genera, as 1 propose to ;
to this genus
details of its floral and carpological structure here given apply therefore
as now restricted for the first time. most ornamental

These species form some of the
foliage a
trees of the forests, being generally from 20 to 60 feet high, with a copious
de-
solid timber of considerable use, with a soft inner bark of some thickness, easdy
tached, and which, beaten while fresh, resolves itself into membranous
numerous distinct
in a s mgle
sheets. Poiteau relates* that he counted as many as 110 of these laminse
to many
flake of the bark ; it is called estopa (oakum) in commerce, and is applied
exc luded
useful purposes. The leaves of the true LecytUs, compared with those of the
and fine y
species, are generaUy smaller, of much thinner texture, of a brighter colour,
specks on
serrated on the margin ; but in some few species they are entire, with small
panic ^
ar.
the margin, indicatmg the abortive teeth. The inflorescence is racemose or
in dimensions,
axillary or terminal : the flowers, often of large size, sometimes mediocre
figures
' Mart. Mor. Bras. I 479. the lower Hn •f
c. p. »
Loc. eit. tab. 60, in
* Observations on Fruits and Seeds (edit. Lindley), pp. 62 & 72. * Hem. Mus. xiii.
;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E. 163
are supported upon short bracteolated pedicels the tubular calyx, adnate to an inferior
;
ovary, is crowned by a border of 6 free, rather small sepals, slightly imbricated in aesti-
vation they have six, seldom fewer, large petals, somewhat unequal in size, broadly
;
imbricated in aestivation the androphorum is large and conspicuous, attached to the

;
claws of the petals and to the disk by its basal annular ring, which is densely covered
with short staminiferous appendages ; it is expanded on one side into an incui'ving bare
liojula, terminating in an inverted hood, similar to that of Bertholletia, and, in like
manner, densely echinated with innumerable imbricated appendages, which are terete,
bearing in all the lower series, on their clavated summits, each a fertile stamen ; but the
upper ones longer, incurved, are mostly bare of stamens ; the stamens consist of a short
slender filament, supporting a small anther, formed of 2 oval collateral cells, without
connective, which burst along the margin by a longitudinal suture, when they expand
into 2 parallel plates. The ovary, always more or less inferior, is crowned by the per-
sistent disk, and an inner vertex, generally flat, bearing in the centre a slender terete
style, sometimes as long as the sepals, rarely reduced to an umbonate form ; it is termi-
nated by a minute, globose, papillose stigma ; the ovary is 4-celled, with severiil OTules
in each cell, in 3 or 4 series, all radiating from a fleshy placenta in the axis, each borne
upon a distinct funicle. By these characters alone any species of true Lecyilds can be
distinguished from all others. The fruit is a pyxidium, generally of great size, Tery
thick, densely ligneous, extremely variable in form, and always marked by 2 concentric
lines, as in the preceding genera; the lower or calycary zone owes its origin to the
tumescent bases of the sepals, while the upper zone, or opercular line of dehiscence,
indicates the junction of the disk with the vertex, as seen in the ovary ; the operculum
proceeds from the growth of the vertex alone, while the interzonary band simply arises
from the enlargement of the disk. The fruit, from its weight, naturally hangs in an
inverted position and when ripe a swelling is at first noticed around the opercular zone
;
and afterwards, by the rupture of the central column, the operculum falls oIT with a
portion of the column attached to it the numerous seeds, sustained by their funicles,
:
now hang down in a bunch and soon fall to the ground, the main body of the shell
remaining long suspended from the lofty tree; at this period the fleshy mass of the
funicles ferments, and exhales a very nauseous odour. The suspension of the seeds, each
[
by a fleshy funicle nearly as large as

itself, is a circumstance hitherto unrecorded in any
botanical work the confused statement of Von
: Martins, given in a note by Berg*, does
not describe any such funicle; on the contrary, it says "funiculum non prodit;" its
existence, however, cannot be doubted, and is a circumstance of especial importance, as
it offers a broad
line of distinction between Lecythis and Eschweilera, genera hitherto
confounded together. The seeds of a species abundant in the province of Para are
exported to Europe in considerable quantities, and sold here in the shops as Sapucaia-
nuts: they have a hard, almost osseous covering, are oblong, somewhat angular, furrowed
by 6 to 10 costate ridges, branching from the hilar scar
all ; and these ridges contain
bundles of spiral threads, which belong to its branching raphe; at first their thick cover-
» Mart. Flor. Bras. I. c. p. 481

;
-|^g^ MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.
ing is somewliat soft, but in drying becomes so hard tliat it is difficult to break it without
injuring the nucleus, which tightly fills it this nucleus, covered by

; a very thin integu-
ment, often marked by a small chalaza at its lower extremity, is an amygdaloid, exalbu-
minous embryo, of an oblong form, obtuse at both extremities, consisting, as in JBertJio.
letia, almost entirely of a gigantic radicle, showing an obsolete mammillary point at the
upper or hilar extremity, and presenting at the lower end 4 minute decussately imbricated
teeth, which are cotyledons, so smoothed by great pressure as to escape notice ; they are
more distinctly seen in a longitudinal section, where a rounded nipple (plumula) is seen
beneath the cotyledons ; and continuous with it we perceive the conferruminated line of
junction between the exorhiza and neorhiza of the radicle, running parallel with the
periphery of the nucleus. The germination of this seed takes place as I have described
it in JBertlioletia ; the plumular extremity swells, and protrudes itself between the coty-
ledons, which it and extends so

forces aside, as to form the ascending stem of a new
plant, furnished with scale-like leaflets, while the opposite end of the neorhiza, bursts
through the thin pellicle of the exorhiza, to form the descending root. Lindley states
that the Lecythidacece are distinguished from JRUzophoracece by the seeds having no
power to germinate in the seed-vessel ^; but I have figured in Plate XXXIY, a a seed of
LecytUs in a germinating state, which I found within a fruit, and which completely
confirms the structure above indicated. It is essential here to correct another error of
Martins, supported by Dr. Berg, where it is afiirmed that the seeds of LecytUs are
partly covered by a soft, fleshy, lobed or lacinulated arlllus^; but I feel assured, by
no such arillus exists there, as my specimens,

actual observation in its live state, that
preserved in alcohol, evidently show. The appearance to which Martins here refers is
more probably accounted for by the small quantity of pulpy matter due to the dis-
period, in the
integration and softening of the dissepiments, which occur only at a late
extremely ripe state of the fruit.
Chytroma (Plate XXXIV, b) is a new genus ^ founded on several species necessarily
genus in general habit

separated from Lecythis. The plants composing it resemble that
ring of the andro-
and inflorescence ; the flowers have similar sepals and petals ; the basal
inside with very
phorum is rather broad, with an elevated margin, and is covered
crowded, short staminiferous appendages, while the ligular portion terminates an

a m
appendages, as in
inverted hemispherical hood, densely echinated within by imbricated
different, as it wants the long
Lecythis ; but these are mostly sterile. The ovary is very
concave, rises
style of that genus ; it is half superior ; and its vertex, instead of being
conical, obtuse
considerably in a semioval or cupola-shape, surmounted by a very short,
which are not
style ; although 4i-celled, it has no central column or prominent placentae,
of the eel s,
needed, because its few ovules, without funicles, are attached at the base
and erect these are important distinctions. much smaller than m
:
The pyxidium is
Lecythis, and of thinner consistence the family

; it has the two zones universal in
operculum, without a columella attached to cruciform n ge
it, is concave inside, with a
Kin 481 a dnot

» Mart. n. Bras. 7. c p-
'mi
called
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 165
(part of the dissepiments), and is furnished inside, within the margin, with a velarium
(a name given to the portion descending within the mouth of the shell, seen in JEschwei-
lera and Jugastrum) ; the coriaceous pericarp is 4-celled, cruciately divided by persistent
membranaceous dissepiments, which meet in the centre, without any thickening in the
axis when the fruit ripens, the operculum does not fall off immediately, but remains for
:
some time, until the membranaceous dissepiments become lacerated by decay. As the ovules
were erect within the ovary, so we find the seeds, which fill the cells of the fruit,
attached to the bottom by a large basal liilum these are large, 1 to 3 in each cell, have
;
no funicle, are of an oblong-oval shape, erect, and, according to Dr. Spruce, in his species
tnrbinafa, " are enveloped in an exceedingly aromatic arillus, which the ants speedilv
devoured" \ This, I presume, was mucilaginous for I found no trace of it in the dried ;
state. thinly coriaceous or testaceous, showing on the ventral side a

Their testa is
broadish ribbon-like band, extending from the base to the apex, free on both edges, and
only connected with the testa by a nerve-like line this band contains a cord of spiral
;
vessels, and is the main branch of the raphe the testa is also marked by several broad,
;
prominent, cancellated ramifications, also furnished with spiral vessels, and leaving the
intervening depressed areoles slightly granulated, while the branches are paler, smooth,
and polished : the contained nucleus, enveloped in a membranous integument, is an
exalbuminous embryo, tough in texture, of a dark greenish colour, of an extremely bitter
taste, homogeneous throughout, and êry different in appearance from the white, sweet,
amygdaloid kernel of the Sapucaia-nut ; from the concentric line, visible in a longitu-
dinal or in a transverse section, it seems formed of a thick exorhiza, encircling a much
smaller neorhiza, without the signs of any cotyledon. Aublet's Lecythis amara may
be considered the type of the genus, which he has figured in flower and in fruit ^
The genus Eschweilera (Plate XXXIV. c), originally suggested by Von Martius, but
afterwards confounded with Lecytliis by Berg, is here at length established upon a satis-
factory basis. De Candolle, upon the brief and insufficient notes of Martius, first pub-
Hshed it in 1828 '\ hinting at the same time that it might prove to be only a section of
Lecythis but in 1837, in order to correct this misunderstanding, Martius gave a fuller
;
outline of his genus *. Endlicher, in 1841, again complicated the matter, by absorbing
Eschiceilera into Lecythis, on the imperfect ground suggested by De Candolle he was "'
;
then evidently unacquainted with the diagnosis of Martius published four years previously.
All subsequent botanists followed Endlicher even Berg, author of the beautiful mono-
:
graph of the LecytUdacece, published under the aegis of Martius, with the aid of his
valuable materials, so far mystified the subject that he had to modify the characters of
Lecythis in order to bring Eschweilera within its limits, quoting the memoranda of
Martius only as foot-notes.It is clear that Berg had no precise knowledge of the struc-
ture of either genus. Eschweilera comprises numerous species, all trees, some of great
magnitude, others only low trees, all with the habit and inflorescence of Lecythis. The
fiower has 6 small sepals, 6 much larger petals, and the usual androphorum, the hood bein o
' Hook. Kew 716, tab. 286 & 285 a. ""' ^^^
Journ. v. p. 170. » PI. Guian. ii.
'J^""^^'
* Bot. Zeit. (1837) xx. part 2, p. 89. * ^*^°- Plant
XXX
.
166 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^
pointed linear appendages, which are generally bare of stamens.

echinated inside by The
CJiytroma, is semiinferior, its vertex being raised, conical, longitudinally
ovary, as in
gradually narrowed into an obtuse style it differs, however, from that genus
striated, and
;
constantly bilocular ; it has few ovules, which are always uniserial, erect, and
in being
base of the cells. The pyxidium, as in CJiytroma, is comparatively small,
sessile in the
and of a subglobular or depressed turbinate form ; the coriaceous pericarp is at first
membranaceous dissepiment, without the trace of an axile column, soon

2-celled ; but its
becomes evanescent ; and it then appears unilocular, like a hollow cup. Berg figures a
^
(which I have not seen) where the dissepiment is as thick as the pericarp, and is
species
persistent. The upper or opercular zone is nearly equal in diameter to the lower or
calycary zone the convex

: operculum, which soon falls off, is hollow and conchoid within,
the dissepiment, and, as in CJiytroma, is furnished near its
with scarcely a trace of
margin with a pendent velarium, which descends within the mouth of the pericarp, from
which at maturity it becomes detached ; the latter contains 4, sometimes 6 seeds, which
fill its cavity ; these are ovoid, erect, and sessile, attached to the bottom of the cup by a
broad hilum ; they shrink much in drying, and differ in appearance greatly from those
of CJiytroma, having a very dark testa, tolerably thick and coriaceous, ecostate, scrobicu-
larly rugulose all over, marked by irregular grooved lines, which, ascending from the
hilum, indicate the main branches of an embedded raphe, which is again subdivided into
within the testa are two

innumerable threads, distributed through the entu-e fabric :
distinct submembranaceous integuments, the outer one the and slightly clinging to size of
face, but free from it on the

the testa, the inner one adhering to the other on the ventral
dorsal side, where it is much shorter and narrower, owing to its insinuation between the
folds of the very corrugated surface of the embryo on that side between these two integu- :
ments we perceive, in the dried state, a quantity of black pulverulent matter in clots,
appearing as if deposited from a gelatinous fluid that had existed between the two integu-
have examined the embryo, much

ments this structure was
: constant in all the seeds I :
contracted by drying, smooth on the

is of a dark green colour, ventral face, with a sharp
side this embryo,
scutiform margin, pulvinated and deeply corrugated on the dorsal ;
when cut across in different directions, appears homogeneous in substance, as m thy-
subtruncated at its sum-

troma, with a thick external exorhiza, and an internal neorhiza
amount of differential cha-
mit, obtuse towards the base \ Here, then, we find a large
ovary, with only
racters ; the absence of a long terete style, a semisuperior and 2-celled
2 or 3 ovules in each which are erect (not suspended by funicles), a

cell,
much smaller
conchoid oper-
and thinner pyxidium, always 2-celled, without any columella, a thin
^ Mart. Flor. Bras. I c. p. 494, tab, 73. fig. ]

state. With-
'
wHle in Brazil I omitted to examine criticaUjr the seeds
I regret that oi Eschweilera in their fresh ^
out success I have since repeatedly solicited my friends in Eio de Janeiro to send me the fruits preserved ^° 1^
addition, I ni y
T have examined numerous seeds in the dry state, with the results above detailed; and, in
others a r
remark that I have invariably observed in the furrows of their surface, in some species a white, in
analogous to tne
pulverulent efflorescence, indicating perhaps the existence of a fugitive thin cellular deposit,
attention o
envelope seen by Dr. Spruce in the seeds of Chytroma. I recommend this circumstance to the
observers^
,/
um provided with a velarium, no pulp, few erect sessile seeds (not costate, nor
suspended by large fleshy funicles), different seminal integuments, an embryo of another
shape and structure, not white and edible, but extremely bitter, offer characters so
diametrically opposed to Lecythis, that it is difficult to fancy how Eschweilera could
ever have been confounded with it.
Jugastrum (Plate XXXV. a)

a genus proposed for a group of plants of which few
is ^
species are yet known ; they form trees, sometimes 100 feet high, with trunks 3 to 6 feet
in diameter, while others do not exceed 10 or 20 feet in height and they have the ;
general habit and inflorescence of Lecythis the flower has 6 thick, unequal sepals, 6
:
obovate, subequal petals, and an androphorum with a somewhat broad basal ring,
densely covered with short staminiferous appendages extending halfway up the ligula,
the remainder of which is bare ; the hood is very convex, saddle-shaped, inverted, lacinu-
lated along its margin, and densely echinated within by shortish, strap-shaped, ascend-
ing appendages, most of which, especially at the upper extremity, bear stamens, like
those of the basal ring ; the ovary is more than semisuperior, its vertex being high,
dome-shaped, and terminated by a short conical style ; it is 2-celled, with very numerous
ovules in several series, sessile in the bottom of the cells. The pyxidium resembles in
size that of some species of Eschiveilera ; but it has a much thinner pericarp ; it is sub-
globose or turbinate, with two parallel zonal cinctures, the persistent sepals, unchanged
in form, often remaining on the lower zone the upper or opercular zone is generally of
;
equal diameter, leaving the interzonal band often very narrow and erect the operculum, ;
obtusely umbonated, is thin in substance, hollow and conchoid inside, showing within
its margin a descending velarium, as in Chytroma and Esclmellera though normally ;
2-celled, it becomes unilocular by the evanescence of its membranous dissepiment, the
vestiges ofwhich can only be seen on the wall of the pericarp and operculum conse- ;
quently there is no central column the pericarp is coriaceous, thinner than a shilling,
:
and contains from 10 to 20 seeds, closely packed, filling the entire space when fresh ; but
they shrink considerably in drying, in which state only have I been able to examine
them ; they are subcylindrical, acutely 4-angular at the sides, tapering towards the basal
hilum, convex at the summit by pressure against the operculum, erect, affixed in 3 series
to the bottom of the cell, where the cicatrices at their hilar points of attachment con-
r
stantly remain : in some species the seeds are fewer, much broader, much compressed,
and convex on the dorsal face ; the testa, acutely angular, is coriaceous, about the thick-
ness of a thin card, is smooth, opaque, and brownish outside, coarsely granulated inside
by pressure against the nucleus and in its substance
; found a dense network of white is
spiral vessels: in drying, the nucleus contracts considerably within the testa, but
preserves the same shape,
is of a saffron-colour, deeply corrugated all over the inner :
integument is finely membranaceous, adhering to the testa, and presenting a simi

surface the nucleus, when cut through, appears homogeneous in texture, of a pale
;
brown colour, spotted all over

with minute dark oil-cells : if a section be made longi-
tudmally through the ventral ande, we see a continuous line near the periphery, indi-
C
2
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.
^gg r
the exorhiza and neorhiza, the latter truncated at its summit,

and
eating the junction of
towards the base and in the middle
;
of the ventral side we see
ohtusely pointed it
nipple-shaped protuberance, which touches the margin opposite to a smaU

enlarged by a
a longitudinal the protuberance
external knob m the exorhiza, having slit ; is the
knob consists of 2 minute cotyledons, a structure offering much analogy to

plumule the ;
Bertholletia and Lecythis in germination

;
this i^lumule is extended into the
that in
the new plant while the base of the neorhiza forces its way through
ascending stem of
the root. I have not witnessed this germination but Martius
the exorhiza, to form ;
and Berg portrays it in several analytical figures under the head of Le-
describes it,
On comparing the details of the structure of the nucleus given above

cythis coriacea \
can affirm with confidence) with the analytical figures and
(the exactness of which I
several discrepancies will be seen. Berg confirms the position I
description of Berg,
plumule, and the existence of an external knob, with a sht in it,
have assigned to the
it forces its way in germination to form the ascending stem but there is
through which ;
mistake in the position he assigns to the sprouting rootlet, which he places

evidently a
middle of the dorsal face this assuredly would spring from the bottom of the
in the :
neorhiza, the existence of which was wholly unknown to him. Berg made his analytical
from the old notes of Martins, and under the belief that the nucleus
drawings entirely
gigantic cotyledon, instead of a monstrous radicle, as it appears to me and
was a single
germination are best explained. Ber-
under which point of view the phases of its
affirms that the inner integument, as in the testa, contains many spiral vessels ;
but I
have not been able to detect them there.

Although the genus Couratari (Plate XXXV. b) is one of the oldest and best-known of
described; the only figures hitherto

the famHy, its floral structure has not yet been correctly
those of Eichard, under a reduced size^ and of Cambassedes^ aUof which
published are
are incorrect, Aublet never met with the flower ; nor did Poiret, who derived all his
details from Kichard. Berg, in his monograph of the family, has created much con-
when he saw a flower of a

fusion by his thorough misunderstanding of the subject even ;
as well as its fruit,

true Couratari, he failed to recognize it, but described and figured it,
analytical
under the name of Lecythopsis\ while his generic character and his several
belong to Carmiana. Its species,

drawings, given under the name of Couratari ^ actually
of
which are not many, all form noble trees, with the foliage and general inflorescence
pedicels, furnishe
Lecythis and Couroupita : the flowers are rather large, upon short
expanded, subequal sepals 6 \p'
with 3 deciduous bracts ; they have 6 fleshy, ovate, ;
a large andro-
large oblong unguiculated petals, of which the two exterior are largest ;
of e
to the claws
phorura, formed of an oblong, subpatelHform basal ring, attached
clavate appendages,
petals, and furnished inside with a triple series of crowded, short,
ligula, as broa
staminiferous at the apex, the stamens formed as in Lecythis ; the
ilosed
Mart '±vi, i-ao. /^, wnere me two upper rows oi ugmcs ai±^jvi vu.^ i'j-
•
H o n
of their geTvam
figures delineating the badly drawn shape of the seeds and the mode
Ann Elor. Bras. Mer
* Mart. Flor. Bras. I. c. p. 503, tab. 75, 76. '
Ibidem, p. 506, tab. 78-82.
basal ring, islong and bare, suddenly coiling twice inwards into a fleshy knob, and again
quickly recurved in the form of a large inverted semiglobose head, densely echinated
with pointed, flat, imbricating appendages on the upper side (not on the inside, as in
LecytUs), and concealing the involuted fleshy knob ; these external appendages are quite
destitute of stamens. The turbinate ovary is inferior, 3-celled, with several ovules fixed
in the base ; the vertex is hollow, with a raised crenated ring within the disk, and is
furnished in its centre with a very broad, elevated, umboniform style, surmounted by an
articulated, polished, glob b ma, hollow in the middle. The fruit and seed were
first figured by Aublet^ afterwards well drawn by Poiteau^ and Richard ^ lastly by
Berg, as before stated, under the name of Lecythopsis \ The pyxidium is trigonoidly
cylindrical, often obconical in form, with two zonal lines near the summit, and a narrow
interzonal band, the lower line formed by the vestiges of the sepals, the upper one
denoting the line of dehiscence round the depressed umbonated operculum this latter is ;
agglutinated to the thick triangular central column, whose cuneiform angles form as
many thickened dissepiments, at first attached to the inner wall of the pericarp, thus
leaving three equal intervening spaces, or flat cells : when the fruit ripens, this columella
shrinks, and the edges of the dissepiments become detached from the wall of the pericarp,
the operculum and columella fall out, carrying with it the many large-winged seeds,
imbricately attached to it, to be soon scattered by the wind the : cylindrical pericarp,
endered vacant d unilocular somewhat thin in substance, with

cracking bark, which covers a reticulated latticework of woody fibres. The seeds, about
6 in each cell, are large in area, extremely thin, oblong in form, with a compressed
scutiform cellule in the centre, one third of its length, and surrounded equally all round
by a broad submembranaceous wing, all collaterally imbricated attached by tl
base to the lower portion of the columella ; the scutiform centre contains an cxalbu-
minous embryo, which fills its space, and is covered by a membranaceous inner integu-
ment ; the embryo consists of a long terete radicle, pointing downwards towards the
hilum, and curving abruptly at its summit, is there united to 2 longer descending coty-
ledons, which are broad, foliaceous, deeply plicated and corrugated, thus, in an inverted
form, resembling the embryo of Couroitpita.
The genus Cariniana (Plate XXXV. c) of Casaretto has been acknowledged by few bota-
nists; but its floral by Berg, under the
and carpical characters have been well illustrated
name of Couratari, for which he singularly mistook them. Cariniana. howev
vaUd genus, containing several species, all trees of noble proportions, mostly from 100
to 120 with gigantic trunks, often spreading
feet in height, out in large buttresses Th
species, some of which are known only from their fruits, extend from Central Brazil to
the iVmazonas region, one being known from Trinidad. The leaves vary much
several species, in some 1 inch long, in others more than a fcxjt in length ;
but
inflorescence, more constant in "character, is peculiar, alway idc-spreadm very
' PI. Giiian. tab. * M^m. Mu8. xiii. tab. 8.

290.
• Am. Sc. Nat.
*
rior. Bras. I. c. tab. 75, 70.
/. c. tab. 21
; :,
-,^^70 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.
panicles, charged with nnmerous flowers, which are minute compared with those
slender
other LecytJiidacew. They have 6 small rounded sepals, united in a short flat cup,
of all
extends a little heyond the adnate portion of the calyx petals 6, longer, Hnear-
which :
ohlong, equal, slightly imbricated along their margins, somewhat adhesive at their sum-
mits ; and though they sometimes expand rotately of their own accord, they often adhere,
enclosing the androphorum, and fall off united with it, like a bonnet. The androphomm
shape from all others it is erect, urceolate, or tubular for half its length,
differs in its ;
and without any ligula, expands upwards on one side more than on the other, curving
summit in the form of an alcove, and is deeply laciniated all roun d the margin
over the
into subulate incurving appendages ; inside its tubular portion it is everywhere echinated
with similar, shorter, staminigerous appendages, either fixed in few concentric series, or
more densely crowded, all clavate, each bearing on its obtuse summit a short filament,
supporting a 2-celled anther. The inferior ovary is 3-celled, with several erect ovules in
the base of each cell ; its vertex rises pulvinately or conically, bearing a short style and
a small 3-toothed stigma. The pyxidium has the trigonoidly cylindrical or obconical
form of that of Couratari ; but it is much thicker, heavier, and more solid in substance
it has the usual two zonary lines near its summit ; but the opercular zone is placed upon
or is somewhat within the vertex ; the operculum is often slightly convex, sometimes does
not rise above the upper zone, being quite flat, in both cases thick and cylindrical for
some distance within the tubular mouth of the pericarp, and is continuous with tlie
central columella, of equal diameter, which descends to the base, thus forming a solid,
the intervening angles touching the wall of

cylindrical plug, chamfered off on three sides,
the pericarp, and leaving three compressed spaces or seminiferous ; cells when ripe, tbe
with a clean cylin-

columella shrinks a little, and falls out, so that the pericarp remains
winged, are very different from
drical bore throughout its length. The seeds, though
one end only of the much
those of Couratari; the wing is much narrower, and placed at
are attached to
shorter embryoniferous escutcheon, equal to it in breadth : the seeds
to the top of the
the columella by the bottom of the wings in pairs, rising imbricatively
several escutcheons
where we the convex surfaces of the
>
cells, see deep impressions left by
oblong-ova
caused by pressure while the parts were soft ; the apical escutcheon is
and contains
obHque at its base, convex outside, flat on the back, is thinly coriaceous,
of its whole leng
an
__ exalbuminous embryo, consisting of a slender terete radicle ,
and there uni e

pointing downwards towards the hilum, suddenly incurved at its summit,
together, as
to 2 descending cotyledons shorter than it, closely and corrugately plicated
in Couratari and Couroupita. ,
of severa
Allantoma ^ (Plate XXXVI. a) is a new and very curious genus. It consists
Couratari, anc
species, some (probably all) vast trees, with the habit and inflorescence of
sep
leaves with similar venation: but the flowers are not so large; they have 6
they a
roundish and expanded, slightly imbricated at their base in aestivation;
and roun :
6 longer membranaceous petals, 4 of which are linearly oblong, and 2 very large
more in aestivation
exterior, and very imbricated, so as to conceal the others
androphorum colour, very fleshy, a
is quite peculiar, is of a deep rose or reddish
^ So named from or\X5s. hotulus, ouos. similis. the fruit reBemblins: a sausage in fonn.
;

I7I
exuding a purple-staining juice when slightly pressed
hase a shallow cup- ; it has at its
shaped ring attached to the disk, charged inside with short densely
crowded stamini-
ferous appendages, and laterally expanded into a smooth incurring lio-ula
which sud
denly coils round into a fleshy knoh, as in Couratari ; it then widens into
a semiglobose
inverted hood, which is again retroflected upward, and ohsoletely
fringed on its margin
this isnot echinated as in Couratari, but the appendages are all
consolidated into a'soft
fleshy mass which envelops and conceals the knob ; each club-shaped
appendage of the
basal ring bears a short filament and a 2-celled anther ; the ovary is
quite inferi'or, semi-
globose or turbinate, mostly 4-ceUed, or 3-celled in one species, 5-celled
in another,Vith
about 6 collateral ovules in each ceU, aU erect, and fixed on the bottom of
the central
axis the vertexslightly concave, with a thick short fungiform style
is
;
in the middle,
and an umbonate stigma as in Couroupita. The pyxidium is not nearly
so thick and
solid as in Cariniana; in texture and shape it more resembles
that of Couratari, being
quite cylindrical, round at the base, truncated at its summit, where
it is marked by the
usual two zones, with a narrow band between them opens on the opercular zone, which
; it
has the same diameter as the pericarp ; the operculum above is depressed, slightly
pulvinated, concave and umbonated in the centre, and beneath is intimately conjoined
with the columella, which at first is 3-5-angular, the angles united to the wall of the
pericarp so as to form the cells, as in Couratari and Cariniana at maturity
the columella ;
shrinks very much, becomes tapering and free from the pericarp,
when, still attached to
the operculum, it falls to the ground, leaving the seeds to drop also. The seeds arc few,
arranged imbricatively, and fixed to the columella by a basal hilum they are linearly ;
oblong, thickish, somewhat flattened on the anterior and posterior

faces, acute and much
jag-ed on the straight margins, have a dark or reddish colour, are rough behind,
cor-
rugate-tuberculous in front, unequally 2-lobed at the base, the hilum being on the
posterior side of one of these lobes ; and thus they bear the form and
appearance of the
seeds of Tyloderma, a genus of the HippocrateacecB, formerly described'; the testa, as
thick as a sixpence, is filled everywhere with
bundles of spiral vessels, is smooth inside,
ana lined with a semiadherent blackish membranaceous inner integument, which
covers
the exalbuminous embryo ; this latter is of a long fusiform shape, slightly compressed
and tapering towards each extremity, is
of an opaque white colour and when boiled in -,
water or soaked in that fluid for

a few days, it becomes as soft as a custard, but is again
consolidated by drying. It appears to me a homogeneous macropodous radicle, con-
sistmg of an external
exorhiza easily softened, and a harder terete internal neorhiza of
Its entire
length, obtusely pointed at each extremity ; and it probably germinates as
in Lecythis, one end protruding in its growth to form the ascending stem, the other to
extend into a root.
Unas (Plate XXXVI. was established, in 1753, by Linnaeus ', upon a Jamaica plant,
c)
fifst mentioned
by Sloane ' under the name of Anchovy-pcar, and by P. Brown as a species
ÛJalophyllum\ Jussieu in 1789
% favouring the idea of Brown, placed it among the
f'tijerce. Swartz first gave a good diagnosis of its generic characters in 1791*.
Linn. Trans, vol.
xxviii. p. 413, tab. 29. *
Sp. Plant. 732 Gen. Plant, (edit. Schreb.) 732.
^ ;
Jam. ii. 123, tab. 217. figs. 1 & 2. •»

Ibid. p. 245. *
Gen. p. 257. * Obs. p. 215.
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172 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHlDACEiE.
upon the materials of preceding authors

Sir J. Smitli \ in 1819, described tlie genus
De CandoUe, in 1828, placed Grias among the abnormal genera of Myrtacece^- but
EndUcher, in 1841 ^ removed it to the dubious genera, ot Zee?/thidace(B Lindley, onthe ;
other hand, arranged it among the uncertain genera of Barringtoniacece *. Seemann in

1852 ^ considered Grias a genus of the latter family, placing it between Careya and
Gustavia. has been located by Bentliam and Hooker ® in their tribe LecytUdece
Pnally, it
intermediate to Gustavia and Couratari. It consists of 4 known species, all from

tropical America, being very lofty trees wîth
extremely large leaves, sometimes 3 feet
long, and an inflorescence generally springing from the trunk or bare branches in
fascicles of 6 or 8 flowers, each on a distinct pedicel, bracteated at its base, all crowded
upon a gemmiform peduncle. The flower is of mediocre size, with an inferior oyaiy,
crowned in the bud by an entire globular calyx, which afterwards splits into 2 or 4 sub-
equal concave submembranaceous segments, persistent in the fruit it has 4 alternate ;
oblong fleshy petals, with parallel sides, imbricated in aestivation, then rotately expanded,
inserted by their claws between the androphorum and disk ; the androphorum is Mi
the length of the petals, resembling somewhat in form (though greatly reduced in its
proportions) that of Gustavia ] it is regularly urceolate, deeply cleft round its margin into
numerous segmental appendages, and is charged inside with 3 or 4 concentric series of

similar gradually shorter appendages, like those in Cowôujpita, the inner row very short,
all at first erect, and suddenly incurved at the apex, a little below which, dorsally aifixed
upon each, is the short slender filament of a stamen, bearing 2 distinct oval anther-lobes,
collaterally attached at a point above their middle, and opening laterally by longi-
tudinal fissures : the vertex of the ovary is concave within the inner crenulated margin
of the disk, and is broadly nmbonated in the centre, where it bears a sessile 4-rayed
stigma, in wliich respect it resembles Couroupita : the inferior ovary is semiglobose,
4-celled, with 2 to 4 ovules in each cell, suspended from the summit. The fruit in the
Jamaica species is the size of a sma,ll pear, of a russet colour, smooth and 8-grooved ; by
abortion of 3 of its cells, it produces only a single seed, of an oblong form, grooved and
pointed at both ends, being an edible amygdaloid embryo, probably homogeneous, as in
Bertholletia, and germinating in the same manner. Lunan relates that these seeds,
after their fall in moist places, propagate in this manner so thickly that they become
interlaced in thick clusters ^ The trees always grow by river-sides, or in very moist places.
The Firigara tetrapetala " of Aublet belongs to this genus ; its flowers correspond in every
respect with those of the other three species void of pulp,

; but its fruit is globular, 4-celled,
and contains a few irregular-shaped seeds, suspended from the summit by thick funicles.
The genus Cercopkora' (Plate XXXVI. b) completes the eccentric varieties of forms
observed in this family. It is founded upon upon a
a single flower that had fallen
panicle of Chytroma Spruceana, in which it was entangled this was one of Spruce's
:
plants, No. 3695, from the Uio Negro so that we do not of leaves it
yet know the kind
;
' EeeB'8 Cyclop, vol. 17. * Prodr. iii. 296. »

Gen. No. 6335. * Veg. Kingd. 755
• Bot. Her. p. 126. • Gen. PL i. 722. 7 Hort. Jam. i. p. 20.
'
PI. Guian. i. 487
A name derived from ^kpKos, cauda,
^^p„, fero, from the caudate expansion of the androphorum.
has or tlie character of its inflorence; it prohahly helongs to one of 15 species^ which he
F
was there obliged to pass by, as they were far too high and quite out of his reach. The
flower expanded is IJ in. in diameter, has 6 subequal oval fleshy sepals, dorsally rugu-
lose, with membranaceous denticulate margins 6 petals, six times as long as the sepals,
;
somewhat unequal in size, oblong, membranaceous, fixed by their distinct claws between
the disk and the base of the androphorum ; the latter is comparatively small, with a
broad deep cup-shaped ring at the base, covered inside by 5 series of crowdecl short
appendages, somewhat 4i-grooved and truncated at their summits, each bearing there
a short slender filament that supports a 2-celled anther ; similar staminiferous appendages
are extended over a short and rather broad incurving ligula (an expansion of the basal
ring), which widens into a concave hood inverted over the centre this hood is cor- ;
rugated outside, and is formed into a hollow purse-shaped cavity, truncated at its mouth,
and on the middle of its outer edge it is expanded into a tongue-shaped strap, which is
again incurved beneath the sacciform hood there are no appendages upon any part of
:
the hood, though they abound on the ligula the inside of the sack;is marked by many
parallel prominent nerves or coloured ridges, which do not quite reach the margin of the
mouth, but terminate in as many spots : the ovary is inferior, 3-celled, mth many small
ovules in each cell, fixed to a nearly basal placenta in the axis ; the vertex is somewhat
having in the centre a curving terete style,
concave within the disk, radiately striated,
longer than the sepals, as in LecytUsy and terminated by a small whitish stigma of
3 short erect lobes.
This review shows that notwithstanding the great diversity of structure in the
Lecythidacece, there is always a sufficient degree of uniformity in its general characters to
maintain them as a distinct natural order in the fullest sense of that term. Tlicy consist
of trees of immense growth, rarely of smaller size, with leaves always alternate, gene-
without pellucid dots

rally quite or obsoletely serrated, ; the flowers, often of great size,
are in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles ; the adnate calyx has generally 6 free
sepals : the petals, equal to them in number, are large, oblong, very imbricated, with
their claws insinuated beneath the androphorum, and agglutinated with it upon the
annular epigynous disk all have a remarkable androphorum,

:
mostly of great size, which
is petaloid under the modifications previously described the very numerous and very :
small stamens have short slender filaments, with 2 minute anther-cells, never fixed
1 mmediately upon the disk, but always borne upon much longer distinct appendages,
originating upon the basal ring of the androphorum or upon its expanded head ;
these
appendages are clavate in the former position, arc much longer, subulately linear,
imbricatively echinate, and very frequently barren in the latter :

the ovary, generally
quite inferior, with ovules (not very nume-

more rarely semisuperior, has 2 to 6 cells,
sessile at the base of the
ronsi o ither suspended by funicles from the axis, or erect and
eeUs slightly incur^-ed,^ or short
; the style is not much longer than the sepals, terete,
and broadly conical, with a minute stigma. always a woody pyxidium, with
The fruit is
opercular dehiscence under difi'erent modifications, and is quite peculiar :
the seeds arc
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174 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.
generally large, each often suspended by a fleshy funicle nearly as large as itself, often
imbedded in pulp, at other times dry, erect and sessile in the base of the fruit, winged
or bare, often costate, all with an exalbuminous embryo, sometimes of singular develop-
It
ment. We have here a sum of remarkable characters, in reference to which we find no
parallel whatever in the Myrtacece.
On the other hand we see in the Myrtacece^ properly restricted, opposite leaves, T\dth
punctate glands, often concealed within a thick parenchyma, but generally apparent, pel-
lucid, and of aromatic flavour : the flowers, generally small, 4- or 5- rarely 6-merous, have
an inferior ovary, with 4, 5, 6, or more cells, with many horizontal or ascending ovules
a circular annular disk agglutinated to the free tubular portion of the calyx, and there-
fore unmistakably perigynous, which bears the petals upon its outer margin, and is
charged all over wdth numerous stamens in several series, except when, rarely, they are
imiserial ; the filaments are very long and slender, coiled and replicated in aestivation
the disposition of the calyx, charged with its staminiferous disk, is so peculiar that
it has received the name of an hypanthium : the fruit, in the first tribes, is generally
capsular, but drupaceous or baccate in the Myrtea : all are plurilocular, or by abortion
rendered 1-celled, with bare fleshy erect exalbuminous seeds ^ Compared with these
trenchant features, no correlative characters are to be found in LecytJiidacece.
Under such circumstances it appears to me injudicious to agglomerate into a single
natural order groups so utterly distinct as the Myrtacece, LecytJiidacece^ Barringtoniaceoe
and Napoleonece : a family so congregated can hardly be said to possess a single positive
peculiarity, because under the fusion of so many opposing characters, each of the ordinal
features necessarily becomes negative, and, according to my view, tends to destroy the
uniformity and utility of any system of arrangement based on such a principle.
On a future occasion I will proceed to detail the structure of the BarrmgtmiacecB,
and will endeavour to show by evidence the affinity they bear to the above and to other
families. I propose also to demonstrate that the Napoleonece have no relationship with
the above order or with Myrtacece, and that the 2 genera composing it have no mutual
affinity, and belong to other different orders. I am also prepared to deal with the
many dubious genera referred to the group of the Lecythidaceae: Couponi, AxMd,
forms a singular genus {Cupirana) of the Apocynacece; Cupheanthus, Seem., certainly
belongs to the Lythracece; Foetidia, Lam., appears to me to belong to the same family;
Calostemma, Benth., seems referable to the Fomece in Rosacece ; Tropiera off"ers a near
with Glossopetalum in Celastracece. And I have also to describe and figure a new
affinity
genus Sarmena, founded on a plant from New Caledonia, noticed by Dr. Seemann in his
PL Vit. as a specimen of Barringtonia speciosa ; this forms an interesting genus of
* Dr. Berg makes a distinct tribe of his genus Feijoa (Orthostemon) becanse of its albuminous seeds (Mart. H. Br.
/. c. pp. 467 & 615). The tiro species on which it is established do not appear to differ much from others growing io
the same locality, referred to his genus Myrdeugenla. He seems to have had some misgiving on the subject, because
he neither describes the albumen in the copious details of the text above cited, nor has he figured it in plate 54,
where the ripe fruit is shown. So loose a statement cannot be received as evidence of a fact of such importance,
wliich would form a unique exception to the universal remembered that
structure of the whole family. It will be
a very analogous error was made in the same work in the case of xxvii. 326).
Maytenus (see linn. Trans, vol. p.
t
t

I75
Bhizophoracece, whicli tends to confirm my notion that the BarringtonieiB ^Y^Yii^^Xi^
towards that family rather than to the Myrtacem.
The LecytUdacecB, as above analyzed, are here divided into 12 different genera
and I ;
now proceed to give a distinct diagnosis of each and a description of their several species.
Every specimen to which access was attainable has been carefully examined ; and
in
describing the species to which they belong, one uniform system has been
adopted in the
arrangement of their characters. In those species described by previous authors, and
which I have had no opportunity of examining, the characters so given are redistributed
under the same order of sequence as that adopted in my own enumeration, so
that their
mutual differences may be more easily compared. It is necessary to premise that
few
herbarium specimens can be identified with the large fruits preserved in museums. I
have never attempted in any case to associate them without good authority; conse-
quently the fruits not duly provable appear here as separate species, thus increasing
their
number to more than circumstances would otherwise warrant ; but it is better to suffer
this disadvantage than to give a false character to any species. The specific features
afforded by the fruits are excellent, and quite equal in value to those furnished by tlie
plants and flowers. No difficulty whatever has been found, in the absence of the fruit,
todetermine with tolerable accuracy, from the structure, of the ovary in the biul, tlio
genus to which any specimen belongs—a result which can hardly be said to have been
attainable before. This
a great point gained in our knowledge of .the family. The
is
characters, especially those of the ovary, are therefore carefully notqd in the several
species, as they serve to justify the position to which the different. specimens are assigned.
1. GusTAviA (Plate XXXIII. a).
This beautiful genus, one of the oldest of the family, has been considered by most
botanists to belong to the Barring toniecB, or has been regarded as an anomalous
member of the Myrtacece ; but my analysis demonstrates that it is truly Lecy ihtdaceon a.
The most prominent rank is here given to it, as the typical genus of the family, because,
from its more regular development, it affords a key to a better comprehension of tho
smgular structure found in the other genera. It differs little, in fact, from Courotipita
and Cariniana except in the regularity of its development, all the parts being quite
similar in their nature and position. Grias more nearly approaches it in the regularity
of the parts of the androphorum, although these are more stunted in growth.
GusTAViA, Linn
Pirigi
Marcg ,'
Calyx magna
4-6
firuibus annul
planus.
magnum
petalorum latum, et deinde cum petalis deciduum, imo usque ad medium, lu
cyatlium latum, brevem, camosulum, plurimis extus gradatira majoribus arete agglutinatis
e laminis
formatum, laminarum marginibus undique in lacinias, seu appendiculan, numcrosas, subu-
liberis, et
lato-loriformes fimbriatim divisis,
serie interiore brevi, reliquis imbricatim sensim longioribus, om-
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circa stylum conniventibus, singulis sub apicem obtusulum staminiferis Stamina

nibus incurvatis et ;
hinc numerosissima, brevissima, sequalia; filamenta filiformia tenuia; anth€r<B lineares, 2-lob«,
2 debisceutes; pollen lenticulare, subtriquctrum. Ovarium inferum, semi-

2-sulc« apice poris
anfnistissime
axillari
inifi minutum^ obsolete lobatum. Pyxidium globosum^ pomi molis,
marcidis cinctum
paullo sub apicem
superiore
cavo aut planato, imo columella angulata amplificata : peincaipmm tenuiter coriaceum, subliguosum,
loculis
funiculis
paullo minoribus carnosis intus spiraliter fibrosis suspcnsa ; testa crustacca, nitida, summo micropyle
magna signata: integumentum internum tenue emhryq exalbumiuosus, cotyledonibus 2

: ovalibus,
plano-convexis, caruosis, radicula supera, brevi, tereti, plumula conspicua immersa.

folia alterna, ohlonga, subserrata, breviter petiokta,
Arbores ve/ arbusculi ^wericte meridionalis, frondosi ;
flores terminales vel axillares, fasciculati, magni, albi, rosei aut flavi, sape odorati
S(Bpe conferta :
pedicelli medio 2-bracteolati ; hractesQ parv(B.
1. GusTAViA AUGUSTA, Linn. Dissert. PI. Surinam, p. 17, cum icone ; Amoenit. Acad.
viii. 266, tab. 5 ; Linn. fil. Suppl. 313 WiUd. Sp.

; iii. 846 DO. Prodr.
;
iii. 289 (excL
syn : Gustavia augusta, var. Guianensis, Berg in Mart. PI. Bras. fasc. 18, p. 470,
)
tab. 56 (excL tab. 55) ; in Linn, xxvii. p. 442 : Gustavia urceolafa, Poit. Mem. Mus.
xiii. 156, tab. 5 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 289 : Gustavia insignis, Willd. bb.: Gustavia meizo-
angulatis, striatis, fuscis foliis majus-
carpa?, Gaertn. Pr.ii. 264, tab. 138 : ramulis ;
culis, alternatim confertis, oblongo-lanceolatis, a medio deorsum sensim cuneatis.
apice gradatim obtusatis, aut subacutis, supra medium distincte serratis, vel crenu-
latis, leviter chartaceis, supra viridibus, nervis divergentibus juxta marginem nexis,
nervis costatis venisque

semiimmersis, reticulatis, subtus paullo pallidioribus, opacis,
breviore floribus
reticulatis prominentibus, petiolo semitereti, fusco, limbo 24-plo :
longis, validis,
axiUaribus, solitariis, vel 2-4 congestis,'maximis, speciosis ;
pedicellis
brevissimo, mtegro,
apice crassioribus, supra medium 2-bracteolatis ; calycis limbo
oblongis,
crenulato, subreflexo ;
petalis 8, quorum 4 majoribus, 2 multo minoribus,
griseo-puberulis, intus
nnguiculatis, crassiusculis, rosaceo-albis, extus granulatis et
minute granulato
parce tomentellis ; andropboro magno, extus punctulis
pallidis
infero, bemispbserico, ecostato, puberulo, 6-loculari, ovulis plurimis ad

granulato,
funiculis suspensis, vertice intra discum elevatum concavo, glabro,
viridi, laevi
stigmate parvo fere sessili, 6-lobo, umbonato pyxidio pyriformi-globoso,
:
zona calycari paullulo sub apicem linear i, integra zonali angustissim ,
; vitta inter
coriace^
operculo orbiculari, piano, centro breviter umbonato; pericarpio tenuiter
crassis lonsis
6-loculari, paucispermo; seminibus oblongo-ovatis, nigris, funiculis
torte corrugatis suspensis. —
In Guiana (Poiret) v. s. in hb. Sooh. Surinam (^^
:
fliiv
mann, 276), Guiana {Talhot\ Guiana {Schomhurgh), Guiana {Appun, 1856),
Mand in hh. Mus
{Sagot, 268),Cayenne {Martin), Brasilia {Burchell, 10,080),
Brit. Guiana {Martin), Guiana {Auhl.), Surinam {sine nom, in hb. Smith).
ei
This species was originally described and well figured by Linnseus in 1775; aiio*
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good account, with an excellent figure, was afterwards contributed by Poiteau. Berg,
however, has created much perplexity by figuring a very different species, and con-
founding with it several other plants. It seems confined to Guiana ; for Burchell's
specimen from the vicinity of Para, from its paler leaves and different aspect, probably
belongs to some other species. It grows chiefly in the savannas, forming a tree 20-40
feet high, with a trunk 1 foot in diam., with thick branches; the leaves, approximated
at the end of the branches, are 10-18 in. long,
2|-4J in. broad, on a petiole J-| in. long,
and with about 20 pairs of nerves the peduncle, about | in. long, bears 2-4 pedicels 2 in.
:
long, with 2 small opposite bracts in the middle : the flower expanded is 6 in. across
the larger petals are 2f in. long, IJ in. broad ; the cup of the androphorum is IJ in.
broad, the appendages of the outer row are 9 lines long, all converging to the centre ;
anthers IJ lin. long, sublinear, 2-celled, opening by 2 pores at the apex and supported by
a short slender filament : the globular pyxidium, turbinate at base, truncated at the
summit, is 2^ in. in diam. in the middle : the interzonary band is about 1 line high, the
flat umbonated operculum is IJ in. in diam. the seeds are 1 in. long, f in. broad, ;
smooth, suspended by a twisting plicated fleshy funicle of nearly its length.

Gaertner's drawing of the fruit probably belongs to some other species, as it is more
globular, deeply sulcated and subtorulose. Sagot's specimen also belongs 'to another
species, as the bracts are placed near the summit of the pedicel.
2. GusTAViA SUPERBA, Bcrg in Linn, xxvii. 444 Gustavia augtista, DC. (non Linn.) :
Prodr. iii. 289 Gustavia angustifolia^ Seem, (non Bth.) Bot. Her. p. 126
: Gustavia :
insif/nis, Hook. Bot. Mag. tab. 5069 Firigara superba, H. B. K. vii. 262 rnmulis
: :
glabris, pallidis, striatis, cicatrisatis, fistulosis : foliis congestis, lanceolato-oblon

imo spathulato-cuneatis et fere sessilibus, apice acute acuminatis, remote ct argute
serratis, glaberrimis, translucenter submembranaceis, utrinquc pallidissimc viridibus

et opacis, nervis tenuibus, divaricatis, arcuatim nexis, prominulis, transversim valde
reticulatis, subtus costa nervisque stramineis prominentibus, petiole glabro, scmi-
tereti, lineatim marginato, limbo 9-lOplo breviore : racemo brevi, terminali, vol e
trunco nascente ; floribus purpurascentibus, odoriferis ; rachi petiolo paullo longiori

pedicellis alternatim congestis, puberulis, infra medium bracteolis 2 parvis imo
connatis munitis ; calycis limbo brevi, integro, vel obsolete 6-lobato et crenulato
petalis 8, oblongis, quorum 4 angustioribus, intus albis, extus rubescentibus, ungue
flavo ; androphoro albo ; ovario turbinate, ecostato, glabro, vertice depress o, relu-
tino : fructu flavo-viridi, eduli. In Kova Granada, prov. Carthagena, prope Tur-
baco {Bonpland) : v. s. in herb. JEook. prov. Panama (Seemann,hl% Nova Granada
,
{Barclay), Ecuador {Sinclair).
This
is a well-marked species, easily recognized by its large membranaceous reticulated
leaves coarsely serrated on the margins, the inflorescence of fine handsome flowers
springing from the trunk. It grows near Carthagena, where it is known by the name
of MembriUo (Quince) from its edible fruit. It abounds in the inner parts of the
province of Panama, where it forms entire forests it is a tree 50 feet high, with a ;
durable scentless wood, used for building ; its branches are simple and erect, marked
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the cicatrices of the fallen leaves : the leaves are 9-24 in. long, ^~^ in. broad,
on a petiole 1-2 J in. long, and with about 20 pairs of nerves ; the pedicels in the
hud are # in. lon^, hut they finally attain a length of 2J in. ; the petals are 2 in. Ion"'
IJ broad
in.
SirWm. Hooker's drawing of this species, under the name of Gustama insignis,
was taken from a plant cultivated at Kew, and sent by Linden, probably from New
Granada.
3. GusTAViA CONFERTA, Sprucc MSS. Gusiavia augiista, var. conferta,

: Berg in Mart. El.
a.
Bras. I. c. p. 471 ramulis pallide brunneis, interrupt e striatis, lenticellatis foliis

: ;
imo sensim cuneatis, supra medium angustioribus et in acumen

elongato-oblongis,
obtusulum gradatim attenuatis, marginibus inferioribus integris, sursum vix aut
leviter serratis, dentibus obtusis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra fusco-viridibus, opacis 5
nervis patentim divaricatis, intra marginem arcuatim nexis, costaque pauUo pro-
minulis, subtus leviter brunneis, opacis, valde reticulatis, costa nervis venisque
prominentibus, petiolo brevissimo aut vix ullo : racemo axiUari, brevi, 3-4-floro
rachi brevi, fusca, angulato-striata ; pedicellis confertim alternis, crassiusculis, sul-
catis, ferrugineo-pruinosisj supra medium 2-bracteolatis ; calycis limbo brevissimo,

rotundato-undulato, obsolete 6-lobato, ferrugineo-opaco ;
petalis 6-8, spathulato-
oblongis, carnosulis, in alabastro ferrugineo-pulverulentis : ovario turbinate, ecostato,
fusee opaco, granulatim ruguloso, 6-loeulari, vertice intra discum subplanum griseo-
pubescente; stylo brevissimo, conico; stigmate brevissimo 6-lobo, intus papilloso.
In Brasilia, v. s. in herb. Hookr, in Amazonas

Santarem et Barra (^S^ntc^, inter
1165) ; Bio Negro, Parahuamirim dos Bamos {Spruce, 1011) ; Bio Negro (1574 bis,
sub G.fcistuosa).
A species very different from G, augusta, of whichwas considered to be a variety l)y

it
Dr. Berg ; but it differs in its leaves being darker, of more lurid hue, almost sessile, and
in its smaller flowers. It is a small tree, 5-15 feet high ; its leaves are 8-10 in. long,
broad,
in.on a petiole in. long. The rachis of the inflorescence is only a few
2J-3 J-|
long the pedicels |-1 in. long ; the flower expanded is 4 J in. in diam. ; the spatbulale
;
petals 2 in. long, 1 in. broad ; the androphorum \\ in. in diam
4. GxJSTAYiA LACiNiosA, nob. : Gusiavia augusta, var. calycaris in parte, Berg, I.e. p. 471
foliis approximatis, elongato-oblongis, vel elliptico -oblongis, a medio deorsum sensmi
angustioribus, imo in petiolum subito acutis, apice breviter et obtuse acuminatis,

viridibus,
marginibus laciniose et grosse serratis, chartaceis, glaberrimis, supra
nervis subpatentim divaricatis juxta luride Tin-
marginem arcuatim nexis, subtus
dibus, petiolo subtenui, limbo 14-plo breviore racemo terminali,
:
4-6-floro, floribus
6-dentato, dentibus
odoriferis ; pedicellis alternis, medio 2-bracteolatis calycis limbo;
ovario
late rotundatis ; petalis roseis, margine pallidioribus androphoro albo ; :
turbinate, ecostato: flavidis crebre

fructu flavido-viridi (sicco fusco), lenticellis
maculato, subgloboso, supra basin paullo constricto et sub coarc-
zonam calcycarem
tatoj hsec undulatim 6-loba, zona
membranacea: vitta interzonali brevissima;
. ;

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179
r
superiore integra. In Brasilia v, s. in herl. Hook, ad ostium Rio

. :
Negro {Spruce,
1574 in parte sub G. augusta) : v. fmct, s. in Mm. Kew. (Spruce, 1574, sub
Cr. fastuosa)
It is a busby tree, 15-20 feet higb, witb leaves 12-13

'
in. long, 3f in. broad, on a
petiole and about 22 pairs of nerves tbe raceme is about
1-1 in. long,
3 in. long, tbe :
pedicels, 3-6 Knes apart, are l-lj in. long. The pyxidium is IJ in. long, IJ in. broad in
the middle, contracted to 1^ in. below the calycary zone, which is
1^ in. in diam., the
interzonal band 1 line high upper zone 1^ in. in diam. ;
•In the form of its leaves it approaches G. superha, but differs in their much
thicker
texture, coarser and blunter teeth, a more obtuse acumen and more slender, longer,
in the more slender inflorescence, ecostate ovary, with 6 acute teeth.
distinct petioles,
For the same reasons it differs from G. conferta and G. calycaris, with which it is con-
founded by Berg. ,
5. GusTAViA Antillana, nob. ramulis pallidis, opacis, profunde sulcatis foliis con-
:
:
fertis, cuneato-lanceolato-oblongis, supra medium sensim acuminatis, marginibus

subrevolutis, crenato-serratis, rigide chartaceis, utrinquepallidissimis, opacis, nervis
divaricatis juxta marginem nexis, costa supra striolata prominula, subtus promi-
nente, fulvida, striolata, nervis venisque reticulatis promincntibus, petiole supra
convexiusculo, subtus convexo, striolato, subpruinoso : inflorescentia ignota pyxidio :
subparvo, globoso, sub zonam coarctato ; zona calycari lineatim circular! : vitta
interzonali angustissima, horizontali; zona superiore circular!; opcrculo concavo;
pericarpio tenui, crustaceo, pallide brunnco, lenticcllis granosis flavidis crobre
maculato. In Antillanis : v, s, in herb. Hook. S. Vinccnte {Guilding, sub G, hcxa-
petala\ v.fruct s. in Mus. Kew. {Gullding).
A species remarkable for its .extremely pallid rigid leaves and the smallncss of its
fruit. The leaves are 8-10 long, 2^-3 in. broad, on a stoutish flattened petiole J in.
in.
long ; the specimen has no flower ; the pyxidium is 1 in. high, If broad in the middle
the calycary zone, scarcely prominent, is 1 in. in diam.
6. GusTAViA DUBiA, Berg; Linn, xxvii. p. 446 (excl. syn.) : foliis oblongis, vel oblongo-
lanceolatis, utrinque angustatis, medio subserratis, chartaceis, supra nervis sub-
patulis, tenuibus, prominulis, valde reticulatis, costa planiuscula, subtus costa
prominente, nervis costatis, petiolo limbo 16-20plo breviore : inflorescentia ignota :
pedicello fructifero longo, medio minute 2-bracteolato ; fructu globoso, laBvi, tenu-
issime velutino. In Nova Granada ad fluv. Magdalena (spec, malum in Mus Beru-
lino, herb. Willd., no. non
10155, sec. cl. Berg) : vidi.
This plant is evidently a Gustama, to which Berg referred the Lecylhis elliptica and
X. duhia of Kunth,
which most certainly are two very different plants. It appears to
come very near G, Antillana
leaves are 7J-8i in. long, 2|-2.^ in. broad, on a petiole
: its
4^6 lines long ; the peduncle
of the fruit is 1^ in. long, the pyxidium is 1 J in. in diam.
'Hie specimen is
said to be very incomplete.
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GlJSTAVIA ANGUSTiPOLiA, Bentli. Voy. Sulph. p. 99 ; Seem, (non Benth.) Bot. Her.
p. 126 ; Berg, Linn, xxvii. 443 ramulis crassiusculis, albidulis

: foliis subsessilibus :
anguste oblongis, basi longe sensim angustatis, apice acuminatis, acumine obtusulo
marginibus subrevolutis obsolete" serratis, tenuiter cbartaceis, supra viridibus, opacis,
nervis planis et sulcatnlis arcuatim nexis, venis valde reticulatis et promiaulis
subtns pauUo pallidioribus, nervis venisque prominentibus, ntrinque opace pruinosis,

petiole brevissimo, aut vix nllo floribns terminalibus, 3-4, subfasciculatis, sgepe e
:
truHco nascentibus, griseo-puberulis, pedicellis striatis, imo bractea late lanceolata,
et paullo sub apicem bracteolis 2 minutis donatis ; calycis limbo brevissimo, sub-
integro, vel obsoletissime 6-lobo ; petalis ssepius 6, oblongis, obtuse rotundatis, albis
aut purpurascentibus, extus puberulis ; ovario turbinate, ecostato, tomentello. In

America tropicali : v. s. in lierh. Hook. Columbia (Hinds).
A very distinct species : its leaves are 10-17 in. long, 2f-4 in. broad, almost epetio-
late; flowers sometimes appearing on the trunk; the pedicels are slender, 10 lines
long ; their basal bract is 4-5 lines long, the 2 minute bracteoles placed 2 lines below
the apex ; the limb of the calyx is extremely narrow ; the petals are 11 lines long,
5 lines broad. Mr. Bentham states that the leaves are pellucid-punctate ; but they
have no pellucid glands, as in Mj/rtacece; the translucent dots are due only to the
thinness of the parenchyma in the small areoles formed by the reticulations of the
coarse veins.
This species differs from G. siiperba, from the same region, in its smaller, more
chartaeeous, almost sessile leaves, subpuberulous on both sides, and much smaller
flowers.
8. GusTAviA PUBESCENS, Buiz et Pav. vol. ined. p. 306, tab. 351 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 443
foliis sessilibus, spathulato-oblongis, imo sensim lonê et gradatim angustatis, supra
medium latioribus, apice breviter acuminatis, serrulatis, cbartaceis, supra opacis,
glabris, nervis utrinque circ. 62 divaricatis marffinem versus arcuatis, puberulis,

subtus molliter pubescentibus, nervis costatis, costaque media prominentibus, et
,
tomentosis : inflorescentia ignota : floribus speciosis, magnis, petalis ovaU-oblongis,
coriaceis. In Ecuador ad Guayaquil : non vidi.
The specimen in the Berlin herbarium, according to Berg, consists only of a single leaf,
a few petals, and an androphorum ; but all the other details are derived from Euiz s
details and his drawing : from these it appears a very good species. The leaves are 32J
in. long, 7 in. broad above the middle, 10 lines broad at the insertion so tbat they m ;
be somewhat auriculated at their base the petals of their handsome flowers are :
2 21
in. long, 15-17 lines broad. It is sufficiently distinct from the preceding species.
9. GusTAViA GKACiLLiMA, nob. : ramulis palHdis, profunde sulcato-striatis, sparse lenti
apice creberrime foliiferis ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus, sub medium sensm

cellatis,
spathulatis et in petiole longe acumuw

decurrentib as, apice gradatim attenuatis,
obtusulo, tenuissime cbartaceis, et crenulato
flaccidis, marginibus subundulatis
;;
serrulatis,dentibus brevibus, obtusulis, iitrinque pallide viridibus et valde opacis,

nervis numerosissimis, divaricatis, intra marginem adsceudentibus, supra semi-
immersis, subtus prominulis, costa utrinque prominente, petiolo tenuissimo, eloii-
gato, tereti, siiperne marginato, limbo 7plo breviore : racemo plurifloro ; pedicellis
crebre approximatis, tenuibus ; floribus majusculis, speciosis ; calycis limbo brevis-
simo, crenulato ;
petalis 6, elongato-oblongis, obtusis ; ovario infero, ecostato. In
o Granatensi : v. s. in lib. Sook., Nova Granada {Purdie)
A very distinct and beautiful species, apparently with pendent slender branc
owded at the extremity with slender leaves the leaves are 10-13* in. Iougt, 1 :
broad, on a very slender petiole l|-2 in. long the petals are 3 in. long, 1 in. broad :
10. GusTAViA VEETiciLLATA, nob. : ramulis virgatis pallidis, striatis, cum axillis remo-
tiusculus; foliis in verticellis pluribus, congestis, recurvis, pro genere parvis,
anguste oblongis, utrinque acutis, marginibus cartilagineis, integris vel subundulatis,
glabris, rigide chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, ad nervos sulcatis, opacis, nervis
tenuibus, patentibus, longe intra marginem arcuatim nexis, subprominulis, subtus
pauUo pallidioribus, opacis, costa striolata nervisque flavescentibus promincntilms,
petiolo tenui, canaliculato, marginato, limbo 4<plo breviore : floribus in axillis paucis,
vel terminalibus 4-5 congestis, mediocribus ;
pedicellis breviusculis, recurvis, pallide
brunneis, striatis, rigide puberulis, supra medium bracteolls 2 ovalibus munitis
calycis limbo angustissimo, integro, crenulato ;
petalis 8, anguste oblongis ; andro-
phoro magno, cupulari; ovario turbinato, subparvo, obsolete costato, puberulo,
vertice intra discum angustum piano, opaco, stylo brevi umbonato. In Nova Gra-
nada: V. s. in Jib. Hook.y prov. Mariqueta, Rio Magdalcna (Triana, 41(57).
A species very distinct from aU others ; its vii'gate branchlets arc 1^ line thick, with
axils about IJ in. apart : leaves about 5 in each verticel, very pendulous, 4-7 in. long,
li-2 in. broad, on a petiole 1-lJ in. long; pedicels 6 lines long, with 2 bracts 1 line;
long, placed 4 lines above the base ; the calycine limb is 5 lines in diam.
11. GusTAViA SPECIOSA, DC. Prodr. iii. 289; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 445: Firigara »pe-
ciosa, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. vii. 262 foliis maximis, oblongo-lanceolatis, infra medium
:
longe spathulato-angustatis, imo breviter obtusatis, apice in acumen obtuse acutum

L- attenuatis, marginibus integris aut undulato-sinuatis, rigide chartaceis, supra
dense viridibus aut pallidioribus, opacis, nervosis, creberrime reticulatis, costa
vaHda, subtus viridibus, opacis, costa nervisque flavidis promincntibus, petiolo scm i-
tereti, canaliculato, fusco, limbo 8plo breviore racemis terminalibus, vel trunco :
enatis, 4-5-floris; pedicellis tomentosis, medio bibracteolatis ; floribus speciosis
albis vel roseis, odoriferis

; calycis limbo angusto, obsolete lobato, utrinque prui-
noso ; petalis 6, maximis, oblongis, carnosis, quorum 3 sxpe angustioribus : ovario

turbinato, minime 6-costo, tomentoso, 6-loculari, vertice concavo, albidc tomentoso
stylo breviter conico, glabro, 6-sulcato : fructu 6-loculari. In Nova Granada ad
Mariquita {Bonpland) et in Brasilia : v. 8. in hb. Hook., Kio Negro, BarccUos
{Spruce, 1535); Barcellos, gapo de Barraroa (Spruce, 1933).
VOL. XXX- 2
182 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.^.
A bushy tree 20-30 feet high, on the Rio Negro. The leaves are 9-24 in. lono- 3 1_4
in. hroad, on a petiole 1-2 J in. long, with about 30 pairs of nerves : the peduncle i
about 2 in. the pedicels 2-3 lines apart, are J in. long ; the liuib of the
long ;
ealvx
sub-6-lobed, 1 J line broad ; the petals 2-3 in. long. The species is well distinguished bv
the long petioles of its large lanceolate leaves. I have not adopted Bero-'s
amended
diagnosis, because it was altered to embrace the following species. Spruce's plants are
here considered to be specifically the same as Bonpland's plant from Mariquita,
as there
is scarcely any difference in the characters assifirned to it.
12. GusTAviA LATiFOLiA, nob. : Gustavia spedosa, Benth. (non DO.), PI. Hartw. 176-
p.
Berg, Linn, xxvii. 445 cuneato-oblongis, imo gradatim spathulatis, ad medium
: foliis
ample latioribus, apice acumhie brevi obtusulo constrictis, mariînibus

^....K.^^ OL4U^litCg
subinteoiMs
aut obsolete serratis, irregulariter repando-crenatis, submembranaceis aut flaccide
chartaceis, supra viridibus, pruinoso-opacis, ad nervos divaricate arcuatim
nexos
sulcatulis, subtus pallidioribus, flavescentibus, opacis, minute granulosis, subpube-
rulis, costa nervisque prominentibus ; petiolo semitereti, elongato, fusco,' hmbo
5-6plo breviore : racemis abbreviatis, 4-8-fioris, ramis vetustis enatis, pedieellis
longiusculis, congestis, subvalidis, flavide tomentoso-puberulis, imo bractea rotun-
data concava, et supra medium bracteoHs 2 minutis munitis ; calycis limbo brevi,
crassiusculo, patenter subcampanulato, irregulariter crenato; petalis
6, ovato-oblongis,
puberulis, albis ovario hemisphserice turbinato, obsolete 6-costato, granulato, ferru-
:
gineo-pubescente, 6-loculari, vertice intra discum crenato-pulvinatum concavo,

radiatim striolato et tomentoso; stylo brevissimo umbonato : fructu eduli. In
America tropica :
v. s, in hb. Sooh, Guaduas in prov. Bogota {Sartweg, 981),
Panama [Seemanrhi sine num.).
This is a slender tree 30-40 feet high; its leaves are 10^-12 in. lon^, 4i-4| in. broad,
on a 2^-2^ in. long, having about 18 pairs of nerves ; the inflorescence sometimes
petiole
terminal, more generally springing from the wood
of its bare branches, has a thick
peduncle J in. long, bearing almost fasciculated flowers; the stout pedicels are curved,
IJ-lf in. long, the basal bract 3 lines lonsr, and broad, and 2 minute bracts 3 Hnes
below the sumaiit the limb of the calyx is broad and
;
J line 9 lines in diam. ; the flower
(expanded is 2i in. or more in diameter.
The species is very distinct from G. speciosa, to which it has been referred : although
approaching it in its lengthened petioles, the leaves are double
the breadth in proportion,
and shortly constricted at the apex (not long and sharply acuminated at the
ol)tusely
summit), and having only 18 pabs of nerves
(instead of 30) in the Panama specimen :
the leaves are more glabrous, and the petiole flatter.
13. Gustavia pulchra, nob. foliis in pe-

: elongato-oblongis, imo longe spathulatis et
tiolo decurrentibus, a medio sursum latioribus, apice subrotundatis, supra medium
repando-serratis, marginibus revolutis, chartaceis, nervis
supra viridibus, opacis,
tcnuibus prominulis, costa convexa,
subtus luride fuscioribus vel hepatice viridibus,
valde opacis, nervis pluribus petiolo
prominentibus, venis transversim reticulatis,
;
subtenui, canaliculate, fusco, limbo 35plo breviore : racemis subbrevibus, expansis,

alternatim 6-10-floris, (tmnco enatis ?) ; floribus magnis, roseis, odoriferis ;
pedi-
cellis subtenuibus, longiusculis, mgulosis, opace ocbraceis, pruinosis, angulato-
striatis, ultra medium 2-bracteolatis ; calycis limbo anguste et breviter acute 6-den-
tato; petalis 8, oblongis, carnosulis, in alabastro albido-tomentosis ; andropboro

maguo, subgloboso, appeudiculis tenuibus: ovario turbinato, obsolete 6-costato,
pulverulento, vertice subconcavo, reticulato ; stylo breviter conico, 6-sulcato ; stig-
mate niveo 6-radiato coronate. In Venezuela et BrasiHse confinibus : v. s. in herb.

Hooh, Eio Casiquiare {Spriicet sine num.), Eio Uranacud {Spruce, 1933).
A tree 20-30 feet bigh, growing by the side of rivers, and apparently confined to the
upper tributaries of the Rio Negro ; it is near G. speciosa, differing, as Dr. Spruce well
observes, in tbe thinner texture of its leaves, a less number of nervures, in their more
spatiiulate form, rounded on the summit, decurrent at base, on a shorter petiole, more
r
numerous flowers on longer and more slender pedicels, bracteolated above the middle,
the calycine limb more distinctly and acutely lobed. The leaves arc 17-25 in. long, 3-
in. broad, on a petiole J-J in. long, with about 24 pairs of nerves, at a distance from
each other of 10 lines : the raceme, apparently torn from tlie trunk, has a peduncle 1-2
in. long, pedicels long ; limb of calyx 1 J line long, 7 lines in diam. the petnls
1^-2 J in. ;
2-2J in. long, f-1 in. broad ; the flower expanded is 4J-5 in. in width. I have corrected
the locality given by Spruce, the river properly spelled is ITaranacua (not Uanauaca) it ;
is near Carvocira.
14. GusTAViA Marc GUA AVI AN A, nob. : Gustama augiista, Berg in parte (non Linn.) in
Mart. M. Bras. fasc. 18. p. 469, tab. 55, 56 : Janiparmidiba, Marcg. Bras. cap. 9,
p. 109 ; Japarandiba, Pis. 9. p. 172 : ramulis crassiusculis cincrascenti-brunneis,

striolatis, lenticellis verruculosis : foliis crebre alternis, subsessilibus, oblongis vel
lanceolato-oblongis, imo sensim cuneatis, ultra medium amplioribus, apice in acumen
subacutum gradatim aut subito attenuatis, margine tenui nervigcro vix rcvoluto
serratis, flaccide chartaceis, supra Igete viridibus, subnitentibus, costa tenui, nervis
tenuibus paullo prominulis, venis crebriter transversis reticulatis, subtus fere conco-
loribus, costa valida, striolata, nervis costatis, venis prominulis, petiolo lato, brcvis-
simo, ssepe nuUo : floribus speciosissimis, in ramulis novellis ex axillis brevissiiiiis
terminalibus ; rachi brevissima, pluribracteolata, 1- ad 6-flora ;

pediccUis subvalidis,
pallide opacis, glabris, angulato-striatis, crebre granulatis, paullo ultra medium

bracteolis 2 parvis acutis donatis; calycis limbo brevissimo, integro, undulatim
recurvulo ; petalis 9, quorum 6 maximis, oblongis, obtusis, imo sensim unguiculatis,
utrinque Isevibus, glabris, subina^qualibus, carnosulis, planis, albis ?, siccis aureo-
luteis ; andropboro magno, subgloboso, fusciore, subtus hemisphairicc cupukto, mar-

gine et intus appendicuHs longis lineari-subulatis crebre pluriserialibus incurvatis
staminigeris munito infero, turbinato, ecostato, opace pruinoso, 4-loculari,

: ovario
ovulis plurirais, a placentis crassis centraiibus appensis et cum funiculis multiseri-
atis radiantibus, vertice intra discum elevatum subconcavo, sparsim albide pilose
2b2
:
3^34 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.
conico; stigmate minimo, 4-lobatim globoso: pyxidio subgloboso.

stylo "brevi, In
Brasilia : v. s. in herb, variis, Pernambnco {Gardner, 1022).
woods near Pernambnco brancblets i-|

A small tree, common in ; its are in. thick,
with a soft wood, almost fistulous, or filled with a large quantity of pith the axils are ;
alternately 3-4 lines apart the leaves are 6-18 in.

; long, 3-5 in. wide, on a broad petiole
1 line long, or sometimes decurrent to its base, and they have about 20 pairs of nerves
the pedicel is IJ in. long, with 2 bracteoles, ^1 in. above the base, 1 line long, and puhe-
rnlous the: flower expanded is 5 J in. in diam. the calycine border is J line broad,
: very
crenulated and undulated ; the unequal petals are 1 J-2 J in. long., |"1 in. broad the ;
cup of the androphorum is IJ in. in diam., its outer appendages 9 lines long, | line
broad. I doubt much whether the pyxidium figured by Berg under G. augmta belongs
to this species. I therefore do not cite the dimensions he gives of it. According to
Marcgraaf, it is rather larger than an apple, flatly truncated at the summit, 2 or 3 hanging
together in a bunch, greyish externally, yellow within : the seeds are oblong, the size of
an almond-nut, shintag, somewhat angular, and cordate where they are attached to the
coiling thick fimicles. The plant of Gardner is unquestionably identical with the Jani-
parandiha of Marcgraaf from the same locality, and is certainly distinct from G. angusta,
Linn., to which it is referred and figured in Berg*s plates 55 & 56.
15. Gtjstavia longipolia, Popp. : Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras. /. c. 472 in Linn, xxvii. ;
p. 442 : arbor parva ; foliis magnis spathulatis, sessilibus, apice obtusiuscule

acutatis, leviter serrulatis, chartaceis, supra cano-virentibus, opacis, creberrime et
subtilissime punctatis, nervis crebre parallelis, subpatulis, marginem versus adscen-
dentibus, prominulis, subtus puberulis, nervis venisque tenuissimis reticulatis pro-

minentibus : racemis 1-4-floris e trunco vel ex axillis inferioribus ortis ;
pediccllis
puberulis, infra medium 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis minimis, ovatis; calycis limbo
fere integro, vel breviter rotundiusculo et 3-4-lobo ;

petalis 8, obverse ohlongis,
alternatim angustioribus, roseo-purpureis : ovario infero, turbinato, puberulo, vertice
stylo obsolete stigmate obso-

depresse orbiculari, 4-loculari, loculis pluriovulatis ; ;
lete 4-sulcato: pyxidio globoso, sanguineo, 3-4-loculari, 3-4-spermo; seminibus
obovatis. In Peruvia, ad Yurimaguas, in prov. Maynas {Foppig, 2094) :

non vidi.
A small tree 6 feet high, scarcely ramose, called Chope or Sachavaya by the natives.
broad at the
The leaves are lJ-2 feet long, 5-7^ in. broad above the middle, 10-18 lines
lines broad,
sessile base, and without petioles ; pedicels 8-16 lines long lobes of calyx 2 ;
lines
\ line long greenish petals,
; broader ones 1 in. long, 5 lines broad androphorum 6 ;
2 short longitudinal
long, incurved ; filament 4 lines long, anther bursting at summit by
fissures ; ovary 4 lines long ; disk 5 lines in diam. pyxidium 2 in. diam., with
;
very broa
;le seed in eacb cell ; a very distinct species, remarkable for its large,
flowers of mode
sessile leaves, with very close parallel nerves, and puberulous beneath ;
rate size, upon long pedicels.
folus
GusTAViA P(EPPiGiANA, Berg in Mart. PI. Bras. /. c. p. 471; Linn, xxvii. 442:
;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 1S5
in apice ramiilorum congestis, elongato-oblongis, imo lonê et ani?uste sensim

spathulatis, apice obtusatis, aut breviter obtuse acuminatis, repando-serratis, glabris,
nervis plurimis, erect o-patulis, intra marginem adscendentibus, utrinque promi-
nentibus, petiolo limbo circ. 60plo breviore ; racemo brevi, terminali, plurifloro
pedicellis brevibns, medio 2-bracteolatis ; catycis limbo brevi, integro petalis albis, ;
demum roseis ; ovario infer o, turbinato, velutino. 4-costato ; pyxidio globoso, ma-
jusculo, 4-costato, cinereo-viridi, snmmo piano, 4-loculari. In Alta Amazonas,
ad Ega (Poppig, 2658) : no7i vidi.
A species very near G. speciosa, apparently differing only in its shorter petioles, and
somewhat smaller flowers : its leaves are 6-16 in. lonor, 2-5 in. broad above the middle.
petiole 1 to 3 lines long, and with about 20 pairs of nerves : the pedicels are 4 lines
o bracteoles oval, 1 J line long ; ovary 4 lines long ; petals 2 in. long ; fruit 3 in. in
diam. : seeds cuneatelv ansrular
&
17. GusTAViA CALYCAUis, nob. Gustavia augusta, var. cali/caris. Berg in Mart. Fl.
:
Bras. Lc. p. 471 ramulis fusco-griseis, rugulosis foliis ssepius maximis, oblongo-
: ;
lanceolatis, imo longe spathulato-angustatis, et in petiolum sensim obtusatis, su])ra

medium sensim latioribus, sursum gradatim angustioribus, ct in acumen acutum
constrictis, marginibus fere intcgris aut undulato-sinuatis, rigide chartaccis, supra
viridibus, opacis, nervis tenuibus utrinque circ. 24 reinote divergent ib us, juxta
marginem nexis, vix prominulis, costa prominula, striolata, subtus paullo pallidi-
oribus, nervis fulvidis, prominentibus, vcnis transvcrsim rcticulatis, petiolo sub-
valido, subcanaliculato, fulvido, limbo 30plo breviore: racemo axillari,brev I, altcr-
natim 10-floro; rachi opace brunnea, striata; floribus speciosis, roseis, odoratis;
pedicellis longiusculis, angulato-sulcatis, fusco-pruinosis, paullo sub apiccm bractcolis
2 lineari-acutis munitis ; calycis limbo brevi, in dentes 4 latos acutos rotates diviso,
utrinque pruinoso ; petalis 10, valde imbricatis, subajqualibus, ovato-oblongis, car-
nosulis, roseis, utrinque griseo-opacis et pulverulentis : ovario turbinate, fiisco-
tomentoso, leviter 4-costato, 4-loculari, vertice intra discum elcvatum valdc con-
cavo, flavide opaco; stylo brevi, conico, umbonato; stigmatc inconspicut). In
•
Amazonas v. s. in herb. Hook., inter Santarem et Barra (Spruce, sine num.) Kio
: ;
Negro usque ad Solimoes {Spruce, 1574) Eio Kegro {Spruce, 1574 his, sub G.fas-
;
tuosa).
This species very distinct from G. conferta, and

is is noted by Berg as difToring from
it by its 4-lobed calyx
; but he has confounded the specimens of Spruce's plants referred
to them respectively. Spruce says it is a bushy tree, 15 to 20 feet high its leaves ;
10-14 in. long, 2-3} in. broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long, with nerves diverging at a
listancc of j in. apart in the larger leaves ; the raceme, apparently axillary, la about 2§
long; the pedicels f-l^ in. long, with bracteoles f-1 in. above the b:iso, each 3
lines long the flower expanded is 3 J in. broad the limb
: of the calyx is
;
subquadratc,
1 line long at the lobes, \ line broad in each sinus, the lobes opposite to the sleiuler
costal ridges; the petals in. long, in. broad; the androphorum is white; the
lJ-2 f
fruit of a yellowish- green colour.
;
18. GiJSTAViA RuiziANA, Berg, in Linn, xxvii. 444 ; Gusfavia mi gust a, R. & p. u^^
Linn.), in El. Peruv. torn. v. ined. p. 117, tab. 4^5 ramulis crassis, cortice :
ruo-oso
suLeroso; foliis spathnlato-lanceolatis, imo longe

angustatis, apice acuminatis
leviter serratis, chartaceis, supra glabris, nervis utrinque 30, subdivaricatis, jus ;a
marginem adscendentibus, baud prominulis, reticulatis, snbtus pnberulis,
nervis
prominentibus, costa crassiusciila ;
petiolo valido, limbo 20plo breyiore floribus :
plurimis, congestis ;
peduncnlis validis, tomentellis, supra medium minute 2-l)rac-
teolatis ; ovario infero ecostato calyceque levitor 4-lobo tomentellis. In Ecuador

ad Guayaquil {Mniz) : non vidi.
This species appears to differ from G. angustifoUa in its petiolated, thicker, nar-
roAver leaves, glabrous above, and its 4-lobed calyx ; from G. augusta in its petiolated
thinner leaves, puberulous below, sub divaricately costate nerves, tomentose pedicels, and
4-lobed calyx. The leaves are 19 in. long, 3 in. broad, on a petiole 16 lines long : tLe
pedicels are 2-2 J in. long.
19. GusTAviA PTEROCAEPA, Poit. Mem. Mus. xiii. 158, tab. 6 et 7 ; DC. Prodr. iii.
290; Hook. Bot. Mag. 5239 : Giistama fasfuosa (in parte), Berg (non Willd.), in
Mart. El. Bras. I. e. p. 473 ; Linn, xxvii. 446 : cortice suberoso, rufescente
ramulis brunneis, profunde et interrupte striatis, rugosfs, et subverruculosis ; foliis
elongato-ellipticis, imo cuneatim angustioribus, valde acutis, apice in acumen

breve acutum vel obtusulum constrictis, distinete repando- serratis, rigide char-
taceis, supra viridibus, ad nervos sulcatis, nervis tenuibus, subpatentihus, sub-
immersis, costa tenui, subtus paliidioribus, opace flavescentibus, costa nervisqiie
nitenti-rubidulis et prominentibus, petiolo fusco, subtenui, canaliculato, marginato,

limbo 16plo breviore : floribus terminalibus, 3-6 congestis ;
pedicellis angulosis,
pruinoso-puberulis, medio 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis acutis ; calycis limho ad basin
in sepala 6 diviso, sepalis lanceolato-triangulatls, acutis, fuscis, crassis, erectis,
utrinque granulato-rugulosis, marginibus undulato-crispatis ;

petalis 6, qumtuplo
longioribus, oblongis, obtusis, subunguiculatis, subgequalibus, albis, imo suhroseis,
extus ad basin niveo-tomentosis, intus Isevibus: ovario infero, tm-binato, ferru-
gineo-opaco, granulate, aHs 6 angustis undulato-crispatis et imo mucronatis, sepahs

alternis donato, 6-loculari, pluriovulato, vertice intra stylo
discum piano, pruinoso ;
brevissimo, obtuso; stigmate parvo, radiatim'6-lobato, albo : pyxidio globoso, cris-
patim 6-alato, calyce persistente coronato, operculo piano, umbonato. In Guiana :
V. in herb. JSooh., Mana Surinam

8. fluv. (Foiteau); Acarauari {Sagot, 950);
(Bostmann, 1210) : in herb. Mus. Brit., Guiana {Sagot, 950).
A species confined to the region of Guiana, forming a tree 30 feet high, growing in moist
its
places, with a trunk 1 foot in diam., having a yellowish hard wood with a fetid smell :
lea,ves are 5-10 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, on a petiole 5-8 lines long, and with about 12-1*
"
pairs of nerves near "
the
the pedicels are |-1^ in. long, with 2 bracteoles 2 Hues
; long
middle ; the flower-buds, ^ in. in diameter, flower ex-
tomentose ; the
are snow-white and
panded is 2-2f in. across ; the sepals 3
lines long, lines broad ; the petals lO-HU l^^^^
;;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.^. 187
long, 5-7 lines broad ;

the cup of tlie andropliomm is 8-10 lines broad, the slender
appendages 6 lines long; J line broad ; the pyxidium in an immature state is 2 J in. in
diameter. This species, as elsewhere stated, was wrongly confounded by Dr. Bero* with
G.fasttwsa, Willd. ; but it is well distinguished from it by its congested terminal inflo-
rescence, its larger flowers on pedicels 2-bracteolated at base, its ovary with broader
more undulated wings, terminating at their base in a mucronate tooth, and crowned
with 5 long broad sepals carinated within, in its larger whiter petals, in its winged
fruit double the size.
20. GusTAYiA BRASILIANA, DO. Prodr. iii. 290 (excl. var. /3) ; Mart. Med. Bras. p. 72
Berg in Mart. PL Br. I. c. p. 472, tab. 7. fig. 160 (excl. syn.); in Linn, xxrii. 446 :
ramulis crassiusculis, fuscis, profunde sulcatis, rugulosis ; foliis supcrioribus crebre

imo sensim cuneatis, medio latioribus,
congestis, inferioribus sparsis, ovato-ellipticis,
4
apice in acumen breve obtusulum recurvulum subito constrictis, ad marginem

cartilagincum subrevolutum repando-undulatis et obsolete serratis, rigide chartaceis,
supra fusee et profunde viridibus, subopacis, costa prominula, striolata, ncrns
tenuibus, patente divaricatis, marginem versus arcuatis, paullo prominulis, subtus
pallidioribus, hepatice rubescentibiis vel rubro brunnescentibus, opacis, cpsta ncrvis
venisque transversis reticulatis prominentibus, petiolo latiusculo, late margiiuito,

fusco, limbo 12plo breviore : floribus terminalibus 5-G, subfasciculatis, magnis,
odoriferis ;
pedicellis subvalidis, acute angulatis, fuscis, pruinoso-toraentellis, medio
2-bracteolatis ; calycis limbo in sepala 6 diviso, laciniis late triangulnribus, acutis,
coriaceis, granulatis, opace pulverulcntis, fuscis, persistentibus ; petalis 6, magnis,
obovato-oblongis, subconcavis, albis ; ovario infero, turbinate, alis 6 scpalis altcrnis

angustis undulato-crispatis munito, fusco, granulatim strigoso, G-loculari, pluri-
ovulate, vertice intradiscum latum valde elcvatum margine intus acutum sub-
concavo, opaco, sparse puberulo stylo brevi, angulato, umboniformi; stigmato
;
parvo, inflexim lobato : pyxidio subgloboso, anguste 6-alato, operculo concave calyce
coronato, flavo, abortu 2-5-loculari ; seminibus in quoque loculo 4i-6, subglo-
bosis, pallide flavis, nitidis. In Brasilia, Rio Negro, prope Garupd [Marlius):
v.pl. 8. {cum Jiorihus) in herb, variis, San Carlos, Kio Uahailpes, Eio 'Segvo{Sj)ruce,
2514).
r
A handsome spreading tree, 20-30 feet high, with leaves 4-9 in. long, IJ-S in. broad on
a petiole 5-7 lines long, with 18-20 pairs of spreading nerves the pedicels are 1-lJ in. ;
long, with 2 small bracts above the middle flowers 7 in. across, white, odoriferous ;
ovary 6 lines in diam. ; sepals 3 lines long and broad ; androphorum 1 in. broad
pyxidium (according to Martins) IJ in. in diam., crowned by the persistent sepals
8 lines long.
This species, which is confined to the region of the Rio Negro, approaches G. ptcro-
carjKt, agreeing in its winged ovary and fruit crowned by 6 acute sepals ; but it differs
in itsmore approximated, much darker, broader, more rigid leaves, witli more numerous
and more patent nerves, with
a broader and stouter petiole, and finally by its much
larger flowers. Berg was certainly wrong in making it identical with the Janiparan<Vla
l^Q MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.
of Marcgraaf and Piso. from G.fastuosa

It differs in its terminal congested raceme
laro-er flowers, winged ovary and fruit, both crowned by 6 broadly triangular sepals.
21. GusTAViA FAsTrosA, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 847; DO. Prodr. iii. 290; Berg in parte
(non Wnid.) in Mart. PI. Bras. I. c. p. 473

JPirigara hexapetala, Aubl. PI. Qui.
:
i. 490, tab. 193ramuHs : fascis, striatis, cortice rimoso, lenticellato ; foliis sparsis,
cuneato-eUipticis, imo sensim angustatis, supra medium latioribus, apice in acumen
subbreve recurvulum acutissimum subito attenuatis, margine grossule dentatis,
supra fusco-viridibus, vix nitidis, nervosis et reticulatis, petiolo subcrasso, semitereti,
canaliculato, limbo IGplo breviore : floribus in axillis solitariis, mediocribus ; pedi-
cello longiusculo supra medium 2-bracteolato ; calycis limbo longiusculo, in sepala 6
acute triangularia coriacea diviso; petalis 6 late ovatis, subunguiculatis, rotun-
datis, albis, carnosulis; andropboro albo; ovario infero, turbinate, yls costato,
6-loculari : pyxidio parvo, calyce coronato, operculo concavo, abortu 4-5-loculari,
loculis 1-spermis. In Guiana et Amazonas v. s. in herb. Mus, Brit., Cayenne in :
sylvis (Aublet) Cayenne ( Van JRôhr) ; Guiana {Martin) in herb. Hooh. et alior.,
; :
r
Santarem [Spruce, 827); Lago de Quiriquira [Spruce, 525); Santarem [Spruce,

1019).
A tree 15 to 20 feet bigh, growing in moist woods, with a spreading bead and a trunk
IJ foot thick, with a hard yellowish fetid wood, and called Firigaramepe by the natives;
F
its leaves are 4-6 in. long, l|-2-2- in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long, with about 12
pairs of nerves ; the pedicel is 1 in. long ; the ovary is 3 lines long, not costate, as Berg
affirms,crowned by a short ring formed by the united sepals, which are 3 lines long tlie ;
petals are 6-10 lines long, 4-6 lines broad the fruit is globular, greyish, smooth, U
;
lines in diam., by abortion 4-5-locular, each cell containing a single oval seed 9 lines
long, 4 lines broad, suspended by a thick fleshy funicle of equal length.
This species was established by "Willdenow upon the materials furnished by Aublet.
Dr. Berg was quite unjustified in confounding it with another very distinct species, well
figured and described by Poiteau [G. pterocarpcC) its chief distinguishing features :
are its alternate flowers, calyx,

their smaller size, the acutely 6-lobed limb of tlie
the wings of the ovary vanishing at base, and its much smaller smooth greyish fruit >
by abortion 4-5-locular, with monospermous cells. Berg's diagnosis of the species is
therefore rejected, and its characters are remodelled above, in unison with Aublet s
materials.
2. CouRorpiTA. (Plate XXXIII. b.)

Conrouj)ita, Aubl. : Pekea (in parte), Juss.
Calyx adnatus, limbo 6-sepalus ; sepala subparva, subrotundata, convexa, crassiuscula

uiiguibu5 a(
rarius ^
discum androphorumque agglutinatis. Discus >rum magnum I

subtus aa
petaloideum, ambitu valde gibbosum, imo cupulare, poculiforme, et in centro excisum,
ungues petalonim discumque agglutinatum, supra staminigerum, latere antico in ligulam margimbus
subparallclis lequilatam et duplo longiorem dcin e
expansum, bine carnosulum, et sensim incurvatum,
appendiculis nume-
;lobo3atn latiorem super stvlum inflexam auctum,
,
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE. 189

'
rosissimis staininigeris tereti-clavatis munltum, iis intra cupulam brevjoribus, crebriter ere'ctis, intra
galeam longioribus, undique echinatim creberrimis et imbricatis. Stamina parva, apici appendicuk-
rum insita j filamenta tenuiter filiformia, brevia, erecta ; anthera ovatae, 2-lob2e, lobis collateralibus,
medio ad filamentum affixis^ rirna longitudinali extus dehiscentibus. Ovarium inferum, semi-
globosum, 6-loculare ; ovulis in quoque loculo plurimis, fiiniculis a placenta axillari bilamellatim
prommente snspensis^ anatropis^ vertice intra discum anuularem alte pulvinatum radiato-crenatum
valde concavo; stylus subnullus; stigma in cavitate sessile^ subglobosum, 6-8-sulcatum, apice
6-8-radiatnm^ radiis glutinosis. Pyxidium majusculum^ globosum^ circa medium zona calyc&ri sub-
lineari cinctnm ; vitta interzonali fere semiglobosa; zona 5M/?more valde minore^ orbicularis integra:
operculum parvum, vix elevatum^ subtus ad columellam cOnjunctum : pericarpium crassissimum^ pon-
derosum; epicarpio ^viho^êo, textura granoso^ duro; mesocarpio submolli demum deliquescente et
effugiente^ hinc vacuum reliquit (an semper ?) ; endocarpio crasso^ osseo, primum G-loculari^ deinde
. dissepimentis columellaque in pulpam resolutis^ pulpafirme carnosa, subglutinosa^ 1-loculari, 30—iO-

spermo : semina ovsita., funiculis totidem carnosis pubescentibus dimidio brevioribus suspeusa; testa
subcoriacea, velutino-pubescens^ circa hilum magnum rimosa : integumentum internum mcmbrana-
ceum embryo exalbuminosus, radicula
: sequilonga, tereti, ad hilum superne spectante, cotyledonibus '2,
modo hippocrepiformi adscendentibuSj, magnis, foliaceis, corrugato-plicatis.

Arbores Americee tropioE et Antiltantp sape procerrimce, trunco crasso, valde ramosis : folia elliptlco-ohlonga
petiolata, nervis parallelis divergentibus : infloresccutia racemosa.
1. COUROU Gu Alibi. PI. Guian. ii. 708, tab. 282 ; Toit. Mo Mus. xiii
152, tab. 7 ; DC. Prodr iii. 294 ; Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras I. c. p. 4 in Linn
xxvii. 461 : Fehea CouroupUa, J
Lecythis hracteata, Willd. Sp. ii. 1174 : ra-
mulis assiusculis o cicatricibus foliorum post lapsum signatis, brii
pruinosis, apice creberrime foliiferis foliis D ato-obloniris.

D imo obt :
uscule obtusis, apice sensim obtusis vol in acumen breve obtusum iq

strictis, mar giaibus subintegris vel obsolctissime crenuiatis, chartaccis, supra
profund idibus, subuitidis, nervis numcrosis, tcnuibus, parallcle divergculibus,
intra marginem arcuatim nexis, flavidulis, costaquc tenui scmiimmers: subtus
pallidioribus, subnitidis, vel subopacis, costa crassiore promincnte, pruino
tenuibus venisque transversim promincntibus petiolo reti
;
ubpuberulo, marginibus tenuibus valde involutis, limbo lOplo brcviore :

racemis
e vel :imis nudis ortis, folio fere sequila raclii valida, rectiuscula
alternatim nodosa; pedicellis persistentibus, imo bractea fere a^quilonga acuta
decidua munitis, apice bracteolis 2 minutis signatis flor bus majusculis, ad pedi-
cellos a: ticulatis,plerumque caducis, odoratis sepalis 6, ; ovalib
viridibus petalis 6, quorum 4 maj 2 minoribus, obi » r
unguibus palUdis carnosis; andropboro albo-roseo, appendiculis rufis; ovario infero
turbinate, 6-loculari, vertice intra discum elevatum subconve tylo ullo
stigmate globoso, radiatim 6-sulcato fructu globoso, ut in charactere gcnenco

:
I
Guiana : v. s. specim. typic. (sine florc) in herb. Mas. Brit., Cayenne (Auhlet).
Th stated by Aublet to bave a tbick trunk, 20-30 t bigh, often more than
feet in diameter. The leaves in the typical specimen arc G-12 in. long, 2^-4 in. broad
I a petiole 7-10 lines long, with 22-24 pairs of nerves, all conjoined within the margin
XXX 2
;
190 MR. J. MIERS LECYTHIDACE^
racllis of tlie raceme is 12 in. long, judging from Au"blet*s figure of a diminislied
the
alternate flowers Poiteau relates that these racemes
and bearing 10 or 12 often
the hare branches of preceding years, or upon the trunk, often attaining a mam
length of 3 feet, and bearing 100 flowers, each on a pedicel 1^-2 in. long, with 1 bract at
and 2 at its summit : from Aublet's drawing, allowing for the diminution of the
itsbase
the pedicel would appear to be nearly 1 in. long, the flower expanded 4 in
figure (J),
the lobes of the calyx 3 lines long and broad ; the petals, 1 Ion o of
across
pale rose-colour; the pyxidium is globular, 6 in. in diam., the pericarp nearly ^ in. thick,
the epicarp and endocarp hard and ligneous ; the mesocarp subfleshy, which, becoming
gelatinous, escapes and leaves a hollow in its place ; the pericarp is filled with pulp
enclosing numerous oval seeds each suspended by a long fleshy f unicle : the seeds
constructed as shown in the introductory remarks, and as I have figured them. Poiteau
description of the fruit, derived from Tussac's details, refers to 0. Antillana.
2. CoTJROTJPiTA SuRiKAMEKSis, Mart., Bcrg in Mart. PL Br. I. c. p. 476, tab. 57, 58,59;
Linn, xxvii. 462 : ramis transversim rimosis, glabris, junioribus compressis, badiis :
foliis sparsis, oblongis, imo obtusis aut subacutis, apice sensim obtusate angustioribus,
remote glanduloso-denticulatis, submembranaceis, nervis plurimis patule diver-
gentibus vix prominentibus, transversim reticulatis, costa pauUo prominente, subtus
pallidioribus, costa nervisque prominentibus, puberulis, in axillis barbatis ;

petiole
canaliculato, pilosiusculo, limbo 5-6pl breviore : racemo terminali, folio sub
longiore ; rachi validissima, angulata, puberula, multiflora ;

pedicellis vahdis, lon-
giusculis, suberectis, apice bracteolis 2 parvis oppositis, et imo bractea oblonga obtusa
ciliata puberula decidua munitis; floribus majusculis pal 6, rotundato-ovatis
subinsequalibus, imo in cupulam brevissimam connatis ;

petalis ovali-orbicularibus
concavis, crassiusculis, albo-roseis; androphoro albo ; antheris mucronulatis ; ovario
semiinfero subhemisphgerico, 5-7-loculari, ovulis numerosis, a placenta centrali
funiculis tenuibus suspensis ; stylo parvo, depresse o

orbicular!, vertice intra discum
mole, peri-
convexo ; stigmate sessili, 8-radiato, papilloso : pyxidio speciei typicalis
Guiana Batava, Surinam, prope

carpio scrobiculato-verruculoso ; pulpa purpurea. In
Paramaribo (non vidi). •
A very large tree ; the axils of the leaves are 2-3 lines apart the leaves are 3-6
parallel
long, 1 21 in. broad petiole 8-12 lines long, with about 18-20 pairs of
nerves the rachis of the raceme is 6-12 in. long ; pedicles apart, 8-12 Imes
:
J-} in.
long; its basal bracts are 4 lines long, its upper bracts 2 lines long The flower
panded the smaller
is
3J-4 in. in diam. ; the larger petal 2 J in. long, li in. broad
when
IJ in. long, 1 in. broad ; the androphorum ^ in. in diam and IJ in long
extended ; the calyx expanded is 9 lines in diam., its sepals 3 lines long, 2 lines broad
It appears to me there must be a mistake in Berg's drawing of the ovary in his plate 57
(lower flower), where it is represented as being quite superior and globose ; and this
peated the
plate 58, in its longitudinal section (third line, last figure) In
and that
species I have seen, the ovary is more than semiinferior, with vertex ;
'-,
;
:
this ougM to be the case here proved hj his drawing of the

is fruit, where the line of the
calycary zone is shown somewhat above the middle.
3. CorROUPiTA NiCARAGUENSis, DO. Prodr. iii. 294 (Erst. Myrt. p. 16 ; Berg in Linn. ;
xxvii. 462 Lecythis NicaraguaensiSy M09. & Sess. PI. Mex. Icon. ined. Species
:
vix nota: foliis obtusis ; calycis niargine lobato; petalis obtusis. In America
central! prope Nicaragua : non vidi.
w
This scarcely known species is said to differ from C Guianensis in its obtuse leaves,
smaller flowers, of a reddish white colour, and the blue tint of the pulp of the fruit.
Perhaps it scarcely differs from the C. odoratissima of Seemann, which may be said to
o the southern limit of the same o
4. CouROUPiTA Antillana, nob. Couroupita Guianensis, Hook, (non Aubl.) Bot. Mag.
:
lix. tab. 3158 Tuss. Ant.

; ii. tab. 10 et 11 ; Descot. Ant. v. 349 ; Criiger, Linn. xxi. 737
ramulis patentibus, subvalidis, teretibus, sulcatis, glabris, Isevibus, rufescentibus
foliis in apice ramulorum congestis, elongato-oblongis, sub medium valdc angustatis et
cuneatim acutis, apice subobtusato-acutis, aut brcviter acuminatis, intcgris, vcl obso-
lete serratis, submembranaceis, supra pallide viridibus, nervis subpatulc divaricatis
et subcrebre parallelis prominulis, costa tenui, vix prominula, subtus pallidioribus,

costa nervisque tenuissimis paullo prominulis et obsolete pubcrulis; petiole tenuissimo,
puberulo, limbo lOplo breviore : racemis in trunco ct ramis annosls loiiyis, multi-
floris ; pedicellis subproximis, longis, subtenuibus, erectiusculis, pcrsistcntibus, imo
bractea oblonga et apice bracteolis 2 parvis munitis ; floribus maximis, cum pedicellis
articulatis, et hinc ssepe caducis; sepalis ovatis, subacutis, ercctis, marginc cilio-
latis, aestivatione quincuncialiter imbricatis; petalis 6, rarius 7, magnis, 2 extc-

rioribus amplioribus, obovatis, expansis, extus flavide roseis, intus sangufneo-lila-
cinis; androphori basi late orbiculari galeaque lata incurva appendiculis nnilti-
seriatis staminigeris, in ilia clavatis, in hac longioribus teretibus, rubris intus tcctis,
ligula lata nuda ; ovario infero, vertice intra discum annularem altc convcxo ; stig-
mate fere sessili, 6-radiato : pyxidio globose, 8-pollicari. In Antilles : v. s. in hh.
Uooh.y San Vincente (

Guilding) ; Trinidad {Lockhart).
A tree 50-60 feet high, with a trunk more than 2 feet thick, and a soft wood ; leaves
7^-10 in. long, 2|-3 in. broad, on a rather slender downy petiole f in. long, with about
24 pairs of nerves : the racemes, growing upon the trunk and old bare branches, are
1-3 feet long, with sometimes as many as 100 flowers of a somewhat crimson colour*
each 5 in. broad when expanded ; the peduncle of the raceme is straight, about 3 lines
thick, closely beset with the suberect pedicels, which are persistent, about 1\ in. long,
with a larger bract at base and 2 small oblong bracteoles at the summit, where thu
caducous flowers are articulated ; hence the trunk and main branches have the appear-
ance of being armed with numerous spiny shoots ; the turbinated adnatc calyx is crowned
by 6 rounded sepals, 3 lines long and broad petals roundish, concave, fleshy, unequal,
;
imbricated and expanded, yellowish outside with a tinge of red, crimson-lilac within,
lf-2 in. long, li-2 in. broad ; androphorum large, 2 in. in diam., its basal ring ] \ in.
2c 2
;
192 MR. /. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^..
across, closely beset with numerous short fusiform staminiferous appendages anthers ;
small, oval, yellow ligula 1 J in. long and broad

; appendages of hood reddish 6 lin^ ;
Ions; the inferior ovary is 6-celled, surmounted by a prominent epigynous disk on

hich the base of the androphorum and claws of the petals are agglutinated within ;
ity the vertex of the -ovary rises in a cuj)ola-form ith most obsolete styl
terminated by a 6-rayed stigma. The pyxidium, from an outline sketch round Mr
Guilding's drawing, would seem to be 8 in. iu diameter. •
The species differs from C. Guianensis in being a tree of much greater height in it'
more cuneated leaves, more acute at the apex, in its longer racemes, with
numerous flowers much greater in size and differently coloured, and much laro-er fruit
5. CoUROUPiTA Peruviana, nob. ramulis teretibus, validiusculis, fusco-rufescentibu

:
luride opacis, sulcato-angulatis, apice crebre foliif foliis oblon s, a medio

g
deorsum sensim ani ustioribus, imo obtusis, et hinc in petiolo breviter decur-
rentibus, apice obtusis, breviter obtuse aut acutiuscule acuminatis, margine obso-
letissime serrulatis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra viridibus, nervis plurimis, rectiusculis,
parallele divaricatis, subimmersis, venis tenuissimis, reticulatis, subtus pallidius
viridibus, opacis, costa striata prominente, nervis imo barbatis venisque crebre
reticulatis prominentibus ; petiolo supra sulcato, subruguloso, parce puberulo, limbo
quadruple breviore : racemis axillaribus ; rachi longissima, erassissima, simpliei vel
in ramos 3-5 alternos interdum divisa, angulato-sulcata, ochraceo-pruinosa, verru-

culosa, multiflora ; pedicellis longiusculis (rarius bifurcatis et 2-floris), subvahdis,
rectis, subadscendentibus, firme persistentibus, imo bractea parva ciliata et apice
bracteis 2 calycem involucrantibus munitis ; floribus cum istis articulatis, plerum-
que caducis, majusculis, odoratissimis ; sepalis suborbicularibus, valde convexis,
extus granulato-rugulosis, puberulis, margine anguste membranaceis et ciliatis;
petalis majusculis, late oblongis, concavis, imo breviter unguiculatis, carnosulis,

extus pallid intus rubris vel later siccitate flavide punctulatis, extus
granoso-rugulosis ; androphoro albo, ligula rubra; ovario turbinate, 6-sulcato, sub-
infero, flavide pulverulento, 6.1oculari, ovulis plurimis axi afiixis, vertice intra
discum alte pulvinatim annularem convexo, et stylo brevi obtuso umbonato stig- ;
mate majuscule, depresse orbiculari, 6-lobato, lobis sulcatis pyxidio majusculo, fere :
loboso, imo angustato, apice subdepresso, paullo supra medium zona calycari sub-
lineari cincto, 6-loculari In Peruvia alta
m «
Tarapota, in sj
hb
rivulos {Spruce, 4495)
A very large tree

about 100 feet high, with a softish wood, known by the name of
Aiauma {caput mortui), probably from its large round fetid fruit. The axils at the ends
of its pendent branchlets are close, long,
4
about I line part the leaves are 4 .
1 broad a petiole f-1 in. long, with 18-20 pairs of straight parallel
the rachis of the inflorescence is 2-3 Imes apart
Hues thick, a-9 in. long, with axils 3
the nearly erect persistent pedicels the oral
are 9-12 lines long and 1-1 line thick;
i
bracts at the apex of each pedicel the ovary,
are 2 lines long and broad, concealing
which is articulated upon the pedicel the flesby
; the sepals are 1 J Hne long and broad ;
;:
. MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE. 193
18 lines long, 13 lines broad, flesh-coloured outside, brick-red within tlie

petals are ;
andropborum is 4 lines in diam., white, with a reddish ligula. The pyxidium, according
to Spruce's notes, is almost globular, 7-7^ in. in diam., somewhat narrower towards the
base, rather depressed above, with a linear zone a little above the middle, showing there
the vestiges of the sepals ; the upper zone and operculum are small ; the pericarp is
in. thick, the epicarp and endocarp hard and osseous, the latter subtomentous inside
J
the fleshy mesocarp, becoming fluid, escapes, and leaves the space it occupied quite
r
empty ; the 6 fleshy dissepiments, at first firm and distinct, are soon resolved into a
mucilaginous pulp, which envelops many smallish seeds arranged in 2 series : this
pulp on exposure to the air becomes black and fetid. It is used by the natives to cure
skin-diseases in aoimals.
.
This species in many respects approaches C Surinamensis , especially in the hairy
tufts in the axils of the nerves ; but it diff'ers in its larger leaves upon longer petioles,
more numerous nerves, in the more slender persistent pedicels of the inflorescence (not
articulated at the base), in its smaller flowers, in its much larger fruit not quite
spherical. .
.
6. CouROTJPiTA ODORATissiMA, Seem, in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 301 ; Bot. Tier. p. 126
ramis divergentibus ramulis validiusculis, teretibus, pallide opacis, striatis, len-

;
ticellis flavidis odoriferis crebre verruculosis foliis oblongis, imo sensim cuncatis,
;
apice in acumen breve repente constrictis, iutcgcrrimis, vel obsolete sinuatis ct
minute denticulatis, margine ciliatis, tenuiter membranaceis vcl subchartaccis,
supra viridibus, vix nitidis, sparse pilosulis, nervis tonuibus plmumis parallelis
patentira divaricatis baud prominulis, venis trans versim rcticulatis, costa tcnui,
subimmersa, subtus concoloribus, sparse puberulis ;ostanuc prom

densius pilosulis ; petiolo crassiusculo, supra piano, subtus convexo, dense pubcrulo,
limbo 15plo breviore stipulis parvis, subcordatis,

;
puberulis, caducissimis racemis :
terminalibus, vel a trunco enatis, folium subaequantibus ; rachi valida, angulato-
sulcata, glanduloso-verruculosa, tomentosa, multiflora; floribus speciosis, odora-
tissimis; pedicellis sublongiusculis, rufo-tomentellis, demum glabratis, subcrcctis,
imo firmatis, apice cum floribus articulatis ; sepalis obtusis, ciliatis ;

pctalis oblongis,
obtusis, marline fimbriatis, carneolis, luteo-striatis ; androphoro splcndente aurco;

rio ut in spec, prgecedente ; stigmate 6-radiato. In Verag lib. Uooh
r
ylvis Rio Jesus (Seemanny 1151).

A lofty tree, 60-80 feet high, growing in the forest, the trunk bare to the height of
20 feet, and bearing many racemes, with handsome flowers as large as those of a passion-
flower, from a resemblance to which it bears the vernacular name of Granadillo : it is
also caUed Falo de paraiso. The axils of its branchlets are f in. apart; the leaves are
6-74 in. long, 21-3 in. broad, on a stout petiole 5-6 Hnes long, and they have about
20 pairs of slender parallel nerves arcuately joined near the margin ; the rachis of the
terminal raceme is 7 in. long, 2 lines thick pedicels alternately 2-4 lines apart, 6
;
Hnes long, with flowers articulated on their summit, which arc 1^-2 in. broad when
expanded ; stamens very numerous, crowded upon both the annular ring and head of the
;;;
;j^g^ MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.
andropliorum, with very short capillary filaments seated upon dark tetragonous appen-
truncated at their summit anthers of 2 bright yellow oval lohes divaricated at
dages ;
thek base ; the fruit is unknown. The fragrance of the flowers can be perceived at a
distance of half a mile.
1, CouROUPiTA MEMBRANACEA, nob. *. tamulis teretibus, angulato-sulcatis, brunneis,

glaherrimis, sublucentibus ; foliis elongato-oblongis, deorsum sensim angustioribus
et imo cuneatim acutis, apice in acumen breve obtusulum subito constrictis,
marginibus obsolete et remote crenatis, cum

dente parvo glanduloso, valde mem-
branaceis, utrinque Isete concoloribus, glaherrimis, supra nervis tenuissirois paral-
lele divaricato-adscendentibus venisque transversim reticulatis prominulis, subtus
costa tenui nervisque sparsim pilosuKs et in axillis subbarbatis ; petiole tenuissimoj
imo crassiore, canaliculate, puberulo, limbo 8-9plo breviore : racemis ultrapeda-

libus, a trunco enatis ; rachi crassa, angulato -sulcata, pallide brunnea, puberula
pedicellis alternis, subremotis, imo firmatis, apice cum flore articulatis. In Nueva
Granada : v. s. in hb. Hook., Santa Marta, in planitiis ad Molinas in valle Dupar
w
b
This species, though in many characters approaching the preceding, is yet very distinct
in its deeply sulcated glabrous branchlets, without the peculiar odoriferous glands that
distinguish the Veraguas plant ; it differs also in its longer racemes, much larger leaves,
upon much longer and more slender petioles : a similar membranaceous texture of the
leaves occurs in both the preceding species. It is a tall tree, occurring in plains (not in
the forests), and, as in some other species of the genus, with the inflorescence issuing
from the main trunk or its bare branches. The axils of its branchlets are f-J in. apart
the leaves are 8^9 in. long, 2|-3J in. broad, on a slender petiole 1 in. long the :
rachis
of the racemes is much above a foot in length, with pedicels 3 lines apart and 8 lines
long ; the petals are very thick and dark when dry, when fresh are succulent, and yield
a blue juice when squeezed.
8. CouROUPiTA LENTULA, nob. I ramulis ramosis tenuibus, fusco-brunneis, subcompressis,

striolatis, sparse verruculosis ; foliis ovatis, vel oblongo-ovatis, imo obtiisis, vel
rotundiusculis, apice sensim acutis, aut subobtusis, crenato-serrulatis cum dentibus
obtusis, membranaceis, f riabilibus, supra viridibus, opacis, nervis tenuissimis venisque
reticulatis immersis, subtus vix pallidioribus, fulvide opacis, costa nigra, tenui,
prominula; petiolo tenui, limbo 15-18plo breviore: forma inflorescentise ignota;
pctalis oblongis, apice rotundatis, fuscis), mar-

submembranaceis (an rubris ? siccis
ginibus tenuissimis palLidis striata,
; androphoro majusculo, ligula sensim ampliata,
galea intus concava, appendiculis numerosissimis crebris staminiferis donata. In
Brasilia: v. s. in hb. Hooh., Ilheos iMoricand, 2636, sub Couroupita).
The leaves are 2 J-3f in. long, li-lf in. broad, on a petiole 1^-2 lines long there :
inflorescence on the specimen, only the the sheet

petals and androphorum glued to
the latter has a broad oblique very broad
cup-shaped ring, widening considerably into a
naked ligula, continued into an inverted which is
hood of equal length and breadth,
covered inside all over, somewhat laxly, with longish adpressed starainiferous append-
ages, the outer row fimbriating the margin : it is altogether, including the basal ring,
18 lines long, 6 lines broad, the hood being and broad; nearly the entire
7 lines long
surface of the basal ring is crowded with short staminiferous appendages in many series.
This structure is in confirmation of Moricand's determination that it is a species of
Couroupita.
9. Couroupita ceenulata, nob. :ramulis rufo- vel cinereo-brunneis, opacis, rugulosis,

obsolete striatis ; foliis ovalibus, aut late ovatis, imo rotundatis, subito brevissime
acutatis, et in petiolo decurrentibus, apice rotundatis, et in acumen recurvatum
t
brevissimum canaliculatis, in marginibus cartilagineis vix revolutis irregulariter
crenatis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, nervis tenuissimis subpatentibus vix
prominulis, valde reticulatis, costa tenui, circa basin dilatata et plana, subtus fere
concoloribus aut brunnescenti-viridibus, opacis, costa nervis venisque prominulis;
petiolo supra piano, late marginato, margine involuto, limbo 8plo breviore : racemo
terminali, folio longiore ; rachi flexuosa, subcompressa, striolata ; pediccllis paten-
tibus, calyce brevioribus, fuscis, rugulosis ; sepalis subrotundatis, rotatis, fuscis,
granoso-rugosis ; petalis suborbicularibus, inaequalibus, concavis, margine ciliatis;
ovario infero, turbinato, subangulato, granoso, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo
plurimis, e placenta axillari prominente, funiculis centrifuge radiantibus, vcrtice
intra discum latiusculum pauUo prominente, subconcavo, nitido, radiatim striate,
margine crenato; stylo centrali, brevi, depresse globose, 4-sulcato; stiginate sessili,
hoc minore, depresse globose, obsolete 4-lobo, lobis styli sulcis oppositis. In Brasilia :
V. pi. sice, in hb. Mm. Brit., Bahia {Blanchet, 302), cum spccimine ligni : in hb.
Soolc.y Ilheos {Moricand, 2417).
The sample of wood sent by Blanchet is about 3 inches in diameter ; it may be part of
the main stem, but more probably of one of its branches the leaves are 3-4J in. long, :
2-2J in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long, with about 18 pairs of nerves arcuatcly con-
joined far within the margin ; the rachis is 5-6 in. long, bearing about 15 flowers, -J-} in.
apart.
3. Bertholletia. (Plate XXXIII. c.)
The general features of this genus having been so amply demonstrated in the prcli-
mmary remarks {mite, p. 161 et seq.), no further observations are here necessary. Only
a single species has been hitherto recorded ; but I think two or more may easily be recog-
nized in our herbaria.
Bertholletia, H. & Bonpl.

tubulato
oblongis, rotundatis, valde concavis, patentibus, coriaceis, apice Hndulato-crenatls, vel obtuse 3-dcn-
tatis^ demum circumscissis. triple longiora,
Petala 6, oblonga, inaqualia, nonnulla seepc fi^sa et
plura simulantia, imbricata, unguibus inter discum ct androphorum agglutlnata. Ducm tpigynus,
1 . :
annularis, subplanus. Androphorum magnum/ petaloideum, ejus CouroupUee iormk, inio cupu-
latum maro-ine crenatum, centre excisum, intus appendicibm numerosissimis creberrime erectis
brevibus clavatis aplce staminigeris munitum, liffula paullo longiore et sensim latiore, nuda, incurva
firradat IS
sterilibus densissime echinata j stamina parva, in appendices basales fil
vissima, filiformia; antherts parvse, ovatae, 2-lobse, lobis collateraliter adnatis, in sinu imo affixis
rima margiuali longitudinaliter deliiscentibus. Ovarium infcrum. sem

rius 5-)loculare^ ovulis in qvioque loculo 5^ sessilibus^ e basi radiatim erectis^ vertice intra discum
1- . T - - - >
planum subconcavo; stylo tereti^ leviter incurvoj stigmate minute globoso^ papillose. Pyocidium
majusculum, globosum^ longe vel paullo supra medium zona calycari lineari cinctum; vitta interzo-
superiore minima, circulari s concava
operculo parvo^ aut alte mammseformi^ Isevi, vel depresse pulvinato radiatim striato, et breviter umbo-
natoj ore secedente intus retracto, subtus ad columellam agglutinate; columella cylindrica,
-
4-sulcataj apice attenuata, mox ad basin descendens^ imum versus latior et semiaifera y ;?m-
carpio crasso, ponderoso, epicarpio grosse corticoso, rimoso, ssepe resiliente ; endocarpio eras-
h I
siusculoj osseo, durissimo, extus leviter scrobiculato et pluricostato, intus plerumque 4-locidari,
epulposO; dissepimentis columellaque siccatione demum evanidis. Semina in quoque loculo con-
stanter 5, vel 8 triseriata^ sine funiculo ad basin columellse erectim affixa, oblongaj pressione acute
triquetra coz^rugulatim rugosa, hilo versus angulum basalem signata; /^^/a crasse epriacea^ diiris-
sima, indehiscente, cum canalibus 3 intra angulos pertusa, bis vestigiis vasorum spiralium ab bilo
ad apicem adscendentium repletis, quse

^
mox in telam araneam per testam undique
r
subdivisae raphen
p J
valde sparsam constituunt : integumentwn internum submembranaceum, brunneum^ opacum, nucleo

r
arctc adhifirens. Embryo exalbuminosus, oblongus^ utrinque obtusus, amygdalino-homogeneus,,

edulis; re vera raf/icw/a gigantea est, cujus neorhiza crassa, interna^ ab exorhiza externa undique?
^ I
cincta, atque insuper ad extremitatem ab hilo remotiorem cotyledones 2 minntissimse vix visibiles cura
plumula lata in eis abscondita : in germinatione, plumula per cotyledones protrusa, caulem squa-
mosum propuUat; quandoque neorhiza, ex extremitate opposita expulsa, radicem efficit. .
snperne ramoso : folia alterna,
majiiscala^ ad apicem ramorum approximata^ ohlonga^ utrinque suhacuta^ cum petiolo plus mimsve
elongato : racemi S(Bpe paniculati, awillares et terminates multiflori ; rachi crassa
/'
1. Bertholletia excelsa, Bonpland, PL ^quin. i. 122, tab. 36; Poit. Mem. Mus. xiii.
148, tab. 4 (nee 8) DC. Prodr. iii. 293 Mart. Eeise, 1130, pi. 11 Berg in Mart.
; ; ;
El. Bras. l. c. p. 478; Linn, xxvii. 460 procera, ramis deflexis, ramulis teretibus, :
subangulatis, interrupte striolatis, fuse o-brunn eis, opace pruinosis, lenticellato-verru-

culosis ; foliis oblongis, vel elonjâto-oblonîs, imo subrotundatis, et in petiolum
canaliculatim re-
breviter acutatis, apice rotandatis, et in acumen breve acutum
flexum subito constrictis, subinteg^ris,
g , vel marsjinibus
„*^^j_^ crennlato -nndulatis,
,
obsoletis-
sime serratis, cbartaceis, supra profunde viridibus, subopacis, minutissime granulatis,
nervis tenuissimis, divaricatis, lonsre intra

o^ - maroinem
***^._, arcuatim nexis, vix prominulis, -—
venis immersis et laxe reticulatis, costa tenui, mox sensim latiore, et late canalicu-
lata, pruinosa, subtus pallidioribus, fusco-umbrinis, pulverulento-opacis, nervis pro-
minulis, costa crassiore, prominente, striolata petiolo elongato, semitereti, margim-

;
bus latis valde introflexis, brunneo-pulverulento, corruguloso, limbo 6-lOplo bre-
\iore ; panicula racemiformi, terminal!, folio sequilonga, cum ramo solitario elon-
;

I97
ft
gato erecto, vel racemo simplici axillari ; racM crassa, angulata,

geniculata, nodis
alternis prominulis et approximatis, circa 50-flora ; floribus sessilibus,
cum nodis
articulatis, bracteis 2 obtuse ovatis stipatis ; calycis Kmbo
breviter cupulato, pro-
funde fisso in sepala
2 ovata, apice obtuse 3-dentata, valde coucava, patentia,
coriacea, tomento brunneo opace pruinosa; petalis 6, ovato-oblongis,
obtusis cou-
cavis, ochroleucis ovario infero, semigloboso, 4-loculari, ovulis triseriatim
;
erectis,
sessilibus, vertice intra discum subplano, radiatim striate; stylo
subulato, sub-
curvato, sepalis dimidio breviore ; stigmate minimo, papiUoso-lobato : pyxidio
majusculo, oblo ngo-o vali, cortice Isevi, pallido, subcrasso, vix rimoso, paullo sup
medium zona calycari lineata circulari notato; vitta interzonali convexa; zona
superiore minima, fauce obtusa, superne concava opercalo alte mammseformi, a
;
columella cylindrica mox soluto et caduco ; endocarpio crassissimo, pallide lignoso,

4-loculari, vel e septis evanidis tandem 1-loculari, 40-60-spernio, seminibus imbri-
cato-erectis. In America tropicali, Kio Orinoco {Bonpland) et in Guiana v. s. :
plant, in Jierh. variis, Guiana (Schomb. 439) in herb. Book., Para {Riedel, 611) ;
regione Amazonica {Burchell, 9473-9879) v. fruct, in Mus. Keio., in Trinidade :
introd. [Purdie).
A
magnificent tree, above 100 feet higb, with a trunk
2J feet thick the axils of tbo ;
tcrmmal branchlets are | in. apart ; the leaves are 8-24 in. long, J-6 in. broad, on a
3
petiole 9-18 lines long, and with about 25 pairs of nerves, with others intermediate and
shorter. The terminal panicle is 8 in. lon^, with 1 rly equal in length,
with a rachis 2 lines thick when dried, its zigzag turns (with prominent nodes) 2
apart; the oval bracts very small; the lobes of the calyx 7 lines long, 6 lines broad; the
petals 15 lines long, 8 lines broad ; the androphorum 1 in. in diam. ; the pyxidium
(Plate XXXVII, figs. 1-4) 6 in. long, 5 in. in diam., with a smooth palish lenticellated
bark, which does not crack and fall off; the calycary zone, | in. below the apex, is 3 in. in
diam, ; the opercular zone, 8 lines in diam., is contracted within into a depressed concave
mouth, 6 lines in diam. ; the operculum is cylindrical, 5 lines broad, 5 lines high, round
and umbilicated at the summit ; as the attached columella withers, it breaks away and
falls off, Bonpland has well shown both in his upper and lower figure and this offers
as ;
a marked distinction between this and the following species. Poiteau wrongly inferred
—
two errors inBonpland's drawings one that in the lower figure the fruit is inverted, the
other that the columella and mode of attachment of seeds are reversed but this is not :
80 for Bonpland's drawing is quite correct.

; The pericarp is very thick, is originally
4-celled, with from 6 to 10 seeds in each which can only escape after the decay of
cell,
the shell.
2. Bertholletia nobilis, nob. JBertholletia excelsa, Berg (non BonpL), in Mart. PI.
:
Bras. I. c. p. 478, tab. 60-61 quoad infl orescentiam et fructus; Poiteau (in parte)
^lem. Mus. xiii. tab. 8 (nee Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 74 proccrrima, trunco crasso,
4) ; :
ad alt. 100 ped. nudo, superne ramosissimo, ramis deflexis, ramulis validis, tcretibus,
fusco-brunneis, glauco-pruinosis ; foliis oblongis, imo obtusatis et in pctiolum subito
VOL. XXX. 2 D
acutatis, apice rotundatis, et in acumen breve acutum repente constrictis mar

nibus oTOssule et crennlato-serratis, supra sublucentibus, vix opacis, rufescent
viridibus, subcoriaeeis, nervis pruinosis patentibus arcuatim nexis, venis creberrime
reticulatis, costa striolata, immersa, subtus pallide vel ocbraceo-brunneis, subniten-
tibus, costa striolata nervisque prominentibus ;

petiolo valido, supra piano et margi-
nato, subtus convexo, limbo 24plo breviore pauicula terminali, laxe ramosa,
: folio
subsequilonga, ramisque vix crassis, longiusculis, patentissirais ; racbi crebriliora,
angulato-striata, rugulosa, prominenter nodosa ; floribus sessilibus, cum nodis articu-
latis ; calyce primum globoso, dcmum in lobos 2 diviso, lobis bemispbsericis concavis,
crassiusculis, patentibus, apice obsolete crcnulatis, extus pruinosis ; ovario infero,
turbinate, 4-loculari, vertice intra discum parvo, radiatim striate ; stylo subbrevi,
subinflexo. In regione Amazonica et Guiana v. s. in herb. Hook., Para (Martim) : ;
in Amazonas, sine loco (Burchell, 9226, 9314, 9879 in parte) t\ fr. s. in Mus. Kew. :
(Spruce) ; in 31us. Brit, (sine loco).
This species differs from tlie former in its loftier immense trunk bare to a
growth, its
great height, stouter branches, leaves of a more rufescent hue, with more numerous closer
nerves, more reticulated, on much shorter petioles, in its broader panicle with several
long branches spreading horizontally, in the rounder and more entire calycine lobes. It
forms a tree above 120 feet hifirh, with a trunk 14 feet in diam. up to a height of 50 feet,
and quite bare to the height of 100 feet ; its leaves are 10-15 in. long, 3|-4i in. broad,
on a petiole 3 to 6 lines long the panicle is ; about 10 in. long, with about 5 horizontal
branches 3-5 in. long the floriferous nodes are

; ^\ in. apart. The fruit (Plate XXXVIL
figs. 4-7) is globular,
4-4J in. in diam., with a much thicker, rougher, darker, and
more cracking resilient bark 3 lines thick ; the endocarp is 4 lines thick, subosseous
the inconspicuous calycary zone is 9-12 lines below the summit ; the upper zone, 6 lines
the operculum, of the same

in diam., has a sharp edge, concave and widening inwards ;
sulcated,
diameter, rises little above the mouth, is pulvinately depressed, radiately
shortly umbonate at the apex, persistently attached to the columella, which is at first
placenta, upon
slender, 4-angular, gradually swelling to the base into a club-shaped
colu-
which the erect crowded seeds are affixed by a nearly basal ventral hilum ; as this
of the cell,
mella shrivels in drying, it draws along with it the operculum into the cavity
ot ^
the cavity of the shell, originally 4-celled, becomes unilocular by the withering
closely com
slender dissepiments, and contains 20 sharply triquetral seeds, which are
any pulp.
pacted, entirely filling the cavity, without the trace of
from r
These seeds are known in commerce as Brazil nuts ; the amount exported
BjO
alone m six months of the year 1863 was 18,862 alquieres ; and from Hanaos, on the
tbe yie
Negro, 9976 alquieres. Taking this to be the average export for 1 year,
the
amounts to about 2^ millions of the fruits, or 50 millions of seeds, occupymg
quantities exporte
bulk of 60,000 bushels : this does not include the several other large
seeds, m
from the Eio Orinoco, Demerara, Cayenne, Maranhao, and other places. These
to c
Brazil, may be valued at about 30 shillings per bushel. The hard fruits which fall
break abou
t>
round are broken in the forests by Indians, where a man and a boy will
;
300 of them daily, yielding them about 2 alquieres of the nuts. The kernels of these
nuts, broken in a similar manner, are subjected to pressure, when they yield an oil
greatly esteemed for domestic purposes and for export, each pound of the kernels fur-
nishing 9 ounces of oil, valued at 2 shillings per pound. This oil, according to Martins,
consists, per cent., of 74 parts of elseine, and 26 of stearine. The finely laminated
inner bark of the trunks is also a valuable
commerce, especially adapted for
article of
the caulking of ships and barges, being worth about 18 shillings per cwt.
The question here naturally arises, how do the seeds germinate and strike root, con-
fined as they are in an inextricable prison ? Por it is manifest they cannot find an exit
through the opercular opening, and they cannot escape by any other means than by the
rotting of the thick pericarp on moist ground ; and it would probably require three years'
exposure to the sun and moisture before so thick a shell could decay sufficiently to allow
of the liberation of the seeds,and then perhaps another year's exposure before the thick
1
testa of the seeds could rot sufficiently to allow the embryo to germinate. This shows an
extraordinary power of vitality in the embryo, which would seem to remain four or five
years in a dormant state. Oily seeds are generally supposed to ferment and decay soon
but that perhaps is where the oil-cells are contained in albumen; here, however, we find
T
a reverse condition. I have been told that when the embryo of Bertliollctia has been
extricated, and planted under the most favourable circumstances, it takes a whole year
before it begins to germinate. Is this inertness due to the large amount of stearine in
the oil-cells, which preserves it from decay ?
4. Lecythis. (Plate XXXIV. a.)
The many points of structure hitherto unknown to botanists, among the several plants
referred to Lecijthis, render it necessary to define the genus anew, and to separate from
it all those species where, in the ovary, the ovules are erect, unsupported by funicles, and
where in the fruit the operculum is not attached to a central columella, where tlie
seeds are bitter (not edible), are not suspended in pulp by a large fleshy funicle or
strophioie, but are always dry, erect, and attached to the base of the fruit by a large
hilum. The species so distinguished from Lecythis proper are here described under the
distinct genera Chytroma, Uschweilera, and Jugastrim. The androphorum in Lecyihia

is similar in structure to that of Bertholletia ; that is to say, the imbricated appendages
within the hood are always bare of stamens, terminating in flexible points, all centring
around the style, where they form a kind of brush, the probable function of which is to
coUect and distribute the pollen derived from the fertile stamens placed over the cpigy-
androphorum constructed as in
nous disk. We find in Chytroma and Eschweilera an
BerfhoUetla; but not so in Jugastrim, where the appendages within the head boar
fertile stamens, as in Couroupita and sometimes in Lecythis. These conditions form
be easily distinguished from
by which Lecythis may at all
differential features times
other genera of the family its diagnosis may now
:
be summed up in the following
manner
2d2
Lecythis, LceA., Linn.
Calyx adnatus^ limbo libero in sepala 6-7 brevibus diviso. Petala 6-7, multo majora^ saepius insequalia,
ohlonga^ subreflexa, unguibus intra discum et androphorum semel agglutinata et cum androphoro
caduca. Discus epigynus, annularis, planus. Androphorum magnum^ petaloideum, ei BerthoUetia
slmilcj imum annulare disco agglutinatum, intus appendiculis brevibus erectis staminiferis creberrimis
munitum; fibula nuda, carnosaj galea subito inversa, extus depresse convex a, intus appendiculis
longiorlbus tcretibus dense echinata, his plerumque staminiferis, supremis longioribus et sterilibus •
stamina iis Bertholleli<e sirailia. Ovarium inferum, semiglobusum, vel turbinatum, vertice intra
discum planum convcxo, 4- raro 5-locnlarc ; ovula in quoque loculo plurima, a placcntis crassis ceu-
tralibus funiculo distincto pluriscriatim suspensa, anatropa : stylus longiusculus, teres, subincuniis;
stigma minimum, subglobosum, papillosum. Pyxidium saepius maximum, ovale, turbinatum, vel
globosum, ad varias altitudiucs zona calycari e sepalis incrassatis plus minusve tumidis cinctum ; vitta
mterzanali moHo vario clevata 5 zona superiore orbiculari, et hinc dehiscente ; operculum majusculum,
Bubclrcularc, crasslssijuuiu, liguciim, vel fibroso-coriaccum, supra couvexum, ssepe umbonatum, subtus
ad caluiadlam longe dcscendentera 4-angulatam arete agglutinatum, et simul deciduum periearplum :
crassum, llgncnm, durum, 4- vel incomplete 5-Ioculare semina in quoque loculo 4-6, oblonga,
:
utrlnque obtusa, lusca, longitudinaliter costato-sulcata, ab bilo subsupero funiculo (seu strophiola)
albo carnoso fere ajquimagno snspensa ; testa crassa, dura, sublignosa, et raphes ramis intra costas
sepultis muuitaj integumentum internum tenuiter mcmbranaceum, chalaza infera ssepe signatum:
embryo oxalbuminosus, cdulis, albus, amygdalinus, utrinque obtusus, bomogencus, seu re vera radi-
cuh gignntca, cujus exorhiza externa neorhizam internam distincte et undique ciugit, cotyledonibm
4, tninutisfiimis, dccussatim imbricatis, valde depressis, vix distinctis, ab bilo remotis, cum pluniuh
obtusa sub iis abscondita, ita ut in gcrmiuatione plumula per cotyledones propulsa novae plants cuu-
liciihm squamigcrum gignat, et neorbizse incremento radicella, e mamilla bilo proxiraa, erumpat.
Arborcs America: tropica et AntlUana s(eptus maxima, trunco crasso, dure ligneo, cortice coriaceo, libero,
e laminis mmerosiasimis solubililais confecio, ramos(E folia elliptica, vel oblonga, raro cordata, sapius
:
glabra, iutcgra vel serruta, petiolata paaiculm aut racemi flores

; axillares et terminales, pluriflori :
pedicellati, aibi, rosei, aut luiei.
1. LEcrrnis ollaria, Loefl. Itin. p. 159; Linn. Sp. p. 734; DO. Prodi*, iii. 291 (cxcl
syn.); Berg in Mart. Flor. Bras. I. c. p. 615; in Linn, xxvii. 449: arbor vasta;
i-amulis verruculosis imo
; foliis ovatis, cordatis, apice obtusis, subserratis, firme
chartaceis, subundulatis, supra fusco-viridibus,
petiolo subnullo : racemo terminali,
spicato, rachi angulata pediccllis e nodis alternis, horizontalibus, bractea orata
;
decidua mxmiiU ; floribus nutantibus ; sepalis 6, oblougis, in^qualibus, exterioribus

rotundioribus, concavis, perslstentibus patuHs, sub-
; petalis 6, mnlto majoribus,
insequalibus, oblongis, vel subrotundatis,
concavis, marginibus obUque rcflexis,
albis; andropboro luteo:
ovario infero, 4-loculari, vertice depresso; stylo sub-
brcTi; stigmate obtuso pyxidio magno, imo subrotundo, supra calr-
:
medium zona
cari subannulari obtuse Hgnoso.
6-lobata cincto ; zona superiore Integra pericarpio
;
In Venezuela ad Barcelona (Xff/%) non
; in Cumana ? Bumholdt (sec. cl. Berg) :
Gidi.
Wc know notbing more of this species, that can be depended upon, beyond the above
details, quoted from Lcefling ; the few additional characters offered by Berg are here
;;;
omitted, because lie obtained them from a specimen collected by Humboldt in Cumana,
now in tte Berlin herbarium, and which has no flower ; it is certainly doubtful whether
that specimen with Loefling's plant, because the characters assigned to it by

is identical
Berg apply equally to his Lecythis cordata, from Barcelona, which, in like manner, has
date leaves of similar shape. Indeed this latter plant might have been
sidered identical with L. ollaria^ were it not for the structure of the ovary, which is said
by Berg to be 2-locular, with a shortish style, and which, therefore, must be referred to
the genus Uschiceilera. We know of another Venezuelan species with cordate leaves
(from Tovar), L. tenax, Berg, which, for a similar reason, is also an Eschweilera, as I
have verified.
Linnaeus never saw the plant ; nor does it appear that any botanist since the time of
Loefling (1758) has met with it, if we except the doubtful instance of Humboldt.
2. Lecythis ampullaria, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio maximo, vasiformi, oblongo-

ovato, medio sensim ventricoso, et 12-sulcato, zona calycari paullo supra medium
linear! cincto; vitta interzonali conica, diametri dimidia parte alta, incurvata,
infra summum subito expansa, labium prominens simulante ; zona superiore cir-
eulari, Integra, fauce intus in labrum latissimum nitens producto ; operculo ignoto
pericarpio crasso, leviter lignoso; seminibus magnis, elongato-oblongis, utrinque
obtusis, pallide brunneis, cum costis prominentibus circa 7, intervallis angulatis
et transversim corrugulatis. In Nova Granada : v. fr, s. in Mus. Keio., Nova
Granada [Triana) ; Antioquia {Jarvis).
r ^
\Vhether these fruits belong to L. integrifoUa, R. & P., or some other species from the
same locality, we have no in the Kew Museum
evidence to determine. The two specimens
liave evidently to enable
been used as water-bottles, their bottoms being truncately cut
them to stand upright. leaving a fibrous surface,
Their thin bark has been smoothed off,
with twelve
longitudinal furrows, which cease at a transverse line which I take to be
the calycary
zone. The larger specimen (Plate XXXVIII.) is 8| in. long, GJ in. broad at
the yentricose
middle, 51 in. at the calycary zone, which is 2f in. below the upper zone
the mterzonary
band is contracted below the lip-shaped mouth to a diameter of 4 inches
^he upper zone is 5 in. in diam., with a rather obtuse margin ; and this incHnes inward
form the narrows gradually
lip, which has an enamelled surface 1^ in. broad, where it
jnto
a^contracted mouth 3 in. in diam. ; the pericarp is in. thick at the interzonal
J
^3fid,
,
m. m the middle, and much thicker at the base ; the inner space is 7| in. deep,
'^ ^^^ '^''^^^ ^^*^^'" narrower at base,
*^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^ "^- ^^ô» 1 ^' ^^^^•l'
and '
^^^l
^marked near one extremity The smaUer specimen, from
with a lateral hUum.
L !'^''''' ''
°% lialf the size of the
above, and is probably only half-grown; its surface
^''^
^^^^P^d off in a simHar manner.
^^ciTHis Amazonum, Mart., Berg in Mart. PL Bras. I. c. p. 484 tab. m. 67 planta :
longe supra
^T' '•
Pyî<iio maximo,
late oviformi, imo hemisph^rice rotundato,
"^ zona calycari
obsolete 6.1obata vix prominente cincto ; vitta interzonah
.
202 '
MR. J. MTERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E.
convexiusciila, conico inclinata, diametri circa qiiintam partem alta ; zona superiore
(ûam inferiore multo angustiore, Integra, circular!; operculo vittae altitiidine,
sphajrice convexo, solido, subtus columella intra faucem valde incrassata hinc obco-
nica, profunde 4-sulcata et longe descendente aucto ;
pericarpio crassissimo, sub-
spongiose lignoso, sublevitcr opaco, vel granulis paryis elevatis subirrorato, obsolete
4-loculari. In Brasilia, prov. Park {Martius) : non vidi
This species, seen by Von Martins, was a tree too lofty to obtain a specimen of its
inflorescence. The pyxidium is 9 in. long, 74 in. broad in the middle : the
calycary zone is G^ in. above the base, 6 in. in diam. ; the interzonary band is 1 in. high
the superior zone and operculum 3| in. in diam., height of the latter IJ- in., the coin
mclla filling the mouth and descending to the depth of 4 in. ; pericarp | in. thick, it
inner moutli 3 in. broad, depth of cell below upper zone in., its* internal diamete 7J
CJ in. ; seeds 1 In. lonr% 8 lines broad.
1. Lecttuis rr.xiGEiiA, Mart., Berg in Mart. Flor. Bras. I c, p. 493, tab. 64: ramuli;
o '•^•"'»
'""o subsulcatis ; foliis ovalibus, imo rotundatis, apice saepis
simc obtusatis, ad margiiu ni subtenuem flayescentem serrulatis, dentibus obt
8ul)cbar<aceis, supm viridibus, opacis, ncrvis tcnuissimis patentim divaricatis vix
promimilis, crcbcrrime reticulutis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis venisque prominulis,
costa pronuncnte; pctiolo tcnui, supra sulcato et marginato,
subtus fusciore, limbo
lOplo brcviore: inn.)iescentia brevi (invisa); pedicellis fructiferis valde incras-
sntis; pyxidio maximo, ovali-oblongo, infra vel ad medium subventricoso, longe
supra medium zona calycari \ix prominula annulari circumdato, margine acutius-
culo erccta, undulata et obsolete 6-loba, ambitu
circulari : vitta intcrzonali imo
anguste canaliculata, dein conice convexa, diametri
ct
quartam partem
zona supenoro mtcgra, inferiore angustiore, fauce crassissima,
inti
ore zona dimidio minore; operculo rotundiuscule
et conice conv duplo
subtus columella aucto, hac primum valde
altiorc, solido,
crassa, faucem implente
dein snbhrcviter obcouica, 4.sulcata
; pericarpio crassissimo, subscabride granuloso
vel scrobiculato-rngoso, giauulis llavidis
crebemme signato, interdum sublacunosc
tnberculato, obsolete 4.1oculari seminibus 16-24, ovato-oblongis, profunde sulcatis,
;
costis furcatis, funiculo magno carnoso

suspensis. In Brasilia, prov. Rio Janeiro
(Cant agallo) : v. pi. s. In herb, moo, Marica
{3Icatos) ; v.fr. s. ex eodem loc. (Mattos),
m Mu,. Fry. et meo. Novo Friburgo {Cox) ; Ilheos (Ilaiohshaw)
Speoiniens of the plant, without flowers,
but attached to the fruit, were lately received
from Sen. IVIattos j I also obtained the fruit
in a fresh state many years ago in Bio de
Janeiro The species forms a tree of immense size, mi-
unquestionably the same as L,
Ocra :Îartwhich extends over the province from
Marica to Cantagallo, and even as far
north as Ilheos. Tlie leaves are 2-2i
3-3J in. long, in. broad, on a petiole 3^-4 lines
long; and they have about 15 pairs
of nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all
anastomosmg. The pyxidium (Plate
XXXIX.} is 7-lOJ in. long, 6-7^ in. broad; the
cal.^ cary zone
o.-Oi m. in diam.,
5-7i in. above the base ; the interzonary band is l-lj in-
;

-
high the upper zone is circular

3J-4J in. in diam., the inner mouth contracted and
;
slant-
downward to a diameter of 1^-2 in. ; the operculum is
3J-4J in. in diam., lJ-2 in.
o
high, solid, with the attached columella, at first !{ in. thick,
2J long, extending down-
wards to an ohtuse point ; the pericarp is nearly 1 in. thick, depth of inner space from
upper zone 5-7 in., the internal diam. 4-6 in. ; the seeds are l|-2 in. lono-, l-li in.
bJ -^ -^8
hroad, suspended hy white fleshy funicles of nearly the same length ; home
the fruit is
upon a long, thick, woody support. This pyxidium resemhles that of Z. Amazonum in
size, more elongated, with a longer operculum, a shorter columella, and a more
but is
contracted mouth, and larger seeds. The larger dimensions above given are those of
Berg, the smaller ones from some of my own specimens. The leaves were not seen by
Berg.
r
It is distinguished from Z. Velloziana hy its shorter axils, more ovate leaves, not
acuminated, more finely serrated, hy its more robust pyxidium, more rounded at the base,
of a paler yellowish colour, lighter consistence, with a smoother subgranular surface, by
its lobeless annular calycary zone, showing inside of it a deep circular channel.
5. Lecythis Velloziana, nob Zecythis ollaria, VeU., non Linn., M. Plum.

:
p. 222, Icon.
V. tab. 88 :
foliis ellipticis, imo in petiolum sensim subacutis, apice gradatim acute
attenuatis, suhgrossule serratis, petiolo limbo 12plo hreviore: floribus ignotis:
pyxidio magno, late ovato, vasiformi-cylindrico, imo valde rotundato, medio sensim
paullo constricto, supra medium zona calycari subannulata, obsolete 6-lohata, am-
bitu subhexagona, margine sursum spectante cincto vitta interzonali subconica, ;
apice rotundiore, diametri

tertiam partem alta ; zona superiore orbiculari, inferiore
multo minore ; operculo
convexo, vittê fere altitudine, solido, columella crassissima
mo obconica et 4-sulcat a aucto; pericarpio crassissimo, subponderoso, luride
brunneo, opaco, granulatim Eio de
irrorato, obsolete 4-loculari. In Brasilia, prov.
Janeiro v. fruct.
in Mus. Fry. ; «??. non vidi
:
he axfis of its
branchlets are about 1^ in. apart ; the leaves are 3-3i in. long, 1}- 1^ in.
^
^^ ^ ^^*^°^^ ^ ^^^^® ^^^^ *^^ PyxidiuiTL (Plate XL.) is in. long, 6^ in. broad
thr 1
' 8J
^ê^calycary zone,
5J
above the base, is 6f
in. in. in diam. ; the interzonary band is
'
*^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ operculum 4 in. in diam.; the latter, IJ in. high, is
thiT
ic ened
beneath by the portion filling and farther lengthened
the mouth, f in. deep,
descending ob conical portion of the columella pericarp in. thick; depth
of i!'..!*^^
" ' ; f-f
'P^^^ ^^lo^ the upp internal diameter 4| the contracted
: "T 51 in., in.,
: the seeds are 2^ in. long, 1 in. broad, con-

at each extremity.
^^^
^^^^^ ^"^^"^ •^* «^%^^« in the more eUiptic shape of its leaves, its more
ascend'^^^^^^^''
i^g nerves, and a very different pyxidium.
6 T
^^His BoGOTENsis, nob. vasiformi, cylindrico,
: planta ignota : pyxidio magno,
sensim breviter
rotundato, longe supra medium zona calycari ambitu an-
^^"^"^ P^^înente undulatim subrotundis, compressis,
erectT
6-loba cincto, lobis
IS
vitta interzonaH convexe accliva, dia-
; circa lobos concava. dein introrsum
;

A -
mctri q[uintam partem alta ; zona superiore Integra, quam inferiore multo angustiore
operculo pulvinato, valde depresso, centre paullo conrexo, subtus columella fibroso-
spongiosa intra faucem crassissima deiu obconica et 4i-snlcata aucto; pericarpio
crasso, fibroso-lignoso, cortice tenuissimo pallide brimneo pruinose opaco minute
granulato tecto, obsolete 4-loculari. In Nova Granada v. fr. sice, in Mm. JBrit.,
:
Bogota.
This is Tcry distinct from all others of Peruvian origin. The pyxidium (Plate XLI.) is
remarkable for its size, shape, lightness of texture, and flattened operculum it is 8| in.
;
long, 6J in. broad ; the calycary zone, 7 in. from the base, is 7 in. in diam. ; the inter-
zonaiy band is 1 in. high ; the upper zone and operculum are 4 in. in diam., the latter
only J in. high, the fibrous base of the attached columella, within the mouth, being
J in. thick.
7. Lecvtuis VASiroiiMTR, nob. plantaignofa pyxidio vasiformi, infra medium turbinate^

: :
iimim versus constricto, truncato, et umbilicato, medio late cylindrico, longe supra
medium zona calycari annulari ambitu circuhiii subacutaaut obtusa prominente obso-
lete lobata dncto ; Titta interzonal! subdopressa, paullo convexa, diametri 6-lOmam
partem zona superiore intcgra, inferiore multo angustiore operculo depressc
alta ; ;
convcxo, late et obtuse umbonato, inferne columella valde incrassata primum trun-
cata dein obconica et 4-sulcata aucto; pericarpio crassissimo, levissime lignoso,
brunnco, areolis irregularibus paullo impressis variolate, obsolete 4-loculari, oper-
culo extus tubcrculato-rug seminibus pluribus, late oblongis, obtusis
laritcr costatis, costis furcatis paullo prominulis, bruuneis, glauco-opacis, minute
granulatis. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro : v. s. in Mus. Fry.
Of this rcmaikablc for the extreme lightness of its pyxidium (Plate XLII. fig. 1),
species,
seen two specimens ; they are 7 in. long ; the calycary zone 5 in. from the base J-5|
7 in. in diam ; the l)road, much inclined interzonal band is l-l^ in. hij^h, the upper
d operculum SJ-S J in. in diam., the latter in. high, expanded below by the
J-f
mely incrassated base of the columella, of nearly its diameter, and perpendicular
1 \\ in. in thickness, where
the mouth, thence narrowing into a short
it fills
obtuse 4-siilcated cone, making it altogether 1| in. long;

the pericarp is nearly
thick ; the internal space below the upper zone is
4| in. deep, 4-4| in. in diam. the ;
seeds 1 1 in. long, 1 J in. broad.
8. Lecvthis amtla, nob. planta ignota

pyxidio majusculo, umiformi, cylindrico, imo
; :
iiemisphserice rotundato, supra medium zona caleyeari

undulatim 6-lobata margine
acute brcvissimo sursum spectante cincto ; vitta
interzonali subconcava, primum
dein adscendente, sensim crccta, diametri
dimidii altitudine ; zona superiore quani
inferiore multo minore, Integra ; operculo
vittae fere altitudine, primum convexo et
pulvinato, dein late umbonato, solido,
subtus columella basi crassissima tunc longe
obconica of 4.sulcata aucto pericarpio
; crasso, pallide brunneo, opaco, cortice tenui
subrunoso, lenticcllis flavidis
granuloso; seminibus oblongis, utrinque obtusis,
:
* MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 205
fusco-brunneis, glauco-pminosis, irregulariter costatis, costis paullo prominentibus.
In Nova Granada : v, fr. sice, in Mus. Kew., Antioquia (Jervis).
The fruit (Plate XLIII. fig. 1) is extremely different from L. mnpullaria from the
locality. The pjxidium is ^ in. long, 5J in. broad; calycary zone 5^ in. above
the base, 6 in. in diam. ; interzonary band 1| high ; operculum 3| in. in diam. 1# in.
in.
high ; columella, with a neck filling the mouth 9 lines thick, is alto"-ether 4 in. lono- •
pericarp | in. thick, internally 6 in. deep from upper zone, and 4^ in. broad ; it is covered
by a rather thin cracking bark, granulated with raised hollow lenticels ; the seeds are
1| in. long, 1 in. broad.
9. Lecythis validissima, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio late vasiformi, imo rotundato,
supra medium zona calycari annulatim prominula et obsolete 6-lobata margine
erecta cincto; vitta interzonal! primum concava, dein conice convexa, diametri
7mam partem alta zona superiore circulari, inferiore minore ; operculo altiore, pulvi-
;
nato, valde crasso, subtus columella

descendente aucto, hac orificium implente,
dem anguste obconica et 4-sulcata; pericarpio crassissimo, Hgnoso, ponderoso,
bruuneo, granulatim scrobiculato, obsolete
^-loculari \ seminibus oblongis, obtusulis,
opace brunneis, subgranulatis,
costis rubellis prominulis irregulariter furcatis. In
Guiana v. s. in Mus. Brit., sine loco et forsan indigena; in
:
Mus. Kew., ins. Mauri-
tiana cult. (J. Duncan).
The former specimen
^^
(Plate XLIV.) agrees in size, shape, and other respects with the
hich is cultivated in the Mauritius,
and is one of the three kinds transported from
ayenne m 1760, by order of the French government (the
other two species bein
mceolata and X. Zabucayo).
•
It much resembles the latter in form, but is much
and of much consistence. It is74-71
2 J in.
A^- lonsr,
A"iô> 5^-61
^^ "4 in. broad the :
«
calycary zone
is 6i-6i and 6
in. in diam.. above the base; the interzonary band
the upper zone
g ; and operculum are 4^-4^ in. broad, tlie latter 1| in. high
^,^ "^^^^^ ^J tiie columella, which
PTno , , fills the mouth, where it is \ in. thick, and
^^^^^ ^^ ^ 4-grooved conical
n p form, reaching the middle of the cell ; the pericarp
^tr ^maua specimen is | in., in that from the Mauritius 1 in. thick.
T
-^^^^^^^SA, nob. planta ignota
+
: : pyxidio urniformi, imo sensim angustiore
6-s 1
^^îlicato, medio subventricoso, longe supra mediuni zona calycari
aun 1 V
^.^^ Piôminente obsolete 6-loba ambitu circulari cincto, lobis late rotundatis.
u.^.
brevi simis,
erectis, vel
paullo inflexis, compressis ; vitta interzonali valde dep
^^^^^7^' ^^^ convexiuscula, paullo elevata, vel interdum subter zonam
flemis
^ ^^^^^^^^^îêr depressa circulari, inferiore multo
minore • ; zona superiore Integra,
°^^^^^^^ convexo,
faucem'" tuberculato, rugoso, subtus columeUa brevi, intra
subtruncata cavernis 4 insculpta dein subito brevissime obconica
^^
4-suCT^^^^*^
^^^^^ P^ncarpio
êl tuberc 1^ ' glauco-brunneo, scrobiculato,
ecorticato, subcrasso,
^' ^^°^ ^^^^lis impressis et variolate (vitta operculo*
foveolis profundis
<lê tuber^ f'^^^"^^gosis majusculis,
et foveolatis),
^^tuse ^^j^^^ sub- 4-loculari; seminibus 24, -y
ÔL. xix ^^^^^' castaneis, costis crassis irregulariter furcatis prominentibus, sub-
2 B
:
206 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE
nitidis, obsolete rugulosis. In Brasilia : 10. s. in 3Ius. Brit. (

Capt. Burton) : exempla
2 in Mus. Kew. e Brasilia (sine nomine) : in Mus. Fry. et meo, Bio de Janeiro.
The specimens vary in size, though all possess similar characters, one being remark-
able for its nearly horizontal interzonary band sunk almost below the level of the
calycary zone. Burton's larger specimen (Plate XLV.) is 7i in. long, 5f in. broad ; the
calycary zone, 6 in. above the base, is \ in. broader ; the interzonary band is | in. high,
(in tlio second specimen J in., in the third \ in. above the top of the zone) ; the upper
zone and operculum arc 3J in. broad, the latter | in. high ; that portion of the columella
which fills the mouth is f in. thick, and is further extended into a short 4-groovec[ cone
of about the same length ; the pericarp is J in. thick ; the seeds lJ-2 in. long, 1-1 g- in.
I
broad.
In my own specimen the calycary zone is 5 in. in diameter and 4 J in. above the sub-
hemi«^plinuiical base, the interzonary band is \ in. higher; the upper zone 3f in, in diara.,
with its mouth inflcxcd and 3 in. in diam. ; the pericarp is f in. thick, the depth inside
])elow the uppi'r zone is 3 in. ; the operculum is 3 in. broad, 1 in. high; the descending
truncated portion is 1 in. long, and deeply 1-channelled.
31. Lecythis lanceolata, Toir. (non Berg), Encyc. M6th. vi. 27 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 291 :
ramulis tenuitcr virgatis, tcretibus, brnnnois, substriatis, lenticellatis ; foliis ob-

longis vol laiiceolatis, imo subobtusis et in petiolo dccurrentibus, apice longiusculc
scnsim acuminatis, crebcrrimc serrulatis, submembranaceis, supra Isete viridibus,
snl)lucentil)u«?, plauis, ncrvis tcnuibus venisquc creberrime reticulatis prominulis,
subtus panlulo pallidioribus, subopacis, costa tcnui, sulcata, prominente, nervis
prominulis; petiolo tcnuissimo, canaliculato, subtus ruguloso, limbo lOplo breviore
racemis axillaribus, folio sul){equilongis, rachi tenui, angulata, pruinosa, sub-10-flora;
sepalis 6, pediccllo paullo longioribus, acute ovatis, extus pruinosis, marginihus
mcmbranaceiSjCiliatis; petalis G, ovatis ; stylo brevi; stigmate parvo, 4-lobo ; ovario
infero, parvo, 4-loculari, verticv piano, radiatim striate
: pyxidio majusculo, oblongo-
ovato, imo rotundato, medio subcylindrico, supra medium zona calycari paullo
prominente annulari obsolete 6-lobata cincto, lobis brevibus, rotundatis, erectis,
mai guie sursum acutiusculis ; vitta interzonal! primum
concava, dein acclivi,
diamctri quintam partem alta zona superiore integra, inferiore minore operculo
; ;
pulviuatim convcxo, vitta 2-8plo altiore, subtus

columella conica lonj-e descendente
i-sulcata aucto; pericnrj)!© crasso, sublignoso,
subpondcroso, teuui, brunneo cortice
m m?ulis Mauritianis culta: v. pL siccam in herb. Soc. Lrnn.

(Smith), Isle of Prance
{Commerson ex herb. Thouars., no. 382) v.fr. sic, in Mus. :
BrU., Guiana (sine nomine)

Bourbon (sine nom.) in Mus. Kew. Mauritius
;
:
(Buncan) altem sine nomine (forsan

;
indigena).
This one of the species transported in
is
to
1770, by order of the French Government,
ihe Mauntms, where
it still flourishes.
It is a its virgate lofty tree : the axils of
Dranclileta are f-l in. apart; its bright green thin leaves are 2\-U in. lon^, Hi '^'
;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E.

207
broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long; the racliis of the raceme is 2-2| in.
long; the pedicels
are IJ line long; the flower in bud is ^ in. in diam., the sepals 1^ Une long. The
pyxidium (Plate XLYI.) is 5f in. long, 4i in. in diam. the calycary zone
4 in. ahoye the ;
base; the interzonal band is | in. high; the operculum is

in. in diam.,
IJ in. hio-h ^
the columella attached beneath it, being there 3 J
broad, 2i in. long, conicali'4.an-led,' in.
with 4 deep hollows the pericarp is
f in. thick ; the depth of the cell is 3 J in., its internal
;
diam. 3 in., the inner mouth under the operculum being

2 in. in diam. In Duncan's
specimen the thin granulated bark is partly scraped
away, showing beneath it many
impressed whitish areoles. The indigenous specimen in the Kew Museum is rather
wider, and the operculum broader and of more fibrous consistence.
The specimen in the
British Museum, from the Island of Bourbon, is smaller and
immature ; its operculum
IS taUer and more pulvinate, and contains
12 immature seeds only 14 lines long.
Dr. Berg (El. Bras.
482) confounded this Guiana species, which he had not
I. c. p.
seen, with Yelloz's Zecf/this minor from
Rio de Janeiro, a species well known by me, and
to be presently described under Zec^this
tuberculata.
12. Lectthis Zabucayo, Aubl. Guian.

ii. 718, tab. 288 (excl. syn.) ; DC. Prodr. iii.
293 ;
erg m
Linn, xxvii. 453 ramuHs subteretibus, subangulato-striatis, ad axillascom-
:
pressis, fusco-brunneis, lenticellis flavis creberrime

verruculosis, junioribus tenui-
onbus, Isevibus foliis
; oblongis, vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo obtusis aut acutioribus,
apice repentino
longiuscule et acute attenuatis, subintegris, vel obsolete crenulato-
serratis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, subopacis, nervis tenuibus subpatentibus
vix prommulis, reticulatis,
costa tenui prominula, subtus fulvis, opacis, minute
granulosis, nervis
venisque prominentibus, costa flava, striolata, prominente petiolo
;
usculo supra piano, marginato,
subtus ruguloso,
° limbo 24plo
^ bi racemis
axillaribus
.
terminalibus, folio multo brevioribus, paucifloris; rachi flexuosa
^"^^^^^^ iiodosa; floribus mediocribus, paUidis, glutinosis; pedicello sub
nr. T?' 'palis bre viore; sepalis pallidis, crassiusculis, ovato-acutis, subcarinatis
^^*^"0sis, marginibus anguste membranaceis, erosulis; petalis ovatis,
albis-' i^
^.^^. ^^ roseo; ovario infero, turbinato, vertice subconcavo, 4-loculari,
OTulis ^
^^^^^ paullo sub apice axi affixis,

radiantibus pyxidio late ovato, imo :
truncat
^^^™o> medio cylindrico, supra medium zona calycari vix prominente
obsolet fi
^ îîcto, lobis late obtusis,
interzo 1'
-^ sursum incurvulis et acutiusculis ; vitta
^^^^^^^ ^^^^ conice convexa, diametri 3-4tam partem alta zona
superiore c'^^^T^— ;
^^^' "iferiore subtus columella

angustiore
faucem i^^î^ operculo depresse convexo, ;
^^^^ crassissima longe descendente

Pericarpi^T^
aucto, hac obconica, 4-sulcata,
^^^^^^^^^^^» pallide
brunneo, minute granuloso, leviter ponderoso. In
îiiana p
(specim. typic.) in herb. Mus. Bnt, Cayenne (Aublet); Guiana
{MartL\' ^'^^^f'
A
*W : the3 Ipn!!
.,^y^.g
'^^' ^^*^ spreading branches
; the axils of the branclilets 1-1^ in.
*Wt 12 ^^^* ^* ^^^^' ^-^ i^- ^road, on a petiole 3-5 lines long they have
orîH^^.^^ ;
^Pê raceme ^^^^^' ^^*^ others shorter and intermediate the rachis of its
hZ^^-in. long,
:
when panicular 5 in. long, with branches 1-1^ in. long.
2e 2
;;
;
208 MR. J- MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.

*
The specimen of the fruit at Kew (Plate XLVII.), without locality, agrees with the
dimensions given by Aublet, and another in the British Museum, which differs only in
having the operculum somewhat higher ; tliey are all 6 J in. long, about 5 in. broad
the calycary zone is 4 J-4| in. above the base and 5 in. in diam. ; the mterzonary band is
in. high upper
; zone and operculum 3 J-3|- in. broad, the latter §—1 j in. high
tlie
J-1
the columella in the mouth is extremely thick, descending in a long 4-sulcated cone.
It must be understood that this species is not indigenous in the Mauritius. It
appears that the Comte d'Estaing, during a visit to Cayenne in 1758, was so much
deUghted with the seeds of the Zabucaya, that he carried away with him twelve livii 5
plants of tlic tree, which he conveyed to the Mauritius, planting them in the garden
rt«Hluit. Aublet saw them there in a flourishing condition in 1762, when he returned
>'rnnce; but he feared th(^y perished soon afterward through neglect. M. Poivre, the
botanist, arrived at Port Louis in 1701, as intcndant of the colony and in 1768 lie
;
founded the Botanic Gard(Mi at Pamplcmousses, and applied to the French government
to have fresh plants transported from Cayenne : these afterwards arrived in good
foiidiiion, n!vd werV planted there and in the isle Bourbon, and would seem to be still
flourishing there. Wc can therefore account for the presence in the Kew Museum of
the fruits of 3 species sent from the Mauritius, viz. L. Zabucayo, L. lanceolata, and
L. riiJ'uVissimfi, all derived originally from Cayenne.
13. T/FCYTnis usiTATA. nob. : Leci/thia ollaria, Spruce (non Linn.), Hook. Kew J
71: Zecylliis Zuhucayo, Hook, (non Aubl.), I. c.21: ramulis brunncis, sub-
i.
tenuibns, tei-ctibus, rngoso-striatis, lenticellis verruculosis ; foliis ellipticis, imo

rotuudiusculis, ibi canaliculatis et in petiolum breviter acutatis, apice in acumen
suhbreve mucronulatum subrecurvulum subito attenuatis, marffinibus vix revo-
lutis scrrulatis, tcnuitor chartaceis, supra profunde viridibus, subnitidis, nenis
tcnuibus patentim divaricatis paullo prominulis, eosta prominula, striata, sub Icnte
minute granulatis, subtus pallidioribus, brunnescentibus, glauco-opacis, nervis venis-
que prominulis, costa promincnte; petiolo subtenui, supra piano, subtus eorruguloso,
limbo 12plo breviore : racemis axlllaribus et terminalibus, folio multo brevioribns,
r:u-lii flexuosa, nodosa (flores desunt) : pyxidio globoso-ovato, imo ovali, ad medium
Bona calycari paullo promincnte ambitu circular! obsolete lobata cincto ; vitta inter-
ronali scnsim conire subconvexa, diametri tertiam partem alta; zona superiore in-
tegi-a, inferiorc diniidio angustiorc operculo ignoto
;
; pericarpio crasso, subponderoso,
opacissirao, corticc tcnui ochraceo-brunneo in areolis rimoso ; scminibus plurimis,
inaju?»rulis, o!)longis, utrinquc subacutis, irrcgulariter costatis, cum rugis trans-
vcrsis in intervallis, grate edulibus. In Brasilia, prov. Para, inde abundat : f. p^-
9. in herb. Hook., ins. Carip6 (Spruce, 23) : v./r, s. in Mus. Keic, Caripe (Spruce)
Hm&iim {JFctheral). .
the species which produces the well-known Sapucayo

Thi-* is and is
nuts of commerce,
very different from the rj€<îhh Zapncaijo
of Aublet: it abounds in the island of Caripe
and other parts of the province of ParA, and is of his
mentioned by Spruce in the list
;;;

209
contributions to tlie Kew Museum (Hook. Kew Jo. 74, no. ii. 23). ^
The axils of its
branches are 4-8 lines apart ;
the leaves are 3^5^ in. long, l|-2 in; broad, on a petiola
2}-3 lines long they have about 12 pairs or more of nerves, with others shorter
;
and
intermediate, all anastomosing. The raceme is li-3 in. long, the nodes of the rachis
2-3 Hnes apart, supporting a pedicel 1 line long ; the sepals are 2 lines, the petals 15 lines
long, and 9 lines broad. The pyxidium (Plate XLVII. fig. 2) is 4| in. long, broad
in.
5f
at the calycary zone, which is 2| in. above the base; the interzonary band is If in. hio-h
the upper zone 3| in. in diam., the
operculum being lost in both specimens the mouth ;
deep, and contracted to a cUameter of 2i-2| in. the pericarp is | in. thick, the ;
depth of the internal space is 3| in. below the upper zone, and
its internal diam. is
3} in. the seeds are 2 in. long, 1 in. broad.
; There are 2 specimens in the Kew Museum,
one sent by Dr. Spruce, the other by Mr. Wetheral,
who contributed many vegetable
productions from the Amazonas res-ion.
14. Lectthis Pohlii, Berg, in Mart. 'Fl. Br. c. p. 484, tab. 7. 150 et tab.
I. fig. 68
Linn, xxvii. 452 (excl. syn.) ramis nigrescentibus, ramulis
: teneris, brunneis,
minute verruculosis, subpruinosis foliis ovato-oblongis, oblonds, '""* oblonô-lan-
vel
;
O""' ^"*""0""' V^Ky^VîJ^Q
imo rotundatis et in petiolum ssepe breviter acutatis, apice in acumen

ceolatis,
angustum longissimum acutum attenuatis, serrulatis, dentibus subminutis, tenuiter

memhranaceis, utrinque Isete viridibus, supra nitidis, nervis tenuissimis, patentim
ivergentib.us,
promimilis, crebre reticulatis, costa tenuissima, subtus vix opacis,'
nervis prominulis,
costa utrinque striolata; petiolo tenuissimo, marginato, limbo
30plo breviore: racemis (sec. cl. Berg) axillaribus, folio sa^pius brevioribus; rachi
gracih, pauciflora; floribus parvis; pedicellis sulcatis, minutissime puberulis,
calycem aequantibus
; sepalis obovatis, subpatentibus, pruinosis ;
petalis obovatis
ovario semiinfero, parvo, 4-loculari, vertice convexo, puberulo ; stylo tereti:
Pyxidio subgloboso,
imo rotundato supra medium zona calycari obsolete 6-lobata
;
lu circulari vix
prominula cincto vitta interzonali primum incurva, dein ;
ive convexa,
diametri quartam partem alta; zona superiore circulari, inferiore
paulo mmore; operculo valido, vitt« dupla altitudine, spha^rice convexo, subtus
umella primum
^0 crassissima et truncata, mox obcouica et 4-sulcata, longiuscule
cen ente aucto
^
pericarpio crassissimo, dure lignoso, griseo-fuscescente, obsolei«
;
^^^ ®^^îê
! 4-loculari ; seminibus oblongis, utrinque obtusulis, irregula-
rite
y^^^"^*^^^ ^^^^'is- In [FoM, 4311) pi. in
hh
Brasilia, prov. Goyaz, ad Pilar :
v. s.
ook., prov.
'
^
Goyaz {Burchell, sine flore, 9865) : fr. non vidi.
A
resembling in habit Z. Plsonis, but with a very different fruit, which
"'^ mvoa}^'^'^^
^^^^ *^^* °^ ^*
H in! a
T-t^.^
-^^
^^^^^^^êincly
^^^'^^^«««^'^'^"^'^-
membranaceous leaves, with a long narrow acumen,

The
are
axils of its slender bmnchlets
^în^ loÎ'
^^2 °!
^^' ^^'^^^' ^^ ^ petiole 1-1^ line long ; the axiUary racemes are
in. Ion ih^^
H which^-' !f
^.P^^^^^^^
' '"^
1-2 lines long ; the sepals 1
*^^™-
the pyxidium
5 (Plate XLVIIL
line, the petals 3-5 lines
fig. 3,
long in the
copied from Berg's
^Sî-e) is
5 i
1
^ ^"- ^' ^* ^^" ^^^^^ ' ^^^^ calycary zone, with 6 obsoletely erect lobes, is
above th* h
^ oase, and
equally broad ; the interzonary band is 10 lines high ; the
upper zone and close-fitting operculum are 3f in. in diam., the latter 1^ in. hio-\ its
attached columella fills the much -thickened mouth (which contracted to a breadth of
is
24 in.), and extends downwards for a length of 2 in. ; the pericarp is -J in. thick, its internal
diam. 3f in., its depth 3 in. ] seeds If in. long, f in. broad.
We find here another instance of the unfortunate guesses of Dr. Berg in respect to
his synonyms in the Plor. Bras. p. 482, he regarded the Z. minor of Yelloz (non Jacq.)
:
as identical with his L. lanceolata (non Poir.) in his supplementary memoir in the :
Linnjca (vol. xxvii.) he abandoned that synonym, and applied it to his L. Fohlii {I. c.
p. 452); but this latter is cûite as unjustifiable as the former, as I have elsewhere
bhown.
15. Lecythts Marcguaavtana, nob. Jaca;pucaya Brasiliensis, Marcg. Hist. Nat. Bras.
:
(edit. 161S), p. 128 : procerissima, trunco magno, cortice griseo, ligno duro ; foliis
rotundato-ovatis, imo cordatis, apice breviter acuminatis, grosse serratis, incurvatis,
bre\itcr potiolatispyxidio subgloboso, imo oblato-hemisphjerico, supra medium
:
zona calycari annularl prominente ambitu circulari margine acutiuscula

sursum
spcctante rt obsoletissime O-loba cincto ; vitta interzonali subito canaliculatini
rcccssa, doln accllvi, diametri quartam partem alta ; zona superiore circulari, intcger-
riina, infcriorc multo angustiore, fauce crassa deorsum inclinatim contracta oper-
et ;
culo dej)rebsc convexo, vitta paullo demissiore, marline acutissimo ad zonam arete
pplicito I aiicto, hac primum crassa et fauccm implente
delri descendento obconica ct 4-sulcata; pcricarpio crassissimo, dure lignoso, pen
deroso, cortice tenui rimoso, opace brunneo,
granuloso-ruguloso, obsolete 4-loculari
aeminibiis plurimis, ovato-oblongis, irregulariter
sulcato-costatis, castaneo-brunneis
subpruinosis, intordum intra fructus germinantibus.
In BrasUia, a M o
in Akgoas oHm invcnta : r. fruct. sice, in Mus. Soc. Linn, ab eadem reîone
O
( O. Don)
IT
Tlie above fruit corresponds well with Marcgraaf s Jacapucaya ; and I have no hesi
ffirniing their identity.
The pyxidium (Plate XLVIII. fig. 1) is 5} in. long, 6
IT! diam. below the calycary zone, and
base ; the interzonary band is
6i in. across it, which is in. above the U
IJ in. high ; tlie upper zone in. in diam., the mouth 3f
f m. thick, is contracted to a diameter of
2i in. ; the operculum is 1 in. high, and its
iharp margin fits so closely to the upper zone, that it is difficult to introduce the edge
of a knife between them ; it is thickened below by the body of the columella, which fiUs
11)0mouth and descends in a conically -l-grooved form
to the depth of 2i in. the
total ;
pericarp is 1 m. thick, as dense as ironwood,

the internal cavity (showing the vestiges
of 4 dissepiments) is in. deep and 4
3f the seeds are IJ in. long, in. in. in
broad, diam. ;
* - testa thick and hard, the nucleus white and edible. i

I found some of them beginning
sprout at both extremities
Marcgraaf describes as a very lofty tree, with a very hard
it
timber, covered by a grey
k. It 18 probably the same which
Gardner saw (Trav. p. 92), who describes an
ennrmously large tiec, the ground
beneath it being covered with the fruits, the large
coTerhda of which had fallen off
on the ripening of the seeds : most of them were
;;

'I.
empty, the seeds having been devoured by the monkeys, who are very fond of them.
The great height of the tree prevented him from obtaining specimens of it. He observed
it in a forest near Catuca, twenty miles W. of Pernambuco and about sixty miles from
Alagoas. Marcgraaf says the size and shape of the leaves are like those of the mulberry,
and are therefore about 3 J in. long and 21 in. broad.
16. Lecythis densa, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio globoso-ovali, dense ponderoso, imo
hemisphgerico, fere ad medium zona calycari obtuse annular! vix lobata ambitu
circulari cincto ; vitta interzonal! alte conica, diametri tertiam partem alta ; zona
superiore quam calycari dimidio minore, circulari, fauce crassa et declivi ; operculo
convexo, diametri tertiam partem alto ; columella crassa faucem implente, subtus
truncata et 4-cavernosa, dein in conum 4-sulcatum angustum longe descendentem'
constricta ; pericarpio crassissimo, densissimo, ecorticato, fusco, crude tuberculato,
impresse areolato, cum granulis interspersis. In Brasilia : v. fr. s. in Mus. Brit.
(Shane, 7798), loco ignoto.
This may possibly be the fruit of L. ollarla ; it approaches L. Fisonis in its general
character ; the pyxidium (Plate XLIX. fig. 1) is 6| in. long, 5^ in. from the upper zone
to the base, in. broad across the calycary zone, which the
6J is 3 in. above the base ;
interzonary hand 2 in. high

the upper zone 3 J in. across the mouth, which is f in.
is ;
deep, and contracted to a diameter of 2 in. the operculum is 3 in. in diam., 1 in. high
J ;
the attached
mella, f in. thick, fills the mouth, and descends in a conical form to
further depth of 2 in. ; the pericarp is 1* in. thick at the calycary zone, 1 in. thick above
and at the base
17. Lecythis Pisonis, Camb. PI. Bras. ii. 377 (excl. synon.) ; Berg in Mart. PI. Bras.
c.
^-
p, 480, tab. 82 (excl. syn.) ; id. in Linnsea, xxvii. 499 (excl. syn.) : arbor
procera, trunco maximo, cortice ramulis
quercino, crasso, irregulariter rimoso ;
gracilibus, pallide
brunneis, pruinosis, striolatis, verruculosis ; f obis oblongo- vel
nceolato-ellipticis, imo rotundiuscule et in
obtusis, anice sensim angustioribus
acumen acutum
longiusculum constrictis, crebre et obtusule serrato-denticulatis,
c artaceis,
supra valde viridibus, subnitentibus, nervis tenuissimis stramineis ar-
cuatim nexis,
yenis crebre reticulatis costaque tenui prominulis, subtus vix pallidi-
lis,
^1 opacioribus, costa fusca nervis stramineis venisque prominulis ; petiolo fusco,
«iaahculato,
marginato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 20-30plo breviore : racemis fsec.
^m ) folio brevioribus, 5-lO-flora ; >edicellis
rachi gracili, creberrime
^|iilongis; obsolete
floribus majusculis obtusis, atro-violaceis,
; sepalis ovatis,
v^^*^^'" ol:>ovatis, ina^qualibus, violaceis, demum albidis, extus prumosis;
ovar-''''''
4-loculari, ovulis plurimis pyxidio (sec. Berg,
non C ^'rf^''''' ab axi radiantibus :
âj^sculo, imo hemisphgerico, umbilicato et interdum 6-lobato, medium

versus^"^
''^^^''^'*^ annular! fere circular! cincto
^tta inT'' 6-nodata subprominente ambitu
convexa, diametri plusquam dimidium alta ; zona superiore quam
calycari TT^
'^'^'™ angustlore margine foveolis crebre
1-seriati. f
; fauce decliva, latiuscula,
terebrata subtus columella
; operculo crasso, convexo, vitt* fere altitudine,
; :
aucto, hac primum crassa, faucem implente, subtus cavitatibus 4 infossata, et dein
obconicc dcscendente late 4i-sulcata ; pericarpio crassissimo, fere osseo, extus corru-
gulatoet variolosoj obsolete 4-loculari; seminibus majusculis, oblongis, irregulariter
costatis. In Brasilia, prov. Espiritu Santo et Minas Geraes ad ripas Rio Doce
jpl. sine Jlorc in lib, HooJc. {Burehell, 9650, sine loco) ; fructus ab eadem o
{non vidi).
I have no doubt of the identity of Burchell's flowerless specimen with that of St.-
Ililaire, described by Cambess5des, as it was tbrougb tlie same region tbat Burchell
travelled on his way to the Rio Tocantins ; its characters agree well with Cambessedes*
description, especially in its finely serrulated leaves, differing essentially from Berg's
plant from Eio de Janeiro, the leaves of which are larger and crenately dentate. Berg's
must therefore be rejected, as it appears
diagnosis of L. Pisonis (except that of the fruit)
to mc well adapted to Z. Velloziana^ nob. (i. ollaria. Veil, non Linn.) I have accepted
Berg'a character of the fruit from Xipote, as it comes from the same region as St.-
Ililairo's plant, near the source of the Bio Doce. On the other hand Cambassedes'
account of th(^ fruit cannot be received, as he did not see it, and wrongly assumed it to
be identical with the Jacapucmja of Marcgraaf, from Alagoas.
Tn BurchcU's specimen, the axils of the slender branches are 1-1^ in. apart the leaves :
arc 2J-61 in. long, lJ-2 in. broad, on petioles 1-2 lines long; they have about 18 pairs
of slender nen'cs, with others shorter and intermediate. The raceme, according to Cam-
bessedes, is 3-4 in. long, the pedicels 2-3 lines long, the sepals 2-2^ lines long, tlie
pefnls lines long, the androphorum 7 In Plate LI. I have copied tlie
lines in. diam.
pyxidium from Berg's drawing, with the addition of the operculum; it is altogether
8J in. high the calycary zone is 8 in. across, and 3^ in. above the base the interzonal
; ;
band is 2 in. high the upper zone and operculum 4 in. in diam. the latter, as stated by
; ;
Berg, is 2J in. high ; the breadth of the rim of the mouth 9 lines, its orifice 3 in. wide
tlie columella descends 2 in. lower ; the pericarp, 9 lines thick, weighs 3 or 4 lbs. ; the
seeds are If in. lonsr, W in. broad.
18. Lecythis sph^roides, nob. ; planta ignota ; pyxidio majusculo, subsph^rico, imo
scmigloboso, circa medium zona calycari annulari ambitu circulari paullo promi-
nentecuicto; vitta interzonali subacclivi, diametri tertiam
partem fere alta ; zona
suporiorc Integra, orbiculari, quam calycari paullo minore; circular!,
operculo
pulvinatim convexo, vitta dimidio breviore, subtus
columella primum crassissima
dem su])ito conica et profunde 4.cavernosa aucto subleviter lignoso,
; pericarpio
crassisjîmo, extus in
lacunas longiusculas irregulares profunde corrugulato, circa
zonam cal ycarem laeviusculo ; operculo subruguloso, 4-loculari. In
intus obsolete
Amazonas : t7./r. «. in Mm. Morson. et meo, Cametd {Farriss).
The pyxidium only is known (Plate LIL), which X. P*"
somewhat resembles that of
*ft«w, but has a much
wider upper zone and operculum, with a broader marginal mouth
1 a much tidcker pericarp of a lighter woody brond
tissue. It is 7 in. hic^h, 7i in.
the 811 g htly undulating calycary
zone, \Yhich is in. above the base; the interzonaiy
3i
baud is ^
in. high; the upper zone
is U
In. in diam., with a flattish incUned mouth
;
MR. J. MTERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 213
n. deep, narrowing the inner moutli to a breadth of 4 in. ; the pericarp is IJ in. thick
the interzonal band, li in. thick in the lower moiety.
19. Lectthis biseerata, nob. : Lccythis lanceolata, Berg (non Poir.) in Mart. El. Bras.
I.e. p. 482, tab. 7. fig. 156, tab. 62 (excl. syn.) ; Linn, xxvii. p. 452 : Lecythis
oUaria, Saldanha (non linn, nee Veil.), Configura9ao, p. 70, Desenhos, tab. 8 : arbor
magnifica frondosa, ramis patentibus, ramulis pendentibus, tenuissimis, subflexiiosis,
lenticellatis, glauco-opacis ; foliis lanceolatis, imo subrotundatis, aut subito cuneato-
acntis, apice longiuscule attenuatis, acuraine obtusulo, rigidule chartaceis, insequa-
liter biserrulatis, dentium margine ciliato-pruinoso, supra Isete viridibus, utrinqne
nervis tenuissimis venis crebre reticulatis costaque tenui prominulis, subtus olivaceis,
nervis flavidis ; petiolo tenui, limbo 12plo breviore : panicula terminali, ramis laxis,
racemosis, vel racemis axillaribus, folio longioribus, snb-lO-floris ; rachi tenuissima,

floribus aromaticis ; pedicellis calycem aequantibus, minutissime puberulis ; sepalis
ovatis, obtnsis, extus cano-pruinosis ;

petalis obovatis, crassiusculis, violaceis, imo
pallidis ; androphoro albo ; ovario infero, turbinate, 4-loculari, vertice piano, radiatim
striato ; stylo brevi, crassiusculo ; stigmate subgloboso : pyxidio majusculo, depresse
globoso, imo turbinato, profunde sulcato et umbilicato, longe infra medium zona
prominente aunulari subundulata cincto, ambitu circulari ; vitta interzonali
calycari
parum convexa, zonae calycaris diametri tertiam partem alta ; zona superiore ampla,
paullo angustiore, subquadrato-orbiculari
; operculo lato, pulvinatim depresso, dia-
metri fere septimam partem alto, subtus columella crassa tmncata imo 4-sulcatim
obconica aucto ; pericarpio obsolete 4-loculari, crasso, subspongioso-lignoso, areolis
magnis irregularibus impresso. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro v. pi. :
in herb.
SooJc., Montibus Orgauensibus, ad Mandiocca {Biedel, 4) ; fruct. non vidi.
A magnificent tree, according to Sen. Saldanha, with a trunk more than 2 feet in
diameter, bare to short sections, sub-
the height of 80 feet, when it separates into three
divided into
numerous wide-spreading branches, with copious foliage, the branchlets
neingextremely slender and pendulous are 2-4 in.
the are apart the leaves
; axils | in. ;
^ô' 2-li in. broad, on petioles 2-3 of very fine nerves,

lines long, having about 16 pairs
^•ith many others intermediate a very close and pro-
and shorter, l\\ anastomosing into
jmnent reticulation; long; the rachis of
the branches of the terminal panicle are 1-3 in.
' ^^lary racemes the sepals 2 lines; the
is IJ in. long ; the pedicels are 1 line long;
' 6 lines long, 5 lines broad
the flower expanded 1| ;
in. across. The pyxidium
fp,
U-iate LIL),
with the addition of the operculum, according to Berg's drawing from a
Pecimen in the diameter of the calycary
Berlin herbarium, is nearlv 6* in. high the ;
2'' IS m. high the

m 8 in diam., and 2 in. above the base
zone is 61 in.
margin of the
the interzonary band
across, the operculum being of the same diameter,
is
and
2^
16
in.
lines
;
high
;
mouth is 9-10 lines broad, the orifice 4| in. wide.

^n. Saldanhn'« of tolerable
full description of this species is good, and his drawing
. it
hisfi because it sho;^

°^ ^^^ ^^'ît' reduced to size, must be rejected,
.mnn -.-f i nat.
"^Po sibihty,
as the operculum upper zone, on which it
is twice the diameter of the
ÔI'-XXX. 2 F
;
1*
214 MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE
ought to fit closely ; and the interzonary band is much too short. He is unquestionably
wrong in referring the species to L. ollaria, Linn.

Berg*8 account is more than usually full of errors. He first refers it to Poiret's Guiana
species, to which certainly it does not belong, as I have verified in Commerson*s spe-
cimen ; and secondly he identifies it with Velloz*s L. minor, an extremely difi'erent
plant both in its leaves and fruit, as I have elsewhere demonstrated. There is another
great error in his account of the fruit. This is at variance with his drawing, which is
taken from a specimen collected in Rio de Janeiro by Pohl, and now in the Berlin
Museum. In upper zone is 6| in., whereas in the description it

this the diameter of the
is stated to be only 3^ in., a discrepancy which might be attributed to a typical error if
it had not been accompanied by the word "parvo." I have copied that drawing in my
Plate LIT., with the addition of the operculum, 16 lines in height, as he states it to be
in the specimen.K-ieders specimen of the plant agrees with Saldanha's figure, and bears
on the accompanying ticket in BicdePs writing " Lecythis Pohlii, teste Berg." It is,
however, certainly different from that species, showing how loosely Berg gave his autho-
rity from memory, without eoinparing the plants.
20. Lecytuxs limbata, nob. : pyxidio latissime urceolato, imum versus subconstricto,
profundo 6-sulcato, -lobato et umbilicato; supra medium zona calycari latissime
cxpansa ambitu sinuato-hexagona angulis subacutis subreflexis cincto ; vitta inter-
zonali scnsim acclivi, diametri fere 4tam partem alta; zona superiore circulari,
ampla, fauco crassiuscula et convexe dcclivi; operculo ignoto; pericarpio crasso,
subleviter lignoso, grosse ruguloso, cum areolis impressis medio lenticellis flavidis
granulatis signato, obsolete tt-loculari. In Brasilia : v. fruct. sicctmi in Mns. Brit.
(sine altera indicationc).
r
The pyxidium of very distinct species (Plate LIII.), from the mouth to the base, is
this
6^ in. long ; its diameter beneath the calycary zone is 5| in. ; the latter, suddenly project-
ing like a reflected cornice, is 8J in. in diam.,and 4^ in. above the base ; the interzonary
band is If in. high, 7 in. in diam. at its base, where it rises from the zonal lobes, curving
and narrowing upward to the upper zone, which is 4|^ in. in diam. ; the mouth inclines
inwards, narrowing to an orifice 2| in. broad the pericarp is j ; in. thick below the
calycary zone, and 1^ in. thick at the interzonary band ; the depth of the internal space
below tlie upper zone is 3| in., its internal diam. is 4i in.
21. Lecytuis ventjsta, nob. Lecythis grandijiora, Benth. (non Aubl.) in Hook. Joum.
:
Bot. ii. 324 : ramulis teneris, fuscis, opacis, striolatis, rugulosis, lenticellis flavidis
verruculosis ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, vel oblongis, imo obtusis, vel subacutis,
apice in acumen brevissimum acutum subito constrietis, integris, vel obsoletissime
serrulatis,marginibus subrevolutis, chartaceis, supra profunde viridibus, leviter
opacis, minutissime granulatis, nervis semiimmersis, venis reticulatis, subtus rubi-
dulc brunnescentibus, opacis, costa striata nervis flavidis venisque prominentibus
petiole tereti, canaliculato, subtus corruguloso, limbo 9-1 2plo breviore: paniculis
axillaribus ct terminalibus, brevibus ; floribus plurimis, mediocribus, incarnatis
pedicellis calyci sequilongis, fuscis, corrugulatis ; sepalis 6, ovatis, subacutis, imo

gibbosis, fuscis, minutissime scaLridulis ;
petalis ovalibus; ovario subinfero, imo
paucis e funiculis radiantibus, vertice depresse pulvinato,
toruloso, 4-loculari, ovulis
radiatim costato ; stylo tereti subtenui, sepalis sequilongo : pyxidio longiuscule tur-
umbilicato, corpore obconico, supra
binato, imo angustiore profunde sulcato et
medium zona calycari ambitu liexagona prominente 6-lobata cincto ; lobis longius-
culis compressis, late cornutis, subacutis, inflexis, liuea undulata nexis ; vitta inter-
zonali altiuscula, imo concava, dein convexa et fere erecta, diametri 4tam partem
alta ; zona superiore inferiore minore, circular! ; operculo vittse altitudine, pulvinato,
depresse convexo, obtuse umbonato, solido, subtus truncato et in fossis 4 cavato, co-
ponderose ligneo, pal-

lumella obconica 4-sulcata cum eo continua ; pericarpio crasso,
lide brunneo, lacunis plerumque profundis grauulatis cancellatim areolato ;
operculo
{Schotnb.
simillime signato. In Guiana v. s. in herb. MooL et Mus. Brit.,
:
Berbice
286) ; Guiana (Martin) Surinam {Sostmann, 1302)

;
; v, fruct. in Mus. Soc. Linn.
Guiana (ScJiomb. sub Z. grandijlora) ; in Mus. Kew. et meo, Demerara {JBoughton).
apart the
This is a large tree, called Cacarola ; its brancblets with axils J-1 in. ;
and with about 15

leaves are 3|-9 in. broad, on a petiole 5-7 lines
long, 1-3 J in. long,
pairs of principal nerves, with others shorter and intermediate ; the many-flowered
axillary raceme 2-3 Unes 1-2 Hnes long the sepals
is 3}-5 in. long ; the pedicels apart, ;
as long as the
2 Hnes long, 1 line broad ; the petals 10 Hnes long ; the style curved,
pals; the pyxidium (Plate 55) is long; the calycary zone, 5 in. above the
6 J in.
l)ase, is
^-^ in. in diam. ; interzonary band 1 in. high ; diam. of upper zone 3-33
contracted in its depth of cell 3i-4
mouth to 2 in., with a shelving surface ;
internal diam. 31 in. plant, both bearing the same name

; the fruit is identified with the
annexed to broad, are of a
them by Schomburgk. The oblong in. long, | in.
seeds, If
dark-brown colour, with several furcated costate ridges, pruinosely opaque and they are
;
suspended a Httle similar size. This

below the summit by a fleshy funicle of nearly
species differs from
L. grandijlora, Aublet, to which it was referred by Schombiirgk, m
^
Its narrower with a more slender and

elongated lanceolated leaves, its" shorter racemes,
straighter rachis, approximated flowers, of a pmk colour,
very much smaller and more
upon shorter vertex, in its more turbmate
pedicels, in its ovary with a more depressed
pyxidium with an calycary zone, a narrower
impressed canceUated surface, in a different
upper zone, with
a more contracted and shallower mouth.
striolatls, lenticellis
22. Lecimis coaNATA, nob. •
ramulis rubidule brunneis, opacis,
imo obtusis yei
flavidis verruculosis elongato-oblongis,
; foliis ovato-oblongis, yel
subintegns, chartaceis,
PauUulo acutioribus, apice acute acuminatis, marginibus
s«pra tete aut divaricatis. subtus P^J''i"'"';»f;
paUide viridibus, subnitidis, nervis
^bescentibus, aut fulvioribus, costa nervisque prommulis, valde P^*™"
f«sco, supra Umbo ^f^^^^^^
ll-14plo breviore
canaliculate, subtus transverse corrugulato,
P'^niculis termlnalibus, su cata, nodo^ P^-
ramosis, racbi rufescente-pruinosa ;
'^^^ subnutantibus inourvatis carmatis,

concavis,
; sepalis oblongis, crassiusculis.
imo gibbosis ; petalis oblongis, flavis ; ovario semisupero, imo breviter turbinate
rugulato, vertice alto, conice cupulato, flavide maculato, distincte 4-loculari, ovulis
paucis, funiculatis ; stylo tereti, subbrevi. In Guiana : «?. s, in herb. JSooJc. (Talbot).
The entire plant presents a rufescent hue ; the axils of branches are about IJ in.
its
apart ; the leaves are 5^-9 in. long., 3-3| in. broad, on a petiole 6-7 lines long the ;
rachis of the panicle is ahout 5 in. long, of its branches 2-3 in. long, distance between
alternate flowers 6 lines ; pedicels 3 lines ; sepals 2 lines long, 1 line broad petals 6 lines
;
long. It differs from X. amara, Aubl., in its more acuminated leaves, which are not
veiy reticulated, in its longer inflorescence, its petals not glutinous, and the structure of
the ovury by which the two plants fall into two distinct genera. It differs from X. ve-
mista in its general appearance, in its inflorescence, especially in its semi superior ovary,
doiiioshapcd vertex, which is smooth and covered with minute red spots ; the fruits
of the two species, in consequence, will probably be very different in form.
23. Lecytuis tumepacta, nob. planta ignota: pyxidio urceoloto-turbinato, imo sensim
:
angustiorc, 4-lobatim sulcato, rotundiusculo, et circa pedicellum

crassiore et umbi-
licato, paulio supra medium zona calycari ambitu'
sinuato-hexangulari prominente
cincto ; lobiij cum angulis 6, magnis, convexis, valde tumidis;
vitta interzonali ogivalo-
couvexa, diamctri 4ta parte alta ; zona superiore circular!,
iute£?ra, inferiore dmiidio
angustiore operculo vitta altiorc, crassissimo, yalde pulvinato
;
et convexo, cum
columella infra adnata, hac acute obconica, 4-sulcata,
fere ad basin loculi descen-
dcnte ; pericarpio crasso, spongiose lignoso,
fulvo-brunneo, pulverulenti-pruinoso,
areolis majusculis ferriigineo-granulatis
cancellatim impressis exsculpto, obsolete
l-loculari seminibus in quoque loculo circa 5, oblongis,
; pallide brunneis, irregu-
lariter costatis, subscrobiculatis, funiculo
albo carnoso paulio minore suspensis. In
Guiana Britannica : v. fruct. sic. in Mas. Kew.,
tria exempla sine operculo, et in
meo cum operculo ; Demerara [Boughton).
Tiie fruit of this species (Plate LV. fig. 4) approaches that of the following (crassi-
noda) but differs in being smaller, in
its calycary zone placed above the middle, not
i>liarply angular m
its periphery, in being tumidly
swollen, with its lobes very rounded
and thick, in a less elevated interzonal
band, a smaUer upper zone; the operculum is
pulvmatc, quite convex, and the columella
lon-er: the seeds are smoother, less
b anulated
It IS 6 m.
long, the calycary zone 3 in.
above the base, with an undulating sharpish
J
ease orbicular m
form, hoUowish beneath, 5| in. in diam., the tumesecent lobes being |
m thick; the mtcrzonal band is
high; the upper zone 3 in. in diameter, with an
i in.
mcbncd aperture in the mouth, 2 in.
across ; the operculum IJ in. high, in. broad
pulvinate base, the attached columella
3i
3 in. deep ; the perica^ is | in. thick, the
inner space
H iu. deep, and 5i in. in diam.; the seeds are
If in. long, | in. broad
o
Lecttius CKASSINODA, nob. ramulis tenuibus, teretibus, brunneo-opacis, angulatc
:
striatis; fohis oblongis,

vel elongato-oblongis, imo subobtusis sub-
et in petlolum
;
acutatis, apice in acumen breve acutissimum subito constrictis, tenuiter char-

taceis, subintegris, aut levissime crenato-serratis, margine paullo revoluto, supra
lEete viridibus, subopacis, nervis tenuissimis subimmersis, costa tenui prominula,
subtus pallide viridibus, opacis, costa nervisque prominentibus, venis reticulatis vix
conspicuis ;
petiolo tenui, canaliculato, marginibus incurvis, subtus ruguloso-striato,
limbo 9plo breviore : inflorescentia ignota : pyxidio majusculo, urceolato-vasiformi,

imo angustiore umbilicato, infra medium turbinate et profunde 6-sulcato, supra
medium zona calycari prominente ambit u acute bexagona ad angulos grosse 6-lobata
cincto, lobis valde tumidis ; vitta interzonali ogivaliter inflexa, grosse rugosa, dia-
metri tertiam partem alta ; zona superiore circulari, integra ; operculo alte pulvinato
ogivali, truncatim convexo, centre obsolete umbilicato, diametri tertiam partem alto,
obsolete granulato, subtus columella descendente aucto, bac primum faucem im-
plente, dein acute conica et 4i-sulcata; pericarpio crassissimo, subligneo, pallide
brunneo, opaco, grosse foveolato, foveolis impressis granulatis, 4-loculari ; seminibus
in quoque loculo circ. 12, oblongis, sub-6-costatis, undique creberrime granulosis,
ferrugineo-brunneis. In Guiana : v. s. in herb. SooJc.j Eio Massaruni, Essequibo

{Appun, 4, sub i. grandifiora) ; v.fruct. in Mus. £rit.j Guiana [Appun).
The fruits were sold among tbe late Mr. Appun's effects, and may be taken to belong
to the plant above quoted, wbich has no inflorescence. It belongs to a tree bearing the
vernacular name of Wadaduri ; its leaves are 3-4 in. long, 1-1 j in. broad, on a petiole
4^5 lines long, and have about 12 pairs of nerves, arcuately conjoined near the margin.
The pyxidium (Plate LIY.) is mucb and sulcated near the base,
8| in. lon^, constricted
suhcylindrical and 6-sulcate belovp- the calycary zone, which is 4^ in. above the base, and
projects 1 in. all round, being there sbarply bexangular, acute at the thickly tumified
gles,the lobes, J in. tbick, being connected
1 by a sharp linear ridge ; the interzonal
band ascends from the the superior zone is Sj in.
lobes in ogival form, and is 2 in. high ;
having within it a nearly horizontal mouth, contracted at its sharp edge to

diameter of IJ in, ; the
operculum, pulvinate at its base, is 3| in. broad, and Ij in high
with a thick flattened
convex summit.
25. Lectthis Coxiana, nob. griseo-pruinosis, strio-

: ramulis subtenuibus, pendentibus,
latis, lenticeUatis ; foliis ellipticis, imo subito acutis, apice in acumen acutum con-
strictis, tenuiter chartaceis, marginibus breviter obtuseque serrulatis, et versus
petiolum revolutis, supra venisque creberrime
saturate viridibus, nervis tenuibus
reticulatis semiimmersis, pallidioribus, costa ner-
costa prominula, subtus paullo
visque flavidis
prominulis ; petiolo tenui, supra sulcato, subtus corrugulato, limbo
12plo breviore : imo subito constricto,
inflorescentia ignota pyxidio turbinate, :
obsolete 6-sulcato,
zona calycari valde explanata ambitu ansis 6 crassis tumes-
centibus margine acutis cincto vitta interzonali
cum sinibus totidem alternantibus ;
PauUo elevata, acclivi

; zona superiore orbiculari; fauce convexe decliva; ore ore mm
pericarpio levi foveatim vario, lato.
pondere, extus ru-ose corru-ato et tuberculato,
O^^^ ^^^^Ô
;
2ig MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.
seminibus oblongis, costis subparaUelis crenul^tim rugosis,

obsolete 4-loculari;
camosis majusculis suspensis. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro, ad fluv.
funiculis
Macacii, v. pi. s. etfruct. a cl. C. Cox donati.
margin the Rio Macacii, which flows from the eastern

A tree growing along the of
Organ Mountain -range into the N.E. extremity of the great bay of Rio
extension of the
on branches are about 1 in. apart the leaves have a very lurid
do Janeiro ; the axils its ;
are in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, on petioles 3-4i lines Ion
appearance on both sides, 3-4i
having about 15 pairs of very fine nerves, with others shorter and intermediate.
(Plate LVl. figs. 3, 4, 5) is in. long, 6^ in. broad at the calycary zone,
The°pyxidium 4J
prominent, and about 3 in. above the narrow constricted base the inter-
which is very ;
zonal band, much inclined, is in. high the upper zone and; operculum are 4i in. in
f
the in. high, with a low umbonate knob in the centre, and is furnished
dium. latter
; is j
the mouth, then suddenly contracted
beneath with a columella f in. thick, where it fills
and l-"T0oved to a further depth of 1 inch ; the seeds are apparently only 1-seried, IJ in.
suspended by funicles in. long. The pericarp is 1 in. thick at

I in. broad, fleshy |
the sides, If in. at the base, its inner space being 2 in. deep below the orifice, and 3
wide. Specimens of the fruit and suspended seeds were sent to me preserved in spirits
20. LECYTnis TUBERCULATA, nob. Lecytlm minor, Veil,

: (non Jacq.), PI. Flum. p. 222,
Icon. V. tab. 85 : arbor mediocrls ; ramulis tenuissimis teretibus, pallide brunneis,
pruuiosis, spar 56 lenticcllatis, apice foliiferis, imo nudis, cum racemulis
floriferis ex axillis nudis : foliis oblongis, vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo in petiolum

attenuatis, dis-
brevitcr acutatis, apice in acumen angaste obtusulum subrepente
tinctc serratis, dcntibus oLtusis, subchartaccis, supra laete viridibus, subnitentibus,
prominentibus, subtus paUidi-
nervis tiMiuIbus venis reticulatis costaque carinata
petiolo
oribus, nervis venisquc albidis prominentibus, costa prominente, pruinosa ;
brevissimis, pauci-
tenui, supra piano, limbo 24plo breviore : racemis axillaribus,
foliis delapsis longius spicatifloris ; rachi opace pruino§a, circ. 6-8-flora

fluris, aut
floribus nicdiocribus; pedicellis brevibus, recurvulis, sulcatis, pruinosis; sepahs
margine petalis ovatis ovari infero

ovalibus, extus granulato-pruinosis, ciliolatis ; ;
tnrbinato, 4-loculari, oviQis pluribus axi radiatim afilxis, vertice piano radiatim
striato ; stylo brevi, apice crassiore ; stigmate parvo, albido pyxidio turbinato, uno :
valde
rotundato, sulcato et umbilicato, supra medium zona calycari annular!
donatis; vitta
prominente cincto, hue ambitu hexagona, angulis tuberculis 2 magnis
intcrzonali convcxe accKvi, diametri 4tam partem alta ; zona superiore suborbiculari
adnato, nac
quam inferiore angustiore ; opcrculo convexo, solido, cum columella
infra medium obconice 1-sulcata aucto ;. pericarpio fusco, ecorticato, crasso, li
obsolete l-loculiui, extus operculoque grossiuscule et profunde tuberculato ;

semmi-
bus oblongis, utrinque obtusis, irregulariter costato-sulcatis, fuscis, funiculo magno
Rio de Janeiro, ad
canioso albo suspensis. In Brasilia: v. v. pi. etfruct. in prov.
Frelxal.
*
.\ small tree, of no great height, abundantly branched, found at the head of the Bay
f
of Rio de Janeiro agrees well with the characters of that found hy Velloz
; it
at Ilha
Governador in the same bay. The axils of its hranchlets are f-l in. apart ; the leayes
are 2-4 in. long, l^lf
broad, on a petiole 2 lines long, with about 12-15 pairs
in.
of
slender nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all anastomosing; the axillary
raceme long, its floriferous nodes 2 lines apart, the pedicels 2 lines long
is 1J in.
; the
sepals IJ line long ; petals 4 lines long, 5 lines broad, concave, yellow ;
androphorum
globosely inflected, 6 lines in diameter ; the pyxidium (Plate LVI. fig. 1) is 5 J in. long,
4 in. which is 6 in. in diam., and 4 in. above the base ; the
broad below the calycary zone,
interzonary band f in. broad; operculum 3 in. in diam. and
J in. high, increased beneath
Ij the columella, which fills the mouth, where it is 1 in. thick, and
then descends
obconicaUy to the middle of the cell the pericarp
; is | in. thick, its inner space 4 in-
deep below the opercular zone,and 4 in. in diam. the seeds are IJ in. long,
f ; in. broad,
suspended from a large lateral hilum a little below the summit
by a fleshy funicle of
nearly equal size the nucleus amygdaloid,
; is edible, and of a pleasant flavour.
27. Le JTTHis GEANDiFLORA, Aubl. ii. 712, tab. 283, 284, 285, in parte (non excl. syn.
Benth.) ;
DC. Prodr. iii. 291 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 454 : arborea ; ramuHs fuscis,
stnolatis, lenticellis sparse verruculosis ; foliis majusculis, ovato-oblongis, imo
rotundiusculis, et in
petiolum brevissime constrictis, apice obtusis, in acumen bre-
vissimum acutum repente attennatis, crenulatis,
margine revoluto punctate, char-
taceis,supra viridibus, subopacis, nervis adscendentibus venisque reticulatis paulo
prommulis,^ costa imo crassiore sulcata,
subtus fere concoloribus, valde opacis, costa
vahda nervis flavidis venisque
prominentibus ; petiolo validissimo, fusco, marginibus
tenuibus involutis, limbo
8plo breviore : racemo terminali, foHo breviore ; rachi
vahdissima, angulato-sulcata,
valde geniculata, longe nodosa, crebre lenticellata, sub-
remotiflora pedicellis validis, angulato-corrugulosis,
; imo bractea majuscula decidua
ongo-ovata crassa subsessili
recurvata donatis; sepalis orbicularibus, concavis,
submembranaceis, lenticellatis,
pruinosis ; petaUs maximis, oblongis, subinsequaHbus,
concavis, roseis
; ovario semiinfero, 4-loculari, ovulis numerosis affixis, vertice alte
pulvinato, conice convexo,
radiatim striato; stylo tereti, longiusculo: pyxidio
âjusculo, turbinato-oblongo,
supra medium zona calycari annulari prominente
solete 6-loba
ambitu subhexagona cincto ; vitta interzonali introrsum sigmoideo-
onvexa, diametri
4tam partem alta zona superiore Integra, inferiore dimidio angus- ;
eoperculo
, vittse altitudin e, pul vinatim
convexo, apice umbonato, solido, cum
umella crassa
^0 primum obconica dein acuta et profunde 4-sulcata continuo ; peri-
^^^^?' °^^^êtissime 4-loculari ; seminibus plurimis, magnis, oblongis, sub-
coTr
^\ magno carnoso suspensis ; nucleo In Guiana
eduli. : v. pi 8. spec
(yl ^^f^^^}^
î erb. Mm. Brit., Cayenne (Aublet) ; Guiana (Martin) frucf. non: vidi
^^^^ ^ *^^^ ^^ ^®^* ^°^° *^® ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ hranchlets «x. ^-^^ Urn
^.
^Part; theT' '
^^^^^ ^^^ ^' ^^ ""• ^^''^' ^""^ ^^^
about'
U D ^"^f ^*-^ ^^- ^^^^d' o^
^^""^^
* P^*'^^^
ôârds the ^^ ^"'^^^^t^d nerves and others shorter intermediate, all anastomosed
e margin the rachis of the with projectmg nodules
;
raceme is 3i-6 in. long,
;
2 lines long and 1-9 lines apart ; each nodule bears an articulated pedicel 4 lines long ; the
reflected bract is 6 lines long, 3 lines broad ; the flower expanded

4^ in. in diam. the is ;
sepals 5 lines in diam. the

; petals li-2 in. long, IJ in. broad the androphorum f in. ;
broad, curving into a semiglobose summit, and 3 in. long fertile stamens over disk
; upon
truncated processes Ij line long, sterile processes on hood 4-6 lines long the pyxidium ;
(Plate LVII. fig. 1) is 6^ in. long, calycary zone 5 in. in diam., its height from base 4 in.
interzonary band 1 in. high; upper zone and operculimi 3 in. in diam., If in. high;
mouth of upper zone contracted to If in. depth of columella 3J in. pericarp f in.
; ;
thick the admeasurements from Aublct's reduced figures are here restored to their
:
proper Bizc seeds If in. long, 1 in. broad. The fruit is called in Cayenne Canari-
;
macnque, or Monkey-pot.
28. Lkcytiiis vartolata, nob. : foliis ovatis, imo subrotundatis et subito in petiolum
longiusculc productis, apicc scnsim obtusis, marginibus dentibus parvis sursum
mucronatis scrrulatis, subcoriaccis, supra lajte viridibus, nervis subpaucis diver-
gcntibus vcniscjûe crobre reticulatis prominulis, costa subtus prominente ;
petiolo
lato, subtenui, cannliculato, alto marginato, limbo 5plo breviore : floribus in axillis
suporioribus solitariis, flavis ; pcdicellis validiusculis, subnutantibus, calyce 3plo
longioribus, imo bractcola rotunda minima munitis ; scpalis 6, rarius 7, obtusis,
itiK) ludoribus, oxpansis, extus convcxis; petalis 6-7, duplo longioribus, rotun-
datis, concavis, roflexis, membranaccis ; ovario turbinato, ssepius 4- rarius 5-locu-
hiri, vortioe subconcavo, radiatim striate, margine elevato et crenulato ; disco la-
tiusculo; stylo bnnissimo, uniboiiiformi; stigmate minute 4-lobo : pyxidio sub-
bph;i rice turbinato, paullo supra medium zona calycari annulatim subprominula
undulnta ambitu obsolete hexangulari cincto ; vitta interzonali subconvexa, diametri
tlaiu p;irtem alta ; zona superiorc circulari, Integra, quam calycari | minore ; oper-
culo ootifbrnii, maigiae sul)ucuto, subdeprcsse convexo, diametri 4tam partem alto,
obsolrto umbonato, cum columella primum truncata et faucem implente, 4-caver-
nosa et dcla subito obconica et 4-sulcata; pericarpio obsolete 4-loculari, sub-
crasso, leviter lignoso, pallido brunneo, opaco, grosse corrugato, arcolis granulosis
mnjusculls invgularibus imprcsso-variolato, vitta grosse torulosa; operculo foveis
minoribus variolato ; seminibus plurlmis, oblongis, costatis, funiculis carnosis fere
irquiniaguis 8u.spensis. In Brasilia, Rio Janeiro, in Monte Corcovado et vicinis,
in sylvis primrcvis : v. pi. s. elfrucL Tejuca (Bennett), Eio Macacu (Car).
Spociiriens of the flowers preserved in spirits,
and of the seeds and funicles in the same
nmnner, as well as the dvkd fruits, were sent to me by Mr.
Bennett. I have obtained
srvci-al other spoeimens of the fruit
from other localities within the province. The leaves
are lf-21 in. long, lf-2 in. wide, on a
broad channelled petiole 3-4 lines long, and have
7 pairs of divergent nerves areuatcly conjoined: the solitary pedicel is very thick,
•aduaUy incra^âted, 4 line? long; the calyx expanded
8 lines across, the sepals 3 lines
loui;, 2^ lines broad at biu,e
; the petals G lines long, 5 lines broad ; the androphorum
lar-e, the head isl2 lines
long and linos broad, its imbricated subulated appendages
1-5 lines long, mostly antheriXcrous.
The mfloresccnce is described from specimens
;;; ; ; ;

221
preserved in spirit the fruit in sections, with the seeds suspended

;
from their larê
funicles, was sent preserved in the same manner. The pyxidium, of a pale fawn-colour
(Plate LVII. fig. 4), is 5^-6 in. long ; the calycary zone, 3 in. ahove
the hase, is 6-Q^ in
diam.; the interzonary band is IJ in. high; the upper zone in. 3| broad its
mouth 3 in. in diam. and f in. below the zone ; the operculum in. broad, f in. hio^h
3f
the columella, filling the mouth, flatly truncated beneath, is suddenly
contracted into a
narrowish sulcated cone, descending halfway into the main cell the pericarp is in.
| thick ;
the sides, and 1 in. at the base ; the seeds are l^-lj in. long,
f-1 in. broad, suspended
yellowish fleshy funicle 1-1^ in. lono^, f in. broad
29. Lectthis minoe, Jacq. (non YeU.) Amer. i.

p. 168, tab. 109 ; edit. 8vo, p. 210
DC, Prodr. iii. 294; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 452: ramulis
tenuibus, brunneis, sub- .
flexuosis, angulato-striatis, glabris ; foliis longe ellipticis, imo obtusis, et in petiolum

hreviter acutatis, apice longiuscule et
acute attenuatis, crebre serrulatis, submcm-
hranaceis, Isete viridibus, utrinque
concoloribus, nervis tenuibus supra subimmersis,
subtus costaque paullo prominulis
; petiolo fusco, canaliculate, tenuiter marginato,
hmbo 16plo breviore : racemis axiUaribus et terminalibus, foHo brevioribus ; rachi
crassiuscula, crebriflora
; floribus majusculis, odoratis, albis ; pedicellis brevissimis,
crassis sepalis
subparvis, rotundato-ovatis, patentibus; petaHs anguste oblongis,
planis, subingequalibus
; ovario subinfero, 4-loculari, ovulis plurimis, radiantibus,
yertice depresse
convexo ; stylo bre\d, conico, crasso : pyxidio subgloboso, minore,
lino hemisphserico, paullo supra medium zona calycari angulato-annulari sub-6-lobata
prommente cincto, lobis tumidis ; vitta interzonaU latiuscula, subconvexa, diametri
1
am partem alta ; zona superiore Integra, quam calycari minore ; operculo pulvi-
^
natim convexo, solido,

subtus late truncate, cum columella hreviter cuneata 4-sulcata
a nato;
pencarpio crassiusculo, sublignoso, extus scrobiculatim rugoso, disse-
pimentis 4 fere
evanidis ; seminibus 6-8, oblongis, angulato-costatis, amaris. In
ova Granada
ad Cartagena {Jacquin) v. pi. s. in kb. Hook. (hort. cult, sine flore)
^ :
^'jr. 8. m Mus. Kew., Cartagena

{Archer) in Mus. meo, Costa Bica.
;
^.^^^ ^^
axils 1 1
^^^' ^^^^ ^^SK growing in woods ; its branchlets are slender, with
- in. apart
^ ^'ith
2
about 1 ^
the leaves are 6 in. long,
;
•
^' 2-2f in. broad,'
on a petiole li-2 lines long.
^ ^^
^' ^
•
^^^^^ ^^ nerves and reticulated veins. Jacquin states that the raceme
is 2-*^ .
^^^^ ^ ^^^^* straight rachis the

flowers a ^^f'
Kew specimen has no inflorescence the
: :
*^® ^^^^!^® long, broad

*ê ^ns^r^^^^^ ' ^^P^^^ ^^^ ^ li^^s ^^ô ;
*ê petals 1 in. i in.
*^^ ^-^^^^^ °^ *^® androphorum and the basal ring are staminiferous
the semiol
lb
^^ densely filled inside appendages, perhaps sterile,
^f îth
thp ^^^J^^^^ with echinated
^^^ ^^^^"^ ''^'XLIII. in. high, in. in
^^meter ôvoT VJ^^î^m (Plate fig. 3) is 3 3
Prominent calycary zone, which is annular, with 6 obtuse knobs its
•diameter is 2^^ ;
!^®^°^ *^® calycary zone, which above the base the interzonary
âd is 8 lin î is 1^ in. ;
^ operculum^ f
^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^® ^^^ *^® opercular opening are 2 in. in diam.
*^^
'
J
^ck • !^\ ^^^^ t>readth, is flatly convex, 8 lines high the pericarp is 3 lines ;
thp
^^^ 1 i^- long,
VOL.
xS;''^^ i in. broad.
2 G
; ;:
The fruits are said to be collected in large quantities on the 'Rio Magdalena, and
exported from Cartagena for the purposes of tanning.
30. Lectthis elliptica, H. B. K. vii. 259; DC. Prodr. iii. 329; Berg, Linn, xxvii. 449;
Gustavia dubia, Berg, I. c. 446 : ramulis pallide brunneis, opacis, ochraceo-pruinosis,
tenuissime striolatis; foliis oblongis, imo rotundiusculis, et in petiolum breviter
acutatis, aut ibi saepe obsolete cordatis, apice latiuscnle obtusis, et interdum subito
breviter apiculatis, marginibus \ ix revolutis, crenato-subserrulatis, chartaceis, supra
pallide viridibus, opacis, sub lente minute granulatis, neryis tenuibus patenter diver-
gontibus semiimmcrsis, reticulatim venosis, costa tenui pruinosa, plana, imo dilatata
et canaliculata, subtus pallide opacis, costa striolata pruinosa nervis venisque paullo
prominulis, petiolo supra piano, dilatato, late marginato, subtus pruinoso, limbo
16-18plo breviore panicula terminali, folio breviore, ramis paucis, brevibus, paten-
:
tibus ; rachi angulosa, opaca, nodis alternis et subapproximatis florigeris pedicellis

;
validis, brcvissirais; sepalis subovatis, crassiusculis, expansis, extus carinatis et

pallide pruinosis, marginibus membranaceis pectinato-denticulatis ; petalis obovato-
oblongis, obtiisis, crassiusculis ; ovario scmiinfero, subsulcato, 4-loculari, vertice
vix elcvato subpulvinato radiatim striate ; stylo sepalis breviore, subtereti, obtuso
pyxidio subparvo, cupulari, sub medium angustiore rotundato,
6-sulcato, medium
versus zona ealycari prominente annular! ambitu 6-lobata
cincto, lobis tumidis
vitta interzonali convexa et sensim acclivi,
apice introrsum convexa, diametri
dimidio altitudine; zona superior! latissime
circular!, ore suberecto; operculo
ignoto : pcricarpio pallide brunneo, imo crassissimo,
lateribus tenuioribus, coriaceo-
lignoso, minute granuloso et impresse varioloso, obsolete 4-loculari; seminibus
oblongis, rufo-brunneis, leviter costatis.
In JSToya Granada, ad Morales, prope Eio
Magdalena :
v. ^l. s. in hb. Hook., prope Santa Marta {Vurdie, 51) ; prope Car-
tagena [Iîirdie, 624) in hb. Banbury
; {JPurdie) ; v. fr. s. in Mus, Kew., Bio Mag-
dalena (Turdie).
This plant agrees well with Kuntk's

description of Bonpland's specimen from the same
locality, and IS said to be a
wide-spreading shrub, 4-6 feet high, but sometimes a large
tree 40 feet high, common in the
swamps of the Masdalena. The leaves are 6i-6| ^m
3i in. broad, on a petiole 4-5 lines long, and having about 16 pairs of
'"'*'""''"
ri!i.!^^.'''o if
™^^^^ .«^«^t^r^ archingly connected near the margins. The
all
8-12 "in. Ion
' S^ with prominent nodes 3 Unes apart, thick pedicels 2 Hues long
sepals 2i Imes long,
If line broad; petals 16 lines long, 7 lines broad; the pyxidium
(1 lat^ J.L fig. 2) at its basal portion is
3 in. in diam., IJ in. high, above which the
calycary zone suddenly expands
to a diam. of 4 in. ; the interzonaiy
m. m diam. upper zone
band is in. high, H
^. ; 2i in. in diam. ; the pericarp, f in, thick below, 4 lines thiek
on the sides, is 2 m. deep,
and 2* in. in diam. inside.
Dr. Berg (in Linn, xxvii
pp. 446 & 449) doubted the propriety of retaining tbis
species but the exceUent
; specimens of Purdie prove the correctness of Kunth's diagnosis.
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTIIIDACEiE. 223
31. Lectthis dubia, H. B. K. (non Berg), n. gen. yii. 259; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 460 et
446 foliis oblongis,

:
imo angustc cuncatis, apice acu minatis, basin versus integris,
medio obsolete et obtuse dentatis, subcoriaceis, glabris, supra nervosis et reticulatis,
subtus costa nervisque promineutibus ;

petiolo semitereti, glabro, limbo 12plo
inflorescentia ignota pedunculo fructif ero longiusculo, glabro : pyxidio

breviore : ;
subparvo, subpoculif ormi, imo rotundato et profunde 6-sulcato, paullo supra basin
zona calycari prominente annulate ambitu 6-gono cincto, cum lobis 6, tumidis, sub-
reflexis ; vitta interzonali cylindrica, leyi, diametrum fere alta ; zona superiore oper-
culoque orbicularibus et integris ; operculo depresse pulvinato, diametri sextam partem
alto, subtus columella aucto, bac primum faucem implente, dein repente conica et
profunde 4-sulcata; pericarpio 4-loculari, pallide brunneo, imo crasso, latere
tenuiore, leviter lignoso, extus lacunis plurimis rubellis variolato ;

seminibus 8,
oblongis, rufo-brunneis, leviter costatis. In Nova Granada ad Eio Magdalena, ubi
legit plantam Bonpland {j)l. non vidi) fructus mdi in Mus. Kew.,:
Rio Magdalena
{Pur die).
r
The incomplete specimen brougbt home by Bonpland is said by Kuntb to consist only
the leaf is 10-11 in. long,

of a single leaf and an immature fruit in a decayed state ;
rather part of the racbis of

3i in. broad, on a petiole 9 J lines long ; the peduncle (or
raceme ?) is 1^ in. long. In the Kew Museum, accompanying the pyxidium of X. ellijp-
another fruit, evidently belonging to a distinct species. The characters of that
plant and those of the above show they are nearly though very different species
allied,
The fruit of L. elliptica is well identified by Purdie's specimen ; and I think we may safely
refer the other fruit (Plate under consideration; and I have
LI. fig. 3) to the species
long, the basal
therefore added the particulars of it to Kunth's diagnosis. It is 2f in.
portion I in. high ; the calycary in. in diam. the
zone, immediately above this, is 3^ ;
-"
interzonary band is nearly erect, and l^ in. high; the upper zone and operculum
descending below
2i in. in diam., the latter \ in. high, its columella fills the mouth,
its base, in. thick at the
conical form, deeply channelled ; the pericarp is f in. thick at |
sides; the seeds are IJ in. long, i in. broad.
in the -r
Berlin r Her-
li
This species was confounded by Dr. Berg with another specimen
barium, as related by me under Gustavia dubia (ante, p. 179).
imo exacte globoso,

32. Lecythis pilaeis, nob. planta ignota pyxidio
:
subparvo, :
acutiuscula obsolete b-lo Da

pauUo supra medium zona lineari vix prominente sursum
paullo convexa, diametn 4tam
ambitu fere circulari cincto ; vitta interzonali acclivi,
calycari a^&'^s*^^^
oper
partem alta ; zona superiore Integra circulari, quam
brunneo, opaco, reti
ignoto; pericarpio crassissimo, dense lignoso, cortice crasso
/t,- ^
in Mm. Fry. (Kio de
culatim rimoso, obsolete In Brasilia v, s. fr, :
^-loculari.
Janeiro).
I^_ shape
this fruit (PI. much resemUes that of L.
XLII. fig. 3) ^ff'^-}t:T:!f.
i its size. 2 in. high, and 2f b;"*"^!;;
*^
Without the operculum, the pyxidium is .
f interzonary band
^'Wy .one. which is
U
in. above the base, and 2i in. in diam. ;
the
Z Gr ^
. ;
224. MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E.
is I in. high ; the upper zone is If- in, in diam., its inner mouth contracted to 1 in. ; the
lip ^ in. broad ; the internal depth below the upper zone is If in., its internal diam.
1| in.
33. Lecythis cupularis, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio subparvo, imo hemisphêrico,
medio extrorsum subcurvato, supra medium zona calycari valde prominente annular!
sub-G-loba cincto, lobis tumidis, margine
supra planis, subtus convexis; acutis,
vitta intcrzonali brcvi, erectiuscula, subconvexa, diametri quintam partem alta zona :
supcrioro integra, circulari operculo ignoto ; pericarpio baud crasso, spongioso-

;
lignoso, cortice areolatim rimoso, ochraceo-brunneo, granulatim scrobiculato, obsolete

4i-loeulari, oriflcio vertical!. In Brasilia Amazonica : v. a. in Mm. Kew., vernac.
((
Monkey's Stewpan" (sine altera indicatione)
The above pyxidium (Plate XLIX. fig. 2) somewhat resembles that of Z. levicula, but
it is more globose, with a narrower erect interzonary band, a more
acute calycary zone,
nnd an erect mouth it is 2 in. long from the base to the upper zone ; calycary
;
zone
li in, above base and 8 in. in diam, interzonary band scarcely \ in. high ; upper zone
;
2 in. in diam., with an erect inner mouth

pericarp \ in. thick, depth of cell If
;
side diam. 2 in., showing the traces of 4 dissepiments ; externally it is not tuberculate,
but subsmooth or finely granular, with a thin bark cracking into angular
areoles.
U. Lecytiiis L^vicuLA,nob. planta ignota; pyxidio parvo, subgloboso, imo hemi-

:
spluurlco, medio extrorsum curvato, supra medium zona

calycari annular! prominente
obsolete G-loba ambitu subhexagona cincto, lobis subtumidis;
vitta interzonal! convexe
accUvi, diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore
circulari Integra subminore
operculo ignoto ; pericarpio subcrasso, coriaceo-lignoso,
lêvi, pallide aut brunneo
cmerco, indistincte tuberculato et minutissime
granulato, obsolete 4i-loculari. In
Guifina Brit. v. 8. in Mm. Kew., Demerara
:
{FarJcer),
The pyxidium is small (Plate XLIX. fig. 3), only 2} in. long from the base to the
ppor zone, which broad ; the calycary zone, 1| in. above the base, is
is 2 in.
2i in
diam ; the interzonary band \ in. high ; the very
Hght pericarp is 3-4 lines thick ; the
depth of inner cavity below the upper zone
is 2 iin., its internal diam. 2 in., the con-
tracted mouth boinj? U in. broad.
35. Lecytuis PLATYZONE, Berg in Mart. H. Br.

I. c. p. 485 : planta ignota: pyxidio sub-
globoso, imo turbinato et anguste
truucato; supra medium zona calycari obsolete
lobata et^ undulatim lineata margine acuto sursum
spectante cincto ; vitta inter-
zonali apico obtuse acclivi,
diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore circulari,
lutegra, ore eontracto operculo ; ignoto ; pericarpio crassiusculo, suberoso-Hgnoso,
extus exasperato, intus obsolete
4.1ocularL In prov. Rio de Janeiro mn vidi.
:
of Z. pila.^ m
""^ ^^' 'P^^'' (^^''*" ^^^' fi^- 2) differs from that its
îr^^'''^
Wl i .
^^ '"""'
? ^^
*^'^^"*" ^^^"^' ^^^ i^
^^^^^S a narrower interzonary
'^'''' coriaceous substance,
Tr.iT 'V f and its scrobiculately rugose (exas-
peratc) surface. It .s 3 in. long fi-om the base to th. upper
.one, 3* in broad L the
;

t
middle ; the calycary zone is 2 J in. above the base the interzonary band is in. high
;
J
the upper zone is 2 in. in diameter, contracted at the mouth in a channelled acute lip. A
species near L. pilaris; but why it is called platy zone it is difficult to see.
36. Lecythis longipolia, H. B. K. vii. 260 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 291 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii.
452 : racemis teretiusculis, tenuissime canescenti-hirtellis ; foliis sparsis, lanceolatis,
imo acutis, apice acuminatis, conduplicatis, marginibus obsolete et remote dentatis,

suhcoriaceis, glabris, nervis parallele divergentibus, yenis reticulatis, subtus costa
nervisque prominentibus ; petiolo subtereti, limbo 16-20plo breviore : inflorescentia

ignota; floribus pedicellatis, pedicello glabro. In Venezuela, prov. Oaraccas, in
Aragua, ad ripam fluv. Orinoci, legit Htmiholdt : non vidi.
A tree by Humboldt and Bonpland, who collected an incomplete specimen,

seen
without inflorescence, with a single mutilated flower. It is called by the natives Coco de
Mono (Monkey-pot), and is therefore most probably a true LecytUs; but Berg, without
any assigned reason, doubts this, and, with some hesitation, refers it to Gustavia. The
leaves are 8-10 in. long, 22-26 lines broad, on a petiole | in. long ; the pedicel is nearly
an inch long. The species seems near i. Zabucayo, Aubl.
T m
37. Lecythis integeifolia, R. & P., Syst. El. Per. 8vo vol. ined. p. 529 : ramulis
teneris, teretibus, brunneis, opacis, lenticellatis foliis elongato-oblongis,
striatis, ;
imo rotundatis vel obtusis, apice in acumen acutum subbreve subito constrictis,
marginibus tenuibus integris, vel obsolete crenatis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra planis,
Isete viridibus, divergentibus et
opacis, nervis paucis tenuissimis semiimmersis,
longe adscendentibus, valde brunnescentibus, opacis, costa tenui
reticulatis, subtus
nervis venisque flavidis marginibus valde involutis,
prominentibus; petiolo tenui,
limbo 15-18plo breviore. Eooh, Guayaquil (Tavon),
In Ecuador : v. s. in herb,
e^ hb. Zimens.
a Mathewsio acquisitam (sine flore).
Mathews quotes this species of the Syst. of Kuiz and Pavon,
as described in p. 529
in one of the does
unfinished volumes, which I have not seen, as the last published
not extend
beyond p. 455. He sent a specimen of the plant, without flowers, to Sir Wm.
fiooker, obtained
from the Pavonian herbarium in Lima, from which the above diaôsis
D
obtained. The the leaves are 5-8 in
axils of its slender branchlets are |-1 in. apart ;
^^^ ^Hin. broad, on
a petiole 4-5 lines long, and they have about 6 pairs of nerves,
J^îth other shorter
and intermediate ones, aU anastomosed. We do not, therefore, know
or certain an
appearance of
that this plant is a true Lecythis ; it bears more the
:B.sd
8. Lecythis 615 ramuHs angulato-

Langsdorffii, Berg in Mart. El. Bras. I. c. p. :
^^catis, rimosis
; foliis oblongis, vel eUiptico-oblongis, imo
complicatis et m petio-
^reviter attenuatis, abrupte constrictis, sub-

7^ apice in acumen breve recurvum
^^tegris, vel
ad marginem obsolete serrulatis, chartaceis,
subrevolutum punctis
s^Pi-a luride viridibus, sulcatis, venis crebre reti-
valde opacis, ad nervos impressos
^^tis immersis, opacis, subpulverulentis, costa
subtus spadiceo-brunneis, valde
;;
prominente, nervis venisque prominulis, petiolo sulcato crenulatim marginato,

limbo 14plo breviore : racemis terminalibus, foUo dimidio brevioribus ; rachi angu-
lata, Temicosa ;
pedicellis brevibus, recurvis, angulatis, rugulosis, pilosulis ; sepalis
oblongis, subacutis, insequalibus, margine membranaceis, apice ciliolatis, maculatis,
parallele striatis, breviter sparse ct adpresse pilosulis ;

petalis obovatis, albis, mem-
branaceis ; ovario infcro, hcxagone turbinate, ruguloso, 4-loculari, ovulis plurimis
ab axi 3-scriatim radiantibus, vertice intra discnm subconcavo, radiatim striate,
medio conicc elevate; stylo tereti, subincurvo stigmate parvo, sub-4-lobo, albo. ;
In Amazonas: v. s. in herb. Hook., San Jos6, PJo Negro {Biedely 11'50).
with the characters assigned to this species by Berg, although,

Tliis |jlant quite agrees
iu evident forgetful ucss, the name of " Lecythia Riedelianum teste Berg " was written by
on the specimen, the
Ri('(l(;l latter being a species of Eschioeilera. It is a tree 20 feet
high, found by Bicdcl at the fort, Marabitana, S. Jos6, opposite the confluence of tlie
rivorb N«'gro and Casiqulare, on the confines of Brazil and Venezuela ; its leaves are 3-5
in. long, 1-2 in. brond, on petioles 8-G lines long, and have about 12 pairs of nerves ; the
racliis of the tenninnl meenie is 3} in. long, with iloAvcrs about 3 lines apart; the
pedicels are IJ lino long; the sepals 2 lines long, 1 line broad; the rounded petals G-S
lir»c.>> loni:^, 4 lines broad; the androphornm has a very convex scmiglobosc head lacinu-
lated and incurved at the margin, densely charged inside with shortish appendages, most
"»f which arr anthcriferous.
?^0. LiXTTiris ^VIahtini, Berg in Mart. Fl. Br. p. 61C: ramulis teneris, verruculosis
foliis imo obtusatis et breviter acutis, apice recurvato-
oblongis, vel ovali-oblongis,
acuminati'', snbiutegris, vcl ad margincm e punctis fuscis obsolete serrulatis, char-
tncois, nervis patulis, margiuem versus adscendentibus et arcuatim nexis, cum aliis
brcribus intcrjcctis, costa carinata, flcxiiosa, prominente, subtus costa incrassata

prominente ; petiolo canaliculato, limbo G-7plo breviore : racemis axillaribus, vel plu-
ribus congCitis rt terminalibus, folio brevioribus ; rachi gracili, angulata, pruinosa;
braolcis oblongis, dcciduis ; pediccUis rccurvatis ct verrucoso-torosis ; sepalis quam
his longioribus, inajqualil)ns pruinosis, oblonsjis, obtusis, carinatis : ovario scmiinfero,
-locnhiri, lociiHs pluriovulatis tylo longiusculo. In Cay
Martin) : noii chit.
Ben? states that this species is near Z. corrugata, Poit. ; but as its ovary is 4.1ocular,
this po<;ition cannot be accepted: it is also said to be near L. salehrosa. Berg, differing
in its Icarea beinir obtuse at base, in the smooth vertex of sepals
its ovary, and oblong
the leaves lU'c 3-5 iu. long, on a petiole G-7 lines long rachis of raceme
lJ-2 in. broad,
;
i;-2; in. Ion?; bracts 2 lines long; pedicels 3 lines long; sepals "s lines long, 1^2
lines broad.
> •
40. I.FXYTUis RUBicuxDA, nob. : ramulis pallidc brunneis vel griseo-opacis, striolatis.
1-
lentieolUs verruciJosis ; foliis ovatis, vel oblongis, imo obtusis, et in petiolum breviter 'i,
ac subito acntioribu « apiee in acumen acutum, aut obtusulum, subrccurvum repente

,
: , .
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTPITDACEiE. 227
attenuatis, subintegris, margine teaui vix revoluto leviter crenato-serrulatis,

vel
rigide cliartaceis, supra opacis, sub lente minute granulosis nervis adscendenter ;
diyaricatis, vix prominulis, costa tenui, subtus rubescentibus, opacis, costa valida
striata, nervis venisque areolatim reticulatis prominentibus, petiole fusco, tereti,
subcanaliculato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 12-17plo breviore: panicula e racemis
3-4 approximatis, axillari vel terminali ; racbi subflexuosa, folio breviore, angulato-
sulcata, fusca, granulatim pruinosa, subapproximatim nodosa; floribus ad nodos
articulatis; pedicellis sepalis dimidio brevioribus, saepe recurvulis, subtenuibus.
verruculosis ; sepalis elongato-oblongis, intus extus subcarinatis, gibbosi
torulosis, opacis, margine membranaceo-crenulatis ; petalis ovatis, unguiculatis
infero, extus verruculoso, 4-loculari, ovulis paucis, paululo sub apieem
suspensis vertice concave, radiatim striate; stylo lonmusculo, subincurvo. In
Guiana Batava herb. Mm. Brit, Guiana (Martin) ; in herb. Hook.y Surinam
{Eostman, 1260)
This is a tree with white flowers The species differs from Z. Martini in its leaves bein
double their size, and upon shorter petioles, in a paniculate raceme double the length
and with a stouter rachis The axils of its branchlet§ are 1|-2| in. apart ; its leaves
3-8| in. long 4 3
broad, on a petiole 3-5 lines long, and they have 12- 14 pairs of
with others shorter and intermediate, all anastomosing the panicle or raceme ;
2-3^ in. long the pedicels 1 line long

; ; the sepals 2 lines long ; the petals 7 lines long
3-4 Hnes broad ndrophorum 9 lines in diam
11. Lectthis setifera, nob. ramulis tenuibus dichotemis ;

: foliis suborbiculatis, imo
petiolum versus abrupte acutis,
apice in acumen lineare subito constrictis, mem-
branaceis, denticulatis, dentibus setiferis, supra viridibus, opacis, subtus vix palli-
dioribus, opacis, costa
nervis que tenuibus paullo prominulis ;
petiole tenui, subcana-
Hculato, limbo quintuple breviore : floribus axiUaribus, solitariis ;
pediceUe sepalis
pauUo longiore sepalis obtuse ovatis, expansis
;
; petalis triple longioribus, oblongis ; .
androphori appendiculis
longiusculis, fere omnibus antheriferis ; ovarie infero, tur-
bmato, 4.1oculari,
vertice vix elevate, radiatim striate ; stylo brevi, obtuse. In
Brasilia: v. s. in
herb. Sook., Eio de Janeiro (Glasiou).
very distinct
species, remarkable for the setifereus teeth of its leaves; the axils
I Its
branchlets are ^1
^l m. apart;
in aT.o,.f. +i.« i«„,.^. „«^ 17 01 ;^ i^«o.
the leaves are l|-2i in. long, ii_9
1^-2 in
m. broad
udmg
W
their
suddenly acute point in. in length, and J-2 Unes broad), on petioles
^
Imeslong. The
i 1 2
pedicels are 4 lines long, each bearing a single flower; the calyx
^ is 9 lines
in diameter ; the sepals 2 lines
long, 3 lines broad at the base ; the
<^TOlla
expanded is 1 1 m. •
a across ; the androphorum 9 Mnes wide,
Species non satis nota

'^^^'™^^' ^- &
"^S ^^^^^^S'
P- Jî.
acuminatis, integris, petiolatis

Per. iv. tab. mea.
ûi, ined.
lao. 461, ;
; Don,
-i.un, Diet.
^....
pedicelHs saepius bims,l.fl

..
ii. u..
873 ; foliis
Petalk "i^^^'^f
petaHs obtusis ;
Peru {non vidi)

228 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LFXYTHIDACE^.
Of this plfint nothing more is known, the drawing of Ruiz and Pavon not being
acct >3lhle in this country; it is therefore impossible to say to which genus this species
should be referred.
Species excliiscB.
Lecythis acirminritmima, Berg .- . = Eschweilera acuminatissima *.
al^jfjlora, DC = Eschweilera albiflora *.

amaro, Aubl = Chytroma amara *.
ftntptstifolirr^Berg = Eschweilera angustifolia, Mart.
has^-'Oiifi, Berg = Chytroma idatimon *.
Blanche tianat ^crg . . . . = Eschweilera Blanchetiana .
hrucUitta,'^\\\i\ *
= Couroupita Guianensis, ^mJ/.
^rctcfroffff, Popp., Berg . . . = Eschweilera bracteosa *.
clKfrtiuin^lior'j^ = Chytroma chartacca *.
comprcasUf Veil = Eschweilera corappessa *.
co/v' '/<!, Hcrg = Eschweilera cord: ita *.
eoriacrn^ DC = Jugastrum coriaceum *.

ronugatn, Poir = Eschweilera corrugata *.
cfrnnn.s, I^Mg = E^'chwcilera clcgans •.

/'yt/b/iX Berg =*Ulautomafagifolia*.
gn'mlijlora, Bcnth. (non Aubl.) = Lccythis vcnusta *.
ffrundifoUa.'BcTZ = Chytroma grandifolia ».
— idatimon, Aubl = Chytroma idatimon .
Mntlmomides, WvT^ .... = Eschweilera idatiraonoides .
U'ct/l/iV/, Hriseh = Eschweilera Iffivifolia *.
luHceolala, iierg (iioii Poir.). = Lecythis biscrrata .
.
1mijli>v8, Poit = Ebchwrilera longlpcs .

longlpp», Btnith. (non Poit.) . . = Eschweilera lutea *.
lon(/if^9, DC, Tar. platycarpa . = Eschweilera platycarpa *.
liiMchnaUU,V,.r^ = Eschweilera LuschnattLaua .
/w/w, Aubl = Eschweilera latca*.
w. . vu^;,y/fl, Ber? = EschweHera macrophvlla *.
jr«rmcyefMi>, Beix' .... = Chytroma Mara wyensis .
Jf'/r/iVi«o. Jkng = Couratari Martiana .
mierantha.livr^ = Eschweilera micrantha •.

WM.ur. VeU. (non Jacq.) . . . = Lccythis tuberculata*.
mom^^.ma, Bcri? = Chytroma monosperma *.
f»i«f6>m. Smith = ABantoma multiflora .
nana.-B^T^ = Eschweilera nana *.
^7«i«|n»Bî», M05. & Scss. . =CouroupitaNicaraguensis, ;)a
oA.vr*«. Bori: = Eschweilera obversa •.
o«/oivi, Pdpp ^ Eschweilera odora •.
o</or«i/iiiima, Salzm, .... = Eschweilera Blanchetiana.
229
Zect/fhis ollaria, Yell. . . . . . = LecytMs Velloziana *.
ollaria, Said = Lecytliis biserrata *.
ollmîa. Hook. ......= Lecytliis usitata *.
ovalifolia, DC = Chytroma ovalifolia *.

ovata, Camb. = Eschweilera ovata, Mart.
ovata, Berg, var. acuminata . = Eschweilera acuminata *.
(wata, Berg, var. laurifolia . . = Eschweilera laurifolia *.
ovata, Berg, var. dbscura . . = Eschweilera gracilis *.
ovata, Berg, var. ovalifolia . . = Eschweilera Blanchetiana *.
pachysepala. Spruce et Berg . = Eschweilera pachysepala *.
paniculata, Berg . .... = Eschweilera paniculata *.
parviflora, Auhl. . . . . . = Eschweilera parviflora*.

parvijlora, Sagot = Eschweilera Sagotiana *.
parvifoUa, Mart = Eschweilera parvifolia *.
pedicellaris, DC = Eschweilera verruculosa *.
pilosa, Popp. . = Eschweilera pilosa *.
platycarpa, Voii. ..... = Eschweilera platycarpa*.

Poiteaui, Berg ......= Jugastrum Poiteaui *
retusa, Spr. et Berg . . . .
= Chytroma retusa *.
Riedelii, Berg = Eschweilera Eiedelii *.

rorida, Spr. & Berg . . . .
= Chytroma rorida *.
rosea, .,."..,,= Chytroma
Berg rosea *.
salebrosa^Bevg ..... = Chytroma salebrosa *.
schomburgMana, Berg , . .= Chytroma Schomburgkiana *.
Siberiana^Bevg . . .... = Eschweilera Siberiana *.
Spruceana, Berg = Chytroma Spruceana *.
^bglandulosa. Berg ... = Eschweilera subglandulosa *.
tenax, Moritz & Berg .

= Eschweilera tenax
. .
* *.
tenuifolia, Berg '

. . \ = Eschweilera
^
tenuifolia *.
turbinata, Berg . , ,
= Chytroma turbinata
\
*.
verruculosa, Berg = Eschweilera verruculosa.

W'ullfscUcegelii, Berg . . .
= Eschweilera macrophylla *.
Zabucayo, Hook.
& Spruce
^ (non = Lecythis usitata *
Aubl.). ^
,.
^' Chytroma. (Plate XXXIY. b.)
^jj
lêtweeu this genus in p. 164.
« onlv r^r^-^^^f and Zecythis having been amply described
^° ^^''*^' ^^^^' ^"'^y'^ adnatus, limbo in sepala 6-8 diviso. Petala 6-8, multo
âjorl, sV iu^^''^^^**'
^^^^ imbricata, unguibus inter discum et androphorum agglutinatis. An-
'^"opô^n, uT-^T^^^^'^'
"" ^""^^^'^^^ ^^^ g^êa appendicul^ ananthera. Ovarium semiinferum, turbinatum,
^^rtice intrl
d'
^''^^'^'^ elevato, pauca, sessHia, e basi erecta,
•âtropa- */ 4-loculare; ovula in quoque loculo
'^ T^^ brevissimus, obtusus; papillosum. Pyxidmm
ÔL. XY^' stigma mmlmum, subglobosum,
2h
230 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTH1DACE.E
F
r
mediocre, vcl parviun, turbinatum^ supra vel circa medium zona calycari sublineari ciuctum; vitta
interzonali altitudine varia ; zona superiore orbieulari; operculo circulari, mox solubili et deciduo,
supra convexo et saepe umbonato, subtus valde concavOj sine columellse vestigioj dissepimentis sub*
membranaceis intus signato, cum velario intra marginem prope faucem paullo descendente munito;
pericarpio (operculoque) subtenuiter coriaeeo, 4-locularij dissepimentis membranaceis, ssepe persis-
tentibus, Semina in quoque loculo 1-3, sicca, ovata, rarius per pressionem obtuse angulata, utrinque
rotundata, levia, crecta^ hilo majusculo basali affixa ; testa Crustacea (ssepe arillo mucilaginoso tecta ?),
raphe ab hilo ad apicem faciei ventrali adscendente, valde compressa et loriformi, lateribus liberis,
nervo longitudinali solummodo ad testam adbsesa, cum ramis aliis longitudinalibus, ssepe furcatis,
elevatis siguata; integumentum internum membranaceum embryo conformis, exalbuminosus, homo-
;
gcucus, fuscus, ceruo-carnosuSj amarus, neorhiza interna eocorhiza externa undique cincta sistens
(cotyledonibus nulli^ visibilibus). ^
A.v\)oi'c% frondosa America; Meridionalis ^ liabitu Lecyihidis.
*
1. Chytroma Sciiombl' Lecythis Schomhurgkii Berg, in Linn, xxvii. 456

mmulis cincrco-brunneis, rugulosis, interrupte striato-snlcatis, cortice suLtrans-
versim rimoso, pruinosis, oTjsolete vcrruculosis ; foliis ovatis, utrinque rotundatis,
sacpc in acumen b r c v issimum abrupte canaliculatim recur vatis, rigide chartaceis,
luari^nTubus cartilagincis revolutis, int cgerr imis, supra Iccte vel pallida viridibus,
IflBvibus, subopacis, ncrvis tenuibus subimmersis, sub lente creberrime fovcolato-
icticulatis, coata subjjroniinula, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, costa nervisque pro-
minulis; pctiolo siipcrne piano, marginato, linibo 10-12plo breviore : racemis axilla-
ribus et torminalibus, folio subscquilongis, aut simplicibus vel pluribus congestis;
pcdicellis rccurvis, akbastro brcvioribus, sulcatis, pminosis ; sepalis obtuse oblongis,
extus granulosis, carinatis, pruinosis, marginibus late membranaceis, ciliolatis;
pctalis innoqualibus, obovato-oblougis, apice rotundatis, membranaceis ; ovario in-
Tto, iurbiuato, granuloso, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo
3, e basi erectis, vertice
intra discum valde concavo, radiatim striato; stylo tereti, sepalis dimidio breviore;
stigniatc par>'o, papillose pyxidio cylindrico, subovato, longe supra
: medium zona
oalycari c sepalis dilatatis adpressis linea nexis cincto
; vitta interzonali subangusta,
fere verticali, diamctri 5tam partem alta ; zona
superiore circulari, integra ; operculo
pulvinato valde deprcsso, supcrne late concavo, subtus
concavo et 4-septato, sine
columella, cum velario intra faucem longius dcpendente,
4-loculari, dissepimentis
moniLrauaceis, persistentibus, loculis aequaHbus, singulis
2-spermis; pericarpio ligneo-
coriaceo, non crasso, rufesccnti-brunnco,
areolis pallidis impressis granulosis macu-
lato; seminibus ovatis, angulato-compressis,
imo erectim affixis, coUateralibus, fasco-
brunneis, rapbc loriformi ad angulum ventralem ab liilo basaU majusculo ad apicem
adacendente debinc itcrum in ramis elevatis
descendentibus signato ; testa crassa,
coriacea, embryone immaturo submarcido,
cornigato. In Guiana Brit. v. pi 8. in :
herb, mriis, Guiana {Schomb. 158, 792) v,Jr. ; sice, m Mm. Keio. (Schomb.).
The above fruit is marked "Scbomburgk" in
Mr. Bentham's handwriting; and I
have no hesitation in referring it to this
species rather than to Schomburgk's other
Guiana 5:pcciraon (C, chartacca), because of oper-
the peculiar hoUow summit of the
<-'ulum, which agrees in this respect with the hollow vertex quite an
of the ovarium,
m
JMR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.

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231
unusual occurrence. Berg states that the ovary is 3-cellecl, probably a typographical error,
as I have found it constantly 4-cclled, with erect ovules. The axils of the branchlets are
|-1 in. apart; the leaves are 2f-3j in. long, l|-2 in. broad, on a petiole 3 lines long, and
with about 10 pairs of nerves, with others shorter and intermediate the rachis of the ;
raceme is 2-2^ in. long, with prominent nodes 2-3 lines apart ; pedicels 1 line ; sepals
2 lines long, 1 J line broad ; larger petals 9 lines long, 6 lines broad androphorum 6 ;
lines in diam. ; the pyxidium (Plate LVIII. figs. 1 & 2), of a humming-top shape, is
2f in.
long, 2i in. broad at the calycary zone, which is 1| in. above the base, and is formed of
the ahnost unchanged sepals united by a line ; the interzonal band is 5 lines hio-h ; the
upper enthe zone is 2 in. in diam.
the pulvinate operculum, of similar diameter, is
;
4 lines high, is broadly concave above, concave and septate beneath, with a velarium
descending 4 lines within the mouth ; the pericarp is 2^ lines thick, is divided by thin
membranaceous dissepiments, continuous with those of the operculum, subsequently
ruptured to allow the escape of the seeds. This contains 8 erect seeds, which are
immature, erect and shrivelled.
Chyteoma chartacea, nob. : Lecythis chartacea. Berg in linn, xxvii. 450 : ramulis
teretibus, opace vel glauco-brunneis, interrupte striatis ; f oliis ovatis, imo rotundatis
et m petiolo late decurrentibus, acumen breve obtusulum vel acutum
apice in
canahculatim recurvum repente constrict] integris, vel ad marginem cartilagineu
s,
revolutum punctis fuscis obsolete crenulato-serrulatis, chartaceis, supra subop
tenuibus, patule divaricatis, pauUo prominulis, valde reticulatis, subtus paUi-
dioribu , brunnescentibus, opacis, costa prominente, nervis venisque prominulis;
petiolo subtenui, late
sulcato, marginato, Kmbo 12plo breviore : paniculis termina-
libus et axillaribus,
pauciramosis, aut racemis axillaribus folio brevioribus ; rachi
angulata, flexuosa,
nodosa, 6-12-flora ;
pedicellis brevibus ; sepalis oblongo-ovatis,
subimbricatis, fuscis, extus
punctis minutis albidis scabriduhs, margine membra-,
naceo ciliolatis
; petalis ovatis, concavis, rubris, marginibus fimbriate -ciliatis ; andro-
phoro globoso, luteo
; ovario semiinfero, pilis brevissimis scabridulo, distincte 4-lo-
cân, ovuHs in
quoque loculo pluribus, e basi erectis et radiantibus, vertice conico,
stnato stylo subbrevi.
; In Guiana Brit. : v. s. in herb. Hook, Pomeroon {Schomh.
791,1432).
A ^^^^^^^ ^^^tainly
congeneric with C, Schomburgkiamm, from which it differs in its
les^
leaves, its scabridulous membranaceous border
red
sepals with a narrower
^' ^^^ conical vertex of the ovary. The axils of its branchlets are l-lj in.
apart- tf^f
li-2ii^- ^ôad,
'''• on^''''^' a petiole 2-4 Imes long; they
baveabout iT^''^""^^"^
^^^^ ^^ nerves, with intermediate the rachis of the
fême is ii f others shorter and ;
^ lines
^' ^^^^' *^® pedicels | Hne long, the sepals 2 lines long, the petals
h ^g>^^l^
the flower in hn/i a^k v.^^r, :^ î,-^
bud 4-5 lines in diameter 4.^„
3. Chi
:\^''^^^' ^^^-' LecytUs amara, Aubl. PI. Guian. ii. 718, tab. 286-285 a
fig 1
-DC. Prodr. teretibus, fusco
'
iii. 292;
Bers in Linn, xkvii. 453: ramulis
\
2h2
-^
;;
brunneis, opa<;is, lenticellis flavidis verruculosis, striatis; foliis elongato-oblono-is,

vel ellipticis, imo obtusis et subito acutatis, apice in acumen acutum constrictis, sub-
integris, vel ad marginem cartilagineum revolutum obsoletissime serrulatis, sub-
supra sublucentibus, nervis tenuibus subimmersis patule divaricatis, venis
coriaceis,
crebeirime reticulatis, ad costam promlnulam sulcatis, subtus pallidioribus, ssepe

rubcntibus, nervis venisquc favoso-reticulatis prominulis, costa validiore prominente
petiolo fusco, canaliciilato, marginato, subruguloso, limbo 12plo breviore : racemis
tcrminalibus, saepe axillaribus, folio multo brevioribus; rachi ferrugineo-pruinosa,
angulata, intemipte striata, nodosa ; bracteis majusculis concavis, margine ciliatis,
cadurissirais; floribus subparvis ;

pedicellis tenuibus, corrugatis; sepalis 6, his duplo
loiiîoribus, oblongo-ovatis, pruinosis, crassiusculis, carinatis, ciliatis petalis 6,
;
ovatis, duplo majoribus, concavis, flavis; ovario fere omnino supero, imo brevissime
turbinate, cum pcdicello toruloso, distincte 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo
e basi ercctis, vcrtico valdo elovato, conice corivexo, flavimaculato, laevi; stylo
l)revi, obtuso : pyxidio oviformi, pauUo infra medium zona calycari e sepalis per-
sistontibus incrassatls bubdivcrgentibus linea nexis cincto; vitta intcrzonali in-
trorsum suburccta, diaractri fere dimidiam partem alta; zona superiore Integra,
qnam iiacrior paulo minor©; opercnlo orbiculari, subbemispbairice convexo, apice
breriter umbunato, intus concave, cum velario intra faucem dependente, ct dissepi-
mcntis 1. (sine columella) ruptis diviso ; pericarpio coriaceo, subcrasso, intus 4-locu-
lari, disscpimentis submcmbranaccis ; seminibus in quoHbet loculo solitariis, erectis,
oblongis, ventre subangulatis. In Guiana : v. 8. pi. in herb. Mm. Brit., Cayenne,
in sylns (Atiblci); in herb. Hook., Guiana (Talbot) :
fr. non vidi.
A species very near the preceding, differing in its much larger, more elongated leaves,
aud its more ovoid fruit. It is a tree of considerable size, with a copious head and a
thick trunk, bare for the height of 10 feet. The axils
of its brancHets are in. apart
f-1
the leaves are 4-7J in. long, IJ-21 in. bread, on
a petiole 5-7 lines long, with about IG
])airs of pai-all(>l very diNcrgcnt nerves,
with others shorter intermediate, all anasto-
mosing. By the fall of the upper leaves, the axillary racemes
assume a panicular
often
form; tbe rachis is li-2jin.long, with nodes 3-5 lines
apart pedicel 4 lines long; sepals ;
lilme long; petals 1 linos long, 3 lines broad; upper moiety of

ovary above disk Inline
high sty Ic 1 \ Hne long the pyxidinm (Plat^
: ; LVTII. figs. 8, 9) is 3 in. long, 2^ in. broad
lit the calyrary zone, which is in. above the base H
the interzonary band is nearly 1 in. ;
h.gh; (1,0 npper zone ]| in. in diam.; the operculum,

entn-e
of the same breadth, is 8
lines high, ccmcave within, with a velarium
descending 4 lines within the mouth the ;
membranous dissepiments persist, both in the lower

portion and in the operculum; the
pericarp and operculum are rather thin iu
substance, and seeds somewhat fragHe; the
are very hitter, as in all other species of
this genua.
i. Cm-TROMA iNCAiiCERATi, nob. planta ignota

I
: pyxidio filiformi, depressc globoso,
pnuhssime sub apic(>m zoua calycari e sepalis
acutis vix prominulis linea nexis
cincto; vitta intcrzonali introrsum
aocHvi, diametri octavam partem alta; zona
superiore orbiculari, margine acuta,
quam inferior minore ; operculo subhorizontali,
w
summo paullulo concavo, medio breviter umbonato, inferne concavo, dissepimentis 4

tenuibus diviso, cum
velario late extrorsum expanso, ore multo latiore, et bine ad
maturitatem soluto, tamen inextricabili ; pericarpio subtenui pallida brunneo, rugu-

lose scrobiculato, 4-loculari, dissepimentis membranaceis persistentibus : seminibus
majusculis, in loculis solitariis, ovalibus, ventre subangnlatis, bilo basali affixis;
testa laeyi, fulva, pergaminea, raphe ventrali late loriformi flavida, cimi ejus ramis e
basi adscendentibus ; embryonis structura generis. In Brasilia: v.fr.s.inMus.
Brit, (sine locoV
From this singular development of the fruit the operculum and seeds remain im-
prisoned after though the velarium becomes detached from
the period of maturity ; for
the pericarp, the operculum, not being able to fall outward, is drawn inward by the
desiccation of the dissepiments; except for this peculiarity there would be little to
distinguish it from the fruit of C. cistella except its smaller vertex and more depressed
form. The pyxidium (Plate LVIII. figs. 3, 4) is 2 in. long, 2| in broad ; the calycary zone
is 1| in. in diam., and If in. above the base ; the interzonal band J is in. high ; the upper
wne 1\ in. in diam. ; the tightly fitting operculum is of the same diameter, and does
act rise above the zone, is slightly concave and nmbonate at the summit, is of thin
texture, concave below, with the thin dissepiments attached to it ; but its velarium expands
outwardly at a considerable a^ngle, and descends half an inch below the mouth, at first
attached to the pericarp
but after maturity it there becomes detached, when by the
;
shrinking of the dissepiment

the operculum is drawn inwards, as above explained the ;
pericarp is about
IJ line thick at the sides, # thick at the bottom, where it is suddenly
swollen the seeds are
; IJ in. long, 1 in. broad
5. Chtteoma cistella, nob. ; Lecythidis sp.. Spruce in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 239.
n. 69 :
planta ignota : pyxidio poculiformi, imo globoso, longe supra medium zona
calycarisursum acutiuscula undulato-Hneari cincto ; vitta interzonali valde angusta,
suberecta zona superiore cireulari, Integra, inferiore vix minore ; operculo brevis-
;
simo, depresse columella,

pulviuato, late concavo, subtus concavo et 4-septato, sine
cum velario dissepimentis descendente; pericarpio
continue longe intra faucem
crasso, leviter lignoso, granulate vel
cortice tenuiter suberoso, rimoso, brunneo,
scrobiculato-ruguloso, hilorum signato.
obsolete 4-loculari, intus imo cicatricibus
n BrasUia,
prov. Amazonas : v.f.s. in Mm. Kew. {Spruce, 69, 233).
ere are this
3 specimens of this fruit in the Kew Museum, which I have referred to
'''''''''''^
""^ ^^^ cicatrices of the attachment of the seeds. It is shown on
HatT'LVT
^°^' ^' '^' ^^^^^ the upper zone is 2J in. the
3iam
'
^^® \iî^hi from the base to ;
+ +1
^^^' ^« ^ i^-» that of the upper zone 2„
,
that of the calycary zone 2f in. :
coatract ,
^^^ '''''^'* "^^^^^ t<^ interzonary band is 3 lines high ;
tte or. f a breadth of If in. ; the
'' ^* ''' ^^ î^«^- depressed in the centre, hollow

^tlun wl «^ly 2 lines high,
,- '* '', ^"'^^^^^^ "^^^h a velarium descending 5 Unes within
the mouth ;
the
PericarnT?
^ f in. thick ; the mouth zone is If in. broad, the inner
diamet I below the upper
unper
in. and
4 its depth 1 1 in. It resembles the fruit of C.
ScJiomhurgUamm in its
sliort very depressed operculum ; but it differs in its quite orbicular form, with a pericarp
of twice its thickness. The from which these

tree fruits were obtained is very lofty,
growing in the forests near the Barra do Eio Negro.
6. Chytroma ttjrbinata, nob. : Lecythis turUnata, Berg in Mart. El. Br. I. c. 493,
tab. 73 (icon, fruct. distort.) : Lecythis^ sp., Spruce in Hook. Kew Joum. v. 170,
no. 4 : ramulis pallide et opace brunneis, ramosis, rugosis, substriatis, lenticellis

vciTuculosis ; foliis majusculis, elongato-oblongis, imo in petiolum sensim acutis,
acumen sublineare longum acutissimum subito attenuatis, integris, vel ad
apice in
marginem cartilagincum subrevolutum punctis obsoletissime serratis, rigide chartaceis,
supra pallide viridibus, opacis, nervis tenuissimis vix prominulis, costa tenui carinata
prominontc, su])tus pallidioribus, fulvo-opacis, costa crassa pruinosa, nervis flavidis
venisquc promincntibus ;
pctiolo valido, canaliculato, marginato, subtus corruguloso,
limbo ]G-20plo breviore : racomis terminalibus et axillaribus, folio multo breviori-
bns ; rachi nodosa, circ. 10-14-flora; pediccUis subtenuibus; sepalis oblongis, cras-
siubculis, persistentibus ; ovario 4-loculari ; rachi fructifera incrassata, flexuosa,
if
valdc nodosa, pruinosa : pyxidio globoso, imo hemispheerico, ssepe gibboso et difformi,
circn medium zona calycuii e sepalis 6 linca nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali sub-
acclivi convcxa, diamctri sextam partem alta; zona superiore quam calycaris paullo
mi no IV, circular! ; opcrculo isti conformi, quam vitta fere triplo altiore, valde con-
vcxo, obtuse uml)oimto aut sublaivi, subtus valdc concavo, cum velario intra faucem
desccndentc; pericarpio coriacco pallide brunneo, subrugoso, lenticellis granosis
flavis maculato, primum 4-loculari (aut abortu 1-2-loculari), sicco dissepimentis
pvanidis pscudo-1-loculari ct 4-spermo (aut abortu 1-spermo) ; seminibus uniseriatim

imo afTlxis, ovutin, dorso convcxis, ventre subangulatis, testa Ifevi, flavescente, raphe
ad angulnm vcntralem lata, ramis linearibus furcatis. In Amazonas v. pi. s, in hb. :
vai'ih, Barra do Bio Negro {Spruce, 1167, cum fruct. distort.); in hb. SooL,
Barra {Spruce^ 1238) ; cum fruct. normal, in Mus. Kew. (Spruce, 1238) ; etiam Bio
Arepicurii (Spruce), sine numero.
This very distinct species belongs certainly to this genus, and not to Lecythis, because
of its fruit and seeds. Berg's drawing of the monospermous
fruit is correct and like that
of my own specimen (Spruce, 11G7) but these are of abnormal growth, 1-locular by the
;
abortion of the other cells, and, in consequence, of a very gibbous form. The second
specimen of the plant (Spruce, 1263) has a note attached to it, saying that the fruit is
sent separately and accordingly we see in the Museum at Kew a fruit marked with that
;
number, so that no doubt can exist as to their identity.

It is quite similar to another
collected at Rio Arepicurii by Spruce, and is
one of the kind called Ufacacareciiy^
(Monkey-cups) by the natives.
The species forms a low tree, much
branched, growing in the Iguarapes (inundated
lands) of the rivei-s ; the axils of the branches are f-ljin. apart ; the leaves are 7-0 i '^^
long (including the narrow acumen 1 5-6 lines
in. long), and lf-3 in. broad, on a petiole
long and they have about 12 paii-s
; of nerves, with others intermediate anastomosing
with them ;
the rachis of the racemes is slightly flexuous, U in long, with 10-12 pro-
) ;;

2B5
minent floriferous nodes, 2-3 lines apart.

pyxidium (Plate LIX. figs. 9 & 13) is Tlie
l|-2 in. long; the calycary zone, 9-10 lines above the base, is 2-2^ in. in diam. ; the intei-.
zonal band is 4-5 lines high the upper zone and operculum are:
If in. in diam., the
latter 6 lines high, depressed on the summit, without an umbonate
point, which is seen
only on the unperfect fruit quite hollow within, with the traces of 4 evanescent
; it is
dissepiments, and furnished within its margin by a velarium which descends 4

lines
within the mouth ; the pericarp 2 lines thick, showing inside the indications of the
is
withered dissepiments ; the 4 erect seeds are 1 inch long, 10 lines broad, yellowish, sub-
polished, marked with the veins of the raphe as in the foregoing species. The single
seed in the abnormal fruits is similar in size and shape to the above, and
is marked in the
same way. - ' .
In a note attached to the specimen of the fruit. Spruce states that " when gathered it
had an exceedingly aromatic arillus, which the ants speedily devoured." We may pre-
sume this " arillus " covered the testa ; but no trace
of it now exists.
7. Chtteoma Spetjceana, nob. LecytUs Spruceam, Berg (in parte) in Mart. Elor. Bras.
:
/.c. p. 487 ramulis fusco-brunneis, subflexuosis, profunde et interrupte sulcatis,

:
obsolete verruculosis ; foliis ovatis, vel^ oblongo-ovatis, imo obtusis, et in petiolum

acutatis, apice obtusis et in acumen ssepe angustum longe cuspidato-mucronatum
subito constrictis, chartaceis, ad marginem revolutum et undulatum obsolete crenato-
serrulatis,
supra opace sublucidis, minutissime granulatis, nervis tenuibus parallele
divergentibus et longe
adscendentibus subimmersis, reticulatis, costa prominula,
subtus subochraceo-pallidioribus, opace pruinosis, nervis flavidis prominentibus,
venis prominulis,
costa striolata prominente petiolo fusco, canaUculato, marginato,
;
ruguloso, limbo lOplo
breviore : panicula terminali, pluriramosa ; rachi subflexuosa,
angulato-sulcata, verruculosa,
prominente nodosa : pedicellis ad nodos alternos arti-
c atis, sulcatis ; sepalis ovatis, sub^qualibus, extus parallele striatis et granulatim
punetatis, marginibus erosuUs
; petalis obovatis, albis (siccis flavis), extus rugulosis
ovario infero,
turbinate, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 3, e basi distinctissime
erec is, vertice intra discum piano, radiatim striate ; stylo subulato, incurve, sepalis
reviore: pyxidio subgloboso, medio
zona calycari e sepalis 6 lineatim nexis cincto
^^^^^^^^
suberecta, subconvexa, diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore
int ^"^*f
gra operculo
; vittse altitudine, supra convexe, intus concave, vestigiis septorum
^^
gnaccum velario intra faucem descendente vitta dimidio breviore munito;
Pencarpio subcrasso
' ^v^^^^^^cu, extus opace brunneo
ualus orunneo et
ei ruguleso,
ruîuuou, intus
ixxiûc 4-loculari
^-xv/v.^«xx
dissert* ^
In Br"^r^ mox
^^^"^^^^ânaceis
evanidis ;
quoque loculo 2, seminibus in erectis.
rasUia «?. s.
in herh, variis,
:
Panure, Bio TJahupes (Spruce, 2700) San : Carlos,
^10 Negro
(^^r«c^ 3695
Thi •
/^^ ^^^^^ ^^^* ^^^' growing on the margins of rivers, and bearing white
Poriferous
^^^ ^^^^^ ^f the leaves are 3J-5J in.
V. 1^9^ -^T^^ ' tlie branchlets are 1 in. apart ;
^ and intermediate with 1 to 4

: in my specimen the panicle is 3i in. long,
;
236 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^,
lateral branches 2 in. long and 4 lines apart; the nodules on which the pedicels are
articulated are ^ line long, 2-3 lines apart ; the pedicels 1 line , the sepals are 2 lines
long, 1 line broad ; the petals If in. long, 1 in. broad ; the androphorum is lln. in diam.
the flower expanded 4 in. across ; the erect ovules are distinctly fixed at the very base of
the axis in the ovary ; the immature pyxidium (Plate 1} in. high the LIX. figs. 3, 4) is ;
calycary zone is 1^ in. in diam. ; the interzonal band 3 lines high; the upper zone and
operculum are IJ in. in diam. ; the latter 6 lines high, concave beneath, and with a
velarium descending more than 3 lines within the mouth ; the pericarp is 2 lines thick;
the seeds were destroyed and agglomerated by caries in all the specimens I have seen.
8. CuvTROiiA TuiKiBA : Ibiribd, Marcg. & Piso. Hist. Nat. Bras. p. 136 : ramulis tere-
tibus, subcincrcis Icntlcellato-verruculosis, cortice subrimoso ; foliis oblongo-ovatis,
vcl oblongis,imo rotundiusculis vel obtusis et in petiolo brevissime decurrentihus,
apicc in acumen brcnissimum acutum vel obtusulum recurvulum abrupte attenuatis,
subintegrls, uiit ad margincm cartilagineum subicvolutum obsolete crenatis, char-
taccis vcl subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, loevibus,
subopacis, nervis divaricatis
vix proramulis, costa tcnui, striolata, prominula, subtus
pullide brunneis, luride
opacis, pulvcrul(Mito-pj-iuaosIs, nervis tenuissimis venisque
paullo prominulis, costa
striata promincnte; petiolo conaliculato, striato-rugoso, limbo 15plo breviore:
rnoemo t.,-mlnali, pauclramoso, folio multo breviore; rachi geniculata, nodosa,
crebrc C-10-flora; rachi fructifcra pediccllisque
incrassatis pyxidio immature sub- :
globoso, sflppeglliboso, utrinquc convexo, ad

medium zona calycari e sepalis foliaceis
auctis liaca ncxis cincto; vitta interzonali
angusta, erecto-convexa, diametri tertiam
partem alia; zona superiore circular! ; operculo
majusculo pulvinatim convexo, um-
bonato, mtiis concavo cum velario a^que alto intra faucem descendente; pericarpio
crasse corlaceo, fusco-brunneo, lenticellis
flavidis maculato, scrobiculatim ruguloso,
mtus 4.Ioculari, interdum abortione sub-1-loculari;
seminibus paucis, ohlon-is,
fusci^ testa crasse coriacea embryone
; generis. In Brasilia : v. s. in hb. Moot,
Maccio, prov. Alngoas {Gard,2er, 1411); ibidem
(Gardner, 1312); Bahia {Sello):
r.frucL matur. in Mus. Ketc, Maccio {Gardner).
Tins evidently the plant described by Marcgraff

is
as a tree about the height of a pea^
tree growing m
Alagoas, where it bears the name of
Ibiriba, and where also Gardner
found vt as a small tree the axils of its
: branchlets are l-lj in. apart ; the leaves are
-G, m. long, li-3 in. broad, on a petiole 2-4
lines long, with about 10 pairs of nerves,
with others shorter, anastomosing with the
veins ; the raceme is 2-4 in. lon^, with nodes
.-3 hues apart ; the fructiferous pedicels are 3-6
lines long; the immature pyxidium
(1 late LIX. figs. 10 lines high, 18 lines broad ; the
14, 15) is of
calycaiy zone (formed
patent sepals 2 lines long) is 5-8 lines
above the base; the operculum is 15 lines in
diam., 6 linos high, concave within,
with the remains of a dissepiment, and with a
relanum descending halfway down witliin
the mouth of the pericarp ; this is rather
thick, with a persistent stoutish
dissepiment, one cell abortive,
narrowish, the other cU
contammg a single erect seed, with other
abortive ovules ai-ound its attach- the place of
;

237
ment; the immature seed is 10 lines long, 7 lines broad; with a thick coriaceous
testa,
containing a dark embryo, with an internal neorhiza of a paler colour.
9. Chttroma cincturata, nob. : Lecythidis sp., Spruce in Hook. Kew Journ. v. p. 239.
n. 67 :
pyxidio subgloboso, imo brevi, convexo, pauilo supra basin
planta ignota :
zona calycari e sepalis 6 acutis patentibus et linea nexis cincto vitta interzonal! ;
cylindrice suberecta, diametri quartam partem alta

zona superiore orbicular!, Inte-;
gra ;
operculo fere ejusdem altitudinis, bemisphaerice convexo, apice interdum breviter
obtuse umbonato, infra concavo, cum velario intra faucem descendente, septi ves-
tigiis signato; pericarpio crassiuscule coriaceo, fusco-opaco, rujôso-scrobiculato
6-spermo; seminibus ovatis, utrinque rotundatis, ventre subangulatis, dorso con-
vexis, raphe ventrali, late linear!, marginibus liberis, cum ramis prominulis, lon-
gitudinalibus, cancellatim furcatis ab hilo adscendentibus. In Amazonas v.
:
fr.
sicc. in Mus. Kew., Barra do Uio Negro {Spruce, 67).
This fruit, according to Spruce, belongs to a tree 60-80 feet high, growing in forests
near the Barra, furnished with weak branches, too lofty to obtain the leaves. The fruit,
called by the natives Macacarecuya (Plate LIX. fig. 7), is If in. long, 2 in. broad,
thedepth below the calycary zone being 5 lines, the interzonary band 7 lines high, the
operculum near 2 in. in diam., 8 lines high, the velarium descending 2 lines within
the
mouth the seeds are 12 lines long, 8 lines broad, with a coriaceous
; testa like that of
typical species
10. Chytroma nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio urceolato, imo campaniformi

pauilo supra medium zona calycari annular! e sepalis 6 dentiformibus linea
cmcto vxtta interzonal! erecta,
] diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore circu-
an, mtegra, inferiore
sequali ; operculo depresse pulvinato, vertice late concavo, intus
plane concavo, cum
velario subbrevi intra faucem descendente ;
pericarpio subtenui,
"itus obsolete 4-1
ocular! ; seminibus 4, ovatis, ad faciem ventralem subangulatis,
do basal! affixis, erectis, fusco-brunneis, raphe lata, ventrali, cum lineis aliis lon-
gitudmahbus immersis In
e basi adscendentibus furcatis; embryone generis.
Amazonas, v.fr. sicc.
in 3Ius. Kew., Barra do Rio Negro {Spruce).
^^ IS one of the kinds or Moukey-cups.
,^
of fruit called by the natives Macacarecuya,
The
^^^^^^
^^' ^^ ^^ î ^^^' ^^^^^ ^* ^^^ calycary zone,
^hl'h^-^^^^^^- ^^^^' ^* ^^' '^^'
^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ high and in

^^^^' *^^ interzonary band is 5 lines 1J in.
'Hamet^^^^
operculum, of the same diameter, is 3 lines high, and precisely of the same
sliape^ a^^ k^^^
nf fL^^ .^^ ^' ^"^ô^ûrgkii, but thinner in substance, and very different from that
the
Precedmg species with
: it is broadly concave in the summit, qiiite hollow inside,
"^ margin descending 2 lines into the mouth; the pericarp is barely
i ^ê thick
^ seed.\^''io
*^^®vestiges of the dissepiments, which have disappeared (and it contains
v'^^
^Û3 Imes long,
9 lines broad.
^1- *
Chtxro
•
^^^^Dif oLiA, nob. : Eschweilera grandljlora, Mart. obs. 3071 ;
DC.
?rodr
^^^"
^^^' -^^^^^'^^ p. 494, tab. 73.
fig. 1
arandiflora, Berg, ri. Bras. I. c,
^'01- XXX
;
238 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEJ?.
Linn, xxvii. .453 : ramulis teretibus, fusco-cinerascentibus ; foliis oblongis, vel

oblongo-lanceolatis, imo obtuse rotundatis, apice in acumen breve ssepe angustum
abrupte attenuatis, integerrimis, vel serraturis obliteratis subundulatis, rigidule
chartaceis, supra viridibus, nitidis, nervis plurimis, longe a margine arcuatim nexis,
prominulis, reticulato-venosis, subtus costa demum nigrescente nervisque promi-
nentibus ;
petiolo tereti, canaliculato, limbo 24plo breviore : racemis axillaribus,
folio brevioribus ; rachi angulata^ flavide fuscescente ; floribus cum pedicellis validis
fere
m
sessilibus : pyxidio turbinate, infra medium zona calycari e sepalis acutis
lineatim nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali quam diametrus dimidio breviore, erecta et
apice subito paullo rotundata; zona superiore circulari, quam inferior pauUo
angustiore ; operculo orbiculari, pulvinato, brevissimo, valde depresso, subumbo-
nato, intus concavo, cum vclario brevi intra faucem descendente ; pericarpio cras-
siusculo 2-loculari (?), dissepimento crassiuscule coriaceo, persistente, loculis 2-sper-
mis; scminibus oblongis, ventre subangulatis, dorso convexis, erectis, imo affixis.
In Brasilia septcntrionali ad flu v. Japurd (Martius) : non vidi.
A species much resembling Eschweilera macrojphylla ; but it is a much larger tree,

bcliig 50-GO feet high, and differing in several characters, especially in its nearly sessile
flowers ; the axils of its branchlcts are somewhat remote : the leaves are 6-8A in. lonj?.
f-2J in. broad, on a petiole 3-4

The pyxidium (Plate LIX. fig. 1) is
lines long.
2 in. long, the cnlycary zone 9 lines above the base and 2 in. in diam. the interzonary ;
band ia J in. high, suddenly narrowed at its mouth into the superior zone If in. in diam.
the operculum of this broadth is only 2 lines high, or 3 lines at the umbonate summit
the pericarp is 2 lines thick, with a dissepiment of nearly equal thickness the seeds are
;
14 lines long, 9 lines thick, fixed by their base, with a thin pergamineous testa, having a
I of several longitudinal bands, that along the
10 ...^ ventral
,^xî;xc*x amrle
c*^qX^ bcinff
UV^xx^g broadest, as in
O
other species, and obscurely described by Ber ptaculo albo
hncari mvoluto ;" the nucleus is of a yellowish colour. There appears to me some
mistake in Berg's drawing and description; for in all the other species the dissepiment
isthin and membranaceous, rarely persistent, but here it is shown to be as thick as the
pericarp itself; and each ceU appears again 2-locular in can
the transverse section, for it
hardly be meant to represent a section of the seeds, because he describes their testa as
thin and pergamineous (not thick and coriaceousl
12. CttYTROiTA PiLACARPA, Tiob. : plauta ignota: pyxidio subgloboso, imo hemisphserico,
infra medium zona calycari lineari 6.denticulata cincto; vitta interzonaU erecta,
diamotri tertiam partem alta ; operculo cum zona
superiore orbiculari, vitta breviore,
primum valde depresso, mox valde convexo, apice l^vi,
intus concavo, vcstigiis
septorum 4 signato, cum velario subbrevi intra faucem descendente ;
pericarpio suh-
tenuiter coriaceo, opaco, fusco, lenticelHs
flavis verruculoso, cortice tenui subrimoso,
obsolete 4.1oculari. In Brasilia : v, s. m
Mns. Kew., Barra do Rio Negro {Sprtice,
li52, sub Swartzia argeulea).
This fruit is 2 in. high, 2 in. broad; the calycary zone 10 lines above the base; the
;
.terzonal band 8 lines high ; the operculum nearly 2 in. in diam. and 7 lines high.
There isanother specimen 2f in. m

diam., hoth without seeds the reference on the :
ticket to Spruce's specimen of Swartzia argentea miist he a mistake.
The pyxidium (Plate LVIII. fig. 12), from its erect interzonary hand, hears a re-
semblance to that of Chyh'oma cincturata, hut is of thinner texture, its operculum is
Tcry depressed at first, then gradually rounded in an ogee-form curve.
13. Chytroma monosperma, nob. : Lecythis monosperma, Berg in Mart. Fl. Br. I. c.
p. 485, tab. 67. fig. 2: planta ignota: pyxidio subparvo, ovali, imo obtuse rotun-
datOj pauUo sub apicem zona calycari e sepalis 6 acutis depressis linea nexis cincto
vitta interzonali hreviuscula, convexa, diametri tertiam partem alta ; zona superiore
quam inferior minore, orbiculari, integra; operculo ignoto; pericarpio crassius-
culo, spongioso-lignoso, granulis parvis flavidis irrorato, vitta Isevi, abortu 1-locularI
et monospermo, loculis 3 septisque membranaceis ad latus simul detrusis, et ovulis
basalibus abortivis instructis; semine loculum fertilem implente, oblongo-ovato,
testa duriuscula, castanea, raphe ramisque subplanis ah hilo basali adscendentibus
notata. In Brasilia, prov. Para [non vidi).
The pyxidium (Plate LVIII. fig. 10) is remarkable for its egg-like shape : it is 21 lines
long, without the operculum, 16 lines broad in the middle ; the calycary zone is 16 lines
above the base, 15 lines in diam. ; the interzonal band is 4 lines high, the npper zone
U hnes across ; the pericarp apparently is 2 lines thick ; the seed is erect, attached to
tlie base of the cell, 14 lines long, 9 lines broad, covered by a testa resembling that
of other species of Chytroma, and very different from that of an Uschweilera.
J
4. Chytroma basilaeis, nob. planta ignota pyxidio pallide brunneo, semigloboso,

: :
subquadrato, imo depresso, paullo supra basin

convexo, corrugulatim scrohiculato,
zona calycari anguste
laminiformi obsolete 6-lohata cincto ; vitta interzonali paullo
elevata,extrorsum valde acclivi; zona superiore quadratim orbiculari, in labium
annulare prominens
expansa; operculo ista pauUo angustiore, altissimo, semi-
globoso, apice crassiusculo, intus
subito umbonato, extus grosse tuberculato-rUgoso,
concavo, vestigiis
septorum 4 signato ; velario nuUo ;
pericarpio parte inferiore
epresso-pateriformi, crassiusculo,
extus grosse rugoso, obsolete 4-loculari, 8-spermo.
^ Guiana Brit. v. s: in Mus.
^ :
Keic, Demerara {Farker).
^Jhis pyxidium ^pi^^^ LVIII. form, extremely different
fig. 13) is of a very unusual
''^^''^^
'* '^ ^^ '''• ^'^^ zone m. in diam., only 2 lines above
theV ' ' *^^^ calycary is IJ
* ^-^^^ interzonal
band, extrorsely cup^-shaped, is 3 lines high the annular lip-
;
^hapeT^
^'^J^'^^^^S 'îna of the upper zone diam., the opercular mouth being-
1| in
, is 2^ in. in
*^^ ^P^^culum somewhat 4.gonous at the
'lase
' is in the form of a lofty dome, is
\fl
intermediate lines of the
îssepi^'^'V^
'' ^ '''• ^''''^'' *^^ ^^"^^^ --^ ^ '^''' ^^^^'^ *^^
fines thick the depth
of the inf
'* '' ^1 îês high, 6 lines deep inside, and 2|
^^^""^ ;
'i
internal cavity of the
lower portion is 2 lines
^- Chyteoma Idatimok, 721, tab. 289

nob. : LecvtMs Idatimon, Aubl. PI Gu. ii.
2i2
:
DC. Prodr. iii. 291 (excl. syn.) ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 453 : Lecythis hasizone, Berg
in Mart. PI. Br. I. c. p. 617 : artor magna, ramulis teretibus, cinereo-brunneis,
obsolete striatis, subverruculosis ; foliis oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in acumen
obtusum subbreve subito attemiatis, margine subrevoluto obsolete crenato-ser-
ratis, rigide chartaceis, supra fusco-viridibus, subnitentibus, vel subopacis/nervis
tenuibus, subpatentibus, semiimmersis, creberrime reticulatis, costa tenui, subtus
opacis, cinnamomeis vel hepatice ferrugineis, nervis venisque flavidis paviUo pro-
minulis, costa prominente, nitida; petiolo profunde sulcato, marginato, subtus

corrugulato, limbo ISplo breviore : recemis axillaribus, brevissimis ; rachi flexuosa,
valde vcrruculosa, nodosa ; floribus approximatis, subparvis ;
pedicellis calyce lon-
gioribus, validis, rubris, lenticellis albis verruculosis ; sepalis acute ovatis, rugu-
losis ; petalis subinaiqualibus, ovatis, concavis, imbricatis, incarnatis : pyxidio
parvo, subgloboso, imo turblnato; paullo supra basin zona calycari annulari e
sepalis rcflcxis 6-lobata cincto ; vitta interzonali erecte subconvexa, diametri Mam
l)ariem alta ; zona superiore integra ; operculo alte convexo, umbonato, intus concavo,
4«-8«'ptato, cum vclario latiusculo intra faucem dependente ;
pericarpio crustaceo-
coriaceo, d-loculari, dissepimentis membranaccis sistentibus ; seminibus in quolibet
loculo soUtariis," ventre angulosis, noivosis, amaris. In Guiana: v. s. pi. in herb.
Mus. JBrit., Cayenne {Auhlet) {fnictum non vidi).
The fnioti fci-ons spccluKMi collected by Poiteau in Guiana, and called by Berg Z. hasi-
zonr, is nidcntly identical with Anblefs plant. The same species is said to grow in
Trinidad, where it is called Gnnfiaan\ in Cayenne it is known by the name Idatimon.
Its trunk is GO fcot high, with a branching head; the axils of branchlets are | in.
its
tipart; the leaves are

6-5J or more long, l|-2 in. in. broad, on a petiole 4-5 Knes
h)ng, and with about 18 pairs of nerves, with others shorter intermediate, all anasto-
mosing; the racLIs of the raceme is l\-2 in. long; the pedicels, curved and deflected,
4 lines long ; the sepals 3 lines long ;the petals about J in. long ; the pyxidium (Plate
TiTX. fig. 17) is IJ in. long, IJ in. broad ; the calycary zone is 1^ in. in diam., aad
6 lino=; above tlu' base ; the intcrzonarr band is about 3 lines high ; the upper zone li in.
in diatn. ; the operculum, of the same breadth, is G lines high, with a velarium which
descends 3 lines within the month.
Itt. CuYTBOMA SAIEBKOSA, nob. : Lecythis salehrosa. Berg in Mai-t. Fl. Bras. /. c. p. 488
arborca, raraulis griseis, striatis, verruculosis ; foliis sparsis, ovah'-oblongis, sffp«
compUcatis, imo in petiolum nngustatis, apice recurvato-acmninatis, marginibus
subrcvolutis iutcgrls, vel obsoletissi me serrulntis, utrinquc nitidis, concoloribus,
nems erecto-patulis, mox in venis vix tenuioribus promiuulis anastomosantibus
petiolo canaliciilato, limbo (>~9plo breviore: racemis axillarihus et terminalibu?,
foUis brevioribus, dense pruinosis; ra(>hi gracili,
flexuosa, angulosa; bracteis ca-
dncis; pedicellis torosis, recurvis; sepalis parum
brevioribus, ovatis, vel ovato-
oblond«. obtusis petalis subrotundis, denticulatis
;
ovario infero, toroso, 4-locuhiri,
;
OTulis e basi erectis, vertice radiatim striato ; stylo longiusculo. In Guiana Batavn,
ad coloma Bcrlyn {If elUchlegel, non
1472) : vidi.
;;
Berg states that this comes near L. corrugafa (which belongs to the genus
species
Eschweilera) it is
: nearer Chytroma Idatimon, and perhaps does not differ from it spe-
cifically. The leaves are 3-6 in. long, 16-28 lines broad, on a petiole 6-8 lines long
the raceme is 2-3

long, f-1 in.
in. broad ; the pedicels 2 lines long ; the hud 5 lines
in diam.; the sepals |-2 lines long, j-1 line broad; petals 5 lines long; style IJ
line long. •
17. Chytroma valida, nob. : ramulis vahdis, teretibus, pallide brunneis, pruinoso-
opacis, subrugosis yel interrupte striolatis, yerruculosis ; foliis ovalibus, utrinque
rotundiusculis, apice brevissime et subito constrictis, marginihus valde undulatis,
integris vel obtuse serratis, rigide chartaceis aut su.bcoriaceis, supra pallidis, opacis,
minutissime granulatis, nervis parallele patentibus et sensim incurvatis prominulis,

costa sulcata, subtus concoloribus, costa nervis venisque reticulatis prominenti-
bus ; petiolo profunde sulcato, late costato-marginato, limbo 9plo breviore : racemis
validis, subpaniculatis, terminalibus, foliis brevioribus, aut longioribus ; rachi crassa,
compresso-angulata, ochraceo-opaca, pruinosa, nodis crassis subapproximatis pro-
minentibus ; floribus caducis ; pedicellis brevibns, crassis, lenticellato-verruculosis,
adnodos articulatis; sepalis obtuse obovatis, glauco-pruinosis, crassiusculis, mar-
ginihus tenuibus laceratis; petalis oblongis; ovario semiinfero, crebre flavido-
maculato, verruculoso, 4-loculari, ovulis
4 in quoque loculo basilarihus, vertice intra
discum latiusculum conice elevato, et stylo brevissimo umbonato, lenticeUis crebre
verruculoso. In Nova Granada v. s. in herd. SooJc., inter Plato et Pinto [Eorton,
:
929).
W J-
This species has

much of the habit of a Courmipita ; the axils of its branchlets are 1 in.
apart; the leaves
are 6| in. long, J in. broad, on a thick petiole 9 lines long, 2 Imes
3
oroad, and they
have about 18 pairs of parallel nerves arcuately joined ; the racemes are
6-9 Ikes long,
2-2| lines thick, its prominent nodes are 3-5 hnes apart ; the pedicels
line long
; the semiinferior ovary is obconical, 2 lines long, 3 lines broad ; the sepals
S and broad ; the flower, expanded is 1 in. in diameter. Prom the resem-
Ki„.
blan r^ ^^f
""-ê of its habit to of were
^
that of Lecytkis €lUj>tica, it might be placed alongside it,
« not for Its

erect ovules ; bnt it resembles greatly that of Chytroma retma.
Chytroma rtjbriflora, subferrugineo-ochraceis,

nob. : ramulis striatis, rimosis,
pruinoso-opacis,
lenticeUis verruculosis foliis ovato- vel oblongo-ellipticis, imo
;
ojusis, et in petiolum breviter acutatis, apice in acumen breve latiusculum
?
^^8«m recurvatum subeoriaceis, subintegri« vel
constrictis, rigide chartaceis vel
marginihus cartilagineis fusco-viridibus, subopacis,
^ subrevolutis crenulatis, supra
P^^^^î^ divaricatis semiimmersis, reticulatis, costa tenui prominula, subtus
,l\!X
^^•^mtentibus, luride
vel hepatice opacis, costa striata, pulverulenta, prominente,
''^'^'^''^ stramineis
minute granulatis petiolo semi-
terl7 prominuUs, nndique ;
7-8plo breviore: pani-

cuk''
':^,''^^''^''^^^^> marginato,
subtus carruguloso, limbo
^^lan et terminali e rachi striata, crebre nodosa
racemis 3-4 con-estis ;
;
floribus parvis, rubris, vel roseo-purpureis ; pedicellis recurvis valde corrugulatis,
calyci sequilongis ; sepalis subimbricatis, ovatis, obtusis, fuscis, crassiusculis, rugu-
losis, marginibus submembranaceis rubris ; petalis parvis, rubris ; ovario infero,

parvo, turbinate, corrugulato, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 3-4, e basi erectis,
rcrtice subconvexo, radiatim striate ; stylo tereti, subincurvo ; stigmate parvo, albo.
In •Guiana: v. s. in herb, Mus. Brit.y Cayenne (Van Uohr), Karaouary {Sagot,

1032, bis).
This plant was confounded by Sagot with another of bis collection under the same
n Timber, described by mc under Eschweilera corrngata : from this it differs in its shorter,
l)roadcr,more obtuse leaves, of a rufescent hue, with a different nervation, in its inflo-
rescence, and in its 4-celled ovary. It is not unlike Lemjthis rubicunda in its general
} 1 1 ) pea la uco, but differs in its broader more obtuse leaves, in its inflorescence, in its
nigulose pedicel and ovary, and in the vertex of the latter; it has also fewer ovules, erect
(not suspended).
It is said to be a lofty tree, with red flowers : the axils of its branchlets are |-1 in.
t ; the Icavos arc extremely dark when dried, 3-5 in. lonff,
0» li-21
-^2 -"4 in. broad, on a
petiole 5-6 lines long, and with about 10 pairs of nerves, with several others shorter
nnd intermediate, anastomosing in a transverse reticulation. The very branching
all
l)aiiiclr, Is 8 in. loTig, its slender branches about 2 in. long,

with nodes 1 line apart; the
pedicels 2 linos long the sepals IJ line long.
;
10. CniTJ:<»NrA nosEA, nob. Lecythis rosea, Spruce; Berg in Mart. Fl. Br.
:
/. c. p. 488:
ramulis subteretibus, subflexuosis, fusco-brunneis, lenticellis
flavidis verruculosis
foliis subapproximatis, ovatis, vel ovali-oblongis,
aut sublanceolatis, imo obtusis,
vel in petiolum seusim aeutioribus, apice obtusis, vel brevissime
et acute acuminatis,
subintegris, vol in margine revoluto obsoletissime
serrulatis, sajpe complicatis,
rigide chartaceis, supra profunde viridibus, nitidiuscuHs,
et ad venas reticulatas sub-
foveolatis, nereis subpatentil)us et marginem versus arcuatim nexis onmino im-
mersis, subtus opaeis, ferruginco-hepaticis,
glauco-pruinosis, nervis tenuibus venis-
quc reticulatis prominulis, costa valida, striolata, valde
prominente ; petiolo pruinoso,
profunde sulcato, marginibus tenuibus introflexis,
subtus ruguloso, limbo ll-14pIo
brcviorc racemis axillaribus, vel pluribus
: terminaUbus, paniculam simulantibus,
foho brevioribus; rachi fusca, glauco-pruinosa,
striata, subapproximatim longe
nodosa bracleis infra nodos caducis
; ; ad nodes articulatis. corru
pedicellis
r frnctis, qtiam sepala longioribus ; floribus mediocribus ; sepalis oblongo-ovatis, sub-
obtusis, sul)Lnsqualibus, crassis, fuscis, pruinosis,
rugoso-carinatis, imo gibbosis,
margmibus membianaceis et ciliolato-denticulatis 3plo
; petaHs obovato-oblongis,
longioribus, crassiusculis, marginibus
membranaceis et denticulatis ; ovario semi
infero, ikuvo, corrugate, 4.1oculari,
ovulis in quoqnc loculo 4, e basi erectis, vcrtlcc
mtra discum elevate, conico, radiatim striato;
stylo subulate subincurvo; stigmate
mmuno, squamuloso. In Brasilia, prov. Amazonas
: v, s. in herb, variis, Eio iXegro,
mter Barra et Barcellos ( Spruce, 1920).
The axils of its branchlets are
| in. apart; the leaves are 3^8 in. long, lî ^"-
: :
Broad, on a petiole 3-6 lines long : the terminal raceme is with nodose
in. long,
2J-3
axils about J in. apart ; the refracted pedicels are 3 lines long ; the sepals 3 lines lonc^,
2 lines broad ; the petals 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines broad ; the androphorum 4 lines in
diam. ; the style 2 lines long : the flower expanded is 1^ in. in diameter.
20. Chtteoma eoeida, nob. : LecytUs rorida, Spruce, Berg in Mart. PI. Bras. I. c. 488
ramuKs crassiusculis, fuscis, flexuosis, angulato-striatis, corrugulosis,
verruculosis,
roride pruinosis, junioribus tenuioribus et laevioribus; foliis subapproximatis, obo-
vatis, imo obtusis et subito cuneatim acutatis, apice rotundatis, et in acumen sub-
breve acutum recurvulum repente constrictis, saepe complicatis, subintegris, vcl
ad marginem subrevolutum punctis fuscis obsolete serratis, rigide chartaceis, supra
profunde viridibus, yalde opacis, ad nervos subsulcatis, nervis tenuissimis subpatenti-
divaricatis semiimmersis et flavide pruinosis, valde reticulatis, costa pruinosa, pro-
minula, suhtus pallidioribus, brunnescentibus, pruinoso-opacis, costa striolata ner-
visque costatis prominentibus, venis prominulis petiolo supra piano, marginibus late
;
introflexis, subtus corrugate, limbo 9plo breviore : panicula terminali pluriramosa,

ramis folio subaequilpngis aut brevioribus, ramulis paucis brevibus, curvatim ad-
scendentibus ; rachi recta, fusca, angulosa, transversim corrugulosa, albido-pruinosa,
yerruculosa, approximatim valde nodosa; floribus 30-50, mediocribus; pedicellis
imo articulatis, anguloso- corrugulosis ; sepalis istis aequilongis, subaequalibus, rotun-
dato-obovatis, extus convexis, granulato-rugulosis, ad marginem membranaceum
subcihatis petalis subinaequalibus, ovatis,
; imo sensim unguiculatis, marginibus late
membranaceis ; ovario semiinfero, 4-loculari, ovulis 2 in quoque loculo, placenta
basaU erectis, vertice intra discum
valde elevato conico radiatim striato ; stjlo tenui
mcurvulo, brevi, apice cavo,
albidulo. In Brasilia, prov. Amazonas ; v, s. in herb,
variis, ad Bio Negro prope Barra {Spruce,
1797).
1 nave referred this species to Qhytroma on account of its few erect ovules in each of
ae 4 cells of
the oyary. The axils of its branchlets are J in. apart ; the leaves are 4-5
!»• ong,
l|-2 in J broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long ; and they have about 14 pahs of
nerves,with others shorter,
intermediate, all anastomosing ; the panicle is 7 in. long, its
^ranches 4 in. long,
its branchlets 1-3 in. long, all floriferous, with nodose axils 1-2 lines
apart the
pedicels 1-2 lines long 1 line broad the petals 6
;
; the sepals 2 lines long, ;
4 hnes broad ; androphorum 4 lines in diam. ; style 2 lines O*
^^^^^^' ^°^- *
^^^y^^^^ retusa. Spruce, Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras. I c. p. 487
r^^r^^
ramuhs^ vahdis
subangulatis, fuscis, vel cinereo-fuscis, rugosis, verruculosis, sub-
Pnimosis foHig late ovatis, latiuscule
;
vel late oblongis, imo obtusis et in petiolum
^ subito acutatis,
apice truncatis, profunde retusis, interdum cum acumine brevis-
simo
curvato in sinu subito constrictis, subintegris, vel marginibus undulatis
8ub^ ^''f^''^^
^ .^^'^ punctis fuscis supra subnitentibus, pro
f„«f obsolete serrulatis, coriaceis,
fund
reticulatioue impresso-rugulosis, minutissime granulosis, ad nervos
snlcat'^''^^^^-^'
^^^^^ ^^^luibus, recte subapproximatis, pruinosis,
divaricatis, paralleUm
imme^*
rsis,
creberrime reticulatis, pruinosa, subtus canescenti-
costa plana, imo latiore,
;
pallidis, vel luride et fulvide pruinosis, nervis costatis, veniaque reticulatis promi-
nulis, costa valida fusca striata p rominent e ;
petiolo valido, fusco, pruinoso, supra
sulcato, submarginato, subtus corrugulato-striato, limbo lOplo breviore : panicula
axlllari, saepius terminali, multiramosa; folio longiore ; ramorum rachi valida, ad-
scendente, angulato-rugosa, opaca, crebre longe nodosa; floribus majusculis, ap-
proximatis ; pediccllis ad nodos articulatis, fuscis, rugosis, angulato-sulcatis ; sepalis
rotundatis, fuscis, crassiusculis, granulato-verruculosis, gibbosis, marginibus mem-

L
branaceis ciliato-denticulatis ; petalis subinaequalibus, oblongis, unguiculatis, eras-

siuscuHs, extus grunulato-maculatis, marginibus membranaceis, ciliatis ; ovario
infcro, breviter turbinato, vel semigloboso, ruguloso, 4-5-loculari, aut interdum
3-locuIari, ovulis in quoque loculo 2-4, e basi erectis, vertice intra discum latum
subcoricavo, radiatlm striato; stylo tereti, striato, sepalis pauUo breviore ; stigmate
albo, 4-lobulato. In Brasilia prov. Amazonas, v. s. in herb, variis, Rio Negro
prope Buna {Spruce , 1166).
Prom its general resemblance, especially in the venation of its leaves and the peculiar
a racier of tUo inflorescence, this species bears more the appearance of a Couroujpita ; but
c section of the ovary shows that it belongs to Ghijtroma ; it closely resembles Chy-
oma valida. The axils of its rather stout branches are about | in. apart; the leaves
^ 8:5^-()| in. long, 2^^ in. broad, on a petiole 6-12 lines long, ; they have about 18
irs of ptirnllcl nerves, with others shorter intervening, all anastomosing. The panicle
about 8 long, its brunc-hes 2-2 J in. long, their prominent nodes 2-3 lines apart;
in.
c pedicels 1 line long ; the sepals IJ line long ; the petals 11 lines long, 7 lines broad
drophorum 9 lines in diameter.
22. C nob.: Lecythis oval/folia, DC. Prodr. D iii. 292; B

Mart. ri. Br. I. c. p. 48G ; in Linn, xxvii. 453 : ramulis teretibus, striatis, ochraceo-
opacis; foliis majuscnlis, oblongis, vel lanccolato-oblongis, imo rotundatis, vel ob-
tusis, npiVem versus sensim angustioribus et in acumen breve obtusatum atteuu-
atis, subiutegris, vel punctis fuscis obsoletissime serrulatis, supra vu-idibus, Isevibus,
nervis numerosis divcrgenti-adscendentibus paullo prominulis, reticulatis, costa
tenui. imo crassiorc, subtus concoloribus, valde opacis, nervis tenuibus stramineis
promlnuli'^, costa striolata
prominente; petiolo semitereti, supra piano, marginato,
corniguloso, limbo 15-20plo breviore: racemis binis,
terminaUbus, folio multo
brevioribns; rachi subvalida, nodoso-flexuosa, pallide ochracea, pruinosa, crebre
Tcmiculosa; pediccllis validis, patentibus, vcrruculosis, sequilongis, imo
sepalis
3-biacteolatis; sepalis subfrqualibus, subrotundis,
ochraceo-pruinosis, gibbosis, mar-
gino ciliatis petalis ovatis, convexis, velutino-pruinosis; 4-locu-
j ovario semisupero,
lari,ovulis in loculis paucis, uniserialiter
radiantibus, vertice altiuscule annulari,
subcf)nenvo, striatim radiato; stylo obtuse prov.
conico, umbonato. In Brasilia,
Amazonas, p. #. m herb. Hook., Rio Negro (Martins).
This typical plant of a species referred
by DeCandolle and Berg to Lecythis, appears
me to belong to Chytroma, because
of its eaves, its inflorescence, with three bracts at
:

245
the base of the thick pedicels, and a half- superior 4-celled ovarj ohtusely
umhonated at
the summit. The axils of its branchlcts are j-lj m. apart the leaves are 5-10 in. long, ;
l|-4 in. broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long the rachis of the raceme is 3-4 in. long, its
;
nodes 2-2 J lines apart the bracts, 2 lateral, 1 exterior, are J line long ; the pedicels
;
1
2 lines long the sepals 1 line long, 1 j line broad ; the petals 10 lines lono*.
;
It has quite the habit of the other species of Chytroma before enumerated.
—ramulis
1
23. Chytroma apiculata, nob. :

brunneis, opacis, lenticellis verruculosis
;"
fohis ovato-ellipticis, imo obtusis (in junioribus ad petiolum breviter acutatis), apice
in acumen breve vel longius, acutum, ssepe recurvulum subito apiculatis, sub-
integris, vel in margine cartilagineo revoluto punctis obsolete serrulatis,
rigide char-
supra pallide viridibus, subnitentibus, minutissime granulatis, nervis paullo
taceis,
prommulis, reticulatis, costa striata, subtus brunnescentibus, opacis, costa validiore

prominente, nervis venisque prominulis; petiolo fusco, canaliculato, corruguloso,
limbo 15-20plo breviore : racemo axiUari, simplici, folio multo breviore, vel 2-3
terminalibus congestis ; rachi nodosa, fusca pedicellis tenuibus ; calyce duplo lon-
;
gioribus, angulatis, rugulosis floribus majusculis

; ; sepalis ovalibus, carnosulis, imo
gibbosis et rugulosis; petalis ovatis, majusculis, concavis; ovario semisupero,
tuberculatim rugoso, 4-loculari, ovulis paucis e basi erectis,
vertice depresse pulvi-
nato, elevato, radiatim striato, stylo brevi, obtuse conico umbonato. In Brasilia
V. s. in herb. Sooh, sine loco {Burchell, 9618).
A species probably from the Amazonas
by Burchell's number it is
region, judging :
P ced m this genus on account

of its nearly superior ovary umhonated by a short
corneal style,
and approaches the preceding in several characters. The axils of its
ranches are
linesông,
In
1 in. apart;
AX.
the leaves are 3i-5i
-"vvo «,iv^ ^^ ^^ in.
ixx. —
lon<?,
xwxXq, lf-2i
^-4 ^2 in.
*ax. broad,
K/iî*^, ^^^
on a petiole
^^^^^^^ 3-4
^
and have about 10 pairs
of nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all
anastomosing the
terminal raceme is 2-3 in. long ; nodes of rachis 1-2 lines apart ; the
;
oêr m bud is
| in. in diam. ; sepals 1 J line long, petals 7 in. long, 6 in. broad.
• ^^'^ôîA Mauawynensis, nob. Fl. Br.

; LecytUs Marmcynensis, Berg in Mart. I. c.
âi^^lis subrugosis cinereis; foliis ovato-oblongis, vel oblongis, imo

obt'^-^^^^'
usis et m petiolum longiuscule acutis, apice in acumen breve obtusulum ssepe
^^^^*° conslrictis, chartaceis, subundulatis, integris vel obsoletissime
serr^T-^^
rru atis,
nervis tenuibus venisque reticulatis parum
subpatuHs arcuatim nexis
ter^^^^^ '
^^*^°^° ^^^^ 8-9plo breviore : panicuUs vel racemis axillaribus et
^°^^^^^'
pruinosis; rachi graciU; pedicellis cernuis; bracteis ovatis,
memb ranaceis,
•
caducis; sepalis pedicello ^quilongis, in^qualibus, oblongis, obtusis,

^^^
"'^/^^ranaceis et crenato-denticulatis
.^^
petaHs obovatis, albis, in siccitate
flavif ;
^^^^-^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ loculo 4, biseriatis, e basi

erecti^
4-5.1oculari, ovulis in quoque
^?-^® convexo, radiatim striolato; stylo longiusculo. In Guiana Batava,
SuriT,.'
A
^PP^rently near O. leaves somewhat cuneate at
*<>i"
xxx!^^ chartacea, differing in its
1
the base, but agreeing in its semiinferior oyaiy, witb erect ovules^ on wbicli account it
is refcired to this genus; the leaves are 2-3 in. long; 9-17 lines broad, on a petiole 3-4
lines long; racemes 3 in. long; pedicels l|^-2 lines long; sepals 1-2 lines long; petals
5 lilies long; androphorum 5 lines in diani. ; style 1 line long.
-
25. Ckytroma perspicua, nob. ramulis fuscis, subcinereis, lenticellis flavidis verru-
:
cosis ; foliis oblongis, imo subacute obtusis, apice acutis, vix acuminatis, tenuiter
chartaceis, subintegris, vel in marginem tenuiter cartilagineum subrevolutum punctis
nigris obsoletissime supra viridibus, subnitidis, minutissime granulatis,
serratis,
nervis tenuibus prominulis, subtus paullo pallidioribus, valde opacis, sub lente lenti-
ginose pruinosis, nervis venisquc rcticulatis flavidis prominentibus ; petiolo canalicu-
lato, fusco, limbo 12plo brcviore : racemis axillaribus, fere terminalibus, folio multo
brevioribus, plurifloris ; floribus mediocribus ; pedicellis subreflexis ; sepalis 8, sub-
scqualibus, oblongis, obtusis, crassis, fuscis, valde convexis, rugulosis, imo gibbosis,
imbricatis ; petalis 8, istis 5plo longioribus, obovatis, concavis, submembranaceis,
imbricatis, androphori carnosi galea selliformi, appendicibus creberrimis, subbrc-
vibus, plerumque antherifcris, sericbus 2 cxterioribus latis acutis sterilibus ; ovario
,
infcro, 4.-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo plurimis radiantibus, vertice intra discum
valde convexo, radiatim striate ; stylo brcvi, crasso, umboniformi. In Guiana : v. 8.
in herb. Hooh.^ Guiana [PoUeau, sub LccylMs platycarpa).
A species differing horn Lecy this platycarpci, Poit., in its less-pointed leaves, its shorter,
straight, and slender raceme (not long, stout, and geniculated), its much smaller flowers,
its 8 sepals, 8 petals, and a ^-celled ovary. It approaches much nearer to Chytroma
amam in its habit and inflorescence but its leaves are less pointed, have shorter petioles,
;
flowers with 8 sepals, 8 petals, and an ovary whose vertex is less elevated, and a more
umboniform style. Its leaves arc in. long, 2
Q\~1i J-2f in. broad, on petioles 6-7 lines
long; the raceme is 1-1 1long; pedicels 4 Unes long, striated; sepals 3 lines long,
in.
2 lines broad ; petals 12 lines lono:, 6 lines broad.
6. EscuwE (Plate XXXIV. c.)

The previous remarks upon the structure of this genus
(ant^, p. 165), showing how it
diTcrges from Lccythls, with which it has
been generally confounded, are sufliciently
ample, requiring no further elucidation here.
It differs from Chytroma its ovar^- in
bf>ing always 2-locular, and its pyxidium constantly 2.celled ; its seeds are more rugose,
mibedded raphe. Its generic characters may be summarized in the following
manner
;w£iLERA, Mart.; DC. Prod. 293: Lecythis (lu parte) Berg, Camb
iii.
petala ut iii Lecythide : androphorum ci cjusdem simile, sed cum galL

orari-um Bemunfcnm, turbinatum, vertice intra
discum planum clevatoi semper 2 -locidari; ovula iu
quoqne loculo panca, sessilia e basi
erccta, aiiati-opa stylus brevissimus. obtusus stiama minimum,
:
:
subglobosum, papillosum. Pii.ridwn, mpr7iV.^vo „«i .„k .
infra
ona c ah cart
\ supmor orbicuUuIs operculuni couforme, mox
: isti solubile et dcciduum, supra convexum
;

247
saepius umbonatnm, concarum, sine columella, dissepimenti mox eranidi
infra valde
vestigio signatum,
cum velario intra marginem propc faucem dcsccndente munitum: pericarpium (operculumque)
paullo
crassum, coriaceum, sine axi ceutrali, primura 2-loculare, dissepimento ssepius
evanido. Semina in
quoqae loculo 1-3, sicca, ovata, interdum pressione subangulata, utrinque
rotundata, erecta, hilo
rugosa
ad apicem faciei ventralis adscendente omnino immersa, cujus ramis plurimis longitudinaliter descen
internum
~
O " Q- «.*-*w-„«. pjwv^v^ ^J^L^L..^ iLI.K7VJ. l*.\^l>U.l.iX , l^tlVUl Ul. exalbuminosus
fuscus, cerco-carnosus, amarus^ structura ei ChytronKB similis.
krhores frondos(S Americ(S meri
1. EscHWEiLERA ANGrsTiFOLiA, Mart. PI. Katisb. XX. (1837), Beib. ii. S9: Leci/this
angustifolia, Eerg (excl. syu.) in Mart. El. Bras. I.
c. p. 489, tab. 7. fig. 162;
tab. 70 et 71 :
ramulis tenuibus, teretibus, fusco-brunneis, corrugulato-striatis, ob-
solete verruculosis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, imo subacutis, apice in acumen
angustum calloso-mucronatum sensim acuminatis, margine
cartilagineo subreyoluto
leviter crenato-sernilatis,
chartaceis, supra viridibus, opacis, ad nervos subremotos
sulcatis,
venis reticulatis prominulis, subtus brunnescentibus,
opacis, costa nervis-
que prominentibus petiolo fusco, tenuissimo, submarginato, ruguloso, limbo
;
10-12plo breviore racemis terminalibus, folio breyioribus, racM tenui, lenticellata,

:
5-8-flora pedicellis calyce

; longioribus minute granulosis ; calyce brevi, rotato-
ciipiiliformi, margine crenato-lobatp, lobis 6 obsolete rotundatis extus minute
verruculosis; petalis distincte 4, ovato-rotundatis, concavis, sub^qualibus, albis,
flavide punctatis; ovario subinfero, bemisnhêrice turbinato, flavide ver uculoso
2-locula ovulis
1, plurimis, e basi radiatim erectis, vertice depresse pulvinato
radiatini striato,
stylo brevi, obtuse umbonato : pyxidio subgloboso, imo hemi-
spli
et stipitato, infra medium zona calycari lineari-circulari cincto; vitta
uaii acclive conyexa, diametri 7am partem alta; zona superiore quam altera
e, Integra, circulari
; operculo yitta duplo altiore, sensim conyexo, apice um-
mtus concavo,
, septi yestigio notato, intra marginem yelario descendente
pencarpio subcrassulo,
>
coriaceo, striato-ruguloso, septo evanescente demum
^^'^^^^^^> seminibus angulato-oyatis, erectis, 2-seriatis. In Brasilia,
V^^'
^^ ^^^^^^"^ '
^- * ^^ ^'^- ôot, Monte Corcoyado in sylyis {Martius, 61)
CWc
rcovado
d
{Qraham)', Serra d'EstreUa
{Langsdorf) : fmctus mihi non visus.
Tills
^^^^^'
^^^lly described in the distinguished from aU othei
of the ^f ^""^f Ratisbon Plora, is
^*^ ^-petalous flowers. bearing the
a tree 30-40 feet high,
i
^^rnacuC^^ It is
^^ ^^«n5«-mw/». Its trunk is bare to the height of 20 feet, with a wide
•^readin/i^^^^
^^® .^^^^^ ^^ its slender branchlets are J-f in. apart; the leaves are
^^3 J in'' lo^^
patent
^^^^ ^ôs.^, on a petiole 2-3 lines long, with about 8 pairs of sub-
nerês^' ^\i^^^
^^^^^^ ^^ 1-li long, the pedicels lJ-2 lines long, the expanded
^^^^ of the' 1
in.
expanded ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^™' "^^^^ ^^^^ * ^^^^ ^^^^^' obsoletely lobed the flower
2 T ;
**ât ^^^ ^ ^^*^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^' ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ *^^^ number is con-
accordinD.T^^^ ' '
aJways ^^rtius, as shown in the plates quoted ; but Berg states that he found
6 petl^^
^' probably
in those of the following ^pecies which he confounded with
^ species,
2k:2
;
this. The pyxidium (Plate LIX. fig. 20) is 2J-3 in. long, 2^-3^ in. broad in the
middle, the portion below the calycary zone 1 upon a stipitate prolongation in, high,
in. long the interzonary band is 5-6 lines high ; the operculum 2-3 in. in diam.,
J ;
1-1| in. high, hollow within, provided within the margin with a descending velarium
1-5 lines deep ; the pericarp, obsoletely 2-locular, is 3-4 lines thick on the sides, nearly
J in. at the base, where it is marked by the hilar cicatrices of 10 erect seeds, which are
1 in. long, Martius
in. broad.
says that the seeds are imbedded in pulp, " carne parca
f
e septo propullante," an improbable circumstance when the seeds, in 2 series, are sessile
upon the bottom of the pericarp, and contrary to what occurs in every other species.
2. EsrrrwETLERA compressa, nob. : Lecythis compressa, Veil. Tl. Plum. p. 222, Icon. v.
tab. 87 : ramulis brunneis, terctibus, rugose striolatis ; foliis ellipticis vel elliptico-
oblongis, imo obtusis, ssepe subito acutatis, apice longiuscule attenuatis et recur-
vulo acuminatis, grossiusculc smuato-dcntatis, dentibus obtusis, marginibus pauUo
refl^'xis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, planis, opacis, nervis pluribus, tenui-
bus, scmiimmcrsis, valdo reticulatis, costa tenui, subtus opacis, brunnescentibus,
rosta ncn-vis venisquo prominentibus ; petiole subtenui, supra piano, subtus Icviter
striolato, limbo 15-20plo breviore: racemo terminali, subbrevi; rachi subtenui,
striata, minute granulata, 5-6-flora; floribus mcdiocribus; pedicellis brevissiniis
calycc subcupulari, usque ad medium in lobos 6 diviso, lobis obtusis, margini-
bus mcmbranaceis ; petalis 6, rotundatis, concavis, extus flavide maculatis, ex-
terioremajusculo et latissimo; ovario subinfero, corrugulato, 2-loculari, ovulis
puucis, in unica srric crectis, vertice depresse conico, striato, stylo brevi obtuso
apiculato : pyxidio depresse globoso, imo hcmisphserico, non stipitato, paullo supra
medium zona calycari linea irrogulari vix prominente cincto ; vitta interzonal!
acclive convexa, diametri partem alta zona superiore quam altera paullo minora,
i ;
irrcgulariter cii-culari; operculo subconice convexo, umbone crasso obtuso apiculato,

intus concave, scpti vestigio signato, intra marginem velario crasso faucem descea-
dente aucto ; periearpio crassiusculo, pallide brunneo, subscrobiculatim ruguloso,
inhis Levi, dissepimento omnino evanido, imo seminum cicatricibus notato ; se-
minibus saipius 6, vel paucioribus, 1-seriatis, compresse ovatis, dorso convexis, hilo
lato basali afTixis, fusco-brunneis, imdique scrobiculatim rugulosis, lineis nigris cir-
eitor G
sulcatmi immersis ab hilo curvatim adscendentibus signatis.
In Brasilia, prov.
Eio do Janeiro v. tf. injlore ebjnictu ad Botofago, in sylvis
:
non longe a mari.
Tins spocies, though closely allied, manifestly different from the preceding, being of
is
s^nialler stature, with larger, thicker, paler leaves
coarsely serrated, a raceme with fewer
ilowors half their size, a more distinctly lobed calyx, and 6 oval petals. It is a tree
nbout 12 feet high, growing near the sea,
the species being well represented in the
f TeUoz the axils of the branchlets
: are J in. apart ; the leaves are 3
1-lf m. broad, on a petiole 2^-3 lines long, and
with about 11 pairs of nerves; the
raceme is f
1 in. long, with axils about 4 lines apart;
pedicels 3 lines long; the calyx
.^xpnu.led hues across (the disk being 2 lines in
1. 1
diam.), the smaller petals suborbi-
muur, 6 hue. long and broad,
the outer petals 7 lines long. 6 Hues broad, extremely
;

249
conYex, pale yellow ; andropliorum 5 lines in diam. ; the pyxidium (Plate LIX. fig. 21)
is 2 in. long, broad, the calycary zone 9 lines above the base, the interzonal band
2^ in.
is 4J lines high, the upper zone and operculum 2i in. in diam., the latter 1 in. high,
hollow, snb-2-celled within, with a velarium descending 3-4 lines within the mouth ; the
pericarp, 2 lines thick, shows upon the inner surface the line of the evanescent dissepi-
ment ; tjie seeds are 1 in. long, | in. broad ; the coriaceous testa is 1 line thick on the
dorsal face, slightly thinner on the opposite face.
3. EsCHWEiLEEA EiGiDA, nob. ramulis fulvo- vel fusco-brunneis, pruinoso-opacis, sub-

:
angulatis, interrupte sulcatis, cortice rimoso subverruculosis ; foliis elliptico-ovatis,

imo in petiolum breviter et subito acutatis, apice in acumen recurvatum acutissimum
repente attenuatis, subintegris, vel marginibus cartilagineis vix revolutis punctis
nigris obsolete serrulatis, rigide chartaceis, supra viridibus, subopacis, minutissime
granulatis, nervis parallele divergentibus, prominulis, costa carinata, subtus pal-
lidis, opacis, valde ochraceo-pruinosis, nervis venisque grosse et crebre reticulatis pro-
minulis, costa striata, prominente ; petiolo canaliculate, marginato, subtus corru-
gulato, limbo 10-1 2plo breviore : panicula terminali, 3-ramosa, ramis simplicibus,
alternatim 16-20-floris ; pedicellis sulcato-corrugulosis ; sepalis obovatis, rotundatis,
margme denticulatis, extus carinatis, ovarioque granulatim rugosis, pruinosis;
petalis ovatis, crassiusculis ; ovario infero, turbinate, 2-locplari, ovulis 2-3 in quo-
que loculo, e basi erectis, vertice
piano, pauUo elevate, radiatim sulcato ; stylo tereti
sepahs dimidio breviore : pyxidio
oblongo-ovato, utrinque obtuso, imo pyriformi,
circa medium zona calycari e vestigiis sepalorum obsolete 6-lobata cincto ; vitta inter-
zonali vertical!, diametri
4tam partem alta ; zona superiore Integra circulari ; operculo
vitta multo altiore, pulvinato et alte obtuso-umbonato, subtus concavo, linea disse-
pimenti signato, cum pericarpio coriaceo,
velario crasso intra faucem descendente ;
crasso, granulatim scrobiculato, pallide brunneo, 2-loculari. In Venezuela, versus

Brasiliae confinia
: v.pl.s. in flore et infnictu immaturo in lib. Book., Eio Guainia
{^l^Tuce, 3505); v.fr. s. in Mus. Kew.,^îo Guainia {Spruce).
A
comparatively small tree, river Guainia, or
20 feet bi^h, from the banks of the
pnucipal source
of the Eio Negro, flowing from the mountains of New Granada.
^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ racemes are l-lj in. apart are in. long (including
; the leaves 3j-6i
the
^ ^ ^^^^^ °^ parallel
immersed the raceme-like branches of
scarcely visible nerves ;
the
^^^ ^~^ ^'^' ^^''^' ^^*^ about lines apart the pedicels
2 linT"^^^ prominent nodes 3 ;
^^° *^® upon the flowering
^^P^^^ ^4
' line lon^, 1 line broad. The unripe fruits
snpn-"
Kpw
êw Ar""'
^'''^ "^^""^
M
êpressedly luromate,
"^p^csseuiy turbinate, |
f m.
in. Ion-,
long, 1
i m.
in. broad
oroau but
uui the
lmc ripe
xx^jv. fruit
^^^^- in
-- the ;
:
—
^"^^^^^ ^^'
^^' 1)' ^^^^ ^^^ same locality, is extremely different in
form le T"^""to
»
'
*^^g
•''
"^ the
'"" suininfii+irKn
supposition +T.«4. u ^'^T,^ i,„i ^ +«
that it might belong to a-nnihe^v
another snecies
species not seen bv
by
Spruce -f
"^1 '^^^^^^î' elongated in form, 3 J in. long, with a calycary zone IJ in. above
^^^ has^
^^ ^' '"^ ^^^- ' ^^^ interzonary band is and in. high
^he UD J in. in diam., J 2i
high, quite hollow
^"""^ operculum are 21 the latter If in.
^tliin\..fr''
"*^> With a fra«/^ ^4?
trace of a
single dissepiment,
_.,,.*. in. in diam.,
velarium
,
descending
. 1 j:„™ tî^^ +!.«
into the
and a thick
;;
for a depth of 5 lines ; the operculum is

J in. thick at the umhonate summit, 3 lines
thick at the sides ; the hody of the pericarp is f in. thick at the bottom, 4 lines thick
the sides ; within are 4 cicatrices, where the seeds were attached.
4. EscHWEiLERA SERRULATA, nob. ramulis teretibus, fuscis, substriatis, lenticellatis

I
foliis ovatis, imo rotundatis, et in petiolum breviter acutatis, sursum

sensim paullo
angustioribus, et in acumen subbrcve obtusulum subito constrictis, in maroine
cartilaginco subrevoluto crenato-serrulatis, dentibus fusco-glandulosis,
chartaceis,
supra profunde viridibus, valde opacis, subplanis, nervis tenuibus
divaricatis vix
prominulis, rcticulatis, costa tenui, carinata, flavida, prominula, subtus
luride bnm-
nescentibus, pruinoso-opacis, nervis venis(iue flavidis prominentibus,
costa striolata,
flavida, promincnte ; petiolo marginato, corruguloso,
limbo 15plo breviore : racemis
tenmnalibus, folio multo brevioribus rachi subflexuosa, subnodosa
; : pyxidio sub-
globoso, imo hemisphajrico ad medium zona calycari indistincta cincto; vitta
;
inter-
zonali acclive convcxa, diamotri 5tam partem alta zona
superiore Integra, quam caly- ;
caris paullo minorc ; operculo convexo, apicc umbone

majusculo obtuso apiculato,
intus concavo, disscpimenti vestigio signato, cum vclario
intra faucem descendentc;
pericarpio crassiusculc coriacco, fusco-bruimeo, opaco,
subljevi, lenticellis flavidis
sparsis maculato, intus obsolete 2-loculari, imo
cicatricibus seminum signato. In
I^msilia srptcnt. :
v. pi s. in Mus, Brit., Maranhao ( G«r^;^^/', 6028) in Mus,
; v.fr. s.
Keio. (Gardner).
A low tree orshrub, 8-12 feet high, in dry

woods near Maranhao it is a species near :
£. compresm, difToinig in its larger and more ovate leaves and

somewhat lar-er fruit the :
of its luanchlcts are j-l in. apart ; the leaves

are 3-5i in. long, l|-2i in. broad
a petiole 2^-4 lines long, with about 13 pairs of yellow
Gardner says (Trar. p. 107) that its fruit is different
from that of another species he
saw at Pcmainbuco [Chjtroma Iblriba). The
pyxidium (Plate LX fi- 4) is 2i in.
long, 2| in. bro.d at the calycary zone, which is 1 in. above the base
; the interzonal band
IS 1 m. high the upper zone and operculum 2^ in. in diam.,
;
the latter 9 lines high, with
the Yclanum descending 3 lines within the
mouth ; the pericarp is about 2 lines thick
the scods are about 1 in. long, 6-8 lines
broad, dorsally rounded, angular on the faces,
not granosely rugose (as in P. comprcssa),
but smoother, subrugose, minutely granular,
with the branches of the raphe semiimmersed.
6. EsCKWKiLEBA iÊNBLERiANA, nob. ramis crassis,

: rugosis: ramulis fuscis, opacis,
subbreviter flexuosis, angulato-striatis ; foliis
ovalibus, imo rotundatis, vel obtusis,
npice rotuncUusculis, et in acumen brevissiinum
obtusulum recurvum abrupte con-
stnctis, subintcgris, vel ad marginem cartilagineum
revolutum punctis obsolete
sciTulatis, rigide coriaccis,
supra pallide viridibus, erebre
punctato-granulosis, nervis
tcnm^simis omnino immersis, eveniis, opacis,
circa costam prominulam sulcatis, subtus
palhdissimic:, opacis, nervis pronunuUs,Tems crassis creberrime favoso-reticulatis, costa
promincnte imo crassiorc ct fuscata petiolo
profunde canaliculato, fusco, corrugulato,
;
lunho 12plo breviore racemis in

: ramidis noyellis terminalibus, hinc paniculain pauci-
;;;

251
floram simulantibus ;
iloribus majusculis, pedicellis longiusculis,
sulcatis, rugulosis
sepaHs ovatis, siibinaequaliLus, subgranulosis, rubentibus, pulyerulento-opacis,
mar'
o 'ne membranaceo subdenticulatis ; petalis oyatis, submembranaceis luteis •
ovario
fere supero, 2-loculari, ovulis paucis erectis, vertice alte conico ; stylo
subbrevi
umbonato cum stigmate minimo subobsolete ciliato : pyxidio depresse globoso, imo
turbinate et obtuse sulcato, infra medium zona calycari e vestigiis sepalorum cineto
vitta interzonali fere erecta, summo subconvexa,
diametri quartam partem alta ; zona
superiore orbiculari ; operculo yalde depresso-pulvinato, subplanato, medio obtuse
umbonato, subtus concavo, dissepimenti vestigio signato pericarpio coriaceo, sub-
;
2-locular seminibus in quoque loculo 2, majusculis, oblongis, lateribus pi

oribus, imo affixis ; testa rufula, granoso-scrobiculata. In Venezuela : l. c. v. s. in
herb. Eook., Tovar {Fendler) ; v.fr. s. in Mus. Kew. (Fendler).
This species comes near U. ovata in appearance : the axils of its flexuous branchlets are
about \ in. apart; the leaves are 2-2f in. long, IJ-lf in. broad, on a petiole 3 lines long,
and have about 8 pairs of divaricated nerves
curving near the margin, the reticulation
* the
veins being notably areolated ; the panicle is
3 in. long, its ^yi^^v.iiXV.LO 1-1^
XV.O branchlets J. J.ii. Ion
J.2 in. XWiXg Q,
bearing few flowers the smooth slender pedicels are 7 lines lohg ; the flower expanded
;
IS
2 m. across; the calyx expanded is 6 lines across the sepals 2 lines long and broad;
;
the petals 10 lines

long, 5 lines broad ; the ligula of the androphorum, including the
basal rmg, is 11 lines long the semiglobular head, 10 lines in diam.,
; is densely echinated
^vith flattened linear acute appendages : the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 6) is IJ in. long,
2|
e
in.
broad, its turbinate base
interzonal band, somew^hat
9 lines below the calycary zone, which is ^ in. in diam.
convex, is 8 lines high ; the operculum is 2 in. in diam.,
nearly flat, and,
including the umbonate tip, is ^ lines high ; the pericarp is about J in.
tiiick the seeds are 1 in.
; long, | in. broad.
SCHWEILERA GrANABARiCA,
nob. : ramulis teretibus, cinerascentibus, opacis, corru-
âto-striatis, lenticelHs
flavidis sparse verruculosis ; foHis ovato-oblongis, imo ob-
^sis, vel acutioribus,
apice subito acute acuminatis, in marginibus revolutim
crenatis punctis
supra viridibus, in nervis semi-
obsoletissime serrulatis, chartaceis,
immersis sulcatulis,
transversim reticulatis, costa tenui pauUo prominula, subtus
pa lonbus, costa
1^ nervisque promiuentibus ; petiolo tenui, fusco, supra sulcato,
^jrgmato,^ corruguloso,
limbo 8plo breviore : racemis brevibus, axillaribus, pauci-
^^ns pedicellis fructiferis
; brevibus, incrassatis : pyxidio mediocri, truncato-turbi-
^^^^^^^^^P^^^^'iô, medio zona calycari subevanida cineto ; vitta interzonali
sube'
erecta, ^t
acclive convexa, diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore quam caly-
^^
^^^^^*^°^^' circular! ; operculo depressissimo, minime convexo, centr
s^pLrf
^'•^ ^^^^' ^^^^^^ l>reviter concavo, septi vestigio
signat^
obtuse umbonato, intus
^^^^^ ârginem pericarpio crasso,
\...^^^: velario ad faucem descendente aucto;
^run neo,
°^^^^* ^^guloso, verruculato, 2-loculari, dissepi-
'neuto f
punctis par vis flavidis
îo de
jIn
^^''^^^^ 4-6-spermo ; seminibus ut in compressa. In Brasilia, prov.
K
^^^^^^ {Mattos).
This s
*
•
^' ^^* ** ^^fi'^^^^^^ *^ ^^^^^- *?^^^» Marica
P^cies, from
the province of towards Cabo Trio, is
Rio de Janeiro, on the coast
very distinct from the two first mentioned. The |-faxils of its slender branchlets are in.
apart the leaves are 2-2| in. long, 11-21 lines broad, on a petiole 3-4J lines long, and
;
with about 10 pairs of nerves. I have not seen the inflorescence ; but the fructiferous
raceme is 1 in. long : the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 7) is turbinate below the middle, is
2 in. long, 2J in. broad at the calycary zone, which is 13 lines above the base ; the inter-
zonary band is 5 lines high the upper zone and operculum 2 J in. in diam. ; the latter
;
is much flattened above, is only 3 lines high, obsoletely bossed in the centre, or with an
obtuse umbonate point, 2 lines high ; it is concave and subbilocular below, not very
thick, and with a velarium descending 3 lines within the mouth. the pericarp is stouter ;
4
than in U. compressa, is 3 lines thick, white, opaque, and granulose in the mouth to a
depth of 4 lines, where the velarium was attached, subpolished and brown below, where
it is transversely ridged by the evanescent dissepiment. The seeds are ovate, subangularly
rounded, scrobiculatcd and grooved along the furcated branches of the imbedded raphe,
arc 11-12 lines long, and 9 lines broad; in ail the hollows of their surface we see a
wliitc elllorcscence, noticed before in p. 166.
7. Escii^TEiLEBA IDATIMONOIDES, nob. : Lecythls idatlmonoides, Berg in Mart. PI. Br.

I. c, p. 49G, tab. 73. fig. 3 : arbuscula, ramulis pulvcrulcntis, verruculosis ; foliis
sparsis ovali-oblongis, imo in petiolum attenuatis, apice acuminatis, subintegerrimis,

Tcl in marginem rcvolutum punctis obsolete serrulatis, chartaceis, supra nervis
tenuibus, patcntim divaricatis, pauUo prominulis, costa sulcata, subtus nervis venisque
reticulatis prominulis, costa promincnte ; petiolo canaliculato, limbo IGplo breviore :
raccmis axillaribus, folio brcvioribus ; rachi vaKda, flexuosa, pauciflora ; floribus

mnjusculis; pedicellis validis, sulcatis, recurvis, calyce 2-4plo longioribus ; sepalis
ovatis, vel ovato-oblongis, obtusis, insequalibus, crassis, convexis, carinatis petalis
;
ubovatis, aurcis; ovario semisupero, 2-loculari, vertice elevato, verruculoso, stylo

brcvi conico umbonato ; pyxidio turbinate, imo rotundato, infra medium zona ealy-
cari e sepalis majuscnlis acutis inflexis linea nexis cincto; vitta interzonali sub-
verticali, diametri 8 ram partem alta; zona superiore Integra; operculo circulari,
« quam vitta 3plo altiore, quam zona latiore, pulvinato, dein conice convexo, obtuse
umbonato, iiTcgulariter rugoso, subtus concavo, cum velario subangusto intra
fauccm descendente. In Guiana Batava {JFullschlvegel, 203) non vidL :
The above aeount is taken from Berg's description ; it appears to differ from Z. Ida-
tiinon, ilubl., in its
arborescent habit, somewhat smaller leaves, longer pedicels, much
larger flowers, longer and nnrrower sepals; from Z.
WullschlcBgelii (K macrophylla), in
its much smaller leaves,
more acute at base, with shorter petioles, and stouter racemes.
II approaches K
longipcs, and perhaps scarcely differs from it it has
the same-shaped ;
Iraws (though smaller and with shorter petioles) its

inflorescence is remarkably like, »
;
stout flcxuous rachis of the same length, with few

very large flowers upon very Ion O
pedicels, thickened at the apex, and its fruit of
similar size and of the same proportions;
^ differs from E. ovata in its more
oblong leaves, in its shorter raceme, with fewer
flow shorter and stouter pedicels. Its leaves, somewhat distant, are 4
IJ in. broad, on a petiole 2-3 Hnes long; the rachis of the raceme is 11-2^ in. long,
;

253
stout, flexuous, few-flowered ; flowers very large ; pedicels thickened al)ove, 10 lines Ion
pals 2-2i lin. Ion- 1^-2 lin. broad ; petals 14 lines long androphorum 9
; lines in diam"!
style } line long: pyxidium (Plate LX. 9) 20 Unes long; caljcary zone 7 lines
fig.
above the base, 2 in. in diam., with persistent sepals 6 lines long, and as broad
at their
base ;
interzonary band nearly 2 in. in diam., and 3 lines high ; operculum 2 in. in diam.
lines high
8. EscHWEiLEEA COREUGATA, nob. Lecythis corrugata, Poit. Mem.

Mus. xiii. 145, tab. 3
: •
DC. Prodr. iii. 292 ; Miq. in Linn. xxii. 175 ; Berg in Linn,
xxvii. 453 ramulis :
subvahdis, teretibus, obsolete rugoso-striatis, fuscis vel paUide brunneis, flavide

lentieellatis foliis
elongato-oblongis, vel obovato-oblongis, imoobtusis, et in petio-
;
lum breviter aut sensim acutatis, apiee in

acumen acutum vel obtusulum s^pe
canaliculatim recurvum sensim aut repente attenuatis, integris vel in marginibus
cartilagineis^subrevolutis punctis obsolete serrulatis, coriaceis, supra lêviusculis,
opacis, neryis tenuibus fere
immersis, obscure reticulatis, costa pauUo prominente,
subtus pallidioribus,
ferrrugineo-opacis, nervis venisque reticulatis prominulis, costa
vaUda prominente petiolo fusco, canaliculato, valde corrugulato, limbo 12plo bre-
;
viore racemis in axilHs solitariis, vel 2-3

: fasciculatis et terminalibus, folio bre-
vionbus; rachi flexuosa,
longe nodosa, angulato-striata, nodis approximatis cum
pedicellis articulatis; pedicellis recurvulis rugosis, ovarioque transversim valde
corrugulatis sepalis oblongis, crassiusculis, granulatim rugulosis, carinatis, margi-
;
nibus membranaceis obsolete denticulatis ; ovario semisupero, 2-loculari, ovulis

P unbus erectis, vertice alte
conico, laevi, stylo brevissimo tereti apiculato : pyxidio
ma 0, imo obcouico, creberrime et grosse
corrugato-rugoso, supra medium zona
ca ycari e
sepalorum vestigiis linea nexis cincto vitta interzonah diametri tertiam ;
reviore, erecta; zona superiore orbiculari; operculo pulvinato, convexo,

tuse
umbonato, intus concavo, vestigio dissepimenti signato, cum velario
aucem late dependente;
pericarpio coriaceo, crebre transversim corrugulato,
îssepimento fere
evanido obsolete 2-loculari; seminibus in quoque loculo binis,
^ IS, basi affixis.

raonary {âgot,
In Guiana : v. 8. in herb. Mus. Brit, et Booh, Cayenne {Martin) ;
1032); Demerara {Tarler) ; v.fr. s. in Mm. Kew. {Farker)

*^^^* ^^® ^^^^^ covered by a thick bark composed of more than 100
mvl- VT^*
^^^.^^® ^~^
long; flowers pink; pedicels 4-5 Hn. long; sepals 2 lin.
^^ i^-
^°^g; pet I^
IX.
^^•^' '^^^^' ^ ^^^*
^^^^^ ' androphorimi 5 lin. diam. ; pyxidium (Plate
figs iV
and li_ii ^l }^ t! "^^ ^^' ^^^^' ^hH
in. broad ; calycary zone G-7 Hues above the base,
^ lines ^^,,^' ' interzonary band 2-3 lines high ; operculum 1-1 in diam
hLx!^'
"Ô^, With a Vplayii^,^
velarium t !• _ JT . r^-, ,' 1.1 '1.
1 line deep ; pericarp 2 J lines thick
ESCHWE
144 tab 1
^^^^^^^s, nob. : Lecythis longipes, Poit. (non Benth.) Mem. Mus. xiii
453'. y^' ^!
^^' ^ ^ ; DC. Prodr. iii. 292 ; Miq. Linn. xxii. .175 ; Berg, Linn, xxvii
^^^^^^^' sulcatis, fusco-ferrugineis, opacis, pruinosis, verruculosis
foliis
obT •
ÔL. °^^^^' ^^^ obtusis et in petiolum ssepe acutatis, apice in acumen sub-
XXX.
2
254i MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.
abrupte constrictis, subintegris, vel in margine tenui valde

acutum vel obtusulum
serrulatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis, in
revoluto obsoletissime
nervis semiimmersis sulcatis, reticulatis, costa plana, immersa, fusca, pruinosa, imo
crassiore, subtus pallidis, opacis, nervis venisque valde prominentibus, costa strio-
lata, fusca, promincnte ;

petiolo fusco, sulcato, marginato, subtus ruguloso, limbo
lOplo breviore : racemis axillaribus et terminalibus ; rachi valida, angulata, fusco-
ferruginea, scabride pruinosa, 6-15-flora ; floribus majusculis, laete violaceis ; pedun-
cuHs tenuibus, longissimis, striatis, subscabridule velutinis, fuscis ; sepalis oblongis,
obtusis, crassiusculis, subinaequalibus, rugulosis, carinatis, margine ciliatis ;

petalis
magnis, oblongis, concavis ; ovario infero, semigloboso, granulato-rugoso, 2-loculari,

ovulis plurimis, erectis, vertice piano, flavide opaco, vix striolato ; stylo brevissimo,
umbonato : pyxidio depresse turbinate, imo rotundato, infra medium zona calycari
e sepalis acutis inflexis linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali erecta, diametri 8vam
partem alta; zona superiore integra; operculo primum pulvinatim convexo, dein
. late rotundatim umbonato, vitta 3plo altiore, subtus concavo, cum velario intra
fauccm dcsccndente; pcricarpio obsolete 2-loculari; seminibus 2-4, ovali-oblongis,
costatis. In Guiana v, s, in herb. Mus. Brit., Cayenne [Martin) fruct. non vidi.
:
;
A tree 25-30 feet high ; the axils of its branchlets |-1 in. apart ; the leaves are 5^-7
in.long, 2 J-3 J in. broad, on a petiole 5-7 lines long, with about 16 pairs of nerves, very
prominent beneath, irregular in their direction ; the rachis of the raceme is stout, about
4 in. long, its nodes 2-3 lines apart ; the slender pedicels, slightly thickened above, are
10-18 long; the sepals 2 J lin. long, 2 lin. broad; petals 15 lines long, 10 lines
h'nes
broad androphorum 1 in. in diam. The pyxidium (Plate LX. figs. 12, 13) is IJ in. long,
;
2 in. bioad at the calycary zone, which is 6 lines above the base ; the interzonary band
3 lines high ; the operculum 2 in. in diam., 9 lines high ; pericarp apparently thick, with
2, sometimes 4 seeds, 6 lines long, 4 lines broad.
10. EscnwEiiEEA LUTEA, nob. : Lecythis lutea, Aubl. PI. Guian. ii. 721 : Lecythis Ion-
gi])es, Benth. (non Poit.) in Ilook. Journ. Bot. ii. 321 : ramulis teretibus, sulcatis,
brunneis, opacis, viTruculosis ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis, imo obtusis, apice sensim

longe ct acute acuminatis, subintegris, vel ad marginem cartilagineum revolutum
punctis obsoletissime serrulatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis, nervis
patule divergentibus, dein adsccndentibus, paullo prominulis, reticulatis, costa strio-
lata, subtus pallidis, opacioribus, minutissime granulatis, nervis venisque promi-
nentibus ; petiolo fusco, sulcato, subtus corrugulato, limbo 4!-5plo breviore : racemo
tcrminali, brevissimo, 3-floro; pedicellis approximatis, calyce 4plo longioribus,
tenuibus, apice inflexis ; sepalis 5, oblongis, obtusis, crassis, extus convexis, opacis,
granulatis, imo
marginibus vix tenuibus, obsolete denticulatis ovario fere
gibbosis, :
onmino supero, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 6, e basi erectis, vertice pulvinato,
elevato, flavide opaco, con-ugulato ; stylo late conico ; stigmate minuto, papilloso,
albido. In Guiana {Auhlet) : v.s. in herb. Soolc., Guiana Brit. {Schomburgh ^^^)-
Tliis plant quite agrees with Aublet's short description of his Lecythis lutea. K
;

255
differs from Lecythls longipesy Poit ,

in its narrower, more lanceolate leaves, gradually
much attenuated, less coriaceous,
ot sulcated in the nervures, with
i
different nervation,
upon shorter petioles, in the extremely short rachis of its terminal receme, hearing
only
3 approximated flowers upon more slender pedicels, in having only five sepals,
an almost
superior ovary, with an elevated conical summit. "The leaves are 4^-7 2
2 '4 long
on a petiole 2J-4 lines long; pedicels 16 lines long, slender and
broad,
striated
sepals 4 lines long, 2 J lines broad ; the petals and androphorum
are wantino- in the
specimen I have seen.
EscHWEiLERA VEERUCIJLOSA, nob. : LecytUs vermmlosa, Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras. I. c,

502 :
Lecythls pedicellaris, DO. (in parte) Prodr. iii. 292 : ramulis gracilihus, cortice
palhdo, lenticellis verruculosis foliis sparsis, ovali-ohlongis, imo
; obtusis et in peti-
olum subito brevissime acutatis, apice sensim attenuatis, subinte^ris
vel in maro-ine
tenui revoluto et subundulato obsoletissime ulatis, tenuiter chartaceis sup
vu'idibus, subconvexis, minutissime granulatis, ner^ds plurimis tenuissimis parallel
patule divaricatis, semiimmersis, reticulatis, costa prominula,
subtus albide pruinosis,
pauUo prominulis, costa crassiuscula prominente petiolo canaliculato, limbo
;
10-15plo brevio racemis 3-4 congestis, axillaribus, vel plurimis aggregatis et

tcrminalibus, folio brevioribus rachi recta, ancrulosa, flexuosa, subrubescente,
18-30-flor bract ovatis, concavis, deciduis; pedicellis recurvis, subsecundis.
rubentibus, corrugulatis palis oblongis, rotundatis, brevibus, patentibus
gulatis, rubenti-viridibus, dorso margine membranaceis et ciliolatis
petalis obtuse vel rotundato-ovatis, viridi-albis ; ovario fere supero, turbinato, gros-
uloso, 2-loculari, ovulis plurimis e basi erectis, vertice intra discum
elevat
pulvinato ; stylo brevi umbonato. In Brasilia ad Amazonas, in Eio
I^ egro {Mart. 2817)
vidi
Berg states that
J- DeCandoUe founded his Zecythis pedhellm is on three specimens
Martius's herba rium,
consisting of the leaves of this species mixed with the flowers of
Lecyth ibm and as the flowers have long pedicels in the latter, and short ones in
the present
^r „
^te perfect
instance,y he suppressed —
the species named by DeCandoUe, and established
plant under the
more appropriate designation of verruculosa. Berg says
differs from B corrugata
in its more membranaceous leaves and racemose flow The
leaves are 2 2-41
jj^^ J^j^
J3> 4 2 in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long the rachis of the ;
stout and straight.

3 1 1 •
QP
]i-4i in. long, bearing 18 to 30 flowers, the pedicels
*^^ ^^^^^ i^ lûd 6 lines in expanded 6 Hues in diam
^n«ir?i-^^^'
'*pais lime
diam.: calvx
lone ,
I
ESCHW
Blanchetiana, nob. Lecythls Blmichetiana, Berg in Mart. El. Bras
:
I.
p. 495 Linn, xxvii. 455 Lecythls ovata, var. ovalifoUa, Berg in Mart. Fl
:
Br•as. I c.
pp. 498 et 618, pi. 7. fig. 154 : Lecythls odoratissima, Salzm. MSS ra-
°^îs paliide
bru nneis, vel cinereis, interrupte striatis, valde verruculosis; foliis
valibus imo rotundatis
vel obtusis, et in petiolum brevissime acutatis, apice sensim
2l2
;;:
;
obtusis, et in acumen breve obtusnlum sgepe recurvulum constrictis, subintegris,

vel ad marginem cartilagineum subrevolutum punctis obsolete serrulatis, coriaceis,
supra pallide viridibus, subopacis, nervis vix prominulis, subtus ochraceo-opacis,
nervis venisque reticulatis prominulis ;
petiolo crassiusculo, limbo 20plo breviore
panicula terminali vel in ramulis novellis racemiformi, folio tertia parte breviore
rachi fusca, angulata, creberrime nodosa ;
pedicellis calyci subsequilongis, ad nodos
articulatis ; scpalis insequalibus, rotatis, oblongis, crassiusculis, rugulosis, margine
vix ciliolatis ; petalis late ovatis, concavis ; ovario semisupero, imo obsolete turbinate,
2-loculari, loculis superioribus, ovuUs plurimis e basi radiantibus, vertice intra discum
elcvato, depresse pulvinato, radiatim striato ; stylo late et breviter conico umbonato
stigmate minimo, subgloboso : pyxidio subgloboso, paullo supra medium zona caly-
cari indistincta cincto ; vitta interzonal! acclive convexa, diametri 4tam partem alta
zona superiore orbiculari, quara inferior paullo minore; operculo depresse pulvi-
nato, umbonato, subtus concave; pericarpio coriaceo, 2-loculari, loculo uno fere
ubortivo, altcro paucispermo; seminibus ovatis, angulato-subcompressis, pallidis;
testa cartila ginea, rapbe ramosa signata. In Brasilia, Ealiia (sec. Berg, JBlanohef
382 et 3110 a.): v. 9. in herb. Uoolc, Baliia {Salzmann) \ Bahia {Talbot) : fmet.
non vidi.
This species is considered by Berg a variety of JS. ovata ; but it differs in its more
apiculated leaves, ia its inflorescence, more superior ovary, and
from E, temx its fruit ;
in its smaller, more oval leaves, and almost panicular terminal inflorescence. The leaves
arc 3i-4i in. long, 16-24 lines broad, on a petiole 2-3 lines long, and bave about 12
pciirs of nerves, with others shorter intermediate, all anastomosing : the rachis of the
racemes is
1-1 J in. long, with flowering nodes 1 line apart pedicels 2 lines long; flower
;
expnnded IJ in. across; sepals 2 lines long, IJ line broad; petals 8 lines long, 6 lines
broad iigula of androphorum covered at its base for half its length
;
with staminiferous
appendages, ^-ith the hood densely echinated with sterile
appendages. The pyxidium
(Plate LX. fig. 14, from Berg's description) is Ij in. long, IJ in. brbad ; calycary
xonc 9 lines above the base; interzonary band 4 lines high;
operculum IJ in. in diam.,
5 lines high.
13. EscHWEiLERA L^viPOLiA, nob. Lecytlm IwvifoUa, Griseb. MSS. ramulis angulato-
:
:
stnatis, verruculosis foliis maximis, ovato-oblongis,

; imo rotundis, apice obtusis,
vel 111 acumen breviusculum subacutum
recurvulum attenuatis, subintegris, vel in
margine cartilagineo subrevoluto obsolete serratis,
valde coriaceis, supra viriduKs,
opacis, in nervis late sulcatis, nervis
parallele subdivergentibus, vix prominulis,
crcbrc reticulatis, subtus ochraceo-pallidioribus,
valde opacis, subpruinosis, nervis
promnmlis, costa striata prominente, imo latiore
profunde et ; petiolo valido, f usco,
anguste eanaliculato, subtus corrugato, fusco,
limbo 14plo breviore paniculis ter- :
mmdibus, foUo subbrcviorlbus ; rachi crassiuscula,

fusca, ramisque nodosis angulato-
stnatis pediceUis longiusculis, validis, sulcatis,
; obsolete verruculosis ; scpalis ovatis,
crassiusculis, imo gibbosis, extus pulverulentis, verruculosis,
intus flavidis petalis
;
;

257
ovatis, convexis, submembranaceis, flavis, extus imo subvariolatis ovario infero ;
minute lenticellato, 2-loculari, ovulis 4-6 in quoque loculo, erectis, vertice depresse
pulvinato, stylo brevi crasso umbonato
pyxidio turbinate, imo obconico, sulcato,
:
sub medium zona calycari e sepalis 6 linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali acclive
convexa, diametri dimidium alta; zona superiore circulari, integra; operculo ignoto.
In ins. Trinidad v, 8. in kerb. Hook., in flore et in fr. immaturo
:
{JPrestoe) ; idem
(Cruger, 302); idem in sylvis {Purdie, 37); v.fr. a. in Mus. Keic. (Furdie).
The axils are |-1 apart
leaves are 4J-12 in. long,
in. ; Jtlie
in. broad, on a petiole
3|-6
4-8 lines long, and witb about 13-15 pairs of nerves, with otbers sborter and interme-
diate; the branches of the panicle, or racbis of the racemes are 2-3 in. long;
with nodes
2-4 lines apart the pedicels are 3 lines long the calyx expanded 6 Mnes across
; ; is ; the
sepals 2} lines long and broad ; the petals in the bud 9 lines long, 6 Hues broad ; the
androphorum, with a fleshy bare ligula 4 lines wide, has a broader semiglobose head,
very
convex, very densely echinated within by innumerable
sterile appendices; the style is
} line long; the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 15) is a little gibbous by the semi-
abortion of one of the cells, is 1^- in. long without the operculum; the calycary zone is
7 lines above the base, l^ in. in diam. ; the interzonary band, very convex, is 8-9 lines
high the upper zone entire,
; 1^ in. in diameter.
•J
14. EscHWEiLEEA ovATA, Mart. : Lecythis ovata, Camb. PL Bras. Mer. ii. 378, tab. 158;
Berg in Mart. PI. Br. I. c. p. 467 (exc. syn. plur.) ; Linn, xxvii. 454 : ramulis rugu-
losis, interrupte striatis, pallide brunneis, vel glauco-opacis, lenticellis majuscuhs
flavidis verruculosis imo obtusis, aut acutioribus, supra
; foliis ovaH-ellipticis,
medium sensim rotundiusculis, apice
in acumen acutum vel obtusum canaliculatim
recurvum constrictis, in
margine paullo revoluto obsolete serratis, aut fere in-
egris, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, sublucentibus, ner\as prominulis, reti-
culatis, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, nervis tenuibus venisque paullo prominulis,
costa striata
prominente ; petiole canalicnlato, margmato, granulatim ruguloso, Hmbo
2plo breviore
: racemis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, solitariis vel binis, folio
«îilongis rachi tenui, tereti, striata, lenticellata floribus majusculis, odoratis ;
; ;
pedicellis tenuibus,
longiusculis, fuscis, striatis, patentibus vel nutantibus ; sepalis
ongis, obtusis, carinatis, marginibus crenulatis et serrato-denticulatis ;
petalis
ongis, concavis, margine denticulatis ; ovario infero, turbinato, pilosulo vel
Prumoso, 2.1oculari, ra-
ovulis in quoque loculo, erectis, vertice depresse pulvinato,
a im striate
; stylo subbrevi, imo conico, sensim tenuiore ; stigmate minimo albo :
^
^âcutis
am partem
1^ ^^âturo parvo, subgloboso, paullo supra medium zona
radiantibus linea nexis
cincto ; vitta interzonali angusta, erecta, diametri
calycari e sepalis
alta ; zona superiore inferiorem fsquante, orbiculari ; operculo depresse

-^^ ^^^êxo, longe et obtuse umbonato, intus concave, cum velario crassi-
uscll
^"^^""^ ^^^"^^^ dissepimento fere
descendente pericarpio coriaceo, 2-loculari,
;
evan-d
^"^^ gibbese unilaterali ; seminibus paucis, hilo basali affixis, Isevibus vel
obsolet^'
^^^ ?^^'^^^^^' In Brasilia Pernambuce {Gardner, 1023)
: v. s. in lib. mriis, circa
v.fr ^'
' ^"^ îiS' S:eio,,
:PeviiSimhuco (Gardner).
258 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E.
A small tree, about 20 feet high, ahundant in sandy woods about 10 miles from Per-
nambuco. St.-Hilaire found it as far south as Espiritu Santo ; and the specimens ao-ree
well with his drawing. The axils of its branches are |-1 in. apart; the leaves are 2A-4i
2 ^4
long, 11-21 in. broad, 'on a petiole 2-4 lines long, with about 12 pairs of nerves and
icrs intermediate anastomosed ; the rachis of the terminal raceme is
If in. long, with
prominent nodes 2-3 apart ; pedicels gradually shortening from 8 to 4 lines lono-
lin.
rtower in bud J in. broad, globular; sepals 2^ lin. long, 2 lin. broad; petals 10 lin.
long
5 liD. broad ; style 1^ line long; pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 16) 1^ in. high. If in. broad; caly
cary zone \ in. above base ; interzonal band 3 lines high ; upper zone and operculum
in diara.; operculum f in. high, its velarium 1 in. in diam. and 1 line deep; pericarp 2-celled.
15. R^r-TTWEiLERA LuscHNATii, nob. LecytMs Luschnatii, Berg in Mart. M.

:
Bras. I c.
p. 499, tab. 74
ramulis terctibus, pallide brunneis, rugulosis et verruculosis ; fohis
:
elliptico-oblongis vel anguste oblongis, imo obtusis et petiolum canaliculatim

mar-
ginantibus, apice brcvit<U' et obtusule acuminatis, ssepe complicatis,
integris, vel ad
margincm cartilagineuni paullulo revolutum obsoletissime crenulatis, riîde
charta-
CCI3, supra iiallidc virldibus, subluccntibus, nervis
vcnisquo reticulatis prominulis,
ad costam tonucm prominulam suloatis, subtus luiide bmnnescentibus, opacis, nervis
y('nia<iue prominulis, costa striolata prominonte petiolo subteaui, patente, marginibus
;
incurvis profundo caaalieulat o, subtus ruguloso, limbo 20plo breviore racemis in :
ramulis nxillaribus. rel pluribus congestis et terminabbus,

simplicibus, folio dimidio
brcvioribus ; pedicol is teuuibus, recurvis, calyee
1
4-6plo longioribus, pruinosis; sepalis
oblongis, n.scis, opacc pruinosis, imo gibbosis.
margine membranaceo ciliato-deuticn-
latis potalis oblongis,
marginibus dentieulatis ; ovario semisupero, turbinato, sulcato,
;
prumosc irrorato, 2.1oculari, oruUs in loculis pluribus,

e basi erectis, vertice pulvinato,
stnato ; stylo brcvi. conico, obtuso pyxidio immature depresse globoso,
:
imo obconice
turbinate, ad medium zona
calycari e sepalis auctis diyaricatis
cincto ; yitta inter-
zonali brovi, subconvcxa, diaraetri decimam
partem alta; zona supeiiore cii-culari;
opcrculo convoxo, pulviuato, apice alte et
obtuse nmbonato, cum yelario intra faucera
descendente pericarpio verruculoso. striato,
; punetis flavidis maculate, 2.1oculari. In
Bnis.Ua (sec. Berg), in prey. Ilhcos
(Lnselmutt, 65) ,;. s. in hb. Book, sine loco :
(Murchell, 9S83 bis, cum fructu immatuio).
A middling-sized tree. «dth the axils ef

brancMets about J iu. apart ; leaves
its
m onj. li-l„ m. broad, on a petiole 2^3 lin. long, and 3i-4|
witb about 12 pairs of nerves,
•"*^™'"1'^'''> "" anastomosed
^1°1
hn,ncl,IotsTn
r
;
linos long, each l-2-3-flo^vered
; raehis of
; slender pedicel 6-12
panicle 2* in. long, its
lines long flower in ;

budClnies broad; sopak 2 lines long;
petals 8 lines long ; immature
pyxTdimn (Plate
diam. : interz
' ^- ^"^ ^^''"'•' ^ ^'' '''=''• Martins states that its fruit
^Toll2f n
resembles ^^l
tliat ol VTr"'"""
i. Idatimon, Aubl., but is a little
lon-ep
r
ri
'^'
nlTÎ'^rt
Berg iuart. f
"fBr.
±1.
*»'^^> "°1>-
l. c. p. 618
= ^C!^l!'is plati/earpa, Poit.
Zeci/ihis longipes, var. platycarpa.
Mdm. Mus. xiii. p. 146;
:
DC. Prodr
;;

I
292 : ramulis brunneis vel rubesccntibus, lenticellis elongatis flavidis verruculosis

foliis ovato-oblongis vel oblongis, imo subrotundatis et in petiolum brevissime acu-
tatis, apice in acumen acutum subito attenuatis, crenulato-serratis, vel in margine
cartilagineo paullo revoluto punctis obsoletissime serrulatis, rigide cbartaceis, supra
' ^ r.
pallida viridibus, opacis, nervis tenuibus, subimmersis, arcuatim divaricatis, crebre

I
reticulatis, subtus opace flavidioribus, costa striolata nervis venisque prominentibus ;
petiolo validiusculo, fusco, tereti, marginato, limbo 16-20plo breviore: racemis

h
axillaribus et terminalibus, folio dimidio brevioribus; racM valida, geniculatim

flexuosa, valde nodosa, pluriflora ; floribus majusculis ;
pediceUis in alabastro brevi-
bus, demum longioribus, cum nodis articulatis, apice crassioribus, fuscis, pruinosis,
striatis; sepalis oblongis, obtusulis, pruinosis, convexis, crassiusculis, gibbosis,

medio tuberculatis, marginibus membranaceis et ciliolatis ;
petalis ovatis, albis
androphoro luteo ; ovario semiinfero, turbinato, 6-sulcato, 2-loculari, ovulis paucis e
basi erectis, vertice elevato, pulvinato, radiatim striato ; stylo brevi, obtuse conico
stigmate obsolete 2-lobato : pyxidio subparvo, depresse lentiformi, imo convexo, ad
,
medium zona calycari e sepalis inflexis linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali brevis-
+
sima; operculo circulari depresse convexo, umbonato, intus concave, cum velario
I
angustissimo intra faucem descendente aucto pericarpio coriaceo, 2-loculari, loculis

;
monospermis. In Guiana v. s. in lib. Mus. Brit, in

: flore, Cayenne {Martin) ;
Guiana {Anderson) ; in lib. Hook, et Mm. Brit., Karaouary {Sagot, 1139).

A large found in savannas round the town of Cayenne.
sufiPruticose tree, It is easily
distmguisbed from B. longipes by its larger and smoother leaves, longer inflorescence,
more granulated racbis,
more slender and other characters. Its leaves are
pedicels,
5-7| in. lono^,
2i4-3i in. broad, on a stout petiole 3-5 lines long, and have about 12 pairs
of slend er
nerves, with several others shorter intervening, all anastomosing; the rachis
of the raceme
about 2 J in. long, with prominent geniculate nodes 2-3 lines apart, with
is
pedicels articulated
on the nodes 2 lines long in the bud, 10 lines long in the flower; the
sepals are
3 lines long, 2 lines broad ; the flower in bud is globular, 1 in. in diam. ; the
Pyxidmm (Bate LX.
fig. 18) is IJ in. in diam., 6 lines high.
17. EsCHWEaERA PARviFOLiA, Mart, LecytUs parvifolia, Berg in

in DO. Prod. iii. 293
K
:
jrait Br. I 0. p. 496 et 618 pruinosis

^^.. ... ramulis
Linn _,... 455 teretiusculis, , :
ôliisôvato-oblongis, integerrimis, supra

imo obtusis, apice sensim acuminatis,
pallidis, l^y
ft
atis
venisque reticulatis vix
nitidis,^ nervis
^ __ , ,
visibilibus, costa pro-
îênte,
opacis, nervis tenuibus venisque prominuUs, costa prommente
-^jiie, subtus
petiolo teuui,
canaliculato, axillaribus et terminal!
limbo lOplo breviore : racemis
us, foHo
brevioribus ; racH gracili, 6-13-flora ; floribus mediocribus ; sepaHs sub
inaequaUbu imo gibbis
ato-oblongis, obtusatis, pedicello dimidio brevioribus
J.
-
^'^gine ciliolat
vîuoiatis
; petalis emiinfero, 2-loculari,
ovato-oblon^
stylo bre-
\
iimbonato : pyxidio parvo, oblongato, imo turbinato, paullo supra
Diedium
«^ zona calycari e
sepalis recurvatis linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali altius-
erecta zona altiusculo, con-
; superiore circulari, inferiori gequilata ; operculo
^^xo. obtus e
umbonato; obsolete 2-loculari, abortu
pericarpio coriaceo, rugoso,
;;
:
monospermo. In Amazonas, fl. Solimoes, Ega, in sylvis inundatis prope ripas lacus
(Poppiff, 2507) ; non vidi.
The above description is taken from that of Berg, and must not be confounded with
Z. partfijlora, Aubl. It is a tree 30-40 feet high ; the leaves are 2-6 J in. long, 8-36 lines
broad, on a petiole 5-7 lines long and they have about 10 pairs of imbedded nerves,
;
arcuately anastomosed and reticulated, scarcely visible above, little prominent below:
the rachis of the raceme is 1-1^ in. long the flower in bud J in. in diam. sepals ; line ; H
long; petals lines long ; style 1 line long the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 21) is 14 lines :
long, 6 lines broad calycary zone 9 lines above the base

; interzonary band 2 lines high ;
operculum 31 lines high.

*
18. EsciiWEiLEiLV TAiivirLOTiA, nob. : Lecythis parviflora, Aubl. PL Gu. ii. 717, tab. 285
et 287 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 292 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 453 : ramis dichotomis, ramulis
tcnuibus, fasco brunncis, striatis, vcrruculosis ; foliis oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in
acumen subacutum abrupte uitenuatis, integris vel in margine cartilagineo sub-
rcvoluto punctis obsolctissimo serrulatis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, sub-
T!itidiii, nervis tcnulsslmis subimmersis, reticulatis, costa tenui carinata fiavida pro-
minuln, subtus fulvide pallldioribus, opacis, nervis venisque prominulis, costa
sulcata promiT!f»nte ; petiolo fusco, subtenui, marginato, subtus corruguloso, limbo
12plo brcviore : paniculis axillaribus ct terminalibus, folio subsequilongis, ramosis
ruchi Ku])l(Miui comprossa, nodosa, pruinosa, ramis subtenuibus; floribus parvis,
odoratis; podiccUis tenuibus, brevibus, minutissime granulosis: pyxidio ovato, supra
medium zona eulycaii c sepalis divarieatis in lineam nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali
diamotri qiiintam partem alta, acclivc superiore circular! ; operculo
nttresequialto, convexc pulvinato, apice obtuse umbonato, intus concavo, dissepimento
t(?niu persistente, cum vebrio intra faucem longe descendente
pericarpio coriaceo, ;
incomplete 2-loculari, loculis l-spermis seminibus oblongis,

;
&'"> longitudinaliter
^wxxw striatis,
hilo basuli ailixis. In Guiana : v. s. in hh. Mus. Brit., Cayenne (Auhlet).
A shrub with a trunk 3 feet high the axils of
branchlets f in. apart ; the leaves
; its
are 3-5 in. long, If-lJ in. broad, on a petiole 3-4
Hn. long, and with about 12 pairs
of nerves divaricating and ascending near the margin, with
others shorter and inter-
inediate, all anastomosing; the panicle is 2 in. long, the
the slender pedicels 2 lin. long :
pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 19) is 1 inch long

the calycary .zone 7 lines above the base,
;
Jind 10 lin. in diam. ; the interzonal band is 2 Hn. high ; the operculum 8 Hn. in
diam., 3 Hncs Ligli, iîth a pendent velarium 3
lines deep ; the seeds are 9 Hn. long,
4 lin. broad.
10. EscnwEiLERA MICEANTHA, nob. ZecytJiis 451

: mlcrantJia, Berg in Linn, xxvii.
ramuHs subtenuibus brunncis, interrupte striolatis, opacis, remote vcrruculosis;
foHis oblongis vel lanceokto-oblongis, imo obtusis aut sape acutioribus, apicem
versus sensim angustioribus et in acumen longiusculum sêpe acutissimum vel
obtusulum sensim attenuatis, integris vel in
margine cartilagineo valde revoluto
punctis obsoletissime serrulatis,
chartaceis, supra l^viusculis, subopace viridibus,
:;
nervis patentim divaricatis et curvatis, semiimmersis, reticulatis, subtus ochraceo-
opacis, nervis venisque prominulis, costa prominente petiolo fusco, canaliculate, ;
marginato, subtus granoso-ruguloso, limbo 22plo breviore: panicula in ramis

novellis tenuibus terminali; racbi tenui, striata, fusco-pruinosa ; floribus parvis;
pedicellis tenuibus, calyce duplo longioribus ; sepalis parvis, rotundato-ovatis, valde

"
convexis, imo gibbosis, rotatis, marginibus membranaceis, ciliatis ; petalis obovatis,
concavis ; ovario semiinfero, granuloso, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 2, e basi

erectis, vertice pulvinatim elevato, radiatim striate, stylo brevissimo apiculato. In
Guiana Brit, interiore : v, s. in hh. variis, Rio Branco, Parimo [Schomh. 865).
This scarcely differs from X. parvijlora of Aubl. ; but its leaves are more pallid, witb a
somewbat different venation, with rather smaller flowers ; the leaves are 3|-5| in. loni',
lg-2 in. broad, on a petiole 2-3 lines long, and ^\dtb about 14 pairs of nerves, with others
shorter and intermediate, anastomosed; rachis of racemes If in. long; pedicels
all
J-1 lin. long; flowers in bud 3 lines in diam.; sepals \ line long and broad; petals
4 lines long.
V ,
- - V
20. EscHWEiLEEA SiBERiAXA, Mart. : Lecythis Sibenma, Berg in Mart. Fl. Br. I c.
p. 501 : frutex, ramulis verruculosis ; foliis ovalibus vel ovato-oblongis, imo rotun-
datis et in petiolum breviter acutatis, apice breviter acuminatis, subintegris vel in
marginibus undulatis obsoletissime subserrulatis aut serrulatis, chartaceis, supra
nervis tenuibus venisque reticulatis parum prominulis, subtus nervis costaque pro-
minulis ; petiolo canaliculato, limbo 12plo breviore : racemis axillaribus, foKo di-
midio brevioribus ; racbi gracilenta, flexuosa, pauciflora, pruinosa ; floribus majus-

culis ; sepalis parvis, insequalibus, rotundatis
;
petalis 12plo longioribus, obovatis
ovario subinfero, vertice subplano, stylo
2-loculari, ovulis pluribus basilaribus,
brevissimo vix umbonatosubgloboso, imo turbinatim rotundo,
: pyxidio subparvo,
ad medium zona
calycari e sepalis linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali subconvexa;
zona superiore convexa, In Brasilia ad Para
Integra ; operculo orbiculari, convexo.
{Siber) : non vidi.
A low tree or shrub,with leaves 3-4| in. long, 16-30 Hues broad, on a petiole 3-4 Unes
ong; rachis
of raceme 2-2^ in. long line long; petals 1 in. long; pyxidium
f-l sepals ;
^^' ^^' ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^' ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ calycary zone 5 lines above base inter-
' ;
zo 1
band 2 Hues high Berg states that this
; operculum 10 Hues broad, 3 Hnes high.
lP«îes
IS near
Chytroma Spruceana, differing in its shorter petioles audits 2-celled ovary.
• EscHWEiLEUA NANA, nob. Mart. PI. Bras. c, p. 617

: LectjtUs nana. Berg in /.
^^milis, caule suffruticoso, dense verrucoso; foHis sparsis, subsessilibus, ovatis vel
oyato-oblongis, imo obtusis serrulatis, glabris, supra
vel subcordatis, apice apiculatis,
violaceo-viridibus, reticulatis, prommulis,
glaucescentibus, nervis tenuibus venisque
s^Wus costa axillaribus et ter-
nervisque prominentibus, petiolis vix uUis racemis :
mahbus, folio nigro-violacea, glabra,

longioribus ; racbi valida, angulosa, flexuosa,
J r 1
P^î^^^s vaUdis, alabastro brevioribus ;
'
pedicello duplo longioribus, palUde marginatis, denticulatis, dorso sub

sepalis oblongis, obtusis, in
J^7^^' longioribus andro-

!! ' ^'^^^^^ obovatis, Imo
subcoalitis, luteis, sepalis duplo ;
TGI.
,
phoro majusculo ; ovario infero, 2-lociilari ; stylo crasso, conico : pyxidio 2-3-spermo.
In Brasilia meridionali, prope Camacuam [Biedel) : non vidi.
Asmall shrub, according to Hiedel, not more tlian a foot Mgli, found by bim in the
south of Matto-grosso, not far from the northern limit of Paraguay. It is a species
remarkable for low stature and rather large sessile leaves, which are 2^-1^ in. long,
its
|-4| in. broad ; its racemes are 4-7 in. long ; the stout pedicels 2-3 lines long ; sepals 4-5
lines long, 3-4 lines broad petals 9-10 lines long androphorum 8 lines broad
;
style
; ;
1 line long. According to Berg, it differs from his LecytJiis coriacea in its low stature,
subsessile leaves, racemes longer than they, larger and more obtuse sepals, and pyxidium
with few seeds.
22. EscHWEiLEiiA LURIDA, nob. : ramulls fusco- vel cinereo-brunneis, substriatis, len-
ticcUis oblongis flavidis creberrime verruculosis ; foliis lanceolate- vel elliptico-
oblongis,imo rotundatis, supra medium sensim angustioribus, apice in acumen
longiusculum acutum subrcpente et valde attenuatis, margine denticulis parvis
duplicato-sorratis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra planis, luride viridibus, opacis, nervis
tenuissimis, vix prominulis, creberrime reticulatis, subtus ferrugineo-pulverulentis,
valde opiicis, nervis stramineis paullo prominulis, costa tenui prominente ;
petiolo
subtenui, canaliculato, ruguloso, limbo 14plo breviore : racemis in ramulis novellis
terrm'nalibiis, folio multo brcvioribus, rachi crassiuscula, pauciflora ; pediceUo in
fructu incrassato, valido, longiusculo: pyxidio (adhuc immaturo) turbinate, imo
ubconico, medio zona calycari e sepaiis acutis divaricatis linea nexis cincto ; vitta
interzonali alta, pulvinatim valde convexa ; zona superiore circulari, quam calycaris
multo minorc ; opcrculo convexo, radiatim striate, umbone alto et conico terminato,
undit|ue h'tificellis flavidis m'aculato. In BrasOia septentrionali : v.pl.s. sine flore,
cum fructu immaturo {Burchell, 10,000).
A species near E. naaa, but apparently of much growth its axils f-1 in. apart,
taller :
the leaves arc 4-7^ in. long, 1^-2 J in. broad, on a petiole 3-5 lines long ; the rachis of
tlu^ nicome is 1 in. long, bearing the cicatrices of several flowers; the thickish pedicel is
3 pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 23) is 1 in. long, f in. broad at the caly-
lines long; the
cary zone, formed of G acute persistent sepals, each 5 lines long, 4 lines broad ; inter-
«onary band 3 linos high upper zone and operculum 5 lines in diam., the latter pulvinate
;
depressed, 1 lines high, with an elevated umbonate point.
23. ESCHWEILERA Sagotiana, uob. : Leci/this parvlflora, Sagot, MS. (non Aubl.) : ramis
validis, fuscis, nigulosis ; ramulis subteretibus, vel rubro-brunneis, cortice
crriseo-
nmoso, lenticellato- verruculosis ; foliis ovalibus vel ovato-eUipticis, imo obtusis aut
acutioribus, apice in acumen brevissimum acutum subito apiculatis, subintegris, vel
in margine tenuiter cartilagineo et subrevoluto obsolete crenatis, coriaceis, supra
pallidissimis, opacis, nervis immersis, reticulatis, costa prominente, subtus valde
fulvo-opacis, nervis venis costaque sulcata prominulis petiolo subvalido, rubidulo,
;
lato marginato, extus ruguloso, limbo 10-16plo axillaribus et
breviore : paniculis
torminalibus, folio brevioribub, simpliciter ramosis,
rachi compressa, angulato-striata
noduiosa ; pedicellis tenuibus, imo 2-bracteolatis, calyce bracteoU-^
duplo longioribus ;
;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. '
263
ovatis, membranaceis, caducis ; floribus subparvis, odoratis ; sepalis oblongis, rotun-

datis, patentibus, imo crassis, gibbosis, granulato-rugulosis, margine late submem-
branaceis et subdenticulatis ; petalis triple longioribus, obovatis, concavis, inêquali-
bus, albis et flavide punctulatis ; andropboro luteo ; ovario fere supero, imo um-
bilicatim 6-lobo, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 3, erectis, yertice intra discum
elevate, depresse pulvinato, radiatim striate, stylo brevi obtuse umbenato. In
Guiana : v. pi s. in hb. Mm. Brit et Kew., Karaouary {Sagot, 1104, sub Lee.
'parvijlora) .
Its leaves are ^-^ in. long, 1|-2| in. bread, on a petiole 3-4 lines long, and with
about 8-10 pairs of nerves areuately conjoined with others shorter, very reticulated
rachis of racemes slender, 2-21 i^, joîg^ branches in. long, bearing 2 flowers pedicels J ;
slender, 2|-3 lines long ; bracts 1 line long ; sepals 1 J line long, 1 line broad petals
;
5 lines long andropherum 5 lines in diameter.

;
This species in no way approaches U. parvijlora

; it differs in its more corrugated
branches, its much larger, broader, more oval, and very coriaceous leaves, which are
pallidand smooth above, with nerves entirely immersed, ochreous below, with very pro-
minent midrib and nerves, with
thicker corrugated petioles, in the branches of the
panicle compressed, flat,
stouter, ferruginous, subpolished and striated, and in its white
(not golden-coloured) petals. •
24. EscHWEiLEEA MACEOPHTLLA, nob. LecytUs maciôphylla, Berg in Mart. PL

: Br. I. c.
p. 616 LecytUs WullscJilcegeliana, Berg, I. c. p. 493 ramulis teretibus,

: : pallide
brunneis, vel fuscioribus,
opacis, lenticellis flavis verruculesis, junioribus teretibus
sublsevibus ; foliis oblongis,
imo obtusis, apice in acumen angustum ssepe recurvum
subito attenuatis,
subintegris vel in margine cartilagineo revoluto punctis obsole-
tissime serratis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, nervis tenuibus divaricato-
adscendentibus vix prominulis, pallidioribus, opacis, cesta
crebre reticulatis, subtus
valida nervisque
flavidulis prominentibus petiole crassiusculo, sulcato et marginato,
;
corrugato-granuloso, limbo
15-24plo breviore racemis axillaribus et terminaHbus, :
oho dimidio
brevioribus, rachi subtenui, valde geniculata, angulata, subflexuosa,
onge nodosa,
fusca ; floribus majusculis, circa 8-12 ; pediceUis subtenuibus, calyce
-3plo longioribus, convexis, imo
scabride granulosis; sepalis oblongis, obtusis,
yalde gibbosis, ini
fuscis, subpruinosis, marine ciliatis ;
petaHs flavidis
infero
guloso, 2-loculari, ovulis pluribus basifixis, vertice elevato, depresse pulvi-
iâto, stylo crasso
brevi umbonato. In Guiana Gallica (Folteau); in Guiana Ba-
ava,
Paramaribo {TFuUschlcegeL
1471): v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Guiana Batava
[Anderson).
specimen, also from Berg's L. macrophylla,

as welf^^^^-^°^'^
Dutch Guiana, agrees with
^'^^ ^' ^'
fûlkchlcBffelia, them to be specifically identical
tbe latf^' I have considered
^'*'''''^' '''' ^
^'"^ ^"^ ^^
^ '"^^^^ *^^^ ^*« 1^^^^« ^^^ ^*-^^ ^- ^''''^' ^*"^* '''•
petiole 3^'i •
'
.}^^^^ ^^^^' ^^^ âve about 12 pairs of nerves, with others shorter and inter-
»iediat
^^^*^^^^'^^' *^® ^l^Ti.&Qx pedicels are 9 lines long; the sepals 3 Hues long;
^ê peM.^li
long ; androphorum diameter 1 in. in
2 m2
: :
261 , MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE.
This species is near E. platycarpa ; but the rachis of the inflorescence is more slender
more geniculated, the pedicels more slender, shorter, and the sepals smaller.
25. EscHWEiLERA rLACciDA, nob. : ramulis subvirgatis, teretibus, cinerascenti-brun

neis, striolatis, sublsevibus ; foliis late oblongis, vel elliptico-oblongis, imo obtusatis
apiee In acumen subacutum subito margine tenui revoluto punctis
obsolete serrulatis, -flaccide submembranaceis, supra Isete viridibus, opacis, minute
glauco-granulatis, nervis tenuissimis venisque reticulatis prominulis, cosfca promi-
nente, subtus fere concoloribus, opacioribus, costa striolata nervis venisque promi-
nentibus, sub lente minutissime granulatis ; petiolo fusco, limbo 12-14plo breviore
racemis in ramulis novellis tcrminalibus, rachi brevi, ruôsa, crebre nodosa : floribus
majusculis; pediccUis calyce longioribus, superne crassioribus, angulato-sulcatis
mmute granulosis; sepalis gequalibus, oblongis, obtusatis, erassis, fuscis, opacis,
medio rugulosis, imo gibbosis, erectiusculis ; androphoroque sicco flavis;
petalis
ovario scmiinfcro, turbinato, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 6, uniseriatis, e basi
adscendentibus, radiantibus, vertice elevato, depresse pulvinato, radiatim
striato,
stylo brevi conico umbonato ; stigmate minimo, niveo. In Guiana Gallica : v. s. in
herb. Mua, Brit., Cayenne {Van Bohr).
-p
A species near K
I
macrophylla, differing in slender branchlets, broader leaves, which

its
flaccidly membranaceous, in its short terminal racemes, with closely approximated
flowers.
^
The
leaves are 4|-8 in. long, If-Sf in. broad, on a
petiole 4-6 lines long; tbe
raceme is IJ in. long, with nodes \ line apart; the pedicels
are 5 lines long; the sepals
4. lines long, 1 \ line broad ; the androphorum
9 lines in diameter.
26. EscuwEiLERA SIMPLEX, uob. : ramulis subtenuibus, .teretibus, paullo flexuosis, pallide
brunneis, mterrupte striolatis, verruculosis
; foliis subremotis, elongato-oblongis vel
lanceolato-oblongis, imo obtusis vel sensim
subacutis, apice in acumen longiuscule
angustum obtusulum subrepente attenuatis, integerrimis, vel obsolete crenulatis,
margme subcartnaginco et subrevoluto, chartaceis, supra
pallide et l^te viridibus,
snbopacis, nervis tenuissimis subimmersis,
parallele divergentibus, reticulatis, costa
vix prommula, subtus concoloribus,
costa granulatim punctata nervis venisque
proTumentibus ; petiolo semitereti, fusco,
ruguloso, limbo 40-50plo breviore : racemo
tcrmmali, folio 6plo breviore rachi
; tenui, l-flora ; floribus majusculis. In Guiana
V. 8. %n herb. Mus. Brit, Cayenne {Martin).
K species near E. lutea, but easily recognized by its slender branches, its distant leaves
on extremely short
m. apart the leaves are
petioles, and its slender, single, terminal flower. Its axils are IH
8-9^ in. long, lf-2 in. broad, on a petiole
;
1 Une long, and with
about 12 pairs of nerves, with
1 longer and 2 shorter intermediate nervures ; the rachis of
the terminal raceme is about
1 in. long, bearing on its summit a single flower, the slender
pefel of which is \\ in. long the
; petals are about | in. long, the Indrophorum 7 lines
"^ P;^y™^^^t outside. As there is only a sheet
I
1oS^!?
could not ascertain its structure " singlTflower
o glued
=>
to the
;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE. » 265

F
27. EsCHWEiLERA PACHYSEPALA, Mart. Lecythis âchysepala, Spruce, Berg in Mart. Fl.
:
Br. Ic.^. 494 ramulis teretibus, subtenuibus, cinereo- vel pallida brunneis, rugoso-
:
•
striatis, tuberculis parvis yerruculosis \ foliis elongato-oblongis, imo obtusis et in
petiolum sensim acutioribus, apice in acumen angustum longiusculum sgepe canali-
culatim recurvum attenuatis, marginibus subrevolutis, punctis obsolete crenulatis,
chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis, minutissime granulatis, nervis patentim
divaricatis et adscendenter curvatis, paullo prominulis, crebre reticulatis, subtus pal-
valde opacis, subpulverulentis, nervis venisque pallidioribus

lidiusculis, flavidioribus,
prominentibus, costa carinata prominente; petiolo fusco, canaliculato, corrugulato,

limbo 12plo breviore racemis axillaribus, vel plurimis in panicula terminalibus
:
rachi geniculatim flexuosa, longe nodosa, angulatim striata, opaca, pulverulente

granulosa ; pedicellis longis, fuscis, angulatis, striolatis, sursum incrassatis ; sepalis
majasculis, oblongis, obtusis, subinsequalibus, valde incrassatis, convexis, pruinosis,
corrugulatis, margine tenui sinuato-denticulatis ; petalis majusculis, obovatis, siccis
«
flavis, membranaceis, venosis, margine ciliatis ; ovario semisupero, 2-loculari, ovulis
pluribus e basi dissepimenti radiatira erectis, vertice intra discum pulvinatim ele-
vate, corrugato-striato, stylo conico brevissimo umbonato. In Guiana et Brasilia
septentr. : v. s. in herh. Mus, Brit., Cayenne {Van Mohr) ; in hb. variis, Eio Negro
This is a tree 40-50 feet bigh, growing in a gapo (inundated land) between Barra and
Barcellos ; it is one of the kinds wbose fruit is called Macacarecuya. The leaves are
35-6J in. long, 1^2f in. broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long, and have about 14 pairs of
nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all anastomosing ; the raceme is 3-6 in.
long, with nodes f-1 line long, and \-\ in. apart pedicels 8-13 lines long ; sepals 2-4
;
lines long, li-3 lines broad petals 9 lines long, of a red colour ; androphorum 6 lines
;
m diam., of a pale sulpbur ; flower expanded 2 in. broad.
28. ESCHWEILE nob. : Lecythis paniculatttf Berg in Mart. Fl. Br. I
P- 501 : ramulis cortice rimoso, fusco-ferrugineis, pruinosis, rugoso-striatis, sub-

verruculosis elongate- vel angustius oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in acumen
; foliis
longiusculum obtusulum subito attenuatis, integris, yel ad marginem cartilagineum
êvolutum integris aut obsoletissime serrulatis, subcoriaceis, supra Isete viridibus,
vix lucentibus,
aut opacis, nervis venisque reticulatis subimmersis, subtus cinna-
momeo-pallidioribus, valde opacis, nervis venisque prominuUs, costa validiuscula
prominente ; petiolo subvalido, pulverulento, corruguloso-striato,
marginato, fusco,
limbo 14-16plo
breviore panicula terminali, ramosa, ramis rectis, patentibus, rachi
:
longe nodosa pruinoso-opacis; sepalis

; pedicellis nutantibus, angulatis, ferrugineis,
calyci sequilongis,
acute oblongis, crassiuscuHs, pruinosis, imo gibbosis ; petalis
oblongis, ovulis in quoque loculo
subinaequalibus, albis
; ovario infero, 2-loculari,
panels, erectis, granuloso, stylo brevi api-
vertice rotundatim pulvinato, radiatim
cmato. In Amazonas Rio Uahupes {Spruce,
: v. s. in herh, variis, S. Gabriel, Panur^,
^610).
:
woods near the hanks of the river its leaves are

A tree 40 feet high, growing in low ;
41-8 lon<^, l|-2^

xg "4 in. broad, on a petiole 5-6 lines long; the main rachis of the
2-0 in.
111. luiig,
4-6 in. long, its branches 1-2 in. long, 8-12-flowered, pedicels lf-2
panicle is straight,
in. apart; sepals 2^ lines long; petals 5 lines long, 3 lines broad;
lines long, about J-J
androphorum 4 lines in diameter.
29. ESCHWEILEUA TENUiFOLiA, nob. : LecytUs tenwifoUa, Berg in Mart. M. Er. Z. c.
p. 502 : ramulis ferriigineo- vel pallide brnnneis, cortice valde rimoso, interrupte
strlatis, pruinosis, crebre lenticellato-verruculosis ; foliis oblongis vel elliptico-
oblongis, imo obtnsis et in petiolum sensim vel abrupte breviter acutatis, apice in
acumen angustum sccpc recurvnlum acuminatis, marginibus subcrenatis, vix serru-
latis, rigidc chartaceis, junioribus tcnuioribus, supra laete viridibus, opacis, costa
pauUo prominente, nervis tenuibus, subpatulis, vix prominulis, reticulatis, subtus
fere concoloribus, vel luride pallidioribus, opacis, costa striolata prominente, nervis
venisque pauUo prominulis; petiole subcorrugato, canaliculatb, opaco, limbo 13-15plo
brcviorc raccmis axillaribus ct terminalibus, folio brevioribus rachi tenui, remo-
:
•
tiuspule et Ion 2:0 nodosa, angulato-striata, verruculosa, pauciflora ;

pedicellis bre-
vibus, imo artlculatis ; sepalis ovatis, extus rugulosis, pruinoso- vel strigoso-granu-
latis, marginibus mcmbranaceis, ciliolatis ;
petalis obovato-oblongis, flavis, punctis
all)*uHsmaculatis, ciliato-dcuticulatis ; ovario semiinfero, breviter turbinate, flavido-

maculato, 2-loculari, ovulis plurimis e basi radiantibus, vertice elevato, depresse
pulvinato, radiatim striate, stylo brevi conico umbonato. In Brasilia septentr.
V. s. in hcrh. variis. Bio Negro inter Barcellos et Barra {Spruce, 1884 et 2031) ; in
herb. IIooJc., Santarem [Spruce, 698).

The specimens from Bio Negro and Santarem, if not specifically distinct, form two well-
marked varieties, the one having broader, more shortly acuminated, more membranaceous,
greener leaves, on shorter petioles. The former is a bushy tree, 30 feet high ; the leaves
are 5-7i in. long, If -2 J in. broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long, and with about 5 pairs of
nerves, and others intermediate, all anastomosed ; the rachis of the raceme is 2|-3J in.
long, with nodes \ line long, equal to the pedicels articulated upon them ; the flower
expanded is 2 in. in diam. ; the sepals are \\ line long and broad ; the petals 10-12 lines
long, 7-9 lines broad ; the androphorum is 6 lines in diameter. In the Santarem plant
^^ r
the leaves are in. long, IJ-IJ in. broad, on a petiole 2-3 lines long; the rachis of
3J-5
the raceme 3-4 in. lonsr.
30. Esc HWEiLEiiA siJBGLANDULOSA, nob. LccytMs subglandulosa, Steud., Berg, in Linn.
:
xxrii. 459: ramulis subvalidis, subflexuosis, brunneis, opacis, subangulatis,* striatis,
lenticellato-verruculosis ; imo rotundatis, canaliculatis, et in

foliis ovato-oblongis,
petiolum breviter acutatis, apice sensim obtusioribus et in acumen acutum vel
obtusum s»pe recurvatum attenuatis, ad marginem cartilagineum valde revolutum
punctis obsolete serrulatis, valde coriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis, suhcon-
vcxis, nervis divaricatis longe intra marginem
adscendentibus subimmersis, venis
valde reticulatis omnino immersis, circa costam prominulam sulcatis, subtus
;; ;
ochraceo- vel ferrugineo-pallidis, valde opacis, nervis immersis, venis foveatim areo-
latis, costa imo crassiore prominente ; petiolo valido, canaliculato, marginibus inflexis,
ruguloso, limbo ISplo breviore : panicula terminali, folio subseqiiilonga, ramosa,

ramis simplicibus, fusee rufeseentibus ; floribus majusculis; pedicellis sulcato-
striatis, calyce duplo longioribus ; sepalis oblongis, obtusis, crassiusculis, extus
rugulosis, imo gibbosis, marginibus tenuibus et subdenticulatis ; petalis oblongis

ovario fere omnino supero, distincte 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 4, ad basin
radiatim affixis, erectis, vertice intra discum valde elevato, pulvinato, radiatim
striato, stylo alto late conico terminate. In Guiana Batava v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. :
et JIooJc., Surinam {Hostmann, 186 et 886).
A very distinct species, easily recognized by its smooth, coriaceous, pale, broadly ovate
leaves, and its terminal paniculated inflorescence ; the axils of its branchlets are f-1 in.
apart; the leaves are 6-7^ in. long, 2|-3^ in. broad, on a petiole 5-6 lin.long, and with
about 10 pairs of nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all anastomosing ; the
r
t
terminal panicle is 4 in. long, its branches l|-2 in. long ; its pedicels 3 lin. long ; the
flower expanded is l|-2 in. broad ; its sepals 2 lin. long ;
petals 8 lin. long, 6 lin. broad.
31. EscHWEiLERA PALLIDA, nob. I Ktmulis fusco-brunneis, ruguloso-striatis, lenticellis
flavidis verruculosis ; foliis oblongis, imo rotundatis, apice in acumen breve mu-
cronulatum subrecurvum subito attenuatis, subintegris vel in margine cartilagineo
revoluto punctis obsolete serrulatis, chartaceis, supra pallidis, opacis, planis, costa
tenui flavida carinata subprominente, nervis semiimmersis, subtus pallidissimis,
costa striata, nervis tenuibus venisque transversim reticulatis prominulis ;
petiolo
fusco, tereti, canaliculato, marginibus inflexis, subtus ruguloso, limbo 16plo breviore :
racemo terminali, folio breviore; rachi subvalida, flexuosa, angulato-striata, cum

nodis subremotis longiuscule prominulis; pedicellis fuscis, roride pulverulentis
sepalis ovatis, obtusis, pulverulentis, imo gibbose incrassatis,
extus rugulosis et
margine membranaceo ; ovario semisupero, 2-loculari, ovulis pluribus basilaribus,
vertice elevato, depresse pulvinato, planiusculo, radiatim striato, stylo fere obsoleto
umbonato. In Guiana Mus. Brit, Cayenne {Martin) ;

Karaouary
: v. s. in hh.
{Sagot, 269).
The branchlets are f-1 in. apart ; the leaves are 3|-6i
axils of its in. long, 1|-3J in.
troad, on a petiole
3-4 lines long, and with about 10 pairs of nerves ;
the rachis of the
raceme about 2 in. Hue long, and 5 lines
long, stout, with geniculate prominent nodes 1
^Part pedicels 7 Hn. in diameter.
; long ; sepals 3 lines long ; bud f inch
h
32. 503
EscHWEiLEEA OBVERSA, nob. : Lecythis ohversa, Berg in Mart. PI. Bras. I. c. p. :
ramulis subtenuibus, pruinosis, minute verruculosis

subflexuosis, striato -sulcatis,
foliis
oblongo-ovatis, imo obtusis, aut s^pe angustioribus et in petiolum breviter
acutatis, apice attenuatis, chartaceis,
in acumen acutum canaHculatim reflexum
^rgine cartilagineo crenulato-serrulatis, supra
obsoletissime
subrevoluto punctis
^ndibus, sublucentibus, nervis costaque tenuibus pro-
sub lente minute granulosis,
;;;
268 MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE

w
minulis, reticulatis, subtus brimnescenti-pallidioribus, opacis, nervis venisque vix
prominulis, costa striolata prominente ;

petiolo piano, marginato, subtus corrugulato,
limbo 12-16plo breviore : panicula ramosa, terminali, vel racemis in ramulis novellis
terminalibus, folio bre\4oribus, paucifloris, racbi flexuosa, longiuscule nodosa ; flo-
ribus majusculis; pedicellis sulcatis, calyce vix longioribus, cinereo-pruinosis
sepalis subrotundatis, margine membranaceo ciliolatis; petalis majusculis, luteis,
oblongis, rotundatis ; ovario breviter turbinato, cinereo-pruinoso, subinfero, 2-locu-

lari, OYulis paucis e basi radiantibus, suberectis, vertice plane pulvinato, stylo brevi
conico umbonato. In Amazonas : v. s. in hb. variis, Santarem {Spruce, 826 et 892).
This is a tree about 30 feet high, growing, I presume, near the banks of the Ama-
zonas, near Santarem, as its vernacular name is Castanlieira das aguas ; its flowers are
white, with a strong smell of primroses. The leaves are 2-5| in. long, ^2 in. broad, on
a petiole 2-3 lines long, with about 12 pairs of nerves, with several others shorter and
intermediate, all anastomosing the racemes are 1 J-2 in. long the pedicels 2 lines long
; ;
the sepals IJ line long; the petals 9 lines long, 5 lines broad; the androphorum 6 lines
in diameter.
'
t
33. EsciiWEiLEiLi ELEGANS, nob. : LecijtJiis elegans, Berg in Mart. El. Br. L c. p. 499:
ramulis ten oris, irrcgnlaritcr striatis, cinereo- vel fulvide pulverulentis ; foliis lanceo-
lato-oblongis, vol elongate- oblongis, imo obtusis, apice a medio sensim angustioribus
et in acumen angustum subacutum sensim attenuatis, subintegris, vel ad marginem
cartilagincum rcvolutum punctis obsolete serrulatis, chartaceis, supra pallide viri-
dibus, opacis, sub lente minutissime granulatis, nervis plurimis divaricatis versus
marginem longe adscendentibus venisque reticulatis immersis, subtus fulvide palli-
dioribus, valde opacis, nervis vix prominulis, costa prominente ;
petiolo marginato,
corrugulato, limbo 20-24plo breviore: panicula e racemis 8 congestis terminali,
folio breviore; raehi tenuissima, crebre nodulosa, subgeniculata, striata, circa 20-
flora ;
pedicellis calyci sequilongis ; sepalis parvis, rotundato-ovatis, extus pruinosis,
imo gibbosis ; petalis rotundatis, luteis, flavide maculatis ; androphoro aurantiaco
ovario semiinfero, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo paucis, e basi erectis, vertice
pulvinatim elevate, striate, stylo brevi conico umbonato. In Amazonas : v. 9. in
hb. Mm, Brit et Hook., Kio Negro, inter Barcellos et S. Isabel {Spruce, 1665).
This species, according to Berg, is near U. micrantha ; but I cannot perceive such an
approximation. It is a slender tree, 25 feet high ; its leaves are 3^-5 in. long, 1-1| in.
broad, on a petiole 2-2i lines long, and with about 10 pairs of nerves, with others inter-
mediate, all anastomosod ; rachis of the racemes |-1 in. long ; flowers in bud 5 lines in
J
diam. ; sepals 2 lines long and broad; the flower, when softened, becomes pale and semi-
dutinous, as in IE. amara.
34. EscHwEiLERA ALBiFLORA, nob. ! Lecijthis alMjlora, DC, Prod. iii. 292; Berg in 3Iart
Fl. Br. I. c. p. 609 ; in Linn. xxvu. 455 : ramulis pallide brunneis, glaucis, striatis
Junioribus tenuioribus ; foliis oblongis, imo sensim acutis, apice gradatim attenuatis
7
;;;

4
269
longiuscule et acute acuminatis, rarius obtusipribus, margine teniii vix revoluto .
subintegris vel obsolete crenatis, tenuiter cbartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis,
planis, nervis divaricatis subimmersis vix prominulis, reticulatis, cpsta tenui pro-
•
minula, subtus luride brunnescentibus, opacis, costa nervis venisque flavidis promi-
nulis ;
petiolo subtenui, canaliculato, limbo lOplo breviore : paniculis axillaribiis et
terminalibus, apice subramulosis, folio brevioribus ; racbi fusca, nodosa ; pedicellis
longiusculis ; sepalis oblongo-ovatis, crassis/ fuscis, carinatis, rugosis, imo gibbosis,
marginibus membranaceis ; ovario inferos 2-loculari, vertice valde depresso, radiatim
striato, stylo brevi conico obtuso umbonato. In prov. Amazonas : x>. s. in hb. Hook.,
Rio Negro in sylvis (Jf^r^ms). ^
A tree 50-60 feet high ; the axils of its brancblets ^ in. apart ; leaves luridly broTvn
below, 4-8 in. long, 1J-3J in. broad, on a petiole 5-7 lin. long, and with from 15-18
pairs of nerves, with others shorter intermediate, all anastomosing ; panicle 4 in. long,
its branches li-2| in. long; slender pedicels 6-9 lines long; sepals 3 lines long, 1| line
broad ; petals 10 lines long ; androphorum 6 lines in diameter.
>
35. EscHWEiLERA Reideliana, nob. : LecytUs Beideliam, Berg in Mart. PI. Br. I. c.
p. 618
ramulis patentibus, pruinosis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, imo latioribus et in
:
petiolum breviter et subito acutatis, apice obtusis et breviter acuminatis, obsolete

serratis, cbartaceis, supra glabris, nitidis, nervis erecto-patulis, remotiusculis, sub-
immersis, arcuatim nexis, venis reticulatis, subtus fuscescentibus, opacis, nervis venis
r
costaque prominentibus petiolo limbo 10-14plo breviore inflorescentia racemosa :

;
floribus majusculis pedicellis brevissimis ; sepalis rotundatis vel ovato-rotundatis,

;
inaequalibus, pruinosis, margine ciliolatis petalis albis ; androphoro luteo ; ovario

;
semiinfero, 2-loculari, multiovulato, vertice convexo, striato, stylo brevissimo um-

bonato. In Amazonas, prope humidis inundatis {Beidel) non vidi.
Santarem, in ;
A tree 30 feet high ; leaves 3^-7 in. long, l|-3i in. broad, on a petiole 4-6 lin. long
flower in bud 8 long
lin. in diam. ; sepals 1-1-^ line long, 1 J line broad ; petals 10 lin.
a
-ndrophorum 6 lin. in diam. It is said to differ from K alUflora in its leaves gradually
^cumulated, in its smaller ciliolated sepals.
pedicels and flowers, and its rounded r
m. I
36.
EscHWEiLEEA TRocHiFORMis, nob. : ramuHs crassiusculis, rectis, teretibus, rufo-brun-
iieis, opacis, pruinosis, ruguloso-striatis, verrucul osis ; foliis late oYatis, imo trun-
catis vel
obtuse rotundatis, aut subcordatis et subito breviter ad petiolum decur-
J-entibus, apice rotundatis obsoletissime crenu-
et emarginatis, marginibus revolutis
latis, palUde viridibus,
coriaceis, valde
convexis, et ad nervos late sulcatis, supra
Paullo opacis, rugulosis, nervis tenuibus, re-
e reticulatione creberrima foveatim
ôtiuscuUs, semiimmersis, nexis, venis transversim reticu-
divergentibus, arcuatim
âtis, costa paUidis, glauco-
subconvexa, imo latiore, rufule pruinbsa,^ subtus sordide
opacis et
roride pruinosis, costa valida, rugulosa, nervisaue valde prominentibus,
^nis prominulis; marginato, limbo 20p o
petiolo valido, profunde canaliculato, alte
oreviore: valida, helvole
racemo terminali pauUo breviore, rachi
vel axillari, folio
270 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.^.
transversim corrugulata, flexuose crasse nodosa,

pruinosa, compresse
'
angulata,
pauci- vel pluriflora; floribus majusculis; pedicellis cmn nodis articulatis, crassis,
sepalis pedicello ^qmlongis, valde imbricatis, ovatis, submem-

striatis, pruinosis ;
pruinosis, marginibus submembranaceis

branaceis, demum subcrassis, granulatim
petalis oblongis, submembranaceis, albis, siccis Mvidis, punctu-
ciliato-denticulatis ;
ovario semisupero, tuberculato, 2-loculari, ovulis pluribus basilaribus

latis, concavis ;
conico umbonato, stigmate minuto
erectis, vertice intra discum pulvinato, stylo
majuscnli mole; caetera ignota. In Brasilia,
subgloboso: pyxidio turbinis lusorii
v. s. in Jih. Mm. Brit, et Kew., Serra da batalba, Eio Preto
prov. Pernambuco :
(Gardner, 2876) ;
prov. Goyaz {Gardner, 3189).
According to Gardner this is a smaU tree, about 10 feet high, growing in the upland
campos, with white flowers, and a fruit about the size of a large top ; the structure of the
ovary shows that it belongs to this genus. The axils of its branches are J-l in. apart
the leaves have a very peculiar aspect, are 4J-61 in. long, 3J-5 in. broad, on a thick
broad petiole 2-3 lines long, and have about 14 pairs of nerves, with others intermediate,
all anastomosed ; the rachis of the terminal raceme is 2-10 in. long, with thick prominent
nodes 2-5 lines apart and 1-2 lines long ; the pedicels are 1 line long ; the flower in hud
10 lines in diam. ; the inferior portion of the ovary is 2 lines long and 3 lines broad.
+
I J
37. EscHWEiLERA CORDATA, nob. : Lecythis cordata, Berg in Linn, xxvii. 457 :
ramulls
teretiusculis, sulcatis, pallide fuscis, brunneo-pulverulentis ; foliis rotundato-ovali-
bus aut suborbicularibus, imo cordatis, apice rotundatis et retusis, aut in acumen
brevissimum obtusulum recurvulum repente constrictis, marginibus repandis et
iiitegerrimis, pergamineis, supra pallidis, glauco-opacis, nervis semiimmersis, tenui-
bus, divergentibus, marginem versus adscendentibus, reticulatis, subtus nitidiorihns,
nervis venisque prominentibus ;

petiolo vix ullo, valido, canaliculato : racemis ter-
minalibus, folio longioribus ; rachi valida, angulata, pulverulenta, 24-flora j

pedicellis
crassis, calycem aequantibus, bracteolis caducis ; sepalis ovatis, obtusis, subsequali-
bus ; ovario semiinfero, 2-loculari, vertice conico-elevato, pulviniformi, pulverulento,

radiatim striate ; stylo brevi. In Venezuela, ad
I
miss. Angustura Manas de Bar-
celona {Moritz, 585) : non vidi.
This species, in the size and shape of its leaves, much resembles Lecythis Ollaria from
the same neighbourhood ; but tlie structure of its 2-locular ovary shows clearly that it
belongs to the genus Eschweilera : it differs little from U. tenax except in its more se sile
the
leaves. The leaves are said to be 2 J-2f in. long, 1^2 J in. broad, almost sessile ;
raceme above 4 in. long pedicels 3 Hnes long petals

rachis of the is ; ; sepals 3 lines long ;
long.
EscHWEiLERA TENAX, nob. cor-

38. : Lecythis tenax, Moritz, Berg in Linn, xxvii. 456 :
tice tenacissimo; ramulis validis, interrupte striatis, fusco- vel cinereo-brunneis,

obsolete verruculosis ssepe suo-
; foliis ovatis imo rotundatis,
vel oblongo-ovatis,
D^^r-
cordatis, apice in acumen breve obtusulum recurvum abrupte constrictis,
giaibus revolutis cartilagineis subcrenatis, vel e punctis fuscis obsolete serratis,
;

*
coriaceis, supra convexis, pallida viridibus, opacis, nervis divaricatis yenisque reti-
culatis immersis, ad costam prominulam sulcatis, subtus pallide brunneis vel luride
r
ochraceis, opacis, costa striata, crebre reticulatis, nervis venisque prominentibus

petiolo valido, fusco, canaliculate, marginibus inflexis, rugoso, limbo 10-l4plo
breviore : racemis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio brevioribus ; rachi subvalida,
angulata, crebriflora ; floribus flavis ; pedicellis subvalidis, calyce 3plo longioribus,
recurvis ; sepalis rotundato-oblongis, subaequalibus, rotatis, extus carinatis et granu-

losis, imo glandulose gibbosis ; petalis obovatis, citrinis, carnosulis, margine erosulis ;
ovario semiinfero, granulis flavidis creberrime punctulato, 2-loculari, ovulis in quo-

que loculo circ. 5, e basi erectis, vertice valde elevato, conico, striate ; stylo brevi,
conico ; stigmate minimo, globoso. In Venezuela : v. s. in Jierh. Mus. Brit, et SooJc.,
Colonia Tovar, in sylvis bumidis et frigidulis (MoritZy 1880).
A tree found in moist woods : tbe axils of its branchlets are about i in. apart ; tbe
pallidcoriaceous leaves are 1J-3|^ in. long, 1-1| in. broad, on a petiole 2-3 lin. long, and
with about 10 pairs of divaricating ascending nerves arcuately anastomosing ; the rachis
of the raceme is in. long, with prominent nodes 1-2 lin. apart the pedicels 6-8
2-2J ;
lines long ; the calyx expanded 8 lines across ; the sepals 3 lines long, 2 lines broad ; the
larger petals 1 in. long ; the androphomm 8 lines in diameter, and twice that length,
its lignla bare, 6 lines long,, its antheriferous basal appendages crowded, very short,
those inside the hood linear, pointed, sterile, densely echinated, adpressed.
The bark of the tree is very tough, and is used for cordage»
^ I
39. EsCHWEiLEEA MoRiTziANA, nob. : ramulis pallidis, opacis, rectis, tenuiter striolatis,
ad axillas compressis ; f oliis late ellipticis vel oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in acumen
subobtusum ssepe revolutum marginibus cartilagineis revo-
constrictis, integris vel
lutis crenulatis obsoletissime serrulatis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus,
subopacis, sub lente minute granulosis, nervis tenuibus pauUo divaricatis vix pro-
minulis, reticulatis, in costa tenui sulcatis, subtus fere concoloribus, opacis, costa
striata valde prominentibus petiolo subtenui,
stramineis
prominente, nervis venisque ;
fusco,canaliculato, marginato, corrugulato, limbo 16plo breviore: inflorescentia
racemosa, pediceUis brevibus, angulato-sulcatis, granulosis ; sepalis 6 ovato-oblongis,

valde imbricatis, fuscis, marginibus tenuibus,
convexis, crebre granuloso-verrucosis,
crenulatis ; petalis 5 vel concavis, extus subgi
6 late oblongis, medio camosis,
losis ; ovario quoque loculo 4-6 e basi
infero, verruculoso, 2-loculari, ovulis in
erectis, vertice
concave ; stylo tenuiter tereti, sepalis longiore. In Venezuela :
v. 8.
in herb. 648).
Mus. Brit., circa Cape Augustin
Chup^, {Moritz,
^ small are in. apart the

tree, called Naranjillo, The axils of its branchlets J-1 ;
Wes are 6I-8 in. long, broad, on a petiole 4-6 lin. long, and have about
2|-3i in.
P""^ of nerves, with others the pedicels are 6 lines
, intermediate, aU anastomosed ;
tog sepals broad ; the androphorun.

; 3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad petals 8 lin. long, 5 lin.
;
» >«es in incurved head of the andro-
^ diameter ; basal ring staminigerous, and the
Pônim is charged with longish adpressed appendages, mostly antheriferous.
:;
272 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEJE.

*
40. EscHWEiLEEA LAURiFOLiA : LecytUs ovatdy var. laurifolia. Berg in Mart. M. Br.
/. c. p. 498 ramulis fusco-

: vel cinereo-brunneis, rugosis, verruculosis ; foliis ovali-
bus aut elliptico-ovatis, imo rotundatis, in apice rotundo subito emarginatis, vel
in acumen obtusum breve subrepente attenuatis, subintegris, mp,rginibus revolutis
obsolete serrulatis, rigide cbartaceis, supra viridibus, subopacis, nervis tenuibus,

subtus luridc brunnescentibus, opacis, nervis venis costaque prominentibus ; petiolo
fusco, profunde sulcato, marginato, limbo 15plo breviore : racemis in ramulis

novellis brevibus, terminalibus, folio tertia brevioribus ; racbi tenui, subflexuosa,
nodosa, fusca, circ. 10-flora ; floribus parvis ; pedicellis calyce longioribus, tenuibus
sepalis acute ovatis, subinsequalibuSj imo gibbosis, carinatis, rugosis, marginibus
membranaceis et ciliatis ; ovario turbinato, semiinfero, 2-loculari, ovulis plurimis e
basi crcctis, vertice elevato, pulvinato, stylo conico obtuse umbonato. In Brasilia
V. 8. in herb. Hook, sine loco {Sello).
The axils of the branchlets are f in. apart ;the leaves are 2 J-4^ in. long, 1-2 in. broad,
on a petiole 2-3 lin. long ; the racliis of the raceme is 1 J in. long ; the pedicels 3-5 lines
long ; sepals 2-3 lin. long ; petals 8 lin. long.
This species is certainly remote from Z. ovata, differing in its less-coriaceous leaves,
darker and luridly brown below, rounded at base, much shorter raceme, with fewer and
much shorter flowers, on shorter and more slender pedicels.
41. EscuwEiLERA GBACiLis, nob. : Lecytlm ovafa, var. ohscum, Berg in Mart. B. Br.
I.e. 498 ramulis tenuibus, fusco-brunneis, rugulosis ; foliis ellipticis vel elongate-
-p. :
oblongis, imo acutis vel subobtusis, apice sensim acutis aut repente acuminatis, sub-
integris vol ad marginem subcartilagineum punctis obsolete serrulatis, flaccide
chartaccis, supra pallide viridibus, granulatim opacis, nervis tenuibus semiimmersis,
rcticulatis,subtus rufule brunnescentibus, pulverulento-opacis, costa prominente,
nervis venisque reticuktis parum prominulis petiolo tenui,
; profunde canaliculato,
fusco, ruguloso, limbo l2plo breviore : racemis in ramulis novellis terminalibus aut
e caducis paniculam efformantibus, ramulis remotiusculis, gracillimis;
foliis SDcpe
rachi folio dimidio breviore, flexuosa, tenui, compressa,

nodulosa, 8-10-flora, hrac-
tcolis acute lincaribus, caducis. In Brasilia v. s. in hb. Hook. cum flore
:
{Sello, 383,
unico effoeto).
The leaves of this slender plant are 2-3^ in. long, 10-16 2-3
^ lines broad, on a petiole
lin. long the terminal rachis on the young leafless branchlets
;
is 1-U2 in.
^^* Ion
^^"O
It bears no resemblance to £J. ovata, to which Berg referred it as a variety
42. EsCHWEiLERA ACUMINATA, nob. Zeci/tJm ovata, var. Mart. Fi

acuminata, Berg, in
:
Br. /. c. p. 497 ramuHs tenuibus, teretibus,

: fuscis, cinereo-opacis, substriolatis, ver
rucuiosis foliis ellipticis vel eUiptico-oblongis, canaK-
; imo sensim subacutis et ibi
cuktis, apice longiuscule et acute
acuminatis, subintegris vel in marginibus revolutis
punctis obsolete serrulatis, chartaceis,
supra paUide viridibus, opaci°s, nervis divari-
catim adscendentibus paullo prominulis,
reticulatis, costa tenui prominula, subtui
273
'
fere concoloribus, ophcioribus, costa nervis venisque prominentibus
*^
; petiolo tenuis-
simo, profunde canaliculato, ruguloso, limbo 12plo breviore racemis : axillari\)iis,

folio 4plo brevioribus; racM tenui, pauciflora; pedicellis brevibus, angulatis;'
sepalis oblongo-ovatis, fuscis, carinatis, subrugulosis, marginibus ano-uste
mem-
branaceis et ciliatis ; petalis oblougis, concavis, submembranaceis, sinuato-den-
ticulatis ovario infero, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoqûe loculo 3 ad basin dissepimenti
;
erectis, vertice depresso, stylo brevi, stigmate minuto apiculato. In Brasilia v. s. in :
hb. Sook., prov. Babia {Sello, 479).

1* '
'
The branchlets are slender, with axils 3-4 lines apart ; tbe leaves are 2^-3 in. long,
1-lJ in. broad, on a petiole 2 J-3 lines long, and have about 9 pairs of nerves, with others
shorter and intermediate, all anastomosed: the raceme is J-1 in. long, bearing 6-9
flowers, on pedicels (including the base of the ovary) 3 lines long; the sepals 2 lines long,
1 line broad ; the flower in bud J in. broad ; style line long. J
r
48. EscHWEiLEEA? ODORA, nob. : LecytUs odora, Popp., Berg in Mart. FL Br. I. c.
p. 492: arbor procera, ramulis pulverulento-tomentellis ; foliis ovali-oblongis, imo

obtusis vel breviter acutis, apice abrupte acuminatis, obsoletissime serrulatis, sub,
coriaceis, supra subnitidis, nervis pluribus subimpressis, reticulatis, subtus nervis
costatim prominentibus venisque reticulatis prominulis,
costa crassa ; petiolo valido,
anguste canaliculato, subpUberulo racemis interdum paniculatis,
: folio dimidio bre-
vioribus rachi graciH, flexuosa, 13-25-flora
;
; pedicelHs calyce Splolongioribus ; fiori-
bus majusculis, odoratis, niveis ; sepalis subinsequalibus, ovatis, acutis aut obtusis,
imo gibbosis, carinatis,
pruinoso-pulverulentis, margine ciliolatis ;
petalis obtuse
obovatis, ciliolatis ovario semiinfero, 2-loculari, ovulis pluribus uniseriatim radi-
;
antibus, vertice altiusculo,

pulvinato, stylo brevi conico umbonato. In Amazonas
ad Ega in sylvis (P%,i^, 2754) : wow tJ^cî.
•
This species very

probably belongs rather to J'affastrum, as according to Berg it is near
IS Lecythis coriacea,
differing in its thinner leaves, abruptly acuminated, its shorter
rêmes, longer pedicels,
and its sepals. It forms a tree 50 feet high ; its leaves are
î 9 m. long, 2i-4 in.
broad, on a stout petiole, and with about 15-20 pairs of nerves;
e rachis of
the raceme is 2^-5 in. long
; the pedicels 6-8 lin. long ; sepals IJ lin. long ;
petalsê Hn.
long ; androphorum 5
lin. in diameter.
HWEiLERA ACUMiNATissiMA, Berg in Mart. FL

nob. LecytUs aciminafmima, :
^' ^' ^^^' ^^'^'^'

lal'i"
^^^- ^^^ ramulis gracilibus, pruinoso-pilosulis
•
foliis ob- ;
lonsr
""'^^s vel
lanceolato-oblongis, imo acutis, apice in acumen longum et angustis-
una abrupte
attenuatis, subintegris vel' in marginibus subrepandis punctis obso-
^îssmie seirulatis,
submembranaceis, supra paUide virentibus, subnitidis, nervis
^jaricato-adscendentibus opacis, nervis
arcuatim nexis, subtus brunnescentibus,
^^msque reticulatis 9-14plo
prominentibus, costa utrinque prominente petiolo limbo ;
Jiore racemis
: axillaribus et folio brevioribus rachi angulosa,
terminaiibus,
;
^^ ôsa;
pedicellis calyce
duplo longioribus; sepalis oblongis, obtusis, imo gibbis.
;;
:
274
LECYTHTDACE^
margine ciliolatis petalis obovatis, obtusis, pallide sulfureis, apice

carinatis, roseis, ;
2-loculari, vertice alte pulvinato. In Amazonas,

denticulatis ; ovario semiinfero,
ad Ega {Poppig, 2710) : non vidi.
This species by Berg

is to be near
said K pilosa, Popp. ; it forms a tree 25 feet bigh
are in. long, in. broad, on a petiole 6-7
with a very hard wood. The leaves 4f-8 1J-2|
18-28 Hn. long the pedicels 6-9 lin. long the sepals 5 lin.
lin. long the racemes are
;
; ;
long ; the petals 10 lin. long.
45. EscHWEiLERA BHACTEOSA, nob. LecytUs Imcteosa, Popp., :

Berg in Mart. PL Br. I c.
p. 495 ; linn, xxvii. 455 arbor procera ; foliis

:
ovali-oblongis, imo breviter acutatis,
apice breviter acntis, marginibus leviter late crenatis, coriaceis, supra nervis pluribus
parallclis divcrgenti-adscendentibus parum prominulis, reticulatis, subtus pallidi-
oribus, nervis costato-prominentibns ;

petiolo valido, recurvulo, limbo 12plo breviore
racemis axillaribus ant panicnlatim terminalibus, folio pauUo brevioribus ; rachi
nntante, angulata, roride pulverulenta, densiflora ;

pedicellis longis, pendulis, imo
3-bracteatis ; bracteis ovalibus, pedicello triplo brevioribus.; floribus majusculis;
sepalis suboequalibus, rotundatis, extus pruinosis, margine ciliatis ;

petalis triplo
. lougioribus, obovatis, pulverulcntis, ciliolatis, albis ; ovario infero, 2-loculari, ovulis

8-10 basi uniserialiter radiantibus, vertice piano, stylo brevi umbonato. In Ama-
zonas ad Ega, in ripa lacus {Vdppigj 2565) : non vidi,
A lofty tree, in its habit, its leaves with a peculiar venation, its inflorescence with
3-bracteated pendulous pedicels., its approximated large flowers much resembling a
Ilcrtholletia or a Couratarl, but with an ovary corresponding to Eschweilera ; the leaves
:ire 5-7
long, 2J-2J in. broad, on a petiole 5-7 lines long, and have about 13 to 17
in.
pairs of diverging and ascending nerves costately prominent beneath, with others
shorter and intermediate, all anastomosing ; the raceme is 4-5 in. long, with pedicels 14
lines long, and bracts 3-5 lines long ; the sepals 3 lin. long ; petals 8-15 lin. long.
46. EscuwEiLERA PILOSA, nob. : Zecythw pilosa^ Popp., Berg in Mart, El. Br. I c.
p. 600; Linn, xxvii. 455 : arborea, ramulis cortice rimoso, pulverulento-puberulis

foliis ovali-oblongis, imo obtusis vel breviter acutis, apice acuminatis, integerrimis,
chartaceis, supra obscure viridibus, nitidis, nervis divaricatis prominulis, reticulatis,
costa planiuscula, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, nervis venis costaque prominentihus
petiolo valido, limbo 20-24plo breviore : racemis folio 5plo brevioribus, sub-10-floris
pedicellis validis, calycc duple longioribus, pulverulcntis, pendulis ; sepalis insequa-
libus, ovatis vel ovali-oblongis, obtusis, ciliolatis; petalis oblongis, obtusis, ciHo-
latis, violacco-purpureis, siccis flavidis ; ovario fere supero, 2-loculari, multiovulato,
vertice alto. In Amazonas, ad Ega, in lacus littoribus {Voppig, 2669) : non vidi.
A tree 30 feet leaves are 5-8 in. long, 2 -3 J in. broad, on a petiole 2-4 lin-
high ; its
long, with about 15 pairs of nerves, with others shorter intervening, all anastomosing
the rachis of the raceme is 1-1| in. long ; its stout pedicels 6-14 lines long ; sepals 3-6
lin. long ; petals 22 lin. long, 11 lin. broad ; androphorum 1 in. in diameter.
« : ;;
UK. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 275
7. JuGASTRTJM. (Plate XXXV. a.)

1
The peculiar features wLicli separate this genus from Lecythis are still more decided
than in the two preceding genera ; they have been already amply described {antej p. 167)
and it is only necessary now to give its generic diagnosis.
JUGASTRUM, nob
Lecythis (in parte) auct.
Calycis adnati sepdla et petala ut in Lecythide.

.
orum carnosum,
imo semiannnlarej subcupulare^ hie ad discum epigynum annularem cum unguibus petalorum
interpositis agglutinatum^ et uno latere in ligulam sequilatam expansum^ intus appendiculis nume-
ligul;
mversa
laciniata^ intus appendiculis basilaribus longioribus staminigeris densissime echinata. Stamina
parva^ appendiculis insita: filamenta brevissima filiformia; anthertB parvse, ovatse, 2-lob3e, collatera-
liter adnatse^ extus longitudinaliter hiantes. Ovarium inferum^ turbinatum^ vertice intra discum
I
planum elevatum^ semper 2-loculare; ovula in quoque loculo plurima^ sessilia^ e basi erecta^ 2-3-se-
rialia^ anatropa : stylus brevis^ conicus : stigma minutum^ globosura, papillosum. Pyxidium sub-
ipalis
ssepius angusta ; zona superiore suhcirculari

et deciduo, supra depresse pulvinato vel convexiore^ ssepius umhonato, infra valde concavo, vestigio
dissepimenti signato^ cum velario intra marginem prope faucem descendente munito ;
pericarpio
(operculoque) subtenuiter coriaceo, primum 2-locularij dissepimento mox saepius evanido: semina
plurima (10-20) bi- triseriatim basi affixa, erecta, sicca cuneato-cylindrica, pressione acute 3-4-an-
gulataj apice truncata et convexiuscula ; testa tenuiter coriacea, extus Isevis^ intus impresso-granosa
raphe in fibras spirales multidivisa per testam totam immersa ; integumentum internum tenuiter
membranaceum, ad testam adbgerens cereo-carnosus, cro-
: embryo testse forma, exalbuminosus,
cinus, extus guttato-granosus, mamilla longitudinaliter fissa sig-
medio ad angulum ventralem
natus, homogeneus, neorUza interna cuueato-oblonga apice obtuse truncata, imo subcuneata,
medio anguli ventralis plumula tegente, extus exorhiza
prominente mamm^formi marginem fere
subcrassa undique cincta. plumules prolongatio pei fissuram

[Germinatio ita fit :
nonzontaliter propulsa et in cauliculum squamosum aucta, dein adscendit,i

basali. radicella dfisnanrlpTis nnnaret : hoc modo planta nova oritur
Arbores Americce
intertropic<s, Lecythidis habitu.
'-
4
I
1- JroASTOTa COEIACETJM. nob. ZecytUs coriaeea, DC. Prodr. 291 (non Seem. Bot. iii.
:
Her. 126) ; Berg 72, fructus) Linn, xxyii. 459

in Mart. H. Br. I. c. p. 491 (tab. ;
^chweilera coricwea, Mart. MS. ramulis teretibuS, subvahdis,

arbor prooera, :
foUis majuscuJis, ovato-

mgoso-striatis, fusco-brunneis, lenticeUato-verruculosis ;
oblongis vel obtusis vel latioribus et in acumen

elongato-oblongis, imo obtusis, apice
acutum aut obtusulum in marginibus subcartUa-
reourTTilum subito attenuatis,
gineis revolutis et punctis obsole issune
pauUo crenuktis. Tel ssepius integrioribus
serrulatis. cbartaceis, opacis, sub lente nimutissimc
supra pallide viridibus, pauUo
immersis, reticulatis. costa
granulatis, nervis
divarieatis, longs adscendentibus.
tenui paullo nervis remsciue pro-
prominente, subtus ferrugineo- vel brunneo-opacis,
canaliculato, rug uloso
"Mulis. costa vaKdiore, sulcata; petiolo fusco,
prominente,
AV I
276 MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E
r
terminalibus, pauciramosis, folio triplo breyioribus

limbo 12plo breviore: paniculis
nodosa pedicellis tenuibus, imo arti
rachi fusca, angulata, rugulosa, geniculatim ;
duplo longioribus sepalis ovatis, obtusis

culatis, patentibus vel recurvis, calyce ;
petalis semiinfero, distincte 2-loculari, loculis
late expansis, brevissimis, multiovulatis, ovulis erectiusculis, vertice subdepresse
pulvinato, radiatim striolato ; stylo tereti, obtuso : pyxidio ad medium subturbinato,
imo subtmncatim rotundo et sulcatim 4-lobo, supra medium zona calycari irre-
gulariter annulata cincto; Titta interzonali angusta et acclivi; zona superiore
Integra; operculo orbiculari, depresse pulvinato, umbonato, infra concavo, septo
signato, cum velario brcvissimo descendente ; periearpio fusee suberoso et coriaceo,
lenticellis flavidis sparse maculato, 2-loculari, dissepimento permanente ; seminibus
10-14, subcylindricis, acute angulatis, apice truncatis, imo gradatim angustioribus,
ubi hilo basali biseriatim affixis. In Amazonas : v. 8. in hb. Sook., Eio Negro
[Wartius) ; fnict. mihi non viso.
According to Von Hartius this is a tree 100 feet high, with a straight trunk 3 to 6 feet
in diameter, supported below by long projecting buttresses, growing on the banks of the
river Amazonas as far as Ega, and known by the name of Matamata. It is said to be of
lower stature "when growing in open plains; but this observation is applicable, with
greater probability, to either of the two following species. The axils of its branchlets are
^-\\ in. apart the leaves are 5-7J in. long, 2-4 in. broad, on a petiole 3-5 lines lon^,
;
and have from 12-14 pairs of nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all anasto-
mosing the rachis of its several racemes is 3-3J in. long, with prominent nodes 2 lines
;
apart ; the pedicels are 1 line long ; sepals 2-3 lines long ; petals 9 lines long, 7 lines
l)road ; pyxidium (Plate LXI.
4-
2| fig. 1) is in. long ; calycary zone 1| in. above base,
3| in. in diam. interzonal band 3 lines high ; upper zone and operculum 2f in. in diam.,
;
latter 9 lines high, with a large terminal umbonate apex, hollow beneath; the pericarp
is 2 lines thick, with a membranaceous dissepiment; the seeds are 18 lines long, 6 lines
broad, 4-angular, the outer series dorsally roundish. This description of the fruit and
seeds is taken from Berg {I. c), and corresponds with that of the following species
examined by me. Its laminated inner bark, called Ustopa, is much used for caulkhag
ships, but is not equal in value to that of JBertholletia ; it fetches in the markets of Para
the price of l$-600 per arroba, or 15s. per cwt. Engl.
.
• •
. . . .
2. JucASTRTJM OBTECTIJM, nob. : Zecythis, sp., Spruce in Hook. Kew Journ. v. p. 239,
n. C8 ramulis terctibus, substrictis, pallide brunneis, ruguloso-striatis, lenticellis
:
verruculosis ; imo rotundate obtusis et in petiolum subito latiuscule

foliis late ovatis,
acutatis, apice in acumen acutum breve canaliculatum recurvum subito constrictis,

ad marginem tenuiter cartilagineum revolutum crenulatis vel in punctis obsoletis-
sime scrrulatis, supra subopacis, luride viridibus, in costa nervisque sulcatis, nervis
tenuibus parallelis omnino immersis, venis reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus, luride
bmnnescentibus et glauco-pruinosis, costa nervis venisque prominulis petiolo supra
;
piano, subtus corruguloso, limbo llplo breviore pyxidio sub-

inflorescentia ignota : ;
:
\V
globoso, imo turbinato, ad medium zona calycari irregulariter lineari cincto vitta ;
ittterzonali angustissima ; zona superiore Integra; operculo orbiculari, conice hjemi-
sphaerico, apice breviter etobtuse umbonato, infra concavo, septo obsoleto sio-nato
cum velario brevi intra faucem dependente pericarpio undique ocbraceo, brunneo ;
lenticellis maculato, tenuiter coriaceo, obsolete 2-loculari; seminibus plu-

flavidis
rimis, subcylindraceis, acute 4i-5-angulatis, apice truncatis, erectis, in series 2-3

dispositis, hilo basali affixis. In i^.mazonas : v. pi. s. in hi. Eooh., Barra do Eio
Negro {Spruce) ; fruct. in Mus. Kew. {Spruce, 68).
A spreading tree, 15 feet high, with a trunk 6 in. thick, called Fao de Macaco, growino-
b into the river ; the axils of the lon^? \yeak
j3 ,,^^^ branchlets are 14-11
«^ l*x^vyj_ix^ Ud CAXl^ A.A—JL2 in.
apart ; the leaves are
4J-4| 2J-2| broad, on a petiole 4^-5 lines long, and
in. long, in.
have about 12 pairs of subimmersed nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all
anastomosed. The pyxidium (Plate LXI. fig. 7) is lf-2^ in. long, 2f in. broad at the
calycary zone, which is f-l in. above the base the interzonal band is 3 lines high the ; ;
operculum is 2^ in. broad, and 13-15 lines high, with a velarium descending 2 lines
below the mouth ; the pericarp and operculum are about \\ line thick, both marked by
the traces of the dissepiment ; it contains about 16 seeds, with a thickish coriaceous
testa IJ-li in. long.
3. JuGASTRUM PLATYSPERMUM, nob. : ramulis tenuibus, teretibus, ffriseo-brunneis, anû-

losis, verruculosis ; foliis ovatis, imo obtusiusculis et in petiolum breviter acutatis,
apice m acumen subobtusum recurvatum constrictis, ad marginem cartilagineum
revolutum obsolete crenato-serratis, chartaceis, supra subpallide viridibus, opacis,
costa pauUo prominula, nervis tenuibus subimmersis, reticulatis, subtus palHdioribus,
glauco-pruinosis, costa sulcata nervis venisque prominulis; petiolo canaliculate,
margmato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 12-13plo breviore : inflorescentia ignota : pyxidio
subgloboso, imo hemisphgerico, ad medium zona calycari sublineari cincto ; vitta
mterzonali ejusdem diametri
5-6tam partem alta ; zona superiore integra ; operculo
orbicular! subdepresse pulvinato, apice convex© vel obsolete umbonato, infra con-
cavo, cum velario vittae dimidio altitudine intra faucem dependente ;
pericarpio sub-
enuiter coriaceo,
ochraceo-brunneo, punctis flavidis farinosis maculato, 2-loculari,
issepimeuto fere evanido
; seminibus plurimis, majuscuHs, latissime obovatis, apice
nmcatis, valde
angulato-compressis, hHo basali biserialiter affixis. In Amazonas
^•Pl' s. in hb. Hook,
Barra do Eio Negro {Spruce, 1519) ; v. fruct. in Mus. Keic.
{Sp
"^^'^ce,
1519), in Mus. Brit { Wallace). •
°^. ?^^^^^^S with a thick trunk, abundant in the

^êe, swampy plains along the
river
^^,^^^^^ Mdta-mdta and branchlets are |-| in.
apart* ?, Pdv de Macdco the axils of :
its
^~^* ^- ""^^ ^""^ in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long, and
with Je 1
'^''''^''
lt-2i
^^^^^ ^^ slender and intermediate
all
*^^ uJT
anastomo
semiimmersed
' nerves, with others shorter
'
*^^ Pjxidium (Plate LXI. fig. J in. long, 2-2f in. broad at
the calvo
""^ ' is 9) 1^2
'''''^* ^^'""^ '' interzonary band is 4-5 lines
%h •
th^"^ *-î ^^- aô^ê *ê ^^^^ ' *^^
''^^^''''^'''^^
high, with a velarium descending
VOL XX 2f-2f in. broad, is 4-6 Hues
:
2 lines within tlie mouth ; the pericarp and operculum are about 1^ line thick, botli
marked by the traces of the dissepiment it contains about 16 seeds, with ;

a coriaceous
testa, about in. long, |-1 Uin. broad, and J of that thickness ; the embryo presents the
gular structure of the g
4. JuGASTRUM SUBCINCTUM, nob. plauta ignota pyxidio depresse

:
globoso, imo hre-:
vissimc et acute turbinato, pauUulo supra basin zona calycari e sepalis 6 acutis sub-
crectis linea nexis cincto vitta interzonali fere erecta, diametri ^—g partem alta ; zona
;
superiore circulari, integra, sequilata ; operculo vitta 3-4plo altiore, convexo, obtuse
umbonato, intus concavo, septi vestigio signata, cum velario intra fauceni de
scendentc ;
pericarpio pallide brunneo, crustaceo, granuloso-rugoso, lenticellis flavidis
maculato, obsolete 2-loculari ; seminibus plurimis, late oblongis, acute angulatis, apice
truncatis, imo gradatim angustioribus et hilo basali biseriatim affixis. In Amazonas
v.fr. s. in Mm, Kew., Uio Negro {Spruce).
Tlie specimen of the frjait from that of the

of this species in the Kew Museum differs
preceding species in the nearly basal calycary zone. The pyxidium (Plate LXI. fig. 4)
is IJ in. high, 2-2 J in. broad at the calycary zone, which is 2-3 lines above the base;
the interzonal band is 3-4 lines high the upper zone and operculum are 2-2J in. in
;
diam. ; the latter 11-12 lines high, with a velarium descending 2 lines within the
mouth ; the pericarp and operculum are 2 lines thick ; the seeds much resemble those of
J. ohtectum.
5. J UGASTRUM DEPRESSUjr, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio valde depresso, imo breviter
late turbinato, sub medium zona calycari imo circulari e sepalis 6 obtusis vel acutis
I
linca nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali angusta, suberecta, diametri 8-lOmam partem
alta zona superiore orbiculari, calcycarem subaequante ; operculo pariter sequali,
;
depresse pulvinato, superne fere planato aut subconcavo, centro breviter et obtuse
umbonato, vittaj fere altitudine, intus plane concavo, cum velario subbrevi intra
faucem descendente, obsolete 2-loculari, intus imo cicatricibus seminum 10 biseriatis
notato; pericarpio subtenuiter coriaceo; seminibus angulatis, erectis, structura
generis. In Amazonas : v. s.fr. in Mas. Brit., Uio Negro ( Wallace) ; in Mns. Kew.
{Spruce).
These probably belong to one of tlie many species of Macacarecuya which

fruits
Dr. Spruce saw near the banks of the Rio Negro, far too
high to obtain specimens,
the fruits being found on the ground beneath them. The pyxidium (Plate LXI. fig- 13)
is l-i; in. higli,
diam. at the calycary zone, which is \ in. above the gradually
2-2J in. in
contracted base ; the interzonary band is 2-3 lines high

; the upper zone and operculum
arc 2 iu, in diam,, the latter 3 lines high, very flattened
above, and shortly umbonated
in the middle, very concave within, where it is
marked by the evanescent dissepiment,
its velarium descending 3 lines within the mouth ; the pericarp thin and
is rather
coriaceous, marked within along the sides with the trace of the dissepiment, and in the
bottom by 10 cicatrices in 2 rows, where the seeds were attached ; the seeds are Hke
those of J. ohtectum.
;
MR. J. MIEllS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.

279
6. JuGASTRUM PoiTEAUi, nob. Lecythis Poileaui, Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras.

:
I. c. p 615 •
ramulis teretibus, subtenuibus, rugoso-striatis, lenticellis

juniorib
nigrescentibus ;
foliis oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in acumen angustum attenuatis,
ad marginem tenuem rcvolutum obsolete serratis, siibcbartaceis, supra nitidis^
nervis plurimis tenuissimis
subpatule divaricatis semiimmersis, venis reticulatis!
costa tenuissima vix prominula, subtus pallidioribus, luride Mvidis
vel cinnamomeis!
valde opacis, pruinosis, conspicue nigro-punctatis, costa nigra nitente
prominente!
nervis venisque nigris pauUo prominulis petiolo nigrescente, canaliculate,
; limbo
18-24plo breviore : racemo terminali folio eequilongo ; racbi flexuosa, crassa, longe
nodosa, transversim dense rugulosa, pauciflora floribus majusculis
;
; pedicellis sub-
remotis, crassiusculis, rugulosis, recurvis ; sepalis 6, oblongis, obtusis, injequalibus
petalis 6, albo-yirescentibus andropboro albo ovario infero, turbinate, subgranoso-
; ;
rugoso, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo circ. 6, e basi erectis, vertice intra discuni
depresso stylo longiusculo.
; In Guiana v. s. m hb. Mus. Brit., Cayenne {Martin) :
;
in kb. Eooh., Guiana Gallica {Sagot,

270, sub Lecythis racemipra).
As Sagot's plant agrees so well witb Berg's species, I
have referred it to this genus on
account of the structure of its
androphorum and of its ovarium : it is closely allied to
Jngastrum coriaceum. The
leaves are 3-6 in. long, 1 J-2J in. broad, on a petiole 2-3
lines long, and
they have about 24 pairs of nerves, with others shorter and intermediate,
all anastomosing
the rachis of the raceme is above 6 in. long, bare at its base for half
;
Its length, where it is 1^-3 lines thick ; the pedicels, thickened above, are smooth,
recurved, nearly
| in. long the flower in bud is 9 lines in diam., very broad when
;
expanded sepals 4 lines long, 3 lines broad

; petals small when compared with the ;
androphorum, 10 lines
long, 7 lines broad ; androphorum globose, 8 lines in diam. in the
ûd expanded
28 lines long, 8 lines broad at the basal rmg, 12 lines broad in the globose
Which is lined with
,
very numerous adpressed staminiferous appendages ; the turbi-
e ovary is
4 lines long, 5 lines broad across the annular disk the style is 2 lines long. :
8. CoijRATARi (Plate XXXY. b.)
^. S^^^s is abeady given {ante, p.l68), showing how its characters

^^^^^^ ^^ *^^^
je
hav een completely
misunderstood and described as those of a new genus, under the
Lecythopsis it only remains to offer an outline of
; its true generic features
COUUATAEI. Aubl
Lecyth opsis,
' Schrank ^""^
' ''
^«^^«^««« (in parte), Berg (non Casar.).
^te imo
^^"'"^^'^
^' ^^^^""^^^ ohtusa, crassiuscula, subrotata. Pefala 6, magua, oblonga,
âguicdat
^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ta, concava, subinsequalia, uuguibus ad discum
carnosula, subimbricata,
aadrophorr'
agglutinata et cum isto decidua. Discus epigynus, annularis, planus. Androphorum
^lajuscullr^^''^
iatus
^^^ ^^ poculum disco adnatum reductum, centre excisum, margine hberum,
ap'TufT^^^^^^^'^'^'
numerosis brevibus subclavatis creberrimis instructum
latere \/T T^'^
^""^S^^siîam aequilatam sensim incurvatam expansum,
I'&ula ad eZ""^' crassam canaliculatamnudam
^'^'*''*^^ reduphcatim
galea terminali convexa, hemi-
«Pb«rica ! contorta, et in nodum contracta,
^PpendicuHs Hneari
2o2
MR-J.MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^.
280
appendiculisbasalibussolummodo insita.iis Lecy/^^^ Ovarium •
averse ecWnata. 5/amma in
infcrnm
plurima^ e basi erecta, anatropa. 'us
Pyxidium subtrigone cylindricum,

conicus. Stigma r
paullo sub apicem zona ca/y can irregulariter lineari cinctum; vitta interzomli
Ltn,
ona mperiore trigono-circulari : operculum isti conforme, breve, supra pulvinatum,
subconcavum centro breviter

,
umbonatum, subtus columella ad basin descendente
igul
intermanent, et angulis
tenuiter coriaceum, intus nitidum, lineis 3 cicatricatis
psricarpium exinde viduura l-loculare apparet,
...•
gnatum, epicarpio
tj. • i. —
„„T,^^^ci^ *«/.nr>,n«*.«i/i nanopllnfn-fibrnso. Fiemina in auoQue loculo 4-6.
compressissima
pars embryonifera) centralis, oblonga, compressa, pergaminea, ala lata submembranacea

(scu iestce
bry tereti, imo paullo
ityledonibus
magnis
Americce tropicce et Antillanoe, proceree, fi
linales, pluriflori ; florcs speciosi, pedicellal
1. CoL'RATAr.1 GriANENSis, Aubl. PL Gu. ii. 724, tab. 290; A. Rich. Ann. Sc. Nat. i.
329, tab. 21 ; Toit. Mom. Mus. xiii. 159, tab. 8. figs. 7-13 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 294 ;
Berg
in Mart. PI. Br. I c, p. 507 ; Linn, xxvii. 463 : ramis patentissimis ; ramulis sub-
tcnuibus, fuscis aut subcinereis, lenticellis minutis verruculosis ; foliis oblongis, imo
obtusis et subito breviter acutatis, apice in acnmen acutum repente constrictis, ad
marginera tcnucm crenulato-undulatis et obsolete serratis, submembranaceis, supra
bnimico-viridibus aut rufoscentibuS, sublucentibus, nervis plurimis divergentibus

scmiimmorsis, venis reticulatis, costa tenui, plana, striolata, subtus pallide brunneis,
opnds, nervis tcnuibus fuscis vix prominulis, costa tenui, fusca, paullo prorainula;
petiole fusco, profunda canaliculato, ruguloso, limbo 20plo breviore: racemo ter-
minali, folio dimidio breviore; racbi subtenui, nodosa, 12-15-flora pedicellis

;
l)revibu9, recur vulis, cum nodis articulatis ; calycis limbo campanulato, in lobos
6 acutos crcctos diviso petalis 6, inajqualibus, crassiusculis, obtuse obovatis ;

ovano
;
subinfero, 3-loculai'i ; ovulis in quoque loculo 4, e basi erectis, stylo breviter subu-
lato, stigmate parvo globoso terminatepyxidio cylindrico, subtrigono, imo obtuso

:
I
paullo sub apicem zona calycari lineari cincto ; vitta interzonal! erecta, diametn J
partem alta, margine tenui, paullulo reflexo ; zona superiore suborbiculari ; opercmo
alte pulvinato, radiatim sulcato, centro umbilicato et nmbonato, subtus columella
solida triquetra elongata aucto; pericarpio sublsevi, obsoletissime multicostato J
opaco, brunneo, lenticellis flavidis maculate, coriaceo-Kgnoso, epidermide rimosa*

primum 3-lociJari, post columellse casum 1-loculari ; seminibus ut in char, generico*
»^
In Guiana : v. s, pi. sbiejlore in hh. Mm. Brit., Cayenne {Aublet) ; v. friicL sice
Jfu8. Brit,
A tree of immense size, srowincj on the borders of rivers, with a straight truni.
60 feet long and 4 feet in diam., aflFording an excellent timber ; and its inner bark, c(
posed of several scores of lamina), is applied to many useful purposes. The axils of
;

L _
Lranchlets are J-SJ in. apart the leaves are 3i-5| in. long, li-2i in. broad, on a petiole
;
2-3 lines long, and they have about 9 pairs of very liae nerves, with others shorter and
intermediate, anastomosing; rachis 3 J in.

all long, with projecting nodes 4-5 lines
apart flower expandedl | in. broad
; petals 8 Hnes long, 4 J lines broad ; the pyxidium ;
(Plate LXII. fig. 113) is 3^-4 in. long, 1 J in. broad calycary zone 4 lines below the ;
summit ; the upper zone is 1J in. in diam. ; the operculum, of the same breadth, is
6 Hnes high, attached to the columella, which is 1 in. in diam., triquetrous, and the
length of the ceU, but contracts considerably in drying ; the seeds are 2| in. long, 8 lin.
broad, membranaceous on the margin, with an embryoniferous escutcheon 1 in. long,
in. broad, the radicle terete and of that length, pointing to the basal hilum, and with
corrugated cotyledons reflected downwards.
2. CoTJRATARi GLABRA, Gamb. M. Br. Mer. ii. 379 : Zect/thoj>sis glabra, Berg in Mart.
M. Br. l. c. p. 505, tab. 76 : glabra, ramulis teretiusculis ; foliis sparsis, oblongo-
lanceolatis, utrinque gradatim angustatis, obsolete serrato-dentatis, subtus glabris,
costa prominente, nervis vix prominulis, reticulatis ; petiole semitereti, canaliculato,
glabro, limbo 12-16plo breviore : racemis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio brevi-
oribus ; rachi angulosa, glabra, 5-7-flora ;
pediceUis crassis, brevibus ; sepalis late
ovatis, acutiuscuKs; petalis subinsequalibus, obovato-rotundis, concavis, flavidis,
glabris ; androphoro luteo ; ovario turbinate, semiinfero, 3-loculari, ovulis in quoque

loculo 8, e placentis basilaribus erectis et uniserialibus, vertice elevate, complanato,
glaberrimo ; stylo brevi, obtuso : pyxidio subcylindrico, vix trigonoideo, zona caly-
can UTegulariter lineari paullo sub apicem cincto ; vitta interzonal! angusta, paullulo
eonvexa; operculo depresse pulvinato, radiatim sulcato, concave, centre late et
breviter umbonato, cum columella longe descendente subtriquetra agglutinate;
pericarpio brunneo, opaco, subtenuiter coriaceo, primum 3-loculari ; seminibus in
quoque loculo 4, imbricatim e basi adscendentibus, compressissimis ; scuto embryo-
nifero ovato central! et ala In Brasilia, in sylvis primsevis
.
lata membranacea cincto.
prope Bio de Janeiro {no7i vidi).
A tree 20-30
which did not come under my
feet high, observation, although growing
in the woods
at the foot of the Corcovado within a mile of the locality of the subsequent
'Pecies. It is distinguished from especially by its com-
that by many salient characters,
plete baldness.
The leaves are 2-4 in. long, 8-12 lines broad, on a petiole 2-3 lin. long
the pedicels the
are 2 lines long ; the sepals 2 lin. long ; the petals 7 lin. long, 6 lin. broad ;
pyxidium (Plate in diam. and 3^ in.

LXII.
4 in. long ; the calycary zone 2J
fig. 5) in.
above the base
the interzonal band 4 in. high ; the upper zone and operculum 2 in. broad,
;
»ic latter
3 Hnes high, its columella being more than 3 in. long ; the seeds, somewhat ob-
narrower towards the base, are
''''^ broad, with a central flat-
2 '
If in. long, IJ in.
escutcheon 1 in. long, linear raphe descending to the
J!;
•Jasuar
| in. broad, marked by a
hilum.
F P
CouRATARi Leci/thopsis, sp •*
•
EUFESCENS, Camb. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 380, tab. 159 :
^ciirank in
Act. Acad. Monac. vii. 241 (1820) Lecythopsis rufescens, Berg :
m
'^- ^^- ^ras.
I. c. Lecythis pyramidata, Veil. PL Plum.
p. 504, tab. fi-. 1 75. :
282 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEJE.
p. 222, Icon. V. tab. 86: ramulis validiusculis, teretibus, subflexuosisj angulato-striatis,

ferruginco-tomentosis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, junioribiis angustiore oblongis, imo sub-
rotundatis vel obtusatis, apice sensim angustioribus et in acumen obtusum ssepe
recurvum attenuatis, marginibus undulatis, vix recurvulis, remotiuscule et grosse
crenato-dentatis, rigide chartaceis aut subcoriaceis, supra Isete viridibus, valde opacis,
glaberrimis, sub lente minutissime granulatis, nervis tenuibus divergentibus pauUo
prorainulis, venis transversis creberrime elevato-reticulatis, costa tenui, subprominula,
imo latiore, plana, straminea, subtus paullo palKdioribus, opacis, nervis venisque
prominentibus, costa valida, latiuscula, striolata, prominente, pilis brevibus rufulis
pubcscente; petiolo valido, supra late sulcato, marginato, rufo-pubescente, limbo
16plo breviorc racemis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio subsequilongis, simplicibus,
:
rarius ramosis; rachi subtenui, rufo-pubescente, 16-20-flora; pedicellis brevibus,

crassiusculis, dense pubescentibus, imo articulatis et 3-bracteolatis ; bracteolis ob-
longis, acutiusculis, dcciduis, pubescentibus; sepalis 6, rotundatis, acutis, valde
imbricatis, cxtus carinatis et dense pubescentibus j
petalis 6, obovatis, unguiculatis,
niajusculis, Ilavidis, extus puberulis ; androphoro majusculo, flavo ; ovario turbinate,
subinforo, pubcscente, 3-loculari, ovulis pluribus ad axin basi affixis, erectis, vertice
pulvinato, dense pilosulo, centre concavo, stylo in cavitate late umbonato, glabro,
stigraate paullo minore semigloboso cavo glabro apiculato : pyxidio turbinato-cylin-
drico, obsolete trigono, opace brunneo, scrobiculato-ruguloso, cortice rimoso, paullo
8ul)apicom zona calycari irrcgulariter linear! cincto ; vitta interzonali brevi, diametri
4(tam partem alta, basi crecta, apice introrsum convexa ; zona superiore quam in-
ferior paullo minore, integra, orbiculari; operculo orbiculari, depresse pulvinato,
crcnato-sulcato, ccntro concavo et umbonato, subtus columella crassa subtriquetra \
elongata aucto; pcricarpio post operculi casum 1-loculari, tenuiter

coriaceo, glabro;
seminibus in loculis ad columeUam imo affixis, erectis, imbricatis, margine ala
3,
'lata membranacca undique cinctis. In Brasilia v. v, in flore et in fructu, Barro
:
Vermrlho, Rio de Janeiro. '
A noble tree, witli a straiglit trunk 40-60 feet bigh, with a wide-spreading head ; its
brancblcts, 2i lines thick. Lave axHs l|-2 lines apart
; the leaves are 4-7 in. long,
2-4f in. wide, on a broad petiole 2 lines long; the raceme is 2-7 in. long, the pedicels
3 lines long ; the sepals 3 lines long and broad ; the petals 15-17 lin. long, 9-10 lines
broad; the pyxidium (Plate LXII. fig. 8) is 3 in. long,
1^ in. broad; interzonary the
band IS 4 Uneshigh, and below the mouth, which is IJ Hue broad, the operculum, of the
same size, is
2 lines high, attached to the descending columella of nearly the same
diameter ; the seeds aic much larger in proportion than
in the other species, being 2 in.
long and 11 lines broad, the embryoniferous disk
in the centre long and being 14 lines
lines broad.
4. CoxiR ATARI Maetiana, uob. Lccyllds Martiana, Berg in Mart.

:
M. Br. L c. p.487:
glabra, ramulis teretiusculis, sulcatis,
fuscis; foHis sparsis, ovali-oblongis, imo
acutis, apice obtusis et breviter
acuminatis, marginibus vix serrulatis, supra palHdis,
ncn-is divancatis, arcuatim nexis,
cum aliis interjectis et anastomosantibus, vcnis
:;
reticulatis, costa vix prominula ;

pctiolo limbo 9plo breviore racemis axillaribus
:
et
terminalibus, folio brevioribus ; racbi valida, angulata ; pedicellis brevibus, crassis •
sepalis brevibus subrotundis, glabris;ovario 3-lociilari: pyxidio majusculo, sub-

cylindrico, aut obsolete trigono, lineis plurimis longitudinalibus obsoletissime costato
fusco-bmnneo, opaco, lenticellis flavidis maculato, pauUo sub apicem zona calycari
cincto ; vitta interzonal! erecta, diametri 6tam partem alta, marine tenui extrorsum
paullulo reflexa; zona superiore suborbiculari ; operculo isti conformi, depresse

pulvinato, radiatim sulcato, centro umbilicato et umbonato, subtus columella solida
triquetra aucto ; cseteris precedentium. In Brasilia, prov. Para plantam non vidi :
;
v.fr. s. in Mus. Brit, et Kew. et in Mm. Soc, Linn.
This species is evidently a Cour atari, because of its 3-locular ovary, and appears to be
near 0. glabra-, the leaves are 4^-6 1 in. long, IJ-SI in. broad, on a petiole 6-8 lines
long; the rachis of tbe inflorescence is 2-4 in. long ; the pedicels IJ line long ; the flower
in bud is 6-8 lines in diameter. The fmit of this species (Plate LXII. fig. 1), common
in collections, is most frequently mistaken for that of C. Guianensis it is larger and ;
broader, with a more depressed and broader operculum it is 5-5^ in. long, l|-2 in. ;
broad; the calycary zone is li-lf in. in diam., and 6-8 lines below tbe mouth; the
upper zone is 1| m. broad ; the operculum of the same diameter is 4 lines high the ;
seeds are 2^ in. loncj, 5 lines broad.

m
6. CouRATAui COEIACEA, Mart., Berg in Mart. PL Bras. I c. p. 510, tab. 75. fig. 2 : planta
ignota :
pyxidio obconice cylindrico, manifeste subtrigono, pauUo sub apicem zona
calycari linear! cincto ; vitta interzonali angusta, erecta, vel extrorsum subconvexa,
quam diameter 6plo breviore ; zona superiore subtrigona, orbicular!, margine acuto
operculo ignoto; pericarpio
subtenui, coriaceo, extus Isevigato, intus septorum 3
vestigiis signato ; pedunculo pollicari. In Brasilia, prov. Para (non vidi).
e pyxidium, of thinnish substance,
2f long, with
is a calycary
in. zone 2J in. above
ase, and 1 in. in diam. upper zone 1^ broad, acute, with the interzonary band erect
^ ;
and sHghtly
convex, 2 lines high.
• CouRATARi Paraensis, 4 planta

Mart., Berg in Mart. PI. Br. I. c. p. 510, tab. 79. fig. :
Ignota: pyxidio cylindrice oblongo, imo urceolato, medio subinflato, pauUo sub
apicem zona
calycari linear! cincto; vitta interzonali angustiuscula, erecta ; zona
superiore mferiorem sequante, orbicular!, integra ; operculo ignoto ;
pericarpio cori-
^ceo- ignoso,
subtenui, scabridiuscule verruculoso, intus septorum 3 vestigiis signato.
An Brasilia,
prov. Pard (non vidi).
^
^Sî"e<i is If long, 1 J
in. in. !n diam. across the middle the calycary
zone \F^^'^''''^ ;
^' *^® ^^^^» is 1 !n. in diam., the upper zone of the same width, with an
intoL'
'^êrzonary f^^^®
band i in. high.
3
h 7. C
"^^.^^î* ^Berg in
Mart. PI. Br. c. p. 509 ; Hook. Kew Joum. ii. 75
ram^TT s teretibus,
/.
striatis, fuscescentibus ; foliis sparsis, late ovatis, imo obtusis et

:
in petiolum angustatis, apice longe acuminatis, subintegerrimis, supra fusco-Tir
dibus, nididis, nervis utrinque 10-12 patentim incurvis adscendentibus et cum venis
immersis reticulatis anastomosantibus, costa prominente ;

petiolo canaliculato, limbo
12plo breviore: inflorescentia et fructu ignotis. In Brasilia, in prov. Para, ad
Tanali, in fluv. ripis (non vidi).
Spruce saw this species growing at Tanaii, where it was too lofty to procure specimens
of its leaves. Martins, however, obtained its leaves, though without flower or fruit, so
that we are not certain that it belongs to this genus. It is a magnificent tree, with a
straight trunk, strengthened at its base by strong buttresses, and affords a valuable hard
timber of a palish colour, used in ship-building, yielding logs 65 feet long and 18 in.
square. The name Tailari is also given to its laminated inner bark, consisting of many
thin whitish sheets of the substance of paper, well known in commerce, being extensively
used for the covering of cigarettes. The leaves are 3-5 in. long,
IJ-S in. broad, on a
petiole 3-6 lines long. Either this species or another producing an inner bark, bearinjj
Ibo name of Taliarij is found in the province of Maranhao.
8. CouRATAKi ViiiEsii, nol). : planta ignota: pyxidio cylindrico imo gradatim conico,
obsolctissimc trigone, costulis parallclis subpromincntibus circa 12 signato, intervallis
tcnuiter reticulatis, paullo sub apiccm zona calycari e sepalis 6 parvis acutis linea
ncxis cincto ; vitta interzonali angusta, erecta ; zona superiore suborbiculari, margine
acuta; operculo ignoto; pericarpio tcnuissime coriaceo, brunneo, intus vestigiis
septorum 3 notato. In Guiana, v.f. 8. in Mus. Keic, Surinam {De Vriese).

The pyxidium is 3 in. long, gradually attenuated downward from the calycary zone,
wliich is 2 J m. above the base, and 1 J in. in diam. ; the interzonary band is 3 lines higli
the upper zone entii-e, acute on the edge, and IJ in. in diam. ; the pedicel is slender
IJ in. long.
9. Cariniana. (Plate XXXV. c.)
It was shown genus of Casaretto was not accepted by botanists

{ante, p. 1G9) that this >
and that its species were described and figured by Berg under the name of Couratari
It differs, however, most essentially from that genus in its smaller flowers, cup-shapod
cal^-x, smaller, equal petals, in the structure of androphorum, in the very thick
its peri-
carp of its fruit, and in its seeds, winged only at one extremity.
Cariniana, Casar
Couratari
Cahjx adnatus, limbo libcro, brcvi, cupulari, mar-Iue in lobes 6 rotundatos vel acutiores dlvi«),
rotatus. Petala 6, pan-a, lineari-oblonga, subsequalla, apice imbricata adhaerentia,

et Lie sjepius
imo soluta, et s^pe cum audroplioro modo calyptrae caduca, rarius Androphorum par-
explanata.
Tum, urceolato-campaniilatuTn, ore valde obliquo, margine in appendices hneares staminiferas
laciniato, cum appendicibus aliia similibus intra tubum pluriseriatis, inferioribus gradatim bre"*-
simis, cunctis iutrorsiim inflexis, tnbo margine basali ad discum in appen-
Stamina pana, affixo.
dicula insita, iis Couroupitce simillima. Discus epigyuus annularis, angustissimus. Ovarium omnino
niferura, turbinatum, 3-loculare. vertice intra
discum nnnnavn ^^cV.ui\rr. «fr;«+n mnririne elcvato-
;;::

F
crenato; ovula in qiioque loculo plurima, e basi erecta, anatropa. Stylus longiusculus; tereti-subu-
latus, paullo incurvus. Stiffma parvura, obsolete 3-denticulatum. Pyxidium cylindraceiim vel
pyriforme, summum versus zona calycari indistincte linear! cinetum ; vitta interzomli anffustissima •
zona superiore circulari operculum conforme, cylindrJcum, faucem implens, apice nullo modo pro-
;
minens et plano-truncatum, vel breviter exsertum et pulviuato-convexum, subtus cum columella

iiequilata ad basin descendente continuum j columella lignosa, trigona, angulis parieti adnata^ quare
loculi 3 serainigeri intermanent ; angulis demum a pariete solutis, hoc modo decidit pencarpium
;
exinde viduum, 1-loculare apparet, crassissimum, dens eliguosum, intus nitidum, cicatricibus 3 line-
r
um signatum.
Semina in quoque loculo 4-8, fundo columellje affix a,
erecta; collateraliter imbricata^ elongata^ apice in scutum embryoniferum {testa) subovale plano-
convexum pergamineum et infra in alam sequilatam membranaceam, 3plo longiorem expansa : embrt/o
ei Courataris similisj sed cotyledonibus multo brevioribus.
Arbores Americ<s intertropic(B indigeiKje, proceTnmc^^ trunco amplissimo^ comosa^ ramosissimce ; foVm pdio-
itm
flores parvi, inconspicui.
Cariniana excelsa, Casar. Dec. x. p. 46 ; Walp. Rep. v. 757 : Couratari Estrellensis,

Eaddi, Mem. Soc. Ital. Modena; xviii. 403; Mem. PI. Bras. Add. p. 25, fig. 2; B.C.
Prodr. iii. 296 Berg in Mart. PL Bras. L
; c. p. 511, tab. 79. fig. 5, et tab. 81
ramulis rufescentibus, teretibus, striatis, verruculosis ; foliis ellipticis, imo sensim
acutis, m petiolo revolutis et breviter decurrentibus, apice in acumen breve
anguste obtusulum subito constrictis, crebre crenato -serrulatis, rigide chartaceis,
supra pallide viridibus, opacis, costa nervisqne tenuibus
pauUo prominulis, venis
transversis reticulatis, subtus ocliraceo-brunneis, opacis, nervis costaque striolata
prommulis ; petiolo fusco supra piano, tenuiter marginato, limbo 9plo breviore
paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, in ramulis superioribus e foliis lapsis, in
flyrsam laxe expansam dilatatis ; raclii remote ramulosa ; ramulis tenuissimis,
compressis, ocliraceo-pruinosis
; floribus parvis, subapproximatis, breviter pedicel-
atis;calyce breviter campanulato, margine in lobos breves 6 glanduloso-ciliatos
crenato; petalis oblongis,
membranaceis, luteis, extus granulatim pulverulentis
ovario semiinfero,
3-loculari, vertice convexo ; ovulis plurimis, biserialiter erectis,
inio affixis;
brevissimo; stigmate minimo, 3-lobo: pyxidio elongato, ventri-
stj^lo
cose cylindrico,
imo acutiore, longiuscule sub apicem zona calycari inconspicuo a
sepalorum vestigiis
linea undulata nexis cincto; vitta interzonali suberecta et
pauilo mflexa,
diametri dimidiam partem alta ; zona superiore circulari, quam inferior
ertia
parte angustiore, et
ad faucem acutam dentibus plurimis subremotis munita
operculo ejusdem
diametri, exserto, convexo, ad columellam fere aequilatam ligno-
sam tnquetram
longe descendentem arete connate pericarpio crasso, lignoso, denso,
;
usco-brunneo, obsolete verruculoso, intus
ruguloso et lenticellis flavis granosis
emum 1-loculari,
vestigiis septorum 3 et impressionibus profunde excavatis semi-
'
seminibus in quoque loculo 6-8, biseriatim erectis, structura generis.
In^^^°^^*^
a rasilia,
in montibus Organensibus 24° S.) in sylvis
et insula S. Sebastiao (lat.
^^'^^î) ' ^' P^- 8. in Jib. EooJc., prov. Minas Geraes ad Jaquara {Eiedel) ;
Br^Q?^
^^^^"^^ ^^^^ loco); ^./r. inMus. Kew. indicio), Brazil {JBurchell, 9077*).
^*" !v
VOL (sine
XXX. ^
Op
:
This is a tree with a trunk of immense diameter, and 120 feet high, not infrequent in
the province of Kio de Janeiro, affording a valuable timber, and bearing the name of
Jequitibd branca, which is much employed in the Campos for sugar-cases. The axils of
its branchlets are |-1 in. apart ; the leaves are 1}-3| in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, on a petiole
4r-5 lines long, and they have about 12 pairs of nerves, with others intermediate, very
short, all anastomosed ; the panicles are 3-4 in. long, with 3 or 4 shorter branches ; the
pedicels 1 line long ; the calyx ^ line the petals 2 lines long, J line broad ; the pyxidiura
;
(Plate LXIII. fig. 6) is 4| in. long (sometimes a little shorter), 1} in. in diam. in
the middle, the calycary zone is 3 j in. above the base, and 1^ in. in diam. ; the
interzonary band is 8 lines high ; the upper zone 1 in. broad ; the operculum is of the
same diameter, 4r} lines high, the columella 4 in. long, 10 lines thick within the mouth
for the length of 4 lines, then tapering downward, and trigonously chambered ; the pericarp
is I in. thick ; the seeds 16 lines long, 5 lines broad, membranaceous below, bearing
mbryoniferous escutcheon 5 lines long, 4 lines broad
2. Cariniana domestica, nob. CourataH domestica, Mart. M. Eatisb. /. c. p. 127

:
;
Berg in Mart. PI. Br. I, c. p. 510, tab. 80 ramulis crebris, teretibus, glabris, juni-
:
oribus subpubcrulis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, imo acute obtusis, apice in acumen sub-
breve obtusulum attenuatis, marsrinibus cartilaerineis subrevolutis, leviter crenato-
J^X^X-^lA^ V.t*iUiiOlg
scrrulatis, chartacois, crebre parallelc nervosis, nervis patenter divergentibus sub-
immersis, venis transvcrsis, reticulatis, costa crassiuscula petiolo canaliculato, mar-

;
ginato, limbo 12plo breviore paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus,

: ssepe binis, folio
2-32)lo longioribus, pauciramosis, bracteolis minutis donatis; ramis densifloris,
angulatis, puberulis; pedicellis brevibus; calyce breviter margine
campanulato, in
lobos G votundos expansos diviso petalis spathulato-oblongis,
; obtusis ; ovario infero,
3-loculari, verticc piano stylo brevi, conico, obtuso
; : pyxidio urceolato-cylindrico,
subcostatim hexagono, longe supra medium zona calycari annulatim prominente
cincto vitta interzonali introrsum inclinata, diametri 3tiam partem alta
; ; zona supe-
nore Integra, quam inferior angustiore; operculo orbiculari, depresse convexo,
cum columella fere sequilata continuo, hac summo breviter
cylindrica, dein 3quetra,
longc dcscendcnte ; pericarpio crasso, dure lignoso,
fusco, opaco, obsolete tubercu-
lato ; cseteris ut in prsecedente. In Brasilia, prov. Goyaz, Cuyaba {Silva Manso)
plrrnf. non lidi; v.fruct. in Mns. Kew. {Burchell, 9877*).
This a lofty tree, also bearing the name of Jequitibd
is
the axils of its branchlets are :
f-f in. apart ; the leaves are 3-4i in. long, lf-2J in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long,
and have about 24 pairs of parallel nerves the
; panicle is 2-2^ in. long, bearing about
3 brnnchlets, li in. long, crowded with smaU flowers; the short
calyx is°lline long; the
5*"o from yellow to red, and margined with white, are 3 lines long, 1 line
broad the yellow androphorum is 2 lines
; long and broad, and is char-ed within with
very numerous short staminigerous '^
appendages. The pyxidium (Plate LXIII. fig- ^)
2, in. long, the calycary zone is IJ in. in diam., is
1| in. above the base ; the interzonary
band IS 5 lines high; the upper zone is
10 lines in diam.; the operculum, of the same
brondth, 18 1 Imc high; the
columella and seeds as in the preceding species.
;;;

287
3. Cariniana Brasiliensis, Casar. Dec. iv. 36; Walp. Eep. v. 757 : Couratari legalis,
Mart. Fl. Ratisl). xx. Beibl. ii. 88; Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras. I.e. p. 512, tab. 7.
fig. 151 et 163, tab. 82 : ramulis brunneis, interrupte striatis, obsolete verruculoso-
rugosis; vel elongato-ellipticis, imo acutis, marginibus basalibus
foliis ellipticis
subito breviter revolutis et in petiolo decurrentibus, apice in acumen sublineare

obtusulum aut emarginatum repente constrictis, marginibus cartilagineis grossule et
obtusule serratis, chartaceis, supra nitentibus vel opacioribus, profunde viridibus,
nervis divergentibus tenuissimis venisque transversis reticulatis prominulis, costa
tenui, subtus pallidioribus, brunnescenti- vel- glauco-opacis, costa nervis venisque pro-
minulis ; petiolo tenui, canaliculate, limbo 8plo breviore paniculis terminalibus, :
folium subsequantibus, ramosis, ramis subbrevibus ; rachi tenui, angulata, com-

pressa, cum floribus subparvis subcongestis flavide pulverulenta ; pedicellis brevibus
sepaiis parvis, latis, subacutis, imo in tubulum breve connatis, pulverulentis
petalis lineari-oblongis, obtusis, extus flavide pulverulentis ; androphoro brevi ; ovario
infero, turbinato, tuberculato, pruinoso, 3-loculari, vertice piano, ovulis in quoque
loculo 4-6 e basi adscendentibus ; stylo longiusculo, conico, imo crassiusculo, subu-
lato, apice curvulo ; stigmate minimo, cavo pyxidio parvo, cylindrico, imo obtuso,
:
paullo sub apicem zona calycari lineari cincto ; vitta interzonali introrsum valde cur-
vata, convexa, diametri tertiam partem alta ; zona superiore quam inferior dimidio
angustiore; operculo parvo, orbiculari, planatim truncato, faucem implente, cum
columella ejusdem diametri continuo, hac mox triquetra et longe descendente;
pencarpio lignoso, crassissimo, cortice crasso suberoso ruguloso rimoso tecto, intus
post columeUae casum 1-loculari, cylindrico, impressionibus seminum excavate;
semmibus in quoque loculo 4-5 imbricatim erectis, cbar. gen. conformibus. In
Brasilia, prov. Bio de
Janeiro v. v. mflore etfructu, in Monte Corcovado; v. s. in
:
hb. Sook.
{Martim, 60, sine loco) ; {Biedel, 1238) ; (Sello).
This IS a tree of immense size, with very broad, lofty, spreading branches, its trunk
producmg a timber of
much value, useful in works of construction and ship-building,
îch IS known by the name of Jequitibd rosa. The axils of its slender branchlets are
H in. apart
the leaves are l|-2 in. long, 9-13 lines broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long,
;
with about
8 or 10 pairs of nerves arcuately conjoined near the margin, and with
^
<ôse
y parallel transverse veins, much reticulated. In my specimens they are shining
^^ ^*^^^^
^^^^ ^^^ opaque and a trifle smaller ; the terminal panicle is 1 J in. lon^
witribranches 4-8 Hnes
long, each bearing 4-6 flowers on pedicels J line long the calyx
1
;
_2 ne long ; the petals vertex

IJ line long, J Hne broad ; the ovary is | line long, its
*^'^ ^^^"^ '^^^''^^

^ ^"^^ ^^^S ' *^® pyxidium (Plate LXIII. fig. 1) is li-l| in.
1011^8 q'l^'
^^^^^' ^^^ calycary zone being 3 lines below the summit, 8 lines in diam.
the°- f
'^'^''^'^ ^^""^
^""^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^PPî^ 2°^^ ^^'^ operculum 3 lines in diam. the
oper^l
^ :
"^ '' '1'''*^ ^^*

^* top, not exserted ; the columella, being in the form of a solid
pW
^"^""^^ ^""""^ ^^-^^ l^ês long, triquetrous below, with 3 flat sides, the angles
arcL""!
^ ^^s below the summit ; seeds are 10 Hnes long, 3 Imes
the linear
Wad b 1 ''''T^''^^
3-4
""^^ '"^ ^""^"^
""^ ^ ^^^^ membrane, with an apical embryoniferous
escutcheon
lines Ion
2p2
r
4. CAniNiANA RUBRA, nob. : Courataiî rubra, Gardn. MSS. : ramulis terctibus, sub-
validis, subbrunneis, opacis, rugoso-striatis, verruculosis ; foliis ovatis, imo trun-
medio sursum gradatim pauUo angustioribus, apice obtusis et in
cato-rotundatis, a
acumen breve obtusum recurvulum subito constrictis, marginibus cartilagineis
paullo reyolutis serrulato-crenatis, rigide chartaeeis, supra subpallidis, opacis, nervis
plurimis patenti-divergentibus parallelis tenuibus subimmersis, venis transversis
brunnescentibus, valde opacis, costa nervis venisque pro-
reticulatis, subtiis luride
minulisj pctiolo valido, supra sulcato et marginato, rugoso-striato, limbo lOplo

.
breviore paniculis terminalibus, multiramosis, rachi ramisque pallide brunneis,

:
opace pruinosis, striato-angulosis ; floribus parvis, approximatis, brevissime pedi-

cellatis ; sepalis 6, acute oblongis, imo breviter connatis, lateritiis, extus carinatis,
granulato-pruinosis, margine ciliatis ; petalis 6, subsequalibus, obovatis, extus prui-
nosis, fimbriato-ciliolatisandrophoro urceolato, subbilabiato, labio antico brevis-
;
simo, postico longiore, concavo, galeatim inflexo, ad margiues et intus undique

appondiculis staminiferis numerosis crebre munitis ovario infero, 3-loculari, vertice ;
deprcsse pulvinato, radiatim striato; ovulis plurimis e basi erectis stvlo brevi :
conico ; stigmate minuto pyxidio turbinato-cylindrico, subhexagono,

:
angulis sub-
costoBformibus apice arcuatim nexis, imo obtuso, longe supra medium zona calycari
crasseamiukta subpromincnte cincto ; vitta interzonali introrsum convexa, diametri
tcrtiam partem alta opcrculo ignoto
; ; pericarpio crassissimo, dure lignoso, fusco-
brunneo, opaco, cortice subcroso, cancellatim rimoso, vix scrobiculato,
intus O
scptorom 3, et impressiouibus seminum signato seminibus
in quoque loculo^ 6 :
Iriseriatis, imbricatis. In Brasilia, prov. Goyas : v. pi s. in hb. Mus. Brit, et Kew.,

fruct. in Mtts. Kew., ad Natividade {Gardner,
3473).
A large tree, with an inflorescence greatly resembling that of
O. Uahupensis, but with
rcp' dilTorcnt leaves and different fruit; the latter
is called CacUmbo de Macaco
[Monkefs pipe). The axils of the branchlets are j-1 in. apart ; the leaves are 4^-5
4— i- 1I»-
long, 2i-3i in. broad, on a 5-6 lines long, and have about
petiole
16 to 18 pairs of
"Tvcs arcuatcly conjoined noar the margin; the
terminal panicle is 6 in. long, with
teral bmnchcs li-2J in. long pedicels i line apart and i line Ion-
;
the flowers are of ;
ick-red colour, mth a yellow androphorum

the calyx expanded is 2 lines
;
Its segments
* line long and broad petals 3 lines long, 2 lines broad, narrowing to-
;
wards the base the androphorum

; IJ line long and broad the pyxidium (Plate LXIII. ;
hg. 10) somewhat like that of

0. domestica, but broader and
stouter it is 3 in. long ;
(sometimes 4 in.), 1\ in. broad the calycary
zone, 21 in. above the base, is nearly If in.
;
in diam. and
3 linos thick ; the interzonary band is 6 lines liigh
the upper zone 9 lines
m diani. ; the pericarp is 5 lines in thickness.
;
5. Cariniana uaelpexsis, nol,. CourataH XJmpemh,

Berg in Mart.
:
PI. Bras. l.c-V 508,
tab. 78: Amphoncavpus
Uaupen>i>, Spruce MS.: ramulis cortice crassiusculo
nmoso tectis cmereo-opacis, tortuose striatis, pruinosis ; foliis magnis, oblon-is,
.mo seusim obtusis. et in
petiolum treîter acutatis. apieem
versus rotundatis et^ !n
acumen longiusoulum angustissimum
mucronatum subito subinte<;ris, attenuatis.
;
»
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEvE. 289
marginibus cartilagineis valdc revolutis et undulatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide aut

profundius viridibus, nitidiusculis, nervis plurimis parallelis recte diverêntibus
paullo prominulis, venis tcnuissimis creberrime transversis reticulatis, costa fusca
semiimmersa, subtus ocbraceo-pallidis, valde opacis, costa nervisque mfescentibus
valde promiaentibus ; petiolo valido, profimde canaliculato, marginato, subtus corm-
gulato, limbo 14pl6 breviore : paniculis axillaribus, ultimis e foliis delapsis thyrsam
breviorem simulantibus, laxe expansis, remotiuscule alternatim ramosis, ramis
folio
itemm longiuscule ramulosis, ramulis rectis, angulato-striatis, subflexuosis, crebre

r
r
multifloris; floribus parvis, sessilibus, eburneis (siccis fuscis) ; calyce patelljeformi,

margine expanso, in lobos 5 brevissimos rotundatos diviso ; petalis 5, lineari-oblongis,
carnosulis, rarius expansis, ssepius apicibus imbricatis agglutinatis et in forma calyp-
trae androphoro urceolato-tubulari, sub-2-labiato, labio antico breviore fere
caducis ;
ad basin in appendiculas 4 subulatas diviso, postico 2plo longiore, margine in appen-

dices 6 laciniato, appendiculis cunctis cum aliis brevioribus tubo 2-seriatim ortis
staminiferis ; ovario infero, 3-loculari, vertice piano; ovulis plurimis e basi erectis;
stylo calyce 2plo longiore, subulate, subincurvo pyxidio cylindraceo, imo rotun-
;
dato, paullo sub apicem zona calycari indistincte lineari cincto; vitta interzonali
prommente, annulari, convexo, diametri 8vam partem alta zona superiore inferio- ;
rem a?quante operculo ignoto pericarpio crassissimo, lignoso, cortice crassiusculo

;
;
suberoso longitudinaliter valde rimoso tecto, opace brunneo, lenticellis flavidis crebre
maculato, intus demum 1-loculari, vestigiis septorum 3 et impressionibus seminum
signato. In Brasilia Hooh., prope S. Carlos,
: v.j^l. s. in lib. variis, cum/ruci. in lib,
Ptio Uahupes (fluv. Nigri tribut.) in ripis {Spruce, 2510).

r
A tree of vast size, with a trunk 100 feet bigb, five feet in diam., strengthened at its
base by projecting buttresses,
and called Cliorao and Choro by the natives, signifying
magnificent I have amended Spruce's specific name to its more correct spelling. The
:
of its branchlets
are 1 in. apart ; the leaves are 9J-11 in. long, 3|-5 in. broad
ick petiole
8-9 lines long ; they have 22-27 pairs of nearly straight parallel
arc mgly united close within
the margin, with very close transverse parallel veins ; the
panicle is
5-7 J in. long, 3-6 in. broad ; the branches 3-4 in. long, the branchlets 1 in.
*
lon o" Q 1
^^^^^' ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ flowers J-l line apart, 3 lines long, 2 lines in. diam. in
the'b 1
^^^ ^^^^^ expanded Unes long, 1 line broad
^1 ; the petals are 3is 2 lines across
the
ie
androphomm 2^ lines long. there are 20 others,
Besides the 10 external appendages,
V
^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^' inserted on the tube, one series basal, all staminiferous at the
incL r
j^P®^' *^6 filament is very short and slender, bearing a smaU oval anther of
2 ^^^
W f?
^^^^^
^^' ^P^^^^l^^' ^^^

bursting longitudinaUy
1 } in. in diam the calycary zone is 3 lines high

; the pyxidium (Plate LXIII. fig. '9) is 3
dia^^^^'l^
^^^
•
upper zone 1| in. in diam. the pericarp in thickness
» i is 3 lines :
^-
CARl>fi^^.^
EXiGTJA, nob. ramulis teretibus, substrictis, rufo-brunneis,
:
pruinosis, v er-
^Qculosis versus
foliis lanceolatis obtusis et subito
;
vel elongato-oblongis, imo
"^^ brevissime attenuatis, acutiuscule
constrictis, a medio sursum gradatim
;;
290 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEtE.
acuminatis, margine tenui pallido crenato-serrulatis, supra profunde

chartaceis,
viridibus, sublucentibus, sub lente minute granulatis, nervis plurimis tenuissimis
patenti-divergentibus semiimmersis, venis transversis reticulatis, costa vix promi-
nula, pruinosa, subtus pallide brunneis, opacis, costa striolata, prominula, sub-
puberula, nervis prominulis^ in axillis subbarbatis ; petiolo tenui marginatim canali-
culate, limbo 30plo breviore : paniculis 1 vel 2, axillaribus et terminalibus, vel in
ramulis supremis e foliis delapsis in tbyrsam latam expansis, axillaribus, folio paullo
longioribus, racbi verruculosa ; ramulis paucis, patentibus, tenuissimis, puberulis
floribus minimis, subapproximatis, tenuiter pedicellatis ; sepalis 6, imo in cupulam
brevissimam connatis, oblongis, membranaceis, subviridulis, puberulis, ciliatis;
petalis 3-4plo longioribus, lineari-oblongis, expansis; androplioro imo breviter
cupuliformi, ligula late ovata, erectiuscula, intus undique et in marginibus
appendiculis staminiferis crebre vestito, antberis didymo-globosis ; ovario semi-
infero, 3-loculaii, verticc alte conico, laevi, ovulis paucis, e
basi biserialiter erectis
stylo tenui, brevi stigmate niinimo, obtuso. In Antillis
; : v. pi. s. in hb. Hook., in
insiJa Trinidad, in bort. bot. cult. {Frestoe).
A tree60 feet higb, apparently first discovered by Purdie, and now cultivated in the
Botanic Garden of Trinidad. The axils of its slender brancblets
are J in. apart; the
leaves are 3 in. long, 1 in. broad, on a petiole
IJ line long, and tbey have about 20 pairs
of parallel nerves, with very fine parallelly transverse
reticulated veins, with the axils of
the nerves barbated beneath the branches of the compound panicle are 3
:
in. long, with
hranchlets very slender, j-1 in. long, bearing flowers on
short pedicels, 2 lines apart;
the flower expanded is 7 lines broad; the sepals are
1 line long; the petals 3 lines long,
1 line broad ; the ligula of the androphorum is 1 line long and
broad ; the semiinferior
ovary is J line in diam.
7. CARiyiANAPTKiFOKMis,nob.: planta ignota pyxidio pyriformi,:

urceolato-cylindrico,
ah imo obtuso sursum sensun ampliore,
longiuscule supra medium zona calycari
Imeata cmcto vitta interzonali acclivi, convexa, diametri
;
3tiam partem alta ; zona
supenore quam inferior fere dimidio minore;
omnino applanato, nuUo
operculo
modo exserto, imo cum columeUa exacte obconica soUdissima
infra apicem triquetra
longe descendente continuo pericarpio
; crassissimo, soUdissimo, brunneo, opaco,
subruguloso, post columella, casum l-loculari,
intus exacte obeonico, vestigiis sep-
torum 3 sub apicem arcuatim nexis et
impressionibus seminum signato ; seminibus
m quoque loculo 6-7, biseriatim imbricatis,
erectis, imo affixis, structum generis.
In Bohvia v. fr. s. in Mus. Sac. Linn.,
: Betania, Rio Sinu, Bolivia (Anthoine) ; ^
Mus. Keio,, exempla 3 (sine loco).
The kbel attached to the Limi. Soc.
specimen, in Anthoine's handwriting, says
Betanm rm^re smu Plato BoHvia, New
Granada," which I interpret to mean some
sma 1 river Betanie flowing into the
Magdalena near Plato. The pyxidium (Plate LXIH
ng. ii; 18 3^ m. long,
hnse; the interzonal band
^
in. in diam. on the
calycary zone, which is
2J in. above the
is 10 lines high; the upper
zone and operculum are If in.
;

w —
broad, the latter, descending to a length of 3 plug-shaped, as in Q. Brasiliensis,

in., is
but larger and more obconical, it is triquetral, the angles archingly united in. below the
J
summit; the seeds are 17 lines long, 3 lines broad, membranaceously winged below,
with an apical embryoniferous escutcheon, obliquely oblong, 5 lines long and 3 lines
broad.
m
10. Allantoma (Plate XXXVI. a).

The very peculiar structure of the androphrorum and of the seeds readily distinguish
this genus from Cour atari, its peculiarities having been already noted (ante,
p. 170).
Allan TOMA, nob.
Lecythis (in parte), Smith, Berg: Courafari (in parte), Berg.
Calycis adnati sepala parva, rotundata, subimbricata, rotata

6, : petala 6, insequaUa, quorum 2 exte-
riora raulto maj ora, altera in sestivatione omnino tegentia, oblonga, concava, unguiculata, 4 interiora
minora, lineari-oblonga. Discus epigynus, annularis, planus. Androphorum petaloideum, succoso-
caruosum, imo in poculo parvo disco adnato centro exciso signatum, intus appendiculis nume-
rosissimis brevibus subclavatis staminigeris creberrime iustructum, bine uno latere, in ligulam
longam aequilatam crassam canaliculatam nudam sensim incurvatam expansum, extremitate re-
auplicatim in nodum crassum coutorto; galea convexa, hemisphserica, reversa, et subito sursum
retroflexa, margine fimbriata, intus appendicibus sterilibus in massam camosulam arete agglutinatis.
Stamina in appendicibus basalibus
solummodo insita, iis Couratari similia. Ovarium omnino inferum,
urbmatum, 4-5- rarius 3-loculare, vertice
intra discum subconcavo ; ovula in quoque loculo 4-6, col-
lateraliter 2-3-serialia,
imo affixa, erecta. Stylus brevis, crasse teres. Stigma parvum, fungiforme.
yxidmm cylindricum, Couratari
ei simile, paullo sub apicem zona calycari lineari cinctum;
VI a mterzonali angusta,
erecta, plana vel convexa ; zona superiore circulari : operculum conforme,
reve,
depresso-pulvinatum centro breviter umbonatum, subtus ad columellam longe descendentem
agglutmatum columella solida,
:
crassissima, 3-5-gona, angulis parieti adnatis, quare loculi 3-5 inter-
manent, auguhs demum a pariete solutis, hgec cum seminibus decidit : pericarpium exinde viduum
- ocu are apparet,
crassiuscule sublignosum, intus nitidum, cicatricibus signatum, extus cortice
crasso nmoso
vestitum, vel ecorticatum. Semina in quoque loculo 4-6, lineari-oblonga, plano-con-
^xmscula, ad faciem
exteriorem marginesque corrugulata, imo 2-auriculata, erecta, imbricata, A«7o parvo
orsum aunculse
alterius ad columellam affixa testa subcoriacea, vasis spu-alibus innumerabilibus
:
pea: tntegumentum
internum tenuissimum : embryo exalbuminosus, lineari-cylindricus, fusiformis,
compressus, albido-opacus,
^ maceratione moUissimus, homogeneus, neorhiza'.centraW, elongata,
^'^^''^'^'^ ^^"'"^^^ ^^*^^^^
^^P^^*^' <^^^^n^fô ignota.
ArWerV'^
^>perumque
^ vasfoi, America intertropica, ramosissimce : folia petiolata, in summo ramulorum sub-
°^^^^' ^^^ ^^ônga- Flores in paniculis terminalibus subparvi, succo purpurea S(spius
r^let'^^^^^'
_Untoma mtjltiflora, xx.

nob. Zecgthis multlflora,
: Smith in Rees's Cycl. n. 8
^^^* ^^' ^^^ "^^^^ '^ ^'^^^' ^^^^- ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ rugosis, angulato-
striaf ' '
^^^^^^^^^^^ pallidis tenuioribus, brunneis,

crebre verruculosis, junioribus
hn^^'
^^^ Pulverulentis, lenticellatis ; foliis ovatis, imo rotundato-ob-
^r*^"^^^?^^
tu«;is
"^ Petiolum breviter obtusulum attenuatis, mar-
acutatis, apice in acumen
ginibu^
^^ "®^^^^*^s supra luride viridibus,
? obsolete crenato-serratis, rigide chartaceis,
subo
^^^11— ^^^ curvatim divergentibus, subprominulis, venis reticulatis, subtus
Paulb
PaUidioribus, opacis, prominentibus petiolo
nervis venis costaque striolata ;
;;;;;
subtcnui, marginatim canaliculato, limbo 12plo breviore : racemis axillaribus et
terminalibus, folio brevioribus; rachi rugosa, compresse striata, ferrugineo-opaca,

subpubcrula, lenticellata, spicatim multiflora; pedicellis longissimis tenuibus, re-
curvatis, striolatis, imo articiilatis ; sepalis parvis, ovatis, subacutis, patulis, margine
membranaceo-ciliatis ;
petalis rotundatis, subinsequalibus ; andropboro carnoso, gra-
nulatim ruguloso, structura generis ; ovario infero, semiovali, subgranulato, pube-

rulo, 3-loculari, ovulis plmimis basi affixis, erectis, vertice piano, radiatim granulato
stylo brevi conico. In Guiana : v. s. in Jib. Hook. {JBarher, cum foliis et floribus)
iti Kb. Mus. Brit, et Soc. Linn., Cayenne [Martin^ foliis diremptis).
*
Parker's specimen enables us to recognize those of Martin, where all the leaves are
wanting, and upon which Sir James Smith first established the species, which has since
been doubtfully acknowledged. The axils of its slender branchlets are
f-1 in. apart ; the
loaves, generally caducous, are 3i-4in. long, 1|-1| in. broad, on a petiole 3-4. lines long,
and with about 12 pairs of parallelly divergent arching nerves, with others shorter and
inter uicdiate, all anastomosed the panicle is 5 in. long, has several] slender branches,
;
with approximated prominent nodes 2-3 lines apart, each bearing a very slender pedicel
f-l in. long the liower, before expansion,
in diam. the sepals are IJ line longis in.
;
J ;
the development of the androphorum closely resembles that figured in Plate XXXVI. A
its semioval head is 2 lines long and broad.
2. At SUBHAMosA, nob. : ramulis subcinereo-opacis, rugoso-striatis, subver-

ruciilosis, junioribus laevibus et striatis; foliis ovatis, vel ovali-oblongis, imo rotun-
datis aut rotundo-obtusis, srepe circa petiolum breviter
acutatis, marginibus undu-
latis fere integris, obsolctissime serrulatis,
subcoriaceis, supra pallidis, opacis, nerns
plurimis scmiiinmersis, crebre parallelim divergentibus,
rectiuscuiis, circa marginem
vems transversim reticulatis immersis, costa sulcata, subtus ochraceo-opacis
et grannlato-pruiiiosis,aut fuscioribus, nervis venisque transversis prominentibiis
petiole profunde canaliculate, marginibus
submembranaceis introflexis, Hmbo 5-8plo
breviore panicula terminali, valde ramosa ; rachi
:
cinerea, ru-ulosa ramis fuscis, :
approximatis, tcnuioribus, valde nodosis, plurifloris

; pediceUis teretibus, gracilibus
floribus subparvis, roseo-purpureis sepaUs parvis, rotundatis, subimbricatis,
; fuscis,
extus pruinosis petalis 6, quorum 4
; interioribus, lineari-oblongis, subinaequalibus,
mcmbranaceis, 2 extcrioribus majoribus suborbiculatis,
valde membranaceis, extus
farmoso-prumosis ; ovario infero, hemisphserico, basi 3-loculari, ovulis plurimis
affixis, erectis, vertice ,concavo, radiatim striolato; stylo pulvinato; stigmate
rotundato fruetu ignoto. In Guiana Batava
:
: v. s. in lib. Mus. Brit, et EooK a^
Karavoury {Sagot, 271, sub Conratari Guianensis).
This plant very different from Aublet's Conratari

is
Guianensis in the shape, texture,
and venation of its leaves. Notwithstanding
its 3-celled ovary, I have placed it in the
^nus Allan foTna, on account of its ramosely paniculate slender
inflorescence, its long
pedicels, and more especially because
of the peculiar development of its androphorum.
iJrom Its smaUish flowers, upon the
long slender pedicels of a very branching panicle,
;

293
from hemispherical 3-celled ovary, and the peculiar structure of the androphorum,
its
it is unquestionably congeneric with the other species here enumerated.

The axils of its rugose branchlcts are about 3 lines apart; the leaves are 4A-6i in.
long, 2j-2f in. broad, on a petiole 8-10 lines long; and they have about 24 pairs of
straight parallel nerves, united near the margin by an arching line; the terminal panicle
is 2J-3J in. long, with many irregular branches, each 1-3 inches long, all rough and
with articulated prominent nodes 1 line apart the pedicels are 7-9 lines lono- ; the
;
sepals 1 line long and broad ; inner pair of petals 7 lines long, 2^ lin. broad, 2 interme-
diate 9 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, 2 exterior 12 lines long, 10 lin. broad, tapering towards the
base, all membranaceous and of a roseate pinkish colour the androphorum, of a deep red ;
or purple colour, consists of a

shallow cup-shaped ring, attached to the disk and charged
with very numerous short staminiferous appendages ; and this is expanded on one side
into a long fleshy canaliculated ligula, coiling
round inwards, and terminating suddenly in
a fleshy knob, where it is as suddenly recurved in the same direction,
finally expanding
into a galeated hood, convex outside, concave
within, and simply fimbriated or toothed
on its margin, all coiled into a globular head, 3 lines in diameter. This structure agrees
with that of the preceding species.
3. Allantoma TORrLOSA, nob. : arbor alta ; ramulis crassis, angulosis, in axillis crebris
transversim annulatis ; foliis oblongis, imo acutis, apicem versus breviter et obtuse
acummatis, marginibus leviter serrato-crenatis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra brunneo-
vindibus, opacis, costa planata,
nervis plurimis crebriter parallelis, erecto-patulis,
subimmersis, subtus vix pallidioribus,
costa fusca convexa, nervis pallide brunneis
prommentibus, venis creberrime et transversim parallelis : pyxidio in ramis sessili,
cylmdrico, imo rotundato, zona calycari paullo sub apicem vix manifesto; vitta
mterzonali convexe erecta,
diametri 4tam partem alta zona ; superiore circulari, fauce
erecta acuta
operculo conformi, vittce altitudine, pulvinatim convexo, medio obtuse
;
umbonato, subtus columella

crassissima ad basin descendente aucto; columella
sohda, acute
5-gona, angulis ad parietem adnatis ; pericarpio primum 5-loculari,
casu columella
deinde 1-loculari, intus nitido, lineis 5 longitudinalibus cicatricatis
110 ata,
extus toroso-tuberculato, ochraceo-brunneo, opaco et minute granulate
semimbus 20, ut in
char, gener. In prov. Para v. s. folium et fmctus in Mm. :
?^'' m sylvis ad Culantigo, Eio Maranhao (Farries, 69) ; in Mns. Keio., sine oper-
!
Acco
*^^ specimen in the British Museum there is only a single leaf, much
resemb
^^st;mDlT^^+r^^
*^® preceding species it is 7 in. long, 2jin. broad, with about 20 pairs
of T^nr-ni'Â ?.^ :
parallel
ascending wanting the
fruit up close to the margin ; the petiole is ;
^
^^^^ ^^ annulated branchlet J in. thick, with transverse axils 3 lines
apart •
th |-
^|j^^^^*^^^^ (^late LXIV.fig.l) is 7i in. long, 2i in. broad; the calycary zone
^^6 in.
1^^ ^^^^ *^^ interzonal band is high the upper zone with an
acute edo-e^^^ ' 7 lines ;
*^^ ?^*^^° ^^ *^^ operculum, in diam., the latter being Jin.

*^^; the' • are 2 J in.
^^^g.'^ ^^ coriaceous, 3
Hues thick; the hard dark-coloured seeds are 2 ir
linisT^^^'^
road, and
2 lines thick. Mr. Earries states, in a memorandum, that th
XXX
2 Q
fruit is called " Monhey-pot'' that when ripe it discharges the lid and seeds, the vacant
shell hanging upon the hranches. He found it " in woods in Culantingo, Maranhao
river " (is not this Curuatingo, a river flowing from the south side into the Amazonas
9 lea"-ues to the east of Santarem ?) : this pronounced hy blacks (who always transmute
r into /, shortening the syllable) would be Culantingo.
4. Allantoma cylindrica, nob. : planta ignota : racemi fructiferi rachi subtenui, an-
gulato-striata, subtereti, ochraceo-opaca, crebre nodulosa: pyxidio cylindrico, imo

1 otundato, longe supra medium zona calycari e sepalorum vestigiis linea nexis sub-
prominente cincto ; vitta interzonal! erecta, margine tenui, subreflexo, cujus dia-
metri 7mam partem alta ; operculo orbiculari, pulvinato, radiatim striato, vertice con-
cavato, cum umbonc brevi obtusulo in cavitate, subtus columella crassa 4-angulata
louge descendente aucto ;
pericarpio brunneo-opaco, lenticellis flavidis crebre punc-
tato, crassiuscule coriaceo, intus leviter cylindraceo, vestigiis septorum 4 arcuatim
nexorum signato ; seminibus grate edulibus, in quoque locnlo 4, lineari-elongatis,
roinpressis, valde corrugulatis, apicc truncatis, imo breviter 2-auriculatis, 2-seria-
litcr ad columcUam hilo fere basali crcctim affixis. In Amazonas : v. fr. s. in Mu8.
Kew.y in insula propc Cametd, prov, Para {Farries).
The pyxidium (Plate LXIV. fig. 4) is 5 in. long, regularly cylindrical, and If in. in
diam. ; the calycary zone, of the same diameter, is 4J in. above the base ; the interzonal
baud is
J in. high ; the operculum is If in. in diam., 3 lines thick, the columella shrink-
ing much in drying; the pericarp is nearly 3 lines in thickness, is quite smooth, and
marked by 4 longitudmal lines, where the angles of the columella
cylindrical inside,
have become detached, and which are arcuately conjoined near the summit, 6 lines below
the mouth ; the seeds arc IJ in. long, 3 lines broad, 1 line thick, with a structure ex-
plained in the generic character (p. 291). The fruit only of this species was found by Mr.
Parries, on one of the islands near the town of Cameta, which is situated on the south bank
of the Amazonas, near its confluence with the river Tocantins, about 45 miles south of the
City of Para. It differs from that of the preceding species in its smaller size, in being
regularly cylindrical in form, with a smoother surface, a thinner pericarp, which is
4- (not 6-)celled. It differs from A, BurcheUiana in its more cylindrical shape, a much
thinner and ccortiontnd pericarp, a vertical smooth interzonal band. Mr. Parries states,
on the ticket attached to it, " that its flat seeds are good eating, yielding a crop once a
year ; the fruit is called by the natives Castanheira da serra, and by the English skittle-
nut, because it is like a skittle."
6. Ai.LANTOMA BunciiELHANA, nob. ramulis teretibua ; follls

oblongis, imo rotundatis,
:
sursum gradatim angustioribus, apice in acumen longiusculum

acutum attcnuatis,
subintcgris, vcl in margine cartilagineo
subrevoluto obsolete crenulatis, firme
chartaccis, supra subnitiduHs, vel sub lente
granulato-opacis, apud nervos tenues
paiiUo proniinulos sulcatis, nervis plurimis
crebriter paralleUs, pateutim divaricatis,
fere rectis, eveniis, costa tenui, plana,
subimmersa, subtus subnitentibus, badiis,
;
costa striolata nervisque prominentibus et rubescentibus, venis tenuissimis pauUo

prominulis crebre transvcrsim rcticulatis, petiolo latiusculo, supra piano, limbo
I
4!0plo breviore : racemo terminali, folio fere aequilongo ; racbi subflexuosa, nodosa
floribus sessilibus ; ovario infero, subgloboso, granulose rugoso, opaco, 4-locnlari,
ovulis plurimis, e placentis basalibiis erectis, vertice piano, pruinoso, stylo brevis-
simo umbonato : pyxidio cylindrico, imo rotnndato paiiUo ampliore, sub apicem zona
calycari irregulariter lineari cincto ; vitta interzonali annulatim prominente, convexa,
quam diametri quartam partem alta ; zona superiore Integra, orbiculari, inferiorem
sequante ; pericarpio crasso, coriaceo-lignoso, cortice crasse suberoso, rimoso, sub-
laevi, opace cinnamomeo, glandulis flavidis maculato, intus septorum ,4 vestigiis
signato; seminibus lineari-oblongis, compressis, apice truncatis, imo 2-auriculatis, -
toruloso-rugulosis, rufescenti-opacis, erectis, cum embryone generis. In Brasilia,

regione Amazonica : v. pi. s, in hb. Hook., etfruct. in Mm. Kew. {Burchell, 9314).
In habit this plant greatly resembles the tbree first-mentioned species, agreeing in the
peculiar vernation of the leaves ; tbese are 6-7 in. long, 2-2|- in. broad, on a petiole 3
lines long, and have a semimetallic bronzy hue, with about 24 pairs of approximate
ves, running straight towards tbe margin, close within which they are simply con-
• •
joined. The rachis of the raceme is about 5 in. long, with prominent nodes, about 3
lines apart. The pyxidium (Plate LXY. fi^. 6) is 5| in. long without the operculum
^2^ m. in diam. above the base, narrowing gradually to the calycary zone, whei
2 in. in diam.; the interzonal band is J in. in diam. in its middle, is in. high, and If
2 J
in. m diam. at the upper zone; the pericarp is J lines in thickness, showing inside the
2
cicatrices of 4 dissepiments. It resembles that of A.'tondosa in shape, especially in its
prominent tumid interzonary band, but it is broader towards the base, and more trun-
cated, and is covered with a much
thicker, more widely cracking, yellowish red bark,
^th many raised yellow
granules. The seeds, like those of the preceding species, but
tliicker and of a dark-red colour/ are
13 lines lonir, 4 lines broad, and 3 lines thick.
• Allantoma macrocarpa, nob. Berg in Mart. El.

: Couratari macrocarpa, Mart. ;
r- i- c.
p. 509. tab. 79. fig. 1. planta ignota pyxidio cylindrico, imo rotundato
: :
paullo ampliore,
sursum gradatim angustiore, paullo sub apicem zona calycari
mean cincto vitta
interzonali erecta, diametri 5tam partem alta, apice breviter
;
X rorsum inflexa;
zona superiore Integra, circulari; operculo sequilato, depresse
P vinato, vertice convexo
et obtuse umbonato, vel concavato et radiatim striato,
umbone brevi in centro solida, 4-5-gona,
columella adnata, longe descendente,
;
P^^^^^ adnatis
pericarpio hinc 4-5-loculari, denique 1-loculari, crassiusculo,
;
ThTo^^
gnoso, fusco-brunneo,
^^
extus cortice suberoso, valde rimoso, intus cylindraceo
^.^'y^ J^stigiis 4-5 cum impressionibus seminum 4 in quoque loculo signato.
In B^
rasiHa, in
prov. Para, legit Mart in Mus. Kew. (sine indicat.).
^^ : v.fr. s.
^^^^' ^^^ ^^^^^ ^° obtain specimens of its leaves or flowers. The pyxidium
^^late LXlT^^^'
^^"ards to
"
a b readth
^^ ^^' ^^^^' ^^ ^^'
^^ ^^ ^
^^^meter near the base, diminishing up-
of 1| in. at tbe
calycary zone, which is 4f in. above the base the ;
2q2
«
interzonary band is 4 lines high ; the upper zone is 2 in. in diam., has a sharp lip turn-
ing outwards ; the operculum, a trifle wider, is 2J and 3 lines high. Martius,
in. in diam.,
as well as Burchell, collected the fruits lying on the ground, hut did not find the seeds.
7. Allantoma scutellata, nob. : planta ignota : racemis fructiferis axillaribus, longi-

usculis, angulatis; rachi crebre nodosa, multiflora; floribus sessilibus: pyxidio
obconice cylindrico, ochraceo-brunneo, valde opaco, imo sensim obtuso, paullo sul)
apicem zona calycari subacute lineari prominula cincto; vitta interzonali acclive
convexa, diametri 7tam partem alta; zona superiore circulari, calycari angustiore;
+
operculo tenuiuscule scutelliformi, depressissime pulvinato, vertice conoavo, medio

brevitcr umbonato; columella ei infra adnata, fere ad basin descendente, solide
crassa, faucem implente, subtus 4-angulata, 4-sulcata, angulis ad parietem agglu-
tinatis et hoc modo loculos 4 efficientibus ; angulis demum solutis hsec cum semi-
nibus dccidit ; pericarpio subtenuiter coriaceo ; seminibus paucis, lineari-oblongis,
compressis, imo 2-auriculatis, undique grossule rugosis, fuscis, erectis, cum hilo
subYcntrali ct basalari. In Brasilia: v. 8. fruct. in Mus. Soc. Linn, (sine loco),
Capt. Sir E. Homo; in collect. Mus. Brit, (sine indicat.).
There can be no doubt that this fruit belongs to Allantoma. The rachis of its many-
g raceme is about 6 in. long, with alternate prominent cicatrices 1-2 lines apart
the pyxidium (Plate LXV. fig. 1) is ^-^
in., long, 11-2 in. in diam. below the
talycary zone, and tapering downwards ; the calycary zone,
3 in. above the base, is If
in. in diam. the interzonal band is 3-4 lines high,
; very convex, narrowing above ; the
upper zone is 1 J-lf in. in diam. the operculum
; is orbicular, of the same diameter, is
H lino high, with a rounded edge, umbonate in its concave vertex, is attached to a
central columella 2 in. long, filling the mouth of the pericarp, descending to the base,
sharply 4-ajigled, with 4 broad hoUowish intervals,
which form the ceUs ; pericarp li
line thick, cylindrical within ; seeds, by abortion,
only 4 in the specimen examined, 19
hues long, 4 lines broad, 1 Hne thick, fuscous, attached
to the base of the columella at
tlic inner face, by a small hilum upon one
of its basal auricles. There is a Httle differ-
ence iu the somewhat broader shape and narrower
interzonal band in the British-
Museum specimen, which wants the operculum and seeds.
Allantoma AuiAcocAurA, nob.

Couratan aulacocarpa, Mart., Berg in Mart. Fl. Br
:
I. c.
p. 509, tab. 79. fig. 2 planta incognita pyxidio late cyUndrico, imo rotundato,
: :
longc supra medium zona calycari lineatim

prominula cincto ; vitta interzonali
erccta, apice paullulo convexa, diattietri
6tam partem alta zona superiore Integra cir- ;
culari operculo ignoto

pericarpio coriaceo-Hgnoso, crasso,
; ;
cortices pisso-suberoso
Talde rimoso et seccdente tccto, intus
demum Moculari, cylindrico, vestigiis scp-
torum 4, ct impressionibus plui-imis seminum signato. In BrasiHa, prov. Par4
Martins {non vldi)
This fruit (Plate LXV. fig. from that of A. macrocarpa in its erect inter
9) differs
nal baud, turned inwards at the summit (not outwardly), and bark; it
in its thicker
4
long, in. in diam. ; the calycary zone, of similar diameter, is in. above the
4^ in. 2J 3f
base ; the interzonal band is 4 lines high ; the pericarp is 3 lines thick.
9. Allantoma dictyocaupa, nob. : Couratari dictyocarpa, Mart., Berg in Mart. El. Br.
/. G, p. 510, tab. 79. fig. 3 : planta ignota pyxidio subovali, subcylindrico, imo
:
rotundato-obtuso, medio subventricoso, panllo sub apicem zona calycari lineari

cincto ; vitta interzonal! diametri 8vam partem alta, erecta zona superiore inferior! ;
gequilata, integra; operculo orbicular!, pulvinatim paullo latiore, depresso, supra

piano, medio obtuse umbonato; pericarpio crassiusculo, extus laevigato, cortice
resiliente, mesocarpio fibris lignosis reticulatis signato, primum 4-loculari. In
Brasilia, proY. Para {non vidi).
This species is placed in Allantoma on account of 4-celled fruit ; the pyxidium (Plate
LXIV. fig. 10) is
2f in. long, IJ in. in diam. in the middle, contracted to 1 J in. at the
calycary zone, which is 2 J in. above the base ; interzonary band 3 lines high; upper zone
\\ in. in diam. ; operculum somewhat overhanging, 1 J in. in diam., 3 lines thick, with
an umbonate point of equal height.
10. Allantoma lineata, nob. : Couratari llneata, Berg in Mart. PI. Br. /. c. p. 508,
tab. 7 et 77 arbor, ramulis teretibus, sulcatis, lenticellatis
: ; foliis ovatis, vel ob-
longo-lanceolatis, imo obtusis, apice longissime et acutissime acuminatis, vix serru-
nervis plurimis, recte parallelis, suberecto-patulis, adscendentibus, impresso-
latis,
immersis, costa parum prominente,

utraque facie badiis concoloribus, costa nervis
costatis
venisque transversim reticulatis prominentibus petiolo valido, canaliculato,
;
Hmbo 8-12plo breviore racemo fructifero

e cicatricibus 12-floro : pyxidio sessili,
:
cyhudrico, basi rotundato,

obsolete 5-sulcato, paullo sub apicem zona calycari lineari
hand manifesta cincto
; vitta interzonaK brevissima, erecta, diametri 20mam partem
^ a ; operculo ignoto pericarpio ochraceo-opaco, intus cylindraceo, septorum ves-
;
igus 5, et
impressionibus seminum 4 in quoque loculo signato. In Brasilia, ad
lusulam CoUares in
delta Amazonica juxta Pard {Foppig, 3636) non vidi. :
Jhe axHs of itsbranches are

J-j in. apart ; the leaves are 4-8 J in. long, f-2i in. broad,
^ aje lole 6-8 lines long, with about
14 pairs of nerves, arcuately conjoined near the
ygui the
;
pyxidium (Plate LX V. fig. 4) in its fuU size, without the operculum, is
05 diam. above, a dim

trifle narrower at the base ; these are the
g^ven by Berg in the text,
with which his figui does not quite
• ^^LAKTOMA CORBXJLA,
nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio oblongo, convexe ventricoso
rotundato,
sursum linear
^^0 gradatim angustiore, paullo sub apicem zona calycari
^^^^^^ ' îtta interzonaK erecto-conica, diametri 5-6tam partem alta
zona^"^^^^l*^^^
ajupenore circular!, integra, inferiore operculo ignoto peri
^ pauUo minore ; ;
coriaceo-lignoso, cortice fusco-brunneo spisse suberoso longi

tu(dlir^^^^^^^^^'
^^ f.^^^^^versim in frusta quadrantia rimoso tecto, intus demum cyHn
draceo
0, vestigiis
septorum 5 intra faucem coniunctim arcuatis signato. In BrasiUa
""' ^^^^^^^-
^-. ^W^sine indicat).
; ;
298 •MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E.
The fruit (Plate LXV. fig. 10) is very distinct from all otliers of the genus in its very
r
ventricose or lagenoid shap with ery short interzonal band, and a thick crackin
bark. It is 3J in. long, 2 in. in diam. above the base, narrowing to a breadth of 1 4
in. at the calycary zone, the interzonal band being 2 J lines high ; the upper zone is 1|
in. in dlam. ; the pericarp is nearly 3 lines thick, and is borne upon a short thickish
pedicel.
12. Allantoma ? FAGIFOLIA, nob. : Lecythis fagifolia, Berg, Linn, xxvii. 451
«
: ramnlis
gracilibus, striatis, fuscis, junioribus badiis, subpuberulis ; foliis ovali-oblongis, imo
sensim acutis, apice obtusule acuminatis, obsolete serrulatis, submembranaceis,
glabris, supra ncrvis patule divergentibus et adscendentibus parura prominulis,
reticulatis, costa plana, subtus pallidioribus, nervis costaque prominentibus ; petiolo
canaliculate, limbo 5-6plo brcviore : racemis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio midto
brevioribus ; rachi subpubcrula, multiflora ; pedicellis longiusculis, gracilibus,
puberulis ; srpalis rotundatis, ciliatis ; petalis ovalibus, tenuibus ; ovario infero,

turbinato, pubcrulo, 3-loculari, vcrtice piano, stigmate fere sessili. In Guiana
Butava, ad ripas fluv. Marowyna {non vidi).
Tliis plant cannot belong to Lecythis, owing to the absence of a style. I have referred
It here bi cause of its habit, its inflorescence with long slender pedicels, and the near
obliteration of its style; it approaches A. BurcJielliana, differing in the thinner texture
of its smaller leaves, which arc somewhat cuneate at base, its longer petiole, and
shorter racemes. It is a tree with slender branchlets leaves 2J-4 in. long, 1| l^m.
3
4
broad, on a petiole 6-8 lin. long racemes f-2 in. long; pedicels 9-11 lines Ion?;
srpnlji 1 lino long; petals 8 Un. long; androphorum 5 lines in diam., with a ligula
1 in. long.
11. Grias. (Plate XXXVI. c).
The history of this genus and the account of its general structure has been given a m
preceding page (p. I7lj ; we have therefore only to delineate its generic character, and
describe its species, noticing the similarity in the structure of its calyx that
BcrthoUetia.
Geias, Linn.
Brown
Calyx in alabastro
concav
aubparallclis, avstiv icata, uiignibus inter discum Discra
ct androphorum iis agglutinatis.
Cpigjnus, annular! Androphorum deprcsse urceolatum, centre
petalis dimidio brevius,
cxdsum, marjrine in appendiculas liueares breviusculis apic( '
staminiferis fimbnatO-
milibus incurds pluriserialibus eradatim brc
finmenia brcvissima, tenuitcr
globosis, medio ad filamcntum rima laterah longitudinahter dehiscentibns,
affixis, demum modo
expansis. Ovarium infemm, Lemisphsericum, subauadratum m
quoque loculo plurimis, axi suspensis, vcrtice intra discum
concavo, extus crenatim elevato, radiatim
striate: »iyhs brcrissimus, crassuisculus
; sfimna illo latius, sessile,
denressum. ad mediu
cniciformibus, obtusis, rotatis. recurvatis aut ob-
globosum, 4-sulcatuin
;;
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. . 299
longumj pyri mole, subrufiim, et S-sulcatum, paullo sub apicem zona calycari e sepalis persistentibus
linea nexis coronatum; vitta interzonalis brevis; zona superior orbicularis; operculum conforme
depressum; pericarpium 4'\ocu[Q.re cnm loculis 6-7-spcrmis, vel abortu l-loculare et monospermum
Smina oblonga, funiculo magno carnoso suspensa embryo : amygdaloideus. edulis. textura homo-
modo BerthoUetits
Arbores
parte nude, apice brevissime ramifero ; folia magna, in apice ramorum creberrime approximata, cuneato-
oblonga, subsessilia vel hrevUer peiiolata, glahen^rima ; floras simpliciter pedicellati, plurimi, congesti,
vel in pedunculo brevissimo subpaniculati, terminales, aut e trunco enati.
Grias caulielora, Linn. Sp. PL 732 ; Willd. Sp. PL ii. 1159 ; Swartz, Obs. p. 215
DC. Prodr. iii. 296 ; Lunan, Jam. i. 19; Smith in Rees's CycL voL xvii. : Anchovy-
pear, Sloane, Jam. ii. 122, tab. 216-217 : Calophyllum, sp., P. Brown, Jam. p. 245 :
procera, trunco erecto, sursum gradatim graciliore, subnudo, apice breviter ramifero
et foliifero ; foliis in apice ramorum creberrime approximatis, cernuis, oblongo- vel
imo sensim anguste cuneatis, apice obtuse attenuatis, et in
lanceolato-oblongis,
acumen breve subacutum subito constrictis, integerrimis, vel in margine revoluto
saepe crenato-undulatis, rigidule chartaceis, supra viridibus, nervis plurimis, parallele
divergent ibus, juxta marginem nexis, venisque omnino immersis, subtus pallidi-
onbus, valde opacis, ocbraceo-brunneis,
costa carinata nervisque prominentibus,
venis nuUis visibilibus
; petiole brevissimo, late marginato : floribus 5-6, odoratis, in
gemma pedunculiformi trunco enata crebre congestis; pedicellis in alabastris
subaequilongis, imo bracteola
parva munitis calycis laciniis oblongo-ovatis, obtusis, ;
subconaceis petalis 3plo longioribus,

; J^^v^xx^^lAO, obtuse oblonoîs,
yj KJ \JVJ3.KJ1Lq
\1 concavis, crassiusculis, albis
VJLi3Ki
n rophoro petalis
3plo breviore, appendiculis 5-serialibus, sensim brevioribus,
cunctis staminiferis
: caetera ut in diagnosi generica. In Antillis : v. s. in hb. Mus.
Bnt, Jamaica (Swartz).
^^.^^^ ^ ^^' ^^ ^^^^> J*ises to heights of from 20 to 50 feet, tapering upwards

aim Vt^^'
^ ^^^^^' ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^' ^^^ ^^^^^ length, marked with the cicatrices of the
falkn 1
^^ ^^' ^^^ clothed near its summit with several very short branches, closely
foliif
^
^^^^^S^^^d leaves are pendent, from 8 to 36 in. long, 2J-6 m. broad, on
ashoT^\** f
' ^^°^g which the limb is decurrent to the base; the pedicels of the clus-
tered 00^
^^ ^^^^* ^ ^"^^^ in diam. Purdie
saw i],r7^ f
tlie plant ^^ô' *ê flower expanded is about IJ in.
g g near
—^^^ Port Antonio
^yjxv xûiuuso in
lU. 1843
JLO^D (Hook.
^XIOOJI. Lond.
JJUUU. Jo.
OU. Pot.
jjuv. m.
iii. 533),
uottj, with
VT
crowded f 'f •
^^'^^^ ^"^ *^^ ^^^"^^ ^^^^^

described °^- *^^ ^^^^' ^^^ ^^^* ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^*
b L^^•^^- ^^ ^^ ^^^^
^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ alligator's egg, a little more attenuated
upwards wh ^^^P^
^*s
^^ crowned by the persistent sepals, and of a brown russet colour
mesocar ^^V^
^îch ^^ ^ ^^^^^ *^^^^' soft-fleshy, and edible, enclosing a single oblong nut,
is s-sul^ca ed but of
; its internal structure nothing is known.
'
^^-^^^"AJÂ, nob. Gusta.
°!!t! :
Keusch, DC. Prodr. iii. 290 Firigara
ijpetala, :
foliis inf
• y' ^' ^^' *^^* ^^^ (synon. exc.) ramosa, ramuhs griseis, :
^-^^^^ ^^ .^^^^^^'^^^^^^tim confertis, superioribus alternis, amplis, sessilibus

oblongis
' ^° sensim spathulatis, apice gradatim acuminatis, serratis, supra viridibus
Isevibus, ncnis plurimis divergentibus circa marginem adscendentibus, subtiis cos-
prominentibus, valde reticulatis racemis axillaribus, racM brevis-

taque prtesertim :
sima ad nodum plui-ibracteolatum reducta, sgepe 1-flora ;

pedunculo quam flos bre-
viorc, supra medium bracteolis 2 parvis munito ; calycis limbo in lobos 4 fisso, lobis
ffiqualibus, rotundatis, subconcavis, marginibus inflexis et undulatim crenatis, crassis,
coriaceis, yiridibus, intus albescentibus ;

petalis 4, dimidio majoribus, sequalibus,
concavis, margine undulatis, expansis, candidis,
crasse carnosulis, rotundato-ovatis,
ad ungucm rubro-striatis ; androphoro brevi, imo cupulari, ad marginem et intus
appendieibus numerosissimis breviusculis clavatis staminigeris munito; antberis
oblongis, 2-loccllatis, rimis lateraliter dehiscentibus ; ovario infero, turbinate, ecos-
tato, di-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo pluribus, funiculo supensis, vertice intra
discum piano, stigmata sessili 4-lobo umbonato: pyxidio globose, 4-sulcato, zona
calycari c Tcstigiis loborum coronate ; vitta interzonali angustissima ; zona supe-

riore integra ; operculo conform!, piano, stigmate umbonato ;
pericarpio coriaceo,
Tufcsccnte, sicco, 4"-loonlari ; seminibus in quoque loculo 6-7, oblongis, pressione

RubnTii,'ulali9, funiculo majusculo carnoso contortuplicato suspcnsis; embryone
dicotylcdonco. In Guiana (Cayenne, Auhlet) ; non vidi.
A sp(>cies hitherto universally referred to Gustavia, but unquestionably belonging to
Cries, there b(Mng scarcelyany difference in the size, number, and disposition of the
parts from the Qowcr of Gii((8 Peruviana and others. It is a smaU tree, about 20 feet
high, having a trunk 3-4 inches in diam., with a softish white flexible wood, having a
fetid odour. The larger leaves are more than a foot long, 4 in. broad, quite sessile, the
uppor ones alternate, about 1 in. apart, 7 in. long and 2 in. broad; the pedicels are
9 lines long, surmounted by an ovary 4 lines long the sepals are 4 J lines long and ;
broad; the petals C Lines long and broad; the androphorum 7 lines in diam,, and
2-3 lines high ; the globular pyxidium, shown in Plate XXXVI., is nearly 3 inches in
diam. (depicted half this size in Aublet's drawing) ; the seeds 16 lines long, each sus-
pended by a funicle of nearly its size : the embryo is said to be amygdaloid.
3. Grias Fendleki, Seem. Bot. Her. p. 126 glabra, foliis sessilibus, spathulato-oblongis,
:
imo scnsim cuneatis et in petiolo brevi sen costa dccurrentibus, apice acu-
minatis, integen-imis, costa nerrisquc utrinque prominulis : racemis e trunco nas-
centibus; rarhi brevi; floribus subsessilibus aut breviter pedicellatis ; calyce in

alahastro globoso, demum in srpala 2 sequalia rotundata con cava irregulariter
fisso, his opacis, pallide flavidis, granulatis; petalis 4 vel 5, obovato-oblongis,
crassis,margine undulatis, utrinque granulatis; androphoro cupulato, appendicuhs
numerosissiniis, crebre pluriscriatis, in serie exteriore longioribus circa 24 sequah-
bus, suhcfmtortim introfloxis et conniventibus ; ovario infero, oblongo-turbinato,
4-gono, 4-loculari, ovulis plurimis axi central i affixis, vertice intra discum subconico,
radiatini striato; stigmate umboniformi, cruciatim 4-lobo. In Panamd v. v. in M- :
Mool'.y Chagres {Fcv filer^ 1S5).

This species found in the forests of Panama, where it is a tree witli sessile leave"
is
18-24 in. long, 6-8 in. broad, having about 38 pairs of nerves, and much resembling
: ;
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MR. J. MIFiRS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 301
those of Cesjpidesia macrojjhj/lla, Seem. The pedicels are 9 lines long, angulately
with a basal bract 1 line long; the flowers are 1-1 J in. broad; petals coriaceous,
striated,
with imbricate aBstivation ; the androphorum bears about 100 staminiferous appendages
the ovary is 7 lines long, 4 lines broad.
4. Grias Peeuviana, nob. majusculis, spathulato-oblongis, longe supra medium

: foliis
amplioribus, imo sensim angustissimis, in petiolo decurrentibus, apice in

acumen an-
gustum acutum abrupte constrictis, marginibus subrevolutis sinuato-serratis, char-
taceis, supra pallidis, opacis, nervis plurimis rectis, parallele
divergentibus, et in
nervum marginalem terminantibus, nervis costaque paullo prommentibus,
venis
transversis tenuiter subtus fuscioribus, pallide brunnescentibus, sub-
reticulatis,
opacis, nervis subtenuibus costaque brunnea
prominentibus, venis immersis ; petiolo
subtenui, tereti, marginibus late foliosis reflexis,
ochraceo-granulato, limbo 20plo
breviore racemis plurimis fasciculatis, brevibus, e trunco enatis
:
; pedunculo brevi,
vel in nodum imbricatim bracteolatum reducto, 3-floro pediceUis tenuibus, calyce
;
3plo longioribus, imo 2-bracteolatis calyce primum subgloboso, demum in ; sepala

aequalia ovata submembranacea
4^ fisso ; petalis 4, gequalibus, sepalis 5plo lon-
gioribus, oblongis, obtusis, imo latioribus, crassis, marginibus undulatis; andro-
3ro brevi, cupulari, appendiculis numerosis, pluriseriaHbus, in serie exteriore
longioribus, petalis 4plo brevioribus ; ovario infero, sepaUs 3plo breviore, granu-
latim maculato,
semigloboso, 4-costato, scabridulo, 4-loculari. ovulis in quoque
- pluribus
inuiiuus, apice suspensis,
vertice intra discum latum subconcavum; style
revi, late conico, stigmatis
lobis 4, horizontaHter radiantibus. In alta Peruvia
^' '• '"^ ^^' ^^^^- Tarapota (S^pruce, 4541) ; Eio de la Yentana (Spruce).
^^^* ^^^^' ^*^ ^^^^ elongated branches, terminated by several approxi-
matedT -
~T
reflexed margins 1^
pedicels
in. long; the peduncle is about 3 lines long;
mT-^'^'J*
broad •
*
a^^ôpôram
1 \ '
*^^ ^^^^^^ "^* ^^"^^ ^^^^' ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ' P^^^® '^ ^^^^^ ^^^^' ^ ^^^
'
5 lines in diam. ; fruit large, with an edible pulp.
m, ,
12. Ceecophora (Plate XXXVI. b).
^lie
outlines v
of th*^^ remarkable
(page 172) and abnormal genus have been previously given
Sepala Cercophora, nob

^^^*^' ^^^glne dcnticulata.
membra
mbranala 'v!i
Petala 6, sepalis 6plo longiora, subinsequlia, sub-
Patentia, unguibus inter discmn
*^'*«-
Dis'cu^Tr^'
^^cisum^ '^ ^^^^-' annularis. Androphorum petalis \ix majus^ imo cupulatum, centro
intna a-
•
^^ ^^gulam ^
^^ staminiferis brevibus numerosissimis 5-serialibus munitum, latere antico
^^<u -1
tectam ,, , Tr'"*""' carnosulam mcurvatam pro majore parte

Tern latam expansum : galea ligul
mm compressum interna
"Î^ ^'^'^'' ôngitudinaliter
XXX. paralleHs lorum
2r
.
anguste lineare incurvum prolongata. Stamina parva^ singula apice appeudiculse tenuiter Ion-
giusculae clavatae insita ; filamentum brevissimum, filiforme; anthera didyma^, lobis subglobosis,
rima longitudinali lateraliter debiscentibus : ovarium inferum^ semiglobosurrij 3-loculare^ ovulis in
quoque loculo plurimis, ad axin circa basin affixis, suberectis, vertice intra discum planum sub-
con vexo, radiatim striate; stylus subulato-teres, sepala paullo excedens^ subcurvatus; stigma
minutum sub-S-lobum, papillosum.
Arbor Amazonica^ de qua nihil nisi flos cognatum est.
F J
1. Cercophora anomala, nob. planta et inflorescentia ignota sepalis 6, ovalibus, extus

: :
subcarinatis, minute granulatis, fusco-opacis, marginibus late membranaceis et

ciliato-denticulatis ; petalis 6, spathulato-obtusis, rotundatis, inaequalibus, sepalis
L
6plo longioribus, submembranaccis, siccis flavis ; ovario parvo, turbinate. In regione

Amazonica: v.Jlorem s. in lib. meOy San Carlos, Rio Negro {Spruce).
As mentioned in a preceding page (p. 172), I found this single flower entangled in the
paniele of my
specimen of Chytroma Spruceana (Spruce, 3695) from San Carlos, on the
upper branch of tlie Uio Negro, just within the confines of Venezuela. The pedicel is \\
line long ;the sepals 1 J line long, 1 line broad ; the larger petals are 8 lines long, 6 lines
broad ; the androphorum coiled up, 4 J lines in diameter, expanded 9 lines long.
This singular genus seems to approach Cariniana in its 3-locular ovary, erect ovules,
and long and to agree generally in its floral parts ; but it diifers in its andro-
style,
phorum, unilaterally expanded by the addition of its anomalous purse-shaped hood.

\
DESCRIPTION OP THE PLATES.

Plate XXXIII.
Section A. Analysis of Gustavla.

I
Rg. 1 The androphorum of G. Marcgraavtana, seen from beneath,

.
with one of the petals attached
base (the others removed)
Pig. 2. The same, shown laterally.
Fig. 3. The same, seen from above.
Kg. 1. The ovary, surrounded by the sepals, to show the epigynous annular disk to which the £
phorum
agglutinated by the intervention of the claws of
is
the petals.
Fig. 5. A longitudinal section of the flower, showing
the relative position of the above parts, and
attachment to the disk ; the inferior ovary is also
seen where ovnles, supported by fui
radiate from the central axis : all nat. size.
Kg. 6. One of the outer and one of the inner row of
the many-seried staminiferous anpenda-cs c
androphorum magnified :
Fig. 7.
behind, showing how they support the filaments
and the peculiar
agnified
Kg- 8. One of the seeds suspended by its spiraUy tested fleshy funicle of nearly equal size drawn
; it is
from a specimen preserved in spirits in the British
Kevr Museum, and from another in the
Museum, sent hv T.optlinrf
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MR. J. MIERS OX THE LECYTHIDACE^; 303
Fig. 9. Half of its testa removed^ to show the enclosed embryo.
Fig. 10. The embryo, consisting of 2 large fleshy cotyledons, with an imbedded small superior radicle.
Fig. 11- One of the cotyledons, showing the position of the radicle : all nat. size.
Section B. Analysis of Coitroupita.
Fig. 1. A flower expanded of C. Peruviana.

Fig. 2- The ovary invested by the calyx, and margined by 6 sepals, seen sideways.
Fig. 3. The same, seen from above.
Fig. 4. A longitudinal section of the same, showing several ovules in each cell, radiating from the central
*
axis : all nat. size.
Fig. 5. The annular epigynous disk surrounding the raised pulvinated vertex of the ovary, hollow in the
centre, where there is a short thick style, surmounted by a depressed 6-rayed stigma.
r
Fig. 6. A transverse section of the inferior 6-celled ovary, with ovules attached: both magnified.
Fig. 7. The androphorum seen sideways, with the numerous staminiferous appendages upon its basal
ringj and others in densely imbricated series within its inverted semiglobular hood.
Fig. 8, The same straightened, to show the bare ligula which intervenes between the basal ring and
the hood, both of which are charged within with numerous staminiferous appendages in closely
imbricated series : both nat. size.

Fig. 9. Three of the appendages of the hood.
ring : both magnified.

am
An anther : all magnified
from Poiteau's drawing. It is covered by a
j^ ^ .^îivwAV/ i;V>OI/U, OLIIJU^^J. L-UU. U\ C* »le
aX±\JXV J.U.U.XV^XV and imbedded
**XAV* in nuln.
Fig. 14. The testa splitting, to allow the emtryo to escape.
Fig- The embryo enclosed within the
15. testa, showing the two plicated ascending foliaceous cotyledons ,
hilum
The expanded : all nat. size.
Section C. Analysis of a flower of BertJiolletia nobilis.

ig-
1. A flower in bud, showing its entire floral globular calyx, which conceals the other parts,
ig-
2. A flower of full size and in its
expanded state.
^;g- 3. The calyx, which
splits into two semisrlobular
'^'
'
^^^ ^^"^^y seen from above, showing the epigynous
ovary
%• 5. A longitudinal sec ame
|g-6. A transverse secti(
ovary
'g-'7.
The
Fig 8 Til
ne same
—somewhat
.aTirlrn.,lôj.^j
natural sHape.
straightened, to
show the bare ligula between the basal ring and concave
^^^'
^^^^^ ^^^ ^0*^ densely charged with numerous appendages, all seen sideways.
Q rri
Kff
6' y- Ihe same c« i!._- — .., .
êe of the appendages of the hood, bare of stamens.

""^ *^^ appendages of the basal
% 12*
A
agnified
K. .o" rm, ,
î£ n
6- ^^- rhe
^
^'^^^ triquetral
tnquetral
thick lign
seed, showing
showinp-
^ fh.
the hilum at the lower ventral angle.
^'
longituamai sec showing one of the channels
"witTi +1.
the main chords of the
ascending raphe.
2b2
A transverse section of the same, showing the channels with the three main cords of the im-
Fig. 14.
bedded raphe in the three angles.
Fi". 15 The edible nucleus, removed from fig. 13. This is the ordinary weU-known Brazil-nut.
Fig. 16- A transverse section of the same^ seen sideways.
Fig. 17* The same^ seen from above^ showing in its summit the traces of the almost obsolete minute i
cotyledons.
Fig. 18. A longitudinal section of the same embryo^ showing it to be a gigantic radicle^ with an external
exorhiza surrounding an internal neorhiza.

Fig. 19. The same in a state of germination, as seen in a specimen preserved in spirits in the Kew
Museum
Plate XXXIV.
r
Section A. Analysis of Lecythis.

Fig. 1. A flower expanded.
Fig. 2. The inferior ovary surmounted by G sepals, viewed sideways.
Fig, 3. The same, seen from above, showing within the sepals the epigynous disk that encircles the elevated
vertex of the ovary : all nat. size.
Fig. 4. A transverse section of the inferior ovary, usually 4-celled.

Fig. 5. A longitudinal section of the same, showing also the sepals, disk, vertex, and style, with several
ovules in each cell, suspended by funicles from the middle or summit of the central axis : both
somewhat magnified.
Pig. 6. The androphorum removed, showing its inverted head.
Fig. 7. The same straightened, to show the bare ligiila between the basal staminiferous ring and the hood
echinated inside with very numerous staminiferous appendages.
Fig. 8. The same viewed sideways, to show the basal ring where it is agglutinated to the disk by the
intervening claws of the petals.
Fig. 9. Three of the staminiferous appendages of the hood.
Fig. 10. Three of tlie same belonging to the basal ring : all nat. size.
Fig. 11. Thi-ee of the appendages of the hood^ enlarged, showing the anthers fixed on their summits.
Fig. 12. Those of the basal ring, with the anthers before and after dehiscence : all magnified.
Fig. 13. One of the seeds suspended within the fruit by a large fleshy funicle, which is attached to the
summit of the solid columella descending from the operculum : this is more clearly shown in
Plate LVI.
Fig. 14. A seed without the funicle.
Fig. 15. A longitudinal section of its thick coriaceous or ligneous testa, with its enclosed nucleus.
Pig. 16. A transverse section of the same, showing the several cords of the branching imbedded raphe.
Fig. 17. The nucleus removed, which is the ordinary Sapucaya nut; it is a homogeneous embrjo or
gantic
Fig
showing
same germinating Marcgr
Section B. Analysis of Chytroma.

Fig. 1. A flower expanded, with the androphorum removed to show the sepals and
Fig. 2. The calyx and semiinferior ovary both 7iat. size. :
disk which encircles the elevated vertex of the

terminated
d that
erect in the base of the ceUa.
:
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEÊ, 305
same above the level of the disk, as seen from above, surrounded bj
ovary is 4-ccllcd, and its ovules always erect and sessile ; all magnified
drophoru
showin
le staminiferous ap[
within, with sterile
Fig. 9. The same, viewed sideways : all magnified.
Fig. 10. Some of the sterile appendages of the hood.

ignified
o
Fig. 12. A seed, seen on its dorsal face^ showing the cancellated bars of the imbedded branching raphe.
Fig. 13. The same, viewed on its ventral face, showing the basal hilum, from which ascends the mam
nerve
Fig. 14 The same with half of the testa removed, showing its thin brittle textmê, and the promment
main branch of the raphe, the enclosed embryo being contracted by drying.
Fig. 15. The lower moiety of the testa, seen from above, with a portion of the fiUet of the raphe thrown
back.
which is solid, of a dark colour, very bitter in taste, and homogeneous in

texture.
Fig. 17. A longitudinal analogous to that of Lecythis, but
section of the same, showing its structure to be
between and the neorhiza
with a much thicker exorhiza, which leaves an open fissure it
all nat. size.
Section 0. Aualvsis of Eschweilera

Fig. 1, A flower expanded.
Tiff. 2 Tô ir^ft.,.;^
which surrounds
showing the 6 sepals, the annular disk
the umboniform style : both nat. size.
t ig. 3. An enlarged view of tlie same, from above.
Fig. 4. A transverse sentir same, showmg it to be 2- celled.
he same, showing the ceUs to be half-superior, with several ovules m

ignified
Pig- 6. The androphorum.
% 7. The from within, showin
semiglobular head which is
staminiferous appendages, the intervening bare ligula and the
frequently sterile but some-
densely echinated inside with many imbricated appendages, most ;
times, though rarely, they bear fertile stamens.

*|ig. 8.
Some of the sterile appendages of the hood.
^g- 9. Some of the fertile appendages of the basal ring all nat. size. ..
% . '
: .,
shown before and alter

10. Two of the same appendages, bearing short filaments and anthers,
dehiscence: magnified
icrobiculate
shown
middle
Y which the sulcated branches of the
same, seen edgeways, showing al hilum, from
furcate
aa
The same, shown on its ventral face, where the main s
"
?• 13.
— x^xium, ana irom wIucH otHer suicatea

v>
ulcated branches
urauuiico are
».- spread.
^x-^-
wh oh
ci^ which
ÛcfannP of
'S- 14. A longUudi,,, .eotlc. of the sa„e. showing it, thick coriaceous testa .. -
nucleus
ument
m drymg.
the testa.
• '
306 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEJ?-
Fig. 15. A transverse section of tlie same, showing the same parts.
Fig. IG. The lax inner integument and the smaller nucleus, shown, in longitudinal section.
Fig. 17. The same in transverse section.
Fig. 18. The pale integument cut open, showing where it is coated within by a grey pulverulence
side is charged with clots of black powdery matter.
Fig. 19. The dark bitter nucleus, seen on its dorsal face.
Fig. 20. Tlie same, shown edgeways.
Fig. 21. showin
structure
Fig. 22. A transverse section of the same : all nat. size.
Plate XXXV.
Section A. Analysis of Jugastrum.
Fig. 1. A flower before expansion.
Fig. 2. The same after expansion.
Fig. 3. The G scpal^j the annular disk, and elevated vertex of the ovary, terminated by a very short style.
Fig. t. A Imigitndlnal flection of tlie ovary, which is 2-celled, the vertex dome-shaped, the cells half-supe-
rior, with several ovuIch erect in the hasc of each cell.
Fig. 5. A transrrpse section of the same, showing it to be 2-cellcd, with several ovules erect in each cell.
Fig. 6. Tlie nnf1ro[)horumj with a convex hood.
Fig, 7. Tlic same itraightcnccl and viewed from the inside, showing the many staminiferous appendages
on. its baâl ring, its bare ligula, and its hood cchinated with very numerous staminiferous
appendages.
Fig. 8. Tlic nppmdagcs of the hood.
Fijr. 9. Those of the basal rinfft all nat. size.
Fig. 10. The staminiferous appendages of the hood.

anthers before and after dehiscence : both magnified
Fig
Fig. 13. A longitudinal sertion of the same, showing its thin coriaceous testa, smooth outside, granulated
within.
Pig
embrro, with a granulated
th(* uuildlu of the ventral angle.
Fig. IC, A longitudinal section of the same, showing it to b

colour, with an external cxorhiza, verj' thin near tli
neorhiza ; att nat. .vzc.
Ftsr. 17. The ^nmp, magnified.

Fig. 18. Tlic macropodous embryo in jrcrmination : nat. size,
Fig. 10. The compressed seed of J. platgspcnnum, seen on th
Fig. 20. The same, seen edgeways.
Fig. 21- A transAcr>o section of the testa.
Fig. 22. A lungitttdinal section of the nucleus : all fiat. ^ze.
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Section B. Analysis of CourataH,

Tx
The inferior ovaiy, 6 free sepals, the annular epigynous disk, the elevated pulvinated and crenated
•vertex, hollow in the middle, where there is, a broad conical short style, surmounted by a hollow
globular stigma.
Fiff. 3. A longitudinal section of tlic same, showing several ovules erect in the basal angle of each cell.
Fiff. 4. A transverse section of the same, which has 3 cells, with erect ovules : all somewhat magnified.
Fig. 5. The androphorum^ viewed sideways.
Pig. 6. The same straightened, to show the basal ring charged with staminiferous appendages, the long
intervening bare ligula, and the reversed hood attached by a fleshy knob in the summit of the
ligula, the hood being echinated outside (contrary to the general rule) with numerous sterile
appendages.
Fig. 7. Three of the appendages of the hood.
Fig. 8. Three of the staminiferous appendages of the basal ring : all nat. size.
Fig. 9. Two of the same, with the anthers before and after dehiscence : magnified.
Fig. 10. A seed, which is much compressed, with a broad circumambient membranaceous wing^ placed
round an oblong testaceous escutcheon.
Pig. 11. The same, seen edgeways. ^
•
Fig. 12, The very thin inner integument^ wliich fills the escutcheon and encloses the exalbuminous
embryo.
Pig. 13. The embryo removed, showing its form when embraced by the integument.
Fig. 14. The same expanded to exhibit the long terete club-shaped radicle pointing to the basal hilum,
and shortly curved at its upper extremity, where it is continuous with 2 broad plicated foliaceous
L
cotyledons equal to it in length : all nat. size.
Section C. Analysis of Cariniana.

Kg. 1. A flower : nat. size.
Fig. 2. The same : greatly magnified.
Kg. 3. Two of the six petals, seen from within and sideways.
%. 4. The inferior ovary, seen from above : all equally magnified.
g. 5. A vertical section of the same, showing the 6-dentate cupular free border of the calyx, the annular
disk, the somewhat concave vertex, the long terete style, the inferior cells containing few or
more erect ovules fixed near
their base.
Jg-
6. A transverse section of the same, both more
showing the three cells and the ovules in each :
magnified.
^- 7. The androphorum,
on the same scale as fig. 2, showing its very gibbous tubular form, slightly
nvex at its summit it
j is fringed on the margin and echinated over its whole surface inside,
with staminiferous
appendages in many series, and has no basal ring or ligula : in this respect
It
approaches Gustavia and
Grias.
^- « The same, seen
sideways.
cut open, to show the many series of staminiferous appendages, the upper ones being
*^^ otters gradu ally shortening short
^g- 10 xT^^^^' in length to that of the lower series : magnified.
^PP^^*^^ges of the upper and
Fiff ll" Ti.^ lower series more magnified. :
% ^S same'
''
^
^''' ''"^''^'^'
*^^ anthers after dehiscence, seen sideways and from above.
%• 13 Th T^'
^^ ônt, with its long basal membranaceous wing and the apical embryoniferous
escut li
^^^^^ iîtegument
^' ^''-
The emb ^^ removed from the escutcheon, the space of which it fiUs.
^"'^^^^
*^te
°°^ *t^t integument, consisting of a terete descending radicle pointing to
ba 1 T,-î
^'^^ved suddenly at its
0^' nat ' ' continuous with the descending cotyledons :
summit, and
/
the cotyledons expanded, which are foliaceous, pUcated, and shorter than the
Fig. 18. The same, witli
ignified,
Plate XXXVI.
Section A. Analysis of Allantoma.
Fig. 1. A flower : nat. size.
Fig. 2. An enlarged view of the same.

Fig. 3. The six unequal petals, removed.
Fig. 4. Tlic inferior ovary surmounted by six free sepals and the annular epigynous disk, which surrounds
w
the vertex and umbonate style.

Fig. 5. A longitudinal section of the same.
Fig. G. A transverse section of the same in the instance where it is 4-celled.
Fig. 7. The same where it is 3-celled ; in other species it is 5-eelled.
The androphorum in its natural form, partially opened to show the several convolutions of the
Fig. 8,
and the seraiglobular hood, bare of appendages on both faces, though they are seen
ligula
along its mai*gins.
Fig. 9. The same, with the ligula partly straightened, seen from within.
Fig. 10. The same, viewed externally, where the last convolution is reversed in a contrary
Fig. 11. The same, viewed externally, where the ligula is further straightei
magnified
on the same scale.

Fig. 12. One of the seeds, on its dorsal face.
Fig. 13. The same, seen sideways.
Fig. 11. The same, shown on its smoother ventral face, where the position of the hilum is seen on one
of its baaaJ auricles.

Fig. IT). The same, with half of the thick subcoriaceous testa removed to show the relative form and size
of the enclosed nucleus.

Fig. 16. The nucleus removed, seen on its face.
Fig. 17. The same, seen edgeways.

Fi^r. 18. A transverse section of the same: all nat. size.
Fig. 19. A longitudinal section of the nucleus, showing the exorhiza enveloping the neorhiza:
ijied,
Section B. Analysis of Cercophora.

Fig, 1. A flower expanded : nat. size*
Fig. 2. One of the six petals.
Fig. 3. Tlic inferior ovary surmounted by a border of six free expanded sepals : all nat. size.
Fig. k The same, showing the annular disk, flat vertex, and long terete style.
arr
with
.1'
three cells : all magnified.
Fig. 7. The androphorum.

Fig. 8. The same straightened both nat :
Fig. 9. The same, enlarged, showins: th«

extension.
Fig. 10. The same urved
strai?rhtened. seen from within
ligula, both charged with staminiferous appendages, and the bare sacciform hood with its cauaa
extension.
MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHlDACEiE. 309
showing
its caudal extension.

hood cut through and thrown
ijied,
Fig. 13. One of the staminiferous appendages : nat. Hze.
tgnified.
stigma: magnified.
Section C. Analysis of Grias.

Grias
Fig, 2. The same after expansion, the calycine limb now split into 4 equal sepals :
both nat. size
inferior ovary
larger than the sepals.
Fig. 4. The same, seen from above, showing the petals surrounding the androphorum.
Fig. 5. The inferior ovary, surmounted by the four sepals, the annular disk, and the u
transverse section of the ovary
somewhat magnified.
annular
stigma, the ovules ni
concave vertex, the umboniform style, surmounted by the sessile 4-rayed
each cell suspended by funicles from the top of the axile column.
Fig. 9. The stigma : both more highly magnified. ,
shallow basal cup, regular in form,

Fig. 10. The androphorum in its natural shape, consisting of a
bordered by the external series of much longer staminiferous appendages.
several series of staminiferous
Pig. 11. The same cut open, to show how it is covered internally with
external series longest both
appendages, the lower one short, the others gradually longer, the :
magnified
truncated at the
Fig. 12. Two of the same appendages, which are somewhat incurved, subtetragonous,
le filaments are inserted more magnified.:
filament
with
Kg. 14 The both more highly magnified
Lehiscing laterally by a longitudinal suture :
given in the text of Aublet, and

Auhletiana. drawn in its natural dimensions as
copied from his drawing, stated to be half-size.

each cell contain-
Fig. 16. A tr showin to be indehiscent
and 4-celIed,
ing 6 or 7 seeds.
fig- 17.
One Gmiavia: all nat. size.
of the seeds suspended by a fleshy funicle, as in
Plate XXXVII
species of Bertholletia.
Kepresents tlie fruit of two
% 1. The pyxidium of B, e.celsa, from a specimen in the Kew Museum

of his
collected by
l^^^^^^
specimen from ^^
island of Trinidad Bonpland's figure
: it corresponds well with
Orinoco.
%• 2. A section of the upper part of th .ternal
^' ^* '^^ extruding operculum,
which
as seen in the drawing
Kew specimen and in Bonpland's
lie pyxidium of B. nobilis, from Para, from specimens s(
guished by its smaller and more srlobular 'form, its darl
and falls away in fragments
^01^ 2
XXX.
showing difference in its opercular opening.

Fig. 5. A section of the upper part of the shell, the
Fig. 6. The incarcerated depressed operculum.

one of the cells, fixed by their basal angle to
Mg. 7. A cluster of five seeds, not quite ripe, the contents of
a portion of the columeUa. There is here no trace of any pulp, which Berg asserts to surround
fhf. Rftftfls the snecimen is in the

: Museum of the Linnean Society all mt. size: :
Plate XXXYIII.
Museum. One quarter-
segment is taken away, to show the size of the cavity and the thickness of its shell.
Museum, brought bv Triana from Nueva
Plate XXXIX.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis urnigera, procured by myself and others in Eio de Janeiro, where they
are sold in the open market.
Fig. 2. One of its seeds, suspended by its white fleshy funicle, from a drawing made by me while in the
fresh state ; its nucleus is edible, and called Bupucaya : both nat. size.
Plate XL.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis Velloziana, from a specimen belonging to Mrs. Fry, who obtained it
in Rio de Janeiro; it agrees sufficiently with the rude drawing in the ' Flora Flumin ensis,' where
the operculum is wanting.
Fig. 2. One of its seeds : both nat. size.
Plate XLI.
The pyxidium of Lecythis Bogotensis^ from a specimen from Bogota iu the British Museum : nat, size
Plate XLII.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis vasiformis, from 2 specimens obtained in Rio de Janeiro by Mrs. Fry,
and now in her possession.

Fig. 2. One of its seeds.
Fig. 3. The pyxidium of Lecythis pilarisj from a specimen brought from Rio de Janeiro by Mrs- Fry^
the operculum has been lost : all nat. size.
Plate XLIII.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis amplaj from a specimen in the Kew Museum^ sent from Antioqma, m
New Granada.
Fig. 2, One of its seeds.
Fig. 3. Tlie pyxidium of Lecythis minor, from two specimens in my possession, said to come from Costa
Rica, but probably from Cartagena, as it corresponds with Jacquin's drawing ; all nat. size.
Plate XLIV.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Leaf this from a specimen in the froâ *
validissima, Kew Museum^ obtained
treegrowing in Mauritius, and introduced from Guiana; another specimen is in the British
Museum, from Guiana, which exactly corresponds in size and shape with the ahove.
Pig. 2. One of its seeds : both nat. size.
Plate XLV.
ium of Lecythis lacunosa, from a specimen in the British Museum
Burton. I have two specimens of the same from Rio de Janeiro. Th
IS in the Kew Museum, one of which has its interzonal hand depr
with the above in other particulars
Fig. 2. A seed of the same : both nat. size.
Plate XLVI.
r
The fruits of Lecythis lanceolata, Poir. (non Berg)
Museum, from a Guiana tree cultivated in the M

ritius. There is another specimen, somewhat
probably indigenous and from Dutch Guiana.
.n imripe specimen in the British Museum^ seni
more
Plate XLVII.
The pyxidium of Lecythis Zabucayo, from
from Hamburgh probably derived from C
in
Kew Museum, sent from Para by
usitata^ from a specimen in the
Dr. Spruce. Its opercul
nuts sold in the London
Fig, 4, One of the seeds. This quite resembles in size the Sapucaya
shopsj and imported from Para : all nat. size*
Plate XLVIII.
Museum of the Lmnean ocie y
Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Lecythis Marcgraaviana, from a specimen in the
Fig. 3. The pyxidium of Lecythis drawing of Berg.
Pohlii, copied from the
Fig. 4. One of its seeds ; all nat. size.
Plate XLIX L
Museum, derived from Sloane's

British
Lecyfh
collection.
Fig. 2. Mnseum
The pyxidium of Lecythis cupularis, from a specimen in
province of Para.
The pyxidium of Lecythis lavicula, from a specimen in the Kew Museum
^
nat
Plate L
of its operculum, as
with the addition
The pyx
described in his text : nat, size.
Plate LI
nat. size
collection':
The a specimen n ^v own
-/ ^^^^^^^^^^^ .
togethei
Pig Museum
Lecythis 2s2
. :

*
Purdie, the latter agreeiug well witli Kunth's description of his plant from the
dried plant, by
F
same locality.
Lecyfhis dubia, from a specimen in the Kew Museum, also sent by Purdie, from
Fig. 3. The pyxidium of
the locality indicated by Bonpland all nat. size. :
Plate LII.
Lecythis biserrata, from a drawing

wrongly referred to Lecythis lanceolata, Poir., a Guiana species, and also
de Janeiro, which he
drawing
to Lecythis minor, Veil, (non Jacq.)
omitted, but which he describes in his text.
The
Plate LIII.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis limbata, from a specimen in the British Museum; the operculum has
been lost : nat. size.

calycary zone half its nat. size
Fig. 2. A view of the same from above, to show the contour of its :
Plate LIV.
Fig. 1 . The pyxidium of Lecythis crassinoda, from a specimen in the British Museum :
nat. size.
Fig. 2. The same, seen from above, to show the outline of its calycary zone : reduced to half-size.
Fig. 3. One of its seeds : nat. size.

r
Plate LV.
Fig. 1. The pyxiduuu of Lecythis venusta^ from a specimen in the Kew Museum and my own collection
nat, size.
Fig. 2. The samCj seen from above^ to show the form of the calycary zone : reduced to half-size.
Pig. 3. One of its seeds.
Fig. 4. The pyxidium of Lecythis tumefacta^ from a specimen in the Kew Museum and another in my
own collection both nat. size: .
Fig, 5. The same, seen from above, to show the outline of the calycary zone : reduced to half-size.
Plate LVI.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Lecythis iuberculata^ from a specimen in my own collection : nat. size.
Fig. 2. The same, seen from above, to show the form of the calycary zone : reduced to half-size.
Fig. 3. One of the seeds suspended by its fleshy funicle nat. size. :
in spints^
Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Lecythis Coxiana, from two dried specimens, and another preserved
funicles
in my own collection, showing one of its cells, and its seeds suspended by their fleshy
in their true position : nat, size.
Fig. 5. The same, seen from above, showing the peculiar contour of its calycary zone reduced :
to half-s^^^-
Plate LVII.
The pyxidium of Lecythis grandifloray copied from Aublet's drawing, and the dimeu
Fig. 1. restored to
sions given in tlie text : nat. size.
.:
half nat
Lecythis variolataj from

showing the outline of its calycary
half
Plate LVIII
Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Chytroma Schomburgklana, from a specimen in the Kew Collection, partly in
longitudinal section.
Fig. 2. The same, seen from above, after the removal of the operculum, showing it to be 4 -celled.
Fig. 3. The pyxidium of Chytroma incarcerata, partly in longitudinal section, showing that, the velarium
being broader than the zonal aperture, the operculum cannot fall on.
Fig. 4. The operculum of the same released, shown sideways, connected with the four dissepiments
Fig. 5. One of its erect seeds : all nat. size.
Fig. 6. The pyxidium of Chytroma the Kew Museum, shown partly in longi-
cistella, from a specimen in
tudinal section.
Fig. 7. The same, seen from above, after the removal of the operculum, showing it to be 4-celled.
size, as
Fig. 8. The pyxidium of Chytroma amara, copied from Aublet's drawing, restored to its natural
stated in the text, partly in longitudinal section.
Fig. 9. The same, seen from above, with the operculum removed, showing it to be 4-celled.
Fig. 10. The pyxidium of Chytroma drawing, shown partly in longi-
monosperma, copied from Berg's
tudinal section.
Fig. 11. Its single
seed, the rest being abortive.
Fig. 12. The pyxidium of Chytroma pilacarpa, partly in longitudinal section.
Museum, shown partly in
Fig. 13. The pyxidium of Chytroma hasilaris, from a specimen in the Kew
Fig. 14. to be 4-celled all
The same with the operculum removed, as seen from above, showing it
nat. size.
Plate LIX.
The copied from Berg's drawing
difolia,
section.
Fig. 2. One of its
---H- seeds.
V*
'N.' ^J' ^h' kj •
Kg- 3. The pyxidium of Chytroma Spruceana, from a specimen in the Kew Museum
The
from below, showin
The ;^ fhe' Kew
ivew mu
Museum, shown
from a specimen in tne
Fig
its seeds.
The pyxidium of Museum
Chytroma cincfurata, from three
in longitudinal
section.
^^•8. One of its seeds.
^g' 9. Ite pyrid show
section. r
'-- wpexcoium ot the same, removed,

removed to snow tu.. .^^^
.îbbous by the abortion
The pyxidium of
the same species in an abnormal
state, ^^^^'"'^^
three of i*« ..ii. ,-. i..„:..,^:.„i „.^;.. «>,nwin^ the solitary seed
. ,
perfected, / ims
^his is fron
collection
Museum in my own
31^ MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE
Fig. 12* The operculum of the samej removed.

Fig. 14. Ibiribdy from a specinjen in the Kew Museum.

Fig. 15. ame. less matured, where the operculum is somewhat
wn Dartlv in lonsritudin
Fig, 17. The pyxidium of Chytroma Idatimon, copied from Aublet's drawing, shown partly
section.
Fig. 18. mbraced by

Fig. 19. The pyxidium of the same with its operculum removed, seen from above, showing its 4 cellii:
all nat. size. w
Fig. 20. The pyxidium of Eschweilera angustifoliaj copied from Berg's drawing.
Fig. 21. The pyxidium oi Eschweilera compressa^ from several specimens in my own collection.
Fig. 22. The same with the operculum removed, showing, from the vestiges of the evanescent dissepi^
ment, that it was originally 2-celled ; the cicatrices of the hilar attachment of the seeds are
seen in the base.

Fig. 23. One of its erect seeds, shown on its dorsal face.
Fig. 24. The same, viewed from below, showing the position of the hilum at the bottom of the basal
angle : all naf. size.
Plate LX.
Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Eschweilera rigida, from a specimen in the Kew Museum
Fig. 2. One of its seeds, seen on its ventral face.
Fig. 3. The
Fig. 4. serrulata. from a soecimen in the Kew Museum
Fig. C. The pyxidium of Eschweilera Fendleri, from a specimen in the Kew Musenm, shown partly in
4^•«
Fig. 7 Guanaharica. from several SDCcimens in mv own
some of them
ars. leavmsr the sum
Fig. 8. One of its seeds
Fig. 9. Berg^s drawing
section.
Fig. 10. The pyxidium of Eschweilera corrugata, from a specimen in the Kew Museum, from Demerara,
shown partly in longitudinal section.
Fig. ] 1. The same, copied from Poiteau's drawing.
Fig. 12. The pyxidium of Eschweilera longipes, copied from Poiteau's drawing, shown partly in longitu-
dinal section.
Fig. 13. The same with the operculum removed, be-
to show it is originally 2-celled, the dissepiment
coming withered.
Fig. XL The pyxidium of Eschweilera Blanchetiana. drawn from Bern's desnriTition.
lisvifolia, from a specimen in the Kew Museum
um
Pemambuco
The pyxidium of Eschweilera LuschnatiL from BurchelVs sDecimen in the Kew Museum
4
Fig. 18. The pyxidium of Eschweilera platycarpa, copied from Poiteau's drawing, partly in longitudinal
section.
Fig. 19. The pyxidium of Eschweikra parviflora, copied from Aublet's drawings shown partly in longi-
tudinal section.
Fig. 21. The pyxidium of Eschweilera parvifoliay from Dr. Berg^s description.
Fig. 22. The pyxidium of Eschweilera Siberiana] from Dr. Berg's description, shown partly in longitu-
dina)l section.
Fig. 23. The pyxidium of Eschweilera lurida, from BurchelFs specimen in the Kew Museum :
all mt.
size.
Plate LXI,
Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Jugastrum coriaceum^ copied from Dr. Berg's drawing, and shown partly m
Fig. 2. The same with the operculum removed, seen from above, showing the seeds in one of its two
cells, the seeds being removed from the other that the cicatrices may be seen in the base, to
denote the points of attachment of the erect seeds.

Fig. 4. The pyxidium of Jugastrum subcinctum, from specimens in the Kew Museum, shown partly lu
Fig. 5. The same, from another specimen in the same Museum.
Fig. 7. The pyxidium of Jugastrum obtectum, from a specimen in the Kew Museum.
Fig. 9. The pyxidium of Jugastrum platyspermum, from a specimen in the Kew Museum. .
Fig. 10. One of its seeds, shown

on its ventral face.
Fig. 11. The same, seen on its edge.
Fig. 12. Another pyxidium of the same, from a specimen in the British Museum.
Fig. 13. The pyxidium of Jugastrum depressum, from a specimen in the Kew Museum.
Fig. 14. Another specimen of the same, in the British Museum.
Fig. 15. One of its seeds : all nat. size.
PLA.TE LXII
% 1. The pyxidium of Couratari Martiana, from a specimen in the British Museum, shown partly in
2. The operculum and its in drying.
*Jg- columella, removed, much contracted
ig-
f
3. One of its seeds, shown on its
face.
^- 4. The same, seen on its edge.
% 5.
,
The pyxidium of Couratari nlahra. oo.ied from Berg's drawing, shown partly m
. , r
longitudmal * i
section.
^ -.„ v'l'îuuium ana columella, contracted m dry

^g- 7. One of its seeds. , .,
%• collection, shown partly

8. ITie
pyxidium of Couratari rufescens, from three specimens in my own
in longitudinal
section.
^*^ operculum and columella, contracted in drying.
%
'
x..
?•
„ f ^~1
formed rmind
round the
10. A transverse section of the same when in the fresh state,
showing the 3 cell,
colum
^;g- 11. One of its seeds, seen on its face,
^« 12. The samp a^r^r. ^« u« ^j
on its edge.
^
316 MR ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E
um of Cour atari Guianensis, from specimens in my own

partly in longitudinal section.
shrunk in dry
same when showing the 3 cells round the columella.
Fig. 15. A transverse section of the in the fresh state,
Fig. 16. One of its seeds : all nat. size.
Plate LXIII.
The
partly in longitudinal section.
Fig. 2. The operculum and columella^ removed.
Fig. 3. Two of its seeds.
Fig. 4. The pyxidium of Cariniana domestical copied from Berg's drawing, shown partly
section.
Fig. 5. The operculum and columella of the same.

Museum
longitudinal section, and where the teeth are seen in its mouth,
he operculum and columella of the same, contracted in drying.
seeds
ensis
Ficr, 10. Tlie pvxidium of Cariniana rubra, from a specimen in the Kew Museum
tndinal scctiou.
Fi o
iT
if<
and
Fig. 12. The operculum and columella of the same, showing the impressions left by its imbricated seeds.
and
Plate LXIV.
torulosa, from a specimen in the British Museum. There is another,
somewhat smaller, in the Kew Museum : it is shown nartlv in

same
Museum and
own collection, shown partly in longitudinal section.
showing
Fig. 6. One of its seeds, seen in front.
Fig. 7. The same, shown on its edge.
The
pyxidmm of Allantoma macrocarpa, from a specimen in the Kew Museum.
with the drawing of Berg : it is shown pai-tly in longitudinal section.
Fig. The pyxidium of Allantoma didyocarpa, copied from Berg's
drawing
Plate LXV.
e pyxidium of Allantoma scutellata, from a specimen in the Society^
Museum of the
hown
partly in a longitudinal section, with
its columeUa much shrunk in dry
transverse section of the same when .ella-
in a fresh state, showing the 4 ceUs roui
: ,
The
„.ansverse section of the same when in its fresh state, showing the 5 cells roui
he pyxidium of Allantoma Burchelliana, from a specimen in the Kew Museum

same
The pyxidium of Allantoma aulacocarp
section.
specmien
partly longitudinal section.

same when in a fresh state, showing
mella : all nat. size.
POSTSCRIPT.
in type, I received from my friend Sen' Mattos entire
After the above memoir was
in which serve to throw additional
specimens of ripe frnits of Lecythis preserved spii'its,
The specimens of L. tojrmia,

light upon the carpological structure of that genus.
intended to show the existence
alluded to in p. 218, were mere portions of a pyxidium,
they were insufficient to enable me to
of the large funicle attached to each seed: but
near the summit of the columeUa
dctcrmme whether the attachment was at the base or
inference was drawn. As tne
and in deciding between these alternatives the wrong
position, the seed^
fruit, from its great weight, always hangs in an inverted "I V^^^''
natural growth, suspended hut w en
tudinal section of the specimen appear, as in their ;
large tunicies,
the fruit is placed in an erect posture, the seeds then stand upon their
which are attached to the base of the columella, as they are correctly shown m I'late u .
are needed
In consequence of this explanation the following corrections
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319
VI. Systematic List of the Spiders at present knoivn to inhabit Great B

Ireland. By the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S.
Read Pebruary 19 th, 1874.
DUUING the last five years a constant communication and interchange of typical
examples of spiders has been going on between Dr. T. ThorcU, of IJpsala, Sweden, Dr.
L. Koch, of Niirnberg, Bavaria, Mens. Eugene Simon, of Paris, myself, and others,
»
with a view to a determination of the synonymic identity of the spiders recorded as
indigenous to Europe, but principally to Sweden, England, Germany, and France. Tlie
/
by Dr. ThoreU in a most laborious and

results of this investigation have been published
work, lately completed, *0d the Synonyms of European Spiders/ The
exhaustive
names of many British Spiders, described by
effect of this work is to give priority to
other than the names they bear in our works the trnie,
:\Ir. Blackwall and myself, ;
when a complete to the present time, of the

therefore, appears to have arrived list,
under the names to which, accor^dmg to tl-

known spiders ofGreat Britain and Ireland,
seems to be a desideratum Dr.
"
T
laws of priority, they appear to be entitled, '
of British Spiders bu it is -mplete on y

Eur. Spid. 471), gives a list ;
indeed (Syn. p.
Spiders of Great Brrâm and Ireland [18^0-18 i]
the date of Mr. Blackwall's work the '
known indigenous species has mcreased

sL the publication of which the number of
by more than one half
The
em; t) characters ax.. ^^.^^

cnaracuei^, is the result
pretensions to finality)
The present arrangement (t^-o^^^^^^^^^^
^
'
gists. ,,, ,^,,1^ ,i,lt regions of

study
of a Ion g and tolerably
careful
the opposr^ nd to that^.l
^^J^^^^^^^^^^
^ Ti^,,,U ^^ Dr. Koch begin
the wld.
world It begins
arrangements
at
but t is y
^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^
their systematic ;
.^^^^^^^^^ ^,rk On the Genera of
'
of the Araneidea. myself in former works

classification ,
^
Dy
. , iitj Blackwall and
In thepresent list the genera adop ed
^
toum ^^^ ^^^^^.^ ^.^ ^^^^^^^
broken up,
anu
and^ r.nr.Pr«
papers
pa.jjcj.a bavo
have
xxwTw been
bccn largely
lar w -
f* prl The
=
"-enera Linyphia,
"'enerax/*«yj''"'*"'j
7VWr^;,^.and
Neriene,
^"'' "'"''» —
and
»— ^^ —
7^^/^"^-
TFatch
ThoreU in the work a''"^^^'""' Blackwall-not because they

ty Dr. u by Mr.
»«*«.
naera, however, have
hare been
been leit
left a^
almost as ..ed
yet j
^^^^^
unable ^^
to ^^^^
arrive at
^^ a
^ method
^^.^
^^ye been as
thus satisfactory to myself,

though my attention is at this moment
^"^^^^^^^'^û gjo^ps.
of satisfactorily dealin
directed to the t^™ now entitled to a name different
particularly /f '7; ^^^j to be .
spider i. cons
In those instances where a
^^^ ^^^.^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^j^^.^^^.^y ^^. ^^_
It was to
that under which ^v
from and prior to
VOL. XXX.
: ;
320 SYSTEMATIC LIST OF BRITISH SPIDERS

r
self, the name so published is added after the one to which priority appears to be due
and in all cases the name of the author to whom priority has been ascertained to belong
is appended in the usual way to the name of the
whether generic or specific.
spider,
All other synonyms and references, as well as descriptions and figures, may be found in
the followinsj
i. * A History by John Blackwall,

of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland,*
Esq., Lond., 1859-64 ; together with papers by the same and other authors there
referred to and also other papers subsequently published by Mr. Blackwall in Annals
;
& Mag. Nat. Hist. 1864-72.

ii. Papers published by the Eev. O. P. Cambridge in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvii.
t
pp. 393-463, pi. liv.-lvii., with papers by the same, there referred to ; also in Trans. Linn.
Soc. vol. xxviii. part 3, pp. 433-458, pis. xxxiii.-xxxv.
1
; and part 4, pp. 523-555,
pis. xlv.-xlvi. ; Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. pp. 530-547, pis. xiv. & xv. ; Proceedings Zool.
Soc. 1873, pp. 747-769, pis. Ixv. & Ixvi.
in. ' On European by Dr. T. Thorell. Upsala, 1869-70, pp. 1-242 ; and
Spiders,'
* Synonyms of European Spiders,' by the same author. Upsala, 1871-73, pp. 1-644.
Class ARACHNID A,
Order Araneidea (or Araneje).
Earn. THEHAPHOSIDES.
Gen. Atypus, Latr.
Atypus piceus, Sulz. A. Sulzeri, m.*, ad partem (2).
- affinis, Eichwald. A. Sulzeri, Bl , ad partem ( 6 )
Earn. DYSDERIDES.
Gen. OoNOPS, Templeton
Oonops pulcher, Tempi
Gen. SCHCENOBATES, Bl
Schoenobates Walkeri, Bl
Gen. Dysdeea, Latr.
Dysdera Cambridsrii, Thorell B. erythrina, Bl
crocota, C. Koch. D. rubicunda, Bl
Gen. Harpactes, Tempi Dysdera, BL, ad partem
Harpactes Hombergii, Soop
Gen. Segestria, Latr
Segestria florentina, Rossi S, nerfida, Bl
senoculata. Linn.
Here, and in -many other
instances in this secondary portion of the list, the author quoted is not necessa
the one to whom the name
attached to the spider is due; it .m adopted
specifi
BY THE REV. 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. 321
Pam. DRASSIDES. ' s
Gen. MiCAUiA, C Koch. = Drassus, Bl.ûd partem.

Micaria pulicaria, Sund. p. nitens + D. micans, Bl
Gen. Drassus, Walck. =Drassus, Bl, ad partem.

Drassus ferrugineus, BL
Blackwallii, Thor. P. sericeus, Bl.
reticulatuSj BL
I
sylvestrisj BL
cupreus, Bl
troglodytes, C. Koch. D. clavator, Camhr.
lapidicolens, WalcTc.
pubescens, Thor. D. pubescens, Thor., Camhr
? subniger, Camhr.
Gen. Gnaphosa, Latr. = Drassus, BL, ad partem.
Gnapbosa anglica, Camhr, D. lucifugus, BL

lucifuga. Leach.
L. Koch. = Drassus, BL,ad partem.

Gen. Prosthesima,
Prostbesima pedestris, C. Koch.
Petiverii, Scop. D. ater, Bl

nigrita, Fahr. D. pusillus, BL
D. pumilus, BL
ekcta, C. Koch.
partem.
Gen, Clubioka, Latr. = Clubiona, BL, ad
G. bolosericea
Bl
Clnbiona grisea, L. Koch.
C. amarantha, BL
terrestris, TFestr.
paUidula, ClercJc. C. epimelas, ^

corticalis, JFalck.
breyipes, BL
comta, C. Koch.
*' triviaUs, C. Koch.
C. pallens, ^^
subtilis, X. X.^^.
diver sa, Camhr,
C.
r.nllens'(7 Xoc^.
(7«mr.
^
f'^.-fimnh.
lutesceiis, L. Koch C. assimilata,
Camhr
-I
L
iglecta,
1
formosa, _2V..^^^
J'"
^^^^^„,,,,. c.nO
bolosericea, Be Geer
Yoluta, Camhr
C. Kocii.
Gen. Ohibacauthito, ^^
C. Xot?^.
carnifex,
*
*
Pennyi, Camhr 2u2
Gen. Antph^na, Sund. = Clubiona, Bl.y ad partem.

Anypligena accentuata, Walch,
Gen. Agegeca, Westr. = Agelena,\B^., ad partem.

Agrosca brunnea, Bl.
proxima, Camhr»
*
Gen. LiocRANUM, L. Koch. = Clubiona, BL^ ad part. + Agelena, Bl., ad part.

+ Drassus, Cambr., ad part.
Liocranum domesticum, Beuss- Wid.
gracilipes, Bl.
prselongipes, Cambr.
? celans, Bl.
Gen. HecaergEj Bl.
Hecaerge maculata, Bl. H. spinimana, Bl.
nemoralis, Bl.
m
Gen. PnnuEOLiTHTJS, C. Koch. = Drassus, Bl., ad partem,

Phrurolithus festivus, C. Koch. Drassus propinquus, Bl
Pam. DICTYNIDES. -
Gen. Eeesus, Walck.

Eresus cinnabarinus, Oliv.
Gen. DicTYNA, Sand. = Ergatis, Bl.
Dictyna arundinacea, Idtin. Ergatis benigna, Bl.
uncinata, Westr. E. arborea, Cambr.
pusilla, TFestr.
latens, Fabr
iabilis, 0. Koch. E. pallens, Bl
Earn. AGELENIDES.
Gen. Aegyeoneta, Latr,
Argyroneta aquatica, Clerck.
Gen. AMATjROBirs, C. Koch. = Ciniflo, Bh, ad partem.
Amaurobius fenestralis, Strcem. A. atrox, Koch, Bl
similis, Bl.
/- -
ferox, Walck.
Gen. Lethia, Menge, = Ciniflo, Bl, ad partem
Lethiaputa, Cambr.
r
bumilis, Bl.
Mengii, Cambr.
Gen. Ccelotes, Bl
Caelotes atropos, Walch. 0. saxatilis, Bl
? mcerens, Cambr.
? immaculatus, Cambr,
Gen. Agelena, WalcJc. = Agelena, Bl.

Agelena labyrinthica, Clerch.
Hyndmannii, Tempi, Bl.
prompta, Bl.
Gen. Tegenaria, Latr.

Tegenaria Guyonii, GuSr. T. domestica, Bl
atrica, C. Koch.
campestris, G. Koch.
Derhamii, Scojp, T. civilis, Bl
cicurea, 0. Koch.
Gen. Textrix, Sund

Textrix dentieulata, Oliv. T. lycosina, Bl.
-boopis, Cambr. Agelena boopis, Cambr.
Gen. Cryphceca, Thor. = Tegenaria, Bl, ad partem.
Cryplioeca silvicola, C. Koch.
Gen. Hahnia, O. Koch. = Bl, ad partem.
Habnia elegans, Bl
Agelena subfusca, Cambr
nava, Bl
montana, Bl.
Fam. SCYTODIDES.
Gen. Scytodes, Latr.
Scytodes tboracica, Latr.
Fam. PHOLCIDES.
Gen. Pholcus, WalcJc.
pbalangioides, Fuessl
Pbolcus
Fam. THEEIDIIDES. At
Gen. EPXSXN.S, Walcl. =
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
i^
^'^
Walck.
Episinus tmncatns,
ad partem.
rm, -
»^. - Thenoi
Theridion, Cambr.,
Gen. Pholcomma, ,
rojectum, Cotn^r
gibbum r^^^^-
Pbolcomma
Gen. THERiPioK, Walclc. = Tbmdion, ^^'^
^, .
C/^^^^- ^' ^^^

«J^
Theridion formosum,
C. Xb<?^.
tepidariorum,
riparium,^^. -S;.
T,
T. nervosum,
nervo
sisypbium, C;^/-^^-
denticulatum, Wakh.
familiare, Camhr.
varians, -HflM.
tinctum, TTalch
simile, a
Xoc^.
Theridion venustmn, Walch. ?, Camhr. f.
coracinum, Koch. C
- triste, (7. KocJi.
- spirif er, Camhr.
- pulchellum, Walck.
- ? auratum. Tempi. , J3L
- "bimaculatum, Zinn. T. carolinum, Walck., JBl.
- albens, Bl.
- pallens, Bl. ^ : .
Gen. Nesticus, Thor. = linyphia, Bl., ad partem.

Nesticus cellulanus, ClercTc. Linyphia crypticolens, Bl.
Gen. Phyllonethis, Thor. = Theridion^ Bl., ad partem.
Phyllonethis lineata, ClercJc.
instabilis, Camhr. Theridion instabile, Camhr.
Gen. DiP(ENA, Koch. = Theridion, Bl., ad partem.
Dipoena melanogaster, C. Koch. Theridion congener, Camht
Gen. Steatoda, ûnd. = Theridion, Bl., ad partem.
Steatoda bipunctata, Linn.
sticta, Camhr.
guttata, Beuss-Wid.
prona, Menge, Camhr.
? hsematostigma, Tempi. BL • k
versuta, Bl.
Gen. EuEYOPis, Menge. — Theridion, Bl, ad partem.

Euryopis inornata, Camhr. Theridion inornatum, Id
Blackwallii, Camhr.
? fusca, Bl.
flavomacnlata, C. Koch.
Gen. AsAGENA, Sund. — Theridion, Bl., ad partem.
Asagena phalerata, Panz. Theridion signatum, Bl
Gen. Neriene, BL, ad partem.
Neriene atra, BL N. longipalpis, BL nee Sund.
longipalpis, Sund.
M I
. -
-. promiscua, Camhr.
dentipalpis, Beuss-Wid. -*
graminicola, Sund. , >
- pascalis, Camhr.
- nigra, Bl.
tibialis, Bl.
longimana, C. Koch, N. vagans, BL
pygmsea, BL
1 -H
BY THE REV, 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. 325
Neriene rufipes, Sund. N. mimda, JBl.
i rubens, £L
isabellina, C. Koch. N. rubella, Bl.
bifida, Cambr.
vigilax, Bl. W
'
herbigrada, Bl. , .
,
Hutbwaitii, Cambr.
affinis, Bl.
dentata, Bems- Wid.
fusca, Bl.
agrestisj Bl.
retusa, Westr, N. elevata, Cambr..
iincata, Cambr.
gibbosa, Bl.
tuberosa, Bl.
apicata, Bl.
cornuta, Bl.
bituberculata, Eems- Wid.
excisa, Cambr.
Clarkii, Cambr.
latebricola, Cambr.
fugax, Camh\
neglecta, Cambr.
livida, Bh , xr ^
€ambr. Drepanodus, Menge.
albipunctata,
Wid. N. rubripes, Bl
rufa, Beuss-
abnormis, Bl.
? saxatilis, Bl.
SundevalUi, Westr.
lucida, Cambr.
^
viaria Bl:
N.
n
rufipes,
m
Bl. „
lapidicola, nor.
sylvatica, Bl ^^ ^ jf. fiavipcs [Bl
^
Kocfi. -^ b
fuscipalpis, C.
N. eorUcea, Car^-
peBicfflata, Ve^tr.
incisa, (7«w6n
C'flWi&r.
iimotabms,
subtnis, Cambr.
conigera, Cambr.
cornigeraj Bl
pallipes, Cambr.
decora, C^wSr.
anomala, Cambr.
Neriene pavitanSj Camhr.

clara, Camhr, I
prudens, Cambr,
moriila, Cambr.
mollis, Camhr.
arimdineti, Camhr.
H
formidabilis, Camhr.
- aspera, Camhr,
- aperta, Camhr.
- hispida, Camhr.
- furva, Bl. J . n
- pulla, M.
~ lugubris, Bl.
• avida, Bl.
- timida, Bl.
- minima, Walck. N. parva, Bl.
- bicuspis, Camhr.
- sulcata, Bl.
- dubia, Bl.
- montana, Bl.
- jîlosBLj Tem^l. Bl.
- pallidula. Tempi. Bl.
- cariaata. Tempi. BL
Gen. Walckenaeea. Bl
Walckenaera subaequalis, Westr. W. fortuita, Camhr
pratensis, Bl.
brevis, Reuss- Wid. W. depressa, Bl
brevipes, Westr.
scabrosa, Camhr.
Meadii, Camhr.
prcccox, Camhr.
incurvata, Camhr.
diceros, Camhr,
saxicola, Camhr.
Hardii, Bl.
cuspidata, Bl.
imicornis, Camhr.
monoceros, Uems-Wid.
obtusa, Bl.
nudipalpis, Westr.
punctata, Bl.
sordidata, Thor. W. atra, Bl.
'
BY THE REV. O. PICK A.RD-CAMB RIDGE. 327
TValckenaera parya, Bl
turgida, Bl.
bicolor, Bl.
- bifrons, BL
- exilis, Bl.
- vafra, Bl.
- humilis, Bl.
~ affinitata, Camhr.
cristata, Bl.
4
cucuUata, Koch.
antica, Beuss- Wid
permixta, Camhr.
fuscipes, Bl.
cirrifrons, Cambr.
ignobilis, Camhr.
Westr. W. aggeris, Camhr
- scabricula,
Bl. [Bûss-Wid., non TTeslr.].

- parallela,
pumila, Bl.
obscura, Bl.
- flavipes, Bl
- biemalis, Bl.
- latifrons, Camhr.
implana, Camhr.
Beckii, Camhr.
tiLêuss-jm. W. minima. C-.
nemoralis, Bl.
ludicra, Camhr.
similis, Camhr.
altifrons, Camhr.
^^
JTestr. >V. lasib
Thorellii,
nodosa, Camhr.
trifrons, Camhr.
frontata, Bl.
acuminata, Bl.
furciUata, Menge.
Pachygnatha, Sund
Gen. Sund
Clerclai,
Pacbygnatha
Listeri, Sund
Gen. Tapinopa,
Tapinopa
^X^
JTesir
longidens, Bi. ^
»'^r'- 2x
XXX
SYSTEMATIC LIST OF BRITISH SPIDERS
328 r
Gen. LiNYPHiA, Latr. = Linyphia, Bl, ad partem -{-^ QXieuQ^ Bl, ad partem
+Theridion, Bl., acZiJ^^-êw^+Bathypliantes, Menge, ad partem.
Linyptia frenata, Bl.y Beuss- Wid.

thoracica, Beuss- Wid. L. cauta, BL
nebulosa, Snnd. L. vivax, Bl.
leprosa, Ohl. L. confusa, Camhr.
minuta, Bl.
tenebricola, Beuss- Wid. L. terricola, Bl.y + L. tenuis, Bl
obscura, Bl.
variegata, Bl. Neriene variegata, Bl.
lepida, Camhr.
alacris, Bl.
albula, Camhr. X
)
circumcincta, Camhr.
setosa, Camhr.
socialis, Sund.
luteola, Bl. L. alticeps, Bl.
alticeps, Sund.
crucigera, Bl.
cristata*,Menge. Bathypbantes cristatus, Menge.
explicata, sp. n., N. L. decolor, Camhr.
cingulipes, Camhr.
flavipes, Bl.
- nigrina, Westr. L. puUa, Bl.
- pnllata, Camhr.
Meadii, Bl.
- approximata, Camhr.
dorsalis, Beuss- Wid. L, antbracina + L. Claytonise, Bl.
- gracilis, Bl.
- ericgea, Bl.
circnmspecta, Bl.
- angnlipalpis, Westr.
- experta, Camhr.
- errans, Bl. Neriene errans, BL
- oblonga, Camhr.
rufa, Westr.
- bicolor, BL Neriene bicolor, BL
- linguata, Camhr.
reticulata, Camhr.
prudens, Camhr.
arcana, Camhr.
Tliis species is now recorded Hardy, If ^^"^^

for the fust time as British. It was received in 1872 from Mr. J-
IS fonnd in Berwickshire, and has hitherto n. (Z. decolor, Cambr.)-
heen confused with L. explicata, si>.
BY THE REV. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. 329
I
Linyphia contrita, Cambr.

'«
parvula, Westr. L. longipes, Cambr. Batliypliantes longipes
Menge.
inconspicua, Cambr.
oblivia, Camhr,
oblita, Cambr.
microphthalma, Cambr.
pallida, Camhr.
deceris, Cambr.
finitima, Camhr. >il
concolor, Reuss- Wid. Theridion filipes, Bl.

insigiDis, Bl.
+M
>\
impigra, Camhr. ^
L
L
i\
clathrata, Sund. Neriene marginata, Bl.

furtiva, Cambr.
bucculenta, Clerck. Nericne triliiicata, Bl.
marginata, C. Koch. L. triangularis, Bl

montana, Clerck. L. marginata, Bl.
triangularis, Clerck. L. montana, Bl.
peltata, Beuss- Wid. L. rubca, Bl.

pusilla, Sund. L. fuliginea, Bl.
hortensis, Sund. L. pratensis, Bl.
pernix, Bl.
nigella, Bl.
pulcbella, Bl.
furva, Bl.
tenella, Bl.
natata, Temjpl, Bl
i
Gen. Eeo, C. Xoc^.= Theridion, Bl, ad partem.

Beuss- Wid. T. variegatum, Bl
Ero thoracica,
Earn. EPEIEIDES.
Gen. Meta, C Koch. = Epeira, Bl, ad partem.
^
Meta segmentata, Clerch Epeira inclinata, Bl., + E. Îcn-n, 7
Merianê, Scop. Epeira antriada, Bl, + E. colain, BL

Menardi, Latr. Epeira fusca, Bl
Gen. TETEAG^fATHA, Latr.
Tetragnatba extensa, Lhin.
I Gen. Ctrtophora, Sim. = Epeira, Bl ad partem

E. cornea, Bl
Cyrtopbora conica. Ball
Koch. Epeira, Bl, ad partem
Gen. SiKGA, C.
Clerck. Epeira tubulosa, Bl
Singa hamata,
9
rftai
V
'«
'7
M»
Singa pygmaea, Srnid. Epeira anthracina, Bl.

sanguinea, C
Koch. Epeira Herii, Bl.
albovittata, TFestr. Epeira calva, Bl.
Gen. Cercidia, Thor. = Epeira, BL, ad partem.

Cercidia prominens, Westr. Epeira bella, Meade
Gen. ZiLLA, G. Koch, = Epeira, Bl., ad partem.
Zilla x-notata, Clerch. Epeira similis, Bl.
atrica, 0. Koch. Epeira calophylla, Bl.
Gen. Epeira, TFalck., Thor. = Epeira, Bl., ad partem.

Epeira cucurbitina, Clerch. •
adianta, WalcTc.
ceropegia, Walch
Qlsmej Walck. Epeira lutea, ^Z.
dioidea, WalcJc. E. albimacula, Bl.
diademata, Clerch. E. diadema, Bl.
•
scalaris, Walch.
angulata, Clerch.
arbnstorum, C. Koch. E. bicornis, Bl
agalena, Walch.
cornuta, Clerch. E. apoclisa, Bl.
patagiata, Clerch.
sclopetaria, Clerch. E. sericata, BL
quadrata, Clerch.
umbratica, Clerch.
acalypba, Walch.
solers, Walch.
Yonngii, Camhr.
signata, Bl.
ornata, Bl.
Paul. ULOBOEIDES.
Gen. TJloborus, Latr. = Veleda, Bl.
Uloborus Walckenaerius, Latr. Veleda lineata, Bl
M
Gen. Hyptiotes, Walch. = Mithras, Bl.

Hyptiotes paradoxus, C. Koch.
Fum. THOMISIBES.
Gen. Thomisus, Walch., Âor.^Thomisus, Bl, ad partem.
Thomisus onustus, Walch. T. abbreviatus, Bl.
Gen. MisuMENAj X«<r.=Thomisiis, Bl., ad partem.
Misumcna vatia, Clerch. Thomisus eitreusi BL
truncata, Pall. Thomisus horridus, Fahr., Camhr
Gen. DiÂ, 2%or.=Thomisus, BL, ad partem.

Disea dorsata, Fabr. Thomisus floricolens, £1
? f ormosa, SI.
Gen. Xysticus, C. Koch. = Thomisus, -S/., ad partem

Xysticus cristatus, Clerch.
- viaticus, G. Koch, Cambr.
pini, JEaJin. Thomisus audax, Bl
cinereus, Bl., sp. inc.
-
lanio, 0. Koch, Cambr.
t
sabulosuSj Sahn.
breyipes, Bl., sp. inc.
lynceus, Latr. T. atomarius, Bl.
luctuosusj Bl.
morio, C. Koch.
Cambridgii, Bl.
Gloveri, Bl.
erraticus, Bl.
Thomisus Westwoodii, Cambr.
ulmi, Eahn.
bifasciatus, C. Koch. . -yn h
X impavidus, Thor. T. Cambndgu, Cambr
luctator, C. Koch.
Thomisus incertus, Bl.
praticola, G. Koch.
claveatus, Walch.
- sanctuarius, Cambr.
trux, Bl.
T. versutus, Bl.
atomarius, Banz.
pallidus, Bl.
horticola, a Koch. T.
simplex, Cmtbr.
= PhHodromus, Bl., ad partem.
Gen. Philodeomtjs,
nr.inh Thor
Walck., I nor. - xu
aureolus, Clerck.
jralcJc.
cespiticolus,
pr^datus, Cambr.
Clarkii, Bl.
variatus, BL
mistus, BL
elegans J5/^
^^^^^^
m., ad par
Thanatus, C
r Koch
Kocti. ^ Ymdxomus,
^
Gen.
Walclc.
Thanatus oblon-us,
hirsutus, Cambr.
I
Gen. MiCEOMMATA, Latr. = Sparassus, Bl.

Micrommata virescens, Clerch. S. smaragdulus, Bl.^ -f S. ornatus,
Bl., var.
Earn. LYCOSIDES.
Gen. OcYALE, /S'^??. =Dolomedes, Bl.y adiârtem.
Ocyale mirabilis, Clerch.
Gen. DoLOMEDES, iyfi^^n=Dolomedes, Bl.^ ad 'partem.

Dolomedes fimbriatus, Clerch. D. fimbriatus, 'Bl. D. ornatus, Bl,
var. jun.
Gen. PiRATA, Sund.=LjGO^Q,t Bl., ad partem.

Pirata hygrophilus, Thor. L. piscatoria, Bl
piscatoria, Clerch. L. De Greyii, Camhr.
piraticus, Clerch. L. piratica, Bl
latitans, Bl.
leopardus, Sund. L. cambrica, Bl.

Gen. Trochosa, C. Koch.=Ljcosa, Bl, ad partem
Trochosa biunguiculataj Camhr.
cinerea, T'abr. L. allodroma, Bl.
— picta, Bahn,
— ruricola, Be Geer L. campestris, Bl
— terricola, Thor. L. agretyca, Bl
Gen. Lycosa, Latr Lycosa, Bl, ad partem.
Lycosa amentata, Clerch. L. saccata, Bl
i.^
agricola, Thor. L. fluviatilis, Bl

Traillii, Camhr.
Parrenii, Camhr.
lugubris, Walch.
pullata, Clerch. L. obscura, Bl
nigriceps, Thor. L. congener, Camh
herbiffrada. Bl
palustris, lAnn. L. exigua, Bl
monticola, Clerch.
Gen. Tarentula. ûnd Lycosa, Bl, ad partem
Tai-entula miniata, C. Koch. L. nivalis, Camhr. L. miniata, Id
pulverulenta, Clerch. L. rapax, Bl
cuneata, Clerch. L. armillata, Camhr.
andrenivora,
)ra, Walch.
fabrilis, Clerch
Pam. SPHASIDES
Gen. OxTOPEs, Latr Sphasus, Bl
Oxyopes lineatus, Latr.
I
BY THE REV. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. !
333
Fam. SALTICIDES.
Gen. Epiblemum, Senfz,=GALj.mmETiA, C. ZbcA. = Salticus, Bl, ad partem,
Epiblemum scenicum, Clerch Salticus histrionicus, C. Koch, Cambr.
S. scenicug, JB/., saltern adjârtem,
cingulatum, Tcmz. Salticus scenicus, C. Koch Cambr., et Bl.. ad

partem, P
affinitatum, Cambr. S. affinitatus, Cambr.
Gen. Heliophanus, C. Koch. = Salticus, Bl, ad partem. i:
Helioplianus cupreus, Walch, I
— expers, Cambr.
— flavipes, C. Koch, Cambr.
Gen. Ballus, C. Koch. = Salticus^ BL^ ad partem.

<
Ballus depressus, TFalck. Salticus obscurus, Bl.
Gen. Maepessa, C. JEbc^. = Salticus, BL, ad partem.

Marpessa muscosa, ClercL Salticus tardigradus, Bl.
I
1
—— Blackwallii, Clark.
-
X
1
r
nigrolimbata, Cambr. S. nigrolimbatus, Id.
Gen. EuoPHRYS, C. Koch. = Salticus, Bl, ad partem.

Euoplirys frontalis, Walck.
promptus, Bl. .-•
reticulatus, Bl.
sequipes, Cambr
I
Salticus coccociliatus, Cambr.
petrensis, C. Koch.
Gen. Phii^tjs, C. Koch. = Salticus, Bl, ad partem.

sanguinolentus, Idnn., Cambr.
Phileeus cbrysops, Poda. S.
Bl, ad partem.
Gen. Attvs, Tralck.=Salticus, , , ^ , „
Bl S. tercbratus, Cambr. S. pra
S. sparsus,
Attus pubescens, Fabr.
tincola, Id.
caricis, TFestr.
notatus, Bl.
Jenynsii, Bl
gracilis, Bl, sp. inc.
S. distinctus,
Bl
erraticus, mick.
Bl, sp. inc.
xanthogramma,
S. coronatus,
Bl
falcatus, ClercL
Begeer ?, Cambr.
grossipes,
citus, Cambr. r
C. Koch, Cambr.
floricola, r,'
ad partem.
Gen. mrKOPS, Thor. = Salticus, Bl,
iElurops fasciatus,
â^w.
334 SYSTEMATIC LIST OF BRITISH SPIDERS.
Gen. YujE^vs, Sim. =BdltiGus, J^L, ad ^partem.

-
Yllenus V- insignitus, Clerch. S. quinquepartitus, TFalck., Cambr.

^ saltator, Cambr. ^ Sim. S. floricola, BL
Gen. Salticus, Latr. = Salticus, Bl., ad partem.
Salticus formicarius, TFalck.
I r
Summary of Genera and Species of Spiders of G-reat Britain and Ireland.

Genera. Species Genera, Species
!• Atypus 2 40. Neriene ..-....». 76
2. Oonops 1 41. Walckenaera 55
3. SchcEnobates 1 43. Pachygnatha 3
4. Dysdera , . • 2 43. Tapinopa 1
5. Harpactes 1 44. Linjphia. . 66
6. Segestria 2 45. Ero 1
7. Micaria 1 46. Meta 3
8- Drassus .......... 9 47. Tetragnatha 1
9. Gnapliosa 2 48. Cyrtopliora 1
10. Prosthesima . 4 49. Singa 4
11. Clubiona 15 50. Cercidia 1
12. Chiracanthium 4 51. Zilla .2
13. Anyphrena . . . 1 53. Epeira 20
14. Agroeca .2 53. Uloborus 1
15. Liocranum 4 54. Hyptiotes 1
16. Hccaerge . 2 55. Thomisus 1
17. Phrurolithus 1 56. Misumena 2
18. Ei'csus 1 57. Diaea 2
19. Dictyna 5 58. Xysticus 23
20. Argyroneta - 1 59. Philodromus .10
21. Amaurobius ........ 3 60. Thanatus 2
22. Lcthia
23. Coelotes
3 61. Micrommata ........ 1
3 63. Ocyale . . 1
24. Agelena ^3 63. Dolomedes 1
25. Tegenaria .
5 64. Pirata 5
26. Textrix
2 65. Trochosa . , 5
27. Crypboeca
. 1 66. Lycosa 10
28. Hahnia 3 ^':t. Tarentula 5
29. Scytodcs
I 68. Oxyopes 1
30. Pholcus .
1 69. Epiblemum 3
31. Episiiius
32. Pholcomma
.
I 70. Heliophanus ........ ^
1 71. BaUus 1
33. Theridion
ig 72. Marpessa 3
31. Nesticus
1 73. Euophrys 5
35. Phyllonethis
2 74. PMlaeus 1
36. Dipoena
1 75. Attus. 11
••.,...,.
. .
37. Stcatoda
^ 6 1^, ^lurops . . . 1
38. Euryopis
4 11. Yllenus 2
39. Asagcna
1 78. Salticus ,
J
Total, 78 Genera; 457 Species.

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VII. Bevislon of the Suborder Mimosese. By George Bentham, Esq

F.Jl,S,
*
(Plates LXYI.-LXX.)
Bead June 18th, 1874.
I
HAVE witliin the last few years had occasion to lay before the Society some observa-
tions on two groups of plants which, however most respects, arc both of them
different in
remarkably distinct in their circumscription, and as constantly uniform in those clia-
racters which it has been the custom to resârd as the most essential. To the two micrht.
indeed, have been assigned equal grades in the hierarchy of the Natural System, ^^Tre it
not for the enormous disproj)ortion in the number of their species. Upon abstract prin-
ciples. Cassia and CompositcB might equally well be treated as good genera ; both arc per-
fectly isolated; the pistil and seeds are uniform in each; the variations in the corolla are
scarcelymore marked in the one than in the other the androecium and fruit present
;
perhaps more important diversities in Cassia than in Compositse but Cassia has only :
350 species, whilst Composita^ number 10,000. Cassia has therefore been universally
retained as a single one, or at most only three genera, whilst Compositse are variously
divided into from 750 to 1200 genera. I have now to offer a few remarks on a third
group, almost as definite in circumscription, and intermediate, as it were, between the two
as to uniformity and numbers. The 1200 Mimosese are as uniform in their pistil as the
350 Cassias and 10,000 Compositse ; the corolla is more uniform than in either ; the
androecium and fruit are, as in Cassia^ much more varied than in Compositaj. Like
Cassia, the MimoscEe were established by Linnaeus as a single genus ; and perhaps, if
Composita3 had not been so largely extratropical, and consequently presented .to his
observation in considerable numbers, if he had only known that proportion of tropical
forms which he possessed of the two other groups, he would probably have considered
three genera or, on the other hand, had not his

them also as forming only one or ;
and meagre, or fragmentary, he would probably,

specimens of Mimose* been so very few
them into at least three genera. At the present day Cassia,
from the first, have divided
to the shrubby or arborescent plant-form and tropical
almost restricted constitutionally
prospering as a race in all stations, has remained within
elimate, and even there not
numbers, and is stiU regarded as a smgle genus, divisible mto
manageable limits as to
which, with one great southern exception, have
three marked sections. Mimose*,
geographically, withm nearly the same limits as
remained constitutionally, as weU
as
times as many species, and are therefore admitted as
Cassia, have, however, nearly four
marked tribes and some twenty to thirty genera and
a suborder, divisible into three ;
herbaceous or low shrubby plant-form flouxishmg espe-

Composite with their prevalent
shunning only low tropical fores lands, have
mountain climes,
ciaUy in ex tratropical or
species of Cassia, and have accordingly been sub-
nearl cuniy times the number of
aii;^ thirty Liiuc
genera, otten founded
lounatu on
u characters which Cassia and m
divided into innumerable
2 T
VOL. XXX.
:
336 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE.
Mimosese would scarcely "be considered specific —a disproportionate treatment prol)ably

aggravated by the circumstance of the small number of botanists who have access to good
working-materials in Cassia and Mimoseae, whilst every beginner has Compositge at hand
to exercise his ingenuity in discovering minute differences in the pappus, the bracts, and
other reduced organs, inindumentums or in stigmatic papillae.
After Linnaeus, the subdivision of his Mimosa into several distinct genera was first
proposed by Willdenow, as based chiefly on the fruit ; and his views have been generally
followed out. Poiret, in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia, adopted his genera as sub-
genera of Mimosa, which he still retained in its substantive collective character. Des-
fontaines, in the third edition of the Catalogue of the Paris Garden, united most of
Willdenow's genera with Acacia. De Candolle, in 1825, with materials but little better
than those which Willdenow had at his disposal, and in the absence of specimens of a
large proportion of that author's species, reinstated his genera, adding a few exceptional
species as monotypic or small genera. Martins, working on a limited number of Brasi-
lian species, without any general survey of the group, proposed several additional genera
founded upon Willdenow's principles ; and when, in 1842, I undertook the publication
of the rich collections, chiefly American, of the Berlin, the Hookerian, my own, and a
few other herbaria, I found the limits and circumscriptions of the genera so confused and
vague, that I thought it necessary to remodel them, ah initio, upon principles somewhat
differentfrom those which had till then prevailed, giving especially a first rank to cha-
racters derived from the androecium, which had been in a great measure disregarded.
Twenty-seven years have now elapsed since I completed a series of Synopses in Hooker's
Journals ; and my genera appear to have been favourably received by the gen erality of
botanists, with the exception, however, of Grisebach, who, misled sometimes by mis-
matched specimens, or by misunderstanding some of the characters I had given, has
reverted to the preeminence of carpological over staminal characters. Here and there
also individual botanists who have met with pods apparently different from those of
their congeners, have proposed monotypic genera, upon grounds which appear to me
insuflScient. On the other hand, I have within these twenty years had the opportunity
of inspecting a large number of typical species in the herbaria of Paris, Berlin, Vienna,
Munich, Geneva, and Turin, and, on the occasion of working up the suborder for the
Flora Brasiliensis, found reason to modify several of the details of my former Synopsis,
to confirm a few of the genera about which I had some doubts, to give greater precision
to the characters of others by the transfer of a few species to which, from insufficient
specimens, I had assigned a wrong place, and especially to clear up a large number of
doubtful synonyms. I have therefore thought the following general revision, with
short characters for the whole of the species, might not future inves-
be unserviceable to
tigators, to whom I must now leave the task of pre-
dissipating the obscurity which still
vails over a considerable number of them. I would also commence by a few observations
on the generic characters I have adopted, and on
geographical distribution.
The prunary importance I attached to the staminal have stood
character appears to
the test of subsequent experience.
No ambiguous species have presented themselves to
mvalidato the delimitation of the three
great groups, nearly equal in point of numbers
I
(
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 337
EumimosecB, with definite stamens; Acaciece, or the genus Acacia, with indefinite
stamens, free or very shortly and irregularly united at the hase in the centre of the
flower ; and Ingece, with indefinite stamens united, at least at the base, in a tube sur-
rounding the pistil. Grisebach, it is true (El. Brit. W. Ind. 220), rejects the cbaracter
because "decandrous species still exist among Bentham's Acacice and CalliandrcB, e. g.
A, tamarmdifolia, W., and 0. moUissima, Benth." But, as to one of them, he has mis-
matched the flowers of Mimosa with the fruiting specimens of the true Acacia tamarindi-
folia, which has always above 50 stamens ; and Calliandra moUissima^ although figured
by Kunth as having 10 stamens, appeared to me them few, indeed, but
to have variable
in number and they are accordingly described

; by Kunth as being about (not
exactly)
10 they
; are also monadelphous at the base, not free as in the truly dccand
A secondary character, however, by which I had separated Adcnanthercaj from Eumi-
mose^, the presence of a glandular appendage to the anthers, has failed in a few instances.
i
The genera Farlcia, Piptadenia, and Frosopis, in which the anthers arc usually pro-
i
vided with that appendage, have each of them one or two species in which it is wholly
wanting, even in the unexpanded flower and Fesmanthus,;

where it is usually deficient,
i
with a minute gland sometimes, if not always, present. Xylia

has a Madagascar species
also, which I had inadvertently placed among the eglandular genera, has, on the con-
trary, very prominent glands to the anthers.

as a new generic character, apparently absolute,
I have now been able to introduce
the Eumimose^ into two subordinate groups, but
and especially useful for distributing
presence or absence of albumen in the seeds. I was,
which I had formerly neglected, the
Yogel (Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. part ii. 68) had a^cer-
indeed, aware that Schleiden and
only of Mimoseae but as they also sta ed
tained the existence of albumen in some seeds ;
respect in the same genus, as I had not then the

that they found no constancy in this
in a sufficient number of cases and as I was
opportu4y circumstance
of verifying the
^ such Folygala, I did
^^ genera, as
_
of the variability
notleeljuliifielin making any
this respect
use of it
in
in
some
my
natural
generic characters I
' now find,
'
from the ^
of seeds, that the albumen is^
^^^--'1^1^^'
examination of a large number Willde
variable in sorne
my synopsis, although
in each j_.nu«, .« modified in
inconstancy, three specics of
genera. 'Schldden
Schleiden cites, as examples
exampit.=> of
u. ^^^^^^^ * ^^^^^^
„,u,„^ :^ present,
riresont wnusi
whilst in th
in
J
?7 r •
„^;i 4 Bertenana
-Rprtpriana, in which albumen is
. A.
\
thocarpa, A, farnesiana , and
nâjority of species the seeds are
Mmosa, and
exalbu—
not
But of
an Acac
those three
^^^^ J^, ^
the
/
first is, in
,„^
it
^
/;
stamens and otlier characters, a /
Acacia \ but I
examined half
localities, and found
than in most
ovoid shape, not at «" A^"^"^^ layer of it is somewhat cartila-
i V^ Jl'';;' intermediate
inner or, ra
GummifertB, and the ,
Mimoaa but it is continuous,
albumen of ;
ginous, haying almost the appe^^""^ " ,

^^^ tapering towards the margins of the
and of equal thickness t''-"^^;;'^''^;;",^; lining as from the outer coating of
wen uum i,,er
inseparable as
i
cotyledons, and is ^ ^ ^
1
i
.
^
1
>
338 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEzE.
the testa, and remains so after soaking for days ; whilst the true albumen of Mimosa is
quite detached from the testa, and after soaking for a day or two resolves itself into a
transparent jelly. In Acacia Berteriana, which proves to be identical with my I*ithe-
colobitim fragrans, belonging to an exalbuminous group, I do find within the testa, on

each side of the embryo, a small quantity of an almost gelatinous substance, the origin .
of which remains to be ascertained.

r
It is certainly different in many respects both from
F
the undoubted albumen of Mimosa, Leuccena, and their allies, and from the above-men-
tioned inner coatmg of Acacia farnesiana ; but whether it is an exudation from the inner
seed-coating, or a real albumen, as supposed by Schleiden, remains doubtful. I find no
trace of it in the seeds of the nearest aUied species, Pithecolohimn poly cepJialum
The universally acknowledged importance of carpological characters in the general
classification of phenogamous plants has induced the majority of botanists to rely mainly
upon them for the detailed subdivision of Mimosese, with results above alluded to as
being far from satisfactory. There are species of Fiptadenia, of AcacicB {Vulgares), and
of Albizziaj of which the pods can scarcely be distinguished from each other, whilst in
flowers and all other characters these Fiptadenim are much more nearly aUied to Ade-
nanthera or Eritada, the Acaclce (fulgares) to Acacice {GummifercB), and the AlUzzice
to Fithecolobium, all with very different fruits and the great diversities in the pods of
;
some of the most natural groups, such as Acacia {JPhyllodinecs), Acacia (Gummifera),
Inga, Mimosa, &c., may be seen by a glance at Plates LXVI. to LXX. The modifications
of the pod arc, indeed, rarely structural, more frequently limited to outward form, con-
sistency, or degree of dehiscence, characters resulting from diversity
of development
dui.„_ enlargement as they approach Maturity, affording no indication at or immediately
after the period of fecundation ; as, however, in
some instances the characters derivable
from the pod have acquired so great a degree of constancy as to be really available for
the separation of more or less natural groups, may
it be useful to pass in review such of
these differences as have been, or may be, made use of with more or less of advantage.
The consistency of the pod, that is of the pericarp, thin and papery, thicker and
coriaceous, woody, thick and spongy, or fleshy
and succulent, has lost much of its sup-
posed value, as almost aU the varieties are of
observable in one or two species, at least,
the natural and well-defined genus Acacia-,
the fleshy or succulent pericarp upon which
the genus Inga was originally founded,
entailed the including in it many species which
are more naturally distributed in.
the genera Farkia, Strypknodetidron, Fithecolobium,
and even Acacia, and is by no means constant
in Inga itself, the pod of several species
of the sections Leptinga and
Bourgonia being apparently dry and coriaceous ; the
succulent pod, however, is nearly general pre-
in Inga, Farkia, and Stryplmodendron,
Fithecolobi
very rare in Acacia, CalUandra, and Fiptadenia, and
observed in Albizzla, Mimosa, Leuccena,
or perhaps in any genus with albuminous seeds
except Stryphuodendron.
With regard to dehiscence, or the seiâration of the two valves at maturity, the
absolute difference between the dehiscent
and nondehiscent species is not very defined.
Generally indehiscent in Inga, usuaUy,
but by no means always, dehiscent in Acacia,
Fiptadenia^ and Albizzia, very always
variable in Fithecolobium, the pod is, I believe, -"
'

r
I
dehiscent in Calliandra, and in all the genera with albuminous seeds. The mode of
dehiscence gives sometimes rather more available generic characters; for it appears
to depend rather more upon internal structure. The obliquely elastic woody pods of
Te7itaclethra have been commented on by Oliver (Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 415). The
elasticdehiscence of OalUandra neatly characterizes a large group which was at first
_
thought to be geographical as well as natural, having been supposed to be strictly limited

L
to the warmer regions of Ajnerica. Three or four species are now known to exist in
tropical Asia ; these, however, are all very distinct and but little-varying species, and all
of very limited area,and may be set down as in all probability old races in the course
of extinction, whilst the American races appear to be in the full vigour of life, mul-
tiplying, varying and spreading, with specific limits often as yet very ill-defined and in ;
future ages it may be expected that CaUlandra, with its elastically revolutc pod-valves
and other characters, may become a more and more distinctly natural as well as
geographical genus. A similar dehiscence, but accompanied l)y very difrcreut fioral
characters, is observable also in three species of Acacia (A. nigricans, A. ohsctira and
A. strigosa), forming a small distinct group, with a very limited range, in the neigh-
bourhood of King Greorge's Sound, in South-west Australia, and in two or throe northern
species of the phyllodineous group, all of them apparently very local ; the character is
otherwise, as far as known, strictly confined to the Calliandrce of the true American
r
type.
margins of the two valves, persistent after the remainder
The closely united nerve-like
replum, is eminently characteristic of the genera
has fallen away leaving a so-called
Bntada, Mimosa (including Schrankia) and Zysiloma, and is not, as far as I am aware,
therefore, perhaps the most important cha-
to be met with in any other genus. It is,
and is almost always well marked when the pod can be

racter derivable from the fruit,
two of the small thick-fruited speci.^
observed at or near maturity. It is only in one or
appear sometimes to split with the valves at the apex of the

of Mimosa that the margins "-
which I have transferred with som<;
pod; and m
Acacia Guachapelle, H., B. et K.,
me to remam quite consohdated on
margin has appeared to
hesitation to Lysiloma, this
^1 \ . J ^^ +1.0 T^^f1 but to
Dui lu bpnu
split With the valves on the inner ventral
. 1
the exterior or dorsal edge of the poa, ^. - •
,. r *i
however, further :nvcst:sation from perfectly npe
or semixnferous edge. This requires,
The plant is. moreover an exceptzoaal oue.
fruits, which have not been observed.
.'
„ ^ M '^x. +1 « i.nT.,'f jiTifl
ana nowtrs
flowers u
of the more onstern tropical American
a native of Guayaquil, with the habit
^ ..,
with very
,.,,.,
,.#
,.., , ,. ....
JPlthecolobium Saman, and
L^
...1 of_.f +T..
the Asiatic
Asiatic JJJjizzia Lehbech both dif-
ferent pods.
^ the whole pod or of its dccidtious
T>ia o^fiViilflfA vjilvfts —that is, the separauuu
cprâration either
cit of x
arueies
aistmci articles
TYiituritv into distinct by
ny a iransverse
valves .dthiu the persistent
^^-f^^'^^X^ ^ oharLr
i.^+«rôr.
non oeweeuôuu
division between each
M.Ac.'.r.^ AnnTi
smgle species
-——
two
f,wo
trom
foom a
secds,
all
has often oeen oivrn u« „„ ,t,olute
others,
sufficient
however closely alUed in all other

parate geneneaUy
-ost maA^ th m ^^
^
«
,
This articulation is y^^
respects. J^^^^ ^^^^^^
^^
is by no means constant e.her in ft -^
jUs^^^^ ';^f^„,„^,i^t, ^^^^ U wholly disapVi
into which It can be JIMuîu Acantko.
;,„,„,,„ j:,iie«los. or of
species eiuier ui x>
and even in some single
340 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ '\^
carpa it appears to be vaguely defined or variable, depending perhaps in some measure (
on soil and weather. The articulation is less decided in the thick fleshy or hard pods of
(
a few species of Fithecolobmm, both from the Old and the New World, and of Acacia
concinna, and in the flat pod of Alhizzia stipulafa, several of which species have been
proposed as genera solely on account of this articulation. In Entada and JPlathymenia
it is limited to the endocarp, from which the valves fall away with the margin in Flat-
hymenia, usually without it in JEntada.
The twisting of the valves after dehiscence of many species of Fifhecolobium and of
the common Adenantheray the development of a spongy or pithlike endocarp of Frosopis,
the central longitudinal wings or angles on the valves of Tetrapleura and Gagnebina, the
woody texture of the valves of Xylia, are all very secondary characters, more or less
distinctly exemplified in scattered species of the very natural genus Acacia.
Of the nature and origin of the " pulp "
which has been supposed to characterize the
pods of Inga^ Fithecolobium, Frosopis, StrypJinodendroUy BichrostachySy Acacia farne-
siana, &c., I can find no good account and it is very difficult to form an opinion from
;
dried specimens. In most cases it appears to be a development of, or an exudation

from, the endocarp or inner layer of the substance of the pericarp ; in Inga it is described
as a " pulpy arillus," which the dried fruits do not enable me to verify. In most,
perhaps in all, species of the section Unguis- cati of FithecoloUum, the funicle is dilated
into a fleshy arillus, often half enveloping the seed, but of a very different aspect from
that of the remains of dried pulp often adhering to the seeds of Inga, That any real
development of the funicle, however constant in the above-mentioned section of Fithe-
colobiim, is not generally of much beyond specific importance in Mimosese, is evidenced
by the extraordinary variety in the forms of the funicle in the Australian Acacice, noted
in the specific descriptions in my Elora Australiensis.
In considering the systematic value of the characters by which the different Mimosese
are to be distinguished, it is further necessary to take into account how far they may
have been affected by geographical distribution. In this respect I need not here refer to
such plant-forms as the arborescent, the herbaceous, the scandent and others, in respect
of which the Mimosese afford no data different from
those derived from plants generally,
and which have been worked out by Grisebach, in as far as dependent on external
physical conditions only but there are a few others which may require a short mention,
;
as resulting in some measure from genealogy,

acting independently of or in combination
with physical and other causes.
The phyllodineous development of the common petiole of the leaves, with a total
arrest of the pmnse and leaflets in aU but
the seedling and first foUowing leaves, is an
essentially AustraHan character, and yet cannot
well be attributed to physical influences.
It extends equally over the whole territory
in its varied climates, spreading sparingly to
the islands of the Pacific, but is limited in
the Mimeses of these regions to the single
genus Acacia. It is exemplified, however, in
no less than 270 Australian species. There
are no traces of the tendency in
Asia or in Africa. In South America it reappears in a
slight degree,
but affecting a different group of the suborder. of
Two Brasilian species
IBmosa and an extratropical one of Frosopis,
as also, if I was correct in the deter-
MR MIMOSEiE. 341
mination of a single small specimen in the Berlin Herbarium, a San-Domingo species

of
Mimosa, have the leaves reduced to single phyllodia. No peculiar connexion of the
phyllodia with any local circumstances has been observed.
The simply instead of doubly pinnate foliage is, in the suborder, exclusively American,
and definitely characterizes a large genus {Inga including Affonsea), without any trace
of it in any other genus of American Mimosese, nor even in the nearest allied of Asiatic
forms, no passage from the one to the other either in the same species as in Gleditschia,
Ceratonia * or Moldenhauera, or in the different species of one genus as in Ccesalpinia^
thus raising the character to the rank of a good generic one.
The general tendency of frutescent plants in stony deserts to degenerate into spincscent
scrubby almost leafless shrubs, is exemplified also in a few Mimoscrc, such as some
Acacice in AustraKa, Dichrostachys in Africa, Prosopis and Mimosa in extratropical
South America, but without exhibiting any thing of a genetic character. The develop-
ment, however, of prickles and of spinescent stipules appears to be influenced by grnrn-
logical as much as by physical causes. The prickles (aculei), wliotbcr scattered or in-
frastipular, are characteristic of groups of Fiptadenia, Mimosa (including SchranJda)
and AcaciaJ variously dispersed over America, Asia, and Africa, but have never found
their way into Australia, and are unknown in all other genera of Mimoseaj. When
hooked, they are particularly developed in scandent species, which they aid in sup-
porting ; but there are scandent species in other genera which entirely dispense with
their aid.
There are three east-tropical Asiatic species of Alblzzia {A. Millettiiy A. rufa, and
A. pedicellata), a genus otherwise absolutely without thorns or prickles, in which, how-

ever, a peculiar hooked appendage is often developed under the leaf, which hardens into
a woody hook, and appears to partake more of the nature of a thorn than of an epidermal
any more
relation todeveloped organ in any other
prickle, although its position bears no
prickles of a few species of Mexican or of African Acacia are,
Mimosea, the infrafoliar
strictly epidermal. The species bearing these hooks are not
like the infrastipular ones,
sometimes noted as arborescent no^ such hooks are known
reported as climbers, and are ;
in any other Mimosea ; and the circumstances favouring their mamtenance these very m
China, Malacca, and Java, are as yet entirely
few species, only observed in South
""tpTnrcent stipules are met with in various groups, especially in the W'^ Gnmmifer^
in a very few Callândra^ and mkecol^ha, never
^JFulcnell<B. and a few Fhyllodme<,.
smaller genera, and as far as has been obse. v^ are
in Mimosa, AMzzia, Inga, nor in the
physical conaions. These spmescent stipules the A..c^^ m
^
always independent of
^ , ,, « \ ^„- «l Amprica Africa, or Asia, offer the curious pheco-
Gmnmifer^, whether from
f"?
"T^^;
j^'„f t^, p^,, or sometimes of nearly aU
menon of an erfraordmary
of them, assuming the aspect f
of f
"P-^'^/^X
hor^ ^f
-«^^^^.„„
^Z Im
ike enlargements are most
^, eoUector.°«m he relied on.
general in dry hot regions; hut as fa^jte"^
^^^^ forest-regions of
many of the ^V^^^^^^
never ^^.^^
appt^ the .hole of the stipules .fly one
tropical America. They
Eenfe K. Accad. Sc. Kapl- 18"". ""*
,o,4.M.rch.
* See Pasquale,
j
342 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^
bush/ varying in degree of development the al pairs of stipules of the same
branch, but affecting special forms and tinges of colour, from an ivory-white to a livid
purple, for each species. They are generally hollow, with a small opening in one horn of
each pair leading to the cavity, which continuous throughout, and, in America at
is
least, are usually, like the swellings at the base of the leaves of some South American
Melastomacese, in the stems of some South American Labiatae, or Malayan Eubiacese,
&c., tenanted by colonies of stinging ants, much to the annoyance of collectors. Por
i
careful observations as well as for speculations on the supposed relation of these abnormal
developments to the preservation of the species as well as to the welfare of their tenants,
I may refer to Belt's most interesting '
Naturalist in Nicaragua,' p. 218
J-
I am not
been paid to them in the Indian peninsula
of any special attention having
Arabia, or North-east Africa, where these product abound: nor we informed 1
even whether they are there, as in America, occupied by ants. I know of no instance
where any similar enlargement takes place in the spinescent stipules of the Australian
L
Acacice of the I^hyllodinecB or of the 'Pulcliellce groups, nor in those o^ F if hecolobium,
section Zfnguis-cati, or of
-
CalUandra colletloides, C. geminata, &c. Very much, there-
- r
^^ ^^ I
fore,, has yet to be observed before we can be said to be well acquainted with the history
of these product all that can be stated generally is, that they appear to be
the combined result of hereditary constitution, of soil and climate, and of the working
of ants. What share each cause has had in the general effect remains to be as-
certained.
The geographical dispersion of the more essential differences in character, such as the
limited and indefinite number of stamens, the glanduliferous and eglandular anthers, the
agglomeration and freedom of the pollen-grains, the albuminous and exalbuminous seeds,
and even the succulent and dry, as well as the articulate and inarticulate pods, would
ttmd to confirm that conclusion of the antiquity of these differences which we might
derive from the consideration of their systematic importance, i. e. of their stability and
definitcness ; and that antiquity must have been remote enough for the differentiation
to have taken place during a period previous to the geographical disruption of the race
of Mimoseae consequent on the change from a former to the present physical and
geological configuration of the earth's surfacePor of all the above pairs of distinctive
characters both types have been developed in the Old World as well as in the Am
forms, and not very differently We only observe generally that definite stamens
albuminous seeds, and succulent articulate and indehiscent pods have been more favoured
in the New than in the Old World, and are unknown
in races of Australian birth
except in a very few belonging to the north-eastern region and
forming part of the
Indo-Australian rather than of the strictly Australian flora
; whilst the Old- World
.
developments have been chiefly in the direction of the characters

more or less specially
distinctive of or connected with the genus Acacia,
TJpon the principles commented upon in the foregoing
notes, the Mimoseae are con-
veniently divided for systematic purposes into
the 29 genera, forming 3 tribes, as detailed
m the latter portion of the present paper ; but in considering, as I shall now proceed to
do, their genealogy and geographical distribution, more natural grades of subordination
I
t
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 343

'J
may "be exemplified by distributing them into 7 tribes or collective genera, and 46 genera
subgenera
Mimosese proper. 2 species,
er to Mimoseae proper. 2 sub-
genera, 16 species.
3. PiPTADENiE*. Definite stamens. No albumen. 7 genera or subgenera, 53 species.
4. Adenantherje. Definite stamens. Albuminous seeds. Anthers usually glandu ferons. Pod
usually succulent, spongy, or woody. 9 genera or subgenera, 39 species.
EuMiMOSEiE. Definite stamens. Albuminous seeds. Anthers usua glands
5.
dry, thin or coriaceous. 6 genera or subgenera, 312 species.
6. Acacia. Indefinite stamens, all free, or the central ones united at the base. No albumen. 6 sub-
genera^ 429 species,

Inge J!. Indefinite monadelphous stamens. No albumen. 15 genera or subgenera, 408 species.
r.
of the Mimosea) thus constituted, the first point

In the inrestigation of the history
of great antiquity in their case than in
that strides us is that we have fewer indications-
the C lesalpiniea; (to which Cmmi hclongs). We have hut

that of the Composite! or of
isolated genetically, none of those remark-
few well-marked species, of donhtful affinity,
long The gcnencor seotional

geographical isolation.
able insular forms indicative of
separated are neither numerous nor vaned and the
races common to regions now widely ;
New and the Old World are remarkably few

common or representative species in the
This may be in some measure owing to the tropical character of t]>e suborder If - " ^'
it he
\ n .
i.„f rpfriff eratiou
„T.{,r1nnl reirigeiciu and of restoration ot heat nave
.
periods of
-,
great, but gradual,

4.
true that lonff

° i«„^„i^êf
11 and A 4-i.n+ in cnph
sucn a decree
QCj^ree as
aa at one time to have almost
our globe, that to fl
^.
each other on
followed
.11^ o^^+TioT. fn have melted down arctic
,
glaciers,
. ,
each
.
m
extinguished tropical heat, or at another to 1^^^«
4r
^f^^^^^._ ^^ .^ J^^
were,
.,
the gradual
..
region, and forcing, as it
to
case creeping uu on .xuw.^ from
slowly ...^
..^,,,,1.
^ or cool climate, they would have no such
migration of races that can endure a ^^-P-^^^^^^^^^^^^
on those accus- iuy
effect on plants
extreme
requiring
heat,
more
it
x. no place
-- r-*- oi ici^g ^^^'^^^^^^^ ,, change were
^
atL hand
tomea
toTnfid to uedi. .
j ^ presence in lands now
.
they would simply perish; and

^^"^^
^-™.^^^^^^^
I^ÎZ,,^ explained but i
by the
separated by apparently of an ancient
consmeration of causes
consideration oi cau^.. actually — .^f
operation, m
t^^^^^
oi ^^^^^^
^,,,^t
by the
^^^^^
supposition
.[[
what
..
^^^
now is. ^^^
Hi
. .
-y from it _
relative configuration of land and ;

water very
^^^^.^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^y^^ ^^^^^
this dispersion in the case of ^^^^^^ ^"^
i^^tances of species common to the
severally the known
may best be considered by taking
New and world.

the Old "World ^ vithecolobium duke, Mimosa pudlca
species, suc^^^^^
place a few
.
"We have a the first ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^.^^

i
^^^^ ^^^ ^^^
of whose mtr
Jf. sepiaria, &c., the history in many parts of the
^^^ ^^^ ^^ abundant
authenticaiea,
authenticated, althoug
îvu^ô y
These
modernn and well -^
^^^ ^ ascribed
described as indigenous.
sent by coU
Old World
orld as to be frequently ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^
taciiixy
^^^^
here to show the
ly mentioned
species of the suborder. ^^^ Calliandra portoricenms,
Tipntuma pi^^^^*
Desmanthus virgatm into the Old World,
Leuccena glauca, ./colonists from America
the list of modern
Ichf
might perhaps
r.Pvh.T.« be added to 2 ^
VOL. XXX.
—
344 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.

transmission are not so positive as in the case of the two
altliough the evidences of their
first-mentioned species.
and Old New
World, without any evidence of
The Mimosese really common the
to the
modern transportation, or any reasonable doubt as to their having been established in
believe, only four Bntada scandens, Neptunia oleracea. Mi-

both hemispheres, are, I
mo8a mêrata, and Acacia fame siana.
Entada scandens varies from a trailing shrub to a gigantic climber, well known for
its enormous sabre-like pods. It is widely spread over tropical Asia, and especially
abundant in some parts of tropical Africa, and is also said to be frequent in several of
the "West-Indian Islands, as well as in the Isthmus of Panama and other parts of Central
America, but scarcely extends into South America, except perhaps in a few places along
the northern coast. It is a very distinct though variable race, no other species being
closely allied to it. The genus South

is common
America and
to tropical and south-
eastern Africa the species most

; numerous in the latter continent, and amongst them are
those which, upon the whole, approach the nearest to the U. scandens. It might be con-
jectured, therefore, that this species had its origin either in eastern tropical Africa, or in
that extent of land, now submerged, which many naturalists suppose to have extended
far to the eastward of tropical Africa ; and it may at some time have been carried out to
the West Indies, although no means of transport previous to the discovery of America
have been suggested. The species is sufficiently prevalent near the coasts for its seeds
to find their way and

into the sea the; sea will certainly carry them (possibly with
masses of sea-weed) to great distances. They are occasionally thrown up on the shores
of Britain, and those thus cast up have been made to germinate but this is only one;
of
many instances of drifts having been brought by the gulf-stream from the West Indies
to the North European coasts ; none that I know of are recorded of drifts from Africa
West This wide geographical disseverance of JEntada scandens (of

reaching the Indies.
which Gyrocarpus Jacquini affords another instance) remains to be accounted for.
Neptunia oleracea is an aquatic plant whose floating stems root at the joints, and
spread rapidly in any slow-running tropical river or large piece of fresh water into which
they may have been introduced. It was found abundantly in tropical waters by the
early botanical explorers of South America, as well as of tropical Asia and Africa. The
genus has several species in extratropical North America, in tropigal Asia, and in Aus-
tralia; but these belong severally to three groups, distinct from the N. oleracea \
the
N. plena
only species really nearly allied to it is the terrestrial abundant in South Ame- j
rica, but perhaps, as above mentioned, a colonist only in the Old World, where it is
scarce. We might conclude, therefore, that N. oleracea is a species of South-American

origin, carried over perhaps in comparatively ancient times by some of those agencies
which are known to facilitate the dispersion of aquatic plants, although they have not
yet been fuUy investigated.

a tall
Miniosa asperata is a very common weed, if such a word can be applied to
shrubby plant, over the greater part of South America, where it passes almost gradually
into more than one allied species, and which is also the country of the whole group to
which of
it belongs. It may therefore be concluded with but little hesitation that it is
American origin and yet its wide distribution over tropical Africa and tlie Mascarene
;
islands, where it was found by early explorers in widely different localities, seems to
show that it was already there before the discovery of America, and that in a form or
variety which is precisely one of the commonest in South America. It cannot very
reasonably be included among the remains of some primitive flora from which those
both of Africa and South America have been' derived ; for in that case it would have
followed the example of others which give evidence of such a common origin, and would
have diverged into specially African varieties or representative species. We must
therefore, upon such data as we as yet possess, come to the conclusion that, like the
Nepfunia oleracea, it has been carried over in early days from South America to Africa
human agency, although not enjoying the peculiar facilities for such
independently of
transport exemplified in aquatic plants.
I
The dispersion of Acacia famesiana is more difficult to explain. It is now very
enjoying a tropical or subtropical climate, both in the

abundant in almost all countries
cultivated for the scent of its flowers,
New and the Old World; but it has been so long
cultivation, that it is in east tropical South America, as in
and spreads so readily from
as a colonist only; but yet it is said to have
Asia and Africa, most frequently recognized
every appearance of being reaUy indigenous in the Indian archipelago, and perhaps m
by the early explorers in tropical Austraha Its
tropical Africa; and it was gathered
Western America. It ranges there from Chih to
real home, however, is most probably
and passing not only mto the closely allied
Mexico and Texas, varying considerably,
exclusively American), but also sometmies
species or variety
.... .. A, cavenia (which is
..V. 3 f ^ cr.rv.o of
oi thc A. tovtuosa aud even oi A. macra-
-., ,
scarcely to be distinguished from some torms

'
fnvTYi«!
-i.
^^^^-
but irom
«
,
cantha, both from the same region;
^-Un-iof in +hp
whilst tne Old
uia . World
vvoi it
m
departs
i
little
x,,^,Vnl
» J T- ^ ^r^wTT TiAir
near nllies
allies, none nearer than tne tropical
the common cultivated form, and has no very
with it through the A^p.Vnn
American
Ai- •
4 d' ^\.\n\. Tinwpver
'
however, is only connected
African A. Siebenana, wbich,
r.
''J^J ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ j^^ d from the

''
A. .âcracantna. Acacia farneâna
^^^^^^f^^
be set down as a ^^^^^^,
coioms ^^,
^
,{, Old World, J
data before us, like Mimosa asperata,
i although a very ancient one. .

^ ^j^^ ^ j^^| ^^1,.
tew
if, however, we may be justified m consideiing these
WoHd
^^^^^^
p
^..x^wovc^, now
order Mimoseae,
w.v.v>. -w„ .^^^~- U^r
Wentlcal la t.e New and
^-mriflssable barriers,
t.e^
as
Old
^^^^
casual
i^'eountriei
though
inougu remote
remowj
uow so widely separated by apparently
irom l^,
'"^P^~
„„, to tlie other under
" having passea 1,
„„i„_:„i. f *i,„ „„o +n other,

other as
from we
colonists trom
coiomsts the onexo
one to flip
the
^"^ "^^ now prcvaU, the ease is Tcry
trom t^^^ ^tich
not very different
physical conditions .^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ principles
or nearly
different with representative -^
''"ff
„, ,,i„ed in some of my
Cama and on
I have adopted in my notes on
p^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ .^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^
descendants oi
Addresses, must be set dovi-n as
^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ dissevered regions,
less nôditied in
ages, has become more or ^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^.^ ^^^^^
As to what was common stock,
this
whetner lu
^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
.^^
more or less distmcx

in one of the regions, or ^^ .^^ descendants, or in some land
in any part of the present dissevered <:°" ,„okcn up by subsequent
diflereni pi ^^^_ T,„t
with the
formerly in connexion ^
from scantiness of the data at our
questions which,
..nu2.^ .T,„..«s._these
geological chang are
command, must be in a great measure speculati LJectural, but wliich may yet be
deserving of a passing notice.

Under this head of representative Mimosese in the two hemispheres we may fairly
r
include the following nine :
America. Old World.
Common in North Brazil Pektaclethra macrophylla. Limited range in west

Pentaclethra
tropical Africa, without any Old- World connex-
and Guiana, extending to Central America, and
very closely, with ions.
Dimorphandr
PlPTADEXIA. South tropical and subtropical Piptadenia afkicaka. West tropical Africa, extend-
Brazil and Paraguay, and closely connected with ing perhaps across to the lower Zambesi, but with-
a series of tropical Brazilian species. out any newly allied Old- World species.
[OSA poLTANcisTRA and M. CERAXONIA. Wost ludics Mimosa namata and M. rubicaulis. East India, the
and Central America, and closely connected with former (so near to the American species that one
several species ranging from Brazil to Mexico. variety is scarcely distinguishable from M. polyan-
ctstra) almost limited to the Peninsula, the other
with
Africa
Mascarene islands (including Madagascar).
LEuciENA nrvERsiFouA. Tropicol Mexico, and con- Leuc^ka Forsteri, South Pacific islands, from New
nected with several species from West Tropical Caledonia to Tahiti, without any near Old-World
America. connexions.
West tropical America and Acacia Sieberiaka. Western tropical Africa, with a
Acacia macracvntha.
West Indies, with several closely connected tro- limited range, the nearest Old-World connexions
South but not nearly so close as the
pical American species from the same region, some in Africa,
with a wider range. American connexions of A. macracantha.
Acacia lacerans. Brazil. A distinct species, but Acacia Peryillei. Madagascar. No Old-World species
rather more nearly connected with allied species approaching it nearly so closely as the A. lacerans.
of the same country than is the case with A^ Per-
villeL
Acacia panicttxata and A. riparia. Both with a wide PESTÂTA with
range over tropical America, and connected with range over tropical Asia, and one, if not both, ex-
several other species common over a great part of tending over tropical Africa, connected with two
more local species, one from south-east Africa, the
the same area.
an
In studying the above list, the first point which strikes us is the marked American
character of out of the nine pairs of species. They are there rounded by
numerous, flourishing, and widely diffused kindred, whilst in the Old World they
comparatively absolutely, isolated and limited to small A hasty con-
clusion might therefore class them with the identical species of the previous list as old
colonists, distinguished only as having acquired their idiosyncrasy by a longer isolation.
But a further consideration discloses a marked diff< the two cases. Although
time and isolation are important elements in the modification of races, yet it requires
something more to produce a change of specific character. Circumstances must have
occurred to bring natural selection into play. A race which has acquired a prosperous
stability by having settled into a constitution suited to the circumstances

which m
it is placed, will, if brought to colonize in a country offering similar conditions, most
likely there also preserve its identity for an indefinite period, or become too sugntiy
gradually ex-
modified to be specifically distinguished. But it is different with a race
physical or social con-
teoding itself in different directions over bordering regions where
ditions are more or less modified. In the former case, notwithstanding the innumerable.
;
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ 347
produced in every generation, not one, either in the parent or

altliougli slight, variations
in the adopted country, may succeed in superseding the typical form fixed through a
long period of unchanged circumstances. But as this typical form gains a footing in
new ground under new conditions, it may gradually become modified by natural selection
The thus established will

at both extremities of its thus extended area. divergencies
probably, as I have on several occasions observed and specially exemplified in my Cassia
paper and in my Address of 1870, be in different directions in the two new countries,
Two new species will be pro-

however similar the external conditions may be in both.
more the typical form comes to disappear with the country
duced, all the distinct if
Thus that we have representative species in distant regions

which gave birth to it it is
one from the other the case of

having a common ori^ but not derived the
colonists.
and keeping the above considerations in view, wo may con-
Returning now to the list,
and A. Permllei may have been colonists from America of
ceive that Acacia Sieheriam
which have become slightly modified from thoir typical forms Jâ-
very ancient date,
have much doubt and all the
cracantha and A. lacerans, although even here we should ;
only from some typical race more or less distant

others suggest rather a common descent
same category as widely dissevered
from both its descendants. This places them in the
now to consider.
conveners, which we may proceed
^
natural generic or subgenerio groups of Mmiose^,

The following table exhibits such
both the New and the Old World the. respechve propo. m
as we find represented
tions and
in
characteristic
representative
relations.
species
The of the la.t tahle -
nat.onahty
^^^^^^^
ones which have, as it were, lost their
again included; but the few identical
are passed over
Oia World.
America.
macrop 1 isolated
Jilamentosa above.
Peittacleihra
as above. „fka
as./ê
and Arcblpelagi
Asiatic
,p. of */ »me kaown), and
Paekia 3 Bâjman PJ-up (not all as yet sufficiently
World 3 African ep. aU of a subgcnua repre-
rather distinct
Columbia, forming sented in Araerica. 1 from the Indian
I subgenus. Archipelago, described as very different,
but unknown me- None from Aus-
to
tralia nor from the Mascarene ialaadfl.
of African
inflorescence
, 1 Brazilian, with the Australi
4
Entada
the San
ones ; 2 with a pecohar
all across tro-
carcne islands (except E.mimlem
Morênce, extending identical
pical America African, a cticfly western
^^^ ^^^3. species. 1
American one a"
PiPIADENIA %t:'CltZ'v.oô^ 24 belong.
# SI
ing to the
ine same section
ovw.* - the OM f
tmrpnre-
unrepre- (m
East
uuae;, wiwi u o"»"i'
iligh «»•
sections
^ ones, 9 forming two \^^^^^^^^ i Madaga^w
,p. .
„„T,+^H mthe Old VVorlcl. ..

, • .i-„ 4+u African, but ms
.
blown to be certuiu of its genus. None

in Australia. . , ,
). 2 W^^'t Asiatic, scarcely tropical, 1
either we8tern or n?'*"^"^^ African, thoie of each country
p., tropical
Pbosopis distinct from the
forming a section
American ones. None in Australia az
the ifascarcne Ifclands,
V
I
1*
/ Vi
348 ,MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.
Genera or Subgenera America.
NEPTXTiaA 4 sp. (besidesthe identical one), 2 tropical 3 sp. 1 from the Indian Peninsula, too di-
and 2 northern extratropicaL tinct to be classed as representative of
any American species ; 2 Australian,
still more distinct. None from Africa
or the Mascarene Islands (except the
identical one).
Desmanthus 9 sp. wi 1 sp., Madagascar, very distinct from the
tropical weeds, 7 northern extratropical rest of the genus. None in Asia, Africa,
and subtropical. or Australia, except as modern colo-
nists.
Mimosa (Rubicaules), About 15 species, spread over tropical Ame- 8 sp. The tworepresentative ones Asiatic,
ones and their
rica, the representative the other 6 Mascarene or east tropical
nearest allies chiefly from the West African none from Australia or west
;
Indies and Central America. The whole tropical Africa, and no others of the
genus, very abundant within and near genus in the Old World, except the
the tropics, containing about 270 Ame- identical M. asperata.
rican sp., all (except the above 15 and
the identical M, aspemta) belonging to
groups unrepresented in the Old World.
Leuc^jta 8 sp., all western tropical, or northern 1 sp. South Pacific Islands ; none in Asia,
subtropical. Africa, or Australia.
Acacia (Gummifetls:) 9 sp., aU western or West Indian. 4 sp., all African. 1 west tropical, and re-^
SimiMIBRACTEAT^. presentative of an American one; 3
south extratropical.
Medibracteat^ . . 2 sp.,Mexican-Texan, resembling some of About 40 sp. 27 or 28 African,
of which 2
the Old-World species, but scarcely northern extratropical, 9 southern ex-
representative. tratropical, 16 or 17 tropical, 1 extend-
ing over east tropical Africa and west
tropical Asia 8 tropical Asiatic, 3 tro-
;
pical Australian. No Mascarene sp.

Basibracteat^. , an 3 sp. 2 tropical African, 1 East Indian Pe-
aU ninsula, all well marked. No Mascarene
or Australian.
Acacia (Vulgakes) 42 sp. About 24 Brazilian or Columbian, 24 sp. 3 spread over tropical Africa and
with an extended Asia, 7 confined to tropical Asia, 9 to
area western
'
tropical Africa, 4 to South Africa, 1
extratropical, north or south, with Mascarene. No Australian.
more limited areas ; both groups occa-
sionally representative of, or nearly
Old-World species ;
allied to the western
and the Mexican ones the most distinct.
The genus contains also 2 sp. belonging to The genus contains also nearly 300 sp. be-
a group (Filicinse) not spreading very longing to 3 Australian sections or
far from Central America. groups, of which the PhyUodineae alone
are represented by 5 Polynesian and 1
Mascarene sp.
Caujajtdra Nearly 100 sp., chiefly tropical, scarcely 5 sp. 2 from Khasia, 1 from the Indian
separable into distinct groups, many of Peninsula, 1 (not certain as to the
them very and some of rather
variable, genus) from Ceylon, 1 from Madagascar,
extended areas, 2 or 3 found beyond all of restricted area and specifically
the tropics north or south. very distinct, although more or less
allied to American forms. None in
Africa or Australia.
PlTHECOLOBIITM (SaMA- Brazilian with 1 western," the section
I.
4 sp. Australia
kea) ST7BAia:icrLAX-fi. containing also 3 other groups (18 spe- Archipelago, 1 from the Indian Penin-
cies) purely American, and the genus sula and Ceylon, 1 from Madagascar,
including 5 American sections with 1 from tropical Africa, aU specifically
about 60 species. very distinct, but allied to the American
ones. No other Old-World group of
the same section, but one Old-World
distinct section of the genus, with^ 22
species, of which 3 tropical Austrahan,
the others tropical Asiatic, chiefly from
the Archipelago, some with a wide East-
Indian range. No Mascarene or African
snecies of this Old-World section.
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. 349
The following genera are limited to one of the two hemispheres :
America. Old World.
Elephantokhiza 2 sp., extratropical or subtropical South I
Africa, near the Entadce of the same

country.
Plathtmeota 2 sp., Brazil, approaching on the one hand
African Entadce the other the
Brazilian Piptadi
Xtlia 1 sp,, East India and the Archipelago, M'ith
no immediate affinities.
STKYPmÔDEKDRON . . . , 9 sp., Braziland Guiana. No close affinity

except a general one with the 4 follow-
ing Old-World genera.
Tetraplettra 3 sp., tropical Africa.
Adenanthera 3 sp. 2 tropical Asia, 1 tropical Auatrulia.
Gac^'ebina. .
1 sp., Mascarcno.
Xerocladia 1 sp., South Africa.
The above four genera distinct, but gene-
rally allied to Stryphnodcndron and
Prosopis.
7 sp* 4 African, tropical or southom rob-
DlCHROSTACHTS
tropical, 1 Mascarene, 1 Indo-Austra-
lian, 1 Australian tropiraU A distinct
genus, generally allied to PrOiopU and
Jfeptunia,
SCHEANEJA 6 sp., of which 2 Brazil to Columbia, 4

Northern, Extratropical, or Central, all
forming more appropriately an Ame-

rican section of Mimosa than an inde-
pendent genus.
Ltsiloma 10sp.,Columbian,WestIndian,andMexican,
quite unrepresented in the Old World.
40 sp., Africa, Mascarcno Islands, Asia
Albizzia corresponding
find Australia, slightly tx>
the American section Orthohhmm of

Ptihecolohhtm (2 Mexican Bp.).
Enterolobium )., Brazil to West Indii
tion of PithecoloUum,
5 sp. Malacca and the Archipelago; 4,
1,
Serianthes islands of the South PaciJic.
2 sp., tropical Australia.
Archidekdrok" The last 2 genera perhaps sections of Piilic-
cohhium.
spread over all parts of tro-

Inga About 140 ep.,
1 or 2 sp. only crossing
pical America,
north or south.
the tropics
a secUon of Tmja.
3 sp., BrazU. Properly
Afponsea
in the two P
The distribution of the species
ed
^-^f^'^^H^^^l^^ÛTTt
-tj^-
regions from each
m
in the
tne following table, in
loiiowmg tame,
other, as being too much
which
blended
I have
Mcpfher
together TJ 7/
mUioui
witliout definite
c limits "t
; but I hare teen aHe ^t
very few overlapping sp.oies which
with but regions,
to distinguish 5 Old.mrld
to ipeated in two or more colmnn
. .
, .
,
Mascarene Asia. Polynesia. Australia.

Genera and Subgenera. America. Africa. Total.
Islands.
Pentaglethra 1 1 • « 2
Pakkia Eitpaekia 3 3 6
19
jj
Pabtphosph^rta 7
Entada 4 8 1 « 11
ELEPnAlfTORHIZA • * 2 2
Plathtmenia 2 2
piptadekia eupiptadenia 25 2 1 1 »
>J
PiTYEOCABPA 5 38
NiOPA 4 » •
Xtlia b * « 1 % • 1
V
r Stryphisôdendron 8 • » 8
Adenanthera . * • 3 • • 1 4
Tetrapleitra . . . 3 • « 3
Gagnebkja 1 1
^ 13
< Peosopis Algakobia • • • • «
a J>
anonychia 1 • « 16
»9
Adenopis. . • • 2 9 9 •
Xeroclama . 1 9 » 1
DiCHROSTACHYS « ^ 4 1 1 2 7
r Neptunia 5 1 1? 2 2 8
Desmanthub .... 9 a « 1 10
0)
OQ
o Mimosa Eumimosa 130 « • •
278
*t
» Habbasia 141 3 5 2
1^ Schrankia 6 • • 9 « « • • « 6
8 1 9
Acacia Puyllodine^:. ,
1 1 4 271 1
19 botrycephal^ 10
i» PULCHELL^ 8
432
>> GTnU[:MIEEE^ 17 35 9 4
» YULGARES .
42 22 1 9 • »
I
a FiLicix-as 2
. • •
J
Lysiloha 10 V » # * i* «
10
Caluandka 95 1 4 100
Albizzia 21 5 18 6 5 52
PiTHECOLOBIUM Ul^^GUIS-CATI 12 "1
» Clypearia . . . 19 1 3
» Abaremotemok 18 •
99 Samanea . . . 24 1 1 2 1 >. 108

» Ortholobitjm 2
99 Catilanxhon . 16 « •
99 Chlorolefcon 6
Enterolobixtm 5 5
Serianthes .
# m 1 4 5
Archidenbrok « » 2 2
Inga ' 140 « «
140
Affonsea 3 3
Tribes. America. Africa Mascarene Australia, Total

Asia. Polynesia.
Islands,
'
Pentaclethra 1 1 2
Parkia 10 3 « 6 19
Piptabekie^ , 40 12 1 3 54
Al)E>'ANTHEREiB 21 9 2 6 • • 3 40
3Il3C08B^ . . , .
299 4 7 4 1 2 311
Acacia 61 293 432
57 2 19 4
Inge^ 331 22 44 11 11 405
7
Total MiMosE^ 763 108 19 82 16 309 1263

n
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. ^ 351
«
In considering the data supplied by tlie above tables, the most striking feature is the
great American predominance not only of the whole order, but, if we deduct those
Australian and African Acacite which have less of a tropical character or are quite
extratropical, of every tribeand of the great majority of the genera and principal sub-
genera. Fiptadenla, Frosopis, Mimosa, two sections of Acacia, five sections of Pithe-
colobium, and Inga, with a few of their minor satellites, show each a lar pje number of
American species, mostly of a comparatively extended area and rich in varieties ; whilst
Asia has only Albizzia, one section {Clypearia) of Fithecolobium, and in a less degree
two sections of Acacia, exhibiting the same character; and Africa is still further
deprived of Clypearia.
This high degree of recent luxuriance and prosperity of American races, however, can
by no means be relied upon as evidence as to local origin, or even as to comparative^
remoteness of antiquity ; for that may rather be sought for where there are the greatest
number of highly differentiated monotypes or oligotypes of limited areas and AxcmI
characters, exhibiting the last remains, as it were, of expiring races; and these arc
undoubtedly to be met with chiefly in the Old World, in the first place in East Africa
and the Mascarene and secondly in the Malayan archipelago.

Islands, But this
question of what might have been the original birthplace of Mimoseae is involved in too
much obscurity, and the few conjectures that might be hazarded are connected with too
great a variety of disputed geological conditions and histories to be here discussed. It
may suffice to observe that there qyqyy reason

is to suppose that the seven tribes, and a
few at least of the g^-UCJ-Cl.

genera WX subgenera,
or kJW-^^j^ had been differentiated and spread over the
common area whence the tropical floras of America and Africa had been derived, for a
sufficient time before its disruption or disappearance to allow of their being all com-
municated to both the regions now so widely dissevered. A few words may also be
races have subsequently prospered in
devoted to the consideration of how the several
be judged of by the present aspect of what still

each of the hemispheres, as far as can
survives. Of the several races which have entirely perished the one or the m
other
I beHeye, as yet too few and imperfect to form the basis

hemisphere, the records are,
of any satisfactory conclusions. . . „ . ^ /. » .
hemispheres, inhahitrng the moist forest regjons of

Pentacleara is monotypic in hoth
North Brazil and Guiana in America, and of west tropical Africa the Old World. «
present day generically isolated and specifically distinct
The two species are in the
tendency to yariahility, nor to any extension of area : and
Neither of them shows any
races. They may also he connected in tlioir or,s,„
both may be set down as expiring
(Dimorphandrea,) than wi h Mimosc=a and perhaps with
rather more with Ca^salpinc^
some of those races which,
.
in Africa, and m ,.
like
Austraha. I
Tf
Cassi.
the
+]^g
(Fictê),
nearest
had long
connexion,
left
Dimorphandra, is purely
Is nurelv ^^t
Ame- Z^
^^ ^^^^^.^
ncan, the next step.
^^'^''^^^^^ncterTf Fentacmra. but more extended. It is
Parkia has the S^-'S^f C«salpinieee and Mimose».
.'^^^jt^îe com^non stock of
another of the old
^l^^^Z^Z^, in the moist forest regions of ,K>th
: Z\ri m?W : It Has produced some . or 5 species in the Malayan
VOL. XXX.
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352 * MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.

-
archipelago and neighbouring Asiatic districts (not extending, however, to Australia),
and about 3 African ones, all nearly allied, variable, and of rather extended range. In
America it has gone further. Besides 3 Brazilian species, not very far removed though
specifically distinct from the Old-World ones, it has developed into a mere local subgenus
Paryphosj)h(8ria, of which 5 species are known from North Brazil, Guiana, or Columbia.
1 say nothing at present of a few imperfectly described Malayan-Archipelago species,
such as P. singularis and P. sumafrana, Miq., of which I have seen no specimens,
as it appears very uncertain whether they really belong to the genus.
The Piptadeniece, or Mimoseae with definite stamens, exalbuminous seeds, and almost
always glanduliferous anthers, including 7 genera or subgenera, have the geographical cha-
racter of the order — 39 American species in 5 genera or subgenera, of which 3 are endemic, r
12 African in 3 genera, of which 1 endemic, 1 Mascarene species, and 3 Asiatic in 3 genera,

of which 1 endemic. Of the 5 (or perhaps, rather, 4) genera, Fiptadenia, belonging to the
moist forest regions, in its typical and what may be presumed to be the nearest to the
original form, has representatives in all four countries— in America 24 species, chiefly
cast of the Andes, but with 1 or 2 extending westward to the Pacific, several of them
with a wide range as well as variable, besides 9 species belonging to two distinct genera,
but with similar specific wide range and variability, especially the Niopcs, in Africa
2 species (one of them imperfectly known), in the Mascarene islands 1, and in Asia 1, all
of definite character and limited area. The genus may thus well be classed amongst the
races in the full tide of prosperity in America, but expiring in the Old World. Mitada,
after deducting U. scandem, which is identically luxuriant in Asia and Africa, and to a
certain degree in America, has a more African character, having there developed 7
endemic species, and only 3 in America. The latter belong to the same forest region of
North and
Brazil Guiana as the majority of the Fiptadenieee, whilst in Africa the genus
is less exclusively tropical, 2 species extending southward to the Natal district, where also
has arisen the endemic allied genus or subgenus JElephantorhiza with 2 (or 3 ?) species.
Flathi/menia is an endemic Brazilian genus of 2 species, closely connecting Pipfadenia
with Bntada ; and Xylia is a very distinct monotypic genus, which, if we neglect the
above-mentioned identical Entada scandens, is the sole survivor of the ancient race of
Piptadcniese in tropical Asia, but is there luxuriant, having mliintained an extended
from the Peninsula to the Malayan Archipelago. Like Pentaclethra and ParJc
the tribe, if it ever spread to Australia and Polynesia, has there left no traces of its
existence.
The only exceptional species of the tribe without glands to the anthers are two Ame-
rican Niopce, in other respects closely resembling two genuine species of the subgenus,
and all four showing an approach in habit, though none in any other essential character,
to some species of Acacia.
AdenantherecBi or MimoseEe with definite stamens, albuminous seeds, and almost

always, glanduliferous anthers, still show an American preponderance, but in a less
degree ; the forms are more generically diversified though
.
still specifically variable, and
the characters much less tropical. In America we have 21 species in 2 genera or sub-
genera, both endemic ; in Africa 9 species in 4 genera or subgenera, of which 3 endemic

;
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. '353
in the Mascarene islands 2 species in 2 genera, of which

1 endemic; in Asia 5 species in
5 genera or suhgenera, of which 1 endemic, and in Australia 3 species in 2 genera.
Stryphnodendron, with 8 species, is the only genus of the tribe which luxuriates in
the
moist tropical forests east of the Andes, with systematic as well as geographical characters
showing an approach to the Piptadenieae, but with the albuminous seeds and thick
J _
scarcely dehiscent pods of Frosopk and its allies. Algarobia, including St rombocarpa,
the American subgenus of Frosops, has a very different geographical constitution from
any of the preceding Mimoseae. Scarcely known east of the Andes, and certainly absent
from the forest regions of Brazil and Guiana, it has one tropical species so variable that it
has been divided into from two to about a dozen supposed species, extensively phiuted, but
appearing to have a really indigenous range of remarkable extent, from extratropicnl
Chili along the tropical Andes and coast of the Pacific to Mexico and the West Indies.
11 other American species are extratropical or nearly so, southern or northern, none of
r
the Argentine or Chilian ones absolutely identical with the Mexican or Texan, hut some-
times closely representativCi Adenopis, the Asiatic subgenus of Frosopis, with 2 species,
extends from the western extratropical districts to the Indian peninsula ; Anonj/chia, the
African monotypic subgenus, is more tropical, but affects rather the desert than the
forest region. Adenanthera, from tropical
3 speciesAsia and Australia, and Tetrajikui-a,
3 tropical African species, are, hke the American Stryphwdendron, inhabitants of the
forest. Xerocladia is a single strongly differentiated South-African extratropical
species Oagnehina, a single Mascarene

;
The more tropical
species. Dkhrostachi/a has a
wide range with more variable species, but it is still more abundant in the open regions
of the Acacite {Gummifera;) than in the moist forests. We have i African, 1 Mascarene,
each country quite distinct, although the two
1 Asiatic and 2 Australian species, those of
African D. nutans and the Indian-peninsula
nearest allied, the wide-spread and yariable
D. cinerea, may be considered as representative.
that as the character becomes less tropical, the

This tribe well Ulustrates the fact
hemispheres are more marked not only have representa-

specific divergences in the two ;
no subgenus of Adenantherea, common to the New

tive species disappeared, but there is
other grounds for conjectunng that Mimos«B ongmated
and the Old World-one amongst
and there produced races with a eonst.tul.on
in a tropical region, and have only here
in more temperate climates.
snfflcien ly hardened to flourish and multiply
without glands to the anthers are two speues
of the tribe
The only exceptional species
in other respcets Rowing an approach, rath,,
of extrlSpcal South Am'erican Frosapis,
in habit thfn character, to some ^^^'^^^^^
in û.
The tribe Mmôse., or ^--"'^ Ame-
^^^loTlJrX
anthers, and the pod vco ra tWck or fleshy,
If^
ha, its
ahnost always eglandular
rican character more decided than any ott^r Th 6 g
y
o^
^^ ^^ ^^
^^^
species "^
riean, with about 300
variable, others very local and ^fJ™/;
d.stmct, antt
fewext
^ ^
ropical, both north and south
^^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^_
.^^^^.^^^
has but 13 species^ ot
whilst the Old World ^^^^^j.^^^^^„^ ^^ 2 or 3 subordinate
sentative of American ones. IiJ^'f""f, » .
^^
species, ar western West-Indian or eitra-
half a hundred
groups of Mimom, with about 3^2
354 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEJ?..
tropical, with limited areas but the great

; mass of the species are either widely spread
over tropical America, chiefly east of the Andes, or are more local in southern Brazil and
adjoining districts. In Africa, besides 2 species, an aquatic Neptunia and a Mimosa, iden-
tical with American ones, there are only 2, both belonging to the Mimos(B {BuUcaules),
and almost representative of American ones. The Mascarene islands have a very distinct
Desmanthus, which might almost rank as a subgenus, and 5 species of Mimosa, all
belonging to the same group of BtiMcaules, but some of them rather more distinct than
the Asiatic and African ones. In Asia, besides the aquatic Neptunia identical with the
African and American one, there is a rather distinct endemic species of that genus, and
2 of Mimosa (BuUcaules), both closely representative of American ones. In Polynesia
there is a Leuccena, distinct from, but not very far removed from, an American one, and
the only Old- World representative of that West- American genus. In Australia the sole
members of the tribe are 2 species of Neptunia, forming a section distinguished from the
rest of the genus by the reduction of the stamens to a single instead of a double series, a
character not observed in any other Old- World Mimosese, and repeated only in the
American subgenus Uumhnosa.

As a whole, the Mumimosece, although evidently very early established in the Old
World, with the presumably Mascarene or African centre of the suborder, have with
difficulty maintained their ground there, whilst in America they have prospered and
acquired enormous dimensions. The few exceptional species of the tribe, with more or
less prominent glands to the anthers, belong to the small scattered genus Neptmiia,
which, however, in other respects, is closely connected with Mimosa.

The Acacia tribe differs from all the preceding in its comparative prosperity in the
hemisphere, in
Old World, and especially in its wonderful development in the southern
Australia, and to a certain degree in South Africa ; but in both cases the progress seem?
to have been from the tropics southward, as there is no trace of the genus in the extreme
south of America, nor in Têw Zealand, nor any connexion between the extratropical
African and Australian species. The former belong to a widely spread tropical subgenus,
the latter to three specially Australian, subgenera, of which one only has remained
sparingly persistent in the Mascarene, Malayan, or South Pacific islands. I would observe
that, geographically, I here speak of these divisions of Acacia as subgenera, because they
the subgenera oi
appear to me, in a genealogical sense, to have the same importance as
Mimosa, Fithecolobium, and others, although, being distinguished by vegetative characters
only (chiefly foliage and inflorescence), to the utter neglect of numerous floral or carpo-
logical differences, they are, for systematic purposes, under the rules usually followed,
treated as series only, with adjective instead of substantive names.

one, tne
The three extra- Austral ian subgenera are all American; one, a very small
Mexico, Texas, and the
FiliciruB, is endemic and of limited range in Central America,
West Indies ; two species appear to be abundant within their areas,
but its and so
variable as to have been described under some eiffht or ten different names. The Ame-
majority oi
rican preponderance is also maintained in the Vulgares, with 42 species, the
which are tropical, with their chief seat in the forest regions east of the Andes, some of
them widely spread, very variable, and having Old- World representatives. But there
, ;
MIMOSEiE 855
are also western or extratropical species, north and south, of limited areas and very
definite character, renmants of ancient races now In the
evidently expiring. third extra-
Australian subgenus, the Grummifer (b ^ the circumstances have changed it is ; at once less
tropical and less American. Only 14 species are known in the New World to 47 in the
Old ; and those 14 are either Western, West-Indian, or extratropical north and south,
Not one (except the generally introduced A . farnesiana) is to be met with in tropical
South America east of the Andes, although some, within their areas, appear to be abun-
dant and variable.
In Africa the ^ cacm constitute whole nuraher of the MitnospoB of
more tliaa half the
that continent, and form a very promineat feature in the desert landscape of the dry
districts hoth within and south of the tropics, extending in some places northward to the
Mediterranean, and eastward, connected throu^'h Arabia with Western India. Thoy
belong to the two above-mentioned American and Asiatic subgenera Vnlgaret and 0«»»-
Of American
the former, 22 species (to the 42) include some forest races of
mifera;.
representative both of Asiatic and American ones. The African Gimmycra,
wide range,
surpass those of any other region, comprising at least 35 species,
on the other hand, for
variable, and two at least apparently identical with West-
often wide-spread, some very
others again local and definite. From the Mascarcnc islands I only
Asiatic ones, but
belonging to the Vulgares, is rem;„\-able as being
know of 2 species o£ Acacia ; one,
BrazUian A. laceram, and much further from any Allican
closely representative of the
is an extreme outlying species of the
or Asiatic species; the other. A. hete^-ophalla.
and closely representative of the extreme outlying

AustraUan subgenus Fhyllodine^.
Koa of the Sandwich Islands. Asia has 19 specie
species in an opposite direction, the A.
American subgenera Vulgare. ^nd^ Gumm.fera., and
of Acacu.. 9 each of the African and
of species from either contmcnt the
some of them closely representative ;
unknown to recent botanists

A. Mangiu^, one of the
allied to, if not identical with,
\'^y'">''ZH7^î^<^
accounts ai. cor^ 'îo.<~i.
but if fiumphius's ,
,„ [^^ ,.,„,^,, 1,1,,,,,

^\^^'^^J^^^^,^^^
a North-Austrahan myiloaine.,
presents us with 4
^^f ^.IX
specieôn,
.
all "ig The same Australian subgenus
^.^ extra-Australian
and nearly allied to Nor
^^-^^^^t;
from Aus^ ,Sier they are the persistent remnants
Pk,Uodme<ehe.e -S-t^d
home, we ud-v
,
^^^^ ^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^

of the raoft in its ancient
logy would lead t» the Wter conclusion ^^^ development, bavin f^

genu ^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^
that tne
iu M
It is in ^^v.^^^^
111 Australia
itself
even ,„,.„„..;„„
surpassing i„
in number
numoer 31mosc
iiie M,mu,u<,
the
rivaUing, or
aU precedent,
flourished beyond ^-^f^"^ ^ ^^^ ubiquitous A. belong to fam^na,
species, 4 o° ""='
^
Of
of America.
the generaUy spread
393
Gumm/er's but
=
^
^^^
W
ê„ local
^^_j^
in North
subgenera
^
Au-^tralia;
purely
the
endemic
Australia ,
remainder are essentially ânM^ and widely spread,
axe
and no less than
n+bpr« Innnl and
,nd
271
dehmte,
defimte, .-
the wlioie suuo 2'^^l^ls
^
bearing a .^nspicuous
A„«f«,iio
Australia and
part in
Tasmania.
the arb<v
Ongi.
Oriiri-
^t of
tescent vegetation"J^
of ^"^ '
has as above men
ahd fru ^^7,ôn,
Malayan TLîui where it left,
., « nvTf, spa rene or
Mascarene .^ • .^
nating probably in
.: ? L^^. ô.v
some
few
fftw
.
traces, it has
^
^
muitipuea ^^^,^ ^^.ith ^ the greatest
. profusion,
tioned, such very

356 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E.
spreading southwards till stopped by the ocean, which it has been unable to cross even
to Norfolk Island and New Zealand.
The Ingece, or Mimosese with indefinite naonadelphous stamens, are exclusively
and show a very great American preponderance, although a few races also have
tropical,
prospered in the Old World ; and the two hemispheres have very little in common.
There are no identical or closely representative species ; and even the genera or subgenera
are mostly distinct. America has 330 species in 11 genera or subgenera, of which two
only are slightly represented in the Old World, and the latter has 78 species, of which
only 9 are allied to American forms, the remaining 69 forming 4 genera or subgenera
unrepresented in the New World.
Of the American genera, I/ysiloma alone, with 10 species, is limited to the western
tropics or West
Indies; the other 10 genera or sub o g generally over
tropical America, but specially abundant in the forest regions as well as in the Brazilian
campos east of the Andes. The Old-World Ingese are also mostly forest inhabitants.
Alhizziat with 40 species, is generally spread over the whole tropical region, with one
species exceptionally established in extratropical Australia. Clypearia, with 22 species,
and Serianthes, with 5, are limited to the Indo-Australian tropical region, the three
genera including many variable races of extended range. Archidendron is exclusively
Australian, with 2 species of limited areas. The 5 Asiatic or Mascarene Calliandrce
and the 4 Asiatic Mascarene or African SamanecBy are quite local and definite in cha-
racter, whilst their numerous American congeners are remarkable for their variabihty
and wide dispersion.
Inga itself, including Affonsea^ 142 species, is remarkable for its simply, not doubly
pinnate leaves, a character otherwise unknown among Mimoseae, and in that suborder
developed in America only; for the Indian bifoliolate Callicmdra cynometroides must
probably be noted as a reduction of a doubly compound leaf to its simplest elements of 2
unifoliolate pinnae, not as a reduction of a simply pinnate leaf to a single pair, although
the double articulation of the very short petiole is not evident, as in the corresponding
American bifoliolate Galliandra hymenceoides.
With regard to the local distribution of Mimosese in each of the several continents,
the subject Is too closely connected with the general flora of each, and therefore too
large to be treated of on the present occasion ; I would only add a few words on the
northern and southern extension of the suborder beyond the tropics.
We have seen that in America the northern and southern extensions exemplified in
the genera I'rosopis, Mimosa, and Acacia have taken place in those groups only which
are, under the tropics, restricted to the
western margin of the continent, a region where
the mountain-chain and the adjoining sea have allowed a certain continuity of physical
conditions still to exist, a continuity which may well have been much greater during
former periods. As a result, the new races produced north and south, although discon-
nected in character as well as in area, have in many instances remained closely repre-
sentative ; and this is inaccordance with what has been pointed out in many other
classes of plants. In the Old World, however, as I have on other occasions observed,
the ranges of mountains and impassable deserts and
seas run much more east and west,
; ;
disconnecting more completely the northern and southern temperate regions. The
extension therefore of Mimoseae, as of other races of plants northward and southward,
has been quite independent. In the Adenantherese, for instance, the Persian and
priental Frosopides they have produced in the north have no connexion with the
extratropical Bichrostacliydes and Xerodadia developed in the south; even the few
Acacice (
Gummiferce) which may have passed the northern tropical line are by no means
representative of those of the Cape Colony, whilst the extraordinary luxuriance of the
Phyllodineous and other Australian races of Acacia have nothing to correspond witl 1
them in extratropical Asia.
I cannot quit the consideration of dissevered representative races without alluding to
an instance which it is quite out of my power The connexion of the
to account for.
tropical flora of North-east Australia with that of the Malayan archipelago and
Eastern Asia generally, is exemplified in a large number of Orders, genera, and species
but then this Indo-Australian flora is strictly limited to the north-eastern quarter of
Australia, or at most, in a very few cases, extends further down the east coast, and is
always observed to be very remote from that of the south-west ; and yet in the genus
Albizzia we have two species so closely alUed as to leave doubts whether they ought
really to be regarded as specifically distinct, and together perfectly isolated from any
other forms assumed by the genus; and yet the one, A. montana, inhabits the moun-
other, A. lophantha, is Hmited to extratropical South-west
tains of Java, whilst the
New Caledonian, are very different in an
Australia. The spicate Albizzi<s, chiefly
other
essential character, the shape of the seed, as well as in many other respects.
from the above considerations may be summed

The conjectural conclusions hazarded
up as follows , ., 1 1 j x
some ancient warm country, whence they were enabled to
That Mimoseje originated in
various tropical regions they now occupy.
spread gradually over the
disappearance of their ongmal country, they had so far
Thatrbefore the disruption or
the majority but by no means aU the o
have established
become differentiated as to
subgenera, or other larger groups we

That orio-inal
ori^
'^^^^^^^l,
disseverance mto areas sepaiaitu 'v,„,,t,,l,,
" insurmountable
inat sinoe their
since tneir
selection estabhshed new races of
under ordinary circumstances,
'^'jj^l^l^^^^^some ui vn i ^âve been crnbled to sprcaJ
more or less local,
i
mgher or lower graaes,
hip'bpT' trades,
more
n
successfully m the
i.
•x,
^
_„în.iy
sparmî^ xu
in the northern,
into more temperate regions, veiy
southern hemisphere. temperate regions are or

,., northern and
a southern
where the
That in the New World, ^^^^ ^^
northern _/,,,,,,,,,,
and southern ,,t,
extension
(T the
have been connected by «^^^ /^^''''*^'T.
^^ve or less ^
representative northern and
have been more or less '';^''''^^^^^
and southern extensions have been
World tliejôr
southern races, whilst in the Old
with very ^^'^^"^^^
quite independent, ^^'^ to colonization, which bad in
J^ favourable
That the constitution of ^^^' /[''f, ^.'^^^^ ^^ nieans which we can only vaguely con-
prehis on
a few cases taken place in ^^^^ ^^^^ frequent in consequence of
days as ^^^^
jecture, but which
lich in m
more r«^^"\"7"^^^^_
recent
_â
and commerce, and that to these causes
human intercourse
the facilities fl'orded by
——— — — —— ——
358 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. ^
may "be referred the absolute identity of a few tropical species in the New and the Old
^
World.
now
I proceed to the enumeration of the genera and species of Mimosese more or less
known to me, with short diagnoses of the more essential distinctive characters, referring,
for more details as to genera, to our Genera Plantarum,' vol. i. pp. 462 and 588, and, as
'
to species, to the various works quoted under each. I have, however, given the post-
Linnean synonymy as complete as I have been able to ascertain it, and added fuller
descriptions to the several species now first established as new. I
Conspectus Genertjm. M
Tribus 1. ParkietE. Calycis dentes brevissimi imbricati.

i
1. Pentaclethra. Stamina 5, staminodia 5, 10 v. 15. Spicse elongatae. Legumen lignosum, elastice
dehiscens. Africa^ America.

2. Parkia. Stamina 10. Capitula densissima, globosa v, clavata^ floribus inferioribus neutris stami-
nodiis 10. Legumen camosumj indehiscens. America^ Africa^ Asia.

r
Tribus 2. Piptadeniejg. Calyx valvatus. Stamina petalis numero dupla, antheris i
ssepissime gland uliferis. Albumen 0.

- i
3. Entada. Legumen planum^ membranaceo-coriaceum v. lignosum^ valvis intra marginem integrum

ab Flores
spicati. America, Af}

1
Legumen planum, membranaceo-coriaceum, valvis a margine integr

secedentibus indivisis, endocarpio integro ab exocarpio secedente. Flores spicati. Africa australis.
5. Plathymenia. Legumen planum, membranaceo-coriaceum, exocarpio continuo bivalvi, endocarpi <*
solo in articulos 1-spermos secedente et circa semina persistente. Flores spicati. Brasilia.
i
6. PiPTADENiA. Legumen planum, membranaceum v. coriaceum, 2-valvej valvis indivisis, rarius
indehiscens, Flores spicati v. globoso-capitati. America, Africa, Madagascaria, Asia.
Xylia. Legumen planum, crassum, lignosum, globoso- ^
7. 2-valve. Semina transversa. Flores
capitati. Asia*
Tribus 3. Adenanthere^. Calyx valvatus. Stamina petalis numero dupla, antheris

saepissime glanduliferis. Semina albuminosa. Legumen crassum.
8. Stryphnodendron. Legumen subcarnosum, vix v. non dehiscens^ intus inter semina septatum.
Flores spicati. — Brasilia^ Guiana*
9. Adenanthera. Legumen elongatum, saepius incurvum, 2-valve. Semina crassa, coccinea v. bico-
Jorla. Flores laxe spicati, ssepius pedicellati. Asia et Australia tropica.
10. Tetrapleura. Legumen oblongum, elevato-tetragonum v. 4-alatum, indehiscens. Flores spicati.
Africa tropica.
11. Gagnebina. Legumen oblongo-lineare^ plano-corapressum^ ad margines membranaceo-alatum-
Flores spicati. Iris, Mascarenses.
12. Prosopis. Legumen crasso-compressum v. subteres, exalatum, rectum tortum v. spirale^ coriaceum
V. indurato-spongiosum^ indehiscens^ intus inter semina septatum. Flores spicati v. rarius capitati
A}nerica, Africa, Asia tropica et subtropica,

13. Xerocladia. Ovarium 1-ovulatum. Legumen parvum, curvum, compressum, indehiscens^ mono-
spermura. Capitula globosa. Africa australis.
14. DicHRosTACHYS. Florcs inferiores spicae cylindracese neutri, staminodiis elongatis. Legumen
durum, crassum, indehiscens* Asia, Africa, Australia tropica.
— —
MIMOSE^. 359
*
Tribus 4. EuMiMOSEiE. Calyx valvatus v. pappiformis v. 0. Stamina petalis numero

gequalia v. dupla, antheris (excepta Neptunia) eglandulosis. Semina albuminosa. Le-
gumen ssepius tenue v. coriaceum. Flores inferiores in generiLus tribus prioribus in-
terdum neutri.
ft
-
t
15, Neptunia. Legumen planunij oblique oblongunij a stipite deflexum, membranaceo-conaceuni.
2-valve. Herbse suffrutlcesve diffussev. natantes, capitulis globosis. Orbis utriusque regiones calidiores.
16. Desmanthus. Legumen lineare^ rectum v. falcatum, angustum, membranaceo-coriaceum, 2-valve.
Semina longitudinalia v. obliqua. Herbas suffrutlcesve rarius frutices, capitulis globosis. America
ih
horealis et inter tropicos utriusque orbis.
17. Mimosa. Leguminis valvae iutegrse v. articulatse a rcplo persistente scccdcutes eoque latiores.
Habitus varius. . Mores spicati v. eapitati.—^4wmcfl, Africa tropica, Asia tropica.
Leguminis tetragoni valvse iutegrse a replo persistente seccdentes eoque

18. ScHRANKiA. linearis
angustiores, HerbfE suffrutlcesve aciileati, capitulis globosis.— ^menca horealis et tropica.
planum, membranaceo-coriaceura, S-valve. Semina

19. Leuc^na. Legumen [Acaci(E) lato-lineare,
capitulis globosis. orimtalii

transversa.
utroque orhe inquilina.
vakatus, rarius 0. Stamina indcfinita, libera

Tribus 5. AcACiE^. Calyx
basi brevissime connata. Albumen 0.
fruticesve floribus spicatis v. capitatis. 4f'

20. Acacia. Legumen varium. Arbores
Asia calidioTj Australia.
Stamina indeflnita. basi in tubum connata. Al

Tribus 6. INGE^. Calyx valvatus.
bumen * Folia bipinnata

secedentcs. Flores capitati v.
recti plani v
*
21. Lysiloma. Leguminis

America tropica occidentalis.
rarius sîc&tl—
gustati valraj ab apice ad ba«in
Leguminis recti v. lev:
22. Calliandra.
Madaga
1
v.. p. ae..... .. .... ..

'^T:L:!-lz:^2r;:z::2iz:::^,
23. Albizzia.
^f'
contortis. Arbores fruticesve subcarnosum arcuatum
^-~
coriaceum crassum v
Le^^men
Legumeu compressum,
compic»«uu.,
^. PiTHEcoLOBiuM. fruticesve
W. V. rarius ,uWu..
canltatls v. laxe spicatis.-^mmm,
v.vi. ^r oejjên...
Africa, Asia, Ausir ^^^^J^'
j ,
Caetera Pithecolobii.—Auierirn
25. Enterolobium. Legumi
trop magnis
sublignosura
26
Pacifi
Piihecolobii.—Austra Ua
rpella Caetera
27. Archidendeon
**
tropica.
Ovarii carpeUum
«nicum.-^»^-
28. IKOA.
2-5 .-Br<«.;.a.
29. APPONS.A. Ovarii carpella
pE>'TACLETnRA, Benlh.
I.
PI. 588.
Benth. et Hook. Gen.
i.
^
^^^^^_ ^^^_ „_ ^^^^ p.„„^ .„^
jBenth.l in
1. P
I VOL. XXX.
.
350 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [_Pentacht%ra.
foHola 30-50-jiiga, lineari-falcata, acutissima, 3-4 lin. longa. .Staminodia b.—FL Bras.
^fjacia wacroZoSa, Willd. ! Spec. iv. 1060 (1054). .

. I
Mimosa macroloba, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 66. . .
W. Mey l:
Wi
Caillea macrostachya, Steud. ! in Flora, 1843, 759.
Pentaclethra brevipila, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 128.
Bab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Surinam, British Guiana, Trinidad, Nicaragua.
2. P. MACEOPHYLLA, Benth. ! in SooTc, Journ. Bot. iv. 330. Pinnae 10-12-jugae;
foliola 12-20-juga, oblique rhombeo-ohlonga, ohtusa, f-l^ poll, longa. Staminodia

\0-ir^,— Olw.!Fl.Trop.Afr.n.^22.
Hah. Tropical Africa.
P. Griffoniana, Baill. Adans. vi. 206, from tropical Africa, described from leaves only, may not belong
to the genus.
II. Parkia, B>. Br

Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. i. 588.
Sectio 1. EuPAEKiA
b
Capitula clavata, parte inferiore sterili quam pars fertilis multo angustiore (v. in
speciebus Americanis ei subsequilata ?)
* Species AsiaticcB.
a
1. P. BiGLANDULOSA, W. et Am. ! Brod. Ft. Fenins. Ind. Or. 279. Petiolus com-
munis basi 2-glandulosus, saepius velutino-tomentosus ; pinnae multijugae ; foliola con-
fertim multijuga, ad 3 lin. longa, \ lin. lata.

ilfmo5aêc?MncM/a/fl, Koxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 551, ex descr.
Rai. East tropical Asia : the countries east of the Bay of Bengal, Roxburgh. De-
scribed by Arnott and others from cultivated specimens.
2. P. KoxBUEGHii, G. Bon, Gen. Syst. ii. 396. Petiolus communis supra basm uni-
glaudulosus, glaber v. pubescens; pinnae multijugse, foliola laxe multijuga, 3-4 lin.
longa, 1 lin. lata. Leguininis stipes 2-5-pollicaris.

Mimosa
Wall
P, higlobosaj Benth. iu Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 328, quoad plantam Indicam.
Inya timoriana^ DC. ! Prod. ii. 442.
Mimosa perCarina, Blanco, Fl. Filip. 737, ed. 2, 509 ex descr.
Inga pyriformiSf Jungh. ex Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pars i. 52.
Parkia grandis, Hassk. Diagn. Nov. 220, ex ejusd. PI. Jav. Bar. 415.
Hab. Tropical Asia, Sillet, Burmah, and the Indian Archipelago.
P. intermedia and P. speciosa, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 289, and PI. Jav. Bar. 414, are distinguished by
e author as well as by Miquel from P. Roxhurghii by characters which, as far as shown by our speci-
My Brazilian Mimoseae for the great Flora Brasiliensis are now being printed in Germany ; and I hoped to have
received proofs time enough to refer to the page of each species. None, however, have yet reached me ; but I have
retained the general references with a view to indicating which are the
species of which full descriptions may be
'
there found.
1
.
rarlia.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 361
mens, do not appear to he sufficient. The 1
from
Noronh. in
• ft
P. LEIOPHYLLA, S, Kurz, in Joum. Asiat. Soc. xlii. 73. Foliola iis P. Boxhurgh
3.
majora, iis P. intermedi<By Oliv., similia.
JSah. Tropical Asia : Pegu.

of this plant, insufficient to give any idea of its specific value.
I have seen fragments only
Suppl 284, a P. Boxburghli dicitur

4. P. MACUOCAUPA, Mi^. FL Ind. Bat diflPcrre
foliolis o"btusis rectis. ,
:E:ab. Tropical Asia : Sumatra. I have seen no specimen.

1L Fulvo-pul3Cscens. Pinmi.
INSIGNIS, S. Kurz, in Joum. Asiat. Soc. Beng. x\il
5 P
poUicaria, subtus pubescentia. Legumcn ignotum.
sub-4-jug^ : foliola 20-25-juga,
have seen no specimens.
Sah Tropical Asia : Martaban. I
Pinna. l-4.jugxs
m. 1078, Siippl 285.
" Bat. pars i.

6 P siNGULAEis, Miq. Fl. i.
ovato-oblonga, 2-pollicaria. Legumina oblonga

foliola 3-5-iuga,
seen no spceimen of tins plant, which must
Sumatra. I have
Troplal Asia :
the other species.

have a very different aspect from all
described from leaves only, ^vlllch do
-.T- T A T?.f Sunnl
feuppi. ag%
284 from
irî" Sumatra, is
sumatrana, Miq. T.1
Fl. Ind. Bat. „ ,
P.
aspect of those of a Parha.
me to have quite the
not appear to
** Species Africaner.
. ^ -n^^j, z- Phmn Trav. 234. Petiolus communis infra
vix poUicem excedente. ^^ j3^^ .j 53^ ^ ^q.

179 i5eau^
Stirp. Amer. 367, 1.
Mmo.a bialohosa, Jacq. ,
Willd. Spec. IV. 10.15.
x._„4.i, I ,"« TTnolr. Journ

ParAria biglobosa, Benth
Afr. ii. 324.
Syn. ii. 266,
Mmo5« taxifolia, Pers.
DC. Prod. ii. 442
seiieg alensis
Inga ,
Desv. Ham. Pr^ in

Inga Jaculvfera, "
!
Dev, in Ann !
fmculifera,
Gen. Syst. "• Negroes
Prfa ^.m^/oô.«, G. Don, ^^^^ .^^0 the West Indies with the
* '
Africa.
Apparenuy St.-Domingo spcci
Sab. Tropical ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ pesvaux from
described by Jacqum from
Par^'^r, which
m appear Ic
and first ^^^^^j ^^^^ D^merara,
in Herb, iloo
mens. There are also
same species unjglandu 1
belong to the Qommunis basi Petioltis
8. P.™™. ^;- ;i^S-K;;subWcata.

multijugse, i"
^Slia. Ion,. 1^ «n. lata.
losus; pinnae
stipite poUicari.
Legumen falcatum,
m6. Tropical Africa. -^^ .j 324, Petiolus communis basi
if" ^^^P' ^^
_ TIT-.,/./,
Jfelv)
. in Ohv. I
a n 9
9. P. riLICOlDEA
:
362 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ [^'
obscure uniglandulosus ; pinnsB multijugae ; foliola multijuga, oblonga, subrecta, coriacea,

1 -1 poll, longa, 3 lin. lata. Leguminis stipes lJ-2-pollicaris.
2
Sab. Tropical Africa.
•*** Species Americana.
10. P. PLA Benth Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 329. Pinnse 6-12-jug8e
L
foliola multij linearia, subrecta, uninervia, ad 3 lin. longa. Capitula in pedunculc
J-1-pedali depresso-globosa, receptaculo depresso-dilatato. Legumen oblongum (4 poll
longum 1-lJ poll, latum) carnosunij seminibtis 2-seriafis. — Fl. Bras. Mim
Sab. Tropical Amer Brazil, prov. Babia and C
11. P. PENDULA, Benth. in Walp. Bep. v. 577. Pinnae multij foliola multij
linearia, obscure uninervia, vix 2 lin. longa. Capitula pedunculo 2-QD-pedali pendul
globosa, receptaculo globoso v. obovoideo. Lesrumen
D curvum 8 poll, longum
1 poll, latum,) siccum bivalve, marginibus incrassatis, seminibus obscure 2
M. Bras. Mim. '
. .
Inffapendula, WiWA.l Spec. iv. 1025.

* _
Mimosa pendula, Poir. Diet, Suppl. i. 47.

m
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil.
12. P. MTJLTIJUGA, Benth. I in Mart, Fl. Bras, Mim. Pinnae multijugae ; foliola mul-
I
tijuga, linearia, subfalcata, basi adpresse auriculata, uninervia (sub 4 lin. longa, l-lj
lin. lata). Capitula pedunculo 1-2-pollicari globosa, bracteis ante antliesin cum ala-
])astris imbricatis.
Sah. Tropical America ; Brazil, Upper Amazon and B;io Janeiro,

The specimens I have seen are in bud only, or with the flowers already fallen away, and the fruit is
unknown. The afl&nities of the species, remarkable for the imbricate bracts which give the young heads
the aspect of Mauritius fruits, remain thereforeûncertain ; and it may also prov6 that the specimens from
F
the two widely distant stations^ however closely they resemble each other in that state, may belong to
distinct Species.
Sect. 2. Paryphosph^ra. »
Capitula biglobosa, parte superiore sterili, ob staminodia elongata parte fertili duplo
latiore. Species Americanae.
13. P. PECTINATA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim, Pinnse 10-15-jug foliola mul-
tijuga, linearia, subsigmoideo-falcata, basi auriculata Pedunculi 4-8-polli-
cares. Legumina elongata, falcata.
Willd
Nov
Mimosa
Sab. Tropical America North Brazil
14. P. FiLiciNA, Benth. in Walp. Bep. v. 577. Pinnae 8-10-j foliola multij
linearia, subsigmoideo-falcata, basi oblique truncata, Pedunculus 8-pol
exauriculata.
licaris, complanatus. Legumen ignotum.—Fl. Bras. Mim.
Jnâ^/tcina, WiUd. ! Spec. iv. 1025.
Mimosa filicina, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 47.
Ifa6. Tropical America : Para in Brazil.
! . ;
Parl-ia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 363
15. P. AURICULATA, Spvuce ; Benth. in Mart. Fl, Bras. Mim. Pinnae 6-8-jugae
foliola multijuga, oblongo-linearia, subsigmoideo-falcata, basi auriculata, 2-3-nervia, semi-
poUicaria, Pedunculi 3-4-pollicares. Staminodia f-1 poll, longa. Legumina oblonga,
4i-pollicaria, stipite 2-3 poll, longo.
JSab. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil.
16. P. DISCOLOR, Spruce ! ; Benth. in Mart.Fl. Bras. Mim. Pinnae 3-4-jugse ; foliola
I
multijuga, oblongo-linearia, subsigmoideo-falcata, basi auriculata, 2-3-nervia, 6-9 lin.
longa, subtus canescentia. Pedunculi 3-4i-pollicares. Staminodia vix semii)ollice longiora.

Sah. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil
17. P. NiTiDA, Miq^. Stirp. Surin. 1,et in Flora, 1850, 278. PinnsB 7-10 jugie ; foliola
multijuga, oblongo-linearia, subsigmoideo-falcata, basi late rhachi apprcssa nee auriciilatn,
1-2-nervia, 6-9 lin. longa, concoloria. Pedunculi 6-9-pollicares. Staminodia vix semi-
pollice longiora.
Sab. Tropical America : Surinam.
Folia alterna. Pinnae 5-6-juga) foliola multijuga,
18. P. PARYPHOSPHiEiiA, Benth. ;
oblongo-linearia, subrecta, basi auriculata, 2-3-nervia, 6-9 lin. longa; snbtus pallida.
Pedunculi 1-2-pollicares. Staminodia subpoUicaria. Legumcn rectum, subpcdalc.
Paryphosphara arhorea, Karst. ! PI. Colomb. ii. 7. t. 104.
Columbia, eastern declivity of the Cordillera of Bogota,

Sab. Tropical America :
Triana, Karsten.
Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim.. Folia opposita
19. P. opposiTiPOLiA, Spruce I',
oblongo-linearia, basi auriculata, unmcrvia v. nen^

Pinnae 3-5)-jug^ ; foUola multijuga,
3-6-pollicares. Staminodia longa, nivea. Legi
altero mar o-inali. '
Pedunculi oppositi,
mina elongata
Eab. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil
III. Entada, Adans.
Hook
latum, pluripedale. Species amphigea
« Legmnen lignosum,
Bot 332. Altissime scandens. Petiol
Eoolc. Journ.
1. E Benth. in
2-5.juga, oblique elliptico-oblonga
pinn^ 2-jug* foliola
TT T"'
;
communis saepms Virrifer
iJ-pollicaria. Spica. longa., axiUarcs v. in panicula
V .marînata
emargmata, -L o
obovata, obtusa V. 2 t;
, ^^j f, p„^ o7fi. -Rpnth 1 PL
Fl ,•:
Sarv^ et Sond. Fl. Cap. u. 270 Benth. I

Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 325 ; ! ,
paucse Oliv. !
Austral, ii. 298.

Mimosa scandens, Lmn
Acacia scandens^ WiUd
Adenanthera scandens
Adenantnera scanaens, ---, ^ et E. adenanthera, DC. Prod
Pursatha, E. ^^^.tachya
monosiacnya
Entada aiaalobium, E.
E
E. Gandu. Hoffim. ex Walp
Central America.
America, West Indies, and
tropical
— ;
I
364 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. lEntada.
** Legumen intra margines eoriaceum v. memhranaceum.

r
t Species Africance. SpioB axillares v. in panicula paucce.
2. E. Wahlbeegii, Sarv. Fl. Cap, ii. 277. Scandens, glabra. Petiolus eommunis
interdum cirrifer ;
pinnse 2-jug8e ; foliola 4-18-juga, linearia, subsemipoUicaria. Spicse
cylindracese, floribus pedicellatis. Legumen curvum, membranaceum, 1-1 J poll, latum.
Oliv. ! Fl Trop. Afr. ii. 326. ,
Sab. Tropical and subtropical Africa: Upper Guinea, Mozambique and Natal
districts.
3. E. AFEicANAj Guill. et Ferr. Fl. Seneg. 233. Arborea, glabra. Pinn^ 3-4-jug8e
foliola 8-15-juga, oblonga, obtusa, J-3J poll, longa. Legumen subcoriaceum, 4 poll,
latum— O^w. / Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 326.

JSab. Tropical Africa : Upper Guinea.
4. E. KiEKii, Oliv. ! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 327. Scandens, glabra. Pinnae 3-4-jug8e
-1
foliola 8-15-juga, oblonga, obtusa, J-f poll, longa. Legumen 2|-3i poll, latum, sub-
coriaceum, articulis medio valde incrassatis.
Sab. Tropical Africa : Mozambique district.
5. E. NATALENSis, Bentli. I in Soak. Journ, Bot. iv. 333. Eruticosa, pubescens, ssepe
aculeata. Pinnae 4-6-jugse; foliola 8-15-juga, oblonga, obtusa, subsemipoUicaria. Le-
gumen membranaceum, 1-2 poll, latum. Sarv. ! et Sand. Fl. Cap. ii. 276.
Mimosa spicata, E. Mey. ! Comm. PI. Afr. Austr. 164.
Adenopodia spicata, Presl, Epimel. Bot. .207.
Sah. South Africa : Natal district. H
6. E. SUDANICA, Sclmeinf ! Bel. Kotsch. 8, t. 8, 9. Arborescens, glabra. Pinnse 5-8r

jugae ; foliola 14-20-juga, oblonga, obtusa, |-| poll, longa. Legumen 1^2 poll, latum
intersemina insigniter constrictum.— O/*??. ! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 327.
Sab. Tropical Africa Upper Guinea, Nile land, Mozambique district.
:
7. E. ABYssiNiCA, Steud. in A. BicJi. Fl. Abyss, i. 234. Arborea, glabra. Pinnae

14-18-jug8e foliola 25-50-juga, linearia, 3-5 lin. longa. Legumen J-2 poll, latum.
;
1
Oliv. I Fl. Trop. Afr.il. ^21.
Sab. Tropical Africa ; Nile land.
8. E.? DuPARQUETiANA, Baill. Adans. vi. 210. Arborea. Pinnse 2-jugaB; foliola
1-juga, ovata, acuta, coriacea, glabra, 2-3-pollicaria. Spicae axillares, geminae, summas
racemosse. Lesjumen
O"'"^^" i2:notum.
ô
Sab. Tropical Africa : Gaboon, Suparquet {Baillon). I have seen no specimen.
ft Species Americame.
9. E. POLTSTACHTA, SC. Mem. Leg. 434, t. 61, 62, Brod. Altissime scandens.
ii. 425.
Petiolus interdum cirrifer ; pinnae 2-6-jug8e ; foliola 6-8-juga, oblonga, obtusa v. emar-
gmata, f-lj-pollicaria. Spicae breves, numerosissimse, in racemo iongo dense confertse.
Legumen 2-4 poll, latum.— i'^/. Bras. Mem.
Mimosa Entada. Tjinn 1 TT^^rL r^y^ Qr^r.^. ikoo «^,vv. i? i^..± r \
Mimosa polystachia, Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 265, t. 183, Linn.

Syst. Veg. 677
— ;;
^^^^(^1 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 365

Mimosa chiliantha^ G. F. W. Mey, Prim. Fl Esseq. 163.
Entada chiliantha^ DC. Prod. ii. 425.
Mimosa bipinnata, Aubl. PI. Gui. 946 (Plum. ed. Burm. t. 12).
k.
Mimosa caudata^ Vahl^ Eel, iii. 35.

Acacia caudata^ DC. Prod, ii, 456.
Adenanthera Bonplandianaj Kuuth ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 311.
Acacia secundijiora, Juss. Herb, ex DC.
164
JSab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Surinam, Cayenne, British Guiana, ColumLia
Central America, Sutton Eayes, Tate, (Ersted ; Mexico, Andrieux, n. 409 ; Dominica,
Imray ; Trinidad, Crueger.
10. E. POLTPHYLLA, BentJi. ! in Sooh. Journ. Bot. ii. 133. Arborca v. alto scandcns
Pinnae 4-6-jugae ; foliola 15-20-juga, ohlonga, ohtusa, 4-8 lin. longa. SpicoD numcro-
sissimge, in racemo dense confertse. Legumen 2J poll, latum. Fl, Bras. Mm..
JIab. Tropical America: North Brazil; Eastern Peru, Maynas, Fceppig; Cayenne,
British Guiana.
r
11. E. ACACIJEFOLIA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Pinnre 10-12-jugoc ; foliola
multijuga, linearia, subfalcata, 3 lin. longa, costa suhmarginali. Spicie fructiferae axil-
lares. Legumen 1 poll, latum.

Sab. Tropical America : Brazil.
i IV. Elephantorehiza, Benth.
Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 590.
1. E. BrRCHELLii, Benth. in Soot Journ. Bot. iv. 311'. Foliok ad 4 lin. longa
^<»r«. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 277.
pleraque mucronato-acuta.—
Acacia elephantina, Burch. ! Trav. ii. 236.
Burch
Mey. ! Comm. PI. Air
lephaniorhiza
JSab. South-east Africa.

Bond. Jonrn. v. 81. Foliola subsemipollicaria, obtusa,
2 E BuREiBi Benth. inSooh.
3-4-pollicares.-ir«rr. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii 278.
Yix mucronata. '
Spic^
and Zeyher, rather further north than the
South-east Africa,
JIab Macalisberg, Bnrke
which, however, it is probably a variety only.

B. Burchellii, of
in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. 9, described from very imperfect s,™. (which I
E. Fetersiana, BoUe
fruit, is more hkely to be an Eniada than an El.^laal.rU.a^ and
have not seen)/ without leaves or
perhaps not distinct from E. scandens.
Y. Plathymenia, Benth.
Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL i. 589.
Benth. in Eoolc. Journ. Bot. iv. 33 i. Pm^ 4-8.jug^ ;

fobola
1 P KETicuLATA,
reticubto-venos^suna, 5-9 Im. longa. -
retusa,
10'l5ju~tl.;. elliptica,
^ras. 311m.
pubescentes.—i^.
Casar. Nov. Stirp. Bee. oM.
Chrysoanjlon Vinhatico,
—
366 MR- G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. {PUthymenia :,
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. San Paolo, Minas Geraes, and Goya'z.
f
2. P. roLiOLOSA, Benth. in Sooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 334. Pinnae 4i-12-jugse; foliola
12-20-juga, oblongo-elliptica, obtnsa v. retusa, tenuiter venulosa. Spicse glabras. Bl.
Bras. Mim.
Mab. Tropical America : Brazil, proT. Bahia, Piauhy, Ceara, Goyaz, and Minas Geraes.
VI. Ptptadenia, Benth.

invalidated by the discovery
oudhensis in the area of Adenanthera. It is, however; in its flat reticulated pod, exalbuminous
seeds, and sessile flowers, a true Ptptadenia rather than an Adenanthera. Its comparatively short dense
spikes and foliage bring it nearer to the South American P.fcBtida, than to any Old- World species of
- . ^ .
this or the allied genera.

» -
Sectio 1. EUPIPTADENIA.
L _ ,
Spicae cylindracese. Legumen planum, Iseve v. reticulatiim, marginibus continuis nervi-

formibus v. incrassatis. FoKola nunc latiuscule penniyenia, nunc linearia v. oblonga.
* Foliola ohovata, ovata v. ovato-lanceolata, pennivenia, paucijuga

k
1. P. OTJDHENSis, Brandis I For. Fl. Ind. 168. Aculeata, glaucescens. Pinn^ 2-jugse
foliola 1-juga, falcato-obovata v. subreniformia, obtusissima,
coriacea, 2-3-pollicaria. Spica
axUlares, densse, IJ-pollicares. Legumen stipitatum, curvatum, |-l-pedale, 5-6 Hn. latum
Hab. Tropical Asia : Porests of Oudb.
2. P. FCETiDA, Benth. Inermis, canescenti-tomentella. Pinn« l-jng£e ; foliola l-juga
obovato-oblonga, obtusa, l-l-polHcaria. Spicse axillares v. laterales, dens^, l-lj-polli
cares. Ovarium stipitatum, villosum.
Mimosa fcetidaj Jacq. ! Hort. Schoenbr. iii.73, t". 390.
Ingafcetida, Willd. Spec. iv. 1008.
Acacia fcetida, H., B. et K. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 265.
JTab. Tropical
America: Columbia, Mescala, Humboldt and Bonpland. Jacquii
raised it from seeds supposed to be West-Indian, but perhaps
really from Caraccas.
3. P. TATiPENSis, Spruce ! Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Scandens, minute pu
;
berula, parce aculeata. Petiolorum glandula globosa ; pinnae 2-jugge ; foliola 2-3-juga
obovata, lJ-2J-pollicaria. Spicse paniculatse, tenues. Corollse puberulse.
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil.
4. P. PATENS, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 89, et in Hook.
Bond. Journ. v. 79. Scandens, pu
bescens, aculeata. Petiolorum glandula scutellata
; pinnae 3-4-jugEe ; foliola sub-3-juga
obovata, |-lJ-pollicaria. Spicae paniculatse, tenues. CorollEe glabrae.
ens
Hab. Central America Realejo and Tiger Island, Sinclair

:
; Nicaragua, (Ersted
this
rather above that size.
FTosopoides, DC. Prod.

460, from the short diagnosis taken from a drawing of M09
ii.
appear to be either Piptadenia patens, or

Mimosa laanjlora, two very different pla but
both answering to the diagn
— — — ;;
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE M1M0SE.E. 367
5. P. LATiPOLiA, Bentli. ! in EooTc. Journ. Bot, iv. 335. Scandens, glabra, aculeata.
Pinnae 3-4-jiig8e ; foliola 2-3-juga, obovata v. orbiculata, majora f-l-poUicaria. Spicae
»
tenues, paniculatse. CoroUse glabrae. Ovarium stipitatum, villosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Acacia fmticosa, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras, 107.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro.
6. P. LAXA, Benth. I in Booh. Journ. Bot. iv. 335. Scandens ?, glabra v. puberula,
aculeis parvis nunc rarissimis. Pinnae 2-4-jug8e ; foliola 4-7-juga, oblique ovata v.
obovato-elliptica, majora ^-|-pollicaria. Spicae tenues, axillares v. paniculatae. Corollae
glabrae. Ovarium stipitatum, villosum. Fl. Biâs. Mim.

Mimosa fruticosa, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 6.
H
Acacia fruticosoj var. acutifolia, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 108.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro, Babia, San Paolo and Minas Geracs,
and apparently tbe same at Yurimaguas in eastern Peru, Poeppig.
Acacia adiantoides, Spreng. Syst. iii. 146, would appear from his short diagnosis to be a pubescent
form of P. lax a. .
in Serb. Mas. Berol. Arborea, incrmis. Pinnae 2-3-juga)

7. P. P(EPPiaii, Klotzsch !
obtuse acuminata, li-3-pollicaria. Spicae paniculatac. Ovarium

foHola 3-4.-juga, ovata,
villosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 81, t. 291.
Stryphnodendron paniculatum, !
Sab. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil.
in Zinncsa, xviii. 590. Arborea, inermis. Pinnae 3-4-jugae

8 P POLYSTACHYA, Mq.
obtuse acuminata, sub-2.poUicaria. Spicae
!
ovato- v. elliptico-lanceolata,
foKola 4-7-juga,
paniculatse. Ovarium stipitatum, villosum.
Sab. Tropical America : Bergendaal in Surinam

..„„....„...,.,..
Miquel
Mi quel
'
Journ. Bot. ir. 338. Arborea, mermis. Pin
PANICTTLATA. Senih. in Hooi.
9 P !
CoroL puW.. ovarium sessile. glaW.-i.. Bras. M,..

ItuZlIti..
«
America Brazil, prov. Eio Janeir-
Hah. Tropical :
l^rvia, pluHjuga Semina

** Foliola oblonga, obima,
Bot. ir. 336 Pruticosa, aculeis
Benih. ! in Book. Journ.
10. p. RAMOSissiMA, obtusa, 3-i
foliola 10-15-juga, oblonga,
rmn^
minimis. Pinnae
mmimis. juga) ;
Ovarium stipitatum, vUlosum

I ^-V""^^'
Spicae paniculatae.
±ioics
^l,,,^ minimi,,5 mm
glabri.
centrica.
Fl. Bras. Mim
Brazil, prov. Bahia
J«S. Tropical America :
Journ Bot. .v. 338 Inermis. Pinmje4-5

PTEKOSPERMA. Bcnth ! in Soot
11. P. Spica> fructifer. axillares. Semi.
costa subcentrali.
foliola 8 ruroWonsroWusa,
m
late alata.—jP/. ^ras. 3Iim
America Brazil, Sello.
âo.
TTah Tronical
iiopicdi xiox :
, , . •
-n-
Pmngp
Af^ \{ 329. glabra, mermis.
Pruticosa, giaora, i
rM' I VI Trov Afr. ii.
P
12.
4-6-jugae ;
^^:^^
foliola 8
Ingafobtusa, subsemipolUparia. Spic. tenues, 4-polli
Ovarium glabrum
paniculatse. 3
VOL. XXX.
t
368 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. lPijC>tadenM.
Sab. Tropical Africa : Pernando Po, Mann.

The fruit of this plant is unknown^ and it is insome measure doubtful whether it be a Piptadenic
Entada. There is no gland on the petiole^ and only very minute ones between the leaflets of a few of the
upper pairs.
13. P. CHRYSOSTACHYS, BentJi. Inermis, puberula. Pinnae 3-6-jug3e ; foliola 8-15-

juga, oblonga, obtusa, subsemipollicaria. -Spicse densse, 3-pollicares. Ovarium glabrum.
Semina alata.
Mimosa chrysostachys^ Hels. et Bqj. ! in herb. plur.
Acacia chrysostachySy Sweet, Hort. Brit. 167*
Adenanthera chrysostachys^ Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 343.
Stachychrysum pterospermum, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 114.
Hab. Madagascar : pro v. Emirna and Imamou, Bojer.
Ramuli obscure angulati^ uti petioli et pedunculi pube brevi laxa conspersi^ in partibus junioribus
copiosa, demum fere evanida. Foliorum petiolus communis 4-5 aris. Pinnae oppositse v. hinc inde
altemae, sub-3-T)ollicares, suneriores et inferioresbreviores. Gla in petiolo nullae. Foliola opposita^
4^6 lin. longa. ad lA lin. lata, basi intus ansrustata, extus fere auriculata, obtusissima, iminervia
scure subtus pilosula, Snicae in axilli
brevissime pedunculatae. Flores pedicello |-1 lin. longo fulti. Calyx canescens, | lin. longus, breviter
et obtuse 5-lobus. CoroUae petala oblonga, obtusa, 1 lin. longa, extus canescentia. Starnina breviter
exserta. Legumen non vidi, sed ex nomine specifico Bojeriano semina alata dicenda.
*** Foliola linearia, multijuga.
t Ovarium villostmi. \
14. P. NiTiDA, Benth. in Sooh. Journ. Bot, iv. 336. Arborea, inermis. Pinn^ 6-10
jugse ;
foliola vix falcata, nitida, costa parum excentrica, 2-3 lin. longa. Ovarium longt
stipitatum. Legumen rectum.
filicicoma, Mart /3
jB:ab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro.

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15. P. STJAVEOLENS, Miq. in Linncea, xviii. 589. Arborea, inermis. Pinnae 6-10-jug8e
foliola subfalcata, nitida, costa excentrica, 2-3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Mab. Tropical America Surinam, near Eergendaal.
:
Miquel appears to me to agree much
cannot
flava. The Surinam
16. P. CONTORTA, Benth. ! in Mart. FL Bras. Mim. Arborea, inermis. Pinna? 10-15-
jugse foliola falcata, nitida, costa marginal!, 1-2
; lin. longa. Glandula petiolaris scutel-
lata. Ovarium longe stipitatum. Legumen elongatum, sspius contortum.
Acacia contorta, DC. ! Prod. ii. 470.
Acacia filicicoma, ji, tenuior, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 110.
Piptadenia filicicoma, Beuth. in Hook. Journ. Bot.
!
iv. 336.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro. ~
17. P. POLioLosA, Benth.! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 336. Arborea, inermis. Pinnae
12-20-jugaB foliola falcata, nitida, costa
:
submarginali, 2-2^ lin. longa. Ovarium breviter
stipitatum. Legumen ignotum.— i^^. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America Kortb
: Brazil, on the Amazon, Poeppig.
—
n^tadenia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 369
18. P. MACRADENIA, Bentli. ! in Rooh. Journ. JBot. iv. 335. Arborea?, inermis v.
aculeis raris minimis. Pinnse G-lO-jugse ; foliola falcata, nitida, costa subcentrali, 3-4
lin. longa. Glandula petiolaris maxima, oblonga. Ovarium longiuscule stipitatum.
Legumen rectum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Kab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
Resembles P. communis, and, like that species and P. pteroclada, lias the second year's branches often
bordered by corky wings, but readily distinguished from them by the large gland and by the villous
ovary.
19. P. MICRACANTHA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Scandens, aculeis minutis
paucis. Pinnae 8-15-jug8e; foliola falcata, nitida, costa submarginali, 1-2 lin. longa.
Petiolus ssepius eglandulosus. Ovarium breviter stipitatum.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro.

Resembles P. contarta, with similar small leaflets j but the scandent habit, the presence of small prickles,
and several minor characters appear sufficiently to distinguish it.
Mimosa dumetorum, A. de St.-Hil. PI. Rem. Bres. Introd. 11 [Acacia dumetorum, DC. Prod. ii. 458),
from the very short diagnosis given, is probably a Piptadenia closely allied to, if not identical with,
P. micracantha,
1 1 Ovarium glahrum. -
{ Corolla tenuis^ calyce minimo 4^-5plo longior. Stamina longa.
20. P. BiUNCiFERA, BeutJi. in HooTc. Journ. Bot. iv. 337. Arborea, aculeis stipularibus
Pinnae 8-12-jug8e foliola falcata, obtusa, 2-3-linearia. Spicae laxae,
ffeminis recurvis. ;
3-pollicares. Legumen 8-9 poll, longum, 1 poll, latum.— P/. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Piauby and Babia.
from which, as far as hitherto known, it differs in the longer looser
Very closely allied to P. suhtilifolia,
much longer in proportion to the breadth. Both species arc remarkable for
spikes and in the pods very
divided to the middle only, and the long stamens, all rather of a
the small calyx, long narrow corolla
both the pod and the glands of the anthers are those of Piptadenia.
Mimosa than of a Piptadenia; but
Benth. in Book. Journ. Bot. iv. 337. Arborea, aculeis geminis

21. P. SUBTILIFOLIA,
recurvis v. inermis. Pinnae S-lO-jugae foliola falcata, obtusa,
stipularibus subrectis v. ;
1 i_2-linearia. Spicse longiusculse, 1-2-pollicares. Legumen " oblongum."

H., B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 268 (aculeata).
Acacia
""
subtilifolia, !
Kunth! Mim. 81, t. 25 (subinermis) , non Benth. PI. Hartw.

Acacia viridiflora,
America Ecuador, banks of the Chota river, and at San Felipe in the
Bab. Tropical :
of Bracamoras, Humboldt and Bonpland.

district
Befala (more specierum plurimarum) calyce suhduplo longioray siaminibus h

lis
RIGIDA, Benth. in Book. Journ. Bot. iv. 338. Inermis, subglabra. P

22 P.
falcata, nitida, convexiuscula, 2-5-nervia, costa submarginali, 4
3-6-jugse foliola
;
1-1^-pollicares. Semina anguste alata.— -F/. Bras. Mi

Spicge
Mart. Syst. ! Mat
Subtropical and extratropical Soutb America: Brazil, prov. Rio Grande do Sol
Bab.
:'
and Paraguay
3 c2
. — — ;
s
370 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Piptadenia
23. P. BOLiviANA, Benth. Inermis, tomentella. Pinnae S-G-jugse; foliola falcata,

convexiuscula, 1-nervia, costa submarginali, 2-linearia. Spicse 1-1 J-pollicares.
Sab. Bolivia, Kelly (a specimen originally in Herb. Lambert, now at Kew).
P. riffida certe valde affinis^ diversa tamen videtur pube v. tomento minuto in ramulis petiolis inflo-
rescentia foliolisque novellis rufescente, et foliolis dimidio minoribus costa sola subtus conspicua, Legu-
men adhuc ignotum.
24. P. APRiCANA, Sook. f. I Fl. Nigr, 330. Inermis, tomentella. Pinnae 10-13-jugae
foliola falcata, nitida, plano-concava, enervia, subtus obscure striolata, sub-3-linearia.
Spic9B 3-1-pollicares.— 0/i». .' Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, 328.
FLah. Tropical Africa : Upper and Lower Guinea, also apparently the same species on
tlie Zambesi, Kirh.
Evidently much more nearly allied to the two preceding species than to either of the other Old-World
Piptadenia.
25. P. TRISPERMA, JBenth. I in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv, 337. Scandens, aculeis sparsis
V. raris recuryis infrastipularibus. Pinnae 3-6-jug3e ; foliola obliqua, nitida, 3-6 lin. longa,
margine nerviformi cincta, costa parum excentrica. Fl. Bras. Mini.
Mimosa
Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 108.
JIab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov, Eio Janeiro and Bahia.
26. P. POLTPTEUA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Scandens, aculeis recurvis
frastipularibus minimis. Pinnae 10-15-jugse ; foliola sub dimidiata, nitida, 2-3 lin. Ion o
marcîne nerviformi cincta, costa valde excentrica.
1
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro.

27. P. COMMUNIS, Benth. I in Sook. Journ. Bot. iv. 337. Arborea v. fruticosa, aculeis
ad angulos v. alas ramorum parvis rectis v. incurvis. Pinnse 5-12-juga3 ; foliola falcata,
nitidula, 2-4 lin. longa, immarginata, costa parum excentrica. Spicse axillares v. breviter
racemosoB. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Acacia ffonoacantha, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 109.
Acacia callosa, Spreng, Syst. iii. 138 ?
Bab. Tropical America : ;Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro, San Paolo, Bahia, Piauhy, Per-
nambuco
F
28. P. PTEHOCLADA, Benth. Arborea, aculeis ad angulos v. alas ramorum paucis parvis
rectis. Pinnse 12-18-jugae; foliola falcata, nitida, 3-4 hn. longa, immarginata, costa
parum excentrica. Spicse longe racemosê.
Sab. Troj)ical America: Eastern Peru, woods and campos near Tarapoto, Spruce,
4536
trunco inermi, undique glaberrima v. rhachi
puberula. Eamuli novelli subteretes, annotini sapius anguhs 4^5 Aculei
ad angulos pauci, breves, basi lati, in speciminibus recti. Foliorum petiolus communis 8-10 poU. longus,
-<J-d.pollicares. Glandula ad basin pctioli oblonga, parva, elevata, nunc obscura, ad juga superiora
2-^ pinnarum parvae, ad foliolorum lineari
marginibus nt in P. r\
Spicae tenues^ ad 3 poll, longse, secus
rhachin racemi v. par
culatse. Calyx \ lin. longus. Corolla
lineam longa. Legu
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ 8
^-
29. P. FLAVA, Benth. Arborea v. fruticosa, pubescens v. glabrata, aculeis demum

recurvis sparsis, v. inermis. PinnsB 6-10-jugge ; foliola membranacea, 2-4 lin. longa,
rectmscula, plana, costa parum excentrica, pallida. Spicse axillares v. breviter racemosse.
fl
diflora, Bentli. in Hook. Joum. Bot. iv. 337, exd. syn

veolens. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 710. non Mia.
Sab. Tropical America : Ecuador, Guayaquil, Sartweg^ n. 653 ; Columbia, Trujillo,
Moritz y u. li&l \ Trinidad, Crueger\ Santa Marta, êr/ero.

I believe I am correct in uniting all the specimens above qnoted as one species, which I formerly
mistook for the Acacia viridijlora of Kunth, but which now, since I have seen Kunth's plant, I find to be
very different. The P,Jlava has the calyx half as long as the corolla, and in the dried state is thickened
at the base into a small ring;

4
and the petals, as in most PipiadenuBj are free nearly to the base without
the narrow tube of P. subtilifolia, to wliich I have above referred the Acacia viridiflora. The Acacia jlava
of DC. was founded on specimens of Bertero, in fruit only. The foliage agrees with that of our plant; and
the inflorescence had been evidently similarly spicate ; but the pods are smaller than those of Ilartwog'n
Guayaquil specimens ; the identity of the two plants may therefore still be in some measure doubtful.
Sectio 2. PiTYROCAKPA.
Spic£e cylindracese. Legumen inter semina ssepius constrictum, marginibus liaud in-
valvis cOriaceis, siccitate glanduloso-leprosis. Arbores incrmes. Poliola latius-

crassatis,
cula, uninervia.
30. P. Blancheti, Benth.! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Glabra. Pinnae 1- rarius
2-3 -juga, petiolulata, oblique ovali- v. ob o vali- oblonga, obtusa, j-li-pol-

2-iuo'^ ; foliola
licaria. Spicse axillares, 1-li-pollicares. Ovarium glabrum.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, pro v. Bahia.
Kooh. Joum. Bot. 339. Subglabra. Pinnae 2-3-

31. P. iN^QUALis, Benth. I in iv.
foliola 2-5-juga, sessilia, falcato-ovata v. oblonga, 1-3-pollicaria v. hinc inde

J^g e;
sub-2-poUicares. Ovarium glanduloso-puberulum.— i^/. Bras.
mFnora. Spic^ axillares,
I
Mim.
Entada ingafolia, Presl, Epimel. Bot. 205, ex char.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, pror. Eio Janeu'

H
LEPTOSTACHTA, Benth. ! in SooJc. Joum. Bot. iv. 330. Pubcrula v. glabrata.

32. P.
foliola 5-8-juga, oblique falcato-ovata v. oblonga, nifida, vix poUioaria.
Pinnse 3-4-jug8e ;
graciles, folio vix breviores. Ovarium glabrum.—J7. Bras. Mim.

Spicse axiUares,
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro.
Benth, in Hook. Joum. Bot. iv. 339. Tomentoso-pubcscens.

33. P. MONiLiFOUMis, !
oblique ovata subrliombca, 4-6 lin. longa, supra

Pinnie 2-4-jug8e ; foliola 7-lO-juga,
subtus tomentosa. Spicae axillares, 2-3.pollicarcs. Legumen inter

nitida nigricantia,
semina valde constrictum.— i^^. Bras. Mm.
Sophora ohliqua, Pers. Syn. PI. i. 453.
Thibaudiana, DC. Prod. ii. 456.

Acacia !
Brazil, prov. Babia and Piauby.

Hab Tropical America :
— — .
372 MR. G. BENTIIaM on THE MIMOSE^. [Pl^tadenia.
34). P. PSiLOSTACHYA, Benth. ! in Hook. Joum. Bat. iv. 336. Puberula. Pinnae 7-10-
jug3B; foliola multijuga, oblonga, subfalcata, obtusa, 4 lin. longa, glabra, nitida, sub-
2-nervia. Spicse graciles, axillares, 2-3-pollicares. Ovarium stipitatum, villosum.
Acacia psilostachyay DC, ! Prod. ii. 457.
Acacia stenostachya, Desv. ! in Ham. Prod. PI. Ind. Occid. 59.
Inga stenostachya, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1. ix. 427.
Sab. Tropical America Cayenne, Martin ; Surinam, Wullschnageh

:
Rami leviter striati. Stipulse parvae^ ovatsBj ssepe desunt. Folionim petiolus communis sub-4-pollicaris.
Pinnae 3-pollicares. Glandula majuscula oblonga ad basin petioli^ minor infra jugum snpremum pinnarum,
minima infra foliorum paria 1-3 superiora, Spicse in axillis smnmis v, ad apices ramorum fasciculatae,
Flores | lin, longi^ extus cano-tomentelli. Legumen ignotum, et idcirco locus in systemate adhuc
incertus.
Sectio 3. NioPA.
Capitula globosa. Legumen inter semina constrictum v. subcontinuum, planum, cori-

aceum, marginibus nerviformibus incrassatis. Arbores inermes. Pinnae multijugse.
Foliola multijuga, parva, linearia.
The four species comprised in this section differ remarkably from the rest of the genus in their globose
capitate inflorescence ; and two of them, without the characteristic gland of the anthers, would appear in
these respects to have been better placed in Leuc<Bna ; but they are too closely connected with the two
species which have the gland to be separated from them ; and the pod and especially the broad orbicular
very flat and thin exalbuminous seeds are entirely those of Piptadeniuy and not of Leucana.
* AntJieris glanduliferis
35. P. MACROCARPA, Benth. ! in Eooh. Joum. Bot. iv. 341. Pinnae multijugae ; foliola
multijuga, parva. Pedunculi ad axillas fasciculati, summi vix racemosi. Legumen sub-
falcatum, f-1 poll, latum, inter semina nonnisi seminum abortione contractum, opacum
nitidulum. FL Bras. Mim
Willd
WiUd
Bab. Tropical America Eio Janeiro, Minas Geraes, Goyaz and Matto-
: Brazil, prov.
grosso; Bolivia, Weddell, B'Orbigny; Tucuman, Tweedie; and perhaps also Loxa in
Ecuador, Jameson; but the determination of flowering specimens without the fruits is
often very doubtful.
36. P. coLrBRiNA, Benth. in BooTc. Joum. Bot. iv. 341. Pinnge multijugae ; foliola
multijuga, parva. Pedunculi fasciculati, ad apices ramorum racemosi v. paniculati, in-
ferioribus paucis axillaribus Legumen elongatum, |-| poll, latum, inter semina regu-
.
lariter constrictum, nitidum, laeve v. reticulatum. Ft. Bras. Mim.

Mimosa colubrina^YeU. EL Flum. Ic. xi. t. 16.
Acacia colubrina^ Mart. ! Herb. FL Bras. 107.
Acacia peregrinay Kunth ! Mim. 96. t. 30, excL syn. Linn.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, pror. Eio Janeiro, Bahia, San Paolo, Goyaz Bolivia,
: ;
Sorata, Mandon, n. 760; Tucuman, Tweedie Peru, Chota, Humboldt and Bonpland\ ',
Huanuco, Matthews, n. 907.

— ;
Ftptaclenm.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 373

** Antheris
eglandulosis
37. P. PEREGEiNA, Benth. ! in SooJc. Journ. Bot. iv. 340 pro parte. Glabra v. vi:
tomentella. Pinnae 10-13-jugaB ; foliola multijuga, linearia, imbricata, 1^-2 lin. longa
costa tenui v. vix coDspicua. Legumen semipedale, 6-8 lin. latum, coriaceum, sub
leprosum, marginibus vix incrassatis.— i?7. Bras. Mvm
Ml
WiUd. ! Spec. iv. 1073, non Kunth
2, WiUd. I.e.
Mimosa parvifolia,
Acacia Niopo, H.,
Inga Niopo, WiUd
Mimosa Niopo, Pc
Acacia angtistiloba,
Mimosa
Hah. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. K-io Janeiro, Minas Geraes, Goyaz, and Rio
Negro ; Guiana, Trinidad, Venezuela.
38. P. FALCATA, Benth. ! in Sooh, Journ. Bot. iv. 341. Glabra. Pinnae 10-18-jugae
r
foliola multijuga, linearia, 2J-3 lin. longa, coriacea, nitida. Legumen semipedale v.
longius, ad | poll, latum, coriaceum, marginibus vix incrassatis. Fl. Bras. Mm.
Sab. Tropical and subtropical South America : South Brazil.
VII. Xylia, Benth.

observed the glands at the tips of the anthers, which usually fall off as soon as the flower
I had not
opens. They are however, rather large, on a long stipes. The genus must therefore be transferred from
the Eumimoseae to the Adenantherese,
X. DOLABRiFORMis, Benth. I in B:ooJc. Journ. Bot. iv. 417 ; Bedd. Fl. Si/lv. 1. 186
Mimosa
Acacia xylocarpa, Willd. Spec. iv. 1055.
Inga xylocarpa, DC. ! Prod. ii. 439.
Mimosa Acle, Blanco, Fl. Filip. 738, ed.

Wall
dolabrifi
Sab. Tropical Africa, East India, and the Indian archipelago.

r
VIII. Stuyphnodendeon, Mart.

^. , ,,
T,P.flpt^ mostlv alternate in aU the species except S. coriaceum,

^
m
.
,
which many of them are opposite
in
Mm. BamuH
r
in Mart. Fl. Bras. crassi, fusco-tomcntelli.

1 S COEIACEUM, Benth. !
4-6 j uga, obli que ovata, suborbiculata, subcordata, f-l^ polli-

Pinn^*2-3-jug£e; foliola
coriacea, glabra. CoroUa caljce pubescente duplo longior. Legumen

caria demunT
4-5-pollicare. , ,r. ^
Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia and Mmas Geraes.
Sab.
Serb. Fl. Bras. 117. Hamuli crassi, rufo-tomentelli.
2 S. Babbatimam, Mart. !
— — — ;;
374 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. IStrypJinodendron,
PiniiEe 5-8 jugse ; foliola 6-8 juga, oblique ovata v. orbiculata, subtus basi stepe barbata,
IJ-poUicaria. Corolla calyce glabro plus tripio longior. Legumen 2^-3-pollicare.
FL Bras. Mim.
Acacia adstringens^ Mart. ! Reise^ i. 548. . \
Mimosa Barba'de-Timam, Veil. PL Hum. Ic. xi. t. 7.

* .,
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and San Paolo.
3. S. POLYPHYLLUM, Mart. ! Serb. Fl. Bras. 117. KamuU crassi, pulveraceo-tomen-
telli. Pinnae 15-20-jugse ; foliola 10-20-juga, oblique oblongo-elliptica, pubescentia t.
Yillosa, 3-4-linearia. Corolla calyce glabro plus tripio longior. Legumen 4-5-poliicare.
Fl. Bras. Mim.

Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, proY. Bio Janeiro, Minas Geraes, San Paolo, and
Goyaz.
4. S. EOTUNDIFOLIUM, Mart. ! Serb. Fl. Bras. 117. Subglabrum. Pinnae 5-8-jugae

foliola 5-8-juga, oblique orbiculata, subtus pallida y. alba, subsemipoUicaria. Corolla
calyce tripio longior. Fl. Bras. Mim.
S. discolor, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ, Bot. iv. 342.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, proY. Babia and Piauby.
5. S. OBOVATUM, Benth.! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Glabrum. Pinnae 10-15 -jugse;
foliola 6-10-juga, oblique oboYato- v. rbombeo-oblonga, 3-4i-linearia, subtus pallida. Co-
rolla calyce tripio longior. Legumen curvum, sub-4-pollicare.
Sab. Tropical America: Brazil, proY. Goyaz and Mattogrosso.
6. S. MiCROSTACHYTJM, Bcepp. st Endl. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. Eamuli teretes
82.
petiolique ferrugineo-puberuli. Pinnae 5-7-jugse ; foliola 8-10-juga, oblique rbombeo
oblonga, J-|-pollicaria, supra nitida, subtus glauca. Corolla puberula, calyce duplo
longior. Fl. Bras. Mim.
S. iruequale, Benth. ! in Herb. Mus. Petrop.
Sab. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil.
7. GUIANENSE, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Hamuli subteretes petiolique ferru-
S.
gineo-tomentelli. Pinnae 6-12-jug8e foliola 8-10-juga, oblique OYali-oblonga, 4-5 -line-

;
aria, supra nitida, nigricantia, subtus rufescentia. Corolla glabra, calyce subtriplo lon-
gior. Legumen rectum y. IcYiter incurYum.
Mimosa guianensis, Aubl. PI. Gui. 938, t. 357.
Acacia guianensis, Willd. Spec, m 1061.
Piptadenia guianensiSy Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 335.
Sab. Tropical America : Cayenne.
8. S. FLomBUNDUM, Benth. / in Sooh. Journ. Bot. \y. 343. Eamuli angulati, noYclli
petiolique tomenteUi. Piiinae 12-15-jugse ; foKola 10-20-juga, oblique oblonga, subtus
pallida, puberula, 2 rarius 3 lin. longa. Corolla puberula, calyce duplo longior. Le-
gumen rectum y. leviter arcuatum, 4i-pollicare. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Acacia pulcherrima, Willd. ! Spec. iv. 1061.
Mimosa pulcherrima, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 66.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, proY. Bahia, and on tbe Amazon and Rio Negro
British Guiana, SchomburgJc,
;
f Stryplinodendron.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. 375
9. S. ANGUSTUM, Benth. ! in Mart. FL Bras. Mim. Ramuli teretiusculi, novelli petio-

Hque tomentelli. PinnsB 12-l5-jug9e ; foliola 15-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, subtus pal-
lida, 2-2J-linearia. Corolla vix pubescens, calyce duplo longior.
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil, near Barra do Rio Neo-ro.
The four preceding species are very closely aUied to each other, and may possibly prove to be forms
/
only of one species.

IX. Adenanthera, Linn.
Leaflets mostly alternate.
1. A. -PANQ^TSK, Linn. Spec. 550. Subglabra. Pinnae 2-5-jugse; foliola 6-10-jn^'a,

ovata V. oblongo-elliptica, obtusissima v. emarginata, }-lJ-pollicaria. Spicee subsemipc-
dales. Legumen falcatum, subpedale, 6-8 lin. latum. Semina undique coccinea.
/
JVight, Illustr, Bot. Ind. 84 (80) Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 46.
t. ;
B[ab. Tropical Asia : East India and tbe Archipelago, common ; tropical Africa, but
perhaps introduced, as it certainly is in the West Indies and other parts of tropical
America, and possibly in tropical Australia.
2. A. MiCROSPERMA, Teijsm. et Binnend. in Nat, Tljdschr. Ned. Ind. xxvii. 58.
Pinnae 4-6-juga3; foliola 6-8-juga, insequali-ovalia, basi acuta, apice obtusa, subtus
glauca, |-lJ-pollicaria. Bacemi confertiflori. Legumina sicca tortilia. Semina com-
pressiuscula, miniata.
Mab. Java, Teijsmann.
I have not seen this plant. It is said to differ from A. pavonina in the form and size of the leaves,
and smaller seeds. The dimensions given of the leaflets, however, are the usual ones of A. pavonina.
3. A. BicoLOR, Moon, Cat. 34 ea; Thw. Fnum. Bl. Zeyl. 98. Glabra. Pinnte 1-3-
jugae; foliola 3-4-juga, ovata v. ovato-lanceolata, acutiuscula, j-l^pollicaria. Spicge
3-4-pollicares. Legumen valde contortum, 6-8 lin. latum. Semina dimidiate bicoloria
coccinea et nigra.
Bab. Tropical Asia : Ceylon and Malacca.
4-A. ABROSPERMA, F. MuelL ! Fragm. IBhyt. Austral, v, 30.

Kah. Tropical Australia Queensland. ;
This is the doubtful species from Gilbert^s River, mentioned in Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 299 as known only
from an imperfect specimen, consisting of a leaf resembling those of A. pavonina^ with detached pods,
short and bulky, slightly falcate, with red and white seeds, like those of A. bicolor. It has since been
again found during Hann^s Expedition to Cape-York Peninsula; but the specimens sent are agam
fragmentary
Africa, mentioned by Oliv. FL TroD. Air
with
X. Tetkapleuba, Bentb.
Benth. et-Hook. Gen. PI. i. 590.
1. T. Thonningii, Benth. I in IIooL Journ. Bot. iv. 345. Glabra. Pinnaj 5-8-jug8e
foliola multijuga, subsessilia, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa v. retusa, 5-7-linearia. Legumen

btusum, 6-10-pollicare, acute lateque 4-alatum.— O/??". / Fl. Trop.Afr. ii. 330.
Adenanfhera
Sab. Tropical Africa : Upper and Lower Guinea
L
8
;
376 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. ITetraj^hura. \
2. T. ANDONGENSis, Welw. ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. 331. Glabra. Pirmse 3-4-jugge
foliola multijuga, distincte petiolulata, ovali-elliptica, obtusa y. retusa, 6-9 lin. longa.
L
Legumen 4-5-pollicare, acutum, anguste 4-alatum. v
Sah, Tropical Africa : Lower Guinea.

3. T. OBTUSANGULA, Welw. ; Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 331. Legumen obtusum, cla-
vato-tetraônum, exalatum. Csetera ignota.

Hab. Tropical Africa : Lower Guinea.
XI. Gagnebina, BC.
1. G. TAMAnisciNA, DC. !, Prod. ii. 432. J
G. awillariSy DC. ! L c. et Mem. Leg. t. 64.

Mimosa tamariscina, Lam. Diet. i. 13.
Acacia tamariscinay Willd. Spec. iv. 1062.
Prosopis tamariscinaj Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 165.
Mimosa pterocarpayj Lam. Diet. i. 13.
Hab. Mauritius.
XII. Prosopis, Linn
Sectio 1. Adenopis
Petala intus glabra. Ovarium glabrum. Legumen teres v. valde incrassatum, endo-
carpio intra mesocarpium fibrosum articulos subdistinctos circa semina formante. Species
Asiaticse, aculeis sparsis recurvis armatse v. hinc inde inermes.
1. P. sPiciGERA, Linn. Mant. 18. Arborea v. fruticosa, glabra, glauca. Pinnge 1-2-
jug88; foHola 6-12-juga, oblongo-linearia, i-Jpoll. longa. Spic^ laxê, 2-4-pollicares.
Legumen 6-8-pollicare, subrectum, torulosum.—Jgo^6. / Corom. JPl. t. 63. :Bedd. FL
Sylv. t. 56. Brand. For. Fl. Ind. t. 25.
P. spicata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 102, t. 25. f. 3.
Adenanthera aculeata, Roxb. ! Fl. Ind. ii. 37.

Mimosa cineraria, Linn. Spec. 1500 ad Plum. Ic. t. 2. f. 1.
Acacia cineraria, Willd. Spec. iv. 1057, W. et Arn. ! Prod. Fl. Penins. 278.
Sah. Tropical and subtropical Asia : Western provinces of East India and Persia.
2. P. Stephaniana, Kuntn, in Steud. Norn. Sot. Pruticosa, glabra, glauca. Pinna?
3-6-jugae; foliola 8-12-juga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3 lin. longa. Spicge densê, l-lJ-poUi-
cares. Legumen crassissimum, ovoideum v. oblongum, rectum v. valde incurvum, sub-
pollicare.
Mimosa Stephaniana, Bieb. Casp. 205, ex ejusd. Fl. Taur.-cauc. ii. 449.
Acacia Stephaniana, Willd. Spec. iv. 1088.
Lagonychium Stephanianum, Bieb. ! Fl. Taur.-cauc. Suppl. 288. Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 75.
Mimosa
HI
Nympli. ex Steud. Nom
Mimosa far eta, Russ. Nat. Hist. Alep. ii. 266, ex char.
Sah. East Mediterranean Region Caucasus, Levant, Persia, Afghanistan, Gyp :
xtending to Egypt if the reference to Delile's plant be correct. I

^
^
— /
Prosopis.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 379
Sectio 2. Anonychia. ugh sometimes

Petala intus glabra. Ovarium villosura. Legumen teres, endocarpi
pium fibrosum continuo inter semina septato. Species Af ricana inermis s elongatis
3. P. OBLONGA, :Benth. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. 348. Arborea, ^' "â"
iv. f f
Pinnae 2- rarius B-jugse ; foliola 5-11-juga, oblonga v. lanceolata, J-l-polP^^^^^^^®'
densae, lJ-3-pollicares. Legumen 3-4 poll, longum, i-1 poll, crassum.— 0^2
Afr. ii. 331. go and
Coulteria ? africana, Guill. et Perr. ! Fl, Seneg. 256.
P. lanceolata^ Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot, iv. 347. liomm
AnonycMum lanceolatum, Schweinf, Rel. Kotsch, 7^ t. 7.
s 1-2
Entadal durissimay Baill. Adans. vi. 208. .
labri,
Hab. Tropical Africa: Upper Guinea, Nile land.

Ide
Sectio 3. Algaeobia.
Petala intus apice lanata. Ovarium villosum. Legumen planum v. demuMS
vexum, rarius subteres, rectum arcuatum v. annulatum, endocarpio intra mesocar-
fibroso-carnosum articulos nuciformes distinctos circa semina formante. Species An
canse, spinis axillaribus solitariis geminisve armatae v. inermes.
4. P. jLLiFLOEAj DC. ^rod. ii. 447. Arborea v. alte fruticosa, glabra v. pnbcru.
spinis axillaribus armata v. rarius inermis. Pinnae 1-2-jugse ; foliola 6-30-juga, oblong
V. linearia, variant lata et 2-8 lin. longa v. angusta et J-1-pollicaria, obtusa v. acutiuscula.
Spicse 2-4-pollicaresj densae v. tenues et interruptae. Legumen rectum arcuatum v. in
annulum perfectum curvatum, primum planum, demum saepius ad semina v. undique con-
vexum V. valde incrassatum, rarius teres, extus inter semina lineis transversis dcpressum
*
/
y. continuum variat 2-^ poll, longum, 3-5 lin. latum.

; Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa juliflora y Swartz Prod. ! 85^ Fl. lud. Occid. 986 (errore tjipogr. piliflora).
Acacia Juliflora,'Willd. Spec. iv. 1076.

Mimosa salinammy Vahl ! Eel. iii. 35.
Desmanthus salinaruniy Steud. Nom. Bot. ed, 1.
Acacia salinarnmy DC. Prod. ii. 456.

^rosopis horriday Kunth Mim. 106, t. 33.
!
Prosopis dulcisy Kunth Mim, 110, t. 34.

!
Algarobia ^w/ci^, Benth. ! PI. Hartw. 13.

Nov
WiUd
Mimosa pallida y Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 65.
Prosopis pallida y H., B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 309.
Acacia cumanensiSy Will. Spec. iv. 1058.

Mimosa cumanay Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 65.
Prosopis cumanensis H., y B et. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 310.
Acacia dipieray Willd. ! Enum. Hort. Berol. 1051.
Acacia flexuosay Lag. Elench. Hort. Matr. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 16.
Prosopis flexuosay DC. Prod. ii. 447; Hook, et Am. ! in Hook. Bot. Misc
P.fruticosay Meyen! Eeise, i. 376.

Desf. Cat. 180, exPers. Syn. ii. 263.
Mimosa furcatay
3d2
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. IFrosopis,
Journ
376
Matr. Nov
2. T. AND0NGE>^^«^5 I>C. Prod. ii. 447.
''- ^^^^
foliola multijuga'^îl|d- ^P^^-
X 4 K ^^y Poir. Diet* Suppl. i. 65,
^
^«S.
, m •
Tropic?
ngensis et P. bracteolata,
-
DC. ! Prod. ii. 447.
^ c ^ Qo^
jreng* Syst. ii- 326.
3. T. OBTTJSa, Torr. ! in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii. 192, t. 2.
YaiO'teiragOD^landuIosaj Torr. et Gr. ! Fl. N. Amer. i. 399.
Sab. ô'^dorata, Torr. in Frem. Kep. 313, 1. 1, exel. fr.
and subtropical North and South America very abundant from

.fest tropical :
Benth. etA.yres and Chile, along the Andes, to Mexico and Texas, and frequently planted
-^s^^^tj somewhat pulpy fruit, known under the name of Algarol)o, I have seen
1. G.
G. axil^ specimens from Brazil, Guiana, nor from any part of the basin of the Upper
ilimosOn.
Acad great variations in tlie breadth and size of the leaflets, the production or non-production of spines
branches or at different ages
Miv in ripening
^^fragmentary endeavoured
character
7
•
5. P. LiMENSis, Benth. I in Sook. Journ. Bot. iv. 350. Piibescens, spinis axillaribus
paucis armata. Pinnae 2-3-jug3e ; foliola 6-12-juga, parva, oblonga, obtusa. Spicse
densae, sub-4-pollicares. Legumen rectum, subteres, l^-Sj-pollicare.
Sab. Tropical America Lima in Peru, Mathews, Cuming, n. 974.
:
Ramuli, petioli, spinse et rachis pinnarum pubescentes. Spinse pauc^, solitariEe v. geminffi, semipoUi-
cares, validae. Foliola l|-2i Hn. longa, conferta, utrinque puberula. Glandu] inter pinnas
utriusque paris, minimse inter foliola suprema^ nonnunquam deficientes. Floras P Julijlt
portione corollae brevior. Legumen 5 lin. latum et crassum, inter semina nequaquam constrictum, endo-
carpio tamen ut in P. Juliflora, circasemina in articulos nuciformes distinctos secedente. \
It will require a better series of specimens than we possess to determine whether this be really more'
than a local variety of P. Juliflora.
6. P. DENUDANS, Benth. / in JSook. Journ. Bot 351.

iv. Puberula, spinis axillaribus
validis brevibus. Pinnae 1-jugae; foliola 2-3-juga, linearia, 1-3 Im. longa. Spic^ 'ob-
longae. Antherae eglandulosae. Legumen compressum, contorto-arcuatum, IJ-poUicare,
3 lin. latum. F
Sab. Extratropical South America Patagonia, Port Desire, Middleton ;

:
Port St.
Elena, King.
Frutex humilis ramis crassis brevibus flexuosis. Spinas
conicae, demum fere poUicares, in ramulis
flondis multo breviores. Stipulse fere obsoletje.
V,
Fohorum petiolus 2-3 Un. lonffus

narum Foliola crassiuscula, novella utrinque
pubescentia. Spic£B i-l -poUicares,
pedunculo 3-4-Kneari fult^, rachi pubescente.
Mores siceitate nigricantes, extus glabri. Calyx
Pm:vu3. Petala li lin. longa, mtus apice lanata.
Stamina breviter exserta, antheris in alabastro
eglandulosis.
Notwithstanding the absence of the anther-glands,

apparently constant in the present species and
nearly so m
the foUowing one, the fruit and otlier nTinrnP+Pr= .of.. +1..^ i,„î. __-.i. . . t . .,.,,. '__.-„ :,
A
Proso2)is.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 379
Algarohia of Prosopis. The endocarp appears in both to form articles quite distinct^ although sometimes
contiguous.
7. P. HUMiLis, Gill. ! in Rook, Bot. Misc. ill. 204. Glabra, spinis axillaribus elongatis
striatis. Polia nulla v. ad petiolum f oliolatuin reducta
' Spicae cylindracese 8_li-
4 -â
poll Antlierse vix glandulosse. Legumen compressum, falcatum, o-di-poll
4-5 lin. latum.
Sah. Extratropical South America : Pampas of Buenos Ayres, Gillies ; San Jago and
Patagonia, Tioeedie.
Fruticulus suhaphyllus, spinis ssepe poUicaribus ramulisque rigidis sulcato-striatis insignis. Foliorum
petiolus dum adest 2-3 lin. longus, apice biaristatus, et supra glaudulam parvam foliola ferens 1-2
minima, lanceolata, acutissima. Spinffi saepius geminae, v. altera in spicam mutata. Flores extus glabri,
calyce minimo, petalis 1^ v. fere 2 lin. longis, intus apice lanatis. Ovarium subsessilo, villosissimnm.
Antherse ssepius eglandulossBj interdum glandulam minutam sessilem detexi. Legumen immaturum valde
compressum, marginibus incrassatis, demum utriuque convexum, 8uT)torulosum.
8. P. SERiCANTHA, Gill.! in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 201. — Puberula, apliylla, ramulis
erectis rigidis plerisque apice subspinescentibus. Spicoe cylindracese, subsessiles, densse,
l-l-|-pollicares. Plores extus liirsuti. Calyx f lin., petala 1^ lin. longa. Antlicrte'
distincte glanduliferse. Legumen rectiusculum, compressum, demum utrinque con-
vexum, 3-4-p ollicare, 4 lin. latum.
Scih. Extratropical South America : Province of San Luis.
Species dubia.
9 ? HETEROPHYLLA, Beiitli. I in Hooh. Lond. Journ. v. 82. Glabra, incrmis Sti

P. V
pulse obsoletse. Poliorum petiolus longus, complanatus. Pinnae ad apicem l-2-jug9e,

foliolis 12-15-jugis parvis, v. nullae. Spicse subsessiles. Legumen planum, rectum, 4?^-
pollicare, 5 lin. latum.
Sab. Extratropical North America ; Sonora alta in Mexico, Coulter.
Ramuli tenues, subteretes/ albidi. Foliorum petiolus communis 3-7 poll, longus^ linea paullo latior v^
angustior, qi n
cares ferens. obscurse nervia
2 lin. longa, acutiuscula^ glabra v. pilis raris conspersa. Flo fructiferae rhachis 1
poUicaris. Legumen adhuc immaturum

very
Dublin, which I have not since seen. It seems doubtful whether it be a Prosoj)is or an Acacia j but it
appeared most to resemble in general habit some of the southern species of the former genus.
^.
Sectio 4s. Steombocahpa.

Petala intus apice lanata (excepta P. striata) Ovarium villosum Legumen
sum, cochleato-contortum v. gyris numcrosis spirale, endocarpio vario
v. (in articulos
distinctos v. subconnexos incrassato v. continuo v. vix a mesocarpio distincto). Frutices
Americani. Stipulte spinescentes basi saepe connatse. Spinoe axUlares desunt.

the section or genus Strombocarpa strictly to those species in which the
A. Gray proposes to reduce
endocarp is continous, or scarcely distinguishable from the mesocarp, referring P. torquata and P. abbre-
exactly intermediate between the irregularly spiral,

viata to Algarobia ; hut the pod of the latter species is
articled endocarp, of P. torquata, and the closely spiral one with con-
ahnost jointed pod, with distinctly
especially in the stipular not axillary
tinuous endocarp of P. strombulifera ; and in other characters,
I
380 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Prosops.
spinesj and the general form of the pod^ the line of distinction between the two sections appears much
definite
* SpiccB cylindracem v. ovoidea.
10. p. TORQUATA, BC. Frod. ii. 448. Puberula v. glabrata. Pinnae l-jugse ; foliola
15-25-juga, linearia, lineam longa. Legumen subcompressnm, 3-4 lin. latum, irregu-
lariterlaxeque subspiraliter tortum, margine exteriore inter semina valde intruso sub-
moniliforme, endocarpio in articulos nuciformes circa semina distincto.
M
Sab. Extratropical Soutb America ; prov. San Louis, Gillies
Prutex ramulis flexuosis foliisque muiute viscido-puberulis glabrisve. itipulares
ornotinis et in gemmis floriferis minimse, in ramis vetustioribns valid*, rec
. pauHo longiores, basi connatge. Foliorum
instructa. Mores
vidi. Spicse fructiferae e gemmis axillaribus foKosis men
gyris 2-3 laxe spirale, ssepe extensum et valde irregulariter contortum.
11. P. ABBREVIATA, Benth. in Kooh. Joum. Bot. iv. 352. Puberula v. glabrata. Pinnge
l-jugge; 10-15-juga, oblonga, vix lineam longa.
foliola Spicse ovoidege. Legumen
spiraliter contortum, gyris 7-8 laxis v. nonnullis v. omnibus arete confertis, endocarpio
inter semina subdistincto.

w
JEah. Extratropical South America, San Jago, Tweedie.

Frutex elegans ramosissimns, ramulis ilexuosis. Spinae stipnlares geminse^ divaricatae^ pleraeque parvse^
r
hinc inde fere \ poll, longse. Folia in gemmis axil communi

glandulse inter pinnas minutae. Pinnse 6-9 lin. lon^ Foliola obtusissima, cras-
siuscula. Pedunculi sub sniea spminnlliVflrPft ^^\ •
semilineari Antherarum glandula stipitata.

Ovarium stipitatum, villosiss
sometimes
with
12. P. piiBESCENS, Bentli, in Hook. Bond. Joum, v. 82. Cano-pubescens v. demum

glabrata. Pinnse l-jugse ; foliola 5-8-juga, oblonga v. obovata, 3- 4-linearia. Spicae lJ-2-
f ollicares, laxse. Plores extus glabri. Legumen spirale, gyris 12-20 in cylindrum
IJ-pollicarem arete confertis.
Strombocarpa pubescens, A. Gray ! PI. Wright, i. 60.
Prosopis Emoryi, Torr. ! in Emory, Rep. 139.
Hah. Extratropical Nortb America : Texas, Mexico, California.
The fmit figured under P. odorata,by Torr. in Frem. Eep. t. 1, is, according to A. Gray, Bot. Whipple
Exped. 2Q, that of P. pubescens, which had been sent with the foliage of P.
Juliflora.
^* SpiccB escacte
glohoso-capitatce.
13. P.
STROMBULIFERA, Benth. in Hook. Joum. Bot. iv. 352. Glaberrima. Pinnae
l-jug« ; foliola 4-6-juga, oblongo-Unearia, l-lj lin. longa.
Capitula in pedunculo pol-
licari semipoUicem diametro. Legumen spirale, gyris ad 10 in cylindrum pollicarem v.
longiorem 3-4 lin. diametro arete confertis.
Mimosa strumbulifera. Lam. Diet. i. 15.
I
Prosopis.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 381
sirombuUferaj Willd
Mimosa
Sab. Extratropical South America : Andes of Menoza, Gillies, Bade
with an u instead of an o was owing to the French custom
of pronouncing the u before an m in Latin words like an o.
14. P. EEPTANs, Benth. in HooTc. Journ. Bot. iv. 352. Minute puberula v. glabrata,
Pinnae l-jugse; foliola 6-10-juga, oblonga, linea breviora. Capitula (][uam in P. strom-
hulifera minora. Legumen spirale, gyris ad 10 in cylindrum fere poUicarem 2-3-lin.
diametro arete confertis, endocarpio vix a mesocarpio distincto.
Sab, Extratropical South America : Cordova, Tweedie, called Mostioorta, and used
as a cure for dysentery.

Fruticulus liumilis, e radicc repente atlscendens v. crectus, ramosissimns. Ramuli striati, uti folia
Stipulse spmescentes tcuucs, nunc minira 8-5 lin. longsc.

minute viscido-puberuli mox glabrati. c
Foliorum petiolus communis vix lineam longus, inter pinnas glandulifcr. Pinn e3-l lin. Ion era. Fo-
liola conferta, obtusissima. Pedunculi 9-10 liu. longi. Florcs extus glabrl. Calyx
excedens, corolla 1^ lin.longse. Antberarum glandula stipitata,
15. P. ciNERASCENS, A. Grmj, Pruticulus P. reptanti simillimus, nee distingucndus
nisi pube evidentiore prsesertim in pcdunculis et interdum in floribus ipsis, et foliolis
pauUo majoribus et \\ lin. longis.
Strombocarpa dnerascens, A. Gray ! PI. Wright, i. 61.
Mimosa
Sab, Extratropical North America Texas and Mexico, Berlandier 2013, 31i3
Gregg, Emory
Species dub
16. P. STRIATA, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Jc 83 Eruticosa ? Glab Ramuli

striati, apice attenuato-spinescentes. Stipule parvaj, spinescentes, recurvse, basi
communi brevissimo Pinnaj 1-juga? foliola 3-juga
subconnatse. Eolia pauca, petiolo ;
Spicae globosge, parvae, pedunculo tenui Corolla membr

oblonga, ad 2 lin. longa.
glabra. Antherae glanduliferse Ovarium villosum Legumen ignotum
Hab. Extratropical South America : Port St. Eleua in Patagonia, King
Mimosa than of a ProsopU; but the habit, the glaii-
of Prosopis. Till the fruit has been seen, however, the genus must
duliferous anthers, etc. are those
remain uncertam.
XIII. Xeeocladia, narv.
Benth. et Hoolc. Gen. PI. i. 591.
278, Eruticulu i^
de ramosissimus. Stipulie
X. Zeyheri, Barv.! Fl. Cap. ii.
Eolia pauca, parva Capitula parva globosa

curvte, spinescentes.
Tray. 300.
Acacia viridiramig, Burch. ! i.
Hab. Extratropical South Africa.
XIV. DiCHROSTACHYS, DO.

Hook
between
Hook. Journ, Bot. iv. 353. Ramuli f^. pctioU pubes-

1. D. TENTJIFOLIA, Benth
r^
382 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. [Bichrostacliys.
centi-liir ti . Pinnae 5-6-jugae ; glandulse parvae subsessiles v. ; foliola multijuga,

anguste linearia, ad 2 lin, longa. Spicse globosae densse, pedunculo infra spicam nndo v.
interrupte paucifloro. Legumen sublignosum, pubescens, 2-3-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum,

marginibus valde incrassatis.
Mimosa bicolor, Hels. et Bqj. MS. !
Hab. Madagascar, Bojer (in flower), Ferville (in fruit).
2. D. PLATTCARPA, Welw. Ajpont. 676. Hamuli et petioli pubescenti-hirti. Pinnae

10-18-jug9e ; glandulsB parvse, stipitatae ; foliola multijuga, anguste linearia, ad 2 lin^
longa. Spicse cylindraceae. Legumen f-lj poll, latum. — Oliv. ! Fl. Trop. Afr, A,
ii. 333.
Sab. Tropical Africa : Upper and Lower Guinea.
This and the preceding species are readily distinguished from all others by the narrow leaflets.
3. D. ciNEREA, JFight et Am. ! Frod. 211. Puberula. Pinnae S-lO-jugse; glandulae

ssepius breviter stipitatae (inter dum sessiles ?) ; foliola multijuga, oblongo-linearia, J-l
lin. longa. Spicae cylindracese. Plores parvi. Legumen 3, rarius 4 lin. latum
Wight, Ic. t. 357 ; Fedd. Fl. Spiv. t. 185.
Mimosa cinerea, Linn. Spec. 1505; Eoxb. ! Corom. PL ii. 39, 1. 174.
Desmanthus cinereus^ Willd. Spec. iv. 1048.
r L
Acacia cinerea^ Spreng. Syst. iii. 143.

Acacia Dalea, Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814,
! i, 69.
Sab. Tropical Asia : East-Indian Peninsula.
This and the following species are certainly, as observed by Oliver, very closely allied ; but the Penin-
sular specimens appear to me to have always much smaller leaflets and flowers, and a narrower pod than
D. nutans, and the glands of the common petiole are usually less stipitate.
Desmanthus callistachijs, DC. Prod. ii. 445, described from a cultivated specimen from the Courrant
garden in Teneriffe, which I did not find, or overlooked, in De Candolle's herbarium, is distinguished by
being I should therefore be disposed to refer it rather to the D. cinerea than to
D. nutans^ further
4. D. NUTANS, Benth. / in Soolc. Journ. Bot. iv. 353. Puberula v. glabrescens. Pinnae
5-12-jug8e ; glandulge stipitatae ; foliola multijuga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3, rarius 4 lin. longa.
Spicae cylindraceae. Legumen 4-5 lin. latum.— 0î?7. 1 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 333.
Mimosa nutans, Pers. Syn. ii. 266.
Desmanthus nutans, \)C.Wmdi.u..4^4!Q.
Mimosa sanguinea {Ergell y Dimmo), Bruce, Trav. vii. 147, 148, t. 6.
Mimosa bicolor, Schum. et Thonu. Beskr. PL Guin. 326.
!
Caillea dichrostachys, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg.

! i. 240.
445, Mem
Prod. ii. 44
WiUd
Mimosa
Mey
Acacia adenostylis, Fenzl ! in Flora, 1844, 312.
Dichrostachys caffra, Meissn. ! in PL Krauss. ex rf
ar
Miq
Piptadenia
Mab. Tropical Africa, apparently common tbrougbout,
extending into extratropical
— — ;
Dichrostachys.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEvE. '
383
South-east Africa as far as Natal ; tropical Asia ; the Indian archipelago ; tropical
Australia. Por ifthe African and Indian-peninsular species are really distinct, as tliey
appear to be, it is certainly to the former, not to the latter, that the Javan and Aus-
tralian specimens should be referred.
5. D. PoRBESii, Benth. 1 in HooJc. Journ, Bot. iv. 353. Glaln-iuscula. Pinn« 3 J

glandulse stipitatae ; foliola 10-15-juga, oblongo-lincaria, 2-3 lin. longa. Spicai cylin-
dracese, breves. Uarv. I et Sond, Fl. Cap. ii. 278. .
JIab. Extratropical South-east Africa : Delagoa Bay, Forhes.

6. D. MuELLEEi, Benth. / Fl. Austral, ii. 299. Glabra. Pinnrc 1-2-jugfc, pctiolo tenui
foliola 4-6-juga, oblongo-linearia, 3-5 lin. longa. Spicie cylindi'accsc.
Neptunia spicata, F. Mucll. ! Fragm. Phyt. Austral, iii. 151.
Hah. Tropical Australia.

H
7. D. KiRKii, -S^^^/^.j sp. n. Cano-puberula, mox glabrata. Pinno) l-jugjr^; foliola

3-5-juga, oblonga v. obovali-oblonga, obtusissima, coriacea, 1-2 lin. longa. Spi(*io
oblojigsB.
Hah. Tropical Africa : Brava on the Somali coast, KlrJc.

Frutex ramis rigidis tprtuosis albidis^ ramulis spinescentibus. Partes novellae pubc brcvi alba con-
spersse v* canesccntcs. Folia parva, siccitate nigricantiaj adulta fcrc glabra; petiolus communis vix
lineam longus, pinnarum rhaches tenues, 2-3 lin. longa2. Spicse breviter pedunculatse, ante anthesin ob-
longee^ 2-3 lin, longse, per anthesin vix semipoUicares. Floras inferiores more generis steriles, filamenti»
elongatis in sicco purpureis. Stamina flo rum hermaphroditorum multo breviora ctsi corolla plus duplo
longiora. Legumen ignotum-
XV. Neptunia, Lour.
Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI i. 592.
* Capitula absqtie staminodiis ovoideay Jloribiis neutris numerosis staminodiis elongatis

fere hemispJicBrlca. Stamina v. staminodla 10.
1. N. OLERACEA, LouT. Fl. CocMnch. 654. Glabra. Caulis natans, radicans, sa^pi
spongioso-inflatus. Pinnae 2-3-jug£e ; foliola 8-20-juga o Legumen

subpoUicare, 4 lin. latum, a stipite 3-lineari deflexiun. Fl. Bras. Mlm. ; Olic. ! Fl. Trop
Afr. ii. 334.
M
nutans, Willd
Mimosa prostrata, Lam. Diet. i. 10.

Mimosa lacustris, Humb. et Boupl. ! El. jEqu
Acacia lacustris, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 301.
^
Mimosa
ifer, DC. Prod, ! ii: 444
Neptunia stolonifera, Guill. et Perr. 1 PI. Seueg. 239.
N. plena, Lindl. ! Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 3, excl. syn.
Hah. Tropical Asia, Africa, and America, very widtly dispersed in tranquil waters,
but perhaps in some localities introduced.
PLENA, Benth. 1 in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv, 355. Prostrata v. adscendens, ramosa,
2 N.
Pinnae 2-3-jugse ; foliola 14-20.juga, linearia, 4-6 lin. longa. Bractcae in medio
•Glabra.
3
VOL. XXX.
%
—
I
384 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.. [Nqittinia.
pedunculo 2, alternse, cordatse, quam in cseteris specicbus majores diutiusquo persi-

stentes. Legumen subsesquipollicare, 4-5 lin. latum, a stipite brcvi deflexum. Fl.
Mimosa plena^ Linn. Spec. 1502.

Desmanthus plenus, Willd. Spec. iv. 1045.
Mimosa punctata, Linn. Spec. 1502.
Acacia punctata^ Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 300.
Desmanthus punctatus^ Willd. Spec. iv. 1047.
Desmanthus polyphy lilts, DC. ! Prod- ii. 444.
Neptunia polypJiyllaj Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 129.
Mimosa adenantJiera^ Roxb. M. Ind.ii. 554.
Desmanthus adenanthera. Wall. Cat. Herb, Ind. n. 5298.
Mimosa lycopodioides^ Desf. in Pers. Syn. ii. 263.

Acacia lycopodioides, Desv. I Joum. Bot. 1814, pars i. 68.
Neptunia surinamensis , Stend. ! in Flora^ 1843_, 759.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guiana, West Indies, Central
America ; also Tropical Asia, but probably introduced.
N. plena, Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 3, described as having a spongy
N.
Capitula glohosa v. ovoklea, jioribus inferioribus neutris v. mascuUs paucis {v. ?)
Stamina 10
3. N. TRiQUETEA, Benth. in Soolc. ! Joum. Bot.iy. 355. Diffusa, glabriuscula. Pinna
2-3-jugae ; foliola 6-12-juga, linearia, lJ-2 lin. longa. Capitula globosa. Plores infe
riores pauci neutri. Legumen J-1-poliicare, 3-4^ lin. latum, a stipite brevi deflexum,
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa
Willd. Spec. iv. 1045. W
Sab. Tropical Asia : East-Indian Peninsula.
Entered in the Elora Brasiliensis on ac-
count of a specimen in the Berlin Herbarium from Sello's South-Brazilian collection. Pos-
sibly there may have been some mistake. It is quite distinct from any American species'
4. N. TENUIS, Benth. I in Sooh. Joum. Bot. iv. 355. Glabriuscula, diflPusa, ramis
tenuibus. Pinnae 2-4-jug9e ; foliola 10-15-juga, oblongo-linearia, ad 2 lin. longa. Capi-
tula ovoidea v. oblonga. Elores inferiores pauci masculi. Legumen longe stipitatum.
Desmanthus lacustris, Torr. et Gr. ! Fl. N Amer. i. 402.
Sab. Extratropical North America : Texas.
5. N. LTJTEA, Benth. ! in SooJc. Joum. Bot. iv. 856. Pubescens, prostrata, ramis
elongatis. Pinnae 3-5-jugae, petiolo eglanduloso; foliola 15-20-jnga, linearia, ad 2 lin.
longa. Capitula ovoidea. Elores inferiores masculi perpauci. Legumen ultrapollicare,
ad 5 lin. latum, a stipite longiusculo subdeflexum.
n.N
Hab. Extratropical North America : Texas and Arkans
6. N. PUBESCENS, Benth. f in Sook. Joum. Bot. iv. 356. Pubescens, prostrata, ramis
elongatis. Pinnae 2-3-jug^ glandula obscura nulla
; v. ; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, ad
—
Neptunia.} MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEJE. 385
2 lin. longa. Capitula ovoideo-gloôsa. Flores inferiores pauci masculi. Legumen

breviter nunc brevissime stipitatum. *
Sab. Tropical and nortliern subtropical^ erica: Paraguay, Weddell; Lima and other "<
parts of the Peruvian coast, Bomhey, Cuming, n. 1027, and others Costarica, (Ersted ; ;
St. Domingo, Schomhurgk Dominica, Imray; Key-west, Florida, Jxibegel^ n. 206 (dis-
\
tributed as Acacia lutea), and apparently also Texas, Wright, n. 167, Berlandier, n.
2021, Emory Expedition, n. 303. The species may, however, prove to bo a variety of
N. lutea, distinguished chiefly by its much smaller flower-heads and the stipes of the
pod scarcely ever above 1 line long.
*** Capitula glohosa, fiorihus inferiorihtis neutris v. mascuUs perpaucia v. nulUs.
I
Stamina 5.
7. N. GHACiLis, Benth. ! in Hoolc. Journ. Bot. Iv. 355. Procumbens v. adsccndcns,

labra v. puberula. Pinnae 1-2-jugse ; foliola G-20-juga, oblongo-lincaria, 2-3 lin. Ion o
is
Pedunculi 1-3-pollicares. Legumen oblongum, 4-6-spermum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 300.
Hob. Tropical and eastern subtropical Australia.

8. N. MONOSPERMA, F. Mucll. in Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 300. Glabra. Pinnae
2_3_juga»; foliola 20-30-juga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi infra-semi-

poUicares. Ovarium 2-ovulatum. Legumen suborbiculatum, monospermum, 3-4, rarius
5 lin. latum.
Hab. Tropical Australia : N. coast, also N.W. coast, A. Cunningham.
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. pars 51 {Desmanthus acinaciformis, Span, in Linngea,
Neptunia acinaciformis, i. i.
XV. 198; D.piisillus, Zippel), from Timor, is insufficiently described for identification. The number of
stamens is not mentioned. Nept

Desmanthus trispermus. Span, in Linnaea, xv. 198, also from Timor, is named only, without any cha-
racter, and must therefore be cancelled as a species.
XVI. Desmanthus, Willd.

or suffruticose species of this genus run very much one into another ; and probably a
The herbaceous
of better specimens than we possess of some of them may induce
careful study
doubtful how far the size of the petiolar gland, or the exact proportions in lengtl 1
of their number. It is
and breadth and shape of the pod may be constant. The shrubby D. arhorescens
however, a remarkable exception.
1017. Glabriusculus, erectus v. decumbcns. Pinntf

1. D viRGATUS, Willd. Spec. iv.
glandula majuscuk; foliola 10-20-juga, oblongo-lincaria, 2-3 lin. longa

l-7-jug»;
Capitula pauciflora. Stamina 10. Legumen rectum v. subfalcatum, 2-pollicare v. Ion
gius, IJ-IJ lin. latum.— 0//i7. FL Trap. Afr. ii. 331.
Mimosa
Fruct
Mimosa
300.
. 445
H.,B. et K. Nov. Gen. ct Sp. vi. 264.
D. leptophyllus ,
3e 2
n
! — .
386 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [Desman ffius
Mimosa pernamhucana Mill ^
Acacia devauBerata. Mart.

Kah. Tropical and subtropical America : common from Buenos Ayres to tlic West
Indies ; tropical Asia : probably introduced into East India.
-
2. D. DEPRESSUS, Mumh. et Bon;pl. in Wlllcl. SjJec. iv. 10 IG, Glabriusculus, diffusus.

Pinnse l-S-jugse; glandula parva; foliola 10-20-juga, linearia, ssepius angusta, ad 2 lin.
longa. Capitula pauciflora. Stamina 10. Legumen rectum v. subfalcatum, 2-pollicare
V. longius, ad IJ lin. latum, seminibus numerosis obliquis. Fl. Bras. Mim. ; Kimtli,
Mim. 115. t. 35.
Mimosa depr^
Mimosa verm
dim
Macfact.
. ii. 445
and subtropical America from Soutb Brazil and Peru to Guiana, Co-
S:ab. Tropical :
lumbia, the West Indies, South Morida, Texas ? and Central America.
It is not always easy to distinguish this from D. virgatus. It appears that both are sometimes pro-
cumbent ; hut D. depressus is more so, with smaller, narrower leaflets, and a much smaller gland. I have
found 10 stamens in all the flowers I have examined.
3. D. LEPTOLOErs, Torr. Gr.l Fl. N. Amer. i. 402. Glabriusculus.

et Pinnae
6-10-jug8e; glandula parva ssepius minuta; foliola 15-25-juga, anguste
linearia 1-1
lin. longa. Capitula pauciflora. Stamina 5. Legumen rectum, 2-3-pollicare, 1 lin
latum. Semina dissita, sublongritudinalia, 2 lin. Ion ""a
Sab. Extratropical North America : Texas and Arkansas.
This is the only long-fruited species in which I have found only
5 stamens. It may therefore have
Linnaeus first described as Mimosa
Gouan and others of his
decandrous D. depressus. The leaflets of D. leptolobiis, like those
^sus
M
4i. D. VELUTiNrs, Scheele in Lmncea, xxi. 455. MoUiter pubescens, prostratus v.

adscendens.- Pinnae 3-6-jugce; glandula parva, nunc minuta foliola 10-20-juga,
;
oblongo-linearia, avenia. Capitula parvula (ad 3 diametro).

lin. Stamina 10, legumen
elongatum, rectum v. fere rectum, acuminatum, IJ lin. latum.
D. peduncularis, Buckl. in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861,
454; 1862, 163.
Bab. Extratropical North America : Texas. The pod is said to attain 3 or 4 inches.
I have not seen it above 21 xii.
2 in. Ion
-luxig
5. D. Jamesii, Torr. et Gr. ! Fl. N. Amer. i. 402. Leviter puberulus, prostratus v.

ascendens. Pmnge 3-6.jugae ; glandula magna, oblonga; foliola 10-20-juga, linearis
oblonga, subavenia. Capitula majuscula (4-5 lin. diametro absque staminibus).
Sta-
mma 10. Legumen elongatum, rectum v. rectiusculum, obtusum v. acutum.
Sab. Extratropical North America Texas and adjoining
:
districts.
D. reticulatus
pmnse -*
6. D Bentli. I in Sook. Joum. Bot. iv. 357.Parce pubescens

cescens. diffu^s. Pinuse 1^., s»pius 2-3-j uga,
; glandula parva y. nulla ; foUola
] BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 387
4-8-juga, oblonga, IJ-linearia, 2-3-nervia. Capitula parva. Stamina 10. Legumen

subfalcatum, acutum, reticulato-venosum, l-lj poU- longum, IJ-l^^ Hn. latum, 8-13-
spermum. *-
D. rhombifolius, Buckl. in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861, 454; 1862, 163.

Sab. Extratropical Nortli America Texas, Brummond. :
m
Nos. 140 and 169 of Wright^s Texan plants appear to me to be a variety of this species, with the
veins of the leaflets less prominent underneath^ and the pod altogether larger, and perhaps rather less
veined. They have certainly neither the larger flower-heads nor the conspicuous oblong petiolar gland
of D. Jamesii.
7. D. ACTJMINATUS, BentJi. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 357. Pubescens v. glabrius-

I
cuius, diffusus. Pimiae 1-4-jugge; glandula majuscula;' foUola 6-10-juga, oblonga.

Capitula pauciflora. Stamina 10. Legumen falcatum, acuminatum, lajve, Ij-pollicare,
IJ lin. latum, 8-13-spermum.

Kah. Extratropical North America : Texas, Drummond.
8. D. iNcrRVUS, BentJi. ! in ILoolc. Lond. Journ. v. 84. Glabriusculus, diffusus.
L
Pinnae 5-10-jugse; foliola 10-15-juga, oblonga; glandula parva v. nulla. Capitula

pauciflora. Stamina 10. Legumen falcatum, 2-2J lin. latum, liirtellum, 6-9-spcrmum.
Hah. Subtropical North America between Eeal : del Monte and Zacatecas in Mexico,
Coulter.
This seems to coimect the preceding with the following species. Mimosa pumila, Schlecht. in Linnaea,
xii. 557, from Regla, Ehrenberg, is probably, from the description, the same species, or one closely allied
to it.
•9. D. BEACHTLOBUS, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 358. Glabriusculus, erectus.
Pinnae 6-15-jug8e; Foliola 20-30-juga, anguste linearia, 1-2 lin. longa. Glandula par-
vula. Capitula multiflora. Stamina 5. Legumen late falcatum, J-l-pollicare, 3 lin.
latum, 3-6-spermum.
Acacia h'acTiyloha, Willd. Spec. iv. 1071.
Darlingtonia hrachyloba, DC. ! Prod. ii. 443.
Mimosa glandulosa, Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 254 ; Vênt. Choix, t. 27.
Acacia glandulosa, Willd. Spec, iv, 1071.
Darlingtonia glanduJosa, DC. Prod. ii. 443.
Mimosa illinoensis, Mich

nnrJinntnnia intermedia.
100
Besmanthus falcatus, Scheele in Linnaia, xxl. 455.
Kah. Extratropical North America : Southern United States

and pentandrous flowers of D. kptohbus, the pod is the shortest
the longest and narrowest of the genus. smanlh

broadest, instead of
Nept
MS. Pruticosa, glabra v. pilis raris consper^. Pinnae
10. D ESCENS, Bojer !
4-6-juga, oblongo -linearia, 2-3 lin. longa. Capitula multiflora. .

Stamina 5.
_ juoie ; foliola
rectum, obtusum, 2-3-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum, basi longe angustatum. Semina
Le«>umen
longitudinalia.
Hah. Madagascar : Bombatok Bay, Boj
elongati, ut videtur divaricati
igustse, setaceo-acuminatae, 1-1 i
Ramnli liffnosi,
388 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Desmanthus.
-m
lin. longfe, caducse, Foliorum petiolus communis 1-2 lin, longus^ tenuis; pinnarum rliachcs subsemi-
pollicares^ fere filiformes. Foliola rigidula^ valde oblique penniveniaj venis 2-3 infimis ad basin costse
insertis. Pedunculi ad nodos ramonim annotinorum solitarii^ tenues^ pollicares v. paullo longiores.
Capitula globosaj diaraetro vix 2 lincas excedentia staminibus exclusis. Calyx truncatus^ \ lin, lon^-us.
Petala 5^ fere a basi soluta^ calyce duplo longiora. Stamina in floribus examinatis 5, corolla dimidio
longiora. Antberce oblongse^ glandula minuta fugacissima (an semper?) apiculatae. Ovarium glabrum.
Legumen glaberrimum, rigidulum^ marginibus incrassatis fere Calliandrce, valvis coriaceis nitidis aveniis.
Semina 6-8, oblonga, inter se distantia.
XAÎI. Mimosa, Linn, (pro parte).

Bentb. et Hook. Gen. PL i. 593.
Since I proposed the division of tbis vast genus into three sections or subgenera, I have seen the ripe
unknown and :
culate and continuous valves, which I had already been obliged to give up in respect of some species of
group MeticuloscB of the section
Habbasia. In some cases the pod (within the constantly continuous persistent margin)
articulate
otherwise be group of Spicifl^
Habbasi(B. with the

Ameriaj and the isomerous stamens of Eumimosa. I have therefore been obliged to reduce the number of
distingu or twice that of the
divisions of the corolla —a character which I have found absolutely constant, except perhaps in a single
(M, Habbasia and Ameria, and the new lisrhts thrown
many by the numerous additional specimens brought under examinationj as well as a considerable
species
number of new species, have occasioned several modifications in the subordinate groups I had proposed.
It maybe therefore useful to prefix to the detailed enumeration of species the following general summary
of the groups or series, neglecting occasional exceptions, to be specially mentioned in the course of the
enumeration.
Sect. 1. Eumimosa. Stamina numero petalorum agualia.

I
— Species 1-130.
Series 1. Sensitives. Pinnae 1-jugse. Foliola majuscula, li-2-juga. Aculei sparsi v. 0.— Species 1-13.
Series 2. Modesta, Pinnae l-jugte. Foliola pauci- (4-o-)juga. 'Aculei infrastipulares v. 0. Herbae
diffusse V. nanse. — Species 14-18.
Series 3. Cast^. Pinnae 1-jugae. Foliola pluri- (saepius multi- rarius 3-6-)juga. Aculei sparsi,
Species 19-32.
Series 4. Pectinata. Pinnae l-jugse. Foliola multi- (rarius 6-8-)juga. Aculei nonnulli v. omnes
infrastipulares. Frutices v. sufirutices elatiores.— Species 33-38.
Series 5. Pudica. Pinnae 2-5-jugEe, saepius confertae. Foliola multijuga, marginata. Aculei nonnulli
V. omnes infrastipulares. — Species 39-45.
Series 6. Hirsuto:. Pinnae 2-4-jug8e, rarius unijugae. Foliola multijuga, 3-5-nervia, immarginata.
Inermes, patentim pilosse, pedunculis longis. — Species 46-53.
Series?. Pedunculosa. Pinnae 1-jugae, rarius 2-4-jugae. Foliola multijuga (rarius 5-8-juga), mar-
ginata. Inermes, diffusae v. prostratae, pedunculis saepius axillaribus elongatis. — Species 54-66.
Meticulosa. Pinnffi 1-jugae. Foliola multijuga (rarius 4-8-juga), marginata. Inermes,
rigidse v. fruticosae, pedunculis saepius brevibus in racemum seu paniculam
axiilaribus. — Species 67-100.
Series 9. Myriophyllm. Pinn^ multijugce. Foliola multijuga, parva. fruticosae
capitulis globosis in racemum tenninalem dispositis v. infimis axiilaribus.— Species 101-103
:
Mwosa.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEiE. 389
Series 10. 'Spiciflora.

ras. Pinnae pluri- v. multi-jugse. Spicse cylindraceae v. elongatse. Aculei sparsi
parvi. Flores ssexîus 5-meri. — Species 104-109.

Series 11. Obstrigosa. Pinnse l-jugse. Fruticuli in aculeati
strigosi rarius glabri. — Species 110-116.

Series 12. Lepidotce. Pinnee 1- pluri-jugae. Erutices inermes, tomento stcllato plumoso v. lepidoto,
flavicantes canescentes v. fulvescentes. — Species 117-130.

Sect. 2. Habbasia. Stamina numero petalorum duplo plura. — Species 131-2
* Setce nulloi {sp. 2 exceptis).
Series 1. Leptostachyts. i
Glanduliferce. Capitula parva, globosa/ ample paniculata. Lcgumcn planum, pluriarti-
^ ^•c o.. _«; —
Slip to be stitched in at jp. 389
Owing to an accidental clerical error, tlê specific
numbers referred to in this Clavis of the Sect. Habbasia

are 1 too low when above 150, thus
131-278 should be 131-279

131-160 „ „ 131-161
161-167 ;, „ 162-168
and so on.
Jj'rahics meruies, secosi.- op.ciu^ ^wu-.,

setosura, valvls Indivisis.
American ; the few species of the genus indigenous to the Old World
series of both sections are
All the
Rubicaules and Asperata of Habbasia.
belong to the series
Sectio 1. EuMiMOSA.
-Herb es, suffrutices v. frutices, interdum scandentes,
Stamina numero p et alls i^qualia.
sa>pe setosi. Foliorum petiolus (duabus specicbus exceptis)
rarissime arb ore scent es,
v. jugis digitatim
approximatis rarius dissit is plun-
-^^landulosus. Pinn^ s^pius 1-jug^
'3
dum paucijuga foliolum intenus pans mfimi s^pius
Foliola pauci- v. multi-juga,
jug
plerisque globosa v. rarius eUipt
Capitula in seriebus
multo minus v. deficiens.
elongato-cyUndraoeae. Calyx mmutus sukncon-
lOma 12ma spicce oWongaj v.
et
pappifomis. CoroUa membranacca v. in serie 12ma cras-
V paleaceo-ciUatus aut
spicuus
3- v. 6-fida. Legumen SiEpius oligospermum
Ifida V in serie lOma S-fida, rarius
I
^**"^««-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE M1M0SE.E. 389
I,
Series 10. 'Spicifiom. Pinnae pluri- v. multi-jugse. Spicse cylindrace^ v. elongatae. Aculei sparsi
parvi. riores saepius 5-meri. — Species 104-109.
Series 11. Obstrigos(B. Pinn^ l-jugse. Fruticuli inermes v. parce aculeati, pilis deorsum appressis
strigosi rarius glabri. — Species 110-116.
Series 12. Lepidot^. Pinnae 1- pluri-jugse. Frutices inermes, tomento stellato plumoso v, lepidoto,
flavicantes canescentes v. fulvescentcs. — Species 117-130.
J
Sect. 2. Habbasia. Stamina numero petalorum duplo plura. —Species 131-27

* Setce nulloi {sp. 2 exceptis).
Series 1. Leptostachym. Spicse cylindracese densse v. laxiflorje.— Species 131-16p.

Series 2. Glandulifera. Capitiila parva, globosa, ample paniciilata. Lcgumen plainim, pluriarti-
culatum. Frutices saepe scaiidentes, aculeis minimis recurvis. roliorum petiolus glaudulifer. — Species
?- 161-16^. f
Series 3. Rubicaules. Capitula globosa, ssepius paniculata. Legumcn planum^ pluriarticulatum.
Frutices aculeis sparsis armati rarius setis rigidis cchinati. Foliorum petiolus eglandulosus.— Species
168-190. .
Series 4. Acanthocarp^. Capitnla globosa, pleraque axillaria. Legumcn planum, valvis indivisis v.
rarius articulatis. Frutices aculeis sparsis v. infrastipularibus armati. — Species 191-213,
Series 5. Ephedroidece. Capitula globosa, latcralia. Legumcn planum (pluriarticulatum?). Fruticuli
spinescentes^ aphylli v. foliis parvis raris. — Species 214, 215.
Series 6. Stipellares. Capitula globosa, axillaria. Legumen subplanum, valvis indivisis. Frutices
inermes v. rarius parce aculeati, non setosi. Stipellae orbiculatse v. ovatae. —Species 216-224.
Series 7. Lepfopodce. Capitula globosa^ axillaria. Legumen planum^ valvis articulatis. Frutices
inermesj non setosi. Stipellse minutge v, setacese. Foliola parva v. 0. — Species 225-239.
*^ Saapissime setose*
m
Series 8. Somniantes. Capitula globosa^ pleraque raccmosa. Corollse multistriatae. Frutices v.herbae
aculeati v. inermes, setosi hispidi v. glabri. Petiolus inter pinnas setifer. —Species 240-249.
Series 9. A$perat(jB. Capitula globosa, axillaria v. raccmosa. Corollae mcmbranacege non striata.
Frutices v. herbae aculeati v. subinermes, hispidi v. setosi. Petiolus inter pinnas ssepius setifer., Lûmen
— Species 250-265.
w
planum, valvis articulatis.
Series 10. Adverse. Capitula globosa, racemosa. Legumen subplanum, valvis indivisis. Frutices
suffruticesve aculeis sursum incurvis armati. — Species 266^ 267.

Series 11. Pachycarpa. Capitula globosa/ conferta v. racemosa. Legumen ssepius crassiusculum,
setosum, valvis indivisis. Frutices inermes, setosi.— Species 268-278.
. All the series of both sections are American ; tbe few species of tbe genus indigenous to the Old World
TiAlnncT +.n fl»p spries RuMcaules and Asneraia of Habbasia. \
Sectio 1. Etjmimosa.
Stamina numero petalis sequalia. —Herbae, interdum scandentes,

suffrutices v. frutices,
rarissime arborescentes, sa^pe setosi. Poliorum petiolus (duabus speciebus exceptis)

eo'landulosus. Piunae ssepius 1-jugge v. jugis digitatim approximatis rarius dissitis pluri-
mo-ve. Poliola pauci- v. multi-juga, dum paucijuga foliolum interius paris infimi saepius
multo minus v. deficiens. Capitula in seriebus plerisque globosa v. rarius elliptica, in
seriebus lOma et 12ma spicae oblongae v. elongato-cylindracese. Calyx minutus subincon-
spicuus V. paleaceo-ciliatus aut pappiformis. Corolla membranacea v. in. serie 12ma cras-
sior, 4-fida v. in serie lOma 5-fida, rarius 3- v. 6-flda. Legumen soBpius oligospermum
;
390 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. IMimosa.
(in serie lOma polyspermum) valvis in articulos secedentibus v. in paucis* specicbus

indivisis, margine setoso v. nudo, nee simplici serie aciileato.
_
Series 1. Sensitivse. Serhce peiênnes erectcs. v. scandenteSy rariiis annu(s v. frtitices.
FinncB unijiigce. Foliola hijuga, majusculay hasi dimidiata, marginibits nerviformibus

et appresse ciliatis rarius nudis ; interius paris infimi minimum hasi cequale v. defidens.
FedmiGuli inferiores axillares, mperiores in racemtim terminalem scepius dlspositi.
Capitula globosa. Mores 4<-meri v. rarius hinc inde pauci 5-meri, Legumen planum^
valvis in articulos distinctos secedentibus.
h
1. M. Velloziana, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 185. Subscandens, glabra. Aculei sparsi,
recurvi. Poliola ovato-lanceolata, acutata, glabra v. subtus strigis paucis conspersa
majora sesquipollicaria. Legumen subpollicare, ad 4 lin. latum, glabrum, margine
setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
M. viva, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 33, non Linn.
• Var. jiramenensis, foliolis majoribus, leguminis
^^^^ setis
^^y,..^ marorinalibus
U_^ll*XQ minimis nee
J5^»
elongatis.
M. Jiramenensis
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro, San Paolo, Goyaz and Bahia
:
North Brazil Columbia, Panama, Seemann, Fendler, n. 91 Guatemala, Bernoulli (with

; ;
the pods very slightly hoary pubescent when young) ; Guanaxuato,

(Ersted\ the variety
jiramenensis in North Brazil and Columbia.
2. M. SENSiTiVA, Linn. Spec. 1501. Subscandens, pubescens v. hirsuta. Aculei sparsi.

Foliola ovato-lanceolata, acuta, subtus v. utrinque
appresso-villosa, majora 1J-2J poll
louga. Legumen saepius poll, longum, 3 lin. latum, pubescens v. villosum, margine
|
rigide ad facies parce setosum.— i^^. Bras. Mim.
M. floribunda, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 130, non Linn.
!
M. litigiosa et M. malitiosa, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. 138. !
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia, Minas Geraes, Para and Bio Negro.
This, the preceding,
and the three or four following species, pass so nearly one into
the other that they
would probably aU have been included by Linnaeus under
his M. sensitiva ; but the one he had specially
in view, founded on the exceUent figure and
description of Breynius, Cent. 31. 1. 16, is, without doubt, the
common Brazilian acute-leaved viUous one to which the name is here restricted.
3. M. ALBiDA, Sumb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1030. Scandens, cano-pubescens.
Aculei sparsi, rari.
Foliola ovato-lanceolata, aciitiuscula, utrinque minute cano-pube-
rula, majora subsesquipoUicaria.
Legumen subpollicare, cano-pubescens et piHs rigidis
appressis strigosum.— ô/?^^. / Mim. 2. t. 1.
M. sensitiva, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 249, et hortul. plur.
!
Sab. Tropical America Pacific coast, Lima to Panama,

: Sumboldt and Bonpland,
Bomhey, Matthews, n. 440, Cuming, n. 1025 ; Acapulco,
Sinclair.
M
4. M. FLORIBUNDA, Willd. I Spec. iv. 1031. Subscandens, pubescens v. hirsuta. Aculei
sparsi, recurvi.
Foliola ovato-lanceolata, acutiuscula, supra
glabra, subtus dense strigoso-
viUosa, majora subsesquipoUicaria.
Legumen subpoUicare, ad 3 Hn. latum, undique
longe rarius breviter setosum.—ôoAr.
Ic. Fl. t. 373.
— —
Mimosa.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 391
M. strigosa, Willd. Spec. iv. 1030.

!
M. Willdenowii, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 50.

M. racemosuy Schleclit. Linnsea^ xii. 557.
Hab. Tropical America Ecuador, : Bolivia, Peru, Columbia, Central America, Mexico,
apparently common.
5. M. ADHERENS, ^., £. et K. I Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 249, a M.fiorihunda differrc vide-
batur aculeis crebrioribus et foliolis obtusioribus ad ilia M. rixosce tendentibus. An bujus
V
r
V. illius varietas ?
Sab, Tropical America : On the Orinoco, Humboldt and Bonpland.
6. M. mxosA, Mart. I Herb. Fl. Bras., 137. Subscandens, ferruginco-birsuta v. pu-
bescens. Aculei sparsi, recurvi. Poliola obovato-oblonga, obtusa v. mucronata, utrinquc
adpresse villosa, majora lJ-2-pollicaria. .Legumen f-poUicare, 2-2 J lin. latum, niarginc
rigide ad facies parce setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

M. violacea, Boapl. in Ten. Cat. Ort. Nap. 87 ex descr.
M. pauciseta, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 3G2.
!
Hab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas

: Gcraes and San Paolo.
M. PLATYPHYLLA, Benth. ! in IIooJc. Bond. Journ. v. 85. SulTrutiosa, inermis, setis

7.
lonîs birsutissima. Poliola oblique obovata, obtusa, utrmquo hirsuta, majora

rufis
2-2j-pollicaria. Fl. Bra^. Mim.
r Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
8. M. DEBiLis, Humb. et Bonpl. ! in Willd. Spec. iv. 1029. Annua dicitur etsi pluri
Aculei parvi, rari. Foliola obovali

pedalis, erecta v. debilis, pubescens v. birsuta.
oblonga, obtusa, utrinque appresse pilosa, majora rarius pollicaria. Legumen semi
longeque brevius setosum.— i^/. Bras. Mim.
poUicare, 2 lin. latum, undiqije dense v.
M. Hostmanni, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 84.
M. notata, Steud. in Flora,

1 18i3, 758.
Hab. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil, Surinam, Columb

Aculei validi, recurvi, crebri
Var. ? panamensis. Annua v. suffruticosa ? tenuis.
Eoliola quam in forma typica angustiora, majora | poll, longa supra medium 3 lin. lata
Capitula parva et legumina omnino format typicae.
Hab. Panama, Seemann.

1047. Herbacea v. suffruticosa, glabra v. parce
9. M. OBTUSIFOLIA, Willd. Spec. iv.
recurvi, pauci. Foliola obovato-oblonga, obtusa, majora

setosa. Aculei sparsi,
supra glaberrima, subtus sparse strigosa.— i^^. Bros. Mim.

ultrapollicaria,
M.fervida, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 137, 185.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Gcraes and San Paolo.
Bcnth. in EooTc. Journ. Bot. iv. 362. Suffruticosa, glaberrima,
10. M. GLAUCESCENS, !
FoUola obovaU-oblonga, obtusa, coriacea, marginc ncrviformi serrato

o-lauca inermis.
li-2-polUcaria. Legumen l-li-poUicare, 3-3i lin. latum, glaber-
ciUato 'cincta, majora
rimum, nudum.—J/. Bras. Mim.
Tropical America BrazU, prov. Goyaz or Minas Geraes.
> * Sab. :
in Sooh Journ. Bot. iv. 362. Suffruticosa, glaberrima

11. M. ANGUSTA, Benth. I
3
XXX
— —
392 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Mimosa.
o-lauca, inermis. Eoliola oblongo-linearia, acuta v. mucronata, margine nervif ormi pauci-
ciliato, majora 1-1 J-pollicariaj 2-3 lin. lata. Bractese corolla breviores. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Goyaz. :
12. M. NrDA, Benth. ! in SooL Journ. Bot. iv. 362. Suffruticosa, glaberrima, glauca,
inermis. Poliola oblonga, obtusiusciila, margine nerviformi nude, majora li-2-poIlicaria,

4-8 lin. lata. Legumen siibpollicare, 2 lin. latum, crassiusculum, nudum. Fl. Bras. Mini,
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz ; Chiquitos in Bolivia,
4
B'Orbigny.
13. M. GTMNOLOMA, Benth. Sooh. Bond. Journ. v. 85. Suffiniticosa, glaberrima,
! in
luca, inermis. Poliola linearia, margine nerviformi nudo, majora 2-3-pollicaria.
Bractese corollam superantes. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America r
: Brazil, prov. Goyaz. .
Series 2. Modestse. Serb (S prostrates v. decumbentes, scepius annuce v. nance^ inermes

V. aculeis infrastipularibus infrafoliaceisque armatce. Pinnce unijugce. Foliola pauci-
juga, latiusGula, margine nermformi setuloso-ciliato cincta v. nuda. Bedimctili solitarii
V. gemini, inferiores axillares, superiores scepe racemosi. Capitula globosa. Flores
4i'meri. Leguminis articuli scepius medio tuberculosi v. ecJiinati.
The plants of from the Pectinata ia their small or weak herbaceous often annual
this series differ
habit, from the Castes in the want of the scattered prickles, and from these as well as from the other
foUowiBg M. Jionesta, among tlie MeticuJosm, approaches the ModestcB

habit as in the pod^ hut upon the whole seems better placed among the former.
M.
14. VIVA, Linn.! Spec. 1500. Nana, tenella, diffusa v. reptans, glabra, inermis.
FoHorum petiolus communis filif ormis, J-l-poUicaris ; pinnae petiolo breviores ; foliola
sub-4-juga, obovato-oblonga, vix 2 lin. longa. Capitula pauciflora, pedunculo filiform!
petiolo sequilongo. Legumen ovato-quadratum, 1-spermum, pubescenti-Mrtum.
Hab. Tropical America : Jamaica.
15. M. Skinneki, Benth. ! in Soolc. Bond. Journ. v. 85. Annua ? diffusa, humilis,
pilis longis rufis patentibus birsuta. Aculei gemini v. terni, infrastipulares et infra-
foliacei, recti. Eoliola 4-5- rarius 6-8-juga, obovato-oblonga, supra glabra, subtus pilosa,
ad 3 lin. longa. Pedunculi filiformes, 1-li-pollicares. Leguminis articuli 3-4, stellato-
pubescentes, margine setosi.
Hab. Tropical America : Guatemala, Cuesta of Leone, SUnner ; Ujara, (Ersted.
are
Modesta. Although small, the plant is much larger and coarser than the M
16. M. DESMODioiDES, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Herbacea, prostrata, gracilis,
glabra v. pauciseta. Aculei infrastipulares gemini v. 0. Toliola sub-4-juga, obovato-
oblonga, obtusa, membranacea, immarginata,
2J-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi tenues, polli-
cares longioresque. Legumen ssepius falcatum, 6-8 lin. longum, 1^ lin. latum, faciebus
dense, marginibus parce setosis, articulis saepius 4.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
17. M. MODESTA, Mart. I Serb. Fl. Bras. 135. Suffruticosa v. herbacea, decumbens,
puberula v. apice sericeo-pilosa. Aculei infrastipulares gemini v. 0. Poliola 4-5-juo'a,
- J
—— —— —
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE 393

F
ovata Y. obovata, coriacea, glabra, margine nerviformi setoso-ciliato, 4-5 lin. Tonga.
Pedunculi 1^3-pollicares. Legumen ^-l-poUicare, 3-4 lin. latum, tomentoso-canescens,
articulis 2-4 medio aculeis conicis echinatis. Fl. Bras. 3Bm.
JSab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia.
18. M. URSiNA, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 136. Herbacea, decumbens v. suberecta,
patentim pilosa. Aculei gemini v. terni, infrastipulares et infrafoliacei. •
Foliola 4-5-
juga, ovata, subcoriacea, supra glabra, subtus longe hirsuta, 4-6-linearia. Pedunculi
infrapolHcares. Legumen ^-|-pollicare, fere 3 lin. latum, moUiter appresse pubcscens,
articulis 2-4 medio aculeis conicis ecbinatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia and Piauhy.
Series 3. Castse. Frutices suffrutices v, herbce, aculeis sparsis nee infrastipularlhus
armatcE {v. hinc inde subinermes) . Binned unijitgcB. FoUola pliiri- v, mulHJu(/af mar'
gine 7ierviformi settdoso-ciliato cincta v. nuda. Bedunmli solitarii v. gemini, axillarcs
folioque breviores v,ad apices ramorum racemosi. Capitula glohosa v. rarius ohlongn.
Flores tetrameri. Leguminis valvce artictdatce v. indivisce, nudce v. setosa? nee tuberciiloso-
incrassat(B.
This series is intermediate, as it were, between tlie Sensitive and the Meticulosa, the M. casta and its
allies having the habit of the former but differing in the more numerous leaflets,'and the M. dolens and its
allies differing from the Meticulosa only in the presence of prickles, which in a few specimens are
exceedingly few, or perhaps sometimes entirely wanting, although a careful search has almost always
pointed out some small ones, which I have never found in any of the numerous species of Meticulosa.
» Foliola S-G-Juga, margine nervifc
19. M. CASTA, Linn. Spec. 1500. Pruticosa, debilis v. subscandens, subglabra. Aculei
recurvi, crebri. Poliola oblonga v. lanceolata, 3-5-nervia, glabra v. subtus parce sctu-
losa, majora subpoUicaria. Legumen |-lJ-pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum, margine setoso,
valvis glabris nudis 3-5-articulatis. FL Bras. Mim.

M. dominiciana, Desv. ! in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ix. 424.
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil, West Indies.
20. ?M. HETEROCAEPA, Bresl, Bot. Bemerk. 64. Pruticosa, scandcns? subglabra.
Aculei sparsi, recurvi. Poliola 4-juga, ovato-lanccolata, acuta, 3-nervia, subtus strigosa.
Leo"umina 1-sperma disco

alia 5-linealia elliptica inermia, alia 2-3plo longiora, in arti-
culos 2-3 disco ecliinatos monospermos scccdentia. Fl. Bras. Mim.

seen no specimen answering to the character given; and as the flowers were unknown to Prcsl,
I have
uncertain even to which section of the genus the plant should be referred. The habit described is
it is
nearest to that of M. casta.
LACTIFLUA, Belile in Herb. DC. Pruticosa? glabra. Aculei sparsi, rari,

21.? M. !
4-5-juga, oblique ovata v. oblonga, rigidula, pennivenia. Capitula iis

recti. Poliola
majora, cui ca?tcrum affine. Fl. Bras. Mim.
3f. castcB
Hab. America tropica ?
were from the Botanical Garden of Montpellier, supposed to be of American, perhaps

Delile's specimens
specimen from Mexico, Ehrenberg, ^yhich agrees
azilian, oridn. In the Berlin herbarium there is a
8^2
\
— .
394 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. IMimosa.
in
are under instead of over ^ in. long. I have now no means of comparing the specimens themselves. The
rare prickles, the rigid leaflets, &c. prevent the uniting it with the M,
** Foliola 6- multijuga^ submemhranacea^ vlx marginata.
22. M. TEiCEPHALA, Clicm. et ScJilecht. ! in lAnncea, v. 591. Emticosa, pubescenti-

scaLra. Aculei recti. Foliola 10-15-juga, ovato-oblonga, semipollicaria, 1-2-nervia,
supra glabra, subtus strigosa. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical Nortb America : Mexico, near Actopan, Schiede.
4
23. M. Sagotiana, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Scandens ? glabra. Aculei
recurvi, copiosi. Foliola 12-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, falcata, 2-3-nervia, subsemi-
pollicaria, membranacea, glabra. Legumen pollicare v. longius, 5-6 lin. latum, mia
ginibus breviter, faciebus sparse setosis, cseterum glabrum, pluriarticulatum
Mab. Tropical America Nortb Brazil, Fceppig ; Cayenne, Sagot, n. 1063.
:
Nearly allied to M. schrankioides, of which Saeot considered it a ^lahrnns raripfv rI,flPpr,-tio.'l
M. Velloziana does from M. sensitiva hairiness

the venation of the leaflets seems distinct, and the pod. much larger.
V
24. M. SCHRANKIOIDES, Benth. ! in HooJc. Lond. Journ. v. 86. Scandens ? hirsuta.

Aculei recurvi, copiosi. Poliola 12-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, falcata, 1-nervia,
subtus
praesertmi villosa, subseniipoUicaria, membranacea. Legumen J-|-pollicare, 2 lin. latum,
tomentosum, marginibus setoso-aculeatis, faciebus parce setosis,
articulis 3-4.
Hab. Tropical America: Britisb Guiana, Bob. Schomburgk, 2nd
coU. n. 470; Bich.
Scliomhurgh, n. 765 Columbia, Toyar, Fendler, n. 2244;
;
Puerto Cabello, Morits.
Rami elongati, hirsnti, striis aculeisque SchranUam referentes. Stipule '
subulate. Foliorum petiolus
communis nn Foliola
acutmscula, tix tenuiter marginala, parce cUiata, utrinque
subtus prssertim molliter villosa, costa valida,^
additis mterdum nervis 1-2 lateralibus tenuibus
brevibus, nee distincte ut in M. Sagoiiana 2-3-nervia.
Peduncuh hirsuti, i-l-pollicares, in racemum terminalem dispositi. Capitula parva. Bractese longe
cihatae, ultra corollam haud prominentes. Cdyx minutus, longe ciliatus. Corolla tenuis VIX
Stamina 4, elongata. Ovarium viUosulum.
25. M. TRiCHOCEPHALA, Benth. I in Mart Fl. Bras. Mim. Herbacea, rufo-pHosa

Aculei recurvi, Eoliola 6-10-juga, oblonga, membranacea,
rari.^
ciliata, glabra, -H-poUi
caria. Bractese capiUaceo-acuminatse, alabastra longe
superantes. Legumen ignotum
Fl. Bras. Mim
4
ti
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.

26. M. RAMOSissiMA, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mm. Fruticosa, rufo-pHosa. Aculei
recurvi. Toliorum petiolus brevissimus. Foliola 12-20-juga, oblongo-lin mem
branacea, 1 J-3 Hn. longa. Bracteie coroUa breviores. . Calyx quam in affinibus multo
magis evolutus. Legumen
|-polHeare, 2i lin. latum, undique
aculeato-setosum, valvis
vix m articulos secedentibus. FL Bras. Mim.
"
. Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.

M. OBLONGA, Benth. ! in Sooh. Journ. Bot.
27.
iv. 365. Setoso-Wspida. Aculei
tenues, recurvi. rao-i. FoUorum petiolus
brevissimus. Foliola 25-35-juga, liaearia, U-3 I
J
— —
lin. longa. Capitula oblonga, J-poUicaria, 2 lin. diametro. Legumen ignotum. Fl.
Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical or subtropical Soutli America : Soutb Brazil.
28. M. STBNOPTERA, JBenth. Herbacea ?, strigosa. Aculei sparsi, recti v. subrecurvi.
Eoliola 30-40-juga, IJ lin. longa, coriace'a. Capitula ovoidea. Legumen Junius den-
sissime setosum.
Sab. Subtropical South America : near Jujuy, in La Plata, Pearce.
Herba annua dicitur, 1-2-pedalis : ramus florifer tamen etsi tenuis, in sicco sublignosus apparet, pilis
sursum appressis crebrisque strigosus, aculeis pancis. Foliorum petiolus communis 4-6 lin.
longus ; pinn£e unijugae, l^-3-pollicares. Foliola acutiuscula, parce ciliata. Florcs M. ohhmgce, capitula
tamen ovoidea nee oblonga, parum longiora quara lata v. fere globosa. Calyx longc fimbriato-eiUatus,
corollse dimidium attingens. Legumen perfectum hand suppctit. .
29. M. Ltjndiana, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Suffruticosa ? tenuis, glanduloso-
pubescens et setulosa. Aculei recurvi, minimi. Poliola 8-12-juga oblonga, subtus v.
utrinque puberula, 3-4 lin. longa. Capitula globosa. I/egumen ignotum.

Sab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. San Paolo.
*** Foliola 10- mult?Juga, coriacea, margine nerviformi ciliato cinda.
30. M. INSIDIOSA, Mart. ! Serb. Fl. Bras. 134. Pruticosa, retrorsum strigoso-sca-
berrima. Aculei recurvi. Foliola 12-20-juga, oblongo-lincaria, 4-G lin. longa. Legumen
latum, margine dense aculeate setoso, valvis sparse setosis, 3-4-arti-
f-poUicare, 2^ lin.
culatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.

M. retrorsa, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 364.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
31. M. DOLENS, Veil. Fl. Flim. Ic. xi. t. 34. Suffruticosa, rigida, glanduloso-hirta.
Aculei recti, validi v. minimi, nunc rari. Foliola 10-15-juga, oblonga, coriacea, glabra
V. subtus strigosa, 6-8-linearia v. fere poUicaria. Legumen subsemipollicare, 2 lin.
latum, undique setosum, valvis indivisis.— JP7. Bras. Mim.

M. meticulosa, var. ? major, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras.! n. 1090.
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, prov.

: Rio Janeiro, San Paolo, and Minas Geraes.
32. M. TEACHYCEPHALA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Ilerbacea v. suffruticosa,
strigoso-hispida, eglandulosa. Aculei recti, rari. Foliola 20-25-juga, oblonga,

ri^-ida,
acuta, 4-5 lin. longa. Legumen semipollicare, 3 lin. latum, undique dense echinato-
setosum, valvis 2-articulatis.

M. inddiosa, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 365, non Mart.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
Friitlces v. herb(s, rarliis arboresceules, aculeis omnibus v. non-

Series 4. Pectinatee.
infrafoliaceis armatl, additis interdum paucis sparsis. Fi/nntc
nullis infrastipulanbus v.
Foliola pluri- scspim muUijuga. Fedunculi solitarii v. 2-3m, axillares v. ad

tmijugce.
ramorum racemosi. Capitula globosa, Flores ^t-meri. Legumen uhi notum setos
apices
hispidum, valvis articulatis
\
— ;
396 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. [Mimosa.
* FoUola minima, conferta, glabra
33. M. PECTINATA, Kiinth I Mim. 5. t. 2. .

Arborea, dense strigosa. Aculei infra-
stipulares geminij recti. Foliorum petiolus commuuis "brevissimus ; foliola 20-25-juga,
linearia, coriacea, glabra, marginata, ciliata, 2 lin. longa. Pedunciili axillares. Legumen
iojnotum.
Hab. Tropical America : Andes of Guamana, near Quito, ICamholdt and Bon^pland.
r
34. M. ORTHACANTHA, Benth. I in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 365. Fruticosa, glabra.
Acnlei infrafoliacei v. infrastipnlares, solitarii v. terni, recti. Eoliorum petiolus com-
munis brevissimus ; foliola 8-10-juga, cuneato-oblonga v. linearia, 1-2^ lin. longa, im-
marginata, nuda. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

-1
'Eab. South Brazil, Sello. Only seen in tbe Berlin Herbarium
«* FoUola ohlongaj supra pubescentittj siibtus villosa.
. 35. M. Xanti, a. Gray ! in Broc, Amer. Acad. v. 157. Fruticosa, cinereo-pubescens.

Aculei infrastipnlares recti, additis paucis sparsis. Eoliorum petiolus communis |-J-
poUicaris; foliola 6-9-juga, latiuscule oblonga, 3-4j-linearia, submarginata, utrinque
pubescentia. Capitula globosa. Plores pubescentes. IJegumen ignotum.
Hah. Tropical Nortb America : Cape San Lucas, California, Xantus.
36. M. BOLiviANA, Benth. Eruticosa, ferrugineo-pubescens. Aculei infrastipnlares

recurvi. ^Foliola 20-30-juga, latiuscule oblonga, supra glabrescentia, subtus dense pUosa,
3-4-linearia, margine recurva. Pedunculi axillares. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical South America : Bolivia, Kelly, Mandon, n. 756.
-
Frutex videtur ramosissimus^ ramis ferrugineo-pubescentibus. Aculei preeter infrastipulares pauci,

sparsi in ramulis petiolisque. Foliorum petioltis communis 2-4 lin. longus; pinnae 2-3-poUicares.
epe nitidula ; pili paginse Pedunculi 1-2-
rufo Capitula globosa. Calyx CoroUa apice
igillosa.
37. M. POLTCAPvPA, Kunthl Mim. 8. t. 3. Fruticosa, strigosa, ramulis tenuibus

elongatis. Aculei infrastipnlares gemini, recti, additis paucia sparsis. Eoliola 20-70-
juga, linearia, 3-5 lin. longa, utrin(][ue pilosa. Legumen J-l-poUicare, 2 lin. latum,
w
margine longe setose, yalvis breviter strigosis glabrisve 3-4-articulatis.—jP/. Bras. Mim.
M. ooanthocentra, Mart. Herb. PI. Bras. 130.
!
M. longipinnaj Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv- 366.

t
L
Sab. Tropical America : Minas Geraes, Goyaz, and Mattogrosso

Brazil, prov. Piauliy,
Bolivia, 2>' Orligny, n. 531 ; Peru, near Caxamarca, Kumboldt and Bonpland ; Ocaiia in
Kew Granada, Schlim, n. 173.
38. M. Mansii, Mart. 1 Serb, Fl. Bras. 130. Herbacea, decumbens. Aculei infra-
stipulares gemini, recti, additis paucis sparsis parvis. Poliola 20-40-juga, linearia, 2-4i
lin. longa, supra glabra, subtus pilosa. Legumen lineare, margine strigoso-aculeato
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America ; Brazil, prov. Mattogrosso.
Series 5. Pudicse. Frutices suffruiices v. herbce, aculeis omnibus v. nonnullis ii
sHvMlaribtts armati, additis interdtim paucis sparsis ; rarius hinc inde suUnermes. Binnce
— : : —
Mil MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 397
%-4i-jug(B, ad apicem petioli approxmatce suhdigitatce, v. rarius secus petiolum dissitce,

V. in foliis nonnullis ad par wiicum reductcs. Foliola muUijuga, margine nerviformi
cincta. êdunculi axillares, folio breviores, v. ad apices ramorum racemosi. Capitula
gldbosa v. elliptica. Mores ^-men. Legvmen setosum v. hispidum, vahis in artkiilos
secedentibus.
t
* Fedunculi petiolo communi breviores v. subcequilongL
39. M. GijAZIovi, £enth, I m Mart Fl. :Bras. Mim. Pruticosa, setoso-hispida. Pinn^
dissite 2-jxig8e; foliola 12-20-juga, lineari-falcata, nitidula, 2-4-Iinearia. Pedunculi
3-5 lin. longi. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Hio Janeiro.
ft
40. M. PUDiCA, Imn. ! Spec. 1501. Suffruticosa v. annua, pilosa v. glabrata. Pinnae
confertim 2-jug8e rarins l-jugee; foliola 15-25-jnga, linearia, 3-5 lin, longa. Legumen
6-8 lin. longum, 1^ lin. latum, inter semina saepius contractum, margine setosum, facie-
bus glabris. Fl. Bras. Mim.
a. forma Mspidior
M. pudicay Liim.^ Willd. Spec. iv. 1031.
- M. tetrandra^ Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec, iv, 1033^ ex descr.
" M, hispidula^ H.^ B. et K, Nov. Gen. et Sp- vl, 252* !
M. striato-stipulaj Steud. in Floraj 1843^ 758. !
M. hirsuta^ Mo^. et Sess. in G. Don^ Gen. Syst. ii. 383^ ex char, (pinms ssepius l-jugis).
/3, forma glabrior

M.pudica^ H.^ B. et K. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp.Ti. 252,
M. pudibunduj Willd. Spec. iv. 1032.

- M. endymionisy Mart. ! Herb, Fl. Bras. 131.
-M. irritabilis, PresIJ. Bot. Bemerk. 64 (pinnis ssepius 1-jugis).
- M. unijuga, Ducb. et Walp. ! in Linnaea^ xxiii. 744 (pinnis saepius 1-jugis).
JSab. Tropical America : a common weed in most parts of the region, naturalized also
in many parts of tropical Africa and Asia.
41. M- POLYDACTYLA, Kumh. et Bonpl. ! in Willd. Spec, iy, 1033. Suffruticosa, hir-
suta V. subglabra. Pinnae confertim 4-5-jug9e, rarius 3-jugae ; foliola 30-60-juga, linearia,
iis M. pudiccB saepius minora. Legumina fere M. pudiccB, sed saepe in capitulo numero-
massam globosam
sissima, in conferta, setis marginalibus fuscis v. flavicantibus dense
echimi^.—Kunth ! Mim. t. 5 ; Fl. Bras. Mim.

M. Glockeri, Meissn. ! PI. Glock. Exs. n. 177.
M. 6-phi/lla, Salzm. PL Exs.

Sab. Tropical America: Brazil, proY. Bahia, Pernambuco, and Para; Guiana, Co-
lumbia.
42. M. VEEECTJNDA, Benth. I in Sook. Journ. Bot. iv. 368. SufFruticosa, pubcscens et
reflexo-bispida. Aculei rari. Pinnae subdissite 3-jugaB, rarius 2-jugae; foliola 30-60-
jua-a, linearia, 1-3 lin. longa. Legumen f-pollicare, 2-2 J lin. latum, margine longe
setosum, faciebus saepius breyiter setosis pubescentibusye. Fl. Bras. Mim.

—— —
398 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Mimosa.
** JPedunculi petiolo communi mulfo longiores.
43. M. DiGiTATAj Benth, ! in Soolc. Journ. JBot. iv. 368. Fruticosa, scal)ro-pul)csccns
V. villosa. Aculei parvi v. 0. Pinnae confertim 3-4-ju»ae ; foliola 15-20-juga, linearia,
1-lJ^ lin. longa. Legumen 6-8 lin. longum, ad 2 lin. latum, minute pilosulum v. glabrura
nee setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
M. M. BUFiPiLA, Benth. ! in HooJc. Jonrn. Bot. iv. 368. Fruticosa, patentim liir-
sutissima. Aculei rari. Pinnse confertim 3-4-jugae ; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, 3-4
lin. longa. Legumen margine dense setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hob. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Gojaz.
45. M. NERVOSA, Bong. ; Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 370. Suffruticosa ?, pro-
strata, patentim pilosa. Aculei parvi, decidui. Pinnae dissite 2-3-jug£e v. 1-jugae ; foliola
6-12-juga, oblonga v. lanceolata, 3-4-linearia, subglauca, glabra v. subtus pilosa. Le-
gumen f -pollicare, 2-2|- lin. latum, margine longe setosum, faciebus appresse pilosulis
V. strigosis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz. w
r
M. hirfUy Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t, 31, only known from the rude figure, may possibly be a variety of
M\ nervosa witb ratber larger and more numerous leaflets.
Series 6. Hirsutae. Suffrutices v. frutices pilis patentibus hirsuti, inermes. Finnce

confertim v. dissite 2-4i-JtigcB, rarius 1-jugce. Foliola muUijuga, S-5-nervia, immarginata.
Pedunculi axillares petiolo communi longiores v. superiores in racemum terminalem
dispositi. Capitula glolosa v. oblonga. Flores 4<-meri. Legumen setosum v. hispidum,
valvis in articulos secedentibus.
I have collected under this head a number of species which have the long peduncles of the last three
species of PudiccE and of the Pedunculosce, but without the prickles of the former, and without the nerve-
like margins of the leaflets of both those groups. The pinnse are also rarely reduced to a single pair
(in the last two species), whilst in the Pedunculosa it is only the first two that have a second pair.
L
t I
46. M. MACROCEPHALA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Erecta, dura, lono-e rufo-
pilosa. Pinnse confertim 2-jug8e ; foliola 8-15-juga, ovato-oblonga, 4i-6-linearia, utrinque
pilis ciliatis ramosisve vestita. Capitula oblonga. Legumen pollicare, 3 lin. latum,
margine densissime longeque setosum, valvis nudis articulatis.
Hab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
:
47. M. ECHiNOCAUPA, Bcnth. I in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Erecta, patentim bispida.
Pinn^ subconfertim S-jugae ; foHola'^ 15-20.juga, oblonga, 2-3-linearia, glabra v. parce
ciliata. Capitula globosa. Legumen 8-10-lineare, 2-2 \ lin. latum, marline dense Ion
XVîXj,
J3-.^V. VAV.ii.OV.
que setosum, valvis nudis v. breviter setosis articulatis.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
48. M. VESTITA, Benth. ! in Hook. Jonrn. Bot. iv. 369. Suffruticosa, patentim hir
sutissima. Pinnae subdissite i-jugae ; foliola 8-12-juga, late oblonga,
suM -linearia, utrin
.que laxe hirsuta t. fere glabra. Capitula globosa, longe racemosa. legumen 3i-poUi
— — —
care, ad 3 lin. latum, margine breviter setosum, valvis retrorsum setosis indivisis v
2-articiilatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Sah, Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
49. M. HiRSUTA, Spreng.! Syst. ii. 204. Suffruticosa, decumbens, patentim pilosa
Pinnae dissite 2-3-jugee ; foliola 6-12-jiiga, oblonga v. lanceolata, subtus pilosa, 2-3 lin
longa. Pedunculi axillares. Capitula ovoideo-globosa. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras

Mim.
M. dispersa, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 369.
!
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes and Goyaz.
:
50. M. POGONOCLADA, Be7ith. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mm. Suffruticosa, prucunibenS;
longe setoso-pilosa. Pinnae dissite 3-5-jug8e ; foliola 10-12-juga, oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa
coriacea, subtus parce setosa. Pedunculi axillares. Capitula globosa. Lcgumen ig-
notum.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Gcracs and Parana.
51. M. PEOCUREENS, Bcntlt. ! in Soolc. Journ. Bot. iv. 371. Suffruticosa, prostrata,
longe rufo-pilosa. Pinnae confertim 2-jug8e v. summaj 1-jugge ; foliola 10-15-juga, ovato-
oblonga, subsemipollicaria, sparse pilosa. Capitula globosa. Legumen ignotum.— J'/.
Bras. Mim.
In Sook. Journ. Bot. iv. 371. Suffruticosa, longe pa-

52. M. BARBiGERA, Beiith. !
2-jug3B; foliola 12-18-juga, oblonga, 4-5-Unearia,

tentim pilosa. Pinnae l-jugse rarius
Legumen subpoUicare, 2 lin. latum, margine setosum,
glabra v. subtus parce pilosa.
valvis demum denudatis articulatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.

HiRSUTissiMA, Mart. Serb. Fl. Bras. 135. Suffruticosa, longe patentim

53. M. !
1-jugae, petiolo abbreviate; foliola 15-20-juga, oblonga, 4-5 lin. longa,

pilosa. Pinna
utrinque pilosa. Legumen ignotum.—jpY. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo.
Suffrutices, rarius frutices {v. interdum herba ?) , reptatttes

Series?. Pedunculosse.
Finnce l-jugce v. ranus î-JugcB. Foliola plurir scepins
prostrati v. diffusi, inermes.
cincta. Fedunculi axillares, scepius elongati. Capituh
multijuga, margine nerviformi
Legumen setosum v. hispidum, valvis articulatis.
globosa. ^Flores 4rmeri, rarius h-meri.
* Finnce ^-^-jugce.
Journ. Bot. iv. 369. Suffruticosa, patentim
54 M. ELO> GATA, Benth. ! in Soolc.
20-30-juga, lanceolata v. linearia, 3-4. lin.
V reflexo-pilosa. Pinnae 3-4-jugae ; foliola
pilosa. Pedunculi poUicares. Legumen ignotum.— J7. Bras. 3fim.
lon-a subtus
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil (prov. Goy
1033. Fruticosa, pilis pa-
55 M TOMENTOSA, Sunih. et Bonpl. ! in Willd. Spec. iv.
Foliola lO-lS-juga, oblonga, 3-4^

tentibus villosa, ramis elongatis. Pinn^ 2-jug8B.
appresseque setoso-viUosa. Legumen f pollicareJ-2 J iin. latum

linearia, utrinque dense
appresseque setoso-viUosum, valvis articulatis Kunth I Mim, i. 4
undique dense
3 G
XXX
— — —
400 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. [Mimosa
Sah. Tropical America Columbia, Maypures on the Orinoco, Humboldt and Bon-
:
pland, SpruGet n. 3654 ; Barcelona, Moritz.
** FinncE tmijugce.
56. M. LONGiPES, JBentk. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 370. Subacaulis, patentim pilosa.
Petioli pedunculique subradicales, semipedales longioresqiie ; foliola 8-20-juga, late
linearia, |-l-pollicaria, glabra v. inferiora subtus pilosa. Legumen 1~1 J-pollicare, 3-4 lin.
latum, margine parce ciliatum, faciebus pilis brevibus conspersis. Fl. Bras. Mim,
Hob. Tropical America : Brazil, pro v. Goyaz.
57. M. FLAGELLAEis, Benth. I in I£ook. Journ. Bot iv. 372. Prostrata, parce scabro-
bispida. Petiolus brevis ; foliola 5-7-juga, obovata v. oblonga, subsemipollicaria, 2-3-
nervia, glabra v. pilis brevibus conspersa. Legumen semipoUicare, margine setosum,
faciebus glabris nudis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Extratropical South America : South Brazil, Sello ; Porto Alegre, Tweedie.
58. M. MARGiNATA, Lindl. I Bot. Beg. 1838, Misc. 82. Prostrata, patentim pilosa.
Petiolus brevis; foliola 10-20-juga, oblonga, 4-5 Hn. longa, subavenia,
glabra v. subtus
strigillosa. Legumen 8-10-lineare, undique setoso-hispidissimum.— J7. Bras. Mim.
M. prostrata, Hort. Berol. ! Schleid. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. pars ii. 70 (nomen).
Hah. Extratropical South America South Brazil, Sdlo Maldonado, King
:
; ; Rio
de la Plata, Anderson.
59. M. FALCiPiNNA, Benth. ! in HooJc. Journ. Bot. iv. 371. Prostrata, patentim pilosa.
Poliola 20-30-juga, oblonga, 3-4 lin. longa, longe setosissima. Legumen ignotum,
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
60. M. DisTANS, Benth.! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 382. Suffruticosa, strigoso-pilosa.
Petiolus J-1-pollicaris foliola 20-50.juga,
; falcato-lanceolata, 3i-4i lin. longa, subtus
strigosa, costa submarginali. Legumen semipolKcare, 2 lin. latum, undique breviter
setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo, Minas
:
Qeraes, and Goyaz.
M. neuroloma in the almost marginal midrib, and is often near
peduncles
61. M. AXILLARIS, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 382. Eruticosa ? decumbens v.
prostrata, strigosa. Petiolus abbreviatus foliola 20-40.juga,
;
oblongo -linearia, 2 lin.
longa, mtida, supra nigra, subtus canescentia, costa
tenui a margine distante. Legumen
o
semipoUicare, 2 lin. latum, breviter strigosum.—i^/.
Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes
:
? and Goyaz.
62. M. REPTAXS, Benth. ! m Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 372. Suffruticosa, reptans,
pubescens parceque pilosa. Petiolus brevissimus ;
foliola 12-20-juga, oblono-o-Hnearia,
1-2 Im. longa, conferta. Capitula globosa. Bractcce °
corolla multo breviores. Legumen
subsemipoUicare, 2 lin. latum, margine aspero-hirtum, faciebus
strigoso-setulosis.-JF/.
Bras. Mim.
Hah. Extratropical South America South Brazil,
:
Maldonado, Asuncion.
— — —
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 401
63. M. LASIOCEPHALA, Benth. ! m Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 372. Suffruticosa, procumbens,
molliter piloso-pubescens. Petiolus brevissimus ; foliola 10-15-juga, oblongo-linearia,
1-2 lin. longa, conferta. Capitula ovoidea, bractearum ciliis prominentibus villosissima.
Legumen subsemipoUicare, 2 lin. latum, margine aspero-hirtum, faciebus strigoso-setii-
losis. Fl. Bras.. Mini.
Mab. Extratropical (?) Soutb America : South Brazil, Sella.
f
64. M. PATJPERA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 272. Suffruticosa, prostrata,
ramosissima, strigosa v. glabrata. Petiolus filiformis, -J-j-poUicaris ; foliola 4-8-juga,
oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa, marginata, ciliata. Legumen semipoUicare, 1 J lin. latum, breviter
stricfosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Extratropical South America : South Brazil, Sello \ Banda Oriental.
65. M. MULTIPLEX, Benth. I in Mook. Journ. Bot. iv. 373. SufTruticosa, diffusa, tenuis.
subslabra. Petiolus filiformis ; foliola 5-8-juga, oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa, obscure mar-
ginata, nuda. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Hab. Extratropical (?) South America ; South Brazil, Sello.
QQ. M. DIFFUSA, Benth. ! in Book. Journ. Bot. iv. 373. Suftruticosa, diffusa, tenuis-
sima, glaberrima. Petiolus filiformis; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, 1-2 lin. longa, mar-
ginata, nuda. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Hab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil.
Series 8. Meticulosge. Frutices, suffrut Ices v. herbce rigidcejnermes. Pinna unijuga;.
Foliola muWjuga, rarius paucijuga, rigida, 2-_plurinervia, margine nervi/ormi ciliato
cincta. Pedunculi smpius gemini, in racemum rarius in paniculam terminalem dispositi,
inferior es axillares brevesque. Capitula globosa v. rarius elliptica. Flares vulgo

V.
4i-meri. Legumen uhi natum setosum, valvis indivisis v. paueiarticulatis.
species of this series, differing slightly from the Casta in the total absence of
The numerous Brazihan
inflorescence, from the Hirsutce
are
After
have appeared to me the most natural.
uhi notum breve oblongum, l'-2-sjêrmum, valvia indivkia {margimhus

A. Legumen v.
interdum via; solutia) ; in speciehua 3 prioribua ignotum.
* Bacemus ramosus {in pasteriarihus simplex). Petiolus communis subnullus. Foliola
coriacea (Polycephala).
Benth. in Hook. Jaurn. Bat. iv. 373. Eruticosa, strigosa.

67. M. taxifolia. Bong. ; !
foliola 15-20.juga, oblongo-linearia, rigida, ad 3 Hn. longa, ciliata,

Petiolus brevissimus ;
Capitula breviter pedunculata, paniculata. Legumen ignotum.— J7. Bras^

glabra.
Mim.
Erutieosd, molliter
68. M Benth.! in Kaok. Journ. Bat.
ad Kn. longa
iv. 374..
30-40.juga, oblongo-linearia, 8
villosa. Petiolus brevissimus; foliok
aG2
— . —
utrinque villosa. Oapitula breviter pedunculata, panlculata. Legumcn Junius densis-

sime rufo-pilosum. Fl. JBras. Mim.
Sad. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Pernambuco
** Folia ad hasm caulis jpauca, petioJo S-Q-pollicarl.
69. M. vnTiohARis, Bent h. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 376. Suffruticosa, strigoso
setulosa. Foliola 12-20-juga, oblonga, 4-5-linearia. Capitula breviter pedunculata, ii
caule subaphyllo longe racemosa. Legumen ignotum. FL Bras. Mim.

Sab. Tropical America: Brazil (prov. Goyaz ?).
*** Foliorum petiolm communis brevis, rarius 1-S-pollicans. FoUola coriacea, insig-
niter marginata, glabra v. scabro-hispida (Uigid^).
t Calyx paleacens.
i
70. M. HONESTA, Mart.! Herb, Fl. Bras. 137. Pruticosa, prostrata, longe pilosa
Poliola sub-4-juga, ovato-orbiculata, 4-54inearia. Capitula ad apices ramorum pauca
breviter pedunculata, Legumen i^noivim.—Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hob. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia.
M
71. M. ^miDA, Benth. ! in Hoolc. Journ. Bot. iv. 377. Suffruticosa, glabra v. parce
setulosa. Poliola 10-12-juga, dimidiato-oblonga, subsesquipoUicaria, glabra.
Capitula
racemosa, setoso-bispida. Legumen 4-6 lin. longum, 3 lin. latum, rigide setosissimum,
valvis indivisis v. vix 2-articulatis.— i?^/. Bras. Mim.
M. calocephala, var. ? major, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. n. 1088.
L
ft Calyx obsoletiis.
2. M. CALLOSA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 376. Suffruticosa, glabra, glauca.
Petiolus1-1 J-pollicaris ; foliola 30-50-juga, conferta, dimidiato-lanceolata, 2-linearia.
Legumen semipoliicare, longe denseque setosum, valvis indivisis.—
JP^. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America Brazil (prov. Bio Janeiro or Bahia
:
?), Lnshnath.
73. M. SETiPEs, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 376. Suffruticosa, setosa. Petiolus
vix semipollicaris foliola
30-50-juga, conferta, lanceolata, 3-4-Unearia, margine setosa,
;
caeterum glabra. Legumen semipoUicare, densissime setosum, valvis indivisis.— i'/.

Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : South Brazil.
74. M. METictiLosA, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. 135, non Benth. Suffruticosa, sparse
!
setosa, glabra v. superne pubens. Poliola 10-12-juga, ovali-oblonga,
4-8 lin. long.,
glabra subtus sparse strigosa. Legumen saepius obovatum,
v.
1-spermum, 3-4.1ineare,
densissime setosum, valvis indivisis.— i^Z. Bras.
Mim.
M. rigescens, Bentli. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 376.
Hab. Tropical and extratropical South America
: Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes, South
Brazil, and Rio Grande.
75. M. coNrERTA, Benth.! in Mart. FL Bras. Mim. Suffruticosa, hispida. Petiolus

—— —
Mimosa MR MIMOSE^. 403
brevissimus ; foliola 10-18-juga, oblonga, 3-4-linearia, utrinque slxigoso-villosa. Legumen

3-3^ lin. longum, -imdiqiie longe denseqtie setosum, valvis indivisis.
M. acerha, var. latifolia, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 378.

.*
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes.
in Sook. Joimi. Bot. 378, excl. var. Suffruticosa,
76. M. ACERBA, Benth. ! iv. /3.
scaLro-hispida. Petiolus J-J-pollicaris ; foliola 15-30-juga, oblonga, 3-5 lin. longa,
utrinque scabro-hispida. Legumen obovatum, 3-4 lin. longum, densissime setosuni,

valvis subindivisis. Ft. Bras. Mini.
**** Betiolus hrevissimm, rarius semipolUcaris Foliola

Bami lanati v. molliter villosL .
glabra v. molliter villosa, margine nerviformi tenui. Calyx obsoletus (Eutocaules).
in Hook. Land. Journ. v. 87. Fruticosa, dense lanata.

77. M. EHioPHTLLA, Benth. !
Poliola 10-15-juga, oblonga, 8-10 lin. longa, dense scricco-villosa. Logumon Junius
setosum. Fl. Bras. Mlm.

Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo.
Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 382. Pruticosa, ramis denst^

78. M. poGOCEPHALA, Benth. ! in
3-4 longa, glabra v. subtus pilosula, plana,
lanatis. Poliola 12-15-juga, oblonga, lin.
Capitula bractearum ciliis villosissima. Legumen 6-8 lin. longum

tenuiter 2-3-nervia.
muricato -setosum, valvis indivisis v. vix 2
3-4 lin. latum, breviter denscque
Fl. Bras. Mini.
M. erinacea, Benth. I. c. 383. !

Pruticosa, ramulis tomen-
79 M ERiocAULis, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot.
subtus strigillosa, plana,
iv. 383.
Poliola 15-20-juga, oblonga, 4-6-linearia, glabra v.

toso-lanatis.
ultra alabastros baud prommcntia. Legumen
tenuiter 2-3.nervia. Bractearum cilia
ignotum. FL Bras. Mim.

Mim, Pruticosa, appresse lanata v.
80 M MiCROCARPA, Benth. I vn Mart. Fl. Bras.
confertim 20-30.juga, Imearia,
foliola
scabro-birta. Polia in axiUis siepe conferta ;
convexa, promincntcr 2-3.ncr^îa. Ixjgu-

1-11 lin lon-a, supra glabra, subtus strigillosa,
birsutissimum, valvis sa^pius mdmsis.
men vix 4 lin. longum, 2 lin. latum, undique
in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 383.
M.fasckulata, Benth !
subtropical South America South Brazil.

Hah Tropical or
consequently
:
preoccupied the
Benth., proves to he a true Mimosa, and has
As the Acacia fasckulata,
change that of the present species.
have been obliged to
specific name, I
v.strlgosum, valvis in articulos 2 v. plures

B. Legumen ubi not urn planum, setosum
secedentihus.
subtus {excepta M. imbricata)

* Foliola {l-2-pollicaria\ dimidiata, utnnque villosa,
prominente 2~b-nercia (RrDEs).
^
Calyx obaoletns,
Journ. Bot. iv. 377. Suffruticosa, scabro-luspida

81. M. KUDis. BenthJ in Rook.
—— . —
Eoliola 3-7-juga, dimidiato-ovata, pleracûe 2-pollicaria, 3-nervia, scabro-liispida. Legumcn

ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mlm.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, pro v. Minas Geraes or Goyaz.
82. M. ASPERRiMA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 377. Suffruticosa, scabro-liispida.
FoHola 7-10-juga, dimidiato-oblonga, vix pollicaria, 3-nervia, scabro-liispida. Legumen
iffnotum.
& Fl. Bras. Mim,
Ilah, Tropical America : Brazil (prov. Minas Geraes ?)
tt Calyx paleaceus.
83. M. RADrLA, Benth. ! in HooJc. Journ. Bot. iv. 377. Suffruticosa, scabro-hispida
Foliorum inferiorum petiolus 2-3-pollicaris ; foliola 5-7-juga, dimidiato-ovata, 1-2-polli.
caria, 3-5-nervia, scabro-bir ta . Capitula sessilia. Legumen ignotum. FL Bras. Mim
84. M. CALTCINA, Benth.! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 377. Fruticosa v. suffruticosa
scabro-liispida. Petiolus brevissimus foliola 8-10-jnga, dimidiato-ovata,
; vix pollicaria^
3-5-nervia, scabro-hispida, ciliis marginalibus tenuibus. Legumen 1-lJ-pollicare, 2-2 21
lin.latum, undique densissime setosum, valvis 2-6-ar ticulatis .—i?'/. Bras. Mim.
Hab, Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
85. M. DIMIDIATA, Benth. 1 in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 378. Suffruticosa, scabro-
tomentella et longe pilosa. Petiolus brevissimus; foliola 12-15.juga, ovato-lanceolata,
dimidiata, i-j-pollicaria, nervis 4-5 valde prominentibus,
utrinque scabro-hispida, mar-
gine rigide ciliata. Legumen ignotum.
86. M. IMBKICATA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot iv. 378. Suffruticosa, molliter
pilosissima. Petiolus brevissimus foliola 10-15-juga,
; falcato-oblonga, semipollicaria,
conferta, subtus pilosissima, nervis vix conspicuis. Legumen ignotum.
r
** Foliola angustajalcata, conferta, multijuga,

insigniter marginata, prater cilia
marginalia glabra. Calyx paleaceus v. pappiformis (Maeginat^).
87. M. CALOCEPHALA, Mart.! Herb. FL Bras. 133. Fruticosa v. suffruticosa, ramis
crassis lanatis. Petiolus brevissimus ; foliola 25-40.Juga, oblongo-lanceolata,
vix 5 lin.
longa. Capitula |-1 poll, diametro. Legumen 4-6 lin. longum, moUiter pilosissimum,
valvis 2'3ii:ticu[aiis.—Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
M. Pohlit, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 375.
!
Hab. Tropical America BrazU, prov. Minas Geraes and Bahia.

:
88. M. PAPPOSA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot iv. 376.

Fruticosa ? strigosa. Petiolus
brevissimus foliola 20-40-juga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3 lin. longa.
;
Capitula 4-5 lin
diametro. Legumen f -poUicare v. longius, 3 lin. latum, molliter
setosum, valvis 2-3
articulatis. FL Bras. Mim
89. M. coKciKNA, Benth. ! in Mart FL Bras. Mim. Fruticosa, patentim hirsuta.

—
Mimosa.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 405
Petiolus brevissimus ; f oliola 10-30-juga, linearia, fere 2 lin. longa. Capitula parva ?
liegumen J-1-pollicare, ad 3 lin. latum, strigoso-setosum, valvis 2-5-articiilatis.

90. M. HYPOGLATJCA, Mart. Serb. Fl. Bras. 133, pro parte. Fruticosa, subsetoso-pu-
bescens. Petiolus 1-3 lin. longus; foliola 15-30-juga, lineari-oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa.
Capitula vix 4 lin. diametro. Legumen 6-9 lin. longum, 3 lin. latum, strigosum, valvis
2^-articulatis. Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras, Mini.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Baliia.
*** Foliola tenuiter marginata, parva v. raritis semipolUcaria, pilis setlsve appressis plus
minus vestita (Vulgares).
f Capitula bractearum ciliis ante anthesin villosa. Cahjx {excepta M. subvestita)

pappiformis v. paleaceus.
91. M. SUBVESTITA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 379. Pruticosa ? fcrriigineo-
1-2 -linearis foliola 8-10-juga, obovato-oblonga, subsemipolIi(;aria.

hirta. Petiolus ;
Legumen 8-9 lin. longum, undique ferruginco-hispidum, valvis pauci-

Calyx subnullus.
articulatis.— i^^. Bras. Mm.
Sab, Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
in SooJe. Journ. Bot. iv. 379. Suffruticosa, dense lanata.

92. M. LANATA, Benth. !
15-20-juga, oblonga, 3-4 Un. longa. Calyx pappiformis.

Petiolus 1-3-linearis, foliola
Legumen semipolHcare, undique dense setosum, valvis 2-3-articulatis.— J7. Bras. Mm.
Sab. Tropical or subtropical South America :
South Brazil.
Berith. ! in Sooh Journ. Bot. iv. 380. Fruticosa, longe

93. M. STiPULARis, Bong, ;
foliola 20-30-juga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3 Un. Ion

pilosa. Petiolus brevissimus;
Inflorescentia brcvis. Legumen M. subsericecB.—Fl. Bras. Mim
Stipulce latiusculse.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes
variety of M. subsericea
in Book. Journ. Bot. iv. 380. Suffruticosa, sericeo-

94 M. SUBSEMCEA, Benth. !
semipoUice brevior; foliola 20-50.juga, linearia. IJ 3 lin.

pilosa V strigosa. Petiolus
angustae. Inflorescentia elongata, alte foliata. Legumen 6-10 lin.
lon-a Stipule
densissime setosum, valvis 3-4-articulatis.-i^. Bras. Mim.
lon^m, margine
America Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes.
Tropical
Hab. :
Bot. 380. Su {fruticosa, patentim

95 M GOVAZENSis, Benth. ! in Sook. Journ. iv.
oblonga, 3-5 Un. longa. Inflo-

1-2 Uq. longus; foUola 15-20-juga,
hisnida Petiolus
diametro, abbastris viUis obtectis.
rescentia basi tdntum Capitula 3-1 Un.
foliata.
Legumen ignotum.— i^/. Bras. Mim

Suffruticosa, patentmi liir
96 M TEEMULA, Benth. I in Sook. Journ. Bot.
lineari-lanceolata, 1-3 Un. longa
iv. 380.
saepius brevissimus ; foliola 20-40.juga,

suta Petiolus
Capitula 2-3 lin. diametro, alabastris semitectis
Inflorescentia basi tantum foliate.
margine dense setosum, valvis 3-4-articulatis.- Fl. Bras. Mm.

Legumen semipollicare,
America Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes.
Sab Tropical :
—
406 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE, [Mimosa
ft Capitula alahastris eminentibus non villosa. Calyx ohsolctiis.
97. M. SETiSTiPULA, Benfh. ! in Booh. Journ. Bot. iv. 379. Fruticosa, ferrugineo-
hirta. Petiolus brevissimus ; foliola 10-15-juga, oblonga, 3-4 lin. longa, obscure
2-3-nervia. Legumen vix semipollicare, margine dense ferrugineo-setosum, valvis 2-3-
articulatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
M. meticulosaj \Bj:.ftiscescemj Benth. ! /. c, 382.
Mab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
r
98. M. NEFROLOMA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Pruticosa, Mspida. Petiolus
infra-semipollicaris ; foliola 15-40-juga, lanceolato-subfalcata, 3-4 lin. longa, costa pro-
minula submarginali. Legumen J-}-pollicare, undique setosum, valyis 2-3-articulatis.
M. meticulosa, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 381, non Mart.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes.
99. M. BEEViPEs, Benth. ! in Eooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 381. Suffruticosa, piloso-birta,
caule vii'gato dense foliato. Petiolus subnuUus foliola 15-20-juga, ad 3
; lin. Ion ^—r
conferta, 2-3-nervia. Legumen vix 4 lin. longum, birsutissimum, valvis 2-articulatis

Fl. Bras. Mim.
100. M. HrMimsA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Suffruticosa, ramosissima,
prostrata. Petiolus 1-2 lin. longus, pinnae 4^5 lin. ; foliola 8-10-juga, conferta, 1-2 lin.
longa, 1-nervia. Legumen Junius dense setosum.
F
Series 9. Myriopbyllae. Frutices suffruticesve inermes. Finnce multijugce. Foliola

multijuga, parva. Capitula globosa v. racemum terminalem disposita v. infe-
ovoidea, in
riora axillaria. Flores vulgo Uneri. Legumen ubi notum breve, setosum, valvis in-
divisis.
101. M. Begnellii, Benth. ! in Linncea, xxii. 529. Suffruticosa, elata, stri-oso-viUosa.

Pmn^ 8-10-juga3 ;
foUola 25-35-juga, oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa, ciliata v. dorso strigosa
Capitula globosa, breviter pedunculata, longe racemosa.
Calyx pappiformis. Legumen
ovatum, turgidum, 3-4-lineare, dense strigoso-setosum.
— i^^. Bras. Mim.
102. M. MTRioPHYLLA, Bong. ; Benth.! in Sooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 384. Suffruticosa,
strigosa. Pinnae 12-30-jug^; foHola 30-60.juga, oblongo-linearia,
1-1^ lin. longa, glabra
V. canescentia. Capitula ovoidea, brevissime pedunculata, longe
racemosa. Calyx
paleaceus. Legumen ovatum, 2-3-lineare, strigoso-setosum.— i?'/. Bras\
Mim.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes ?
103. M. MiCROPTERis, Benth. ! in Sooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 384. Fruticosa, stri-oso-
scabra Pinnae 10-15-jugeB foliola 15-20-juga,
; obtusa, vix Hneam longa, nitidula.
Capitula globosa, longiuscule pedunculata, axillaria
v. breviter racemosa. Calyx pappi-
iormis. Legumen Junius strigosum.— i^/. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Extratropical South America : Soutb Brazil
.
Mimosa.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 407
Series 10. Spiciflorse. Frutices ramis scej^ms laxe sarmentosis v. alte sccmdentihus,
aculeis sparsis swpius parvis crebris recurvis. FmncB pluri- v. muUijugcB. Foliola mul-
tijttga. Mores plerique v. omnes 6-meri, ^-andri, in spicas cylindraceas v. ohlongas
rarius ovoideas axillares v. pcmiculatas dispositi. Legumen planum, elongaturriy nudum

V. margine aculeolatum, valvis tenuibm multiarticulatis
Habbasim
with only 5 stamens.
Foliorum petiolus communis eglandulosus. Splcce axillares v. ad apices

racemoscB.
104. M. TOVARENSis, Be7ith., sp. n. llami laxe pubescentes. Pinnso 4-5-3 ugcc 5
foli^^^^
Spicae ovoidese, rliachi ad 3 lin. longa. J^gunien

10-20-juga, linearia, 1-2 lin. longa.
3-4 poll, longum, 6-7 lin. latum, puberulum, margine minute aculcato v. nudo.
America: Venezuela, near the colony of Tovar (Caracas), Fendler,
Sab. Tropical
344
M. spicifl re valde affinis, pube diversa. Pinnae et foliola multo paiiciora, pctiolo
pinnis ^f-poUicaribus. Spicae fere ad capitulum reductse, floribus iis
minoribus, pariter f^TTiPn fl.TTipris R-andrisauc. Leerumcn aneustius quam iu M. .wicijlora,

M. spicifloTiB
caeterum
SPiciFLORA, Karst. Fl. Colomb. 61, 1. 131. Glabra v. pube tenui in ramis
105. M. I ii.
Pinnee 7-10-jug8e foliola 20-40-juga, linearia, 2-3

in spicse rbacbi brevi. ;
cylindracese, densee, poUicares. Legumen 4-5-poUicarc, J-f poU. latum

longa. Spic^
aculeolato v. niido, valvis tenuibus multiarticulatis.
minute puberulum, margine
Hook. Lond. Journ, v. 94.
Schrankia glabra, Benth. ! in
Colombia, Linden, n. 1501 Caracas and Porto Cabello
Hab. Tropical America : ;
Karsten, Fendler, n. 2245.
KHODOSTACHYA, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Tomentoso-pub

106. M. I
foliola 20-25-juga, linearia, H-2 lin. longa. SpicsB laxiusculae, 1^-2

Pinn* 5-8-jug» ;
Legumen 3-4 poll, longum, 5-6 lin. latum, glabrum, nudum

poUicares.
multiarticulatis.— i^/. Bras. Mim
Joum
prov. Eio Janeiro, Minas Geraes, Babia, and Cea
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil,
ex char. data. Pubcscens

107. M Scheele in Linncsa,
longa.
xvii. 337,
Sp
Pinn«* 10-20-jugse ; foliola 30-40-juga, anguste Hnearia, 1-H liii-
6-8 lin. latum, glabrum, midui

culae 2-3-pollicares. Legumen sub.4rpollicare,
raris, valvis tenuibus multiarticulatis. -J/. Bras. Mm.
mar-inalibus
in Hook. Joum
Mimosa
America BrazU, prov. Minas Geraes, and protably Sao Paulo.
Bab. Tropical :
scutelliformi instructus. Frutiêa alte scandentee

«» FoUorum petiolus glandula
ample paniculatcB.
SpiccB ad apices ramorum
whole genus except in the following two specie. *
'
"
wanting in the ,
The petiolar gland -is

3
VOL.
—
408 MR. G- BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Mimosa.
GlandulifertB of Habbasia, which also resemble the foUowin

omerous
108. M. MTRIADENA, Beuth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Tomentella v. pu"berula.

Pinnae 8-12-jug8e ; foliola 20-30-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusa, 1^-4 lin. longa, subtus
glanduloso-punctata (v. rarius epunctata ?). Legumen ad 3 poll, longum, 4-5 lin.
latum, glanduloso-punctatum, nudum, valvis multiarticulatis.

Journ
paniculafl
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela ; also apparently in New
Granada, at Villa vicenzia near Bogota, Triana ; the specimen in fruit only, and the
leaflets more pubescent underneath, with the glandular dots scarcely perceptible, but
with the large petiolar gland characteristic of the species.
109. M. PUNCTULATA, Spruce : JBenth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Puberula mox gla-
brescens. Pinnae 3-6-jug8e; foliola 6-10-juga, oblique obovata v. rhombea, 6-9 lin.
longa, glabra, subtus punctis glandulosis conspersa. Legumen ignotum.
w
Series 11. Obstrigosse. FrutiotiU inermes v. sparse aculeati, strigis rigidis in ramis
pedunculisque deorsum appressis, v. rarius glabri. Finnce unijugce. Foliola parva, mul-
tijuga. Oapitula globosa, in axillis breviter pedunculata v. sessilia, rarius ad apices ramo-
rum breviter racemosa. Mores scspissime 5-meri. Legumen planum v. crassum, valvis
pauciarticulatis v. indivisis.
4
* Foliorum
petiolus communis 1 J-4 lin. long
110. M. GLABRA, Benth. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 386. Glaberrima glauca. Aculei
recti. Foliola 6-10-juga, oblongo -linearia, coriacea, longa.
1J-2J lin. Pedunculi ^-1-
poUicares. Legumen ^-1 poU. longum, fere 3 lin. latum, crassum, nudum, margiuibus
latis, valvis indivisis. Fl. Bras. Mim. r
ELab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil.

A,
rf
111. M. svAusA, Benth.!Sook. Journ. Bot. iy.dSo. Parce deorsum strigosa. Aculei
in
tenues, recti. Poliola 10-18-juga, oblongo-linearia, 1-1^ lin. longa,
subglabra. Pedun-
culi H-pollicares. Legumen l-lJ-polUcare, planum, margine nerviformi appresse
cihato, valvis glabris nudis 6-8-apticulatis.— JP/. Bras.
Mim.
Hab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil.
»« Foliorum petiolus
communis brevissimus subnuUus.
112. M. PARVipiNifA, Benth. I in Sooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 384.. Deorsum strigosa
mermis Pinnae 3-6 Hn. longae; foHola 15-30-juga, linearia,
semiUneam longa, glabra
ciliolata. Pedunculi 2-2^ lin. longi. Legumen ignotum.— i^/. Bras. Mim
Sab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil.
113. M. EUPESTBis, Benth. f m Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 385. Deorsum strigosa, sub
mermis. Pinnae f-1-pollicares ; foliola 20-30-juga, oblongo-linearia, 1-1^ lin. longa
glabra, ciliolata. PeduncuH subpollicares. Legumen 4-9 lin. longum, 2 lin. latum
rigide strigoso-setosum.— jP^. Bras. Mm.
M, subinermis
— — —
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 409

. -
Sab. Tropical and subtropical South America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and the
southern provinces.
114. M. EAMULOSA, JBenth. 1 in JBLooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 385. Deorsum strigosa. Aculei
spar \\. Poliola

• 10-15 -juga, ohlonga, linea ssepius breviora, glabra, ciliolata. Pedunculi
2-6 lin. longi. Legumen Junius undique strigoso-setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Extratropical South America : Brazil, southern provinces and adjoining parts of
the Argentine Republic.
115. M. ciLiATA, Spreng. ! Syst. ii. 205. Deorsum strigosa. Aculei sparsi. Poliola
6-8-juga, oblonga, IJ lin. longa, glabra, nitentia. Capitula sessilia. Legumen 9-12 Hn.
undique strigoso-setosum, margine latiusculo, valvis pluriarticulatis. Fl. Bran.

longum,
Mini. M
M. Sprengeliiy DC. ! Prod. ii. 430; Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 385.
Sab. Extratropical South America South Brazil.

:
In some herbaria I have seen specimens both of M. sparsa and of M. apjiressa distributed with the
ciliata under the name of M. Sprengelii. I had adopted the latter name for the present species given
M.
M. of Willdenow ; but as the latter proves not to be
to by De
it Candolle on account of the older ciliata
from the M. asperata, Linn., Sprengel's M, ciliata must ^xo^v be restored.

different
M. ADPRESSA, Book, et Am. ! in Sook. Bot. Misc. iii. 202. Deorsum strigosa.
116.
Poliola 20-30-juga, linearia, 1-3 lin. longa, glabra. Capitula sessilia.
Aculei sparsi.
paullo longius, 2^-3 lin. latum, planum, strigosum, margine ner-
Legumen poUicare v.
viformi, valvis 3-5-articulatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Banda Oriental and adjoining districts of the
Sab. Extratropical South America :
Argentine Republic.
plus minus fomento stellato plumosQ v. lepidoto

Series 12. Lepidot^. Frutices inermes,
Binnce uni- v. pluriJugcB. FoUolaplurir v. multij^
incani Jlamcantes v. fulvescentes.
axillis superioribus pedunculata
Capitula globosa v. spicm
Flores sapissime UneH, inpluribus speciebus fiavi. Legumen
summa interdum panieulata.
setosum, mmospermum v. valvis pluriarlimlatis.
planum, tomentosum v. lanatum, nee
with in any other part of the genus except in a
peculiar tomentum of this series is not to be met
The
HabbasKe
* BinncB unijugoi. Capitula depressa vel globosa.
386. Ploccoso-tomentosa
in Sook. Journ. Bot.
i
117 M INVOLUCRATA, Bcuth. ! iv.
Capitula depress-
plumJso-pilosa. Poliola 12-15.juga, linearia, 2^3 lin. longa, incana.^
pluriseriatis involucrata. Legumen ignotura.-JF7. Bra

fflobosa bracteis lanceohitis
M ? South America South Brazil.

Sab Extratropical :
Sook. Journ. Bot. 387. Tomento lepidoto incana.

118 M iNCANA, Benth. ! in iv.
Capitula parva globosa

oblonga, 1-3 lin. longa, obtusa, incana.
Poliola 8-30.iuga,
latum, valv. 1- ad
M^rll Bras.
Legume^ planum, incanum, 3-8
Mim.
lin. longum, 2 lin.
pluriarticulatis.-F/.
incana, Spreng. Syst. in. 137.
'-
Acacia !
3n2
— —
Acacia Sprengelii, Hook, et Am, ! in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 205.

Mimosa pilulifera, Benth. ! in Hook. Joum. Bot. ir. 386.
Sab. Tropical and subtropical South America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and the
southern provinces, and on the Uruguay.
119. M. CHETSASTEA, Mart. ; Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Lepidoto-tomentosa

mox glabrata. Eoliola 12-20-juga, oblonga, 1-2 lin. longa, dbtusa, glabrata. Capitula
parva, globosa, exinvolucrata. Legumeu subpoUicare, acuminatum, 2 lin. latum, lepi-
doto-tomentosum, planum, valvis sub-3-articulatis. »

4
«« Binnce ^plurijugce.
Capitula globosa
120. M. BoNPLANDi, Benth. ! in SooJc. Joum. Bot. iv. 387. Tomento lepidoto con-
spersa. Pinnae 3-4-jug8e; foliola 8-15-iuga, oblonga, vix 2 lin. lonâ, vix canescentia.
Legumen J-1-pollicare, 2 lin. latum, furfuraceum v. stellato-tomentosum, valvis ad
semina turgidis pluriarticulatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Acacia Bonplandi, Gill. ! in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 205 et Ten. ! Cat. Ort. Napol. 77.
Acacia hpldota. Hook, et Arn. ! in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 205.
Hab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil and Argentine Eepublic.
This species appears to have been published independently in England and
Naples under .the same
name of M. Bonplandi, given to it probably by some one, now unknown, who originally had the plant
from Bonpland, and communicated it both to Gdhes and to Tenore.
121. M. SCABRELLA, Benth. ! in Kooh. Joum. Bot. iv. 887. Tomento lepidoto incana.
Pinnae 5-7-jugae; foliola ultra 30-juga, oblongo-linearia, 1-3 lin. longa, utrinque incana.
Legumen l|-pollicare, 2i Kn. latum, planum, verrucoso-tomentosum, valvis 4 articu
latis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Bab. Tropical and subtropical South America : South Brazil and apparently prov
Goyaz.
122. M. CALOTHAMNUS, Mart. ! Serb. Fl. Bras. n. 1089. Leproso- v. floccoso-tomen

tosa. Pinnae 2-3- rarius 1- v. 4-jugae foliola 12-16-juga,
; ovato-oblonga v. subrhombea
3-linearia, coriacea, supra
glabra nitida, subtus albo-tomentosa. Legumen planum,
f-li-pollicare, leproso-tomentosum, valvis pauciarticulatis.—
ê^^/^. / inSooTc. Journ.Boi
iv. 388 ; Fl. Bras. Mim. r

123. M. EEiocAEPA, Benth. in SooJc. Joum. Bot. 387.
! iv. Plumoso- et lepidoto-
tomentosa. Pinnae 3-4-jug^ ; foliola 8-15.juga, oblonga, 1-lJ lin. longa, utrinque
lepidota. Legumen oblongum, 3-4 lin. longum, 1-spermum, densissime plumoso-lana
turn. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical or 'subtropical South America: South Brazil.
124. M. AUEiYiLLus, Mart. I Serb. Fl. Bras. 132, Plumoso- et floccoso-tomentosa.
Pinnae 2-jugae foHola 4-8-juga, ovata v. oblonga, 2-^5
; lin. longa, crassa, utrinque dense
stellato-tomentosa. Legumen subpollicare, 2 lin. latum, dense floccoso- v. plumoso-
lanatum, 2-articulatum.—i^Z. Bras. Mini.
r

—
Mimosa.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 411
125. M. PEDTJNCTJLARis, Bong. ; Benth. ! in RooTc. Journ. Bot. iv. 388. Rami longe
setosi, inter setas glabri. Pinnae 2-4-jiig8e ; foliola 6-8-juga, ovata v. oblonga, 2-3 lin.
longa, utrinque lepidoto-tomentosa. Legumen subsemipollicare, vix 2 lin. latum, rufo-
tomentosum et plumoso-setosum, pauciarticulatum. Fl. Bras. Mim,

Sah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
:
*** Binnce l-^rjugce, Spicce oblongcB, semipollicares v. paullo longiores brevioresve.
126. M. CALODENDRON, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. n. 1087. Leproso- v. floccoso-tomon-

tosa. Poliola 8-12-juga, ovata v. late oblonga, 3-5 lin. longa, supra glabra sa^piusque
nitida, subtus albo-tomentosa. Spicse oblongae, 6-7 lin. longae. Legumen J-1-pollicarc,
pulvinato-lanatum, Valvis pauciarticulatis.— -Z?c?2Â. in

fere 3 lin. latum, densissime .'
Hook. Journ. Bot. vi.'^^'^', Fl. Bras. Mim.

in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 389. Furfuracco-tomentosa.

127. M. ruRFURACEA, Be7ith. I
2-4 lin. longa, utrinquo dense tomentosa. Spicx oblongo-

roUola 10-15-juga, ovata,
4-6 longum, latum, densissime plu-
cyUndracese, 6-9 lin. longse. Legumen lin. 3 lin.
indivisis.— i^/. Bras. Mint.

moso-velutinum, 1-2-spermum, valvis
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Sao Paulo.
Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 389. Brevitcr plumoso- v. Icpidoto-
128. M. soRDiDA, Benth. ! in
10-15.juga, ovata v. oblonga, 3-4 lin. longa, utrinque stellato-
tomentosa. Poliola
long^. Legumen f-l poll, longum, vix 2 Im
tomentosa. Spic^ oblongs, 4^6 lin.
stellato-tomentosum, valvis 2-3-articulatis.— F^.

latum, planum, brevissime Icpidoto- v.
Bra^. Mini.
Hab, Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
**** Spica^ cylindracece, angustcs v. elonga((B.
Brcviter plumoso- v. stellato-

129 M
vAJLôWB^, Benth.! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv.SSQ.
2-3 lin. longa utrinque cano-
foliola 10-15-juga, oblonga,
tomentosa. Pinn^ unijuga^ ;
longa., densae v. basi interruptas. Legumen i^^no-

O
tomentosa. Spicae graciles, ad 7 lin.
turn — Fl. Bras. Mim. « ^ , ,

Sao Paulo, and
,
perhaps
subtropical South America : Brazil, proT.
Bab. Tropical or
«
other southern provinces.
SeM. in Hook. Jour,.. JioL iv. 389. Tomento leproso .-.
130 M CYLINDKACEA, !
foHola 1.5-20-juga, oblonga, nx 2

canescens v. r ufesc ;ns. Pinnae .1-9-iusiE ;
Dlumoso racemo numerosti}

supenores in
L lonsa, utrinque leprosa.
2 lin.
Spica=
latum,
l-lfpollieares,
crassiuseulum, scahro-tomentosum, valv.s paua
r
Sûmel semipollieare,
articulatis.— Ji. Bras. Mim.

Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Bab
Bab. Tropical America :
Seetio 2. IIabbasia
rarius suffruticea v. herb=e,
duplo plura. Frutiees v.
Stamma
Stamina num
nun.ero petalorum
FoUorum pet.oln, ,n una sene gbn-
«rt~ rCsc Jes. interdum alte scandentes.
pluri- v. multijnga,. speerebus panes un.jn^. m
Srnlteris eglandulosus. Pinna,
— — ;

r
Spicae globosae oblongae v. cylindracege. Calyx varius, sgepe magis evolutus quam in
Eumimosa. Corolla saepe profunde divisa, ssepius 4-meraj interdum 3-mera v. 5-6-mera.
Leguminis margo saepius nudus v. simplici serie aculeolatus, in seriebus ultimis interdum
pariter ac valvse setosus.
Series 1. Leptostacbyse. Spicce cylindracecB v. elongates rarius hreviter ohlongc

Indumentum tomentosum v. puhescens nee setosum. Petiolus eglandulosus. Flores i
speciehus Mexicanis et Columbianis scepius 6-meri, lO-andri, in Brasilianis 4i-me7

S-andri, sedfere in omnibus variant 4i-5-meri.
« Inermes, lejpidoto-
v, stellato-tomentosce
131. M. VEREUCOSA, Benth. ! in Sook. Journ. Bot. iv. 390. Eruticosa, tomento lepi-
doto subverrucosa. Pinnae 7-9-jug3e; foliola 10-20-juga, ovata v. oblonga, 2-3 lin.
longa, crassiuscula, subtus 2-nervia, costa excentrica. Spic« lax^, 4-pollicares, ad apices
ramorum racemosae. Legumen ignotum. M. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil prov. Pianby and Babia.
132. M. SCHOMBTJEGKII, Benth. ! in Sook. Journ. Bot. ii. 133, iv. 390. Arborea,
leproso-tomentella. Pinnae 7-15-jngae ; foHola 15-20-juga, oblonga, 2-3 lin. lonâ!
•
quam m M. verrucosa tenuiora, costa nnica subcentrali excepta glabra.

Spicse laxee,
sub 3-pollicares, ad apices ramorum racemosae. Legumen planum,
breviter stipitatum,
2-3-pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum, leproso-tomentosum, inerme,
valvis 6-8-articulatis.
Mab. Tropical America : Britisb Guiana, Schomburgk, Appun.
133. M. Trian^, Benth., sp. n. Pruticosa ?, lepidoto-tomentosa. Pinnse 10-20-jug£e
foliola 20-40-juga, subfalcato-oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa, supra convexa glabra nitida,
subtus cano-tomentosa, costa centrali. Spicae 2-3-poUicares, racemosae. Legumen
planum, breviter stipitatum, 1-2-pomcare, 3-4 lin. latum, brevissime lepidoto-tomen-
tosum, inerme, valvis 4-8-articulatis.
Hab. Tropical America New Granada, Villavicencio, Triana.
:
M. pteridifolim inflorescent
mfenore tomento lepidoto v. substeUato conspersi. Stipule parv^, caduce. Foliomm petiolus com-
pollicaris, eglandulosus. Pinnse Stipellse minutse, setace*. Foliola majora
apicem versus pmnse decrescentia et in foliis ramuloram floridorum
auriculata
imi
mmente. Floras non vidi. Spic^ fructiferse inracemum terminalem confert^, secus rhachin 2-3n^
flonim Leguminis margo tenuis, valvarum articuli subquadrati
134. M. PTERiDiPOLiA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 391. Pruticosa, glanduloso
sublepidoto-tomentosa. Pinn^ 12-18.jugae foliola 12-25.juga, oblonga,
;
1-2 lin. longa
supra minute puberula, subtus crebre glanduloso-punctata,
costa subcentrali. Spica
1^3.poUicares, ad apices ramorum racemosae. Legumen
immaturum li-polKcare, aureo.
viilosissimum. Fl, Bras. Mim.
L
Rah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Goyaz and Babia.

— —
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 413
** Inermes, molliter puhescentes v. tomentosce, nunc canescentes v. glahrce.

*
t iPinncB 4- v. plurijugm. Foliola multijuga^ semipollice hêviora.
135. M. HEBECARPA, Benth.l in Hook. Land. Journ. v. 87. Artorea, molliter

pubescens. Pinnae 20-25-jug9e ; foliola multijuga, oblonga, vix lineam longa. Spicae
axillares, 2-4-pollicares. Legumen planum, 1^2-pollicare, 3 lin. latum, tomentoso-

villosum, margine tenui, valvis 6-9-articulatis.
m
M, Bras. Mim,
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, pro v. Minas Geraes.
136. M. Waumingii, Bentk. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Arborca, molliter pubescens.
Pinnse 4-5-jug9e ; foliola 20-30-juga, falcato-linearia, acuta, 3-4 lin. longa, glabra. Spicai
axillares, 3-4-pollicares. Legumen ignotum.

137. M. PUBERTJLA, Benth. I in Sooh. Land. Journ. v. 88. Arborca, puberula. PinnoB
5-10-jug8E ; foliola 15-40-juga, oblonga, rigidula, obtusa, 2-2 J lin. longa. Spicfle ax.il-
lares, l|-2-pollicares. Legumen stipitatum, planum, 1 J -poUicare, 3-4 lin. latum, pu-
bescens, valvis 3-5-articulatis.

Sab. Tropical America : Mexico, near Zimapan, Coulter ;
" New Spain," Serb. Favon.
ruculosis, specimina tarn
M. 2-3
Foliorum
cares. Foliola crebra, crassiuscula, 2-2^ lin. longa, basi valde in^qualia et obli(iue trun-
li-2
Spicae subgeminae, breviter pedunculatse. Flore*
parum excentrica, utrinque puberula.
4-5 meri. fere dabri. Corolla lineam longa, late infundibularis. Calyx subtriplo brevior.
Legumen tenue, saepius acuminatum,
138. M. DISCOLOR, Benth. I in Sooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 391. Fruticosa, tomento minu-
Pinnae 4-6-jug3e. PoHola 15-25-juga, oblongo-linearia,

tissimo canescens v. glabrata.
1-2-pollicares, ad apices ramonuii
4-5 lin. longa, supra paUida, subtus ferruginea. Spicae
racemosse. Lesumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

\\ Binnce'i'-Ai-jugcB. Foliola paudjuga, semipollice lonyiora.
SERICANTHA, Benth. in Sooh Journ. Bot. iv. 392. Arborca, cano-pubcrula

139. M. !
foliola 4-8-juga, obovata, J-l-poUicaria, plurincr%'ia

subglauca. Pinnse sub-3-jug8e ;
2-3-pollicares, racemosae. Plores cano-sericei. Logumen stipitatum

Spicse graciles,
3-4 lin. latum, cano-pubcrulum, valvis 4-8-articulatis.— F/
planum, 2-3-pollicare,
Bras. Mim.
Pithecolobium cinereum, Mart. Herb.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Pernambuco.

Bras. Mim. Fruticosa v. arborca,
140 M piTHECOLOBioiDES, Benth. I in Mart.
H-poUicaria,
Fl.
p^nni.
Pinnro 2-4-jug8e. Foliola 2-5-juga, obovata,
minute tomentella.
Spic^ pollicares, densse, racemosse. Flores pubescentes
venia, glabra, supra nitida.
Legumen ignotum.
Pithecolobium lasiogynum, Mart. Herb.
Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
. !
141. M. LAsioPHYLLA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Fruticosa, tomontosa

Pinnse 3-4-jugae ; foliola 4-8-juga, ovata, J-l-poUicaria, pennivenia, supra minute subtus
molliter tomentoso-pubescentia. Spicae pollicares, densoe, racemosae. Legumeu sessile,
planum, 2-3-pollicare, 5-6 lin. latum, tomentosum, valvis 4-8-articulatis.
Kah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
(See also the unarmed states of M acutistipula and M. arenosa.)
.
*** Aculeat(S, molliter tomentoso-villosa.
142. M. FASCICULATA, Bentli. in Sook. Bond. Journ. v. 88. Eruticosa, ferruo'ineo-

tomentosa. Aculei sparsi, recurvi. Pinnae 15-25-jug8e; foliola 10-25-juga, oblonga,
ad 3 valde obliqua, costa submarginali, supra pubescentia, subtus villosa.
lin. longa,
Spicae axillares v. racemosse, 2-3-pollicares, densiflorge. Elores sericeo-villosi. Leiû-

men ignotum
Acacia fasciculata^ Kunth! Mini. 75 j t. 23.
f m
Mimosa cinerea^ Herb. Pavon.
B:ab. Tropical America : Mexico, Bumholclt and Bonpland, KarwinsU.
143. M. DTSOCARPA, Benth. ! in A. Gray, Bl. Wright, i. 62. Eruticosa, ferrugineo-
villosa. Aculei sparsi, subrecurvi. Pinnae 6-10-jugae ; foliola 8-10-juga, oblonga, J-2
1
lin. longa., utrinque sericeo-villosa, costa submarginali. Spicae axillares, oblongo-cylin-
dracese, l-l|-pollicares. Elores Stamina semipollicaria.
villosi. Legumen planum,
lJ-2-pollicare, ad semina 2-3 Hn. latum, dense tomentoso-villosum, marginibus crassi-
usculis, valvis tardius in articulos longiusculos secedentibus.
B[ab. Extratropical North America : West Texas and Mexican boundary, TTright, n,
144, 163, 1040, Emorij, Expedition, n. 309.
144. M.
GTJATEMALENSis, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 89, and in b:ooJc.
Bond. Journ. v. 89.
Molliter villosa. Aculei sparsi, recti Pinnae 3-4-jug8e ; foliola 3-6-jug
obovaH-oblonga v. suborbiculata, |-f.pollicaria, supra breviter
subtus longe villosa.
Spicae axillares, densae, 1-li-pollicares. Elores villosi. Legumen ignotum.
Acacia guatemalensis, Hook, et Arn. ! Bot. Beech. 419.
Rab. Tropical America Mexico and Central America, Barclay,
:
Sinclair, Coulter, also
in Herb. Bavon. under the name of M. fermginea, and a
broad-leaved form under that
of M. rotundifolia.
145. M. cADrcA, Boir. Diet. Suppl. i. 83. MoUiter vUlosa v. tomentosa. Aculei
sparsi, subrecurvi. Pinn^ 4-6-jugae ; foliola 8-10-juga, obovato-oblonga, 3-4 lin. longa,
supra convexa mtidula vix puberula, subtus ferrugineo-pubescentia.
Spicae axiUares,
pedunculatae, oblongae, i-|-poUicares. Elores pubescentes. Legumen planum, ferru-
gmeo-tomentosum, subsesquipoUicare, 3-4 Un. latum,
mar-inibus
o aculeatis, valvis
lulatis
Humb. et Bonpl. in "Willd

Sab. Tropical America Peru, Humboldt and Bonpland.
:
A single fruit still remain-
mg on the specimen in Herb. WiUd., although imperfect, clearly
proves it to be a A,
J,
true Mimosa, very nearly allied to M. guatemalensis.

M. semispinosa, Spreng. Syst. ii. 206, vix Linn., from a
! fruiting specimen in Herb. Balb., or Acacia
tf
— .
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E- 415

V
Spini, Balb. ! in Spin. Cat. Suppl. ex DC. Prod. ii. 460, from a flowering specimen in the same herba-
rium, both from Santa Marta, from a cursory examination, appeared to be a true Mimosa, closely allied
to, and probably identical with, M. caduca. The prickles in both specimens were solitary under
«
each leaf.
f
**** ActdeatcB (M. acutistipula et M. arenosa interdum inermes)^glaL7'(e v. laxe

r
puhescentes.
t Species Brasilietises, spicis plerumqiie paniculatis.
146. M. iNTERHUPTA, Bentli, ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 392. Pruticosa, puberula v.
labrescens. Aculei infra stipulares oppositi. Pinna) 5-9-jiigce ; foliola multijuga, ob-
i3
longo-linearia, 3-1 lin. longa, nitida, 2-nervia. Spica) semipcdalcs, laxiflora). Lognmcu
Junius viscoso-villosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
147. M. ACUTISTIPULA, BentJi. ! in Uooh. Joiirn. Bot. iv. 391. Pruticosa v. arborcn,
pnbemla. Aculei sparsi, rari, recti v. incurvi (v. nulii ?). PinnsB 5-6-jugae ;
foliola
3 longa, rigidula, obtusa, basi obliciua,

multi- (ultra 30-)juga, oblongo-linearia, ad lin.
1-1 J-pollicares. Lc-unien stipitatum, planum, 3-4-po1-

costa subcentrali. Spic{:e densa3,
subglabrum, margine tcnui, valvis G-10-articulatis.— F^. Bras.
licare, 3-4 lin. latum,
Mim.
i^
Acacia acutistipula, Mart. I Herb. Fl. Bras. 107.
Ilab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Piauhy and Bahia.

FL Bras. Mim. Pruticosa, puberula. Aculei
148 M. APODOCARPA, Benth. 1 in Mart.
foliola multijuga, lincaria, 2 lin. longa, nitidula.
sparsi, rari, recurvi. Pinna. 12-15-jugce ;
Irn.
Spicse sub-2-pollicares. Legumen sessile, planum, pubescens, 2-2l-pollicare, 5
latum, valvis pluriarticulatis
Sah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
Pruticosa, puberula (viscidula
149 M HOSTiLis, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. ?).
Aculei sparsi, recti. Pinn^ 4-6-jug^ ; foliola multijuga, oblonga, obtusissima, 1-U Im.
Spicae 1-2-pollicarcs. Legumen subsessile, planum, viscido-
longa, costa vix conspicua.
puberulum, poUicare v. longius, 3 lin. latum, valvis 4-6-articulati8.
Acacia hostilis, Mart. ! Reise, i. 555.

prov. Minas Geraes and Bahia.
Sah, Tropical America : Brazil,
BeuthAn Mart. Fl. Bras, Mim. Pruticosa,

150 MoTmKKJ.îocE^TÂ, Mart.! Herb.;
Pinnr^ l-S-jugas foliola
recurvi, nunc rari v. subnulli.' ;
sub^^laLra.' Aculei sparsi,
Spica. If poUicares. I^g^ên sub
15-20-juga, linearia, 1^2 Un. longa, nitidula.
valvis rcticulatis 6-12-articulati.s.
glabrum, li-3-pollicare, 2^-3 lin. latum,
planum,
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia.
3Iart, Serb. Benth. in Mart, Fl, Bras, Mm- Pruticosa,

151. M. HALACOCENTEA, I ;
recurvi, pauci v. rarius subnulU. Pmna. 6-10ûg«; foliola

.ubescens
puoescenb.
puue&ct=u». ^û
Aculei
. sparsi,
t
r -
90-^0-iu"-a, oblonsro-lmeana, ad i
»
^
iin. longa,
„„n-i„
pamua, ^^
„ini.ro
-,iauit* ^^^ Smcac
vt mliatii- g i ij.gjj tenucs.
tenucs,
glabrescen, 2-2i.pomcare. 2-3 lin

H-pSes. Legumen stipiMum. planun..
alvis Itevibus 6-8-articulatis

3
VOL. XXX.
;
416 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEif:. [Mimosa.
Acacia malacocentra. Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 106.

Mimosa leiocarpay Bentli. ! iu Hook. Journ. "Bot. -iv. 391^ non DC.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro, Minas Geraes, Baliia and Ceara.
Resembles in many respects the Colnrabian M, arenosa ; but besides tlie difference in station and tlie
more paniculate inflorescence^ there appear to be some differences in the proportions of the parts of tlic
flower.
152. M. c^SALPiNi^FOLiA, Bentli. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 392. Fruticosa, gla-
briuscula. Aculei sparsi, recurvi, rari Pinnae 3-jug9e; foliola 3-juga, late ovata, obtii-
sissima, J-1-pollicaria, glabra v. subtus pubernla. Spicoe laxae, IJ-pollicares. Legumen
stipitatum, planum, glabrum, 2^3-pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum, valvis 8-12-articulatis.
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Piauby.
ft Species Coliimbiance v. Mexicance, spicis axillaribiis v. sunwiis paucis breviter

racemosis.
153. M. ADENANTHEROEDES, BentJi. ! in Hook. Bond. Journ. v. 88. Eruticosa, minute

r
puberula. Aculei sparsi, recurvi. Pinn£e sub-9-jug8e ; foliola 8-10-juga, ovato-oblonga,

obtusiuscula, 3-5 lin. longa, subtus paUida v. canescentia. Spicse tenues, l-l|-pollicares.
Plores puberuli. Legumen ignotum.
Acacia adenantheroides, Mart, et Gal. ! in Bull. Acad. Brax. x. pars ii. 310.
Hab. Tropical America : Mexico, prov. Oaxaca, Galeotti, n. 3208.
154. M. Cabrera, Karst. ! Fl. Colomb. ii. 63, t. 132. Pruticosa ? tenuiter pubescens,
pilis glanduliferis intermixtis. Aculei sparsi, recti. Pinnae 6-9-jugffi ; foliola 20-40-juga,
linearia, obtusa, 2-3 lin. longa, utrinque pubescentia, concoloria. Spicse laxjB, sub-
interruptee, 2-3-pollicares. Legumina
subsessUia, plana, pubescentia et glandulosa, 1-lJ-
poUicaria, 3-4 lin. lata, valvis 3-6-articulatis.
Acacia tenuiflora, Willd. Spec. iv. 1088.
!
Mimosa tenuijlora, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 82, non Benth.

Hab. Tropical America : Columbia, Fendler, n. 1870 ; San Salvador, Wendland.
155. M. ARENOSA, Foir. Bid. Suppl. i. m. Pruticosa (v. arborescens ramis tenuibus
?),
dense pubescentibus. Aculei sparsi, recurvi, copiosi, rari v. nulli. Pinnse sub-T-juga?
foHola multijuga, oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa, utrinque
puberula. Spicse tenues, lax^!
li-2J-ponicares. Flores subglabri. Legumen stipitatum, planum,
glabrum, mucrona-
tum, 1-1 J-polUcare, 2i lin.' latum, valvis 7-8-articulatis.
iUd
Mimosa Xantholasia, Bentli. ! in Hook. Lend. Journ. v. 88.
Hab. Tropical America Columbia, Bredemeyer, Funche, n. 383, Fendler, n
:
360
Otto, n. 366, Birschel.
Very near M. malaco centra.
m.
156. M. LEiocARPA, BC. Frod. ii. 429. Pruticosa, glabra. Aculei subrecti, sparsi,
rari. Pinnae sub-12-jug8e foHola multijuga, parva, linearia.
; Spicee subpaniculats.
Legumina plana, glabra, lucidula, marginibuS incrassatis. i
Bab. Tropical America Columbia, Santa Marta, Bertero.

:
—
Mimosa.l MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 417
M.
but I have no means now of comparing it^ having only seen it many years since in Herb, DC. and
Herb. Balbis.
157. M. WuiGHTii, A. Gray I Fl. Wright, n, b2. Suffrnticosa, cinereo-puberula

Pinnae 7-10-jugae foliola 10-15-jiiga, oblonga, lJ-2 lin
Aculei sparsi, breves, recti. ;
subavenia, supra glabrata, subtus sericea. Spicse 1-2-pollicares, densae. Tlorei

lono-a,
glabriiisculi. Legumen Junius planum, angustum, dense sericeo-villosum, pcrfeetum
ignotum.
Sab. Subtropical North America : Sonora, Wright, n. 1011.
158. M. PLATYCARPA, BeutJi., sp. n. Pruticosa, glabra. Aculei sparsi, recurvi. PinnsR
6-10-jug^ ; foliola 15-25-juga, linearia, 1-li lin. longa. Spicse gracilcs, pollicarcs, laxi-
Legumen stipitatum, planum, glabrum, in specimine IJ poll, longura, fere J

floraj.
poll, latum, apice basique angustius, marginibus aculeolatis, valvis ut videtur indivisis.
Sah. Tropical America Guatemala, Skinner.

:
Quoad folia aculeos et legumina a M. acantholoba vix distinguenda, sed inflorcsccntia spicata ncc capitata.
novelli tenuissime clliato-puheruli. Aculei parvuli,
Ramuli tenues, angulati, uti tota planta glabri v.
rigidulse, intcrdum fere pungeiitcs. Folio-
crebri v. rari, interdum deesse videntur. Stipulse parva, setacese,
subsesquipoUicaris, inerrais v. pauciaeuleatus. Pinnae G-9 lin. longoc.

rum petiolus communis gracilis,
Spicse gemina, plcrseque axillarcs, brcvitcr peduncu-
Foliola obtusa, glabra v. ciliolata, costa central!.
late. Floras 5-meri, lO-andri.
295. Pruticosa, pube minuta pallens v. candi-

159. M. DiSTACHYA, Cav. Ic. iii. 48, t.
Pinnse 2-5-juga3 foliola 4-7-juga, obovali-

cans. Aculei infrafoliacei recurvi v. nulli. ;
longa. Spicse graciles, 1-1 J-poUicares. Plores sub-

oblonga, minute puberula, ad 3 lin.
sessiles. Legumen ignotum.

Acacia ? distachya, DC. Prod. ii. 456.
in Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 88.
Mimosa remota, Benth. !
M
Mexico, Serb. Pavon, Galeotti, n. 3240; Columbia, Santa
Marta, Berteiô, Schlim, n. 942.

ramulis rigidis flexuosis plus minus pubesccntibus. Aculei dum adsunt
Frutex v. arbor parva,
ipso solitarii, nunc ab eo plus minus rcmoti, nunc omnmo dcficxentcs.
basi valde dilatati, nunc sub folio
inermibus petiolus
V. subulate, V. in specirainibus
Stipule setacece ^ ^ .• ii . t? r f ^
.
semipollicem excedit, prope basm 2-stipellata. Foliola

i
li«tevi- i
11-3 poUicaris- pinnarum rhacbis raro

parvis apprcssis puberula.^ Spicas 2-3n«,, infe-
tenuissime 3-nervia, utrinquc pilis
rentia' membranacea, " '^"- -"»-'!-— +*«
~
prsesercim
^ - •
Calyx
• membra-
ranus
4
glabriuscula. Stamina longe exserta.
11SU
aU
this series show occasionally specimens without any.
Journ. JBoLiy.m. Pruticosa, puberula. Aculei

160 MPOi.YXST:RL/Benth.!inSoo/c.
3 -j ug^ foliola 3--6.juga, oblonga,
infrafoliacei recti t. subrecurvi. Pinn. 2-, rarius ;
obtusa, 2-3 lin. longa, supra glabra, subtus parce pHosula. Spicae floribund^, ^f poll,
lono-se. Plores subsessiles. Legumen ignotum.

3
.
418 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^. [Mimosa.
Sab. Tropical America : Mexico, Serb. JPdvotij Acatlan, Andrieux, n. 397, and perhaps
also Coulter J n. 401.
M. distachyce valde affiuis^ differt habitu, foliis per anthesin vix evolutis, spiels ad nodos confertis bre-
vibus, aculeis plerisque rectis^ foliolis supra glabris.
161. M. LAXIFLOEA, Beuth. ! in Hooh. Lond. Journ. v. 93. Glabra, pallida. Aculei
sparsi, recurvi, rari. Pinnae 2-3-ju^ce; foliola 3-6-juga, oblonga, obtusa, ad 3 lin.
longa. Spicse graciles, vix pollicares, glabrae. Elores distincte pedicellati. Legumen
gnotum
Hab. Subtropical TN"ortli America : Mexico, prov. Sonora Alta, Coulter
perfect
and the fruits are
i. Prod.460j described from one of Mo9ino and Sesse's Mexican drawings,
ii.
ery short character given, be the same as M. laxiflora, although more probably
ns
Series 2. Glanduliferse . Frutices scepius alte scandentes^ aculeis spards recurvis parvis
mmimisve armati. FinfKB 2- muWjugce, Foliola pauci- v. multi-juga. Glandula ad
basin petioli communis, et sapeparvce adfoUonim paria ultima. Capitula globosa, parva,
ad apices ramorum ample paniculata. Legumen planum, margine ienui nerviformi nudum,
valvis pluriarticulatis
I
162. M. BATJHiNi^FOLiA, Karst. ! Ft. Colomb. ii. 65, t. 133. Glabra. Aculei SEepe
validi. Pinnae 2-jug8e; foliola 1-juga, falcato-ovata, obtusa, 3-4-pollicaria
; glandula
petiolaris depressa. Legumen glabrum, 3-4 poU. longum, 6-8 lin. latum, valvis multi-
articulatis.
Hab. Tropical America : Columbia near Villavicencio, Karsten, Tnana.

163. M. EXTENSA, £enth. I in Hooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 393. Alte scandens, glabra.
Aculei minimi. Pinnae 2-3-jug8e; foliola 1-juga, falcato-ovata,
breviter acuminata,
li-4-pollicaria ; glandula petiolaris verruciformis. Legumen ignotum.—J'/.
Bras. Mini,
164. M. MicEACANTHA, Beuth. I in HooJc. Journ. Bot. 131, iv. 393.
ii. Alte scandens,
puberula v. glabra. Aculei minimi. Pinnae 2-3-jug8e ; foliola 2-3-juga, oblique ovata,
obtusa, 2-3-pollicaria glandula petiolaris parvula, elevata.
;
Legumen glabrum, 2-pol-
hcare, 9 latum, valvarum articulis ad
lin.
8, latioribus quam longis.—i?/. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America North Brazil. :
165. M. EUFESCENS, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Alte scandens, puberula v.
glabra. Aculei minimi, rari. Pinnae 2-6-jug^ ; foliola 3-7-juga, obhque obovata,
oDtusa, glabra v. subtus ad axUlas venarum pilosula, variant i-li-polhcaria glandula
;
petiolaris verruciformis. Legumen glabrum, 4.pollicare v. longius, i poll, latum, val-
varum articulis 8 pluribusve.
166. M. Spritceana, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Alte scandens, rufo-viUosa.
Acalei miuum spard, recurvi. Pinna; sub-S-jug^; foKola
4-6.juga, obUque obovata,
majora l^S-pollicaria, subtus molliter
tomentoso-TOlosa, inferiora minora. Le<^men
—
Mwiosa.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. il9

r
planum, puberulum v. glabratum, 3-4-pollicare, |-1 poll, latum, valvis multiarti-

-
culatis.
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil,
167. M. ANNULARIS, Spruce, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Alte scandens, rufo-
tomentosa. Aculei parvi, sparsi, recurvi. Pinnae sub-S-jugae ; foliola 4-6-juga, oblique
rhombea, acutiuscula, J-1-pollicaria, subtus sparse pubescentia. Legumen planum

glabrum, 4 lin. latum, valde curvum v. perfecte annulatum, valvis multiarticulatis.
Hah. Tropical America : North Brazil.
168. M. PANICULATA, Benth, I in Kooh. Joiirn. Bot. ii. 131, iv. 394. Alte scandens,
pubescens. Aculei parvi, sparsi, recurvi. Pinnae 5-7-jugrD; foliola 7-11-juga, oblique
falcato-rhombea, acutiuscula, 4-5 lin. longa, supra lucida, subtus pubescentia. Legumen
ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil or British Guiana.
Series 3. Rubicaules. Frutices alte scandentes v. erecti, rarius arborcscenles, aciileis

r
FoUorum
rarius inermes. petiolus eglandidosns. Capitida glohosa,
sparsis armati v.
ad apices ramorum ragemosa v. paniculata, v. rarius omnia OMllaria.

^cBpius muUiflora,
rarius 5-meri. Legumen planum, glabrum v. pubescens, margine
Flores S-meri, 4<-meri v.
in articulos plures secedentibus v. rarius (in

uGuleatum «?. nudum, valvis membranaceis,
m
M. acantholoba) indivisis.
the principal difference between this series and the Glandidifer<B ; but
The want of the petiolar gland is
habit and foUage, the larger heads with more flowers etc. It
it is also usually distinguished by the
the Acanthocarpa. The Asperat<B Schrankmde<B come also very
passes however, rather gradually into
to
groups
• Gerontogece.
\ Calyx coroll(B dimidium subcequans.

Fruticosa tomentoso-
169. M
EMiENENsis, Benth. in Sook. Joum.
5-8.juga, oblonga,
Bot. iv. 396. ?
paribns distantibus foliola

puberula, inermis ? Pinn^ 6-lO.jugse, ;
puberula. Panicula ampla, polycephala. Legumen

ad 2 Hn longa, utrmque adpresse
li-2.pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum, valvis pluriarticulatis.
sessile,puberulum, inerme,
Hah Madagascar : Mazou-arivou, prov. Emirna, Bojer.

entirely unarmed, the foliage rather different, and the pod
V..v'.ear M. htismnosa, but apparently
scarce
Trutieosa, subscandens, tomcntoso-pubcscens

170. M. LATISPINOSA, Lam. Diet. i. 22.
latissimi Pinna! 10-2
Aculei in ramis rari, in petiolis frequentiores,
lin. lousa. obscure l-S-nervia, ntenqu.
ju^ foHok 10-20-jaga, oblonga, obtusa, li-24
i
polycephala. Legumen stipi atum. li-2-polhcare

appresse puberula. Panicula ampla,
valvis pluriarticulatis.
latum, margine nudo v. parce aculeolato,
4-5 lin
Acacia latispinosa, 1
Mimosa mascarensis
M. phvllocantha, Pers. Syn. ii. 267
Cultivated in tbe Botanic Gardens of Mauritius
^rMalgasca;- Comn^non, Bojer.
— ;
420 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [Mimosa
and Calcutta as well European ones and specimens having been found in Leicli-
as in ;
hardt's Port-Essington collection, it was sent hj E. Mueller as the only Australian

Ilimosa under the name of M. laticusjîs. It was, however, probably from one of the
exotic trees and shrubs planted there by the temporary colonists. w
171. M. DECUERENS, Bojer ! iti Herb. DC. Fruticosa, glabra v. vix minute puberula.
Aculei in ramis rari, in petiolis frequentiores, latissimi, incurvi. Pinnae l0-20-jug9e
foliola 6-8-juga, oblonga, 3-5 lin. longa, sub-2-nervia, glabra. Capitula ad axillas race-
t
mosa (an etiam ample paniculata ?). . Legumen ignotum.

Hah. Tropical Africa island of Zanzibar, Bojer.
:
Affinis M. latispinosce imprimis glabritie diversa, pinnis

, bre\ibuSj foliolis majoribus. Tota planta
I
oculo nudo glaberrima apparet^ sub lente pubes rara tenuissima apparet. Ramuli angulati. Foliorum
petiolus communis semipedalis et longior. Aculei ut in M. latispinosa valde dilatati et incurvi nee ut
in M. rubicauli recurvi. Foliola valde obliqua^ rigide membranacea v. subcoriacea, nervo majore (seu
costa) margin! superiori approximato. Racemi in specimine viso simplices^ folia fequantes. Capitula et
flores M. latispinosce sed glabri.
tt Clalyx mmimiis^ corolla quadruj^lo brevior.

172. M. NissoBiENSis, JBentli., sp. n. Eruticosa, scandens, glabra. Aculei sparsi,
recurvi, parvi. Pinnae 4-6-jug8e ; foliola 6-12-juga, late oblonga, obtusissima, mem-
branacea, 4-6 lin. longa, glabra. Panicula ampla. Legumen ignotum.
ITab. Madagascar : island of Nossi-be, Boivin.
Habitu M. sepiari<£^ et pariter siccitate nigrescit^ foliolis facile distinguenda. Petiolus communis
3-4^-pollicarisj pinnse l|-2-pollicares, Foliola 2-3 lin. lata^ basi valde obliqua^ costa subcentrali^ nervis
lateralibus 2-3 tenuibas brevibus. Panicula apbylla, laxe polycepbala. Capitula multiflora. Calyx vix
w
\ lin. longus. Corolla 1 lin. longa^ profande 4-fida.
The Brazilian M. sepiaria has established itself in hedges in Singapore and in South China.
173. M. KUBiCAULis, Lam. Diet. i. 20. Eruticosa, subscandens, puberula. Aculei

sparsi, recurvi. Pinnae 3-10-jugge ; foliola 6-15-juga, oblonga v. oblongo-linearia, 2-4
lin. longa, subtus v. utrinque appresso-puberula. Pedunculi inferiores axillares, supe-
riores racemosi. Legumen stipitatum, rectum v. curvum, 2-3-pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum,
margine nudum v. rarius aculeatum, glabrum, valvis pluriarticulatis. Hook. Ic. BL
t. 156. L
Mimosa octandra, Roxb. ! PL Corom. ii. 55, t. 200.

M. mutabilis, Roxb. M. Ind. ii. 564.
M. spinoso-siliqua, Rottl. ex Spreng. Syst, ii. 206.
M. Roitleri, Spreng. /. c.
Hah. Tropical Asia widely spread over East India from Affghanistan and the Penin-
:
sula to Nepaul and Assam, and lias also been received from Mauritius, but perhaps
there cultivated. «
174. M. HAMATA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1033. Eruticosa, cano-puberula. Aculei sparsi,
validi, recti v. recurvi. Pinnse petiolo brevi 3-4-jugee ; foliola 6-10-juga, oblonga V.
oblongo-linearia, 1-2 lin. longa, utrinque cano-puberula. Pedunculi plerique axillares,
folio longiores. Legumen stipitatum, pubescens, curvum, ad 6 lin. latum, latere exteriore
mter semina sinuatum, margine aculeato, valvis pluriarticulatis.
«
1-
M.
Sab. Tropical Asia : East-Indian peninsula
M. rubicauli
legu
M. hamata are a few from Wi
v
M.
M.
The specimens, however, from both regions are insufficient to determine whether they arc
I can discover.
try
Benth. rmticosa? glabra, verruculosa. Aculei sparsi, recurvi.

175. M. PSOEALEA,
oblongo-linearia, obtusa, glabra, vix 2 lin. longa.
Pinnse 2-5-jugse ; foliola 7-8-juga,
Pedunculi axillares. Legumen ignotum.

Acacia? psoralea, DC. Prod. ii. 461.
Of I have only seen a fragment, in Herb. DC,
Sab. Madagascar, Commerson. this
insufficient for a Ml description. It is evidently nearly allied to M. rubkaidis.
Bolle in Feters, Mossamb. Bot. 8. Diffusa v. subscandens, ramis

176. M. viOLACEA,
Aculei sparsi, parvi, recurvi. Pinnae 6-15-jiigu".
tenuibus pubescentibus glabrisve.
2-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi axillares, tenucs, sub-
Poliola 8-12-juga, oblongo-linearia,
Legumen stipitatum 3-pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum, omnino M. rubicaulis.
filiformes.
Oliv. ! Fl. Tro;p. Afr. n, 336.
Kab. Tropical Africa : Mossambique district.

t
** Americana.
Foliola obovata v. late oblonga, obtusissima.

t Inermes.
Fruticosa, minute pube-
177 M LEUC^NOiDES, Beuth. ! in Book. Lond. Journ. v. 89.
2-4-juga, obovata v. subrbombea, j-l-pollicaria, coriacoa,
rula Pinn^ l-jugse; foliola
nulla. Capitula axiUaria, pcdunculata. Legumen sessile,
venosa, nitida glandula ;
2-4 Hn. latum, minute puberulum v. glabratum, merme, valvis

2-2fpollicare, curvulum,
pluriarticulatis.
Bab. Tropical America : Mexico, Coulter, Karwimki.

1028. Glaberrima. Pinna! l-jugas
178 M ? PISTACI^FOLIA, Willd. ! Spec. ir.
foliola 3-juga, obovata v. obovato-

supra canaliculato eglanduloso ;
petiolb i-l-poUicari
nitidula, 4-5.nervia et parce venulosa glandula
obtusissima, polUcaria, coriacea, ;
oblonga!
foliola paris ultimi. Caetera ignota.
scutellata inter
Spreng. Syst.iii. 131.
/n^(ii)»s/ad(e/o/i«,
Mab Tropical America : Caraccas, Bredemeyer.

of M. kucô,de.. but glabron,, ami ,1,.-
the specimen in Herb. WiUd. U very nearly that

The foliage of genus.
possibly belong to some other
.land is null exceptional. It may therefore very
_ _
Bra.. Mim. Pruticosa rami set.s

ECHiNOCATiLA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. ;
179 M.
echinati, c^terum glaberrima et inermis. Hnn» remote S-l-juga. ; fobola
lonrri-dis aucescent.a,
subsemipolUcaria, crassmscula g
7-Tjugl late oblonga, obtusissima.
iJ-v^jiô"' ='„..,, Tx»r,,imoTi
Legumen. Tirf>vifp.r
breviter stimtatum.
stipitatu 2-2^-
Capitula longe racemosa.
prseter costam
inerme, valvis multiarticulatis
iolUcare, 2i lin. latum, glabrum,
prov. Babia and Minas Geraes
Tropical America : Brazil,
Sab.
A
422 MR. G. BENTHAM (5n THE MIMOSE^. [Mmosa. %

ft AculeafcB. Foliola ohovata v. late ohlonga.
*
180. M. OBOVATA, iBenth, I in SooJc. Journ. Bot. iv. 394. Pruticosa, alte scandens,
glabra. Aculei sparsi, recurvi. Pinnae 2-4-jugaB ; foliola 1-jnga, rarius 2-juga, obovata,
l-l|-pollicaria, pennivenia, sub-2-nervia. Capitula parva, paniculata. Flores saepius
3-meri. Legumen 2-3-pollicare, 6 lin. latum, glabrum, inerme, valvis 5-8-articulatis
Fl. Bras. Mint.
Acacia ? guilandiTKBy DC. ! Prod. ii. 465.
Mimosa ceratonioides^ Klotzscli ! in Herb. Berol.
-ETi^S/ Tropical America ; Brazil, prov. Baliia and Rio Janeiro, Venezuela, and perhaps 6.
Guiana.
181. M. CERATONiA, Linn, ! Spec. 1508. Eepens v. scandens, glaberrima. Aculei

sparsi, parvi, recurvi, crebri. Pinnse 3-5-jug9e ; foliola 3-juga, obovata v. orbiculata,
obtusissima, semipoUicaria v. pauUo majora, membranacea, 3-nervia. Capitula laxe
racemosa. Legumen sessile, 2-2}-pollicare, 9 lin. latum, margine aculeatum, valvis 6-8-
articulatis.
Acacia ceratonia, Willd. Spec. iv. 1091.
Sab. Tropical America : West-Indian Islands, St. Vincent's, St. Lucia, St. Thomas,
Dominica, perhaps also on the S. American continent, but the M. ohovata often mis
taken for it.
182. M. FAGARACANTHA, GHseb. ! Cat. Bl. Cub. 81. Fruticosa, tortuosa, glabra.
Aculei infrastipulares petiolaresque gemini recurvi, et nonnunquam
sparsi. Pinn^
2-3-jugae foliola 2-4-juga, obovata v. ovalia, obtusissima," 2-4 lin.
; longa, sub-3-nervia.
Capitula parvula, racemosa v. inferiora axillaria. Legumen subsessile,
2-pollicare, 3-4
lin. latum, inerme minute aculeatum, valvis 6-8-articulatis.
v.
Mab. Tropical America Cuba, Wright, n. 2390.

:
183. M. POLYAifciSTRA, Benth. in Herb. Boiss. Fruticosa, scandens glabra. Aculei

?,
sparsi, recurvi, copiosi. Pinn^ 3-7-jug8e; foliola 6-8-juga, oblique obovali-oblonga,
obtusa, 3-4 lin. longa, sub-2-nervia. Capitula racemosa. Legumen ignotum.
*!
Acacia tamarindifolia, Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 82, excl. syn.
!
Sab. Tropical America New Spain, Bavon cultivated in

: ; Mr. Chapy's garden at
Havannah from the "West Indies, M'Zane.
glabrous variety of M.
distinguished by the very obtuse leaflets without
It is, however, still nearer
Indian M. mbicaulis, and is absolutely undistinguishable, m as far as the specimens
tlie East-Indian Peninsular species
M. hamata: insomuch that
mi
been for the typical New from Pavon's collection in Boissier's
herbarium.
184. U. BAHAMENSis, Benth. I in Sooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 408. Fruticosa, ramis petiolis
pedunculisque dense rubiginoso-tomentosis. Aculei sparsi, recurvi, pauci. Pinn^ 2-4-
I
jugae; foliola 3-6-juga, obovali-oblonga, obtusissima, \-\\

lin. longa, uninervia, fusces-
centia, glabra v. minute piiberula. Capitula racemosa v. infima pauca axillaria. Le f
men ignotum.
*
Sab. Tropical America : Bahama Islands, Serb. Soak.

^
'
— s
;;
Mhiosa.l MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 423
185. M. MALACOPHYLLA, A. Gray! r

Tl. lAndh. ii. 182. Suffi'uticosa, ramis laxis
moUiter tomentoso-pubescentibus. Aculei parvi, sparsi, recurvi. Piunse 4-7-jng9e
foliola 5~8-juga, obovata v. late oblonga, mucronulata, 3-5 lin. longa, pennivenia, utrin-
que moUiter pubescentia v. rarius glabrata. Capitula racemosa subpaniculata. Legumen

longe stipitatum, 2-3-pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum, glabrum, niticlum, inerme, valvis reti-
culatis indivisis. v, in articulos 6-8 secedentibas.

Kab. Extratropical N. America: Mexican-Texan region, Wrighty n. 143, Emory*
JSx]} edit Ion, n. 309, and several otbers.
Var, ^Za5r«^«, ramis petiolisqne tenuiter pubci'ulis, foliolis glabria. Berlandle)\ n. 815
and 2235.
186. M. cosTAUiCENSis, 5eK/A. iw ir^r&. (Er5^. Pruticosa, scandcns?, inollitcr ferru-
gineo-tomentosa. Aculei sparsi, parvi, recurvi, copiosi. Pinnon 4-8-jugOD ; foliola 10-15-
juga, late oblonga, mucronulata, 3-4 lin. longa, pennivenia, supra puberula, subtus villosa.
Capitula parva, stricte globosa, paniculata. Legumen ignotum.

Uab. Tropical America : Aguacate in Costa Eica, (Ersted ; New Spain, ITerh. Fawn.
M.
'moscitur.Hamuli angulati, uti pctioli puhc molH dcnsa obtecti,
aculeis ad angulos crebris. Stipulse subuktBc, tomcntosse, 2-4 liii. lonjiiE. Eoliorum
4-5 -pollicaris. Pinnffi li-2-pollicares. Foliola iis M. malacophyllcB simiUa scd numcrosiora, valde
tamen parum excentrica. Pedunculi secus rliachin raccmi saepius gemini, 3-5 liu. longi.
obliqua, costa
Calyx breviter dcntatus, corolla 4-mera (railus 5-mera?) triplo brcvior.
Bracteje flore multo breviores.
Stamina 8 v. ex Pavon 10. i
ttt Aculeatm. Foliola Unearia, multijuga.
A. Gray in Torr. Bot. Emory Exped. 61. Pruticosa, crecta.

187. M. Berlandieri,
setisque brevioribus parce strigosi. Aculei sparsi, breves, recti.
Rami juniores puberuli,
20-40-juga, linearia, acutiuscula, glabella, obsolete 3-4-nervia.
Pinnae 4-6-jug^ ; foliola
racemoso-paniculata. Legumen breviter stipitatum, oblongo-lineare, nudum,

Capitula
hirtellum, valvis 8-10-articulatis.— CAar. ex A. Gr.
America Mexican-Texan region, Berlandier, n. 8146,
Sab. Extratropical North :
Schott I have seen no specimen.

Hook, Jotirn. Bot. iv. 395. Pruticosa v. arborcscens,
188 M. SEPIARIA, Benth. ! in
validi, recti, in ramis floridis rari. Pinnse 4^8-jugui
fflabra v puberula. Aculei sparsi,
linearia, nitida, 3-^ lin. longa, venosa. Capitula ample laxequc pani-
foliola multijuga,
ad 2 poll, longum, 3 lin. latum, glabrum, nudum, valvis
culata. Legumen stipitatum,
pluriarticulatis.— J^/. Bras. Mlm,

Acacia bimucronata,V>C.Vxo^.i\.'i(j^.
America very common, and frequently planted hedges ,
tliroughout ^ ,
m
. , i ti i *
Eab Tropical :
grows into a small handsome tree.

South Brazil, and also met with in woods, where it
Fortune, n. 17, and in Singapore, Schomburyk, Mamyay,
Also in hedges in South China,
name of Jf igrescens, but must surely have been
a new species under the ;. .
who sent it as
pthered m
South Brazil. Jf. tkyrsoidea, Griseb. PL Brit W. Ind. 219
rntroduced from
must also, from Grisebach s character.
Wull schnagel, which I have not seen,
Jamaica bv
3
VOL. XXX
;;
be the same plant, probably cultivated^ as are many of the Surinam plants in "VVull
aagel No such plant occurs in any of the numerous Jamaican collection

have,
189. M. INAM(ENA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mint. Pruticosa, erecta, sglabra v.
patentim pilosula. Aculei sparsi, recti v. subrecurvi. Pinnge dissite 6-10-jugae : foliola
6-15-juga, oblongo-linearia, \-'2> lin. longa. Capitula parva, racemosa, subpaniculata.
Legumen ignotum
r
190. M. DiPLACANTHA, Benth. y sp. n. Fruticosa, glabi*a v. minute cano-puberula.

Aculei recurvi, in ramis rari, in petiolo sub pinnis gemini. Pinnae 2- rarius 3-jugte
foliola 6-10-juga, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, 2 lin. longa, crassiuscula, enervia. Capitula
ad nodos fasciculata. Legumen stipitatum, sesquipollicare, 2-*- lin. latum, glabrum,
nudum, +
valvis 6-8-articulatis.
Jlab, Tropical America
"Antilles," Serb. Berol, from Serb. Mus. Far.
:
Habitus Acanthocarpearum nonnuUarum, affinitas tamen potius M. fagaracantha v. M. polyancistrts.

Ramuli et petioU minute cano-puberuli. Foha csterum uti flores glabri. Pinn^
sapissime 2-jug{fi,
paribus distantibus, semipollicares v. paullo lougiores. Pedunculi i-f -poUicares, cum foh'is ad nodos v,
in ramulis brevissimis fasciculati. Capitula subglobosa, floribus numerosis sessilibus
4-meris. Calyx
turbinatus, \ hn. lougus. Corolla membranacea, vix linea longior. Stamina 8, corolla duplo longiora,
Leguminis articuli paullo longiores quam lati.
191. M. DOMiNGENSis, Benth. in Sook. Journ. Bot. 409, quoad syn.

iv. DC. Eruticosa,
glabriuscula .
Aculei recurvi, in ramis rari, in petiolo sub pinnis gemini. Pinnae 3-5-
jugge ;
foliola 6-8 juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusa. Capitula globosa v. ovoidea, ad apices
ramorum subpaniculata. Legumen stipitatum, falcatum, glabrum, nudum, valvis pluri-
articulatis
Acacia doming ensis, Bert. ! in DC. Prod. ii. 464.
compare Bertero's specimens, which I saw
some ose I
formerly krhn Herbarium, or with the M. dinlarn'nihn
dijplacantha, wV
which I have now described
all are evidently closely allied, but, I believe,
belong to two species, one with
terminal
M.
Acanihocarpat.
very imperfectly
Series 4. Acanthocarpa,. Frutioes ramousdmi v. ranm mffrutioe., glabri pubescentes

V. vaion,nec setose {excepta M. Galeottii), aculeis infrastipularihus
.parsisve armati
v.mrûs ^nerme.. SUp>a^ et sHpellce parv^, seface<e. Pinnae pauci- v. muUijng^. Ca-
pitula globosa V. rarin. ovoidea, adaâsv. nodos peduneulata, rarius ad
apices ramorum
hremter racemosa. Mores ^,neH v. sa^pius o-meri. Caly, breviter dentatus nee ciliatm.
Zegnmen planum, s^pe falcatum, glabnm. v. pubesoens,
margine nudo v. more Rubi-
caulmm acuteato, valvis niidis v. rarius sptnm.onhiîntii.
sewso-ec/imafis, .v^- • •
,. ,. , mdivisis a margine solvendis v.

,
taratus m articiilos secedenfibus.
.
, .,
'-
and the undivided valves of thp

Inflorescence, habit, n^rl o,.^ +i, l- r- i
' .^"^ ''' the chef characters which separate the
Acantkacarr,. fr„™ t^» n..,!.„..,.. K... „. . . . ,
M. fragra
M. detinens, M. borealis, and M
- ;
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 425
and I have found them occasionally breaking up into articles in several otliers ; but in all the species they
appear^ sometimes at least, if not generally, to fall away without any transverse separation.
« Petiolus glandulifer
{in cceteris eglmidulosus).
.
192. M. UNCiNELLA, PozV. Diet. Suppl. i. 80. Fruticosa, glabra v. cinereo-pubcrula
Aculei infrastipulares solitarii v. gemini, recurvi. Pinnge sub-S-jugse, petiolo basi glan-
dulifero ; foliola sub-12-juga, linearia, obtusa, parva, puberula. Capitula axillaria
pedunculata. Legumen lineare, falcatiim, glabrum, margine exteriorc recurvo-aculeato
-Char, ex Foir.
Acacia uncinella , Desf. Cat. Herb. Par. ed. 3. 299.
Sah Cultivated in the Paris Garden.

I have not seen this species^ which is as yet doubtful. A specimen in
a
Herb. J. Gay, given to him as
M
M. acanthocarpa, which has long been in Europcai 1
botanic gardens.
193. M. EEVOLUTA, Benth. in Rook. Journ. Bot, iv. 409. Fruticosa, glabriuscula.
Aculei infrafoliacei v. infrastipulares, solitarii v. gemini, subrecti. Pinnae 2-6-jugae
glandula scutellata sub jugo infimo et interdum ad juga 1-2 ultimk; foliola G-10-juga,
oblonffo-linearia, acutiuscula, 1-2 lin. longa, glabra, costa submarginali. Capitula
pedunculata, axillaria v. summa racemosa. Legumen sessile, curvum v. circmatum,
4 lin.latum, margine aculeato, valvis indivisis.

Acacia revoluta, Kunth Mim. 84, t. 26.
!
Rah. Tropical America: Caxamarca in Peru, Rumholdt and Bonpland; Bolivia,
Brydges, D' Orhigny, n. 487.

more numerous pinnge than Humboldt and Bonpland's but all
The Bolivian specimens have rather ;
species
Aculei infrafoliacei Legumen scepitis margine aculeatum
Benth. Bl Rartw. 13, et in Rook. Journ. Bot. iv. 410

194. M. DEPATJPERATA, !
Pinn^ l-2-juga3 foliola 2-3-juga, ovato-orbiculata, linea bre

Fruticosa, glabriuscula. ;
Capitula axillaria, breviter pedunculata. Legumen ignotum.

viora, cano-puberula.
Brux
Mexico, plains of Actopan, J. G. Graham, Karwinski.
Rob. Tropical America :
195 M. ZYGOPHYLLA, Benth.! in A. Gray, Bl. Wnght i. 61. Fruticosa, glabra.

I
suborbiculata, glabra, l-ll Hn. longa. Capitula axil-
Pinnse l-juga3 ; foliola 1-juga,
Legumen breviter stipitatum, 1-li poll, longum,^ 2-2i
laria, longiuscule pedunculata.
subfalcatum, glabrum, margine nudum v. parce aculeatum, valv"
lin.latmn,
North America Mexican-Texan region, Gregg, Wisli
Rah. Subtropical :
Rook. Journ. Bot. iv. 410. Fruti-

196 M MONAKCISTRA, Benth. ! Bl. Rartw. 12
obtusa, vix
et in
Imeam longa,
Pinnae 2-4-jugie; foUola 5-6.juga, oblonga,
cosa incana.
pedunculata. Legumen ignotum ?
subtus puberula. Capitula axillaria,
America Mexico, Aguas Calientes, Rarticeg.

Rah. Tropical :
^ , .,
specimina fructifera manca Berlaudieri n. 2251 et 3145?, fohis subconformibus.

An hue pertinent
. ;
426 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEvE. [Mimosa
besc
terea setoso-echinatis, indivisis v. tardius in articulos 4-6 secedentibus
*** Aculei sparsii recurvi,

Legumen scepius mai'gine aciileatum.
197. M. DETiNENs, Benth. ! in Sooh. Lond. Journ. v. 89. Emticosa, i,'labra v. canescens.
Pinna? 1-jugae foliola 4-6-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusa, fere 2 lin. longa,
;
gkucescentia.
Capitula axillaria, pedunculata. Legumen stipitatum, glabrum, glauciim, 1 J-2-pollicare,
4-5 lin. latum, margine aculeatum v. nudum valvis tardius in articulos 4-6 secedentibus.
Hah. Extratropical South America : Cordova and St. laô, Ttceedie.
198. M. BOREALis, A. Gray ! Fl. Fendl. 39. Fruticosa, glaberrima. Pinnje 1-2-jugie
foliola 3-5.juga, conferta, oblonga, ad lineam longa. Capitula axillaria, peduncukta!
Legumen 1-2-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum, glabrum, glaucum, margine aculeatum, valvis
indivisis v. tardius in articulos 4-6 secedentibus.
Ilah. Extratropical North America Texas, Fendler,
Wright, :
n. 1038, Emort/s Ex-
pedltlon, n. 307, andw
others.
Tlic Texaa variety, Wr^ht. n. 159, meationed by' A. Gray, PI. Wright, i. 61, may possibly prove a
distmct species. The M. borealis is altogether nearly allied to the southern
M. detinens.
199 M. Emoetana, 5.„W.., sp. n. Fruticosa ? Pini«>
l-S-juga,. Foliola 3-5.juga,
conferta oblonga, 1-2 Im. longa, utrinque
molHter subappresse yUlosa. Capitula
-- pedunculata. Legumen l-lx-pdliea re, 2-3 liu. latum, aolliter pubescens et .etoso-
axil-
ecliinatum
Sah. Mexican-Texan region, Emory's Expedition, n. 302
In habit, and size, and number of leaflets this is near to M horeali.
M. monancistr a They
^'^
are not, however, quite ripe in the
single specimen seen.
The peauncles,
peduncTe about
bo
1,^—''"- ,
t«o small priekles. 1 1 in. long, have one or
200. M. ACANTHOLOBA, Foir. Diet f!iinr,I \ at -o f

Truticosa, puberula. Pinna- 4-10-
iu-ic foHoh 15 in ino-n .w r
•
.)u ao
,
tohola 15-30.juga, oblongo-hneana, subtus pubesoentia,
2-3 lin lon-a Canitula
pedunculata. infenora axiUarla, superiora
racemosa Legumen ^H^H.l
ccum, li-2.pomcare, ad
augustatum, margine
f poll, latum, puberulum r '*'P^*f*"'^'
""^"^
,
"^^'^brana-
acute
4w
Acacia acant,o,oia,
leviter aeuleato, valvis
Humb.
ndiXi/' SIT H' 7T "'• *^"'^'*- ^'
et Bonp,. ! in WiUd sjee "vIosT
Acacia Courrantiana , DC. Prod.
! ii. 465.
Hah. Tropical Amei Guayaquil, SumMdt and Bonpland, and seceral others
«.. ,aeed above among the .,...;,. —tt .S^;:':^^^^ M.
•"• Aculei sparsi. rameales recti

.. le.iter e»r.i, „aUdi ; petioU ine Legumen
scBpissime
201. M A. Gray I PI. Lindh. ii. 182
l-S-jug^ ; foliola 5-6.juga. ^'"*'°°^^' glaberrima. Pinnae
lineari-oblonc^ Ti 9 , ,
culata. Corolla calyce quadruplo

lonîor ?' ^^^""^ ''^'^'^"^' P'^'*"°-
' T pf,,
subbipollicare, ad 3 lin. •' ''* ^^ ^''^'^'' stipitatum,
latum, marline nudum vT'"
ticulos 4-8 sainin, »»™>ô„..-,,.l = ""''""' ^- '^'^^«°"' pauciaculeatum. valvis in ar-
mh. Extn,tropical North
America :
Mexican-Texan region.
Mhnos.1.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 427
Very closely allied to the following species ; tut, besides the widely distant station^ the calyx is certainly
much smaller in proportion to the corolla.
202. M. MONTANA, Ktmth ! Mim. 31, 1. 10. Pruticosa, puberula, gMrescens. Pinnae
2-3-jug8e ; foliola . 4-6-juga, oblonga, obtusa, ad 2 lin. longa, puberula. Capitula
axillaria, pedunculata. Corolla calyce duplo longior. Legumen subsessile, 1-lJ-polli-
care, 3 lin. latum, margine nudum, Yalvis in articulos 6-8 sgepius secedentibus,
Hab. Tropical America: near Caxamarca, in the Peruvian Andes, Humboldt and Bon-
plaud bedges and fields, Azoque, Ecuador, Hartweg,
;
203. M. ANDiNA, Benth.y sp. n. Pruticosa, puberula v. glabrescens. Pinnae 2-3-jug« ;
foliola 8-10-juga, oblongo-linearia, 3 lin. longa, glabra. Capitula pedunculata, infcriora
axillaria, pleraque ad apices ramorum racemosa. Corolla calyce triplo longior. Legu-
men sessile, 1-lJ-pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum, margine nudum, valvis reticulatis indivisis.
Sab. Tropical America : Andes of Ecuador, near Huataxi, frequent, Spruce, n. CmS.
M. Fnitex
partibus novellis minute puberulis, demum glabresceus. Aculei sparsi, recti, Tulidi. Fo lorum
1-2-pollicaris, eglandulosus, multo validior quara in M. montnna. Piunie 1-1 i-poUicarcs,
communis
prominula, cseterum avcnia. Capitula globosu,
paribus dissitis. Foliola crassiuscula, costa tenui vis
Legumen curvulum, nitidulum, reticulato-
glabra, pedunculo subpollicari. Corolla linea paullo longior.
inter semina ostendens.
venulosum, rigidius quam in M. montana et divisioues nullas
204. M. GONOCLADA, Benth. in Herb. DC. Eruticosa, ramis sulcatis ad angul()s

foliola 4-8-juga, oblonga, \\ lin. longa, puberula. Capi-
scaberrimis. Pinnse 2-4-jug3e ;
tula axillaria, breviter pedunculata. Legumen ignotum.

Kab. Tropical America : Yungas in Bolivia, 2)' Orbigny, n. 387.
Aculf'i
M.
rarius semipollicem excedens. Pinnie
Sparsi, recti. Foliorum petiolus communis canescenti-puberulus,
Foliola rigidida, iis M. montana similia. Peduuculi 3-5 lin. longi.

semipoUicares.
very closely connected but their geographical stations arc too
The four preceding species are certainly ;
tinguish them. Ai-
m
proporti
mgs
justify the reunion of at least the southern forms.
other parts sufficient to
Eruticosa, mmute pube-
..„
205 M QUiTENSis, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 408.
lin longa. Capitula
12-20.juga, linearia, acuta, i-1
rula. PinntB 6-12.jug^; foliola
Legumen subsessile, 1,-polhcare, 4 Im.
pedunculate, axillaria v. summa racemosa.
latum, fflabrum, nudum, valvis reticulatis indivisis.

America. Ravines round Quito, Hall. It is also, from
t, , t
Bonpland, m
•
Hab Tropical
any m
recorded and I do not recogmze it
tbe Paris Herbarium, but without any station ;
described by Willdenow or by Kunth.

of the species at once distil) guish
four preceding species, this one is
in essential characters to the
Although allied
pinnjE and small leaflets. flowers also are larger.
The
by the more numerous
***** Actilei nonmdli omnes infrastipulares, gemmi. Legumen swpius margine

v.
culeatum
fetiolare) recurvi v. tmUi
t AcuM infrastipulares recti r. iucuni,
glabra v. vix minute puberula. Aeul
S0BATE>sis, Benth., sp. n. Fruticosa ?
O06. M.
428 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [Mimosa.
s£epius terni, infrastipnlares et infrafoliaceus, yalidi, recti, petiolares nuUi. -PinnsB 4-6-
jugge ; foliola 15-20-juga, linearia, ad 3 lin. longa, costa marginal!. Oapitula pedanculata,
axillaria. Legumen ignotum.
JSab. Tropical America : Bolivia near Sorata, Maudorit n. 757.
Ramuli validly angulato-sulcati. Aculei 3-6 lin. longi. Foliorum petiolus communis 2-2-pollicai'is,
pinnse l|-pollicares. Foliola obtusiuscula, costa margini arcfe approximataj lervo altero tenuissim
couspicuo. Pedunculi solitarii v. gemini, l-l|-pollicares. Capitula globosav. paullo longiora quam
Flores glabri. Calyx \ lin., corolla \\ lin. longa.
207. M. Geahami, a. Grmj ! Tl Wright, ii. 52. rruticosa, decumbens, glabra

Aculei infrastipulares gemini, recti, sparsi, pauci, uti petiolares recurvi. Pinnae 6-8-jug£e
foliola 10-15-jiiga, oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa, 2-3-nervia et pennivenia. Capitula axillaria
pedunculata. Legumen sessile, l-lj-pollicare, 3 lin. latum, rectum, glabrum, margint
aculeis raris armato v. Undo, valvis indivisis.
Hah. Subtropical North America :
^
Mexican-Texan region, Wright, n. 1042, Seemami
ft Aculei infrastipulares recurvi, rarius rectiuscidi nee incurvi, sparsi dum adsint
petiolaresque recurvi.
208. M. ACANTHOCARPA, Beiith. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 409. Pruticosa, minute
cano-puberula. Aculei infrastipulares gemini, petiolaresque recurvi. Pinnae 8-15-juo"^
;
foliola 6-10-juga, oblongo-linearia, \\-2\ lin. longa, obscure

l-2.nervia. Capitula
pedunculata, axHlaria. Legumen sessile, 1-1^ poll, longuni, 2-3 lin.
latum, cur um
rectiusculum, puberulum, margine exteriore v. utroque aculeate,
valvis indivisis.
Wiiia 7 Reichb. Icon. Exot.
; t. 63.
Mimosa
Acacia aculeaticarpa, Lag. Elench. Hort. Matrit. Nov. Gen. et Sp.
16.
Acacia brachyacantha, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1055 (folia
!
tantum).
Hah. Tropical and subtropical North America Mexico,
frequent, Berlandier n 661 :
Emory's Hapedition, n. 301, 308, and many others. Long

since grown also in some
European botanic gardens under various names.
209. M. PLBXt OSA, Benth. ! in A. Oray, Fl. Wright, 62.
i. Ruticosa, minute prui-
noso-pubcrula. Aculei infrastipulares gemini rectiusculi
y. recur,i, petiolares recurvi.
Pmn«, 6-8-jugx ; foliola S-lO-Juga, oblonga, subimbricata,
vix semiliuea longiora, cane
puberula. Capitula brevissime pedunculata, axillaria.
Flores parvi. cano-pubescentes.
Ix^gumen sessile, polhee pan lo longius, vix 2 lin. latum, cano-puberulum, crassiusculum,
margme aculeate, valvis indivisis.
llab. Extratiopical North America : Mexican-Texan re-ion Wriaht n 161 1 -^m
° '^"«'"*' ''• ^^^'
Emory's Expedition, n. 310. ' i222'
210. M
puberula
mjEKA, M, Fl. Bartw. 12 et in Book.
Journ. Bot. iv. 409. Fruti-
!''^''='^*'P'^^"^^ S^'-î'î. recurvi, petiolares minuti
v. 0. Pinna,
â
4îu..> foliola 10 l'.
•
'
FW
':!
-T'
°':'°°S''-l-''--5^'
axmana. jjiores cano-pubescentes.
Leo'umen
^^^ ^
^1 !-• longa.
foi^
*iP<!«ii(. +
^^^^^^^^ ^Îcatum v. fere
Capitula pedunculata,
/ ,
annulatum. vix
Un latum
2 an.
I mtum, glabrum,
alal^mrv,
siepms smuatum,
• •
gme
margine nudum
nuaum v. pauciaculeatum, valvis
indivisis.
. ;
Hah. Tropical and subtropical North America : Mexican-Texan region, Eartweg, An-
drieux, n. 399 r
; Wright, n. 1039, and many others.
211. M. LiNDHEiMERi, A. Gray I Fl. Fendl. ii. 181. Eruticosa, glabra v. minute pube-
rula. Acnlei infrastipulares gemini, recurvi, petiolares minuti v. 0. Pinnse 4-G-jngtB

foliola 8-12-juga, oblonga, 1-1^ lin. longa. Capitula pedunculata, axillaria. Elorcs
glabri. Legumen sessile, rectiusculum, glabrum, ad 3 lin. latum, margine aculeatum,

valvis indivisis.
Hah. Extratropical North America; Mexican-Texan region, Lindheimer, n. 383;
Wright, n.J^62A.«?^<^ others.
The three preceding species may possibly prove to be varieties only of M. acanthocarpa, with siualltT
leaves, fewer pinnae, and a somewhat variable pod.
212. M. Galeottii, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Joiirn. v. 92. Eruticosa, setis brevibi
liispidissima. Aculei infrastipulares gemini, recurvi, petiolares perrari v. 0. Pinnre
15-25-jug8e; foliola 15-20-juga, oblonga, lincam longa, glabra, ciliata. Capitula pedun-
culata, axillaria. Legumen sessile, pollicare, 3 lin. latum, glanduloso-pubcruUim, mnrginc
setoso-aculeatum, valvis indivisis.

Acacia hirta, Mart, et Gal. ! in Bull. Acad. Brux. x. pars ii. 318.
Ilab. Tropical America Mexico, Galeotd, n. 3165.

:
nearly allied to M. acanthocarpa, although the setae arc exceptional, and

This species is evidently
from which, however, the prickles and the flat pod
might place it technically among the Pachycarpa,
exclude it.
Aculei infrastipidares minuti v. 0, petiolares 0.

ttt r
in Rook. Journ. Bot. iv. 408. Eruticosa, moUitcr rufo-

213. M. MOLLIS, Benth. I
6-10-juga, oblonga, utrinque villosa, 2-3 lin. longa.

villosa. Pinn^ 4-5-jugee
; foliola
pedunculata, ad nodos fasciculata. Elores villosi. Legumen ignotum.

Capitula
Mexico, Andrieuw, n. 400.
Hab. Tropical America :
Sook. Lond. Journ. v. 92. Eruticosa, glabra.

214. M. TENUirLORA, Benth.! in
6-8-juga, oblonga, obtusissima, ad 2 lin. longa, enen'ia. Capitula
Pinn^ 1-3-jugge ; foliola
axillaria, summa racemosa. Elores glabri. Calyx minutus.
pedunculata, inferiora
Corolla tenuis, IJ Un. longa. Legumen ignotum. ^
America Mexico, Coulter, Karwinski.

JEab. Tropical ;
Fruticuli ramulis afwe spinescentihus. StipulcB minima, nuh-

Series 5. Ephedroide^.
paucifoliolata, rara v. 0. Capitula globose
spinescentes, scepe decidua. Folia minima,
planum, nudum, glabrum v. puhescens, nee setosum.
Flores ^-h-meri. Legumen lineare,
Pubcrula. Rami crn-ius-
21.5 M GiLLiESii, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot.
2-4-juga,
iv. 413.
oblonga, vix Imeam
Eolia rara; pinna. 1-jugaj; foliola
culi an-ulato-striati.
Legumen immaturum puberulum, subfalcatum.
longa. "Capit^^^-^ ^^ ^^ôs pedunculata.
in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 205.
Prosopis globosa, GiU. I
^
America Mendoza, Gillies Patagoma, Tweedie.

Hab. Extratropical South : ;
Beuth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 413. Glabra. Kami striati,

216. M. EPHEDKOiDES, !
430 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiF.. [Mimosa.
1 ^
teretes. Polia desunt. Capitula ad nodos sessilia. Legiimen lJ-2J-polHcare, G lin.
latum, glabrum.
Prosopis ephedroides, Gill. ! in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 20 k
Sab. Extratropical South America : prov. San Luis, Gillies, near San Juan, Jameson.
Series 6. Stipellares. Frutices gldbri canescenfes v. tomentoso-pnhcscentes nee setosi,

inermes v. acnleis sparsis armati. Folia scepius brevia, pinnis pauci- raritis muUijugis^
foliolis parvis. Stipellce ad basin pinnarum minimioB, Oi^bieulatce v. ovatcBj nee setacece.
Capitula globosa, axillaria, v. summa racemosa^
r
pedunculata. Flores 4rmeri. Calyx
parvuSy non ciliatus. Jjegiimen planum^ glahriim^ puhescens v. tuherculatum nee setosnm
nee margine aculeatum^ valvis {an semper ?) a margine in integro secedentibus.
217 ? M. AUEicuLATA, Benth. in Serb. Far. et I>C. Glabra, inermis. Stipule

amplae, orbiculatse. Pinnte l-jugse; foliola 6-8-juga, ovato-oblonga, semipoUicaria v.
longiora. Capitula racemosa. Legumen subsessile, glabrum, l-l|-pollicare, 3 lin. latum,
valvis pluriarticulatis.
Sab. Tropical America: Santiago, prov. Chiquitos in Bolivia, D'Orbigny, n. 877.
Species nuUi mihi cognitse vere affinis, a Stipellaribus caeteris differt inflorescentia racemosa et legu-
mine, sed cum nulla alia serie convenit. Frutex videtur. Specimina undique glaucescunt. Ramuli
teretes. Stipulaa persisteutes, semipoUicares lougioresque, latissimae, amplexlcaules, coriacetB, lineis
crebris tenuissimis striata. Foliorum petiolus communis li-poUicaris, interdum uti pedunculi glandulis
stipitatis scaber, cseterum glaberrimus. Pinn^ 2-4-pollicares, stipellis ad basin gemiuis parvis obovatis.
Foliola obtusissima, 6-8 lin. longa, 3-4 lin. lata,basi valde obliqua, subcoriacea, basi plurincrvia, utrinque
glabra et glaucescentia. Ramulorum pars llorifera aphylla v. foliis semiabortivis instructa. Pedunculi
intra stipulas soUtarii, sub-2-pollicares. Capitula globosa, ad SO-flora. Bracte^ minutie. Flores glaber-
rimi purpilrascentes. Calyx parvus truucatus. Corolla vix linea longior, 4-fida. Stamina 8. Legu-
minis articuli variant 3-8.
218. M. BiFuucA, Bentn. ! in Sook. Journ. Bot. iv. 407. Inermis, glabra. Finn*
dissite 2-3.jug8e; foHola 20-30.juga, oblique ovata, 1-2 Kn. longa, nitidula. Le-umen
"^
stipitatum, j-polhcare, glabrum,
l^ve.— i^/. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Extratropical South America South Brazil. :
219 M. INTRICATA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 407. Eamosissima, glabra v. pube
mmuta compersa. Aculei parvi. crebri, recuryi. Knn^ 4-6.juga, ; foliola S-lS-juga,
ovata, vix J lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.—Jl!. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil.
r
I
220. M LTJCiDULA, Benth. ! in Sooh. Journ

Bnf
^f^^^rn. Mot. iV aa>7
IV. 407. x. • •
i i
i^f.T.rv.ic P,->.>n«. Q K
• n T 1 ..
Bamosissima, glabra,
i":no-
M. kermesina, Otto et Dietr. Gsertn. Zeit.

! iii. 209 ex Walp. Rep i 883
Sab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil. L
221. M. iMPLEXA, êwa m ^00/5;. Jbi^m 5o# ••

.'
iv /in t?
duloso-scabriuscula, meimis.
,
inermis Pinn«^ \Z
Pmn^ 1-jug^; fohola .4-7-juga,
ft' Tv
oblongo-linearia, 1
^^^^«^«™^^' ^^^^te glan-
lin.
MimosaJ] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 431
longa. Leo-umen subsessile, subfalcatum, 6-9 lin. longum, 2 lin. latum, pube minuta
canescens, valvis indivisis.— i^/. Bras. Mim.

Sab. Extratropical South America : South Brazil and Montevideo.
222. M. TJuAGUENSis, Hook, et Am. I in Sooh. Bot. Misc. iii. 202 Eamosissima
Aculei sparsi, recti. Pinnae sub-2-jug8e foliola 8-12-juga, oblongo-lincaria
sub glabra ;
1-2 lin. long Lesjumen subsessile, |-l-pollic lin. latum, glabrum, valvis indi
visis. Bot. Beg. 1842, t. 33 ; Lindl. et Baxt. Fl. Gard. ii. f . 200 ; Fl Bras. Mi
Hah. Extratropical South America : along the river Uruguay
M. CRUENTA, Benth Rook. Journ. Bot. iv. 407. Cancsccnt

223.
recurvi v
Y. 0. Pinnse l-3-jug9e ; foliola 6-S-juga, oblonga, 1-2 lin. long
Aculei sparsi
Lesumen subsessile poll, longum, 2 lin. latum
Bractese corolla brevior
centi-pubescens v. glabratum, valvis indivisis Fl.B Mim
Hah. Extratropical South America : South Brazil and along the Urn o
224. M Benth %n Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 408. Molliter

Bractene
foliola 3-5-juga, oblonga, 2-4 lin. longa, pubcsccntia.
mermis Pinnse 1-2-iugse ;
coroUam superantei Legumen ignotum Fl. Bras. Mim

subulatse,
Hah. Extratropical South Amer South Brazil
TBACHTCAiiPA, Benth.! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 407 Tenuiter canescens, et

225. M.
recurvi. Pinns3e 3-4-jugae foliola 6-12-i
glanduloso-pubesc Aculei sparsi,
Bracteae breves Legumen subsessile, falcatum, 6-9 lin

oblonga, vix lie earn longa
conicis echinatum, valvis indiv Ft
longum, 2-2 i lin. latum, undiq tuberculis
Bras. Mim.
Extratropical South America : South Brazil and Maldonado
Hah.
iffrutices, v. rarius herhce
Series 7. Leptopoda Frutices ramiosissimi v.
Foliorum petiolus communis sccpius

inermes, laxe puhescentes v. glabri
pimce 1- v. plnrijug^, s^pius hreves, Merdum per
longius'culus, mterdum phjllodineus ;
subulatce Foliola parva.
StipellcB {excepta M. cordistipula) ohscurcB v.
paucce V.
summa hreviter racemosa Flores scepius
jPeduncu li ^jies. Capitula glohosa, axillaria v.
parvus, non ciliatus. Legumen ubi notnm

Q-andri, rarius ^-meri S-andri Calyx
3-meri
valvis a margine in integ
glahrum v.pubescens nee setosvm,
planum inerrle,
in articulos plures secedentihus
tardius rarius facillime
* Fedunculus folio multo long

Bot. iv. 411 Pruticosa, molliter
CORDISTIPULA, Benth Hook. Journ.
226. M. lineam
foHola 10-15-juga, oblonga,
Pinnae 3-5 pellse latiuscultB ;
pubes -j
4-meri. Legumen ignotum Fl. Bras. Mim

longa, Elores
prov. Bahia.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, :
glabra v. pilosula
FRANCiscANA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim Fruticosa,
227. M. Elores 3-meri
ad 2 lin. long
3-4-jug8e foliola 6-10-juga, obovato-oblonga,
Pinnae
Tropical America Brazil, prov. Bahia.

Hah. :
3
VOL. XXX.
—
432 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Mhmsa.

w
228. M. MiSERAj Benth. ! in Hook. Journ, Bot. iv. 411. Suffrutlcosa, diffusa, pilosula.
Pinnae 2-4-jug8e; foliola 4-10-juga, obovato-oblongBj 1-2 lin. longa. Flores 3-incri.
Legumen sessile, subpollicare, 2 lin. latum, minute tomentellum, valvis tardius pluri-
articulatis. Bl. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Piauhy.
229. M. LEPTANTHA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 411. Suffrutlcosa, diffusa, pilo-
sula et subglanduloso-puberula. Pinnae 2-4-jug8e ; foliola 3-5-juga, oblonga, vix lineam
longa. riores 3-meri. Legumen sessile, semipollicare, valvis indivisis ? v.
articulatis ?
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia.
** Bedunculus folio brevior v. pmillo longior,
t BinncB l-jugce. Flores S-meri.

230. M. FiLiPES, Mart ! Herb. FL Bras. 132. Annua, tenuis, glabra. Petioli fill
formes foliola 4-6-juga, oblonga, 2-3
; lin. longa. Legumen
.
stipitatum, f-poUicare
1^ Im. latum, glabrum, valvis 6-8-ar ticulatis i?'^. .
— Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Piauby,
:
'^„?^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^- •' ^'' ^^^^^- Fl- ^ras. Mim. Suffrutlcosa ? rigidula, dak-
^ i^V ^;
Fohola 10-12-juga, &
obovata, crassiuscula, 3-4 lin. longa.
Legumen ignotum.
Mab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia.
tt Finn<, plurijugce, petiolo cm^mnni brevwres,

foUolU tamen mmero pinnk cegualibus
pluribusve. Flores scepius 4<-meri
""'""! ^-^- ^'- ^'- ^«- Glabra.

T. Jtratf
T'^'T^'. J" Caules elongati.
"^'""^ ^^•'"S- foMa 6-10-juga, oHonga, 2-3 lin. lon.a.
Li"'
ismotum
o
•
;
Le.«Lu O"" -"ô
Hab, Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Go jaz.
233. M Benth.! in Mart. FL Bras. Mim.
Glabra. Caules elongati,
prostrati. Pinn^ 2-3-jug^ foliola 12-20-juga,
gnotum
;
linearia,' |-U
4~li lin
lin. longa. Legumen
6-lO.juga. oMonga, ^-^ Un. longa '°^^"'^ 7'"""'

ITai. Tropical
IXa^ôSr^L^^^^^^^^^
^ ^™'°
'
'^°°*"'"-
America : Brazil, prov. Piauhy.
233. M. CAMLLiPES, Benlh. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras Win, P-i ,

Caules elongati, prostrati.
Pinna, 4.-^-]..^
tZSZr^
^^^-J^ga. ,
^ '
"'°'"*" ^'""''
i-arius3 lin. longa, ciliata. oUongo-linearia, U-2
Mores hispidnlt tI
puberulum, valtis indivisis? v. deiSU^f ^^ """'' '^^°"'''^'^' ^'^'^'
Mai. Tropical America BrazU, prov. Minas
:
Geraes and Goya^.
— —
ftf Finnce Q-v. muUijugce^ breves, foUolw qiiam jpirmcB paucioribtis.
236. M. GRACILIS, Benth. 1 in SooJc. Journ. Bot, iv. 411, Suffruticosa, gracilis, glabra
V. pilosula. Pinna? 6-10-jug8e; foliola 4-6-juga, obovato-oLlonga, 1-1| lin. longa, mem-
branacea. Legumen ignotum. M. Bras. Mim.
Rah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz.
287. M. Blanchetii, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Suffruticosa, rigidula, glabra
V. glanduloso-scabra. Pinna? 10-30-jugo6 ; foliola 6-8-juga, obovata, imbricata, 1^-2 lin.
longa, crassiuscula. Legumen ignotum.

Mab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
Finnoe ad aficem petioli stihphyllodinei jêrjâucce minim(By v. 0.

tfff
Hook. Journ. Bot. 412. Suffruticosa, romosissimn,
238. M. PAUCiFOLiA, Benth. ! in iv.
apicem filiformis elongati 2-3-jugnD foliola sub-2-juga,

erecta, glaberrima. Pinnsc ad pctioli ;
obovata, vix 1 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.—J'Z. Bras. Mim.

in Hoolc. Journ. Bot. iv. 412. Suffruticosa, suberecta,
239. M. PHYLLODiNEA, Benth. !
anguste lineares, 3-5-pollicarcs, 1-2 lin. lati,

glaberrima. Petioli pbyllodinei, compressi,
2 reductis, rarius minimis 2-foliolatis. Plorcs 4-mcri. Legumen
pinnis V. ad mucrones
Petioli pbyllodinci, compressi, lineares,
240. ? M. EXTRANEA, Benth., sp. n. Subglabra.
2-pollicares, fere 2 lin. lati, pinnis 0. Flores S-meri. Legumen ignotum

3
communicated by Jacquemont to Berl
Sab. Tropical America : San Domingo,
herbarium
pube minuta pra^sertim in pedunculo conspcrsus. Ramu us tenuus,
Suffrutex v. fratex videtur, glaber v.
contracta,
-"^-"- ""
subcoriacca
Phyllodia obtusa, basi breviter in petiolum
foliosus, snbramosus. Stipule desunt.
prominentibus percursa. Pedunculi tenucs, tcrmmale ippositi
costa media nervoque utrinque latcrali .
lin. diamctro. Bractc^ sub flonbus

folii, 1-14 poll, longi, ebracteati. Capitula absque staminibus 2
longa, membranacca in florc examjnato
Calyx vix conspicuus. Corolla campanulata, lineam
minute.
Stamina 6, corolla duplo longiora. Anther*
apice late et obtuse 3-Ma, lobis more generis valvatis.
Mimosa:. Ovarium subsessile, glabrum.
Altbou
that J l>ave vciuurcu .o uu.cr..,>. .. .
exactly those of a Mimosa,
without the fruit, the flowers are so
and the i.hyllodineous fol .age only to he comrarcd
such, though the inflorescence is «>mewhat different,
with that of the Brazilian M. phylhdinea.
aoukall «. i»er,ne,, gUhri hirmf,

Series 8. Somniantes. Frutices suffrutices v. hcrlce,
lenuiUs. Pinnce2-v.i,luriJ«g<e,petioloselav.>qmmulu.»lcn"»n.s
« setosi, ramissccpins
parca, axillaria v. ad apices ramoruM raoemosa.
^Jusve parie imiruclo. Capitula glohom,
tegnmen ^nerme, fflainm .ctomm
Lntt^. Corolla nti bracte<e muUMriata^.
Calyx nunc
aHMos plure, facde secedcMms,
, Lnduloso-Mspidum, nmw Unbare valvie in
brevius mlvis indiv
distingubhed
corolla:
3l2
"
434 MR. G. BENTPIAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. [Mimosa.
'^
Brcwtecs brevesi in capitulo juniore haud eminentes.
241. M. SOMNIANS, Eumh. et BonpL ! in Wllkl. Spec. iv. 1036. Pruticosa v. suffruti-
cosa, glabra y. villosa. Aculei sparsi. Pinnae 2- v. plurijugje ; foliola 15-30-juga, linearia,
1-2 Im. longa. Legnmen stipitatum, glabmm, setosum v. glanduloso-hispidum II-.3
poU. longum, 2-3 lin. latum, valvis 6-8-articulatis.— J^^*;â ./
Mim. 20. t. 7 Fl Bms
Mim
M.
M. somniculosa, H., B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1 !
M. acutifiora, Benth. in Hook. Jom-n. Bot. iv. 3

I
M. podocarpa, Benth. 1. c. ; Wawra, Bot. Maxim

!
M. quadrijuga, Salzm. Benth. 1. c. 398.

!
;
M. vialis, Benth. in Herb. Mus. Par.

!
Sab Tropical America :

Brazil, proy. Eio Janeiro, Bahia, Govaz, Para,
New etc. Guiana
Granada, Panam
242. M, tBA, WUld mum.. Sort. Berol. 1048, e., char.
Fruticosa, inermis, glan.
duloso
"^"''"'^
v.. . J'"^ •'''"'^
' 30-50-juga, linearia, yis 2 lin. lon-â
Le<,umen
M. LAsiocARPA,
243. Benth.! in Kooh. Journ Bot iv ^QQ T^..+- • . \
hirsuta.
centia.
Pinna. 4-8-jug.
Legumen
breyiter stipitatum.
; foliola 20,40.jngarifn 'r a fZ'3
£"'7"'
^"•/°"^".' Fl^Ô'P^l'es-T"' f
1^3-poUicare 2 lin I=,f
brevitor pubescens,,yalyis ^^^^^^^
SÂ. Tropical America
8-ll-artieulatisîSl'
Brazil, proy.
it '
:
Minas Geraes and Goyaz.
244. M. LEPTOCArus, 5e«tt. !m Booh. Journ. Hot iy 398 «!„ff.„f •
•
g abra y
.
parce strigosa
vix 2 lin. bnga, glabra
et gWulifera. Pinna, 1-f
Le<»ump„ <.K„H„t
^ ^J"=.*' wliola o
' "' '
T""-'
20-25-juga, Imearia, JL SL f •
•in. latum, '^'^ ''''''^ ^-1^^°"--. ^-2^

^-X...^.^^Zîlt^:'^t -'
245. M. TEIJXJGA, Senth. « Sook. Journ

!
Bot W qqs <J„ff *• ^ •
V. parce strigosa et glandulifera. g'^'^^'^^^ .-«"--' -l^''-

Pinna, 3-4 Jt foH ia
'"^"'^'
longa. I^gumen longe stipitatum. glabr
8-12-articulatis
J, t'^^Z '''''"
vix 2
' -2
lin.
lin.
latum, valvis
wbich I canno't distin^ ^^1^;,^:" °""^°' '"''^^'•'"•^ ^'^ ^^^^ ^-'"-
^
L
246. M. L^VIGATA, 5^»<i. / i„ £j„„^ 530 g^j ,;

^mruticosa, .
stngosa. Pinnse 6-6-111 o-t> 1 1 1 „„i 1 •

^ , • ,
inermis, glabra y
Legmen ignotuml-irti"]^r ^
'°'°'' "^"'j^^''' l^^-' ^ lin. longa,
i^«*. Tropical
America :
Brazil, proy. Sao Paulo, Minas
Gerae., and Goyaz
247. M. LEPTOKHACHis, Benth.
! « Mart. Fl. ^/cw>.
Bras Mim.
Mim ijruticosa, mermis, vL • ,
gla-
. —
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 435
berrima. Pinnae 4-6-jugae, vix 41in. longse, petiolo filiformi; foliola 6-10-juga, oblongo-
linearia, obtusissimaj vix lineam longa. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, pro v. Minas Geraes.
** BractecB striatce, corolla longiores, in capitulo junior e cumjloribus imbricafce et ultra
alabastros prominentes
m
248. M. BiJUGA, Benth. I in SooTc. Journ. Bat. iv. 398. Truticosa v. suffruticosa,
inermis v. rarius minute aculcolata, parce glanduloso-pilosa. Pinnse 2-3-juga) ; foliola

^
multijuga, linearia, 2-4 lin. longa. Legumen longe stipitatum, l-J-2-poll li
latum, setulosum et glanduloso-pilosum, valvis 8-lO-articulatis. Fl. Bras. Jfhn.

Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Piauliy and Gopz.
249. M. LUPULiNA, Benth. f in Mook. Journ. Bat. iv. 399. Fruiicosa, inermis, riifo-
Mrta. Pinna) 6-10-jugge ; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, glabra, l-'i lin. longa. Legumen
sessile, pollicare, 2 lin. latum, setosum, valvis pluriarticulatis.— i^/. Bras. Mim.
Kab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz.
250. M. ERACHYCAUPA, BeutJi. I in UooTc. Journ. Bot. iv. 410. Fruticosa, mcrinis
strigoso-bispida. Pinn^ 4-8-jugse ; foliola multijuga, linearia, J-li lin. longa. Legumen
sessile, obovato-oblongum, subsemipoUicare, 2-2^ lin. latum, undiquc hispidum, valvis
indivisis.— i^^. Bras. Mim.

Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz.
Frutices suffmtices herbw, aculeati v. rarius inermes, setosl

Series 9. Asperate. v.
multijugcB, rarissime l-jugce, petiolo

hirsuti strigosi v. rarius glabrati. Pinnce pluri- v.
parva, scepius multijuga. Capifula globosa v.

inter pinnas scepissime setifero. Foliola
Flores mlgo ^-meri S-andri, hinc
subglobosa, axlllaria v. ad apices ramorum racemosa.
Corolla m^mbranacea, nan striata. Le-
inde b-meri, rarissime S-meri. Calyci> minutus.
planum, undique setosum strigosum hispidum v.
gumen lineare oblongum v. obomtum,
glandulosum, rarissime glabrum, valvis in articulos solvendis
guishcs
Some of
Habbasice
but may genera ly bo ^'^''"S^^;"?
the subseries Sckraniioide. come near to a few of the Rubicaules, *^
besides the habit, which, bkc hat of the £.m.mo«
seta between the pinna, or other minor eharaeters,
placing of several of them before the fruit was kuowu the genu. m
Spiciflor., had induced the
Schrankia. >
Legumen breve, latum, l-^^rttculatum

• Capitula axillaria v. subracemosa.
(DOEMIENTES)
1035. Pmt.cosa procumb-nis,
251 M. DOBMIBNS. Humb. et MonpU in mild. Spec. ir.
petiolis oppositL Pmn« S-G-j ugx fohoU

substrigoso-hirsuta. Acolei recti, sparsi v. in ;
semipolhoare, 4 hn. latum, ap.ee

r20-juga, liuearia, 2-4 lin. longa. Lesumcn sessUe,
latioribus quam longis.-J?. Bra..
hii-sutum, articulis valde obliqui.
oblique troncatum,
Mim
Humb. BonpL
et I in Willd
M. humilis,
M. intermedia, Kunth Mim.1 16, t. 6.

— . ;
436 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. [Mimosa
Sah. Tropical America ; North Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, New Granada, also in
Favon*s collection, probably from Central America.
252. M. CAMPOEUM, Benth. Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 130, iv. 403. Annua (v. demum
! in
suffruticosa ?), procumbens, patentim hispida. Aculei minimi rari v. 0. Pinnge 2-6-juf>a3
foliola 10-, saepius 20-30-juga, linearia, lJ-3 lin. lonâ, srlabriuscula. Pcdunculi breves
Legumen sessile, 3-6 lin. longum, 2 lin. latum, hispidum, suba^quale, articulis subqua-
dratis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
M. flaviseta, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 90.
!
M. aschymmenis Benth. Bot. Sulph. 89 (legumine minore)

, !
M. fiavescens, Splitg. PI. Nov. Surin. 16 (in Hoev. et Vr. Tijdschr.

!
ix.).
Sab. Tropical America : Nortli Brazil, Surinam, British Guiana, Central America.
253. M. pusiLLA, Benth. I Bot. Sulph. 90. Annua, tenella, inermis, hispidula. PinnjB
1 -3-jug8e; foliola 6-15-juga, oblonga, 2-3 lin. longa, ciliata. Pedunculi
breves. Capitula
parva, pauciflora. Legumen parvum, oblongum, undique setosum.
Hab. Tropical America Bealejo, Hinds, Possibly a small
:
slender variety of M. cam-
porum.
254. M. STRiGiLLOSA, ToTT. st Qt. I Fl. N. Amer. i. 399. Perennis, prostrata, strioôso-
setosa vix demum glabrescens. Aculei parvi rari v. 0. Pinnae 4-6-jug^ •
10-15-
foliola
juga, oblongo-linearia, 1^-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi elongati. Legumen 8-10 lin. lon-um
o
3 lin.latum, undique setosum, articulis subquadratis.
Hab. Extratropical and subtropical North America : Southern United States and
Mexican region.
" Capitula axillaria «. racemosa brevipedunculata. Cmles elongati, ad angulos aculea-

tissimi (SOHEANKIOIDEa:).
255 M. INVISA, Marl.
! Heri^ Fl. Bra.. 121. Laxe ramosa v. subseandens, laxe
'
p. osu a. Aculei crebn recurvi. Pmnaa 4-8-j«g»

foliola multijuga. oblongo-linearia, ;
ad
2 lin. longa PeduncuU axdlares, brevissimi. Legumen
M-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum.
H._»
aculeolatum, valvis sparse setosis tardius
A-S-articulatis—J?/. iras. Mim
Jour
Mimosa diplotncha. Wrieht ! in
Hab. Tropical America: Brazil, common
in prov. Sao Pnulo P.n t •
Geraes. and Go,a. also in Noi-tb Bra.il.

M,mo.aongr«b,ua,
Guiana,
L™. D.ct. ..
Vest Sdie! Palm; M
21, was founded on Brevnius's
descri tion ,„. If
Z .1
Minas
M. un-
M. asp erata
M. Selloi, Benth. I in Mart. Fl
256.
Bra<i M^^ c t,
S^l'scandens, glabra. Aculei
minimi, crebri. recuM. Pinna,
2-3-juS m6i.^\,
glabra. PeduncuU J-l-pollicares.
ûmef^lse 1 ?"'\'"'='":',
'1 "^^ '''°°"^'
"^"^
gine erebriaculeolatum .alvi. glabris
fifcAranîa 5re/K Benth.
n^dis
m Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 415
!
S^t^L f '
'
''''^"''
Hab. Tropical and subtropical

South America-
America v....'^
Brazil,
Paulo. . prov. Bio Janeiro and Sao
;
Mimosa.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 437
257. M. Ervendbergii, A. Oray! in JProc. Amer. Acad. v. 178. Subscandens, villosa

Aculei parvi, crebri, recurvi. Pinnae 4-6- (ssepius 5-)jug8e ; foliola 10-20-juga, oblongo
linearia, 2-4 lin. longa, utrmque appresse pubescentia. Capitnla breviter pedunculata
ad apices ramorum racemosa.
Schrankia elaia, Mart, et Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. x. pars ii. 307, ex char.
Sab. Tropical America : Mexico, Ervendberg, and, if rigbtly referred to this species,
Galeottij n. 3193.
- ,
*** Capitula pleraque racemosa. Indumenttmi glandulosum. Zegumcn lincare
(GLANDULOSJi}).
t Capitula parva, glabraj bractels parvis.
258. M. ADENOCARPA, BcYith. ! in KooTc. Jotirn. Bot. iv. 390. Fruticosa, glandulosn-
birta. Aculei sparsi, recurvi. Pinnte 6-10-jug8e; foliola 10-20-jnga, linctirin, 1^-2 lin.
longa. Legumen subsessile, f-l poll, longum, 1^ lin. latum, rostratum, glanduloso-vil-
losum, valvis 4-6-articulatis.— i^^. J5r«s. Mini.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Bahia.

SpniGC Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Herbacea, glandu-
259. M. ORTHOCARPA, ; I
tenues, recti. Pinnae 6-lO.juga) foliola 10-20-juga,

loso-pubescens. Aculei sparsi, ;
Legumen stipitatum, f-l poll, longum, 2-2^ lin. latum, glandu-

linearia, l|-2 lin. longa.
loso-pilosum, erostre, valvis pluriarticulatis.— i^/. Bras. Mim.
M. glandulosa, Bong. in Herb.
! Mus. Petrop. non alionim.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Para.
eminent Ibtis hispida v. comosa.

tt Capitula bractearum ciliis
Pruticosa, longe setoso-

260. M. PALUDOSA, Benth. ! in Sooh Journ. Bot. iv. 400.
Pinnae 6-15.jugtc
Aculei sparsi, recti v. subincurvi.
hispida et glanduloso-villosa.
longa, Mspidula. Calyx truncatus. Legumen
foliola 20-40-juga, linearia, H-3 lin.
Fl.B
valvis pluriarticulatis
sessile, 2-3.pollicare, 4 lin. latum., viscoso-pubescens,
Mim Goyaz.
prov. Piauby, Minas Geraes, and
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil,
261 M. MELANOCABPA, Beuth. ! in Mart. FL Bras. Mm. Pruticosa, scabro-viscida et
foliola 20-50-juga, linearia 1-2 ranus 3 hn. longa,

hispida, inermis. Pinnae 8-12.juga3 ;
Legumen breviter stipitatum, l.-S-pol-

viscido-puberula. Calyx pappiformis.
sordide
viscoso-pubescens, valvis pluriarticulatis.
licare 3-4 Hn. latum,
Minas Geraes and Goyaz,
sl Tropical America Brazil, prov. Sao
:
Paulo,
Indum^nlum non gloMulosum.

**** Capitula acciUaria v. summa breviter racemosa.
swpe Utmsculum (Aspekaive
Set^ inter pinnas s<epius Legumen elongatnm.
longcB.
setoso-Uspida v strigosa. Aculo,

Fruticosa,
262 M ASPEBATA. Urn. ! Spec. 1507.
multijuga. luêarxa 2-3 hn longa,
spS' rLvi V. subrecti. PinL S-lS-jug. ; foliola
5-6 Im. latun,,
S; puWntia y. hirta. Capitula globosa. legumen l^-S-polhcare,
438 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. IMnnosa.
lonê V. breviter setoso-hirsutissimum, valvis late breviterque multiarticulatis.— i^/

£ras. Mim. ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 335. ; DQ.! M4m. Le(j. t. 63.
M. pigra, Linn. I.e.
M. polyacantha, Willd. Spec. iv. 1034.
M. hispida, WiUd. I c. 1037. "
M. canescens, Willd. 1. c. 1038.

M.pellita, Humb. et Bonpl. in "Willd. 1. c. 1037; Kunth, Mim.
! 27, t. 9.
M. ciliata, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1048.

!
t
M. sicarioj Hoffmans, Verz. ex DC. Prod. ii. 428.

M. bellatriw, Hoffmans. Verz. ex Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2.
M. Habbas, Delile, Fl. Eg. Illustr. 31 Cent. PI. Afr. Caill. 24.
;
M. procumbens, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. PI. Guin. 324.

Bab. Througliout tropical America, and >Yidely spread over tropical and subtropical
Africa and the Mascarene islands. Occurs also in East-Indian collections, but probably
only from botanic gardens.
263. M. ELLiPTiCA, Benth. I in SooTc. Journ. Bot. iv. 400. Eruticosa, sparse setoso-
hispida. Aculei spar si, recti v. recurvi. Pinnae 7-10-jug9e; foliola multijuga, linearia,
2-3 lin. longa, vix pilosula. Capitula oblongo-elliptica. Legumen l-l^-pollicare, 4-5
lin. latum, parce v. copiose setosum, vaUis late breviterque multiarticulatis.—
jF/. Bras.
Mim.
Sab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Kio Janeiro.
264. M. ciNEREA, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 35. Eruticosa, procumbens v. subscandens,
appresse stngosa. Aculei parvi, subrecurvi. Pinnae 6-10-juga^; foliola 20-30-iuâ,
Imearia, 2-3 rarius 4 lin. longa, glabra, ciliata.
Capitula globosa. Legumen 1-2-polli-
care, 4-5 Im. latum, brevissime appresseque
setosum, yalvis 4-10-articulatis.~i^/ Bras.
Mim.
Bab. Tropical and subtropical South America Brazil, prov.
:
Rio Janeiro and southern
provmces, common along the Uruguay.
This and the preceding species are certainly very
fnrm« ^f ^k^\^^^ \- 1
J'
near to ivi. a<tnprntn
^^ J' "t^df osperatu, 1.,,+
but „
appear ^
to
M me to constitute
™'"
""• '''-' "^''^*^^"^^ '^'^°^''- <="—
IZto "s^r" -«î-t to entitle
Var. ? puhescens. Frutex pube molli canescens. striV,« ^^..n.. ^^+ :„..-_
-r .,
Urazil, prov. Goyaz. Pos-
>ty of M. asperata, but as
from Burchell^s specimen.
265. M. Weddelliana, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl

Bras M,'m p + .
^'"'"
sparsi,rari. Pinn. unijug.; foliola multijuga
!t^^ obLj
oblonga, 3
3-4
1-
4 Im.^r^^
longa, subtus parallele
'
7-11-venosa
7 11 yenosa ciliata
ciliata, P-laWn
glabra. Paû i
Capitula globosa. Legumen
sub-2-pollicare
P^^ntare, 5-6 lin latum
o b im. latum,
strigosum, br'-iviter lateque multiarticulatum.
Sab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Matto^rosso.
***** Capitula
minima
266. M. MicROCEPHAiA, Sumb. et Boml W,iii ^
J ,.i^"t
' im.
ran.osissima. hispidula, hahitu ''"'*"°"
-Ola ...0,u,, hnea
Ca«.V»<e
s.pius hre.ora. ,lah^
.Sta:TJJ^l
.f'" "v'''''
SS
—— — ,
Mimnsa.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 439
pedunculis filiformibus. Legumeii.l-2-pollicare, 1^2 lin. latum, strigoso-pilosum, valvis

6-8-articulatis. Kunth I Mim. 23, t. 8 Fl. Bras, Mim. ;
Hab. Tropical America North Brazil, Guiana, and Venezuela.

:
Series 10. Adversse. Frutices v. siiffrufices pilosl, aculeis sursiim incurvis nee recurv'w
armatL JPinnce pluri-^ v. multijitgcB. Foliola muUijtiga^ parvula, Capitula glohosa,

racemosa. JBracte(e et calyces setoso-ciliaU. Legumen setosum ?iec aculeatumy valms
indivisis a mctrgine in integro solvendls.
«
267. M. ADVEUSA, Bentli.l in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Pruticosa? adpresse pilosn.
Aculei sparsi. Pinnae 10-15-jug8e; foliola 30-50-juga, lincaria, 1J-2J lin. longa, glabra
V. puberula. Legumen stipitatum, 2-2 |-p oUicar e, ad 4 lin. latum, planum, apprcsse
breviterque setosum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
M. antrorsa, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv.403 (nomcn vitiosum).

268. M. ADENOTRICHA, Bdith. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 91. SufTruticosa v. fruticosn,
glanduloso-birta et pubescens. Aculei parvi, sparsi. Pinnai 6-8-jugre ; foliola 10-1 5-
juga, oblongo-linearia, ad 2 lin. longa, subtus bispida. Legumen breve, adpresse setosum.
Fl. Bras. Mim.

Sab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
Series 11. PachycarpEe. Frutices siiffrutieesve inermes, setosi. Folia non sensitiva.
FinncB pluri-, scepius multijugce. Foliola multijuga, coriacea, scepiua nitida. Cap
ramorum racemosa. Florea 4
globosa, scepius majuscula, ad apices conferfa v.
Bractece et calyces setoso-ciliati. legtmen uhl notum breve, crassiuscnhm

S-andri.
hispidum, valvis indivisis, a margine scBpe lato in integro solvendis
« Pinnce pauci- {2-6-)jug
Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 404. Pruticosa, patentim setosa.

269. M. NiTENs, Benth. I in
Hnearia, 3-6 lin. longa, nitida. Capitula pani-
Pinn^ 2-3-juga3 ; foliola multijuga, late
4 lin. latum, crassiusculum, seto-
culata. Legumen breviter stipitatum, 1-H-pollicare,
sum V. hispidum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Pruticosa, parce
270 M VEUNicosA, Bong. ; Benth. I in Uooh. Journ. Bot. iv. 404.
longa, mtida, glabra.
4-6.juga3 foliola multijuga, linearia, 3-6 lin.
stri-osa Pinn^ ;
latum, crassum, appressc set^sum.-F^. Bm,.

Legumen sessile, H-2-pollicare, 8-9 lin.
Mim.
Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz.
Kab. Tropical America :
** Binn<B multi- {^^0-)jugcB. Bacemm elongatus. CoroUce glabra.
Journ. Bot. iv. 404. Fruticosa, strigosa.

M. LEiocEPHALA, Bcnth. ! in Hook.
271
2-2 lin. longa. legumen ignotum
foliola multijuga, linearia,
Pinn^* 10-15.jug^
J-
;
FT. Bras. Mim.

Tropical America Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
Hab. :
M
3
VOL. XXX.
— —
440 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE, [-3/
272. M. SETOSA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 404. Fruticosa, paten tim setosa
Pinnae 15-25-jugaB ; foliola multijuga, linearia, 1^2 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, pro v. Goyaz.
*** Pinna multi- {S-SO-]jtig(e. Bacemtis elongatus. CorollcB hirsutce.
273. M. RiEDELi, Benth. ! in Soak. Land. Journ. v. 91. Fruticosa, dense scabro-
pubescens. Pinnae 15-20-jugse ; foliola multijuga, ovata v. oblonga, ad 2 lin. longa.
Racemus subramosus, dense setosus. Lesjumen isfnotum.-— i^. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
:
274. M. Gaedneri, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 405. Fruticosa (v. suffruticosa ?),
hispidissima. Pinnae 15-30-jug9e, rarius foliorum inferiorum 5-6-jug8e ; foliola multijuga,
linearia, 2-3 lin. longa, ciliata, caeterum glabra. Capitula 7-8 lin. diametro, liirsutissima.
Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Had. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Goyaz.
275. M. MULTIPINNA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Fruticosa, strigoso-setosa.

Pinnae 8-20-jug8e ; foliola multijuga, linearia, 2-3 lin. longa, ciliolata. Capitula 5-6 lin.
diametro, breviter hirsuta. Legumen ignotum.
276. M. POLioLOSA, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 406. Fruticosa, breviter denseque
hirsuta. Pinnae 20-35.jug« foHola multijuga, oblonga, ad 1
; lin. longa, hirsuta. Capi-
tula 3-5 lin. diametro. Legumen ignotum. FL Bras. Mim.
The three preceding species are certainly nearly allied to each other;
but I have now seen a con-
siderable number of specimens of each, which all appear to maintain their
distinctive character.
**** BinniB multi' (10-30-];w^ts.

Capitula axillaria v. ad apices ramorum conferta,
brevipedunculata.
277. M. Ql.^^5^^^m, Benth. ! in Hook, Journ. Bot. iv. 405. Fruticosa, ramis crassis
densissime echmato-setosis. Pinnae 2-pollicares longioresque ; foliola multijuga, linearia,
3-5 Im. longa, subglabra. Legumen sessile, crassum, l-lJ-poUicare,
J poll, latum, dense
setosum, margme lato, valvis indivisis.— i^^. Bras. Mim.
M. pycnocoma, Benth, 1. c. !
Sai. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz ; apparently
ii very
j
common. '' > j
278. M. ^m,.. SeniJU in HooTc. Journ. Bot. ir.

405. Pruticosa, satis brevibus
tr.gosa T. scabro-hirâ. Rnn^ infrapoUicares ; foUola multijuga,
oblongo-Iinoaria 1-1*
'"^•'^
L "^Ttr " '"
w-
^^'^*'^' "^^--' s^cabro-hilm, l-S-poUi^
Mah. Tropical America Brazil, prov.

: Minas Geraes and Goyaz
279 M. P.CH.c.a,., Bentk.
P
, « Jiook. Journ. Sot. iv.
406. Fruticosa. scabro-
T
pubescens et strigosa. Pinnae infrapollicares ; foliola multijuga, linearia, 2-3 lin. longa,
glabra. Legumen sessile, crassum, oblongum, verrucosum, raargine lato, valvis indivisis.
Fl. Bras. Mim.

Sab, Tropical America: South. Brazil, Sello.
This species may require further cionfirmation. I described it formerly from a single fruiting specimen
in the Berlin Herbarium\ The only specimen in the collection now lent me from thence, has neither
flowers nor fruit.
XVIII. SCHRANKIA, WiUd.

Benth. et Hook, Gen. PL i. 593, excL Sect. Rhodostachya.
The genus is now limited to the capitate species with diplomerous stamens. The spicule 5-androus
snonies nrove to be true Mimosm.
* Species Austro-Americancc, peduncuUs 1-3 lin, longis.
1. S. LEPTOCARPA, DC. ! Frod. ii. 443. Pinnoc 2-3-jugae; foliola 10-20-juga,-3 G lin.
longa, venis vix conspicuis. Legumen tcnue, S-^-poUicarc, long(3 rostratuni, aculcis in
marginibus 2-seriatis, in valvis 1-2-seriatis.— i^/. Bras. Mim. ; Oliv. I Fl. Trop. Afr.
ii. 336.
Sah. Tropical America : common in Brazil; also in Guiana and Columbia. Found
'
Mm—
also in Tropical Africa and Java, but probably introduced.

2. S. HAMATA, Sumh. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1042. Pinnae 4-5-jug8e ; foliol \
multijuga, 3 lin. longa, crassiuscula, venis impressis. Legumen 3-pollicare, rostratnm

•
nndique dense longeque setoso-aculeatum.

Mimosa tetragona, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 56.
Sab. Tropical America: On tbe Magdalena, Humboldt and Bonpland; La Paila
JSolton.
typical Humboldt
Kunth had not seen it ; but the one of Holton's in the Hookerian Herbarium answers precisely to
the pod and the impressed veins of the leaflets, \v{iich

WilldenoVs character, both as to the prickles of
are both exceptional in the genus.
** Species Americce borealis v. centralis, pedunculis semipollicem et scepius poll
ewcedentibtts
S.ACIILEATA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1041. Aculei sa^pius distanti^s, rccurvi. Pinn
3.
foliola 8-15-juga, 2-3 Un. longa, obscure venosa. Pedunculi subpollicnre
2-3-jug8e;
acuminatum, 2-3-pollicare, aculeis pluriseriatis ssejiius brevibus.
Legumen breviter
Mimosa
America near Vera Cruz, in Mexico, Schiede, Ferd. Mueller
Sab. Tropical :
in leffum •Texas or Mexico
Willd. Spec, iv. 1043. Aculei crebrL Pinnae 4-6-jug8B; foliola

4, S. -UNCiNATA,
utrinque elevato- venosa. Pedunculi 2-3-poUicares. ^
multijuga, lf-3 lin. longa, subtus v.
breviter acuminatum, 2-3-pollicare, undique dense aculcatum.

Lecmmen acutum '
v.
Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. dmer. I 400

3 m2
;
442 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Schranlda
Mimosa horridula^ Mich. ! M, Bor. Amer. ii. 254 (including S. angustata) ; Vent. Clioix^ t. 28.
Mimosa Intsia, Walt. Fl. Carol. 252, non Linn.
Mimosa microphylla, Sm. ex Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2.
Leptoglottis Nuttallii, Mem. Leg. 45 L
DC. !
Hab. Extratropical Nortli America Southern United : States.

Var. pinnis parvis, 2-3-jugis. —Monterey, Texas, Eaton and Edwards.
5. S. ANGUSTATA, Tovr. et Or. ! Fl. N. Amer. i. 400. Aculei parv i. Pinnae 4-6-jug£e
foliola multijuga, 1-2 lin. longa, venis obscuris. Pedunculi 1-2-pollicares. Legumen
tenue, subulato-rostratum, 4-6-pollicare, aculeis parvis seriatis.
Sab. Extratropical North America Southern United States. :
Some specimens from Florida, Ruegel, n. 210, have the smaU leaflets and long slender subulate-acu-
minate pod of S. angustata but the leaflets have the raised veins of S. uncinata.
; It would seem, there-
fore, to require further observation to ascertain how far the venation of the leaflets (very fine and obscure
in S. leptocarpa, aculeata and angustata, very prominent in S. uncinata, and rather deeply sunk in S. ha-
mata) is really available as a constant specific character.
6. S. PLATYCARPA, A. Gray \ Fl. Lindh. ii. 183. Pinn^ 3-4.jug£e; foliola 8-12-juga,
2-3 lin. longa, tenuiter v. obscure venosa. Pedunculi subpoUicares. Legumen sub-
2-pollicare, compressum, 3 lin. latum, puberulum, breviter et crebre aculeatum.
Mimosa Roemeriana, Scheele, in Linnâ, xxi. 456.
Sab. Extratropical North America Texas, lAndheimer.
:
with Mimosa, the pod having the same structure

Hahhasice
Mimosa
SchranJcia habit have a typical articulate pod; and the present species is thus much better placed in
Mimosa
XIX. Leuc^na, Benth

Hook
thisgenus had been universally placed in Acacia on
account of the pod which
many separation, founded on the
confirmed
marked ce m
~
"-*vj TTXii^xx
rcaiiy nearer to tnat oi
n _ ., ^ ,
xa
,i_
Desmanthm than oi Acacia, r. -
as well
,1
m
.
the consistence of the valves as in thp «l.o^. a h xi.

• •
albumen of the seeds, differing f™. """""^ " '"^

that of Besântku. chiefly il
fte tZ.T'
*
Foliola multijuga, parva, linearia
1 L. EoKSTEKi Benth. tin HooJc. Lond.

setiformes, pers.stentes
juga, oblongo-lmearia, 2-3 lin. longa.
men hrpvitpr îHTAifofurv. ii q
breviter stipitatum, l^-S-pollicare,
ii- ^
Journ. y. 94 Ramuli
Pmn. 10-15.jug. ; glandula petiolaris
Corolla calyce parum
^'^v^^ P^-ium v
teretiusculi
parva
v. riin^îll
dmiidio
5-6 lin. latum, ^labrum
foHola
lonîor.
Stipule
t
Legu-
•
S
venosis. valvis reticulate
Mimosa
Guillem. !
in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. vii
Hah Islands of the Pacific, from
Kew Caledonia to Tahiti
attcnuatum
!
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. 443

Acacia esculenta, Moc. et Sess. in DC. Prod. ii. 470,
Mimosa esculent a y Herb. Pavon.
Kah. Tropical America : Mexico, Jlhde {Serb. Berol) ; New Spain, Herb. Pavon.
Hamuli crassly lineis elevatis a quoque folio decurrentibus angulati v. angustissime alati, uti folia oculo
armato minutissime puberuli apparent, vix demum glabrati. Foliorum petiolus communis 6-10-pollicaris,
acute 3-aiigulatus, glandula prope basin magna oblonga. Pinuse 2i-3-pollicares. Foliola anguste line-
aria, fere dimidiata, costa submarginali. Peduuculi crassi, |-l-pollicares, fasciculati, in raccmum brevem
terminalem dispositi. Capitula globosa, dense multiflora, absque staminibus semipolliccm diamctro.
Bracteae minimse. Flores sessiles v. subsessiles, glabri. Calyx fere 1^ lin. longus, campanulatus, meni-
branaceus, lobis 5 brevibus rotundatis, sestivatione aperta vix valvata. Corolla 2-2^ longa, petalis a basi
solutis lineari-spatbulatis sestivatione valvatis. Stamina 10, corolla dimidio longiora. Autberifi majus-
cuIbb, glabrae. Ovarium glabriim.
3. L: diversifolia, Bentk! in Rook. Journ. Bot. iv. 417. Hamuli subtcrotos.

Stipulge parvae. Pinnae 4i-l7-jugae ; glandula pctiolaris magna; foliola 20-00-juga,
linearia, 2-3 lin. longa. Tlores glabri. Corolla calycc duplo longior. Lcgumcn stipi-
tatum, 3-4-pollicare, 6-7 lin. latum, glabrum, nitidulum.
if^
Nov. ii. 41 fATjliandl. Akad, Wiss

Hab. Tropical America : Mexico, Herb. Tavon., Schiedc, and many others.
4. L. PULVERULENTA, Beuth. ! in JIooTc. Journ. Bot. iv. 417. Bamuli striati, pulTCraceo-
tomentelli. Stipulse minimae. Pinnae 15-18-jugae ;
glandula pctiolaris oblonga ; foliola
fere 60-juga, linearia, 2-2J lin. longa. Plores tomcntosi. Corolla calyce subquadruplo
longior. Legumen stipitatum, semipedale, 7-9 lin. latum, glabrum, nitidulum.
Acacia pulverulenta, Scblecbt. ! in Linnsea, xii. 571.
Acacia esculenta, Mart, et Gal. ! in Bull. Acad. Brux, x. pars ii. 312.
Hab. Tropical America : Mexico, Schiede, Galeoitit Berlandier ; and also a very young
specimen in Herb. Linn, appears to be this species.
5. L. GLAUCA, Benth. ! in SooJc. Journ. Bot. iv. 416. Ramuli subteretes, minute to-
mentelli v. glabrati. Stipulae parvae, caducae. Pinnae 4^-8-jugaB; foliola 10-20-juga,

linearia, 4-6 lin. longa. Flores cano-puberuli. Corolla calycc duplo longior. Legumt-n
breviter stipitatum, 4-6-pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum, glabrum.
Mimosa glauca, Linn. Spec. 1504.
Acacia glauca, Willd. Spec. iv. 1075.
Mimosa leucocephala, Lam, ! Diet. i. 12.
Acacia leucocephala, Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. itl.
Acacia biceps, Willd. ! Spec. iv. 1075.

Mimosa biceps, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 75.
Acacia frondosa, Willd. Spec. iv. 1076.

Mimosa frondos a, Klein, in Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 'JQ.
Hab. Common in the warmer both of the

rci?ions New and the Old World, but in most
cases planted or introduced ; most probably of North Amencan ongm.
** Foliola paucijuga, majorat latiuscula.
in A, Gray, Bl, Wright. I 04. Subglabra. Pinna3 2-5-jugaj

6. L. RETUSA, Benth. !
oblonga, acutiuscula obtiisa v. retusa, 6-10 lin

foliola 6-8-juga, oblique obovata v. late
444 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. ILeucama.
longa, membranacea, venosa. Pedunculi 1-2-pollicares. AnthoroB glabrae. Legumen

6-9-pollicare, semipollicem latum, valvis rigidulis venosis.
Acacia Sabiana, Buckl. in Proc. Acad. Philad. 186], 453; 1862, 163.
Hab. Extratropical North America ; Mexican-Texan region, Wright y n. 71, Emory's
Expedition, n. 318.
7. L. TRicHODES, Bentli. I inSooTc. Joiirn. Bot. iv. 417. Subglabra. Pinnse 2-3.jug£e.
Poliola 2-5-juga, ovata, obtusa, -|-l-pollicaria y. rarius 1-2-pollicaria, pennivenia. Pe-
dunculi vix i-pollicares. Antherae pilosse. Legumen tenue, 4-8 poll, longum, 6-9 lin.
'
latum.
Mimosa trichodes, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 76, t. 394.
Acacia trichodes, Willd. Spec. iv. 1063.
Acacia pseudotrichodes, DC. ! Prod. ii. 466.
Sab. Tropical America : San Domingo, Venezuela, Peru.
8.L. MACROPHTLLA, Benth. Bot. Sulph, 90, and in SooTc. Bond. Jotmi.
v. 95. Glabra.
Pinnae 2-3-jugae ; foliola 2-4-juga, ovata, acuminata v. acuta,
1-2-pollicaria, pennivenia
reticulato Pedunculi 2-4 lin. longi, in racemes axiUares terminalesq
positi. Antberae pilosse. Legumen stipitatum, 2-6-pollicare, |-1 poll, latum, mem
branaceum, glabrum.
Eab. Tropical America Panama, Acapulco, and (apparently tbe same) Cape
:
St. Lucas
California, Xantus.
9. L. CANESCENS, Benth. ! Bl. Sartio. 117, et in Hook. Bond. Joum. v. 94 Pube brev
canescens. Pinnae l-2-jug8e ; foliola 2-4-juga, ovata, obtusa,
l-2.pollicaria, penniveni.a,
venulisvixconspicuis. Pedunculi subpollicares. Anthers pilose. Legumen stipitatum
semipedale, f-1 poU. latum, puberulum v. demum
glabrescens.
Sab. Tropical America : GuayaquU, Eerh. Bavon.,
Eartweg, Spruce.
XX. Acacia, WiUd.

Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL 594.
which still appears to me to
be naturally as well as definitely
characterized by the sta:
various forms assumed by the pod in ripening,
remains the largest amon.
Mimose^
Legu
careful
ms founded upon any character derived from
upon habit inflorescence and
geographical dist
ling them into subseries
and minor groups stiJ
Series 1. Phv..o„,»... miali pÛoiZZeZTXT^ZT^' "' "'

"'""• '^'=^''"°'"-
'^P'^ruquepanav.O.
Auriraliemes V. ins.Oceani Pacifici.
AculetO. Species l-m , omnes
Subseries 1. Alata,
decurrent
uta nunc ngida et pungentia. "FP^sixas, nunc brevia e
Capitula globosa.-Species 1-5
Subseries 2. Continue. Phvllodia ri^da ™.r,„«^+-
Subseries 3. Pungentes. 6-10

articulata
spicae cylindracese.—Species 1-4 Capitula globosa
1
. :
1 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 445
A. Aphyllce. Rami spinescentes, phyilodiis nullis. Capitula globosa. —Species 11.
— Species 12-25.
K
B. Plurinerves. Pbyllodia 2- plurinervia v. teretia et enervia. Capitula globosa.

C. Uninerves. Pbyllodia l-nervia. Capitula glabra. —Species 26-40.
D. SpicatcB. Pbyllodia 1-3-nervia. Spicse cylindracese oblongce v. ovoidese. —Species 41-45.
Subseries 4. Calamiformes. Pbyllodia anguste linearia^ teretia v. tetragona, rarius leviter compressa^
obtusa V. mucrone innocuo acuta^ in ramo articulata^ 1-3-nervia, v. rarius 0. Capitula globosa.
Species 46-63.
A. Subaphyll(B. Pbyllodia v. tenuissimaj ramis similia. — Species 46^ 47,
B. Plurinerves. Pbyllodia nervis utrinque 2-3-striata. — Species 48-54.
C Uninerves. Pbyllodia nervis utrinque solitariis plana v. tctragona v. enervia. — Species 55-63.
Subseries 5. Bruriioidea. Pbyllodia numerosa, parva, verticillata v. fasciculata, obtusa v, apiculo
innocuo acuta. Capitula globosa. — Species 64-71.

Subseries 6. Uninerves. Pbyllodia plana^ non pungentia (exceptis specicbus paucis latifoliis) , uninerîu
rarius Capitula globosa. — Species 72-163.

Spinescentes. Rami spinescentes. Pbyllodia parva. Glandulamarginalis 0. Stipulfieminutae v. 0.
Pedunculi 1-cepbali^ — Species 72-76

B. ArmattJB. Rami non spinescei ulse ssepius persistenteS; spinescentes v. subulatee. Pbyl-
rarius Glandula marginalis 0. Pedunculi 1-cepliali. — Sj)€cit'j<
77-89.
Rami rigidi, interdum spinescentes. Stipulse spiuescentes subulatae v. 0. Pbyllodia
C. Triangulares.
parvula, costa sseplus margini infcriori approximata, latere superiore rotuudata v. angulata saepeque
glandulifera. Pedunculi l-cepbali. —Species 90-99,

Rami non spinescentes. Stipulae minutaev. 0. Pbyllodia ssepius infrapollicaria, lata
D- Brevifoli(£.
gusta, non pungentia. Pedunculi l-cepbali. — Species 100-111.

Anffustifolia. Rami non spinescentes. rarius spinescentes. Pbvl-
Itrapollica V. linearia, costa subcentrali. Pedunculi l-cephali. — Spccit:s
112-122.
Rami non spinescentes. Stipulae minutse v. 0. Pbyllodia varia. Pedunculi plerique
F. Racemosa.
V. omnes pleiocephali. — Species 123-163.
Plurinerves. Phyllodia plana, mutica (exceptis specicbus paucis latifoliis), utrinque
Subseries 7.
plurinervia. Capitula globosa, solitaria v. fasciculata. 164-211
Stipulae spinescentes. Phyllodia falcata, subulato-acuminata v. fere pungentia.—Specif

A. Armata.
164
Phyllodia parva, late falcato-ovata v. trlangtilarla^ fi«epe
B. Triangulares. Stipulae setosse v. minutse.
subpungentia. — Species 166-169.

70- 1
Stipule inconspicu^. Phyllodia parvula, obtusissima, sscpc undulata.— Specit;^ 1
C. BrevifoU(E.
lincaria, rcctiuscula, utrinque 2-3-nervia.- Spec
D. Oligoneurce. Phyllodia oblongo-lanêolata v,
174-180.
nervis tcnuibus
5. Microneur<B
prominulis v. Species 181-187.
icentcs. Pbyllodia
^ Nervosa.
rarius m 1 88-206.
2-4 prominentibuH distanlibu
G.
^—
BimidiatdS. 'T
reticulato-pennivenia.— Species 207-21 1

inter nervos
complanata et plurinervia. Spicae cylindrace* V.
Julifiorm. PhyUodia varia, s^pius
oblongae.— Species 212-2/7.

rarius breviter
densae. Flores S-meri.—Spc
Phyllodia plana.' sjepe brevia.
A. Rigidula.
446 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Acacia.
B. Tetramerce. Phyllodla plana^ linearia lanceolata oblonga v. obo vata. Spicce spppe laxiiiscalae. Flores
4-meri. Species SSr-SSl.
C. Stenophylla . Phyllodia lineari-subulata v. anguste linearia, saeplus elongata et rcctiusciila.
Spicae densae, breves v. tenues. Flores parvi, 5-meri v. in speciebus teretifoliis intcrdum 4-mcri. -^Species
"
332-245.
D. Falcatee. Phyllodia saepius ampla^ plus minus falcata, apice basique angustataj aequaliter multi-
nervia v. nervo central! v. pluribus validioribus. Spicae tenues^ saepius densae. Flores
Species 246-272.
E. Dimidiatce. Phyllodia ampla, lata, valde obliqua, nervis 3 v. pluribus prominentibus basi latere in-
feriore confluentibus, inter nervos reticulata. — Species 273-277.
Series 2. Botryocephal^. Folia bipinnata. Stipula parvce v, 0. Capitula globosa, in pedunculo
communi ebracteato plures. — Species 278-287, omnes Australienses.
Series 3. Pulchell^. Frutices inermes v. rarius spinis axillaribus armati. Folia bipinnata. Sti-
pula parv(B v. 0. Capitula globosa v. rarius spiccB cylindracece , ad axillas v. in racemo terminali pedun-
culata. Species 288-295, omnes Australienses.
Series 4, Gummiferê. Arbores v. frutices non scandentes nee aculeati. ':
Folia bipinnata. Stipulae
nonnulla Capitula globosa v. spica cylindracea, ad axillas v. in racemo terminali
brevi pedunculata, rarius paniculata. Species 296-355 tropica
; v. subtropicce utriusque orbis.
Subseries 1. Summibracteata. InvoluceUum annulare sub capitulo ipso v. ab eo parum distans. Capi-
tula globosa. Legumen crassum, turgidum v. rarius planum, non v. vix dehiscens, intus inter semma
farctum. Species 296-308. Americanse v. Africanae, una cosmopolitana.
Med, InvoluceUum in medio pedunculo v. paullo altius v. inferius situm.
rarius 0. Capitula globosa. —
Legnraen bivalve. Species 309-347.
A. Heteracanthce. Spinae minores recurvae, auctte recta.
um
Species gerontogeae, 309-317.
B. Moniliformes. Spin^ omnes rect^, minores recurve.
v. Legumen planum, s^pe crassum, inter
semma regulariter constrictum v. depressum. Species gerontoge*, 318-320.
C. Thyrsiflor<e. Spinae omnes rect*. Inflorescentia terminalis, subapbylla,
simplex. Legumen
planum, contmuum.— Species Africanse, 321-324.
Pubijl, Spin^ rect*.
Pedunculi axiUares. Mores pubescentes. Legumen planum, con-
, tinuum.— Species gerontogeae, 325-326.
Normales. Spinae rectae. Pedunculi axiUares.
Flores
ffumen
planum, valns tenmbus.-Spec.es 327-3«.
Ple«eque African^; pauc^ Indict,
Texanse.
Australicê v. MexicL
Paniculatce Spinae rect^. Panicula terminalis, subaphylla.
Species Asiaticê, 346, 347.
Subseries 3, Basibracteat(B. -"-^-^^""xu nuuum msi ad basm
,, pedunculi. Spica cylindraceae v
m una specie
.
[A. sph.rocephala)
globosa^.-Species 348-355.
Asiaticse.
Americans, African, v
Series 5. Vulgares. Arbores v. frutices interdum e*. Stipula non spinescentes. Aculei
ifrastipulares sparsi
ndulifero.— Species 356-430.
Spiciflor(e .—Species 356-380,
^^-^-frastipulares cum
m^T'
B niacantha.
B.
'
A^'f gemini, infrastipulares.-Species
Aculei
359-376
infrafoliaceo.-Species 356-358
C. AtaxacantJuB. Aculei sparsi.—
Species 377-380
Subseries 2. Amencan. Spiciflor^. Acdei sparsi v.
O.-Species 381-399
SubsenesS. ^«»mcfl«* Ca/>i/«/a/«.-Species 400-425.
Subsenes4. Gerontoge<B Capituh
426-430
Series 6. Filicin^. Frutices inermes
Folia bipinnata petiolo
capitulo sapius globoso mdicdlati eglanduloso. Flores
regtonis Mexicans
{
. — —
-
Acada.l .MR MIMOSE^. 447
Series 1. Phyllodine.e.
Eolia omnia (nisi primordialia et in perpaucis speciebus pauca hinc inde subbipinnata)
ad pbyllodia teretia angulata v. ssepius verticaliter complanata reducta, glandula petio-
lari dum adsit in margine sliperiore sita. Legumen quam maxime variabile. Species
omnes Australienses v. insulares".
Subseries 1. Alatse. Fhyllodia Ufariam secus caulcm decurrentia alas formantut 2

opposifas. Capitula globosa, ad axillas pedunculata v. rarius ramulis Jlorifcris ahhre-
viatis suhaphyllis siibracemosa
1.
V
A. ? BOSSI.EOIDES, A. Cunn., Bentli. Eami contimie
! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 323.
alati. Pbyllodiorum pars libera *bre vis, triangularis, parte decurrcnte cnm pliyllodio
internodii inferioris continua, nee ut in cacteris speciebus ad c[uem(i[ue nodum intorrupta,
K
gemma axillari a caule vero distante. Elores et fructus ignoti. Fl. Anslral. ii. 320.
Hab. North-west Australia.
This species^ so remarkable in the structure of the winged stem, may not be tinAcarhi] but 1 know of
-no other genus to which it could be referred. It has not been ajrain found since first named by A. ('un-
ningham.
2, A. GLArcoPTEBA, BcntTi. ! in Linncea^ xxvj. 601. Glabra, glauca. Stipula^ parvjc.
Pbyllodiorum pars libera oblongo-falcata, eglandulosa, |-1| poll, longa, basi 3-4 lin.
lata, costa centrali. Capitula dense multi- (ultra 30-) flora. Leguraen ignotum. Fl.
Austral, ii. 320.

A. bossicepides, Seem. Eingef. Acac. 1. 1, non Cunn.
Kab. Soutb-west Australia.
r
3. A. ALATA, B. Br. ! in Ait. Mart. Kew. ed. 3, v. 464. Glabra v. hii-suta. Stipula?
spinescentes. Pbyllodiorum pars libera ovato-falcata, J^-pollicaris, margine supcriort^
in angulum glanduliferum dilatato, costa subcentrali in mucronem v. spinulam cxcur-
rente. Capitula 6-12-flora. Legumen stipitatum, oblongo-falcatura v. lanceolatum,
marginibus incrassatis, valvis convexis. — Wendl. Comm. Acac. t. 1; Bot. Beg. t. 396;
Colla, Sort. Bip. t. 17; BeicJib. Ic. et Bescr. Bl. t. 88. f. 1.; Benth. Fl. Amtral.
320
Var. PLATYPTERA, phyllocliis majoribus apice recurvis vix pungcntibus.
A. platyptera, Lindl. ! Bot. Reg. t. 841, Misc. 3 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3933.
miglandulosa Seem, et Schmidt in Flora, 1844, 495.

A. ,
B[ab. Soutb-west Australia.
Lindl. Sican Biv. App. 15. Glabra et glauca v. pubcscens. Phyllodia

4. A. DiPTERA, !
in alas angustas decurrentia, costa in parte liljcra submargiiuili.

pauca, angusta, incurva,
Petala Isevia. Legumen stipitatum, 2-poIlicare, angust.mi, pinmnn,
Capitula multiflora. 5,
Ic. PL 369; Benth. FL Austral, il. 321.

mar-ine nerviformi.— Soo/fc. t.
pniid
Var. ERioPTERA, Grab, in Bot. Mag. t. 3939, pubescens.
Sab. Soutb-west Australia.
Bcnth. ! in Hook. Bond. Journ. i. 325. Glabra v. scabriusi'ul

5 A. STENOPTERA,
recurra, ia alas angustas decurrenti
PhyUodia lanceolato- y. lineari-falcata, rigida,
3
VOL. XXX.
— —
448 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Acacia.
costa in parte libera submarginali. Capitiila pauciflora. Petala 4, striata. Legumcn

longe stipitatum, falcatum, acuminatum, valvis convexis, marginibus utrinque longitudi-
naliter alatis ! Fl. Austral, ii. 321.
Mab, South-west Australia.
Subseries 2. Continuse. Fhyllodia atigusta, rig Ida, apice attenuata pimgentia^ lad
cum caule continua et hreviter trifariam v. irregulariter decurrentia. Capitula glohosa
V. spicce oUongo-cylindracecey ad axillas pedunculata. Species oranes glabra. Stipula
minutes v. 0.
6. A. INCURVA, Benth. I in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 325. Phyllodia plana, linearia v

lineari-lanceolata, lJ-2-polUcaria, uniuervia. Capitula globosa, fere sessilia, 4-8-flora
Legumen ignotum. Fl. Austral, ii. 322.
A, hrachyptera^ Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ.
! i. 325.
Kah. South-west Australia.
7. A. TEiGONOPHYLLA, Mc'issn. I in Fl. Freiss. ii. 199. Phyllodia plana, lineari

laneeolata, 1-1^-pollicaria, uninervia. Capitula globosa, 40-50-flora, pedunculo J-i-pol
licari. Legumen planum, rectum, 2-3-pomcare, 2^^ lin. latum, marînibus incrassatis
inter semina coristrictum. Fl. Austral, ii. 322.
A. pteroclada, F.Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, iv. 3.
Sab. South-west Australia.
8. A. CONTINUA, Benth. ! Fl. Austral, ii. 322.

Phyllodia teretia, plurinervia, inferiora
1-2-pollicaria, superiora minora v. ad spinas breves reducta, brevissime decurrentia. Capi-
tula globosa, multiflora, brevissime pedunculata.
Legumen planum, ad 2 lin. latum,
valde incurvum v. contortum.
A. colletioides, F. Muell. ! PL Vict. ii. 5, non A. Cunn.
Sab. Extratropical Australia scrubs and desert land of the
:
Murray and South
Australia.
9. A Pexice, F. Muell. ! Fragm. Fhyt. Austral, ui. 151. Phyllodia conferta, tereti-
subulata, paucmervia, rigidula, 2-3-pomcaria,
trevissime decurrentia. Mores ignoti.
Legumen planum, pluripoUicare, fere IJ poll, latum.-
J-i. Amtral. ii. 323
Sab. Central Australia.
-no-felcata, i-l.poll.cana. plurmervia.

8piea= breviter pedu;eulat., cylindracea,,
pollicares. Legumen iguotum.— J^. Austral, ii. 323.
Bab. Eastern subtropical Australia.
F
Pun rentes. Frutices riniiii

Subseries 3. «^*^ • •
"
Fhyllodia ad cauUm artleulal l^^^^^^^^^^^
Unearia v. laneeolata, rarius delt
T' ^^""'^" spl.escentibus.
'"^'''^ ''"^^'^
,p „ ,. .
ZuTal^^^^^^^
^''^'^^^'' y^^^^^fi ^-
spiCfE cyllndracecs, axillares.
(Lonter etiara species paucas
ôserierum 4
subserierum r«/ v
4. Calamiformes, et 7.
gentibus.) Plurinerves, phyllodiis subpun-
— . — .
Acacia.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 449
A. Aphyllse. JBhyllodia ad sqtiamas minutas reducta.
11. A. SPiNESCENSj Benth, ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 323. Glabra, ramulis striatis
apice seepius spinescentibus. Capitula globosa, 2-6-flora, ad nodos sessilia. Legumeii
breviter stipitatum^ lineare, 1^ lin. latunij planum, curvuTn, subtorulosum. Fl. Austral.
ii. 323.
Hab. Extratropical Ailstralia : desert interior of the eastern colonies.
B. Plnrinerves. Fhyllodia 2- v. pluiînerma v. teretia et avenia. Capitula gJohosa.

* Fhi/Uodia plana, Uneari-lanceolata, 3- v. plnrinervia. Tetala 8fppius la^via.
12. A. LATIPES, Benth. r

I in Sook. Lond. Journ. i. 334. Glabra. PLyllodia rl^jidis-
sima, vix pollicaria, ad lineam lata, basi lata affixa, utrinquc 3-4-nervia. Sepala di-
stincta, anguste lineari-spatbulata. Petala Isevia. Lcgumcn ignotum.— P/. Jnsfrnl.
ii. 324.
Ilab. Soutb-west Australia.
13. A. cocHLEARis, TFendl. Comm. Acac, 15. Glabra. Pliyllodia rigida, 1-li-polli-
caria, ad 2 lin. lata, basi contracta, utrinque 3-4-nervia. Sepala distinota, angusta,
lineari-spatbulata. Petala lêvia. Legumen 1-2-pollicare, 2 lin. latum, planum, margi-
nibus incrassatis. Fl. Austral, ii. 324.

Mimosa cochlearis, Labill. ! PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 85, t. 234.
Acacia eglandulosa, DC. Mem. Leg. 445.

A. Benthamii, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 1 1
Hab. Soutb-west Australia.
14. A. LANIGERA, A. Cunn. ! in Field, New S. Wales, 345. PamuH ssepius lanato-
2-pollicaria, 2-3 lin. lata, basi contracta,

pubescentes. Pbyllodia rigida, l-lj-, rarius
campanulatus, lobis obtusis. Petubi
utrinque 3-4-nervia. Pedunculi brevissimi. Calyx
ad semina 4-6 lin. latum, inter scmina
laevia. Legumen nunc glabrum, 6-8-pollicare,
lanato-villosum.— 5o^. Mag. t. 2922 Bcnlh.
contractum, nunc brevius angustius et ;
FL Austral, ii. 324.

A. multinervia, DC. Mem. Leg. 445 ; Prod. ii. 450.
of the eastern colonies.
Bab. Extratropical AustraUa desert interior :'
examined I find the rathrr obscure in-

have recently
In some of Cunningham^s specimens which I
which there is no trace on other speamenn.
gland on the npper margin of most of the phyllodia, of
dented
plant with Cunningham.; hut
no longer any doubt as to the identity of DeCandoUe^s
This leaves
pubescent one with the smaller pod, in m h.ch
amongst the latter there appear to be two marked forms-a
one, with a larger pod '"/'^'^jh the
sometimes hut not always observable, and a glabrous
the Jand is
The two names were both pubb^K-d
gland of the phyllodia is verj' rare. AU are from the same localities.
in the same year, 1825.
Soc. 110. Glabra. Phyllodia

A
,„ ..
15. PEiEBOCARPA, F. Muell. ! in Jmcm. Linn. ii.
contracta, nervis utrinque plunmis 1-3 validi-

...Ida, l-U-poUicaria, 2-3 Un. lata, basi
subsemipollicares. Calyx campanulatus. Petala striata ? Legmen

orlbus. Pedunculi
incrassatis. Semina obliqua.-^c,./*.
incurvum. oblique yenosum, marginibus
durum,
jS[ab. Tropical Australia : nortb coast.

^ ^ 2
—
450 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [A
16. A. TRiNERVATA, Sieb. ! in DC. Trod. ii. 451. Glabra v. puberula. Phyllodia
rigida, anguste linearia, l-lJ-poUicaria v. breviora, basi leviter contracta, utrinque
2-3-nervia. Pedunculi subsemipoUicares. Capitula parva. Calyx tenuis, campanu-
latus. Petala laevia. Leguoien 3-5-pollicare, 1-lJ, rarius 2 lin. latum, planum, mar-
ginibus vix incrassatis. Semina longitudinalia. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 325.
A. taxifolia, A. Cunn. ! in Field^ New S. Wales, 344. •
A. Cunning hamii, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404.

Mab. Extratropical Australia : Blue Mountains, New S. Wales.
(See also 177 . A. heteroclita, and 184. ^. Oswaldii).
** Thyllodia subteretia,
striato-plmînervia v. subenervia. Fetala Icec
17. A. coLLETioiDES, A, Cuufi. Benth.! in Rook. Land. Jourii.

; i. 336. Glabra.
Stipulge minimae v. 0. Phyllodia rigida, teretia vix compressa, f-lJ-poUicaria, striato-
v.
plurinervia. PeduncuU vix 2 lin. longi. Plores parvi. Sepala distincta, lineari-spathu-
lata. Legumen lineare, 2-2i lin. latum, marginibus non incrassatis. Semina lonî-
tw()iinsL\i2i.—Fl. Austral, ii.mh.
Muell
Bab. Extratropical Australia : desert interior of the eastern colonies.
18. A. STEIATULA, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i.

336. Rami minute puberuli
Stipulae minimiE y. 0. Phyllodia rigida, subrecurya, teretia y.
yix compressa, semipoHi
cana (y. iongiora ?), striato-plurineryia. Pedunculi S-l-lineares. Sepala distincta
Imeari-spathukta. Petala medio costata. Legumen
ignotum.-K. Amtral. ii. 326.
liah. fcouth-west Australia.
19. A. CAMPYLOPHYLLA. Benth ! in Linnaâ, xxyi. 605.

Glabra. Stipute setace^,
P^r°T
tral. ii.
'i
Pedunculi J-l-poUicares.
326
T 7""" '
Legumen
'^'""°"''
lineare,
"'""^' M-PoUicaria, striato-plurinervia
angustum, marginibus
gmibus elevatis.—
eleyatis J7. Aus
ITab. Soutb-west Australia. The specimens not perfect

20 A. TERETiroLZA, Benth ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 326. Glabra. Stipule sub
:pmescentes, pary«. caduca.. PhyUodia teretia, Mi-polhcaria. nb..„L .„..»,
mmus quam in afflnibus pungentia. Pedunculi phyllodiis breyiores.
spathulata. basi Sepahv linem'
tantum connata.Petala apice inera^sato-spathukta
lineare. 2-4-pollicare, tereti-subtetragonnm.-i?;.
Leg
Mitral, ii. 326
Sab. South-west Australia
21. A. SULCATA, S. Br. ! « Ait. Sort. Kew. ed. 3, v 460 Glah™ «r i

•
PhyUodia confert.. teretia.

phyllodiis
inrrapollicaria. ^..f^l.^^Z^^'-'lT^l
breyiores. Sepala lineari-spathulata ',^^. ""p^TIâ Leo:umen
planum, yalde flexuosum y. contortum. pollieaxe y. yix Wins T lin. latum. Bot
Mab. South-west Australia.
(See also 34. A. sphacelata,
and 23.2. A, aciphylla.)
— — 1
—
Acacia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 451

^^^ Fhyllodia linearia v. lanceolata, recurva, nervis ntrinque 2 stihmarginalibus crassis.
Stipule setacece v. spinescentes.
* * -
\
22. A. COSTATA, Benth. ! in HooJc. Lond. Journ. i. 339. Glabra v. pubescens saepe
spinescens. Stipulae setaceas, minutae. Phyllodia lanceolata, 2-4 lin. longa, marginihus
crassis nerviformibus. Pediinculi breves. Calyx alte et acute lobatus. Petala rigida,
striata. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Austral, ii. 327.
JSab. South-west Australia.
23. A. BARBiNERVis, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 32G. Laxe pubescens. Stipulu'
parvse, setacese, subpungentes. Phyllodia lineari-falcata, recurva, j-1-pollicaria, ninr-

ginibus elevatis nerviformibus. Pedunculi phyllodiobreviorcs. Calyx brevitcr dentatus.
Petala crassa, striata. Legumen ignotum. — Fl. Austral, ii. 327.
Hah. South-west Australia.
24. A. ATAXIPHTLLA, Benth. ! in Zinnwa, xxvi. 605. Rami acutanguli, eano-piiberuli,
mox glabrati. Stipulae parva?, setacese, subpungentes. Phyllodia lincari-subulata,flcxuosa,
acumine uncinato pungente, 1^2-polhcaria, prominente 2-nervia. Pedunculi vix semi-

poUicares. Calyx alte lobatus. Petala striata. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Austral, ii. 328.
25. A. Baxteri, Benth.! in' Boole. Bond. Journ. i. 327 (errors Bagsteri). Glabra.
Kami acutanguli. Stipulae setacese, caducse. Phyllodia lineari-oblonga v. lanceolata,
subfalcata, ^-l-pollicaria, marginihus v. nervis submarginalibus incrassatis. P

i'/
breves. Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata. Petala laevia. Legumen ignotum.—
Austral, ii. 328.
B[ab. South-west Australia.
C. Uninerves. Thyllodia utr'mque nervo v. costa suhcentrali percursa. Capitula
globosa.
* Betala striata.
26. A. AURONiTENS, Undl. ! Sw. Biv. App.- 15. Rami saepius hirtclli. Stipuhie
subpungentes. Phyllodia conferta, subsemipollicaria, Hncari-oblonga, costa

setace®,
nerviformibus. Pedunculi phyHodia suba-quantes.
suhcentrali, marginihus tenuiter
distincta. Legumen rectum, crassum, subpollicarc, 3 h"n. latum,
Sepala lineari-subulata,
maro'inibus latis la3vibus. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 328.

Muell Frafjni. Bhyt. Austral, iii. 127. Viscido-pubcnila
27. A. QUADRISULCATA, F. I
minutae. Phyllodia sparsa, angustc linearia, costa utrinque proini-

V. glabra. Stipula?
Pedunculi phyllodio brcviorrs. Sepala distincta,
nente, subtetragona, f-lipollicaria.
1-li-pollicare, fere 3 lin. hitum,
lineari-spathulata. Legumen rectiusculum, crassum,
hv^yihus.—Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 328.
marginihus latis
*» Petala l(Bma v. 1-costata nee striata, Flores plerique h-mevL
ERIOCLADA, Benth. ! in Zinncea, xxvi. 606. Kami saepius spinescentes, lanati,

28. A.
— — —
demum glabrati. Stipulse setaceEe, subspinescentes, caducse. Phyllodia oblongo-lan-
ceolata, semipoUice breviora, costa marginibusque nerviformibus prominentibus. Pedun-

culi 2-3 lin. longi. Sepala spatbulata, vix soluta. Legumen ignotum.— i^/. Austral.
a
ii. 329.
Hab. South-west F
Australia.
29. A siCTTLiFORMis, A. Cunn. I Benth. in Sooh

Lond, Journ. i. 337. Glabra. Sti-
pulse minutee. Phyllodia linearia v. lanceolata, |-lJ-pollicaria, 1-2 lin. lata, costa pro-
minula, marginibus vix incrassatis. Pedunculi i-J-pollicares. Sepala distincta, spatbu-

lata. Legumen stipitatum, planum, poUicem rarius excedens, 2J-3 lin. latum. M.
Austral, ii. 329. 4
A. Stuartiana, F. Muell. ! Benth. in Linnaa, xxvi. 609 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. t. 19 ; Dietr. PI. Univ.
t. 82.
Hah. Extratropical Australia, Eastern colonies and Tasmania.

30. A. PATENS, F. Muell, I ^ in journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 120. Glabra. Stipulae minutae.
Phyllodia lineari-lanceolata, ^-f-poUicaria, l-lj lin. lata. Pedunculi pbyllodio sub-
longiores. Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata. Legumen rectum, pollicare v. sublongius,
IJ lin. latum, inter semina contractum. Fl. Austral, ii. 329.
A, Maitlandi, F. Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, iii. 46. .
Hab. Tropical Australia, north-west coast.

31. A. LARiciNA, Meissn. ! in Pi. Freiss. i. 6. Rami cano-tomentosi. Stipulae setacese.
subspinescentes. Phyllodia anguste linearia, recurvo-patentia l-poU
costa utrinque prominula subtetragona. Pedunculi graciles, phyllodio breviores. Capi-
tula parva. Calyx breviter dentatus. Legumen Junius incurvum, angustum, utrinque
valde coRvex\im.—Fenth. Fl. Austral, ii. 330.
Hab. Soutli-west Australia.
TETEAGONOPHTLLA, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 121. Glabra. Stipulae
32. A.
minimaB. Phyllodia ad nodos fasciculata, lineari-subulata, |-l-pollicaria, rigida, utrinque
1-2-nervia. Pedunculi pbyllodiis subsequilongi. Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata.
Legumen valde curvum v. tortum, fere 3 lin. latum, marginibus incrassatis.— ^^wjfA. Fl-
Austral, ii. 330.
M
Hab, South-east Australia, desert interior.
33. A. GENiSTOiDES, A. Cuun, ! Benth. Fl. Austral, 330.

ii. Glabra, subspinescens.
Stipulae parva?, caducee. PhyUodia sparsa, lineari-subulata, pollicaria
v. lon-iora, costa
utrinque prominente. Pedunculi subsemipoUicares. Sepala distincta, lineari-^spathulata.
Legumen curvulum, 1-3-poUioare, 2|-3 lin. latum, valvis convexis.
'
34 A. SPHAC:.LATA, Benth. ! in Hooh. Lond. Journ. i. 338. Glabra y. pubescens.

Stipule mmuta,. PhyUodia Uneari-subulata, H-poUicaria.
_ utrinque 1-, rarius 2.nerTia
Pedunculi brevissimi. Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata,
apice spbacekta. Legumen
O notum. Fl. Austral, ii. 331
in Hook. Lond. Journ
retrorsa. Meissn
Hab. South-west Australia x1
—
Acada.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 453
35. A. INGHATA, JBenth. ! Fl. Austral, ii. 321. Glabra v. minute pubescens. Pliyl-
lodia divaricata v. reflexa, lineari-subiilata, basi subdilatata, semipollice breviora, costa
utrinqiie prominente. Pedunculi breves. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legumcn ignotum.
Mab. South-west Australia
86. A Spec. iv. 1049. Glabra v. pubescens. Pbyllodia di\

cata, lineari- subulata, semipollicem rarius excedentia, basi subdilatata, costa utrinqiie
prominente. Pedunculi phyllodiis sublongiores. Sepala spathulata, connata v. facile
solvenda. Petala costata. Legumen falcatum, planum, 1-2-pollicare, ad 2 b*n. latum.

Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 398; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 331.
Mimosa juniperinaj Yent, Jard. Malm, t. 64.
Mimosa ulicinay Wendl. Collect, i. 25^ t. 6.
Mimosa ulicifoliay Salisb. ? Prod. 324.

Acacia verticillata, Sieb. ! PI. Exs., non Willd.
A, echinula^ DC. Prod. ii. 449.
A.pungens, Spreng. Syst. iii. 134.
A. acicularis, R. Br. ! in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 460, non Willd.

A. pugimiformis, Wendl. in Flora, 1819, 139, non ejusd. Collect.
Brownei, DC. Prod. 449; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1333.

A. Steud. ; ii.
A. Arceuthos, Spreng. Syst. iii. 134.
Sab. Extratropical East Australia and Tasmania.
K^YKR^Q0iJ)^^,A.Cunn.!mField,NewS.Wale8,UZ. Glabra. Stipulse minutaj.

37. K.
longa, costa utrinque prominente, marghie
Phyllodia patentia, linear i-subulata, J-| poll,
angulato-glandulosa. Capitula subsessilia. Sepala spathulata, facile sol-
superiore basi
Austral, ii. 332.
venda. Legumen ignotum.— ^^«^7i. Fl.
Sab. Extratropical East Australia : Blue Mountains.
*** Fetala Icevia. Flores S(E])iu8 ^-meri v. S-fneri.
Vict. 37. Glabra v. pul

38. A .lA. F. Muell. I in Trans. Phil. Soc. i.
tcnuia, semipollicem rarms excedentia,

Stipule minute. PhyUodia lineari-subulata,
pbyllodio breviorcs. Sepala angustn.
costa utrinque prominente. Pedunculi tcnues,
1 -2-pollieare, f.-i-e 2 hn. latum,
distincta V. basi subconnata. Legumen rectum v. curvum,
valvis convexis. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 332.
Sab. South-east Australia : Victoria.
Glabra. Stipub' miuuta; Phvll

39. A. DIFFUSA, Lindl. I Bot. Beg. t. 634.
prominente. Pedunculi sem.pol he. bre-
^.-........., 1-li lin. lata, costa
|-l-pollic utrinque
s.pe3-4.Hl-an,
^ri Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen stipitatum,
2417; Bentk Fl. Austn.l.
latum, planum v. valvis demum convexis.-^.^. J^î/. t.
ii. 332.
A. prostrata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 631.
Bentli. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 337.
A. cuspidat'a, A. Cunn. !
Link Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 442.

A. genistifolia, !
Sab. South-eastern Australia and Tasmania.

PbvUodia linoarii
40. A. btjPICOLA,
-n nr
F.
77 f 7?^/7,
Muell. ! Benth.
/« TAvinrPn xxvi
lannaa, xxvi. 610.
vxv. Glabra.
vmu»
m
sublanceolata, semipollicem rarius excedentia, basi latiora quam in A. diffusa. Pcdi

li semipoUicares. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen 1-2-pollicare, ad 2 lin. latum
Dletr. Fl. Univ. t. 8 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 333.
Sah. South Australia.
Very closely allied to A. diffusa. The funicle of the seed is more dilated luto a broad aril but this
;
character may not be constant.
(See also the short-spiked specimens of 41. A. rhigiophylla, and 45. A. axillaris.)
D. Spicatse. Fhyllodia 1-S-nervia. Splcve cylindracem ohlongce v. rarius ovoidece

41. A. EHiGiOPHYLLA, F. Muell. ! BentJi. in Unncea, xxvi. 611. Glabra V. vix
viscido-puberula. Phyllodia linearia y. lineari-lanceolata, crassa, J-l-poUicaria,
utrinque
2-3-iierYia. Capitula subsessilia, oblonga v. subglobosa, pauciflora.
Calyx breviter
lobatus. Legumen ignotum.—5m^/i. Fl. Austral, ii. 333.
Rah. South Australia.
42. A. oxYCEDETJS, îeh. ! in DC. Frod. ii. 453. Ramuli pubescentes. PhyUodia
sparsa v. subverticiUata, Hneari-lanceolata,
i-l-poUicaria, utrinque 3-4-nervia. Spicje
densa^, subpolUeares, pedunculatae. Calyx obtuse lobatus. Legumen incurvum, ad
S-polUcare, 3 lin. latum, valvis convexis striatis.—
^w^^^^f, Fl. Austral, Bot. Mag.
t. 6 ;
2928 Beichb. Icon. Fxot. t. 120 ; Benth. Fl. Austral,

ii. 334
Sab. Extratropical East Australia and Tasmania
43. A. VEETiciiLATA, Wllld. Spee. iy. 1049, Hamuli sKpius pubescentes. Phyllodia
rfciciUata y. rarius sparsa. informa typica lineari-subulata, subsemipollicaria
y breyiora, .
longiora, costa utrinque promiuula additis

rarius nervis 1-2 lateralib Sp
dens^, cylindrace*, i-l-poUicares, rarius
breyiter oroidece, pedunculate.
Calyx breyiter
obatas. legumen rectum y. curyum, lJ-2.pomcare, 2 Iln. \înm.~Zodd. Bot. Cai.
t. 535 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 334.
Mimom verticillala, Lher. Sert. Angl. 30 ; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 63 Bot. Ma» t 1 in
W
Var. LATifOLiA. Phyllodia lanceolata v. oblonga.
A. ruscifolia, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst.
!
ii. 407 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3195
A. moBsta, Lindl. ! Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 67
irr ;^:,.rr !!"T *r,^-

Joum^^^-i^^^^^^ ovoiae., pauciao™.
44. A. KiCEANA, Sensl. ! i„ Muund, Botanist, t. 135. Glabra. Phyllodia smrsa y

subyert.cxllata, mearia v. subulata, l-li-poUiearia, utrinque
l-neryt SpierW
tenues, seepe pollicem escedentes.
Legumen s=Bpius euryum, 2-3-poUieare, li
Hores sa,pius 3 -meri Calyx brevif JJ
!"
^. , w
oonyexh-Benth. Fl. Austral. 1 335.
lin latum inter ,.
'''™"'^ contractum, yalyis
f
A. setigera, Hook. ! Ic. PL t. 316.
A. erythropus, Ten. Cat. Qrt. Nap.
77, ex char.
A. tacnfolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1225.
Sah. Tasmania.
45. A. AX...... Bentn. i„ ôo,. Land.
: Joum. , 341. Glabra. Phyllodia
A. Bioea..
— — — —
^cacia.^ MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEiE. 45^5
V. longiora, prseter costam nervis lateralibus tenuibus ssepe percursa. Spicse br

pauciflores, subsessiles. Caetera A. Biceanw.—Benth. FL Austral, ii. 335.
Sab. Tasmania.
Subseries 4. Calamiformes. Fhyllodia rarius mbnulla, scepins miguste linearia v.
suhulatay teretia tetragona v. leviter compressa, in caule articulata, ohtusa v. mucrone re-
curvo innocuo terminata, 1- v. plurinervia. Capitula glohosa, ad axillas solitaria v.
1)7
A. Subapbyllse. Fhyllodia nulla v.perpauca sub injlorescenlia tenuia ramulisqiie

similia.
TETBAGONOCAUPA, Meissn. I in FL Frelss. i. 4. Glabra. Rami tenucs, jnncei.

46. A.
Capitula ad nodos breviter peduiiculata, 3-4-flora. Peiala SLiiuta. Lcgumen sub2>ol-
licare, acutum, 2-3 lin. latum, marginibus utrinque angulo valdc promiuulo percursis,
acute tetragonum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 336.

Tetracheilos Meissneri, Lehm. PI. Preiss. ii.
! 368.
Sab. South-west Australia. )
47. A. RESTIACBA, Benth. ! in Sook. Bond. Journ. i. 323. Glabra. Rami tenues, juncei.
Capitula breviter racemosa, novella bracteis squamiformibus imbricatis caducissimis
obtecta. Petala Isevia. Legumen {ex Lehm) lineare, momliforme, valvis reticulatis.
Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 336.

Morren in Ann. Soc. Hort. Gand, iii. 209, t. 134, ex char, in Walp
Lindl.
restiaceus
B. Plurinerves. Fhyllodia nunc striato-% v. plurinervia^ nunc nervis numerosis ternds

simis vix oculo nudo conspicuis.
4<S. A. sq\JAMATA, Lindl. Sw. Biv.App. 15.

J Glabra. Rami juncei. Phyllodiapuuca,
tenuiter striata, ramulis similia, sub-2-pollicaria. Capitula ad axillas breviter raecmosa,
novella squamis imbricatis obtecta, singula 6-10-flora. Calyx et corolla ad annnlum
minimum reducta v. 0. Stamina numerosa. Legumen ignotum. Beulh. Fl. Austral
ii. 336 ; Sook. Lc. Fl. t. 367.
49. A. BEACHYPHYLLA, Benth. ! in Linncea, xxvi. 616. Rami lanato-pubcscent^^s v.
demum glabrati. Phyllodia lineari-teretia, semipollice breviora, striato-plurincrvia. Pe-

Legumen flexuosum, 1 -2-pollicare, planum, vix IJ lin. latum, marginibus
dunculi breves.
tenuiter nerviformibus. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 337.
Hab. South-west Australia.

50. A. Bynoeaxa, Benth. ! in Linncea, xxvi. 614. Laxe puberula. Phyllodia lineari-
apice recurva, rarius pollicem excedentia. Pedunculi 3-4

teretia, striato-plurinervia,
lin. longi. Calycis lobi angusti. Petala angusta. Legumen curvatum, planum, \ Ix
Fl. Austral, 337.

linea latins, marginibus incrassatis. ii.
XXX 3
—— —
BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Acam.

456 MR. G.
A. Jeptopliylla , F. Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, iv. 9.
Bah. Tropical Australia : north-west coast.
51. k..Y^\YYYG^K,¥.Muell.l Benth,Fl.Anstral.YS..Z^'\. Subglabra. Pliyllodia lincari-
subulata, 1^3-pollicaria, utrinque prominule 2-3-nervia. Pedunculi breves. Sepala
distincta, lineari-spathulata. Legumen ignotum.

Rob. South-west Australia.
52. A. LEPTONEURA, Beuth. ! in Hook. Lond. Joiirn. i. 341. Glabra v. rami canes-
centes. Phyllodia lineari-subulata, subteretia, sub-2-pollicaria, tenuissime multinervia.
Pedunculi breves. Sepala subdistincta, Kneari-spathulata. Legumen igaotum. Bot.
Mag. t. 4350 ; Benth. FL Austral, ii. 337.

Sab. South-west Australia \
. 53. A. RiGENS, A. Ounn. ! in G. Bon, Geii. Syst. ii. 403. Glabra v. minute cano-pu-
bescens. Phyllodia lineari-subulata, subteretia, 2-3-pollicaria, utrinque tenuiter 3-5-
nervia. Pedunculi brevissimi. Sepala spathulata, ad medium connata. Legumen
lineare, 1^ lin. latum, inter semina valde contractum. Benth. FL Austral, ii. 337.
A. chor dopTiylla , F. Muell. ! in Linnsea, xxvi. 612.
Hah. Extratropical East Australia, desert interior of the eastern colonies.

54. A. PAPYROCA RPA, Benth. ! Fl. Austral, ii. 338. Glabra v. minute cano-pubescens.
Phyllodia lineari-subulata, leviter compressa, 2-3-pollicaria, recurvo-acuminata, oculo
armato tenuissime multinervia. Legumen planum, flexuosum, 3-4-pollicare, 4-5 lin-
latum, valvis tenuibus.

Hab. South Australia, only seen in Herb. H. Brown.
C. TJninerves. Phyllodia utrinque 1-nervia v. enerma.

* Bhyllodia 1^-pollicaria et longiora.
55. A. PUGiONiPORMis, JVendl. Comm. Acac. 38, t. 9. Glabra. Phyllodia lineari-

subulata, 1^2-, rarius 3-pollicaria, acumine brevi recto, costa utrinque prominula sub-
tetragona. Pedunculi 2-3 rarius 5-6 liu, longi, 1-cephali. Sepala lineari-spathulata,
demum hbera. Petala costata. Legumen ignotum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 338.
A. quadnlat€raIis,'DC.\ Prod. ii. 451.
Hab. Extratropical East Australia. Said also to be found in Timor, but most likely
mistaken for the following species.
56. A. JUNciFOLiA, Benth. ! in Hook. Bond. Journ. 341. Glabra.
i. Phyllodia lineari-
subulata, subcompressa, 3-6-pollicaria, costa utrinque yix prominula.
Pedunculi vix
semipollicares, 1-cephali. Sepala lineari-spathulata, demum libera. Petala Isevia. Le-
gumen rectum, ssepe 3-4 poll, longum, li-2 lin. latum.— i^/. Austral, ii. 339.
A. pinifolia, Benth. ! in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 342.
Hab. Tropical Australia, north coast, and Eastern subtropical Australia. Also in
Timor ?
I*
57. A. CALAMiFOLiA, Sweet in Lindl. Bot. Beg.

! t. 839. Glabra sêpeque glauca.
Phyllodia lineari-subulata, 2-4-pollicaria, teretia
subcompressa, enervia y. utrinque v.
tenmter l-nervia. Pedunculi ssepius breyiter 3-4.cephaU.
Calyx breviter lobatus.
— — — — . —
Acacia.] MR. G. BENTHAM 457
Petala IsBvia. Legumen ssepius curvum, 5-6-pollicare, 2-2J lin. latum, inter semina
distantia valde contractum. Zodd. Bot. Cab. t. 909 ; J3enth. Fl Austral ii. 339.
A. pulverulenta, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 342.
A. Wilhelmiana. F. Muell. ! iu Trans. Pliil. Inst. Vict. i. 37, phyllodiis brcvioribus.
A. nematophylla, P. Muell. ! Benth. iu Linuaea, xxvi. 612, ex parte.
Hah. Extratropical Australia, desert interior of the eastern colonics.
A. canaliculata, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 164, name only, is probably either this species or tlic A. externa.
58. A. sciRPiFOLiA, Meism. ! in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 10. Glabra. Pliyllodia lineari-suLu-
lata, teretia v. leviter compressa, 3-5-pollicaria, utrinque obscure 1-nervia. Pedunculi
breves, l-cej)ball. Calyx truncatus. Legumen elongatum, ad 2 lin. latum, inter srminn
/ contractum, valvis duris convexis. Fl. Austral, ii. 339.
/
59. A. EXTENSA, Lindl.! Sic. Bic. App. 15. Glabra. Eami eloiigatl, acutissinio
angulati. Phyllodia lineari-subulata, brcvia v. pluripoUicaria, utrinque prominule

costata. Pedunculi 1-cephali v. breviter pleiocephali. Calyx truncatus. Legumen
elongatum, IJ lin. latum, inter semina contractum, valvis tenuitercoriacciij. Benth. Tl.
Austral, ii. 340.

A. graminea, Lehm. ! Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1842.
r
A. pentaedra, Regel^ Gartenfl. i. 228^ t, 24.
** Bhyllodia brevia rarius pollicem excedentia
60. A. GONOPHYLLA, Benth.! in Linn(sa, xxvi. 613. Glabra. Phyllodia linearia
curva, 1-1 J-pollicaria, costa utrinque acute prominente tetragona. Pedunculi 2-4-lineares
Calyx tenuis, sepalis demum solvendis. Legumen lineare, 2 lin. latum, inter semina sub
contractum. Benth. Ft. Austral, ii. 340.

BCab. South-west Australia.
61. A. EHiciFOLiA, Benth. I m Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 345. Glabra r. laxe hirteila
Phyllodia conferta, lineari-teretia v. subcompressa, |- r. rarius 1-poUicaria, .enervia v

^
obscure 1-nervia. Pedunculi breves. Sepala distincta, lincari-spathulata. Logumrr
Junius durum, subteres, maturum ignotum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 340.
A. Hookeri, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 1 2.

in Zinnaâ, xxvi. 613. Glabra v. junior minute puberula
62. A. TJNCINELLA, Beiith. !
lineari-subulata, subteretia, basi attenuata quasi pctiolata, vix polUcaria, un )

Phyllodia
1-3-nervia. Pedunculi 2-4 lin. longi. Sepala distincta, Uncari-spathulata
latere obscure
ad lin. latum, inter semina contractum.— i^. Austral ii. 341.
Leo-umen lineare, IJ
Benth. Fl. Austral, 341. Glabra, ramis sajpe spines-
63. A. OXYCLADA, F. Muell. ! ii.
Phyllodia lineari-teretia v. subcompressa. 3-4 Hn. lon-a, uno latere obscurf

centibus.
basi attenuata quasi petiolata. Plorcs ignoti. Legimien flexuosum, pel
1-3-nervia,
licare, 1^ lin. latum.
3o2
— — —
458 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [Acnck.
The habit is that of the Uninen'es Spinescentes ; hut the phyllodia are almost terete
(See also 147. A. subulata, which has almost the phyllodia of the Calami/ormes.)
Subseries 5. Brunioidese. Fhyllodla parva, lincan-suhulctta {excepta A. coiiferta), ver-

ticillata v. cotiferta, ohtiisa v. innocue mucronata. Capitula glohosa, ad axillas pedun-
mdata.
64. A. CEDKOIDES, Benth. ! in Linnoeay xxyi. 615. Rami villosuli. Phyllodia in ver-
ticillo plurima, lineari-subulataj tetragonaj }-l-pollicaria, rigidula, subpungentia. Pedun-
culi 2-4 lin. longi. Calyx obtuse lobatus. Petala laevia. Legumen curvum, 1^2-
pollicare, ad 2 lin. latum, valyis duris striatis, marginibus latis laevibus. Fl. Austral.
ii. 341. 1
^
I

65. A. LYCOPODii'OLiA, A. Cunn. ! in Rook. Ic.Pl. 1. 172. Rami villosuli. Phyllodia
1-2 rarius 3 lin. longa, apice recurva, viscido-mucronata.
in verticillo plurima, subulata,
PeduncuH pliyllodio longiores. Calyx acute dentatus. Petala striata. Leûmen sessile
planum, rectum v. curvum, 1-lJ-pollicare, 2-3 lin. IsLtum.—Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 342.
A. asperulacea, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 123.
Hah. Tropical Australia, north-west coast.
66. A. HiPPTJROiDES, Reward! Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. i. 344. Piibescens.

Phyllodia in verticillo plurima, tenuiter subulata, 5-6 lin. longa, recta. Pedunculi
phyllodio longiores. Calyx dentatus. Petala striata. Legumen sessile A. lycopodifolm.
Fl. Austral, ii. 342.
Rah. Tropical Australia, north-west coast.
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67. A. OALioiBES, Benth. ! in Hook. Bond. Journ. 344.

i. Pubescens v. tomentosa.
Phyllodia in verticillo plurima, tenuiter subulalâ, 2-5 lin. longa, vix striata, apice
recm-va, non viscida. PeduncuH phyllodio longiores. Calyx dentatus. Petala striata.
Legumen stipite 2-3-Kneari fultum. FL Austral, ii. 342.
Hah. Tropical Australia, north coast.
68. A. Baueei, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. 344.

Kamulis puberulis, ca?teruin
i.
glabra. Phyllodia in verticillo 5-7, lineari-subulata, 4-6 lin. longa,

enervia, apice
recurva. Pedunculi phyllodio sublongiores
Calyx acute dentatus. ^Petala costlta nee .
striata. Legumen falcatum, utrinque angustatum, 1^-2 lin. latum,

valvis duris striatis.
FL AustraL ii. 342.
Hob. Tropical Australia, north coast.
69. A. SUBTEUNATA, F MueU. ! in Journ. Binn. Soc. iu.

124. Glabra Phyllodia
^3-4natim fascicukta, linearUeretia v. subcompressa,
3-6 lin. longa, apice recurva.
Pedunculi vix phyUodns longiores. Sepala lineari-spathulata,
basi connata. Petala
tenuiter striata. Legumen longe stipitatum,
planum cras^jnm Ai^^.^^
' i*^"^^^^ ^^^ssum, durum, margmibus crassis,
-r.
•
.rÛric -ur -J -n ^j -n,

4. J'
valvis oblique stnatis. Benth. FL AustraL ii. 343.
Rob. Tropical Australia, north-west coast.
70. A. BRUiîoiDES, A. Cunn. I in G. Bon, Gen Sn^f ii aâ oi i
bescens. Phyllodia conferta """"'' ^^"

"'
v. uieûiantei
irre^ûlariter VertiSli f^^""
•
verticiUata, i
hneari-teretia, 2-4 lin. lonsa,
— — — —
recte mucronata. Pedunculi phyllodio longiores. Calyx obtuse lobatus. Petala Isevia,
costata. Legumen ignotum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 343.
£[ab. Subtropical East Australia.
71. A CONFEUTA, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in HooL Lond. Journ. i. 345. Bami leviter pube-
ruli. Phyllodia conferta v. irregulariter verticillata, linearia, compressa, 3-5 lin. longa,
\-\ lin. lata,' enervia v. marginibus subnerviformibus. "Pedunculi pbyllodiis longiores.
Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata. Legumen stipitatum, planum, glaucum, 1-1 J-polli-
care, ad 5 lin. latum, Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 343.
Hah. Subtropical East Australia.
Subseries 6. Uniner\res. Fhyllodia verticaliter compressa, nunc angmta obtusa c,
breviter et oblique acuminata, nunc lata ohtusa acuta v. rarius pungentia, casta central? c.
submarginali percursa, rarius 2-nei-'via. Capitula glohosa, ad axillas pedunculata v, hi
racemos breves axillares disposita.
A. Spinescentes. Frutices rigidi, ramis apice spinesceullbns. Fhjllodta parva, scepius

angusta, nee pungentia nee margine glandulifera. Stipulm scepius minvf<r v. 0. Fcdun-
cult 1-cephali.
w
72. A. SCABEA, Benth. I in LinmBa, xxvi. 605. Scabro-pubescens. Phyllodia lincari-
oblonga, obliqua, obtusa v. apice recurva, semipollicaria, 1-2 lin. lata. Pedunculi pbyl-
lodio aequilongi. Calyx obtuse lobatus. Legumen immaturura planum, liuearo, mar-
arinibus nerviformibus incrassatis. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 344.

73. A. NODIFLOEA, Benth. I in Linncea, xxvi. 621. Subglabra. Phyllodia ad nodes
fasciculata, linearia, obliqua, obtusa, rarius semipollicem excedentia, ad 1 lin. lata.
Pedunculi pbyllodio aequilongi. Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata. Legumen ignotum.

in Zimicsa, xxvi. 621. Glabra. Phyllodia lineari-ndcai a,
74.A. SPiNOSissiMA, Benth. !
mucronulata, 2-3 lin. longa, infra lineam lata, obscure l-nervla. Pedunculi
obtusa V.
Calyx truncatus. Legumen stipitatum, lineare, planum, l?,-2
phyllodio subcequilongi.
Fl. Austral, 344.
lin. latum, marginibus nerviformibus. ii.

Meissn. in PI. Brelss. ii. 202. Glabra. Phyllodia linearia, obtu-a v.
75. A. TJLiciNA,
mucronulata,subpollicariaT.ramealiamulto minora. Pedunculi breves. Calyx obtuse
Hn. latum, inter scmina contrnctum.—i^t^y////.

lobatus. Legumen lineare, flexuosum, 1-H

Hook. Lond. Journ. 360. Glabra. Phyllodia oblique
76 A. ERiNACEA, Benth. in i.
obtusa v. mucronulata, 3-5 lin. longa, 1-2 lin. lata, cra-

obovato-oblonga v. lanceolata,
1-nervia. Pedunculi 2-^4 lin. longi. Calyx truncatus. Legumen ig-
siuscula, obscure
notum.— jP/. Austral, ii. 345.
460 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.. [âtc/d.
B. Armatae. Frutices suffruticesve ramis lion spinescentihtis v. rar'uts h'luc inde indurato
stihspinescentibus. Fhyllodia ex ohovato lanceolataj brevia i\ rarlus sesquipoUicaria^ itndw
lata, costa subcentfali, glandula marginall minuta v. 0. Stipuhf seepius aetaceo-subulatai v
aciculares, persistenteSj 7'arms phyllodinecB. JPeduncuWl-cepJialL
* Calyx mininms v. 0.
77. A. HuEGELii, Benth. / in Kueg, Enum. 42. Hirsuta. Phvllodia falcato-seraiovata

i-j-poUicaria, 2-5 lin. lata, pungenti-mucronata. Stipulae setaceo-spinescentes. Petala
liirsuta. Legumen lineare, falcatum, poUicare, 2 lin. latum, marginibus nerviformibus
Sueg. Bot. Archiv, t. 10 ; Befith. FL Atistrcd. ii. 345.'
Sab. South-west Australia. 4
78. A. ^-EEVOSA, D C. Mem. Leg. 444. Glabra. Kami acutanguli. Phyllodia late lan-
ceolata, falcata, mucronato-acuta, l-l^-poUicaria. Capitula pauciflora. Petala 4, glabra.
Legumen 'i^noiwon.—Field et Gardn, Sert. Bl. t. 4 ; Benth. FL Austral, ii. 346.
79. A. OBOVATA, Benth. I in Rook. Bond. Journ. i. 329. Scabro-pubescens. Rami
angulato-striati. Phyllodia inferiora obovata, obtusa, l-lj-pollicaria, superiora late
falcata, acuta v. pungentia, omnia costa marginibusque
nerviformibus prominentibus
pennivenia. Capitula pauciilora. Petala 4, ^^^^^^.
glabra. Lesrumen
j^v>j3 i^notum.— i^^. Austral
lixiiVix ig
ii. 346.
I
** Calyx
dimidium corollce ceqimns v. superans. Petala 5, glabra
80. A. CONGBSTA, Benth. in Hook. Land. Journ.
! i. 327. Glabra. Eami spinescentes.
Phyllodia oblique ovali-oblonga y. falcato-lanceolata, obtusa v. acuta, J-f-pollicaria.
Stipulse breves, subspinescentes. Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata. Legumen lineare,
curviun, crassiusculum, inter semina contractum.— i^^. Austral, ii. 346.
A. Baxteri, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 7, non Benth.
Eab. South-west Australia.
81. A. DEEMATOPHYLLA, Benth. ! Fl. Austral ii. 346. Glabra. Phyllodia oblongo.
cuneata, subfalcata, |-lfpollicaria, rigida, crassa. Stipute subulata^, spinescentes.
bepala subdistmcta, lineari-spathulata.
Legumen ignotum.
Bab. South-west Australia.
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^' '" ^^^'''- ^''^ ^''^'^- "• '^^^-

v^\
Phyllodia^'ir*' ^rf
oblique oblongo-linearia v. anguste
faleata,
Scabro-pubescens et viscida.
M-polliearia, v. rarius longiora.
!™ TT T\
curvum, glanduloso-hispidum,
1 ^T'"
1-2-nollicarp ad 9
'^''''''^''' ^'"^ ""'"-^^
<^°-^-t-
Iit.
^
i^v.^ •
""' '°'"''
.
Legumeu
.
'''^'^ eontraetum
lineal.,
Senth. Ft. Mitral, ii. 347.

Axisfi
Journ. i. 362, phyUodiis anûsti

Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 183, non Link (phylMi,
densifolia
Mab. Extratropical Australia

: barren interior of the
eastern colonies
• -
83. A., AUMATA. i2. Br. ! in Ait. Sort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 463. Pubescenti-hirta v. gla-
brata. Phyllodia oblique oblonga v. falcato-lanceolata, ssepius obtusa, |— 1-pollicaria,
valde undulata. Stipulce subulatae, spinescentes. Caljx obtuse lobatus. Legumen
rectum v. curvum, lJ-2-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum, continuum, molliter villosum hispidiiin
V. rarius glabratum. Bonpl. Jard. Malm. t. 55 ; Bot. Mug. 1. 1653 ; Lodd. Bot. Cah.
t. 49 ; Benth. Ft. Austral, ii. 347.
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A.furcifera, Lindl. ! in Mitcli. Three Exped. ii. 2G7.
Sab. Extratropical Australia: interior of the eastern colonies extcuuing westward to
Murcbison River, but wanting probably in the extreme south-west, tlie real station of
Baxter's specimen marked King George's Sound being very doubtful.

The following forms^ -with longer and narrower phyllodia, are mostly, and perhaps all, of fâi'dcu oi'igin,
and most of them probably hybrids between A. armata and other cultivated spi ( Ics.
A.paradoxa, DC. Cat. HoH. Monsp. 74; Prod. ii. 4-49.

A. undulata, Willd. Enum!*^Jort. Berol. Suppl. G8; Weiidl. Connn. Acac. t. 3; Bot. llcg. t. 848;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 753 ; Reichb.''Ic. et Dcscr. PI. t. 89.
A.ornithophora, Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 24; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1 IHO.
A. hybrida, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1342.
A. micracantha, Dietr. in Allgem. Gart. Zcit. i.* 83.
A. tristis, Grab. in Bot. Mag.! t. 3120.
in JTook. Loud. Journ. 320. Molliter A'illosa.

84. A. iDiOMOiiPHA, A. Cimn. ! Beyith. ! i.
Eami sa^pe spinescentes. Phyllodia late ct oblique ovata, mucronato-pungentia, scnii-
pollicaria. Stipula3 spinescentes, recurvae. Legumen i^noiwm.— Be nth. Fl. Austral ii. 34f^.
Sab. Soutb-west Australia : Dirk Hartog's Island.
*** Calijx dimidium corolla cBqtians v. superans. Betala 5, hirsida.
in Fl. Freiss. llirsuta. rhyllodia oblique

85. A. Shuttlewouthii, Meissn.! i. 7.
crassa, basi obtusa, i4-pollicaria. Stipnlae minimal, intcrdum^

lateque ovata v. orbiculata,
Calyx lobatus. Legumen crasso-coriaccum, scabro-
spinescentes. Pedunculi brevissinii.
orbiculare v. oblongum, ad 3 lin. latum, l-2-spcrmum.-i?ew//^ FL Amtral.

pubescens,
ii. 348.
Fragm. Fhytogr. Austral, iii. 47. Molliter pubcsccns.
86 A. Geegorii, F. Muell. !
basi contracta, i-|-pollicaria. Stipulrr pnrvee, e lain basi

Phyllodia obovata v. oblonga,
Legumen ignotum.--^r'/////.. Fl. Austral, ii. 348.
acuminatse, persistentes. Calyx lobatus.
SaL Tropical Australia : north-west coast
mZinncva,xxyl GOT. Hu-suta. Phylloilla obliqu.- obovafa v.

87 A TihOSA, Benth I
Calyx
basi contracta, f-l-pollicaria. Stipulie setacca, subspinesccntcs.
late oblon-a, ,
hispidum, planum, oligospermnm.-77. J.^trol.
lobatus. Legumen Junius oblongum,
ii. 348.
606. Hirsuta. Phyllodia falcato-obionga,
88 A. CEISPULA, Benth. ! in Zinnca, xxvi.
contracta, cmssiûscula. Stipulne sctaccie T.
semipoUicaria, 1-1* lin. lata, basi
obtusa,
ignotum.-lT Avstral u. 349.
spinescentes. Calyx lobatus. Legumen
' —
462 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiB. liAcacia.
89. A. CRASSisTiPULA, Beuth. ! in SooJc. Lond, Journ, i, 32G. Hirsuta. Phyllodia

oblongo-linearia, falcata, apice incurva v. uncinata, -J-^-polHcaria. Stipulaj pbyllodiis
conformes nisi minores. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen ignotum. Fl, Atistral.
ii. 349.
This species is remarkable for its stipules. In other respects the last four species are very
to each other.
C. Triangulares. Frutices rigidi inter dvm spinescentes. Fhyllodia parr a , rigida,

costa swpius margini inferiori approximata, margine superiore rotmidato v. angulato ad
angiilum Sispissime glandulifer o . Stipulce variant spinescentes suhidatce v. minuta.
PeduncuU 1-cephali.
* Fhyllodia
pungenti-acundnata, margine superiore infra medium angulato
90. A. HASTULATA, Sm. Mees Cijcl. xxxix. Suppl. Eami pubescentes v. glabrati.
! in
Phyllodia hastato-lanceolata, 2-3 lin. longa, costa subeentrali. Stipulce
setacese. Flores
in capitulo 3-5 (ssepius 4), 4-meri, glabri. Legumen lineare, subteres, striatum, 1-2-poI-
licare, vix linea latius, glabmm y. pilosulum.—ô^. Mag. t. 3341 ; Benth. Fl. Austral.
ii. 349.
Rah. South-west Australia.

91. A. HORRIDTJLA, Melssn. ! in Freiss. i. 9. Pubescens. FL
Phyllodia oblique
ovato-lanceolata v. lanceolata, 3-4 Hn. longa, costa
subcentraH. Stipule setaceê. Flores
in capitulo 3-5 (sgepius 4), 4.meri, dense villosi.
Legumen Junius pubescens.—^^â.
, 92. A. DiVERGENS, Fenth. ! in SooJc. Lond. Journ. 331.

i. Glabra v pubescens Phyl-
lodia triangularia y. 2.1oba, 2-4 lin. longa, costa margini inferiori
*
approximata. Plores
m capitulo 8-12, 4-meri, glabri. Legumen i^noivim.—B enth. FL AustraL ii 350
A. voMERiFORMis, A. Cwm. I Benth. ! in Rooh.
93.
Lond. Journ i 332 Glabra v
pubescent. PhyUodia oblique lanceolata y. late
^ triangularia y. 2-loba, 2-4 lin. longa,
costamargmi mferiori contigua. Plores in capitulo numerosi,
s^pius 5-meri, glabri.
Legumen Imeare, planum, glabrum, ad 2 lin. latum, inter
semina contractum.-W.
FL Umvers. t. 82 ; Benth. FL AustraL ii. 350.
A. Gunnii, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 332 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 1. 18
-H"«6. Extratropical East Australia and Tasmania
T
par^m produola, marg^n. superê .uj,ra mediuM angulato s.piueaue
glanduUfero.
91 A. BIPLORA, B. Br. in Ait. Sort.
1 Kew ed <? v j.R-i t> i,
Phyllodia triangularia. 3-4, rariu. j' " '""^ ="'"'"
6 X.^Z^^ tsl
Flores in capitulo 2, rariuss 3-4
. rf-4, 4-men.
4-meri Tf approximata
Legumen subsemipoUicare, li-2
,
^""^
lin. latum
"''^'"''"
— — —
^c^^â-l MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 463
utrinque angustatum, marginibus incrassato-nerviformibus. — Wendl. Comm. Acae. t. 2

BeicJih. Ic. et Descr. FL t. 12 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 351.
A. triangularis, Bentli. ! in Hueg. Enum. 42. .
Hab. Soutli-west Australia.
95. A. DECiPiENS, F. Br. ! in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 3, v. 463. Glabra v. parce hirsuta.
Phyllodia triangularia v. subtrapezoidea, 4-8 lin. longa et apice vix longitudine ari'-'us-
tiora, costa margini inferiori approximata. Elores in capitulo 6-10, 4-meri. Legumen
incurvum, crassum, durum, 1-2-pollicare, 1-1^ lin. latum, acuminatum, basi contractum.
Bot. Mag. t. 1745, 3244; Beichb. Ic. et Dcscr. Fl t. 12, 88; Benth. Fl. Austral
ii. 35L
Mimosa decipiens, Kon. in Sims Ann. Bot. i. 366, t. 8.
Acacia dolabriformis, CoUa ! Hort. Ripul. 1.
A. incrasssata, Hook. ! Ic. PI. t. 370,

A. biflora, Paxt. Mag. ix. 221, cum ic. non Br.
ITab. South-west Australia.
96. A. CUNEATA, Benth.! in Hueg. Enum. ^2. Glabra v. laxc hirsuta. Phyllodia
quam longa, costa
oblongo-cuneata, ^l-pollicaria, apice truncata et multo angustiora
parum excantrica. Elores in capitulo 8-15, plerique 4-meri. Legumen curvum, hir-
sutum, 2-3-pollicare, ad 2 lin. latum, marginibus incrassatis. Benth. Fl Ati^f/'ftl
yi. 351.
Bâb. South-west Australia.
97. A. DiLATATA, Benth. ! in lAnnceay xxvi. 608. Molliter pubescens. Phyllodia late
triangulari-cuneata, -|-f-pollicaria, costa margini inferiori approximata, angulo marginivS
superioris obtuso ssepius eglanduloso. Elores in capitulo ad 20, 5-meri, hispiduli. Calyx
anguste lobatus. Legumen ignotum.
F
Fl Austral ii. 352.
Mab, South-west Australia.
98. A. BLDENTATA, Benth. ! in HooJc. Bond. Journ. i. 333. Rami puboscentes v.
rarius glabrati, interdum spinescentes. Phyllodia obovata v. cuneato-oblonga, 2-4 v.
rarius 6 Hn. longa, costa margini inferiori approximata, angulo marginis superioris
rotundato v. rarius acuto, apicem phyllodii saepe excedente. Flores in capitulo 8-15,
glabri, 4-5-meri. Calyx minimus. Legumen valde curvum v. tortum, lineare, 1-1 \
lin. latum. Fl Austral ii. 352.

99. A. ACANTHOCLADA, F. Muell ! Fragm. Fhytogr. Austral iii. 127. Pubescens
V. glabrata, ramis saepe spinescentibus. Phyllodia anguste cuneata, 2-4 lin. longa, costa
margini inferiori approximata, angulo marginis superioris rotundato. Flores in capi-
tulo 8-15, glabri. Calyx minimus. Legumen i^noiVLm.~Benth. Fl Austral ii. 352.
perhaps only a narrow-lcaved variety of

Hab. South and South-west Australia;
A. bide n tat a.
three species of the followinff Brevifolia, which sometimo! resemble some of the
(See also the first
nown
VOL. XXX.
3
— —
4.64 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Acada.
Frutices non spinescentes Fhi/llodia nunc late ovata v.falcata

D. Brevifolise. .
\gusie oblotiga v. linearia, pleraque polUce Ireviora, ohtusa mucronata

undulata et Stipules mmut(E v. 0. PedmctiU 1-cephah
* Sepala distincta, lineari-spathnlata.
100. A. OBLiQUA, A. Cunn.! BentJi. in Booh. Land. Joum. i. 334. Glabra v. Icviter
piibescens. Ramuli subteretes. Phyllodia oblique obovata v. orbiculata, J-J-pollicaria,

minute recurvo-mucronata, costa margini inferiori appr oximat a . Capitula 8-15-flora.
Legumen lineare, tortum, lJ-2 lin. Mxnn.—Benth. Fl. Austral ii. 353.
in
A. rotmdifolia, Hook. ! Bot. Mag. t. 4041 ; Paxt. Mag. v. 123, cum ic.
Sab. Extratropical East Australia : desert interior.
101. A. ACiNACEA, Idndl. ! in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 267. Glabra. Kamuli sub-
teretes. Phyllodia oblique oblonga v. subfalcata, rarius semipollicem excedentla,

F
minute recurvo-mucronataj costa parum excentrica. Capitula 1-20-flora. Legumen

lineare, curvum v. tortum, 1^2 lin. latum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 353.
A. Latrobei, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 10.
Hab. South and South-east Australia.

102. A. LiNEATA, A. Cunn. ! in G. Don, Gen. S^st. ii. 403. Eami subteretes, pubes-
centes v, villosi. Phyllodia linearia, mucrone parvo recurvo, semipollicaria v. pauUo
longiora, costa margini inferiori approximata. Capitula 10-15-flora. Legumen lineare,
curvum v. tortum, lJ-2 lin. latum. Bot. Mag. t. 3346 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 353.
A. runciformis, A. Cunn. ! in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404.
A. dasyphylla, A. Cunn. !
; Benth.. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 359.
A. imbricata, P. Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, i. 5, ii. 177.
Hab. Extratropical East Australia ; desert interior.
103. A. TuiQUETEA, Benth. I in HooJc. Lond. Journ. i. 358. Glabra. Rami acutantfuli.
o
Phyllodia linearia, pleraque poUice breviora, costa subcentrali. Elores in eapitulo i
merosi, parvi. Legumen curvum, 2-3-pollicare, IJ lin. latum, marginibus incrassatis,

A. Meissneri, var. angustifolia , Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 13.

104. A. LiGTJSTRiNA, Meissn. in Fl. Freiss.
! ii. 203. Glabra. Rami acutanûli.
PhyUodia oblique lauceolata, ssepe pollicem excedentia, apice basique costa
contracta,
parum excentrica. Plores in eapitulo numerosi, parvi. Legumen i^noixxm.—Benth. Fl
Austral ii. 354.
-nf
105. A. Meissneri, Zehm. I Del. Sem. Eort. Bmib. 1842. Glabra,

sspeque glauca
Ramuli acutanguli. PhyUodia oblique obovato-oblonga v.
subcuneata, i-1-pollic
conacca, costa subcentrali, marginibus non incrassatis.
Legumen elon-atum,
o 3-4
latum, planum, marginibus tGnuihns.—Benth. Fl
Austral ii. 354
Hub. South-west Australia.
(See also 71. A. conferta.)
— — —
^cada.;\ MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE 46

** Sepala {excepta A.
dura) in calycem dentatum cociUta.
106. A. ANCEPS, D C. ! MSm. Leg. 446. Glabra saepeque glauca. Rami acutangiil
Phyllodia late ovata oblonga, lata basi affixa et semiarticulata, subdecurrentia, lo
v. —
poUicaria, rigida, costa subcentrali. Plores in capitulo numerosi. Legumen stipitatiim,
rectum, planum, ad 1\ poll, longum, J poll. Idiivim.—Benth. Fl. Austral li. 355.
A. Muelleri, Benth. in Linnsea,
! xxvi. 603.
lldb. Soutli Australia.
107. A. HiSPiDULA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1054. Scabro-liispidula. Phyllodia late faloatn,
^-f-pollicaria, 2-3 lin. lata, apice basique acuta, costa subcentrali, marginibus ncivi-
formibus scabro-subdenticulatis. Legumcn ovatum 1-spermum, v. oblongum 2-spormMm,
4 lin. latum ; crasso-coriaceum, marginibus non elevatis. Hook. Ic. PL 1. 161 ; Lodd.
JBot. Cab. t. 823 ; Benth. M. Austral, ii. 355.
Mimosa hispidula, Sm. ! Bot. Nov. Holl. 59, 1. 16.
Sab. Extratropical East Australia.
108. A. TJNDULiFOLiA, A. Cunu. I m G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 40i. Olnbra jmbcsfH-ns
V. birsuta, ramulis floridis elongatis pendulis. Phyllodia ovaia v. suborbicularin. siib-
petiolata, subsemipollicaria, rarius diraidio minora v. majora, coriacca, costa subcentrali

pennivenla, marginibus nerviformibus. Logumon vix stipitatum, longinsculum, 7-9 lin.
latum, planum, margine nerviformi. Bot. Mag. t. 3394; Lodd. Bot. Coh.X. 1514;
Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 282 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 355.
A. uncinafa, Lodd. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1. 1332.
A. piligera, A. Cunn. ! in Bot. Mag. sub n. 3394.

A. setigera, A. Cunn. ! in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1G6.
A. sertiformis, A. Cunn. ! in Bot. Mag. sub n. 3394 : Hook. Ic. PI. 1. 159.
A. dysophylla, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 346.
A. plagiophylla, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 131 ?
Kab. Extratropical East Australia.

109. A. FLEXiFOLiA, A. Cunn. I Benth. in Hook. Loud. Journ. i. 359. Minute cano-
tomenteUa. Phyllodia linearia, obtusa, i-j-pollicaria, infra mndium s;epiu.s infloxn vi
impresso-glandulifera, costa margini inferior! approximata. Florcs in capitulo G-IO,

Benth. Austral, ?')^.
parvi. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen i^noiwm.— Fl. ii.

in Zinnaa, xxvi. 622. Glabra. Phyllodia
110. A. DURA, Benth. !
cuneata, obtusa, fpollicaria v. paullo longiora, infra medium sa^pius inllcxn et ini]
capitulo 6-10. Sepala distincta, spall

landulifera, costa prominula. Flores in
Leo-umen igrnotum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 356

O"'"^" -j3
356. Glabra v. Icîter pulx
HI A SPATHULATA, F. Miwll. !Benth. Ft. Austral ii.
oblongo-spathulato, 4-8 lin. longa, obtusissima, crass

ns. PhyUodia Uneari-cuneata v.
Legumen oblongo-lincare, pi
enervia. Elores in capitulo numerosa.
durum, l-l|-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum.
Sab. Tropical and extratropical West Australia.

some of 155. A. brachybotrya.)
{See also 113. A. montana, and varieties
. — —
466 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [AcacUi.
E. Angustifoliae. Frutices v. arhores non s^pinescentes . ^hyllodia ohlongo-lanceolaU

V. Imearia, interdum falcafa, costa mbcentrall v, rarlus Mnervia, j)ollice plerumque Ion
giora et interdum plunpolUcaria. Stipulce minutes v. 0, v. rarim {in A. Sentis et A. den
tifera) breviter suhulato-spinescentes. Pedunculi 1-cephali,
* Fedmiciili brevissimi, rarms J poll, excedentes.
112. A. MiCEOCAEPA, F. Muell. 1 Fragm. Fhytogr. Austral, i, 6. .Glabra v. partes

novellae sericeo-argentese v. aurese. Phyllodia oblongo-linearia v. lineari-lanceolata, 1-lJ-
rarius 2-pollicaria, Isevia, costa vix prominula. Capitula multiflora. Scpala anguste
lineari-spathulata, distincta. Legamen lineare, curvu.m v. tortum, 2-3-pollicare, vix 1|
lin. latum, inter semina contractum. Benth. Ft. Austral, ii. 357.
Sab. Extratropical East Australia, desert interior.
113. A. MONTANA, Benth. I in EooJc. Bond. Joum. i. 360. Eesinoso-viscosa, ramis

pubescentibus. Pbyllodia oblonga v. late linearia, obtusa, nunc l-l^-poUicaria et 2-3
lin. lata, nunc multo minora, saepissime 2-nervia. Capitula multiflora. Sepala in calycem
lobatum saepius connata. Legumen dense tomentosum, l~2-pollicare, ad 2 lin. latum,
inter semina continuum. Fl. Austral, ii. 357. r
A. clavata, SchlecLt. ! in LinnaRa^ xx. 662.

Hah. Extratropical East Australia, desert interior.
114. A. VERNiciFLUA, A. Cunu. in Field, New

I S. Wales. 3M. Resinoso-viscosa,
glabra. PhyUodia oblonga y. lineari-lanceolata, saepius falcata et
acuta, 2-4-pollicaria,
2.nervia v. rarius l-nervia. Capitula multiflora. Calyx breviter lobatus.' Legumen
Imeare, pubescens, 2-3 lin. ]îum.^Bot. Mag. t. 3266 ; Benth. Fl. Austral ii. 358.
A graveolens, A.Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii.404; Bot. Mag.
!
t. 3279; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1460.
A. virgata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1246.
A emdans, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 214; Dietr. Fl. Univ.
!
t. 83 {phyUodiis latioribus).
Mab. Extratropical East Australia and Tasmania.
115 A. LEPROSA, Sieh. On DC. Frod. ii. 460. Viscidula.

ca^terum glabra. PhyUodia
Imean-knceolata, basi contracta, li-S-pollicaria, costa
subcentrali, venulis tenuissimis.
Ca^>ttula multiiiora. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen falcatum v. rarius rectum,
hueare. 2-2^ Ln. Uiyxm.-Bot.Meg. t. 14il {ie. mWMa) .-Benth . Fl. Austral ii. 358.
A. rechnata, V. Muell. ! First Gen. Rep. 12.
Hah. Extratropical East Australia.
'" ''''• ^'^'^^' ^^ î^--- ^VUodia

obJusa t4T-T f'f
t"' ''"• '^'^' '"'"^''^^
linearia,
v^2^' Y"tt"" 'rf'^n''' -«*- subcentrali, reticulate-

r™
Zm7\ rl Z::
"•
J;''
7^—-^-^^.
Bodd. Bot. Cab. t. 99 ? ; Benth.
"'^'f
"^^'^^ ^'^"^^ ^^^^^-«-
Ic. et Bescr. Bl.
I^«g--en elongatum, li-2î
t. 90 iêncuLe negleâ)
Fl. Austral, ii. 358
Mimosa stHcta, Andr. Bot. Rep. i. 53 Bot. ; Mag. 1. 1121.
Wendl. Comm
Bab. Extratropical East Australia
and Tasmania
— — —
** Fedunculi plerique subsemipollicares v. longiores.
117. A. DODONîPOLiA, Willd. ! JEnmn. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 68. Eesinoso-viscosa

caeterum glabra. Phyllodia oblongo-linearia v. lanceolata, 2-4-pollicaria, costa subcen-
trali, venulis reticiilatis paucis prominulis. Capitula multiflora. Calycis lobi breves
crassi. Legumen elongatum, subplanum, rectum v. falcatum, ad2Jlm. latum. Heichh
Ic. et Descr. Fl. t. 91 ; Colla, Sort. Bipid. t. 27 ; Benth. FL Austral, ii. 359.
Mimosa dodonmfolia
Wendl
A. viscifiua, F. Muell. ! PI. Vict. ii. 24.
FLah. South Australia.

118. A. Gnidium, Benth. ! Fl. Austral ii. 359. Glabra, innovationibus glutinosis.
Phyllodia anguste linearia, 1-2-pollicaria, ad 1 lin. lata, costa parum prominulai venulis
obscuris interdum cost® subparallelis. Plorcs in capitulo 15-20. Calyx brovit

lobatus. Legumen ignotum.
Ilab. Subtropical East Australia,
119. A. EAMOSissiMA, Benth. ! in Hook. Zand. Journ. i. 850 pro parte. Ramuli pulxs-
centes. Phyllodia linearia, l-lj-pollicaria, ad 1 lin. lata, crassiuscula, obscure uninervia.
Plores ignoti. Legumen lineare, rectum, planum, crasse coriaceum, 1-li-pollicare, 2 lin.
latum, inter semina transverse depressum ncc contractum. Benth. FL Austral, ii. 360.
Hab. South-west Australia

Harvey
120. A. Sentis, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 128. Glabra v. primum pubcrula.
lanceolato-oblonga v. linearia, falcata v. curvula, nunc J-pollicaria et 2-3 lin.

PhyUodia
et 1 lin. lata, 1-nervia, pennivenia. Stipulu3 subulato-spinescentrs
lata, nunc 2-pomcaria
V. 0. Capitula multiflora. Sepala distincta, spathulata. Legumen planum, tenue, pol-
poll, hiixim.—Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 360.

licare v. longius, J-|
A. Victoria, Benth. ! in Mitch. Trop. Anstr. 333.
North Central and Eastern Australia desert interior.

Bab. Tropical and Extratropical :
Maund, Botanist, iv. 179. Glabra. Phyllodia

121. A. DENTIFERA, Benth.! in t.
1-2 lata, costa prominula, venulis obscuris. Stipulai

ano-uste linearia, 3-8-pollicaria, lin.
phyllodiis floralibus abortientiV)us
dentiformes persistentes v. 0. Capitula densa, sospe
Legumen 2-3-poll icarc, ad 3 lin. latum, inter
subracemosa. Sepala distincta, angusta.
semina continuum. Fl. Austral, ii. 360.
Ilab. South-west Australia.

a garden variety, with ,aore
269, or A. dentifera, Bot. Mag. 4032,
t. is
A. longifolia, Paxt. Mag. xii.
falcate phyllodia and racemose flower-heads.

PhylUxlIa
122. A PAScicuLirERA, F Muell. I Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 361. Glabra.
costa margmibusque nervifurmibus promi-

lanceolato-Mcata, 4-6-pollicaria, coriacea,
fa^ciculati, i-l.poUicares. Plores numcrn<i.
nentibus, venulis inconspicuis. Peduneuli
Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata. Legumen ignotum.

^
I[ab. Subtropical East Australia
sometimes reduced to a single head
hich the racemes are
E. Kacemosae. Frutices v. arhores hiermes. Fhjllodia mutica v, rarins pnngentiay

prcster costam centralem prominentem pennwenia v, stihavenia. Capilula ylohosa ad
axillas racemosa v. rarius hinc inde soUtaria. Flores excepta A. myrtifoUa parvi, 6-men
ipitulo scBpim numerosi
Tritl
« Bhyllodia smpius elongata, falcato-lanceolata v. fere li/nearia apice haslqiie contracta

pennivenia. Calyx corolla suhdimidio brevior.
123. A. FALCATA, TF^llld. Spec. iv. 1053. Glabra.Phyllodia falcato-lancoolata, acu-
minata, basi contracta; 3-6-pollicaria v. longiora, margine superiore eglanduloso v. ima
basi obscure glanduloso. Capitula parva. Sepala distincta. Legumen planum, 2-3-
pollicare, ad 3 lin. Mum.— TTendl. Comm.Acac. t. 1^; 'Zodd. Bot. Cab, t. 1115 ; Benth.
Mimosa falcata^ Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 61.
M. obliqua^ Wendl. Bot. Beob. 57.
Acacia plagiophylla, Spreng. Syst. iii. 135.
Hab, Extratropical East Australia.
r
124. A. MACRADENIA, Bcnth ! in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 360. Glabra. PhyUodia fal-
cato-lanceolato, acuminata, basi contracta, i-1-pedalia, marginibus incrassatis, superiore
basi glandulifero v. eglanduloso, venuHs transversis. Capitula parva. Calyx breviter
lobatus. Legumen elongatum, planum, 5-6 lin. Mw-m.—Fl. Austral, ii. 362
Sab. Subtropical East Australia.
125. A. PENNiNERVis, Sieb. in DC. Frod. 452.
! ii. Glabra. Phyllodia oblongo- y.
lanceolato-falcata, acuminata, basi contracta, 3-4-poUicaria
v. interdum multo longiora,
venulis obliquis, margine superiore saepius supra
medium glandulifero. Capitula pârva.
Calyx truncatus v. breviter dentatus. Legumen planum, ssepe 4-5 poll, longum, 5-6
Im. \sium.~Bot. Mag. t. 2754 Beiith. Fl. Austral,
; ii. 362.
A. impressa, Liudl, Bot. Eeg. t. 1115 Lodd. Bot. Cab.
! ; 1. 1319.
FALCIFORMIS
V.
legu
falcifL
A. astringens, A. Cunn. ! in G. Don, Syst. ii. 405.
Hab. Extratropical East Australia and Tasmania.
126 A. BETiNODES, SchlecM. ! in UnncBa, xx. 664. Glabra. Phyllodia lineari-lanceo-

kta, falcata, basi contracta, 3-5.pollicaria,
margine superiore supra basin glandulifero.
Mores m
capxtu o vix 20. Calyx brevissime lobatus.
Legumen breviter stij^tatum, sub-
planum, 3-8-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum.—ê^Â.
Fl. Austral, ii. 362
Uab. South and South-east Australia.
^"""; ^'^'*- '" ^""^ '"^'^- ^««"'-

.kl'i t' r^"'T' ^. •'
'• 357. Partes noveDa.
paiva. oepaia distmcta V. vix basi conna+a

Ti^miTviar. „ u ^ ,
' ^''''*""' P^''"""' Pluripollioare,
ad 4 lin. litum.-^. Austral, ii. 363
A. iteaphylla, F. Muell. ! Benth. in Linnaa, xxvi.
617.
Mab. Extratropical East Australia.
«
— —
^cacia.li MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 469

i
128. A. MiCROBOTRYA, Benth. ! in Hook. Loncl. Journ. i. 353. Glabra. Phyllodia lau-
ceolato-falcata, acuta, basi contracta, 3- 5-pollicaria, glandulis marginalibus 1-2 parvis
V. 0. Capitula parva, multiflora. Calyx breviter lobatus, sepalis vix demum solvendis.
Legumen (si rite hue adscriptum) anguste lineare. Fl, Austral, ii. 363.
A. myriohotrya et A. leiophylla, var. microcephala, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 15,
+
A. subfalcata et A. daphnifolia ^ Meissn. ! in Bot. Zeit. 1855. 11.
A, rostellifera^ Seem. ! Eingef. Acac, t. 2,
A. pterigoidea, Seem, in Verhandl. Gartenb.-Gesellsch. 1846^ 11, ex Seem. Eingef. Acac. 33.
*
. Hah. Soutb-west Australia.
129. A. SALIGNA, TFendl. Comm. Acac. 26. Glabra, i'hyllodia falcato-lanccolata,

obtusiuscula, basi contracta, pluripoUicaria, costa marginibuscûo ncrviforniibus pro-
minulis, venulis obscuris, glandula marginali a basi distautc v. 0. Capitula uiajusoulu.
Calyx sinuato-truncatua. Legumen planum, saepius rectum ot 5-6-polH(':irc, vix 3 liii.
latum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 364.

Mimosa saligna, Labill. ! PL Nov. Holl. ii. 86. t. 235.
Acacia leiophylla, Benth. ! in Hook. Lonrl. Jouni. i. 351.
A. Blomei, Ohlend. ex Seem. Eingef. Acac. 30.

130. A. CYANornTLLA, Bindl. ! Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 45. Glabra, sscpius glauca.
Phyllodia lineari-oblonga v. lanceolato-falcata, J-1-pedalia v. inferiora longiora, basi
longe contracta, costa marginibusque nerviformibus prominulis, distincte pcnnivenia.
Capitula majuscula. Calyx lobatus. Legumen pluripollicare, ad 2Jlin. latum.— ^^w/7/.

(See also 121. A. dentifera, and 174. A. bivenosa.)
** Fhyllodia elomjata falcato-lanceolata v. llnearia. Capitula majuscula, densijlora.
Calyx corolla vix triente brevior.
Hook. Bond. Journ. 351. Glabra. Phyllodia lan-

131. A. PYCNANTHA, Benth. ! in i.
medio saepe poUiccm lat

ceolato-falcata, basi longe contracta, 3-6-pollicaria,
marginali prope basin majuscula. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen i)lanum
glandula
longitudinalia.-i^^. Ausfral. ii. 3r,5 7)irf^
tenue, pluripoUicare, ad 3 lin. latum. Semina ;
Fl. Unw. t. 86.

A. petiolaris, Lehm. ! Nov. Hort. TIamb. in Linnaea, sxv. 306.
A . falcinella, Meissn.! in Bot. Zeit. 1855,11.
Hah. South and South-east Australia.

Glabra, ssepequc glauca. Phyllodia
132. A. NOTABiLis, F. Muell, ! Fragm. l 6.
^^S-poUicaria, cra-'ô coriac.:a, costa mar-

ceolato-falcata V. fere linearia, basi contracta,
Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen
o-inibusque nerviformibus crassis, venulis obscuris.
li-3-poUicare, 4-5 latum, subcoriaceum. Semma trausvcr-
planum, glaucum, lin.
Hab. Extratropical East Australia ; desert interior.
II.
— —
470 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Acada,
*** Fhyllodia recta v.falcata, pluri- v. rar'ms ll-pollicaria, crassa, prcete?' costam ctvem
V. obscure reticulata. Oalyx corolla dimidio brcvior v. hrccissimus. Semina long
tudinalia.
133. A. GLADiiroRMis, A. Cunn.! Benth. in SooJc. Lond. Joum. i. 354. Glabra.

Phyllodia lineari-lanceolata, curvaj obtusissima, basi longe coiitracta, crasso-coriacea,
nitida, marginibus incrassatis. Capitula densiflora. Scpala distincta, angusta. Legumen
elongatum, planum, flexuosum, ad 3 lin. latum. Fl. Austral, ii. 365.
134. A. OBTTJSATA, Sieb. ! in DC. Trod. ii. 453. Glabra. Phyllodia oblongo-linearia,
obtusissima, basi contracta, 1^3-pollicaria, crasse coriacea. Capitula densiflora. Sepala
distincta, spatbulata. Legumen ignotum. Benth. Ft. Austral, ii. 366,
135. A. RUBiDA, A. Cunn. ! in Field, Neic S. Wales, 344. Glabra. Phyllodia lanceo-
acuminata, basi contracta, ad 3 poll, longa, costa marginibusque neryi-
lata, subfalcata,
formibus prominentibus. Capitula parvula, 10-12-flora. Sepala ssepius cohserentia.

Legumen is:iiotmR.—Benth. Fl. Austral, ii, 366.
A. amoena, Sieb. ! PI. Exs., non Wendl.
Sab. Extratropical East Australia. Perhaps a variety of A. amcena.
136. A. AMCENA, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 16, t. 4. Glabra v. rami novelli pubescentes.
Phyllodia lanceolata, recta v. falcata, obtusa, basi contracta,
14-2fpollicaria v. ramorum
sterilium longiora, costa marginibusque nerviformibus
prominulis, maro-ine l~3-o>landu-
O""^ ^ " o
loso. Capitula 8-12-flora. Sepala demum soluta. Legumen planum, pluripollica
^
3-4 latum, marginibus nerviformibus incrassatis.— ^^?2if^. Fl.

lin.
Austral, ii. 366
Sab. Extratropical East Austral
enveloping the seed in a triple fold,

fiinicle
m The constancy of the character requires, however;
further proof.
137. A. HAKEOiDES, A. Cuun.l Benth. in Sooh. Lond.

Joum. i. 354 Glabra y yix
pubescens. Phyllodia lineari spathulata y. anguste
oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa, "basi
onge contracta, 2-5.pollicaria, crassiuscula, l-neryia,
marginibus yix prominuUs, medio
1-glandulosa Capitula ad 20.flora. Sepala facile solyenda.
Legumen planum, cur-
yulum, 2-3 Im. latum, inter semina yalde contractum.—^^^jf^.
m. Austral ii 367
Sab. Extratropical East Australia desert interior. :
*" ^^'^- '^'"^'^ ^^"^- "• 20-

^"'^'- •'
Glabra, pallens y. glauca.
^>l^l\^' l?''''''t'
Phyllodm oblongo-hneana y. lanceolata, s^pius
obtusa, basi longe contracta. 2-5 poll.
"^",;!™P°^;7 '^'^' ----c»la, cosfa parum prominula, yenis obscuris. Ca-
IZ:
Sl ™f r "^ -""T' *™°''*"'- "^Sumen rectum, l-S-poUicare, ad 3 lin.
A. iiffuiata, A. lûnn. ! Benth. m Hook. Lond. Joum. i. 362

Sab. Extratropical Australia, East and
West : desert interior.
—
Acacia.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 471
Var. ? VAKiANS, Phyllodia ssepius majora, latiora, fere ut in A. penninervi, penniveniaj glandula tamen
marginali carentia. An species propria?
A. varians, Bentli. in Mitch, Trop. Austr. 132.

Sab. Tropical and subtropical East Australia.
139. A. BOSTELLiFERA, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 356. Glabra, A. saUcinoi

valde affinis. Phyllodia lineari-lanceolata, 2-5-pollicaria, costa prominula, venis obscuris.
Capitula multiflora et calyx brevis A. salicince. Petala laevia nee costata ut in aliiDi
A. cyanophylla. Legumen ignotum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 3C8.

A. subbinervia, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 16.
Sah. South-west Australia.
140. A. PYCNOPHYLLA, Benth, ! Fl. Austral, ii. 368. Glabra. Phyllodia cojiferta,
erecta, linearia, obtusa, 1^3-pollicaria, crassiuscula, praitcr costam cncrvin, oglandulosa.
Capitula 10-15-flora. Calyx breviter lobatus. Lcgumen lincaro, plaiiiuu, 1 J-2 llu. latum,
inter semina continuum, marginibus incrassatis.

A. crassiuscula, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 16, non Sieb.
141. A. Hahveyi, Benth. ! Fl. Austral, ii. 368. Glabra, rbyllodia uiigustc^ linearia,
obtusa, 2-3-pollicaria, basi contracta, crassiuscula, costa vix prominula, avcnia. Capi-
tula parva, multiflora. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen planum, 3-pollicare v. longius,
ultra ^ poll, latum, coriaceum, transverse reticulatum, marginibus vix incrassatis.

A. ramosissima, Benth. olim ex parte ; Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 16.

but the pod very
The phyllodia closely resemble those of A. ramosissima and A. pycnophylla ;
is
different.
(See also the longest-leaved forms of 151. A. crassiuscula and 152. A. decora.) >
**** Bhylloclia linearia v. lanceolata. Legumen planum, obtusissimnm, seminibm trans-
versis. II acemi junior es scepius biâcteis imbricatis obtecti. Sepala distincta.
t Bamuli acutanguli. Sepala tenuissima. Legumen coriacemi.

Glabra, saepe glauca. Phyllodia linearia
142. A. SUAVEOLENS, Willd. Spec. iv. 1050.
sublanceolata, pleraque 3-4-pollicaria v. interdum longiora, costa mnrginibusque nervi-
V.
Capitula 6-10-flora. Legumen 1-lfpollicare, G-8 lin. latum.
formibus prominejitibus.
46; Benlh. Fl. Austral, ii. 369.
Lodd. Bat. Cab. t. 730 ; Beichb. Ic. et Bescr. Fl. t.
Nor. Holl. 87, t. 236.

Mimosa suaveolens, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 253;
! Labill. ! PI. ii.
M. obliqua, Lam. in Journ. Hist. Nat. i. 89, t. 5, non Pers.

Acacia obliqua, Desv. .Tourn. liot. 1814, i. 67.
M. angustifoUa, Jacq. Hort. Schocnbr. iii. 74, t. 3U1.
Acacia angustifoUa, AVendl. Comm. Acac. 34.
A. odor at a, Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814, i. Q7.
Mimosa ambigua, Salisb. Prod. 325.

Australia and Tasmania.
Sab. Extratropical South-east
1075. Glabra, gkuca. Phyllodia linearia
143. A. SUBC^RULEA, Lindl. ! Bot. Beg. t.
2-4 prominula, marginibus teniutcr nervi-

lanceolata, li-3-pollicaria, lin. lata, costa
'Q
VOL. XXX.
. —
4721 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. lAeana.
formibus. Capitula multiflora. Legumen 1-1 J- rarius 2-pollicaro, G-9 lin. latum.
A. hemiteles, Benth. ! in Linnaea^ xxvi. 619.
A. apiculata, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. i. 17.

144. ? A. LiNDLEYi, Meissn. ! in FL Freiss, i. 14. Glabra, glauca. PlivUodia lan-
ccolata, basi contracta, inferiora 6-10-pollicaria, tenuiter pennivenia, supiuiora iis^. sub-
C(BrulecB similiora. Capitula multiflora. Legumen ignotum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 370.
Sah. South-west Australia.
The specimens seen are very unsatisfactory^ but they appear to represent a species nearly allied to but
distinct from A. subcarulea.
ft Bami vix angulati. Sepala angustisslma. Legumen membranaceum.

145. A. LEPTOPETALA, Benth. ! in Linnwa, xxvi. 619. Glabra, subglauca. Phyllodia
oblongo-linearia v. lanceolata basi contracta, 1-2-pollicaria, costa vix prominula, venis
obscuris. Capitula multiflora. Legumen 2-3-pollicare, ad 6 lin. latum.—i?'; Austral
ii. 370.
146. A. MuRRAYANA, F. Muell. ! Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 370. Glabra. Phyllodia
linearia, 5-6-pollicaria, 1-lJ lin. lata, crassa, costa vix prominula, venis obscuris. Capitula
multiflora. Legumen 2-3-pollicare, ad 4 lin. latum.
Sab. Extratropical East Australia : desert interior
***** Fhyllodia linearia

lanceolata v. oblique oblonga, sesquipollicem
non excedentia
(excepta A. subulata), marginibus non incrassatis.
Calyx brevis, breviter lobatrn v.
truncatus. Legumen lineare, seminibus longitudinalibus
147. A. srBrLATA, Bonpl. Jard.Malm. 110, t. 45. Glabra. Phyllodia anguste line-
ana, 3-6-pollicaria, vix lineam lata, hand crassa.
Capitula parva, 12-20-flora. Calvx
dentatus. Legumen ignotum.—^^^Â. Fl. Austral,
ii. 370.
Hab. Extratropical East Australia.

Near A. Unifolia, but readUy known by the long narrow phyUodia.
148. A. LmroMA, mua. Spec. iy. 1051, Glabra y. minute puberula. Phyllodia
meana Wn-lanceolata, apice basique coatracta, l-li-poUiearia.
y^
lata haud crassa, costa prommula, marginibus li-2 rarius 2J lin.
tenuiter neryiformibus. Capitula parva,
' Pl^"'^'"' 2-4.pomcare, 4.6 lin. latum, inter semina con-
tmnl V ^'f'l'''/'^^';'
Mimosa Unifolia, "V

M. linearis, "W endl
Willd
Mimosa Suppl. i. 60.
Hab. Extratropical and subtropical
East Aust
149. A. .KOMX..KS. A. Cnn, in
a. I>on. Gen. Syst. ii. 406. Glabra, sa,pius glauca
— — —
Phyllodia lineari-lanceolata v. oblongo-falcata, acutioraet saepius latiora quam in A. lini-
folia, glandula marginali a basi remotiore, pleraque 1-lJ-pollicaria, 2-4 v. rarius 5 lin.
lata. Capitula parva, 8-12-flora. Legumen lineare, planum, 2-3-pollicare, 3-4 rarius
5 lin. latum, inter semina coutinuum. Bot. Mag. t. 3502 ; Dietr. Fl. Univ. t. 83 ?

A, fimhriata, A. Cunn. ! in G. Don^ Gen. Syst. ii. 406.
150. A. Leichardtii, Benth. ! Fl. Austral, ii. 372. Hirsuta. Phyllodia lineari-lan-
ceolata, falcata, poUicem rarius excedentia, costa marginibusfiue ncrviformibus promi-
nulis ciliatis. Capitula multiflora. Legumcn planum, hispidum, 2-4-pollicarc, ad

4 lin. latum.
I£ab. Subtropical East Australia.
151. A Wendl. Comm. Acac. 31, t. 8. Glabra, subglauca. Phyllod

linearia, subfalcata, lJ-2-pollicaria v. rarius sub-3-pollicaria, lJ-3 lin. lata, crassiuscula,
1-nervia, avenia, marginibus nerviformibus. Capitula dense multiflora. Calyx dcmum

in sepala solvendus. Legumen lineare, crassiusculum, ad 2^ lin. latum, inter semina
contractum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 372.

A. adunca, A. Cunn. ! in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 406.
A. Sieberiana, Tauscli, in Flora, 1836, 420, non DC.

199. Glabra glauco-tomentella. Pliyllodia
152. A. DECORA, Beichb. Icon. Exot. 1. v.
1-nervia, marginibus nerviformibus.

lanceolata v. linearia, basi contracta, 1-2-pollicaria,
rectum curvum, ad latum. Seminn
Capitula ad 20-flora. Legumen planum, v. 3 lin.
margini superiori approximata. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 372.
Sab. Subtropical and extratropical East Australia.
New S. Wales, 344. Glabra. Phyllodia oblique

153. A. BUXiEOLiA, A. Cunn. ! in Field,
contracta, saepius poUice breviora, costa vix prominula.
oblongo-lanceolata, apice basique
curvum, ad 3 lin. latum. Semina
Capitula 8-12-flora. Legumen planum, rectum v.
Ic. Fl. 164 Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 372.

margini inferiori approximata.— ôo^'. t. ;
Sab. Subtropical and extratropical East Australia.
Glabra, ssppe glauca. PhyUodia ob-

154 A. LUNATA, Sieb.! in DC. Frod. ii. 452.
saepius poUice breviora, 3-6 lin. lata,
lon-o-falcata v. subovata, valde obliqua, obtusa,
prominulis. Capitula 4-lO.flora. Legumen planum, glaucum,
l-nervia, marginibus vix
Semina margini superiori approximata.-5o^ Beu.
rectum v. curvum, 3-4 lin. latum.
Austral, t. 42; Benth. Fl. Austral, n. 373.
t. 1352;Lodd.Bot. C«2..t.384; Sweet, Fl.
A. falcinella, Tauscli, in Flora, 1836, 419.
brevifolia
oleafolia,
in Field, New S. Wales
A.furfuracea, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405.
Hab. Extratropical East Australia

3q2
—
474 BENTHAM ON THE MLMOSEiE. [Acacia.
****** Fhyllodia ovata obomta v. late oblonga, infrapolllcari'i c. vix ^\x)oll. excedentk,
t Bacemi breves, oUgocephall.
155. A. BEACHYBOTEYA, Betith. I in KooTc. Lond. Journ. i. 317. Glabra v. apice

argenteo-sericea. Pbyllodia oblique obovata v. oblonga, ^1-pollieariu, l-ncrvia, penni-
venia. Capitula multiflora. Sepala subdistincta. Legumen liucarc, 3-5 lin. latum,
planum v. valvis ad semina alternatim convexis concavisque. Bcnth. FL Austral
il 373.
A. didyocarpaj Benth. ! in Linnsea, xxvi. 616.
Var. ARGYROPHYLLA^ pius minus argenteo-sericea.

A. argyrophyllUy Hook, ! Bot. Mag. t. 4384.
A. bombycinaj Benth. ! in Lindl. and Paxt. FL Gard, ii. lOlj f, 186.
Sah. Extratropical East Australia : desert interior.
156. A, Wattsia>â, F. Muell. ! Benth. FL Austral, ii. 374. Glabra. Phyllodia

oboFato-oblonga, obtusissima, basi contracta, J-1-pollicaria, 1-nervia, obscure venosa.
Capitula 15-20-flora. Calyx brevis, dentatus. Legumen falcatum, coriaceum, 2-4-pol-
licare, 3-4 lin. latum, inter semina contractum.
Hab. South Australia : a single specimen in Herb. E. Mueller.
tt Bacemi pleiocephali, phyllodio mtilto Ionffioiês.

157. A. PODALYEi^roLiA, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen.
! Syst. ii. 405. Glauca farinosa
v..minute pubescens, rarius glabrata. Phyllodia obovata orata
v. oblonga, obhqua,
poUicaria v. pauUo longiora, 1-nervia. Capitula parva, multiflora. Calyx minute den-
tatus. Legumen planum, imi- v. pluripoUieare, poll, latum, glabrum pubescens.- f v.
Benth. FL Austral, ii. 374.
A. Fraseri, Hook. ! Ic. PL t. 171.
A. Caleyi, A. Cunn. Bentli. in Hook. Lond. Journ.
! i. 347: Specimina depaunerata ineunte in-
norescentia. n
Rab. Subtropical East Australia.

158. A. uncifera, Benth. ! in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 341.
Velutino-pubescens. Phyl-
lodia oblique oblonga v. eUiptica, falcata, apice basique
contracta, uncinato-acuta, 1 J-pol-
licana v. pauUo longiora, IJ-lf poll, lata, 1-nervia. ^
Capitula parva, multiflora Le^
men i^noivim.— Benth. FL AustraL ii. 374.
B:ab. Subtropical East Australia.
159. A. yestita, Ker! in BoL Beg. 698.

Molliter pubescens v. villosa. PhyUodia
t.
obhque ovah-elhptica, recui-vo-falcata, undulata,

pleraque semipollicaria, l-neivia. Capi-
tula pai^-a, 10-20-flora. Calyx brevit.r lobatus. Legumen
planum, rectum, lJ-3-polli-
r
care, 4-5 hn. Idlmn.—Benth. FL ^
Austral ii. 2
375.
Hab. Extratropical East Australia.
^--ssato-nervifovmibus.
Mv'te" ; ibZ r'" ", Capitula 10-lo-flora.
jraxt. Mag. xi. 123 cum

, ic. ; Benth. FL AustraL ii. 375.
— —
Acacia.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEiE. 475
A. scapuliformis, A. Cunn. ! in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405.
A.glaucifolia, Baum. Cat. Hort. BoUw. ex descr. Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 14.

161. A. PRAVissiMA, F. Muell. ! Fragm. Fhytogr. Austral, i. 5 ; PL Vict. t. 2Ji. Glabra.
Phyllodia late et oblique falcato-obovata v. subtrapezoidea v. triangularia, 3-5 lin. v.
rarius semipoUicem longa, 1-2-nervia. Capitula parva, 8-12-flora. Calyx brevis, obtuse
lobatus. Leûmeu planum, glabrum. Benth. Fl. Auatral. ii. 375.
Sab. South-east Australia.

162. A. PYRiFOLiA, BO.! Mem. L4g. 447. Glabra, subglauca. Hamuli coinim^ssi-
usculi. Stipulse breves, splnescentes. Phyllodia late ovata, pungcuti-mucronata, 1-3-pol-

licaria, 1-nervia, pennivenia. Capitula dcnsissime multillora. Scpala distincta, lineari-
clavata. Legumen planum, curvum v. circinatum, 2-3-pollicarc, 4-6 lln. latum, v.-ilvis
demum ad semina convexis. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 37G.
Sab, Tropical and extratropical West Australia.
******* Capitula dense racemosa, Jlorihus i-meris in capltulo 2-3«?5.
Willd, Spec. iy. 1054. Glabra, intcrdum glauca. riiyllodin

163. A. MYRTiroLiA,
lanceolata lincaria, sgepius 1-2-polbVaria. costa margiiii-
obliqua v. falcata, obovata v.
prominentibus. Flores majusculi. Legumen lineare, curvum,

busque nerviformibus
1-2 poll, longum, ad 2 lin. latum, valvis duris sublignosis.— ^tccc/,
marginibus crassis,
772 Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 376.
Fl. Âustral, t. 49 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. ;
Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 252 Bot. Nov. IIoll. 1. r,.

Mimosa myrtifolia, ! ; 1
Var. CELASTRiroLiA, Phyllodia ssepe polliccm lata.
Hook. Lond. Journ. 349; Bot. Mag. t. 4306.

A. celastrifolia, Benth. in i.
Ohlend. ex Seem. Eingef. Acac. 28.

A. Paivlikoivskyana et A. Ludwigii,
Var. ANGUSTiFOLiA, Phyllodia 2-4 lin. lata, sjepius ultra 2 poll, longa.
Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 462 Wcndl. Comm. Acac. t. 5 a.
A. marginata, R. Br. ! in Ait. ;
A. trigona, A. DC. Not. 8 PI. Rar. Jard. Gen. 20. «

m
!
, . . ^,
the typical forms diielly the eastern
Hab Extratropical Australia and Tasmania,
varieties chiefly in South-wcst Australia, but
colonies, the broad and the narrow-leaved
all the forms passing into each other.
Plurinerves. Fhyllodia complanata, obtusa v. rarim in specicbus lalifoUw

Subseries 7.
soUtaria fascicvlala v. roriuH
pmigentia:, 2- v. plurinervia, Capitula globosa. ad axillas
brevUer racemosa.
amju^ta v. lata, <n,l,Mo.nn<.
StipuU ipheseenles. Plyllodia falcaUu
A. Annate. t
minata v. mhpungentia.
200. Glabra v. puberula. Phyl-
164 A. scALPELLiroEMis, MeUsn. I in Fl. Preiss. ii.
-li-pollicaria, 3-5 2.nema penmvenm. lin. lata.

triangulari-lanceolata, ^
lodia oblique
PedunouU iK^phab. Legumen
margine superiore ncrviformi ad angulum glandulifero.
marginibus cr^^-Benth. Fl .Austral. n.3u.
elongatum. s»pe tortum, vix IJ lin. latum,

— ,
476 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Acada.
165. A. UEOPHTLLA, JBentli. ! in Bot. Heg. 1S41, Misc. 24. Glabra r. Icriter hirsuta.
Phyllodia semiovata v. late ovato-lanceolata, subulato-acuminata, valde obliqtia, lJ~3-pol.

licaria, |-1 poll, lata v. in cultis majora, 2-1-neryia, marginc supcriore curvo crenulato-
sinuato, prope basin glandulifero. Ijegumen 5-6-pollicare, ssepe tortum, vix \\ lin.
latum, marginibus crassis. Bot. Mag, t. 4573 Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 377. ;
A. smikcifolia, Field, et Gaxdn. ! Sert. PI. t. 3.
B. Triangulares. Stipules setacece v. minutce, I^hyllodia parva, seinipollicem non

excedentia, late falcato-ovata v. triangularia, breviter mucronato-subpungentia,
166. A. SUBLANATA, Benth. ! in Hueg. Enum. 42. Junior lanato-pubescens, demum

glabrata. Phyllodia falcata, late triangularia v. lanceolata, semipollice breviora, 3- v. plu-
rinervia. Capitula 20-30-flora, longiuscule pedunculata. Legiimen lineare, tortum,
glabrum, ad 2 lin. latum.— J'Z, Austral, ii. 378.
A. pravifolia. F. Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, i. 4.
Eab. South Australia.
167. A. AMBLYGONA, A. Cuun. Benth. in Rooh. Bond. Journ. ii. 332. Pubescens.
!
Phyllodia falcato-lanceolata v. triangularia, 3-4 lin.

longa, plurinervia. Capitula 10-15-
flora, breviter pedunculata. Legumen curvum, glabrum, 1^-2 lin. latum, inter semina
contractum.— i^/. Austral, ii. 378.
Nernstii, F. Muell
Sab. Subtropical and extratropical East A ustralia.

168. A. DELTOIDEA, A. Cum.! in G. Don.
Gen. St/st. ii. 401. Glabra .. junior
,
pubescens. Phyllodia oblique triaugukri-ovata, acuta, 2-3
lin. lou»a, plurinervia. Flores
m capitulo numerosi. minimi. '
Calyx corolla multo breyior. Legumen elongatum,
planum, 4 Im. latum, glanduloso-bispidum.-JB^^Â.
Sab. Tropical Australia : north-west
coast.
169 A. STipuiosA, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Unn. Soc. iii. 119. Glauduloso-pubescens v.
mrsuta Phyllodia oblique ovato-falcata v. subtriangularia.
pungenti-acuta, 2-3 rarius
4 m. longa, crassa, obscure
plurinervia. Mores in capitulo numerosi, lineam longi.
Sr- 1 ^'f'^l"^"^-
'"""-hispidum.—£e»a. Fl. Austral,
Legumen
ii. 379
Unease, curvum, planum, 2-3 Un. latum, glandu-
Sab. Tropical Australia : north-west coast

(See also 95. A. decipiens,
and a few other Unina
there is sometimes a
much fainter second one.)
170. A. LOXOPHYLLA, :Benth,. ! in Imna;a

'"^"' ictv;
^^^^- rw
^''^- tj„„-
Hesmosa, ceeterum glabra,
^hyllodm r>w;„,.^
Phvllnrlin oblique %,
obovata i
v.
,
oblonga, inciirva, obtusissima, 2-6 Un lonsa obscure
t^^- ?'^'^ ^^-
linê, ad Un. latu^,
2
Calyx breviter lobatus. Petala
vaMs ad semina eonvexis.-:^'^.
lUa.
Austral. ii.'379
Legumen .^
T 1. Z!' curvum
Sab. South-west Australia

— . —
171. A. SETULIFERA, BentJi. ! in Linnceaj xxvi. 625. Glabra. Phyllodia oblique

ovata, obtusa, mucrone setiformi valde obliqua, vix 2 lineas excedentia, tenuiter pluri-
nervia. Calyx dentatus, sepalis facile solvendis. Petala Isevia. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical Australia : north-west coast.
172. A. TUANSLUCENS, A. Cuun. I inKook. Ic, PI. 1. 160. Glabra y. junior pubescuus.
Phyllodia obliqua, ex obovato anguste oblonga, obtusa, ^1-pollicaria, 2-1-nervia,
glandula obliqua terminata. Calyx breviter dentatus. Petala striata. Legumen 1-1.^-
pollicare, planum at crassum, sublignosum, supra medium 2 lin. latum, basi longe con-
tractum, intus inter semina septatum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 379.
Sab. Tropical Australia north and north-west
: coast.
173. A. IMPUESSA, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 133. Pubcsccns. Phyllodia
oblique obovata v. obovato-oblonga, obtusa v. glanduloso-mucronata, J-l-poUicaria, 8-6-
nervia. Sepala distincta. Petala rigidula, striata. Legumen rectum, tenuiter coria-
ceum, planum, marginibus incrassatis, ad 6 lin. latum, glutinoso-villosum.— 7?(?w/7*. Fl.

Austral, ii. 380.
Bab. Tropical Australia : north and north-west coast.
Phyllodia semipollice et sapius pollice longiora, oUongO'lanceolala

D. Oligoneurge.
levlter falcata, 2-S-nervia, vix venulosa uec (jlidmosa {excepta A. sub-
V. linearia, recta v.
porosa)
» Capitula ad axillas breviter
Glabra, subglauca v. aureo-flavesccns. Phyl-

174. A. BiVENOSA, DC. Prod. ii. 452.
l|-3-pollicaria v. rarius brcviora, basi con-
lodia ex obovato oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa,
nerviformibus. Capitula irregulariter racemosa. Calyx
tracta, 2-nervia, marginibus
elongatum, planum, coriaceum, ad 3 lin. M}xm.~.Benlh.
sinuato-dentatus. Legumen
Mem. Leff. 448
A.xanthina, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Joiu-n. i. 355.
Journ
B:ab. North-west tropical and West extratropical Australia.
Glabra, glauca. Pliyllodia angi

175 A. TEINEURA, F. Muell. ! PL Vict. ii. 25.
basi contracta, 3-neryia. Capitula bre
cuneato-oblonsa, obtusissima, li-2-pollicaria,
Legumen i^,loi^xm.- Be nth. Fl. Austral n. 381.
sime racemosa Sepala distincta.
Bab. South-east Australia : desert interior
«* Capitula ad axillas solitana v fasciculata .
PtjUodia lmeari-cun.ata.
NITIDULA, Benth. ! Fl. Amlral. ii. 381. Glabra.
176 A.
margiaes ncrviformes 2- rarms 3-nervu>.
1 -IJ-poUicaria, crassiuscula, rigida, pra^ter
3
Sepala distincta. Legumen ignotum.

Frem. 18. Glabra v. juniora minute sericeo-
177. A. EEiEuocLiTA, Meissn! in PI. i.
—
478 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Awcm.
pulêrula. Phyllodia lineari-lanceolata v. linearia, 1^3-pollicaria, rigidula, tenuiter

3-nervia. Sepala distincta. Legumen anguste lineare, planum, 2-3-pollicaii', 14 lin,
latum, marginibus nerviformi-incrassatis. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 381.

A. trissoneura, F. Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Anstr. iv. 6.
Kah. South-west Australia.
178. A. ELONGATA, Sieh. ! in DC. Trod. ii. 451. Glabra v. junior sericeo-pubescons.
PliyUodia anguste linearia, 2-3- rarius 4-polliearia, \-\\ rarius 2 lin. lata, S-nerria
ct
interdum oblique venulosa. Calyx obtuse lobatus. Legumen lineare, rectum, planum,
l}-2 lin. \^\mxi.-~Bot. Mag. t. 3337 ; Benth. Fl. Amtral. ii. 381.
A. hehecephala, A. Cunn. ! in Loud. Hort. Brit. 406.
179. A. SUBPOROSA, F. Muell. I Fl. Vict. ii. 24. Glabra, junior glutinosa. Phyllodia
lineari-lanceolata v. Unearia, acuta, subfalcata,
IJ-S- rarius 4-pollicaria, 2-4 lin. lata,
tenuiter 2-3-nervia et inter nervos interdum longitudinaliter
venulosa, subpellucido-
punctata. Calyx lobatus. Legumen ignotum.—êâ. FL Austral, ii. 382.
Hab. Soutb-west Australia.
180. A. SiMsii, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Sooh. Bond. Joiirn. i. 368. Glabra. Phyllodia
lanceolata, ssepius falcata, 2-5-pollicaria,
1^-3 lin. lata, baud iTiloro
prommule 2-3-nerYia et inter nervos longitudinaliter
renulosa, interdum minus inienua
liter multmervia. Calyx lobatus, sepalis facile solvendis. Legumen rectum, planum T.
undulatura, 2-3 lin. latum.— i?/. Amtral. ii. 382.
Sab. Tropical North and North-east Australia.
The venation of the phyUodia and the
general habit pass into those of the
Vemsce, but in the tvpical
foi m the prommence of 2 or 3 nerves is
characteristic of the
;
Oligonewa.
nerved
iflm; 191. A. WhaniL and
E. Microneurae. Glabra v. glauca: ,»>c glutmosw. Phyllodia angml. obovata

erassa, aveuia v. venis parallelis crebHs tenmsdmu vix campicuw.
oblonga, Ob usa, IfpoUieana

v. paullo longlora, crassiuscula, "•'
- ayenia
â v
v. tenuissime
lenuisbime et
ei
conspicue plurinervia. Capitula
- - -
soUtaria hreviter pedunculata.

men ignotum.— Fl. Sepala distincta. Le-u
Austral, ii. 383
JIab. South-west Australia.
lopMlaf ZZIT"""' f-
""""" ' ^'"''- '" """" '^'"'-
365 (en-ore•^-™- i- ««
SI. St, irr. rTr •
^^^^^ô^^ Wolato-faleata,
angnlte oblonga
Cap
Sab. Extratropical East Australia

: desert interior.
— — — —
. 183. A. PENDIJLA, A. Cunn. ! in G. Don, Gen. Si/st. ii. 404^. Minute cinereo-puberula,
ramis sgepius pendulis. Phyllodia lineari-lanceolata, faleata, acuminata, 2-3-polUcaria,
rigidule coriacea, sub lente multinervia. Pedunculi breves, ad axillas fasciculati. Calyx
lobatus, sepalis facile solvendis. Legumen planum, tenue, 5-6 lin. latum, transverse
venosum, marginibus angustissime carinato-alatis. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 383.
A. leucophylla, Lindl. ! in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 13.
Hab. Extratropical and subtropical East Australia, in tlie interior.
184. A. OswALDi, F. Muell. ! PL Vict. ii. 27. Glabra v. junior cancscenti- v. soriceo-
pubescens. Phyllodia falcato-lanceolata, nunc lineari- v. oblongo-lanceolata, l}-2-polli-
caria, rigida, tenuissime multinervia. Capitulasubsessilia, fasciculata. Sopala distinota.

Legumen elongatum, curvum v. tortum, durum, sublignosum, 3-4 lin. latum. Benlh.
Fl Austral, ii. 384.
Linnwa, xxvi. 620. Sericeo-pubescens, max ^^luljratn.

jj
185. A. LiNEOLATA, BeutJi. I in
Phyllodia anguste linearia, erecta, li-2-pollicaria, 1-2 I'm. lata, rigida, sub Icnte tenuis-
Capitula brevissime pcdunculata. Sepal a
sime multinervia, nervis 3 rarius prominulis.
subdistincta. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Austral, ii. 384.
I£ab. South-west Australia.
186. A. CORIACEA, DC. Mem. Leg. 446. Cincrascens v. junior sericeo-cancsccns v.
semipedalia v. longiora, l-2i lin. lata, crassc cori-

flavescens. Phyllodia recta v. curva,
multinervia. Capitula pedunculata, cano-pubcsccntia. Calyx
acea, sub lente tenuissime
4-5 latum, anguste moniliforme, valvis ad
breviter lobatus. Legumen J-f-pedale, lin.
inter semina contractis.— ^^«a. Fl. Austral ii. 385.

semina turgidis striatis
^ V
Sab. Tropical and extratropical West Australia.
Benth. in JIooL Bond. Joum. 1-360. GLibra

187. A. STENOPHTLLA, A. Cufin. ! ^
^1-pedal tenuiter striato-mul

Phyllodia linearia, acuminata v. falcata,
Calyx breviter lobatus, dense ciliatus. PeUila
tinervia. Capitula breviter racemosa.
turgidura, 4-6 lin. latum, inter
pubescentia. Legumen elongato-moniliforme, ad semina
/
semina contractum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 885.
in Journ. Linn. Soc. 122 (var.? phyllodiis angustioribus).
A. sericophylla, F. Muell. ! iii.
East and Central Australia desert interior.

Hab. Tropical and extratropical :
Thyllodm recta v. interdum

E. Nervosa. GlabrcB v. viscidul^, ranus pubescentes.
falcata, multi- rarius sub-Z-nervia.
• Auslralhnce.
Qlauca. riijllodia
A. HEMIGNOSTA, F. Mucll. m Jotcrn. Unn. Soc. iii. 134.
188
falcato-lanceolata v. oblonga, obtusa, 2-4-pofficam, Bupra
pedunculata. Sepak
1
H'-
distmcta. Legumen
medium H lata tcuuitcr
3-5-nerTia, inter nervos reticulata. Capitula

marginibus ^^xih.-Bcnth. Fl. Amtral. u. 38».
planum, 2-4-pollicare, ad 6 Un, latum,
north and north-west coast.
Hab Tropical Australia :
A. SCLEROPHYILA. Lindl. ! in Mitch. Three êd. ii. 139. Glabra (rcsinosa ?).
189
PhyUodia oblongo-Unearia. subcuneata, crassa, rigidula, Hi poU. longa, strmto-plun-
VOL. XXX.
—
m
480 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEJE. [Acacia.
nervia. Pedunculi brevissiini. Sepala distincta, angusta. Legumen sub-2-pollicare, vix

1| lin. latum, valvis convexis, longitudinaliter striatis. Dlet}\ Fl. Univ. t. 85 (quoad
yenationem falsa) ; JBenth. Fl. Austral, ii. 386.
Sab. South-east Australia : desert interior.
190. A. FAEixosA, Zindl. ! in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 146. Glabra v. junior glauco-
farinosa. PhyUodia lineari-cuneata, obtusa, crassa, rigidula, }-l J-pollicaria, nervis quam
in A. sclerophjlla tenuioribus. Pedunculi brevissimi, uti capitula farinoso-tomentosi.
Sepala distincta, lineari-spathulata. Legumen lineare, currum, 2-2J lin. latum, valvis
coriaceis durisnon striatis, marginibus incrassatis,— ê?jÂ. FL Attstral. ii. 386.
Sab. South-east Australia : desert interior.
191. A. Whanii, F. Muell. I Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 386. Eamuli puberuli. Phyl-
lodia oblongo-linearia, ssepe curva, obtusa,
li-2-pollicaria, rigide coriacea, striato-pluii-
nervia, margine superiore infra medium
glandulifero. Pedunculi brevissimi. Calyx
lobatus, sepalis facile solvendis. Legumen ignotum.
192. A. HETEEONEUHA, Benth. ! in Linncea, xxvi. 624. Glabra. Phyllodia linearia

li-3-pollicaria, 1-2 lin. lata, rigidula, costa valida nervisque utrinque tenuibus
pluribus
parallehs. Pedunculi tenues. Calyx late lobatus. Legumen ignotum.-F/. Austral.
11. 387.
193. A. mciDULA, A. Cunn.Benth. in Sooh. Land. J,n<rn. i. I
363. Pubescens et
resmoso-TZsmdula. PhyUodia liueam, obtusa,
subincurya, 2-2J.pomcaria, 1-U lin. lata,
comcea, plurmema. Pedunculi brerissinai. Sepala distincta, anguste sâtbulata.
Petala pubescentia. legumen lineare,
rectum, pubescens, ad 2 lin. latum,
marginibus
mcrassatis.— ^?. Austral, ii. 887. ' "
Sab. Bxtratropical East Australia.
' '" ^'^''- -"<""" ^^- Glabra

..lutlst T"nT\f""^ f'- '• v. pubescens.
ra ms
2 poll, longa, 2-3 ranus 4 Ln. lata, coriacea, tenuiter
striato-multineryia Pedun-
cuh brevier subracemosi. Sepala
distincta, anguste spatbulata.
bispidum I^.uên
^»"'"e'i Josum.
flexuosum.
fle
y. glabrmn, 2-3 lin. latum.-i?^. Amtml. u 387
A. glulimsa, P. Muell. Pragm. Phytogr. Austral,
!
iv 6
"' extratropical East Australia, in the interior, and in extratropical
wSiu'sM?^
I can find no difference between
the western specimens
published a, // „7 , •
gathered by Cunningham, Mitchell, /'" '" """^ *''« ^^*^"' ""^

and othen< The
ne pod,
nod however, is only Cetr known in the former.
195. A. DICTTOPHMBA, F. Mu^ll. I Fragm. Phytogr. Austral iii 1 9«
nosa. Pbyllodia cuueato-oblonga Glabra
lata, rigide coriacea, nereis
lanceolatoilcata y.
oXl 2 3^;- ^:^7.T"
^"^ ^'"
pluribus retique yenulaûr ^-^r^^^'''*"'''
.edunculi lougiusculi. Cal,. breyiter scabris
dentals. Legumen
C^g^lT-!^
ipioimxi.—Benth. FL Austral
Sab, Tropical Australia northern
interior:
— — . —
Acacia ] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. 4,81
w
196. A. VENULOSA, Senth. ! in SooJc. Lond. Journ. i. 366. Molliter piibescens r.

glabra, vix glutiiiosa; Phyllodia falcato-oblonga v. lanceolata, 2-3-pomcaria, 3-6 lin.
lata, rigide plurinervia et venulosa, nervis 3 saepius magis prominulis.
Pedunculi cras-
siusculi, tomentosi. Sepala basi connata. Legumen lineare, Junius pubescens, 1-2-pol-
licare, ad 3
latum, valvis ad semina convexis.
lin. M. Austral, ii. 388.
Kah. Extratropical East Australia,
t
197. A. CYCLOPS, A. Ctmn.I in G. Don, Gen. Syst. 404.

ii. Glabra. Phyllodia
anguste oblonga, saepius recta, obtusa, 1^-3- rarius 4-pollicaria, rigide coriacon, 3-5-norvia
et venulosa. Pedunculi glabri. Caljx brovitcr lobatus. Legumen planum, pluripol-
licare, 4-6 lin. latum, sgepius curvum v. tortum.— i?e«^^. Fl. Austral ii. 388.
Hab. South-west Australia. A,
198. A. Melanoxylon, B. Br.! in Ait. Jlort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 4C2. Glabra v. junior
minute puberula. Phyllodia falcato-oblonga v. sublanccolata, obtusa v. rarius nfutius-
cula, 3-4-pollicaria, ^1 poll, lata, coriacea, plurinorvia et crebre venulosa. Cripifula
pedunculata, densissime multiflora. Calyx brcviter lobatus. Legumen clongatum, sape
valde curvatum, 3-4 lin. latum, marginibus nerviformibus incrassatis.— ^r-ff^/^. Comm.
Acac. t. 6 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1659 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 630 ; Benih. Fl. Ansfral ii. 388.
A. latifolia, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 2, 207.
A. arcuata, Sieb. ! (nee Labill.) in Spreng. Syst. iil. 135.
A. hrevipes, A. Cunn. ! in Bot. Mag. t. 3358 (phyllodiis longi oribus)
Hab. Extratropical and subtropical East Australia.
4
199. A. IMPLEXA, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 308. Glabra,' subglauca. Phyl-
lodia lanceolato-falcata, acuminata, 5-6-pollicaria, plurinervia et tcnuiter venulosa.
Pedunculi tenues. Capitula parvula, densiflora. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen
elongatum, curvum v. tortum, 2-3 lin. latum, inter semina contractum. Benth. Fl.
Austral, ii. 389.
Hab. Extratropical and subtropical East Australia.
200. A. HARPOPHYLLA, F. Muell. ! Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 389. Glabra v. Junior
minute canescens. Phyllodia falcato-lanceolata, apice angustata et obtusa, 6-8-poUicaria,
tenuiter plurinervia et vix venulosa. Pedunculi tenues. Capitula 12-15-flora. Sepala

distincta. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. Subtropical East Australia.
201. A. EXCELSA, Benth. ! in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 225. Glabra r. junior minute pu-
bescens. Phyllodia oblongo-falcata, obtusiuscula, 2-3-pollicaria, -J-} poll, lata, tcnuiter
4
coriacea, 5-7-nervia, vix venulosa. Pedunculi breves, rigiduli. Sepala distincta. Iê-
gumen rectum, planum, ad 3 lin. latum, vix dehiscens, marginibus tenuiter 2-suIcatis et
inter sulcos angustissime
o carinato-subulatis. Fl. Austral, ii. 390.
Fragm
Hab. Subtropical East Australia.
Very nearly allied to the New-Caledonian A. laurifolia.
202- A. COMPLANATA, A. Cunn. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i 369.

! Glabra.
K-amuli ancipites v. angustissime 2- rarius 3-alati. Phyllodia ovalia v. oblonga, obtusa,

3e2
—
482 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. [Acacia.
2-3-pollicaria, |—1 lin. lata, tehuiter coriacea, nervis 5-9 v. pluribus, paiioivonulosa
Pedunculi tenues. Sepal a distincta. Legumen planum, curvulum, 3-4 lin. latum, mar
gine superiore nerviformi v. angustissime cariuato. FL AttstraL ii. 390,
. A. anceps, Hook. ! Ic. PI. t. 167, non DC.
Sab. Subtropical East Australia.
)
•
** Insulares, Australia exules.
203. A. HETEROPHYLLA, Willd. Sj>ec. iv. 1054. Glabra v. junior vix puberula. Phyl-
lodia elongato-oblonga, rectiuscula, 3-5-pollicaria, 6-9 lin. lata, subcoriacea, bine inde
folio bipinnato terminata. Pedunculi Calyx brevissime dentatus. Legu-
crassiusculi.
men planum, 3-4-pollicare, 3-6 lin. latum, marginibus nerviformibus, vix sulcatis.
- Mimosa heterophylla, Lam. ! Diet. i. 14, et Journ. Hist. Nat. i. 1. 15.
Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon.
204. A. KoA, A. Gray ! Bot. Amer. Expl. JEJxped. i. 480. Glabra v. junior flavescenti-
pubescens.PhyUodia ssepius longiora et magis falcata quam in ^. heterophi/lla, et
legumen pauUo latius. Csetera omnia conveniunt et phyllodia variant
breviora et
latiora.
A. heterophylla, Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. 81 Benth. in Hook. Lend. Journ.
! ;
i. 368, non Willd.
ex A. Gray.
Sab. Sandwicb Islands

Mauritius and Sandwich
distinguished
205. A. UicHEi, A. Gray ! Bot Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 482, t. 53. Glabra. Phyl
lodia lanceolata, acuminata, subfalcata, 1
J-3-poUicaria, 3-6 lin. lata tenuiter coriacea
multinervia. PeduncuU fiUformes. Capitula
parva, glabra. Calyx breviter dentatus.
Legumen 2-3-pollicare, planum, 6-8 lin. latum, valvis tenuibus reticulatis, maiginibus
tenuiter 2-suloatis mter sulcos acute carinatis.
Hab. Islands of the South Pacific, and apparently the same species in Formosa,
Oldham.
with
folia, from which it is readily distinguished by its narrow
1
206 A. lATOiroLiA, WUia Spec. iv. 1053. Glabra. PhyUodia ovata oblonga v. late
lanceolata.
i.
2-4.pomea„a, IJ-S poll, lata, tenuiter coriacea,

multinervia. Pedunculi
flhformes. Cap.tula parvula glabra. Sepala distincta. august^
spathulata. Legumen
''*™' '^™ ^^"'^''"'^ reticulatis,
marginibus
Itulcat^n
2.sulcatis jlT"'
inter sulcos carmatis v. angustissime
."
alatis.-ia6i«. gert
te'nuiter
Mimosa Hmplicifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. 436. Amtr

^mr.- Galed
Laled. 68
t. bS.
t
M. Mangium, Forst. Prod. 75. .
Sab. New Caledonia and islands of the

South Pacific.
G. Dimidiatge. Fhyllodia scepius

ampla, falcata « 'iinJrJ^ ^t./- o y - • .
I
"^^^^f''^ôu» hn
distmitih,tst î n..^t ^ ^-^ ''^^^^^^^^•^^^fiôbhqua,nervw2~Spromirmh8
• •
0(t8t juxta margmem
if J vui tm scBniij^
inferiorem 6(epiu8 ryr^n^^^^^
approximatw*-
v. cum f
eo confluentibus,
^
*
——
"^'"''"•J MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 483
p
i)enulis inter nervos reticulatis. StipulcB mimdce v. {nee ut in A. urophyUa spi:

Hescentes).
207. A. BiNEKVATA, DC. Frod. ii. 452. Glabra. Pliyllodia falcato-oblonga v. lan-
ceolata, 3-4-pollicaria, inter nervos 2-3 penniyenia. Pedunculi tenues, ad axillas race-
mosi, racemo demum in ramum foliatum excrescente. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legu-
inen elongatum, planum, tenue, 6-8 lin. latum, intus aouimxmm. -^Benth. Fl. Amtrat.
ii. 390
Mag
Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc
Sab. Tropical North Australia and extratropical East Australia.

It is possible that I may have confounded two species; hut Schnltz's Port-Darwin specimons (infloM'cr)
closely resemble several of those from New South Wales. F. ]\lueller's fruiting specimens from the Upper
Roper river have a rather different aspect ; but I can find no distinctive character.
f
r ^
I
208. A. LATESCENS, BentJi. ! in Hooh. Lond. Journ. i. 380. Glabra. Phyllodia fal-
cato-lanceolata, obtusa, 6-9-pollicaria, venis inter nervos 2-3 paucis reticulatis v. sub-
parallelis. Pedunculi tenues, ad axillas fasciculati. Calyx brevissime dentatus. Lcgu-
men subplanum, 4-5-pollicare, \ poll, latum, marginibus baud incrassatis, valvis rcticu-
latis, intus inter semina subseptatum. Fl. Austral, ii. 391.

r
Sab. Tropical Australia : north and north-west coast.

The foliage is sometimes nearly the same as in J. hinervata^ but the inflorescence and pod very
different.
209. A. SEUiCATA, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Sook. Lond. Journ. i. 380. Glabra glauca v.
minute subfarinaceo-puberula. Phyllodia late falcata, obtusa, 3-4-pollicaria, medio

1-lJ poll, lata, apice basique contracta, in ramis sterilibus longiora, inter nervos 3-4 di-
stantes basi cum margine confluentes reticulata. Legumen planum, glaucum, 3-5.polli-
care, 1-lJ poll, latum, marginibus anguste carinato-subalatis, valvis tenuibus reticulatis
inter semina (pulpa ?) subseptatum. Fl. Austiâl. ii. 391.
A.platycarpa, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 145.
Mab. Tropical Australia : north and north-west coasts.
210. A. FLAVESCENS, A. Cunti. ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 381. Junior cano-
4
V. flavescenti-tomentosa, glabrescens. Phyllodia late falcata, acuminata, 4-8-pollicaria,
medio 1-3 poll, lata, inter nervos 2-3 apice ad marginem glanduliferos reticulata.
Capitula breviter pedunculata (subpaniculata ?). Sepala anguste spathulata. Legumen

planum, S-S-poUicare, f poll, latum, coriaceum,.reticulatum, marginibus vix incrassatis.

'
Hab. Tropical East Australia.
211. A. BETiVENiA, F. Muell ! Fragm. Fhytogr. Austral iii. 128. Tomento canescentc
obovata v. suborbiculata, obtusissima,
sublanato undique vestita. Phyllodia oblique
lf-2-poUicaria, inter nervos 3-4 reticulata. Pedunculi ad axillas phyllodiorum
crassa,
superiorum multo minorum brevissimi. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen ignotura,
Benth. Fl. Austral ii. 392.
Sab. Tropical Australia : northern interior.

484 MR. G- BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE- [Acacia
, Subseries 8. Juliflorss: Thyllodia verticaliter compressa v. raniis teretia^ in caulem

articulata, plurinervia v. rarius \-nerx)ia^ oMusa v. acuta rarius siihpungentia. Spic(B
cylindracece^ densce v. interruptcB^ rarius dum sessiles hreviter ohlongw.
This includes all the spicate phyllodineous Acaci(S except A. triptera, which has decurrcnt phyllodia,
and a few of the Pungentes^ which have no immediate affinity with any of the following groups. Several
of the species of this subseries are very difficult to identify without the fruit. This is especially the case
undistinguishable as to foliag
different pods.
A. Rigidulae. JBJiyllodia plmia^ recta obliqua v. leviter falcatat scepkis obtusa v. mu-
crone calloso glandiiloso v. curvo terminata^ specierum priorum brevia, uUimarum 3-4-
pollicaria. Spicce demce {excepta A. megalantlia) , Mores plerique 5-meri.
212. A. AMENTiFERA, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. 141. Glabra.
iii. Phyllodia
saepe fasciculata, oblique oblonga, obtusa, 2-4 lin. longa, coriacea, enervia v. obscure
2-iiervia. Spicge sessiles, Sepala distincta, angusta.
densae. Legumen ignotum.
Benth. M. Austral, ii. 392.
Sab. Tropical Nortb-west Australia.
213. A. WiCKHAMi, Benth. ! in Book. Lond. Journ. i. 377. Glabra, ssepe glauca v
resinosa. Phyllodia oblique ovata v. falcato-oblonga, obtusa, undulata, rarius semipol
Ucem excedentia, nervis pluribus tenuibus v. 2-3 magis
prominulis. Spicae peduncu
latae, densaB. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legumen planum,
crassum, lignosum, oblique
venosum, sub-2-pollicare, supra medium 2 lin. latum.— A
i?7. Austral, ii. 392.
Sab. Tropical Nortb and Nortb-west Australia.
i
siPHLCEA, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soo.

If ! iii. 137, Glabra, s^pe resinosa,
J\t.^'
PhyUodia oblique lineari-oblonga linearia y. oblanceolata,
s^pius obtusa, f-l-poUicaria,
crassa, ngida, obscure y. prominule
3-5-neryia. Spic^ pedunculate, tenues, densiflor^,
Sepala basi breviter connata. Legumen
planum, durum, sublignosum, 1-2-poUicare,
3-6 Im. latum, valvis reticulatis.— ^^^?f^. Ft.
Austral, ii. 393
Sab. Tropical North and North-west Australia.
™;°™^^' :^^»'!'- : ^'""^- ônd. Journ.

»uwt Phyllodm Imearxa obtusa,
pubescens.
'
M^polUcaria, ad 1
i. 371. Glabra v. leviter viscose
lin. lata, obscure l-Bsrvia.
i
striatis. margimbus nervifonm-mcrassatis.-^.

Auslral ii 393
Mab. Tropical North Australia. '
'
'
°^^'"^^
cori,... L.;. 9^
2-4 2^:T^'
maiginibusque
V. lanceolata.
nerviformibus prominulis.
1-2-pollicaria, 3-7 lin. lata,
f.
M
santibus. Stipule paryje fuscEP ^nW ,:" ^^"^"^^^«' venuKs anastomo

^^^^^^s crebris anasiomu-
I
F
fôUe solvendL. ieg^ÎrLaS

toTrmhns.-Benth. Fl. Amtral. ii.
Tu^^^^TiT
^^
^^^^^^^
^^*"'"'
'^1 ^ ""'m
""^'giMbus nervJ-
f
393.
Mab. Tropical Norti-west
Australia' and northern interior
5)
Ir
i"
—
] MR. G, BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 485
217. A. PTYCHOPHYLLA, F. Muell. I in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 142. Besinosa, caeterum
glabra. Phyllodia oblique oblonga, obtusissima, l-lj-pollicaria, 2-3 lin. lata, rigide
coriacea, prominenter 5-9-nervia, inter nervos avenia. Spicae pedunculatae, densse.

Calyx lobatus. Legumen ignotum. Benth. Fl. Amhal. n. 394.
Sah. Tropical North-west Australia.
218. A. STIGMATOPHYLLA, A. Cunn.I Benth.! in Sook. Bond. Joum. i. 377. Glabra

V. junior vix cano-pubescens. Phyllodia oblique anguste oblonga v. subfalcata, l^S-pol-
licaria, 3-4 lin. lata, undulata, tenuiter 3-5-nervia, inter nervos longitudinaliter denseque
reticulato-venulosa. Spicse tenues, subpaniculatse. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legnmru
igiioium..—Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 394.
B[ab. Tropical North-west Australia,
219. A. TJMBELLATA, A. Cunn. I Benth. in ffooJc. Bond. Joum. i. 378. Junior oano-
f-l^ poll,
v. latefalcata, 2-4.pollicaria,
lata,
sericea, mox glabrata. Phyllodia oblonga
coriacea, tenuiter multinervia, nervis ^-9 validioribus, nonnullis intcrdum basi cum
margine confluentibus. Spicte subsessiles, densae. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. LegumcMi
falcatum v. rectum, subteres, smgusium.— Benth. Fl. Austral ii. 394.
ITab. Tropical North Australia.

in Joum. Linn. Soc. 343. Subglabra. rhyllodia
220. A. LEPTOPHLEBA, F. Muell. ! iii.
obtusa, 2-2i-pollicaria, ad 6 lin. lata, coriacea, undulatn, nervis

oblique oblongo-falcata,
anastomosantibus crebris dense parallelis. Spicse pedunculatae,
3 pluribusve, venis
Legumen ignoi\im.—B eîth. Fl. Austral ii. 395.
densse. Calyx profunde lobatus.
Mab. Tropical North-west Australia.
Joum. Binn. 145. Glabra, glauca, ramis
A Muell Soc.
'
in iii.
221 LiMBATA, F. I
lata, crasse coriacea,
acutangulis. Phyllodia oblonga, falcata, 2-3-pollicaria, hi poU-
nerviformi confluentibus. Plorcs ignoti.
nervis pluribus, inferioribus basi cum margine
l-|-2-poUicare, supra medium 4 Hn. lat^^^bas/ con
Legumen planum, durum, glabrum,
Benth. Fl. Austral ii. 395
marginibus incrassatis
tractum at sessile, oblique venosum,
Mab. Tropical North Australia.
395. Glabra, subglauca. Phyllodia
222. A. BREVIFOLIA, Bcnth. ! Fl Austral ii. _
li-2-poUicaria, J-f lin. bta, yaUe ^riacca

obliq oblonga. subfalcata, obtusa,
pedunculate, breves. Caljnc
reticulatim v. subparallele yenosa. Spicse
IJ-pollicarc. fcrc 4 lin. latum,
Legumen planum, erassnm, sublignosum.
dentatus.
stipitatum, oblique venosum, marginibus incrassatis.
F. Muell. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. H3.

A. leptophleba, var. brevifolia, !
Hab Tropical East Australia : desert Australia.
223. A. MEGALANTHA, F. Muell! in Joum. Unn. Soc. m U3. Glabra. FhyUodia
late semiovata v. lanceolato-falcata, a-4-pollicaria, poll.
longiuscute.
laU, conacea,
Fbrcs
3-7-nerv.a
subdi^s.t
H
alaba.tn
t
Spioa, peduneulata,, ,
tenuiter parallcle venosa.
ignotum.-i^.. M. Fl. Amtral. u. 39u
oWongis 2 lin. longis. Calyx dentatus. Legumen
North-west Australia.
Sab. Tropical
true Acacia known to mc.
•
are larger than in any other
The individual floorers
—
486 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MLMOSEiE. [Acacic.
- 1
224. A. GONOCLADA, F. Musll. ! in Jouni.Lmn. Soc. iii. 140. Glabra, glauca, ramulis
crassis acutangulis. Phyllodia lanceolato-oblonga, subfalcata, 3-4'-pollicana, 4^8 lin.
*
lata, coriacea, nervis 2-3 prominulis basi cum margino subconflucntibus, vcnis crebris
parallelis tenuibus. Spicae breves, densae, breviter pedunculatae. Calyx brcviter den-
tatus. Legumen lineare, 1-li-polIicare, 1^ lin. latum, planum, tenue, marginibus ncrvi-
formibus. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 396.
r
Sab. Tropical North-west Australia.

-
225. A. PYCNOSTACHTA, F. MuelL ! Fl. Vict. ii. 33. Glabra, sub^lauca, ramulis
acutangulis. Phyllodia oblongo-lanceolata, obliqua v. subfalcata, 3-, rarius 4-poU
2-1 lin. lata, rigidula, tenuiter multinervia, nervis 3-4 subvalidioribus. Spicae sessiles,
longiuscul^, densiflorse. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legumen anguste lineare, planum,
marginibus incrassatis, maturum ignotum.—^^wifA. Fl. Austral, ii. 396.
Distinguished from the broad-leayed forms of A.
longifolia by the inflorescence and the 5^merous
flowers. .
226. A. suBTiLiNERVis, F. Muell. Fl. Vict. 32.

! ii. Glabra, ramulis teretiusculis.
Phyllodia lanceolata, recta, 2-4-polUcaria, 3-6
Hn. lata, coriacea, tenuiter multinervia,
costa centrali magis prominula. Spicae
densiuscul^. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legumen
iôivLm.--Benth. Fl. Austral ii. 396.
Hab. South-east Australia.
B. Tetramerae. Fhyllodia plana, coriacea v. iemia, recta v. falcata. plurinerria

ranm angustmima et uninervia. Spica: Bcepe lax<B. Floree plerique v. omnes i-m
iiemwa longitudmalia.
227. A coom^CKKiK, Meksn. in Bot. Zeit. l^m, \0.

! Glabra, rigida. Phyllodia
hnean-lauceolata, subfalcata. 2-4-pomcaria, 2-4 lia. lata, S-T-aervia! costa centrali
elevata. Sp.c^ sessiles, deusie. Sepala distincta, angusta.
Legumen glabrum, lineare,
«**="" ^ Ii- di^-etro plurigyrosam
ZZTZ ''^Îf ;^'^-t-
plams marginibus nerviformibus.— JJe»tt. i?;. ^„«ft.„; ii 397
contortum, yalvis c^terum
Hob. South-west Australia.
228. A. BALLACHIANA, F Muell. ! Fragm. Fhytogr. Austral

7 Glabra ramis
angulatis subglaucis.
lata 9-fiTiA.^;o et
lata, ii-b-nervia
Phyllodia lanceolato-falcata
f
4- w " ^^^^^^^' ^ 6 nnli;-^
t /
.- .^
^-^-poUicaria, medio s£epe pollicem
•
i.
obtuse
obtuse^ denfifii^
dentatus J
reticulato-venulosa
.^.. t
Snira- «Ace;i..o
Legumen Imeare, rectiusculum,
sessiles, cylindrace^, ,
dens^.
.
^^ i
Calyx
2^ lin. latum valvis ad semina con-
vexis, xnter semma angustioribus
planis.-^..,A. Fl Austral
â5. South-east AustraHa. ^^n.avi,
ii 397
229. A. ALTTNA, F. Muell Franw 9Q

r iii 1 .
^
^ /
f^t^^..,
./. ,.
var. ^<,p W, yalde affinis,
et forte suadente Muellero (PI V ct H S ^ "
?" "''"'*^°='' -iiâricata,
Mlm
phyUodiis late et oblique obovatis "^"^"^"^ ^-
' 1 i Iv '
conveniunt.-^^«. Z^ '' ''"" '"^""^ P^"'='«°"^- ^"'"^

4»
1 MR MIMOSEiE. 487
iji
. 230. A. LONGiFOLiA, WUld. Spec. iv. 1052. Erecta, glabra v. junior vix pubescens.
Phyllodia late oblonga oblongo-lanceolata v. linearia, recta v. rarius subfalcata, 2.v.pluri-
nervia et reticulato-venulosa, nunc 2-3-pollicaria, nunc duplo longiora. Spicse stepis-
sime laxiflorge. Calyx brevis, truncatus. Legumen lineare, ssepius pluripoUicare, 2-1
lin.latum, valvis ad semina convexis, inter semina sgepius contractis.— i?c/^. Beg. t. 3G2 ;
Bot. Mag, t. 1827, 2166; Lodd. BoL Cab. t. 678; Maund, Botanist, t. 77 ; Benth. Fl.
Austral, ii. 397.
Mimosa longifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 207 Vent. ; Jard. Malm, t, G2.
M. macrostachya, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i, 61.
M, ensifolia, Sm. ex Steud.
Acacia obtustfolia^ A, Cunn. ! in Field, New S. Wales, 345.
A. spathulata^ Tausch in Flora, 1836, 420.
A. intertexta. Sieb. ! in DC. Prod, ii. 454.
Var. soPHORiE. Phyllodia lata, obtnsa, 2-3-pollicaria. Legumen sfcpins crassum, cnrmm*
Mimosa sophorce, Labill. ! PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 87, t. 237.
Acacia sophoray R. Br. ! in Ait. Ilort. Kcw. ed. 3, v. 402 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1351.
Var. MUCRONATA. Phyllodia angustu, obtusa, 1^-2^-pollicaria.
A. mucronata^ Willd. Euum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 68 (nomen tantum) ; Wendl. Comm. Acac. 4'6, t/12,
Bof. Mag. t. 2747.
A. dependenSj A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Hook.Lond. Journ. i. 372,
Var. FLORiBUNDA. Phyllodia angusta, 3-5-pollicaria, c|uara in praeccdentibua tenulora et acutiora.

Mimosa floribunda, Vent. ! Choix, 1. 13.
Acacia floribunda, Willd, ! Spec. iv. 1051,

A. angustifolia Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 763, non Jacq.
y
A. intermedia^ A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3203. !
A. decussata, Ten. ! Cat. Ort. Napol. 77.
A. dissitiflora^ Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 371.

231. A. LINEARIS, Sims! Bot. Mag. t. 2156. Glabra v. junior vix pubescens. Phyl-
lodia anguste linearia, nunc 4-6-pollicaria nunc duplo longiora vix linca latiora, cost a
prominula addito interdum nervo utrinque altero. Spicae longiusculsD, luxa?. Calyx
brevis, dentatus. Legumen lineare, pluripoUicare, ad 2 lin. hXum.—Lodd. Bot. Cah.
t. 595 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 399.

A. longissima , Wendl. Comm. Acac. 45, 1. 11 ; Bot. Ecg. t. G80.

possible that the Brisbane form of
From a fruiting specimen just received from Mr. C. Prentice, it is
from common somewhat variable New South Wales one. In

A. linearis may be specifically distinct the
identical with soiue of Sicbcr's and others but tlu-
flower Cunningham's fine specimens appear almost ;
regularly contracted between the seeds, whilst it is quite continuoui* in th^

pod in Prentice's specimen is
few New South Wales specimens in which I have seen it perfect.
C. Stenophyll^. Bhyllodia Unearl-mbulata v. anguste linearia, recta v. cnrcula,
teretia v. crasso-compressa, rarius infra 2 poll, tonga. Spic(B dens(B v. tenues. Fhres
swpius 5-meri, v. in speciebus teretifoliia is-meri.

« Spicw sessiles, sirpius brevet
in Linnaa, xxvi. 627. Glabra. Pbyllodia lineari-sul

232. A. ACIPHYLLA, Benth. !
3
VOL. XXX.
— — ^
488 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Aeacia.
lata, rigida, pungenti-mucronata, 2-4-pollicaria, terctia, sub Icntc tcnuissime multinervia

Spicae 3 lin. non excedentes. Plores plerique 5-meri. Calyx Lroviter lobatus. T.on'iimei
pollicare, 1^ lin. latum, durum, inter semina leviter contractum. Fl. Austral, ii. 399.
A. leptonenra, var. ? pungens, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 12.
A,
The pod is only known from a single loose valve.
233. A. EPHEDROiDES, Bentli. I in Kooh. Lond. Jmirn. i. 370. Glabra v. junior pubes
cens. Phyllodia lineari-filiformia, teretia, 2-6-pollicaria, paucinervia v. obtuse 4-ffona
Spicae 3-4 lin longae. .Mores plerique 4-meri. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen im
maturum angustissimum. Fl. Austral, ii. 399.
A.filifolia, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 369.
234. A. BuRKiTTii, F. Muell.
Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 400. Glabra. Phyllodia lineari
I
subulata, teretia v. subcompressa, 2-3-poUicaria,

striato-multinervia. Spicai 3-4 lin
longae. Elores plerique 4-meri. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Extratropical Central Australia.
235. A. MicuoNErRA, Meissn. in Fl. Preiss.
I i. 19. Cinereo-pubescens, mox glabrata,
Phyllodia anguste linearia, 2-3-pollicaria,
f-l lin. lata, rigida, multinervia, costo promi-
nula. Spicae 3-4 lin. longae. Plores plerique 4.meri. Calyx breviter dentatus. Legu-
men i^notnm.—F enth. FL Austral, ii. 400
236 A, CYPEROPHYLLA, F Muell. I Benth. Ft, Austral, ii. 400. Cancpuberula. Phyl
lodia Imeari-subulata, 6-10-pollicaria,
teretia v. vix compressa, sub
lente striato-multi
nervia. Spic^ semipollice breviores.
Mores plerique 5-meri. Calyx breviter dentatus
sepahs demum solvendis. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Extratropical East subcentral Australia
: desert interior.
237. A. -mjijTisYicATA, Benth J Fl Awitml
^^^^^'"" iTînn
^^- ^^0.
t • .
Juuior minutc sericeo-pubescens^
mn^
mox n.ioV..o+o
glabrata. T>\. 11 A' T
Phyllodia Imeari-subulata, 1^-21
• \
poll, longa, riîdula prom

nromi- teret a
^^b^^^â, teretia,
nule paucinervia et sulcata. Spic^ laxiuscnlfP i-i
iaxiusculae, r..ir
r-oKr/ 1, -^ 1 .
-^ a-|-poUicares. Elores plerique 4-meri
Calyx pubescens,
V.
breviter lobatus. -^ ;
Ovarium
^îum tomentosnm
Lomentosum. T .n. •
TT..T. o^„+i, X* ,.
Sab. South-west Australia . Legumen
G"""^" lirnotum.
15
(See also 245. A. hrachyHachya,

which has sometimes sessile
spikes.)
^*
Spicis peduncul
desert interior
239. A. XYLOCAEPA y/ nî^^ f t> ±i ^ i
viscida. !" "".^'""'- ^'"^^ ^'^''- i. 370.

^Ô- sub
Glabra, sub
Phyllodia lineari
imean-subulata,
subvilltf 9
'•
2-4-pomcaria, rigidula, teretia
.,
V. rarius compressa
Is;
— —
•] MR MIMOSE^. 489
obscure 1-nervia. Spicae tenues, densiflorge. Elores plerique 5-meri. Calyx breviter
lobatus. Legumen
subteres v. leviter compressum, IJ-S-pollicare, apicem versus 3-4
lin. latum et crassum, basin versus attenuatum, vahis sublignosis striatis, ab npice
elastice revolutis, intus inter semina septatum. FL Austral, ii. 401.
A. orthocarpa, F, Muell. ! in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 136.
A, temissima, F. Muell. ! 1. c. 135, phyllodiis longioribus tenuioribus; Irgumcn ignotuni.
Hab. Tropical North-west Australia.
240. A. GONOCARPA, F. Muell. ! in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 13G. Glabra, junior viscida.
Pbyllodia plana, angustissime linearia, lJ-2- rnrius S-pollicaria, prominule 1-ncrvia.
Spicae tenues, densissimae. Elores minimi, plcrique 5-mori. Scpala distincta, angiistc
linearia. Legumen durum, sublignosum, lJ-2-pollicare, ad 3 lin. latum, marginibus ele-
vatis acutangulis, valvis dehiscentia ab apicc revolutis, iutns infer scinin X sept
Benth. FL Austral, ii. 401.
Hab. Tropical North Australia.
241. A. oNCiNOPiiYLLA, Lindl. I Sw. lllv. App. 15. Glabra v. leviter viscidu-pubos-
cens. Phyllodia lineari-subulata, 3-5-pollicaria, ad lincam latn, crnR<«a, rigidula, promi-
nule 3-nervia. Spicae densse. Mores plcrique 5-mori. Calyx lobatus, scpalis subsniutis.
Legumen (ea^ Meissn.) lineare, subtortuosum, 1-lJ-pollicare, 2 lin. latum, villosulum.
Bot. Mag. t. 4353 ; Benth. Ft. Austral, ii. 401.
242. A. DREPANOCARPA, F. Muell. ! in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 137. Glabra, junior
resinosa. Phyllodia anguste linearia, 2-4-pollicaria, 1-2 lin. lata, costa prominula et
utrinque tenuiter 1-2-nervia. Spicae tenues. Plores plerique 6-merL Calyx lobatus.
Legumen lJ-3-poUicare, 1^-2 lin. latum, planum, crassum, raarginibus crassis, oblique
venosum, valvis dehiscentia elastice revolutis. — Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 402.
I
Sab. Tropical North Australia.
243. A. ARIDA, Benth. Bool. Lond. Joum. i. 370. Glabra v. tenuit(;r rancsccns.
! in
Phyllodia anguste linearia, 2-4-pollicaria, 1-2 lin. lata, plana, crassa, obscure 3-nerA ia.
Spicse tenues, densse. Flores minimi, plerique S-meri. Calyx breviter lobatus. Lcgu-
men planum, crassum, fere 4 poll, longum, 3 lin. latum, basin versus attcnuatnm, ralvis
sublicfnosis, dehiscentia elastice revolutis. Fl. Austral, ii. 402.
Hab. Tropical North-west Australia.

244. A. ANEURA, F. Muell. ! in Li/nncea, xxvi. 027. Minute cano-pubcscons. Pli\
lodia anguste linearia, plana, crassa, saipiu;? l^-S-poUicaria, 1-1 J lin. lata, nunc angus (
multinervia. Spic® J -pollicarcs. i^'Jore*:

oblonga v. subterctia, sub lentc vix obscure J-
plerique 5-meri. Sepala distincta, angustissima. Legumen planum, tenue, l-ll-polli-
care, ad 4 lin. latum, basi contractum, marginibus angustissime aktis.— i?c»M. Ft. Am-
fm?. ii. 402.
Extratropical Central and South Australia desert interior.
Hab, :
BRACHYSTACHYA, Benth.! FL AustraL ii. 40.1. Subglauca v. canescens. Phyl-

245. A.
lineari-subulata, leviter comprc-^sa, rigida, sub lente striatc-multinervia, Spic»
lodia
fj 82
490 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE M1M0SE.E. [Acacia.
brevissime pedunculatas v. subsessiles, ovoideae, 2-3 lin. longap. Florcs plerique 5-meri
Sepala distincta. Legumen ignotum. Au A. aneurce var. ?
D. Falcatse. Phyllodia scepius elongata v. am/pla, plus minus falcatay apice haslque
contractat nervis venisque crehrls parallelis, 1-3 plurihusve sapiiis magis promimilis,
nuioribus scepe anastomosantibus . Spicce temies, scephts densijlora. Flares plerique
5
* Legumen ubi notum a7igustum, scminibus longitudinalibus
.
246. A. coNSPERSA, F. Mtiell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 140. . Laxe puberula. Stipulse
parvae, fuscae. Phyllodia lanceolata, subfalcata, 2'3-polliearia, 2-4 lin. lata, 1-3-nervia
et crebre parallele venulosa. Mores ignoti. Leorumen lineare, rectum v. subfalcatum.
IJ latum, crassiusculum, valvis duris leviter Gi^nxe^h.—Benth. Fl. Austral,
lin.
ii. 408.
Hab. Tropical Nortb Australia.
247. A. DORATOXYLON, A. Cunn. I in Field, Neic S. Wales, 345. Glabra, cinerascens.
Phyllodia elongato-linearia, subfalcata, 4-8-pollicaria, 2-3, rarius 4 lin. lata,
crassiuscula,
tenuiter multinervia, costa prominula. Spicae densiusculae. Calyx sinuato-dentatus.
Legumen ignotum.—B enth, Fl. Attsfral. ii. 403.
Rab. Extratropical and subtropical East and Central Australia desert
m
interior. :
248. A. ACUMINATA, Bentk. ! in Rook. Lond. Journ. i.

373. Glabra v. junior sericeo-
V. aureo-pubescens. Phyllodia elongato-linearia, subfalcata, 3-10-pollicaria, 2-3 lin. lata,
tenuiter multinervia, costa prominula. Spicae densiuscul^. Plores quam in A. dora-
toxylo majores. Sepala facile solvenda. Legumen lineare, 2-2^ lin. latum, valvis ad
semina convexis, inter semina subcontractum.—i^Z. Austral,
ii. 404.
A. doratoxyhn, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 19, vix A. Cunn.
!
A. Oldfieldii, P. Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, iv. 7.
Hab. South-west Australia. Possibly a western variety only of A. doratoxyhn.

249. A. STEEEOPHYLLA, Meissn. ! in PL Freiss. 203.
ii. Glaberrima Phyllodia
Imearia, subfalcata, 3-5-pollicaria, 1^-3 lin. lata, crassa, rigidula,
tenuiter multinervia.
Spicae densae, subsessiles. Sepala distincta v. vix coh^rentia. Le-umen i-notum
Benth. Fl. Austral, O"^*^^" ^t)
ii. 404.
250. A. siGNATA J-. Muell. ! Fragm. Phytogr. Austral, ir. 7. Glabra, glauca. Phyl-
lodia Imean-lanceolata, 2-5-pollicaria, obtasa,
basi contracta. rigidula.
tenuiter multi-
nema. Spic» pedunculate Plores ignoti.
I^guêu breviter stipitatum, planum,
com,ûm, sub- S-polhcare, ad 3 Im. latum, marginibus
iuerassatis.-/e«Â. Fi: Austral.
11. 404.
The foliage of the last three species is nearly
identical.
251. A. DELiBRATA, ^. Cunn. I Benth «« Unnh tit""^^ ^^^'''^- ^'

. ^'
^^^' ^^^^^^
.
^^^'^"'^'
pubescens glabrescens Phvlln r i !
Imean-lanceolata,
Krbafd
hn. baud lata, c I r^^^^^^^^
crassa, nervis ad 3 prominulis, pluribusque
falcata, 4-6.pollicaria, medio 2-5
tenuibus bine inde anastomo-
— —
Acacia.2 HR MIMOSE^. 491
santibus. Flores ignoti. Legumen sub-3-pollicare, 2^-3 lin. latum, valvis planis v. ad
semina convexis, marginibus incrassatis. FL Austral, ii. 404.
Mab. Tropical North-west Australia.
252. A. OLIGONEURA, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 139. Glabra. Phyhodia
anguste lanceolata, falcata, 4-6-pollicaria, J-f poll, lata, venis ad 3 prominulis, paiicis
tenuioribus, venulis reticulatis. Spicae pedunculatoe, tenues, densillorae. Calyx sinuato-
dentatus. Legumen ignotum. Benth. FL Amtral. ii. 405.
Hab. Tropical North and North-west Australia.
Possibly the same as A. delibrata.
253. A. TORULOSA, Benth. I in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 139. Glabra. Pbyllodia liTionri-
lanceolata, falcata, 4-8-pollicaria, medio 3-4 lin. lata, coriacoa, nCrvis 8-5 promiimlis
numerosisque tenuibus parallelis. Spicae brcvissirae pcdunculatrr, dcnsiuseuloc. Sepala
distincta v. basi subcoalita, angusta. Logumon pluripollicarc, moniliforme, valvis nd
semina convexis, 3 lin. latis, inter semina ralde constrictis.— iî?. Austral, ii. 405.
Mab. Tropical North and North-east Australia.

The foHage is very nearly the same as that of A.juUfera and some others of this scries.
254. A. JULiFERA, Benth. I in Hook. Loncl. Journ. i. 374. Glabra cxccpta inflo-
rescentia. Phyllodia anguste lanceolata, falcata, 4-6-pollicaria, medio 3-G lin. lata,
1-3 marginibusque nerviformibus promi Spicae dci
breviter pedunculatse. Calyx lobatus, pubcscens. Legumen 1 i-2 lin. latum, sp
contortum, gyris numerosis irregulariter laxis v. in cylindrumbrevem confertis, Be

FL Austral, u. 405.
255. A. SoLANDRi, Benth. I Fl. AustraL ii. 406. Gkbra v. junior subsericea. PI }
lodia anguste lanceolata, falcata, 4-6.pollicaria, 3-4 Hn. lata, ncrvis 1-3 prominulis nu-
Spicae 2-3-pollicares, tenues, dissitiflorae. Calyx
merosisque tenuioribus paraUeUs.
truncatus. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. Subtropical or tropical East Australia.
5-merous flowers and the phyllodia those of A.Ju/i/,ra.
The inflorescenee is that of A. linearis, but the
A. LEPTOSTACHTA, Benth. ! Fl. AustraL ii. 406. Subglabra v. mmute cano-

256. ?
Phyllodia linearia v. lanceolata, sa^pius falcata, 1-2 rarius 3 poll
V. argenteo-pubescens.
subsequaliter multinervia. Spicnc tenues, longiuscula-,
longa, 1-5 lin. lata, tenuiter et
floribus sgepius dissitis. Calyx brevis, truncatus. Legumen ignotum.

group
HorL BeroL t. 101. Cinereo-glau-

257. A ESCENS, Willd. Spec. iv. 1052, et
junior sericeo-flavescens, rarlus ab mitio gkbra. RamuU obscure am?uhiti,
oblongo-falcata lanceolata, 4-6-pollicaria. medio f-1 poll,

mox^ tereti^s. Phyllodia v..
l-2.pollicares, densiuscuk- t. laxiflora^. Calyx

lata coriacea, striato-multinervia. Spicse
sinuato-dentatus. Legumen Hneare, elongatum, a.1 2 hn. laium,
pubcscens, truncatus v.
subspirale.— J?^«M. Fl. AustraL u. 406.

valde contortum v. irregulariter
glaucescens, Poir. Diet. Snppl. i. 61.
WendL Bot. Beob. 56, ex ejusd, Comm. Acac. 53,

Jf. binervis,
—— —
492 MR ON THE MIMOSEiE. Mada.
Wendl
A. cinerascens, Sieb. in DC. Prod.
! ii. 454 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3174
A. leucadendron, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 374.
JECab. Extratropical (and subtropical ?) East Australia.
258. A. CuNNiNGHAMi, Soolc. I Ic. FL 1. 165, no7i G. Don. Glabra v. cano-pubesccns,
ramulis insigniter acutanguHs. Phyllodia falcato-oblonga v. lanceolata, semipedalia et
1-1 J poll, lata V. in raniis sterilibus majora, nervis numerosis parallolis, 3-5 magis pro-
minulis, 1-2 ad basin cum margine confluentibus. Spicae longiusculsD, densae. Calyx
sinuato-dentatus. Legumen lineare, flexuosum v. contortum, 1-2 lin. latum. Benth.
A. longispicata, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 298.
Sab. Extratropical and subtropical Australia.
259. A. LEPTOCARPA, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 376. Glabra, ra-
mulis vix angulatis. Phyllodia lanceolato-falcata, 4-6-pollicaria, medio 4i-8 lin. lata,
nervis tenuibus, ad 3 magis prominulis, numerosis tenuissimis parallelis subdissitis rarius

anastomosantibus. Spicae 1^2-pollicares, laxiusculse. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legu-
men lineare, subrectum, pluripoUicare, 1^-2 lin. latum, valvis ad semina convexis, inter
semina contractum. M. Austral, ii. 407.

Hah. Tropical East Australia.
260. A. POLYSTACHTA, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 376. Glabra, ra-
mulis vix angulatis. Phyllodia falcato-oblonga v. lanceolata, 6-10-pollicaria, medio 1-li

poll, lata, nervis tenuibus, 3-5 magis prominulis, numerosis tenuissimis parallelis sub-
dissitis hinc inde anastomosantibus. Spicae tenues, 1-2-pollicares, laxiusculce. Calyx

sinuato-dentatus. Legumen flexuosum, pluripoUicare, 5-6 lin. latum, valvis planis
tenuiter coriaceis. Fl. Austral, ii. 407.
Hab. Tropical North and East Australia.
Phyllodia nearly of A. leptocarpa, but the pod different.
261. A. HOLOCARPA, Benth. ! Fl. Austral ii. 408. Glabra, ramulis tenuibus teretibus.
Phyllodia late falcata 4-5- v. forte 6-polUcaria, medio i-f poll,
lata, nervis 2-3 promi-
nuUs numerosisque tenuibus parallelis confertissimis. Spic^
subsessiles, tenues, densi-
florse. Calyx alte lobatus. Legumen elongatum, tenue, subteres, longitudinaliter striatum,
^
ad 2 lin. diametro.
very
** Legumen ubi notum latiusculum coriaceum v. rarius tenue. Semina valde obliq
subtransver sa
group
•''' '^
"""'' °^ *" P'^^'î'^g species, the seeds appear to have been
embedded m
^mh»JJ^ a pulp, which
1 1. ,,
m drymg forms spurious dissepiments between
• 1
them
262 A. PLECiocAi^PA, A. Cnnn. ! Benth. in Sook. Land. Journ.
i. 375. Glabra s«pe-
r tr' '"""f," ^"""^^f'-

I'l^yll^di'^ Mcato-lanceolata, 4-6.pollicaria. medio 4-8
supenores sa^pe paniculate. Caly. minute dentatus.

Legumen li-2.poUicare, 3-4 Kn.
— — . —
Acacia.} MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 493
latum, planum v. inter margines rectos undulatum, variat tenuius v, prassius. Fl.
Austral, ii. 408.
263. A. PACHYCAEPA, F. Muell. ! in Jmirn. Linn. Soc. iii. 139. Glabra v. minute
glauco-pubescenSj ramulis vix angulatis. Phyllodia lineari-lanceolata v. Uncaria, suL-
falcata, 3-10-pollicaria, medio 2-4 lin. lata, coriacea, sub lente tenuissime multinervia,
nervis rarius 1-3 conspicuis. Spicap tenucs, densiusculae. Calyx sinuato-dentatus.
Legumen li-2-pollicare, ad 4 lin. latum, tenuitcr coriaccum, inter margines rectos un-
dulatum. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 408.
264. A. TUMiDA, F. Muell ! in Journ. lAnn. Soc. iii. 144. Glabra, subglauca. Phyl-
lodia falcato-oblonga v. lanccolata, 4-8-pollicaria, medio l-lj poll, lata, nervis 5-9 pro-
minulis numerosisque tenuibus parallelis confertis rarius anastomosantibus. Spica) tcuiici,
densiflorse. Sepala lineari-spatbulata, basi brcviter connata. Logumcn curvum, IJ-S-

polHcare, 3-4 lin. latum, ob valvas valde convexas subtcres, intus inter semina septatiira.

Hab. Tropical North and North-west Australia.
265. A. LOXOCARPA, A. Cunn. 1 Benth. m Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 377. Glabra, sub-
glauca. PhyUodia longe lanceolata v. linearia, 3-6-pollicaria, medio 8-6 lin. laUi,
confertim multinervia, nervis vix anastomosantibus. Spica tcnucs,

falcata, tenuiter et
densiflorse. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legumen lineari-cuneatum, supra medium 3 lin.
contractum, valvis planis duris oblique venosis, dchiscentia

latum, basin versus longe
elastice revolutis. Fl. Austral, ii. 409.
Hab. Tropical North Australia.

vn Hook. Lond. Journ. 378. Glabra v.minute cauo-
266. A. ONCINOCARPA, Benth. ! i.
medio 6-8 lin.

4-6-pollicaria, lata, nenns 5-7
pubescens. Phyllodia lanceolato-falcata,
numerosisque tcnuioribus
tenuiter prominulis, nonnullis basi cum margine confluentibus
Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legumeu rectum, apn-

paraUeUs. Spic^ tenues, laxiuscul^.
longe contractum, valvis duris planis obh-
uncinatum, supra medium 4 lin. latum, basi
que venosis.^ FL Austral, ii. 409.
Hab . Tropical North Australia
RETiNEEvis, ^^w^. .'

in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 379. excl leyumim. Ula!,ra
267 A.
falcato-lanceolata, 3-G-pollicaria, medio 4-6 Un. lata, ncrn^
V subcanescens. PhyUodia
tenuibus longitudinaliter confertiîmis et cr.-
3-7 leviter prominulis, venulis sub lente
dens^. Calyx lobatus. Legumen ignotum.
berrime anastomosantibus. Spic» tenues,'
Hah. Tropical North-west Australia.
Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ^ i 378. Caneicens

268. A. AULACOCARPA, A, Cunn.!
subtriquetris. Phyllodia falcato-lan-
y cinereo-glaucescens, demum glabrata, ramulis
nervis paucis prommalis mfenonbu. has,
ceolata, 3-4.pollicaria, medio ad 6 lin. lata,
tenuibus parallelis tomosantil
marc-ine confluentibus numerosisque
— — —
494 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ [^
Spicae tenues, laxiflorae. Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen falcato-oblongum, nunc 1-2
poUicare, supra medium poll, latum, nunc dimidio majus, basi Ion gustatum
valvis planis crassis duris oblique venosis. M. Atistral. ii. 410.
>
JSab, Tropical East Australia.
269. A. CALYCULATA, A. Cuun. ! JBenth, in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 379. Glabra v. cinereo-
glaucesceas, ramulis complanatis acutangulis. Phyllodia falcato-oblonga, 2-3-pollicaria,

ad 6 lin. lata, crassiuscula, nervis paucis tenuiter prominulis, numerosisque tenuissimis
confertim parallelis vix anastomosantibus . Spicse tenues. Calyx pubescens, sinuato-
dentatus. Legumen immaturum ei A. aulacocarpce simile, planum, durum, oblique
venosum. Fl. Austral, ii. 410.
Kab, Tropical East Australia.
270. A. CRAssiCARPA, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Rook. Lond. Journ. i. 379. Glabra v. sub-
canescens, ramulis teretiusculis. Phyllodia falcato-oblonga, 5-8-pollicaria, 1-2 poll, lata,
nervis nonnulKs prominulis basi cum margine confluentibus, numerosisoue tenuissimis
parallelis vix v. non anastomosantibus tenues, laxiusculse Calyx sinuato-den
tatus Legumen oblongum, 2-3-pomcare, j-l poll, latum, basi obliquum, valvis plani
duris oblique venosis. M. Austral, ii. 410.
Rah. Tropical Nortb and North-east Australia
4
271. A. ATJEICXJLIFORMIS, A. Cwin

Benth. in Rook. Lond. Journ. i. 877. Glabra
gl Phyllodia falcato-oblonga, 5-8-pollicaria, 1-2 poll lata, crebre parallel
losa, nervis nonnullis basi cum margine confluentibus ut in ^. crassicarpa PlO]
gnoti Legumen durum, 6-8 lin. latum et oblique venosum, valde contortum
gulariter subspirale, margine exteriore saepe profunde sinuato Benth. Fl. Aust)
ii. 411.
Rab. Tropical North and North-east Australia.
Evidently near the New-Caledonian A, spirorbis
; and possibly further specimens may show them to be
ratlier varieties only of one species.
272. A. SPIRORBIS, LaUll. ! Sert. Austr, Caled. 69, t. 69 Glabra, subarlauca Phyl
lodia falcato-oblonga v. lanceolata, 3-4.pollicaria,
3-6 lin. lata, coriacea. tenuissime mul
tinervia. Spicge elonâtse, laxse Calyx sinuato-dentatus Legumen 4-6 lin. latum
venosum, u-regulariter spu-ale, marginibus continuis
Rab. New Caledonia.
E. Dimidiatae Phyllodia ampla,lata, valde obliqua

v. falcafa, nervis S-5 prominenti
bus inter se distantibus, basi pi mmus ad v. prope marginem confluentibus, inter
reticulato-penn ivei
273. A. LATiFOLiA, Benth. ! in Rook. Lond. Journ.

i. 382 Glabra, gl ramulii >,'
acutanguHs. Phyllodia obUque ovato-rhombea

v. falcata 3-
6-poUicaria, lJ-2 poll, lata
nervis 3-5 basi confluentibus Spicae laxee Plores plerique 4-meri
Legumen (immaturum) planum, marginibus Caly truncatus t
nerviformibus 2 4-pollicare, ad 3 lin. latum

Fl. Austral. Vi.4,\\.
Rab. Tropical North Australia.
I-
t
i
\
T
V
1
-Acacia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 495
274. A. HOLOSERICEA, A. Ctmu. ! in G. Bon, Gen. Syst. ii. 407. Canescens v. sericoo-
pubescens, ramulis angulatis. Phyllodia oblique ovali-oblonga, 4-10-pollicaria, 1-4 poll,

lata, nervis 3-4 basi confluentibus. Spica? longae, densiusculai. Flores plerique 5-meri.
Calyx breviter lobatus. Legumen longe lineare, 2-2J lin. latum, raldc coutortum v.
subspirale.^-Se^^^. FL Austral, ii. 411.

A. neurocarpa^ A. Cunn. ! in Hook, Ic. PI. 1. 168.
JSab\ Tropical Australia, from North-west to Nortli-cast,

f
275. A. Mangium, Willd. Sjpec.

+
iv. 1053, ad ic. et descr. 7i ttmpJi. TTcrb. Anih. iii. 123,
t. 81. Phyllodia quoad formain et venationem iis A. holoserlcece similia, majora 1 J-podnlia.
Legumen lineare, intricato-contortum. Csetera ignota.
Mimosa laurifolia var. Mangium, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 62.
Sah. Island of Amboyna (Laytimor) and adjaccut islands Oma nnd liaioclia,
JBûmphius.
This tree is only- known from Rumphius's figure, taken from a leafy branch without flowers or fiult,
gathered in the main island of Amboyna, and from his few descriptive notes of tin? tree, which, he wvs, i-s
common in the little r

islands of Oma and Harocha, all which agree perfectly with the A. hofosfricca,
except in the size of the phyllodia, which, he says, attain a foot and a half in breadth (length?), whilst
among numerous Australian specimens I have seen none much above half that length. The hr^cr onex,
however, may not have been gathered by collectors. If the Amboyna tree should really prove to be
identical with the Australian one, Willdenow's name will have to be preferred.
Hook. Zand. Journ. 381. Cano-pubcrula v. sub-

276. A. DiMiDiATA, Benth. ! in i.
Phyllodia oblique ovato-rhombea, 3-4 poll, longa, 2-3

glabra, ramulis vix angulatis.
duplo majora, nervis 4-5 basi confluentibus. Spic;T 1-2-
poll, lata V. in ramis sterilibus
pollicares, densiuscul^. Calyx in sepala distincta facile solvendus. Legumen rertins-
culum, 2-6-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum, valvis coriaceis convexis.—JY. Austral, ii. 112.
A. dolahriformis A. Cunn.
, ! in Hook. Ic. PI. 1. 169 non Wendl.
Sab. Tropical North and North-west Australia.
Eook. Bond. Journ. 382. Diffusa v. pro-

277. A. HUMiFUSA, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in i.
oblique ovato-rhombea v. suborbicukria, lf-2-pol-

strata, moUiter pubescens. Phyllodia
majora, nervis 3-5 basi confluentibus. SpiciB scsîh-s,
Hcaria v. in ramis sterilibus duplo
semipollice breviores. Calyx lobatus. Legumen rcctiusculum,
oblongse, densifloriB,
li-3-pollicare, lin. latum, pubescens, valvis coriaceis. -F/. AmtraL
subteres, 2i-3
P •
412
Tropical Australia, from North-west to North-east
Bab.
Series 2. Bothyocepual^.
Folia bipinnata. Capitula globosa, racemosa. ra-

Inermes Stipule minut® v. 0.
Legumen ubi notum planum,
cemis axiUaribus v. in paniculam terminalem dispositis.
pKcato apice oblique dflatato. Species omn..

seminibus longitudinalibus, funiculo
Australienses.
Hook. Land. Journ. i. a«3. Junior aureo.«r!c«..

278. A. BLATA, A. Cmn. I Benlh. in
VOL. XXX.
. — ;
496 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. l^cacia.
8-12-jiiga, lanccolata, acute acuminata,

„„
demum _..__3scens.
glabi Pinnj^ 2-4-3Ug8e ; foliola
latum.— J7. Austral, ii. 413.
1-2 pollicaria^ Legumen 4-6-pollicare, ad 6 lin.
Mimosa
Hah. Extratropical East Australia.
Benth. in SooJc. Loud. Journ. i. 383. Glabra, glauca.
279. A. PRUiNOSA, A. Cwin. !
Pinnce 2-4- rarius 5-jug^ ;

glandula petiolaris prominula, a pari inferiore pinnarum
obtusa v. vix acutiuscula, semipollicaria v.
distans ; foliolal2-20-juga, oblonga v. linearia,
pauUo longiora. Legumen ignotum. — i^/. Austral, ii. 413.
A. schinoides, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 383.
Mah. Extratropical East Australia
280. A. sPECTABiLis, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 383. Glabra, glauca
V. ramulis hirtellis. Pinn^ 2-4-jug8e ;

glandula petiolaris ad pinnarum par infimum
depressa V. obscura; foliola 4-8-juga, obovato-oblonga, obtusissima, 4-6 lin. longa, cras-
siuscula. Legumen 3-4-pollicare, ad 6 lin. latum, glaucum.— J5o^. Beg. 1843, t. 46
Benth. Ft. Austral, ii. 413.

A. ckrysobotrys, M.ei&sji. Ind. Sem. Hort. Basil. 18 13^ ex char, in Walp. Rep. ii. 906.
Mab. Extratropical and subtropical East Australia.

r
281. A. POLYBOTRYA, Benth. in HooTc. Bond. Journ, i. 384. Pubescens. Pinnae 2-8-
jugae ;
glandula ad basin petioli ; foliola 6-10-juga, anguste oblonga, obtusa, crassiuscula,
costa margini approximata. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Austral, ii. 414.
282. A. DISCOLOR, TFilld. Spec. iv. 1068. Glabra v. pubescens. Pinnae 2-4-jug8e
foliola 10-15-juga, oblonga, obtusa v. acuta, 3-4 lin. longa, rigidula, subtus pallida.
Capitula 6-15-flora. Legumen 1-3-pollicare, 5-6 lin. latum.— ô^. Mag. t. 1750 ; Zodd
Bat. Cab, t. 601 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 414.
Mimosa discolor, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 235.
M paniculata
.
, Wendl. Bot. Beob. 57.
M. botrycephala^ Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 1.
Acacia botrycephala, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 3, 300.
A. maritima, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 384.
!
A. Sieberiana, Seheele in Linnsea, xvii. 337.

A. angiilata, Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814, iii. 68.
Eab. Extratropical East Australia and Tasmania.
283. A. DEcrRKENS, Willd. Spec. iv. 1072. Glabra Pinnae
v. tomentoso-pubescens.
8-15-jugae, rarius 5-6-jug3e; foliola multi- (30-40- v. pluri-)juga, linearia, 2-5 lin. longa.
Legumen 3-4-pollicare, ad 3 lin. latum, inter semina
sêpius contractum.— J5^«M. K
Austral, ii. 414.
Mimosa decurrens, Wendl. Bot. Beoh. 37; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 61.
Acacia sulcipes, Sieb. PL exs.
I
A, ademphora, Spreng. Syst. iii. 140.

Var. MOLLIS, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 371. Partes novella pube flavescente
!
v. aurea tomeuto.je.
A. moUissima, WiUd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1053; Sweet, Fl.
Austral. 1. 12.
Hah. Extratropical East Australia and Tasmania
— —
Acacia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. 497
284. A. DEALBATA, Link, Enum. Sort. Berol. 445. Omnia A. decurvenUs var. mollis,
nisi partes juniores glauco- v. cano-pubescentes nee flavescentes et legumen quoad
notum tenuius, 4-5 lin. latum, inter semina vix constrictum. Lodd. Bot. Cah. 1. 192^;
A. irrorata, Sieb. ! in Spreng. Syst. iii. 141

This, the Silver Wattle, is regarded as quite distinct from A. discolor by Tasmanian botanists. F. ^riiollrr,
from the continental forms, unhesitatingly unites it with that species. The pod nppcars to be different in
the two species; but it has been observed only in far too few specimens to judge of the coustanry of tlic
character.
285. A. CAUDIOPHYLLA, A. Cuiin. I Benth. in IIooJc. Loud. Journ. i. 885. PubpRoenti-

liirta. Pinnae 12-15-jug8e, breves ; foliola 6-10-juga, ovato-subcordata, i-| lin. lonarn.
Legumen ignotum. Fl. Austral, ii. 415.

Hah, Extratropical East Australia : desert interior.
Readily known by the minute leaflets.
286. A. LEPTOCLADA, A. Cunu. I Benth. in Hook. Land. Journ. i. 385. Glab o

cescens et bine inde hispidula. Pinnae 3-4-jugo0; foliola 6-10-juga, oblonga, coriacrn,
|-li lin. longa. Capitula parva, Mspida. Sepala distincta. Legumen ignotum.—?'/.
Atistral. ii. 416.
Sort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 467. llirsuta. Piunie 3-10-
287. A. PUBESCENS, B. Br. ! in Ait.
jug« ; foliola 6-20-juga, conferta, linearia, obtusa, 1-2 lin. longa, saipius glabra. Capi-
tula glabra. Calyx sinuato-dentatus. Legumen non yidl—Maund, Botanist, t. 48;
Beichb. Ic. et Bescr. Fl. 73 ;i. Benth. FL Austral, ii. 410.

Mimosa pubescens, Vent. Jard. Malm, t. 21 j Bot. Mag. t. 12G3.
i- Sab. Extratropical East Australia.
Series 3. Pulchell^.
spinis axillaribus (pedunculis mutatis) armuti, nee aculoati
Erutices inermes v. rarius
globosa rarius spicae cylindraccui, ad axillas pcdunculata
Eolia bipinnata. Capitula v.
Leo'umen planum, rectum v. falcatum. Species omnes Australicnscs.
* Semina longitudinalia. Capitula globosa
40 1. Glabra v. pilis patûti

288. A. prLCHELLA, B. Br. ! in Ail. Sort. Kew. ed. 3, v.
Spinrc axillarcs tenues, rarius doûnt. Pinnrr l-jugae

bus conspersa v. biirsutissima.
lincari-oblonga, 1-2 rarius 3 lin. longa. Calyx sinuato^pn
foliola 4-7-iuga, obovato- v.
Legumen l-2.pollicare, li-2i lin. latnm.^Lodd. Bot. Cab. t 212 ;

iW. if^'/7
tatus.
cum ic. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 416.
iv 198, ;
glabra, foliolis paucis.

dmudata, Lehm. Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 21,
A !
vix pubescent, foholis paucis.

in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 387, glabra v.
A faaonioides, Benth. !
Fleur. t. 151 repotUa, glabra

H^nfr. in Gard. Mag. Bot. cum ic. in Lem.
177, Jard.
AgranZ, iii.
Lem. Jard. Fleur. t. 160 repetiU), hi.u

""""^^^î^ ii. ^5^ Bot. Ma,, t. 4588 (ic. in
ansTustis
3t2
— ;;
A. /flsiocary a, Bentli. ! in Hueg. Enum.43; hirsutn, leguraiue villoso.
A. cygnorum, Bentli. ! iu Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 388, cadem, foliolis rainoribus.
289. A. MiTCHELLi, :Benth. ! in Kook. Lond. Journ, i. 387. Pubesceus, inermis.

Pinnse 2-3-jugse ; foliola 3-6-juga, oblon§;a, obtusa, crassiuscula, 1-2 lin. longa. Sepala
clistiiicta V. basi connata. Legumen 1-2-polIicare, 2^-3 lin. latum, margiuibus nervi-
formibus.— i^. Muell. Fl. Vict. ii. t. Suppl. 12 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 417.
Hah. Soutli-east Australia.
290. A. PENTADENiA, Lincll. ! Bot. Beg. t. 1521. Glabra, inermis. Pinnae 2-5-jug8e
foliola 20-30-juga, oblique ovata v. subrhombea, 1-2 rarius 3 lin. longa. Calyx breviter
dentatus. Legumen l-lj-pollicare, 2-2i lin. latum, marginibus incrassatis, valvis duris
elastice revolutis. Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 417.
A. biglandulosa, Meissn. ! in PI. Preiss. ii. 205.
291. A. GiLBERTi, Meissn. ! inBl. Breiss. ii. 204. Glabra, inermis. Pinnae unijugse;
foliola 4-6-juga, oblique oblonga, 4-6 lin. longa. Plores 4-meri, in eapitulo pauci. Calyx
truncatus. Legumen planum, coriaceum, sublignosum, 3 lin. latum, marginibus latis,

** Semina transversa. Capitula glohosa. Inermes

292. A. NIGRICANS, B. Br. ! in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 465. Glabra. Pinnie 1-2-
jugse; foliola 5-10-juga, obovato-lanceolata v. lineari-oblonga, 3-5 lin. longa. Plores
5-meri, in eapitulo numerosi. Calyx truncatus. Legumen planum, 1-li-pollicare, ad .
3 latum, marginibus incrassatis, valvis duris elastice revolutis.—

lin.
ô^. Mag. t. 2188
Lodcl. Bot. Cah. t. 313 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 418.
Mimosa nigricans, LabiU. ! PI. Nov. HoU. ii. 88, t. 238, non Vahl.
Acacia rutafolia, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 444.
293. A. OBSCURA, A. BQ.l Not.

Bl. Bar. Jard. Gen. 23, t. 3. 6,
Pubescens v. hir-
suta. Pinnae 1-2-, rarius 3.jug8e. Poliola 5-10-juga,
ovata oblonga v. linearia, 2-3
rarms 4 lin. longa. Mores 3-meri, in eapitulo
12-15. Calyx truncatus. Legumen
planum, pollicare, 3 lin. latum, marginibus incrassatis,
valvis elastice revolutis. -J?^«^^-
A. cycnorum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4653, ic. in Lem.
Jard. Fleur. t. 322 repetita.
A. Preissiana, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb.
1842.
294. A^STBIGOSA, Zmk, Emm. Sort. Berol. 444. sul>

ii.
Pubescens hirsuta v. rarius
glabra Pimiaj 2-jug^, rarius l-jugae ; foliola
l-4.Juga, oWonga, obtusa, 1-2 lin. longa.
Flores 5.men, m
eapitulo 12-15. Legumen planum,
marginibus incrassatis, poUieare,
A \m. latum, valvis elastice jevoluiis.—
Benth. M. Amtral ii 418
-4. oft«;a, E. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew.
! ed. 3, V. 463, non WiUd.
— .
^cadcf.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ 499

A. Browniana, Wendl. in Flora, 1819, 139
A. Endlicheri, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 31.
Kab. Soutli-west Australia.
*** Semma transversa. Spicw cijUndracecB. Inermes.

_
295. A. Drummondii, Lindl. ! Swan

App. 15. Tenuiter cano-pubescens. Pinnae
Biv.
2-jiig8e ; f oliola 2-6-juga, oblongo-linearia, 3-4 lin. longa. Spicse ^1 -p oil i cares. Calyx
pubescens, lobatus. Legumen subpoUicare, ad 3 lin. latum, glabrum v. pubescens, mar-
ginibus incrassatis. Lem. Jard. Fleur. t. 378 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5191 ; Benth. FL Austral.
ii. 419.
A. Candolleana, Meissn. ! in PL Preiss. ii. 206.

Amongst MaxwelFs specimens there appear to be a small-flowered variety, and another with short,
almost ovoid spikes, the specimens of both insufficient for correct determination.
Series 4. Gtjmmifeh^.
Prutices v. arbores, stipulis nonnullis v. omnibus spincsccntibus, rrctcriim incrmcs.
Folia bipinnata. Pedunculi monostachyi, axillares, subfasciculati v. ad apices ramorum

subracemosi, rarius paniculati. Capitula globosa v. spicfe cylindraceae. Legumcii
varium
When iferds, and Vvhjarcs, are
have abortive peduncles
the converted into spines, the second have
readily enough distinguished : first
without prickles and the Vulgares have infrastipukr or scattered

their stipules spinescent, in both casps ;
prickles without spines. But the majority of the Pulchella are entirely ui armed
Of the Gummifera, it is very rare to see a si)ecimen with the
Australian, with a peculiar bushy habit.
entirely undeveloped and I believe the A. choriophylla i8 the only one in
hardened or prickly stipules ;
detect them, and hesitated whether to refer it to the Gummifera or to the

which I could not at first
minute pungent pointed stipules. Several of the VuJyartM

Vulgares; but even here I have found a few
without prickles but these are tropica! or sub-
are occasionally, and perhaps one or two species entirely, j
and not to be confounded with the Australian PulchdhB. On the other band
tropical American, likely
when recurved or dilated at the base, as in A. Manror.ana,
the spinescent stipules of the Gummifer^,
,1 ._ ..ii-n-, ;i- i.:„ '.^\.Â A»^w, fTi^ I'nfrnftfinnlar nricklcs of somc of thc Vuhares.
Sabseiies 1. Suuimibracteatae. Bractea exteriores m involucrum annulare denlobi.n
apicem pedunculi capHulo arete approximatum v. parum dhtans. Capitula

connatcB, ad
planum, non v. vlv dchiscens, intiis pvl,,a
globosa. Legumen crassum, turgidum v. rarhu^
segregante /"return.
V. mbstantia suberoso-spongiosa semina
have been proposed as a distmct genus
group, especially the A. farne.siana,
Amott
genus or subgenus by severd others. But they are
nearly similar pod, the only character relied

viruritoaVy'se'paâred" from other Gummifer^ : and a
Grisebach ...dudes .„ h» «ct,on I acMl.a the
onT occurs in some of the Australian PAyM«.<..
has the pod quite continuous inside.
A. arabica, -which
• Americauce v. CoemoTioUtatKB
Tomentoso-pubesceM t
296 . A. PES.NATULA, Benth. ! m Hook. Und. Jom-n i. 390.
sublanata. Spinse stipulares minores conico-subulatae ad 2 lin. long;t'; auctio seinipolli-

cares basin versus valde dilatatse. Pinnge 20-60-jug£E; foliola 20-30-juga, conferta,
4-l| lin.* longa. Legumen pubescens v. demum glabratum, obloufnim, rectum v. vix
ciirvum, 2J-34-pollicare, j-1 poll, latum, crassissimum, continuum.
Inga pennatula, Cham, et Schleclit. in Linnflea. v. 593. !
Sab. Tropical America Mexico, Schiede and Deppe, Graham, Uartweg, Bourgeau,
:
n. 2912 Sumichrasty n. 1770

; Nicaragua, (Ersted. ;
297. A. MACRACANTHA, Humh. et JBonpl. ! in mild. Spec. iv. 1080. Pubescens v.

rarius glabra. Spinse stipulares minores tenues, auet« 1-3-pollicares parum dilatatce
teretes v. rarius angulatse v. supra concavae. Pinnse 10-60-jug£e; foliola 20-30-juga;
saepius conferta, f-lj rarius 2 lin. longa.Legumen brevissime pubescens, subteres v.
crasso-compressum, longitudinaHter (demum obscure) reticulato-venosum, rectum v.
curvum, continuum v. partim v. imdique moniliforme,
2-4 poU. longum, 3-6 lin. latum.
Kmith, Mini. t. 28 Grisei. Fl. Brit. TV. Ind.
;
221.
Mimosa lutea. Mill. ! Diet. n. 18.
M.
fieaniosa, Humb. et Bonpl. ! in Willd
Mimosa Jli
Humb. et Bonpl. ! in W
Mimosa
Willd
Humboldtii
Mimosa
Mimosa peUacantha, Meyen
Meyen
A. macracanthmdes et A. subinermis,
Bert. in DC. Prod. ! ii. 463 (gla bresceates)
A. arrnia, Gill. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 2nfi r»„hMnI,™\
!
Macfad
Sai. Tropical and southern subtropical
America, chiefly western
sent by very numerous coUectors. .u. «
and near tb
Jamaica, Vera Cruz, and Central America GalapaL
<ûaya,uil, Lima, and otber
c t:\t r;^2' .fÔ^^^*" parTsTihetrr:
Juan, Gillies
cordance m
these characters, or any constancy
in any of them.
^
The enlargement
Known to DC very inconstant on the same ^
.eneran, the peculiar for. they a,su,ne
cantAa, however, they appear to be
in
individual in almn^f .
.hen
7
some specimens
is
rather
^ conlr ire! h'^'^r/*'''""''
lender T ^™° ^''^
td "''
t ^ ^ "T"
^"^'^
long; in others, thicker, more angular
and even ^liVhurT n f
figure. »d both for.s .cur in i^^r::^^^::^!'^^^^^::'^:;:, ''" '
r/"""'
cantka. without any other
west coast, and A. oiiuâ. from Caranc».
The pubescent A. '"'crac^ntha
differences.
Caraccasj appear .to me

.' and JIItl t 7
» ""^T from the
d A. pellacantha, f ""T
__ _
^^^
form, glabrous specimens inclucle the
A. macramnthoides
gnished
niarged spines), and A.
microcephala, Macfad7a7from
/e_, from Caraccas, and some of
the O.ûi, and otW wIt'
C^Tr^Tiir r:::h::
—
's-
^'^^<^^^'l MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MTMOSEiE oOl

extratropical specimens, or ^. aroma, Gill., are more ijerfectly glabrous; but I can detect no otlier differ-
ence. great length
pinnules
degree, without any accompanying character. With
< every
any contraction, making it very difficult to conceive that the two can belong to one species ; but in other
specimens even these characters are variable; sometimes the same pod is moniliform in a portion of its length,
continuous in the remainder ; and the flat pods (as in Prosopisjuliflora) appear to be the \inripe state, or
sometimes an imperfectly developed although ripe state. Many specimens arc also, as. usual, without
any pod ; and I have been quite unable, in that state, to sort them into distinct varieties.
Mimosa from a specimen in the Munich herbarium, from the Jardin {\v^
indica, Poir. Diet. Suppl. 1. 80,
Plantes of Paris, appears to be the A. macracantha ; but the flowers and fruit being unknown, it must at
any rate be erased from the list of species.
298. A. cocHLiACANTHA, JSumb. et Bonpl. ! in Wilkh Spec. iv. 1081. Minute cnno-
tomentella, glabrescens. Spicae stipulares minores tenucs, auctye i-l-poUicarcs, vahle
dilatatse, lanceolato-concavae. Pinnae 8-20-jiigse; foliola 10-25-ju<,'a, coiiforta, linear ia,
^-Ij lin. longa. Pedunculi filiformcs. Legumen ignotum. Knnth ! HUm. 9li, t. 29.
sMimosa cochliacantha, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 78.
Sab. Tropical America: Guayaquil, Rerh. Fai'on, Ilumholdt and Bonpland.

Very near the slender varieties of A. macracantha ; but the flower-heads are much smaller, ou very
slender peduncles ; and the flowers are said to be white, besides the peculiar form assumed by the enlarged
spines
Monac
in
299. A. TORTUOSA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1083. Pubescens v. glabriuscula. Sp

auct« teretes pollicares longioresque. Pinnse 3-8-jugge; foliola 10-20-jug lineal
2-3 lin. longa. Legumen brevissime pubescens, subtcrcs, 3-1-pollicare, 3-4 lin. lat
v. cur\Tim, continuum v. moniliforme, obscure longitudinaliter vcnosuni.

rectum
Mimosa tortuosa, Linn. Spec. 1505.
M. salinarum, Rohr ! in Herb. Banks, non Vahl.

Acacia albida, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1. 131 7, non Del.
144
Nov
Danisb Islands, (Ersted; Venezuela, Fepdlcr;
Hah. Tropical America: Jamaica,
Galapagos, Darwin, Scolder', Costa Rica, (ErMed',
Guayaquil, Hartweg and others;
Aschenhom, Emory's E-rpedition, n. 329, and others; but <.-veral
Mexico, G. J. Graham,
specimens uncertain for want of the pod.
of the Mexican
/
leaflets; the pod is nearer to that of A. macracantha.
Linncea, xii. 5C5. Aculei titipukres -emim

300. A Schlecht. in
12-lo-jnga, pubcscontia
Pinna. 5-6-juga. fohola
connati, triangulares, subrecti, fusci. ;
Stipella. in pinnarum rhachi recurvee. Capituh

lineam longa. Petiolus glandulosus.
diametro. Corolla lineam longa^^ Legu
axiUaria, pedunculata, cum staminibus 6 lin.
glabrum, crassiusculum, camosum, mdcbiscens r

men 3-4 poll, longum, \ poll, latum, fere
seminibus septis interstinctis.

wi . h..„
Elirenbcrg. , ,^ ,
Mexico, Mineral del Monte,
;
502 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E [A
I have not seen this species; the fruit, as described, and most of the characters are those of A. tortuosn
in which, however, the stipular spines are always more or less confluent at the base.
301. A. ATRAMENTARIA, Beuth. ! in Eook. Lond. Journ. i. 392. Glaborrima,

cescens. Spinse validae,
majores (in speciminibus suppetentibus) vix semipollicar
Pinnse 2-7-jug8e; foliola 15-20-juga, linearia, 2-3 lin. lonsâ. Lesrumcn i?laberriinii
glaucum, curvum, crasso-compressum, 3-4-pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum, valvis dc
vexis, oblique sublongitudinaliter venosis.
Prosopis astringens, Gill. ! in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 204.
_ >
Sab. Extratropical South America : Mendoza and San Juan.

The foliage is that of the glabrous forms a pod appears to be sufficiently different
to characterize it as a distinct species.
302. A. FARNESIANA, TFilld. Spec. iv. 1083. Glabra v. puberula. Spinê tenues,
teretes, minores 2-4 lin., auctse semipollicares v. paullo longiores. Pinnse 2-8- 4-5*
vulo-o
jugae ;
foliola 10-25-juga, linearia, ad 2 lin. longa. Legumen oblongum cylindraceum v.
fusiforme, crassum, tui-gidum, rectum v. curvulum, glabrum, 2-3-pollicare, i-| poll, latum
et Griissiim.—£enik. FL Bras. Mim. Fl. Austral, il U9 Trop
-r- Afr
; ; Ollv. Fl. ii 346-
Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 52. ^ • . >
Mimosa farnesiana, Linn. ^êc. \^0Q.

Vachellia famesiana, Wight et Arn. Prod. Fl. Penins. 272; Wight, Ic. t. 300.
Farnesia odora, Gaspar. Descr. Naov. Gen. Leg.
1836, cum ic.
Mimosa scorpioides, Forsk. Fl. ^g. p. Ixxvii., nomen '
tantum.
pedunculata, Willd
Mimosa
WiUd
A. acicularis, Willd. Enum. Hort.
!
Berol. 1056.
A. leptophylla, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp.
!
p. 74
A. lenticellata, F. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn So/ i
World but so generaUy cultivated for

the perfume of its flowers and frequently
bl^hed as an eseape fron. cultivation,
that it is difficult to d "e vVr itTreX'
TexasTot pe ll?"' TT' "^ ^r '''
'^'''''"' ^-^-' ^-« noTtll Ch 1 ^
n\Thi:iSTui":: inhrinw::;''^:r ''^
''-''-' ^^^ -•'^-^^-^
also really indigenous in
southl^^ fl^ca -"^ P^'^Î'^
VuH^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^f'^'^^''
only '''*''
into "'^^ ""°
northern tropical Africa, and the ''''' "'^^^ East India
Me'dHLtfl\ô:
A. Burmannkna, DC. Prod. ii.
461, insufficiently described
from tw. •
coneously referred to A. ,„.„,. .,a Burman

to A. c.«.,l
^Jl^^^y ^L:^^ l
303. A. CAVENiA, Sooh. et Am '
Bot Beech 21 V
guenda vix semilinea lonsiorih,,,
foliolis '
' "^' /<»""?»««'»« distin-
»f i
•
,
speciei varietas.-C««„. J/
t C«f 12 T""""
^"'''°''' '' -"--Hter illius
Mimosa cavenia, Molin. Hist. Chil.

163.
A. aromatica, Poepp. PL Exs. n.
177.
A. adenopa, Hook, et Am. in Hnnt ! -r..^ ht- _ -. „^„
Acacia.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 503
ft
Eab. Extratropical South America and apparently also in

: Buenos Ayres and Chili,
the Mexicano-Texan region, passing perhaps gradually into the normal form of A. fnr-
nesiana hut the specimens
;
seem insufficient for precise determination, and prohahly the
whole A. cavenia will ultimately he referred as a variety to A.farncsiana.
304. A. AcriFEHA, JBewjf^./ in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 496. Olahra. Spinas tenues,
minores hrevissimae, auctse rectse suhulatge J-|-pollicares, PinnsD l-jugae ; foliola 10-12-
juga, ohlonga, ohtusa, nitidula, 3-4 lin. longa. Legumcn valde arcuatum v. circinatnm,
elahrum, immaturum crassum, turgidum, 1 lin. hXu\\\,—Grlseh. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 222.
llah. Bahamas, Swainson; Turk's Island, Hjalmarscn.

longus, glandnla stipitata. Finnic 1-1 ipollicarcs. Foliula npri-
FoHorum petiolus communis 3-6 lin.
Pedunculi folio subieqnilongi. Capitula 'm A. famcsiaM! minora.

dula, costa subcentraU prominula.
Flores glaherrlmi, nitiduli. Corolla calyce duplo longior. Stamina corolla duplo longiora, tilamcntis
1' L
interioribus basi irregulariter connatis.
in Hook Zand. Journ. I 495. Glahia. Spliiu; mmin

305. A. CHOUIOPHYLLA, J3enlh. !
Poliola 3-5-juga, ohloiigo-(dllpti(â v. ovaha, oht

V. 0. Pinna? 1-2- rarius 3-jugfB.
Legumcn ohlongo-falcatum, glahriun, turgidum, 2-p(
sissima, i-1-pollicaria, nitidula.
poll, latum.— G^m^J. Fl.Brit. W., Ind. 222.
licare, j
Hah. Bahamas, Swainson
Stipulae acnmine minuto pungcntc vix consplcuic, v. intcrdum omnino
Specimina siccitate nigrescunt.
4-1-pollicaris, glandula depressa obscu
deesse videntur.
Pedunculi fasciculati, crassiuseuli, subpollicares. Bractcx
lata, costa subcentrah subtus prominnla.
Capitula densissima, ad 3 Im. diumctro.
similes, ad apiccm peduncuh sit*.
connate, iis pra^cedentium
Bracteae
/
pulpa ut videtur more prsecedentium farctum
*»
Afi
vahdae longse, albse v. fu
Enum. 1054. Spinseauctae sa^pe
306 GiR^FF^,A Willd.
4
centes. glahra;Mapinn^ l-G-jug^; foliola
ovatum
8-15,] uga,
oblongum,
lineari-oblonga
demum
2
tuigidmn, ar-
lonsa, ohtusa, rigide Le-umen v.
cauo-tomentosum, 3-4 poll, longum, ^1 poll, latum B

cuatum V. rectiulculum,
240 Hare, et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 280
Trav. ii. ;
Mey mnr. than

towards Namaqualand, where it is
Hah Exlratropical South Africa:
known under the name of CameUhoi
other species
distingu
the pod said to be tomentose aUo m the ong.nBl ,pec,«

the°pod
•
but I now find that is
pod arc vcn- .el
«™l fig"- of the general .spoct of the tree ; and a branch wth a
figured \
463 Pallida v. glaucescens, glal

SiEBBBiANA, DO. 1 J? rod. ii.
307.
t ella
A.
Sp
.
auct.
ohtusa, rigidula, li-2
Ilh..'
Im. Ion
Pinn.
2a
longa.
10-30-jug.;
Le-umen
-ueg
^^
rectum
foHola
v.
20-iO-jug.,
curvum, glahrura, 6-7.pollica ^^^
Fl. Trap. Afr. n. 347
ad f poll. latum.-Oê..
43.PI. Seneg. Exs.n.
A.jiexuosa, Sieb. !
Guill. et Perr. I Fl. Seneg. 251.

A. Sing,
tropical Africa.
Hab. Western 3
-VOL. XXX.
—
Very near the more glabrous forms of the American A. macracantha, hut with whiter spines, a paler
The annular bract is often a little below

more rigid foliage, and much broader and thicker glabrous pod.
the summit of the peduncle.
308. A. H^MATOXYLON, TFUld. Umm. Sort. Berol. 1056. Cano-tomentosa. Spinas
auctge longge, tenues. Pinnse 8-19-jug0e, vix 4 lin. longae ; foliola 18-24-juga, imbricata,
obtusa, vix J lin. longa. Legumen lineare, falcatum, demum subtereti-tomentosum,
3-4 lin. latum. Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 280.
A. atomiphylla, Burch.! Trav. i. 341.
Hab. ExtrJ^tropical South Africa.

A species readily known by the minute crowded leaflets-
Subseries 2. Medibracteatge. Bractem exteriores in involucellum annulare dentatnm

connatce, in medio pedunculo paullo altius v. inferius situm, persistens v. cadticum, rarius
deficiens. Capitula glohosa^ rarius ovata. Legumen sceplssime {interdum tardius) bivalve,
inttts continuum V. valvis suhplanis inter semina clausum, nee farctum.
A. Heteracanthae. Spinm mhiores [interdtim rara) plus minus recur vcb ; auctcB scepius
numeroscB rectce. Legumen maturum scepe iurgidum, v. suhteres. JPedunculi axillares.
* Legumen rectum, v. curvulum, latiusculum.
309. A. HEBECLADA, JDC. ! Cat. Sort. Monsp. 73 ; I'rod. ii. 461. Piloso-hispidula.
Spinse minores subulato-conicae recurvae, auctaj paucse v. plerseque rectse. Pinnae 3-7-
jugse ; foliola 7-15-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusa, 1^-2 lin. lonsja. Involucellum in medio
pedunculo v. inferius, caducum .v. obsoletum. Legumen rectum v. obliquum, crassissi-
mum, 2J-6 poll, longum, 1
latum, flavescens, oblique venosum, valvis turgidis
poll,
crasso-coriaceis.~If«n7. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 280 ; Ollv. Fl. Trop.

Afr. ii. 348.
A. stolonifera, Burch. ! Trav. ii. 241.
Hah. Subtropical South -central Africa.
4
310. A. MATJBOCE AN A, i) C. .^ Cat Sort. Monsp. 74; :Prod. ii. 461. Tenuiter cano-
pubescens. Spinee minores aculeiformes recurvse, auct« paucse
rect^. Pinnse 3-8-
jugse ;
foliola 10-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, ad 2 lin. longa.
Involucellum infra medium
pedunculi caducum. Legumen immaturum planum, pubescens, 3-pollicare, 5 lin. latum,
valvis crasso-coriaceis.
Mimosa
Sab. Extratropical North Africa : Morocco, Desfontaines
fruit
311. A. Edgeworthii, T. Anders. I Fl. Aden. 18, in Journ. Linn.

Soc. v. Suppl. Cano-
puberula. Spmse minores paucaB subrecurvge, plerseque
auct^ rect^, vaHdte, |-l-polli
terfetes PmnsB 3-6-jugae ; foUola 6-10-juga. oUonga,
ad 2 lin. longa. Involu
cellum supra medium pedunculi t. (caducum ?). Legumen turgidum, y. subteres
- um, cano-tomentosum, 3-4-pol]icare, 4-5 lin. latum,
obscure striato-venosum. tardius
debiscens
Mey
Hah. Arabia :
Aden, Edgeworth, T. Thomson, T. Anderson, and
others
— '
^cacia.J MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 505
312. A. HEFiciENs, Wawra et Iêyr. Sert. Beng. 15. Canescens demum glabrata.
Spinse minores recurvse, auctae desunt. Pinnae 3-4-jug8e; foliola 8-12-juga, oblonga,
2 J-3 lin. longa, glabra, glauca. Inyolucellum prope basin pedunculi. Legumen rectum
V. curvulum, compressum, obsolete puberulum, 3-3J-pollicare, G-8 lin. latum, obscure
I
venosum, bivalve. Oliv. Fl. Tiôp. Afr. ii. 348.

Hah. South-west tropical Africa, Wawra^ Welwitsch. I have not seen the specimens.
i.
** Legumen angustius^ scepe tortile.
313. A. PLANiFUONS, Wight et Am. ! Fl. Fenins. Ind. Or. 27G. Subglabrn. Spiiuu
minores recurvse, auctse longse rectse albae subulate v. inflataj. Pinnu) 5-6-jugfr ; foliola
10-12-juga, linearia, obtusa, 1-lJ lin. longa. Involucenuni infra niedium j)edu]U'uli
tenuis persistens. Legumen turgidum v. subteres, contortnm, gla1>rum, 4-C lin. latum.
Hab. Tropical Asia : East-Indian peninsula.

Occurs in many old collections as Mimosa eburnea. Sec tlie note under Acacia eburnca.
V
314 A. LiTAKUKENSis, ^wrc/^. .^ 2Va». ii. 452. Puberula. Spin :e minores uiicinnf'»-
recurvse, auctse in speciminibus desunt. Pinnae 4-6-jugx ; foliola 9-13-juga anguslo
oblonga, obtusa, 1-lJ lin. longa. Involucellum prope basin pedunculi cadiicum v. 0.
Legumen tortile, ad 3 lin. latum, valvis convexis tenuiter venosis.— IZ;/;t. ct Sond. Fl.
*:
Cap. ii. 283.

South-central Africa, near Litakun, Burchell', also in Baincs's
Hab. Subtropical
collection.
815. A. HETERACANTHA, Burch. ! Trav. i.389. MoUiter tomentoso-pubcsccns. Spina'

auctge rectse, albge, 1-2-poUicares. Pinnae 5-10-jn?fr folioli
minores uncinato-recurv^, ;
rigidula, 1-1^ lin. longa. Involucelluni infra mcdmm v.

10-15-juga, oblongo-linearia,
" Legumen lineare."-irarz;. et Sond. Fl. Cap.
prope basin pedunculi caducum 0. v.
• •
280 .i
South Africa Vaal river, Burchell, Shaw.

Hab. Extratropical :
there are none on Burchell's specimens.

I have not seen the pod ;
Abyss, 239. Pubcsccus. Spina, minor.-
316. A. SPIHOCARPA, Sochst. ! A. Bich. Fl. i.
Run.. 4-10-ju^ foliola 7-15.jusa, oblong,.-

recurva=, auct^ reot,B l-2i.pollicares. ;
medium peduacuh minimum v ,nt.r,l m

linearLa. Mi lin. longa. Involucellum
contortum,
infra
tomentosum <l.mun, turgiaom. 3-4 Im.
u«uc.....
deficiens Legrên elongatum,
xxxr. 322, 4-6; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr^n.Zh%
\^t^ ^Schweinf. in Unn<ea, t.
Abyssin.a, >ub>a. S,.nuaar and
subtropical North-east Africa:
Zb.Tropical and
Cordofan according to Schweuifurth
n Illustr ex
Ulustr. eiusd i
eju.a. PI. CaiJI. 21,> may be,
•r
gnmrmfera,
-n
Delile T?I
Fl. Fir H- Forsk., mentlouvd
mentioned by
My name
Delile's name was taken irom me muau.. ifera,
y»».".v- -. -
A. spirocarpa.
cxxiv, and certainly not the same as ^^^^-^^^^^^^
in M. ^g. Arab. p.
^Pet.Mossamb. Bot. 4, which is unknown to l.
A in BoUe
J: fe^n'ot
Petersiana
identical with
tortUis, Forsk. Fl. M^. Arab.

A sp.ocarpa.
176, most
The
be
f.uit
either A.
^^^^Â
nprrocarpa charact
Mimosa
for determination.
given is insufficient 3 U2
*
317. A. TORTiLis, Eayney Arzneig. x. t. 31. Glabra. Spinaj minores rccurvae, auctse
'
rectje, 1-2-pollicares. Pinnae 2-6-jugge; foliola 8-12-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusa, 2-3

lin. longa. Involucellum medium versus pedunculi. Legumen ancjuste lineare, falcatum
V. contortum, planum, glabrum, valvis coriaceis.— iV.?^5, Fl. Offic. t. 335 ; Schweinf.
LinncBa, xxxv. 327 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop Afr. ii. 352.
"
A. fasciculata, Guill. et Perr. ! Fl. Senes:. 252, non H., B. et K.

S chweinf.
A. Perrottetii, Steud. Nona. Bot. ed. 2.
Mab. Tropical and subtropical North-east Africa, Senegambia, Nubia, and Egypt, also
. Arabia'.
B. Moniliformes. JSj)
Pedunculi axillm
Legumen coriaceum v. siihcarnosum, planum, inter semina regulariter plus minus con-
sfnctum V. sinuatum, articulis {haud solvendis) orhiculatis v. quadratis.
318. ? A. WiGHTii, Baher in Kooh. Fl. Ind, hied. ^ Glabra. Spinje minores conicê,
auctae validse, fuscse, 2-pollicares longioresque. Pinnae 1-3-jug^ ; foUola 8-12-juga,
oblonga, obtusa, 3-5 lin. longa, penniyenia. Involucellum infra medium pedunculi
persistens. Legumen ignotum. ,
Hah. Tropical Asia Indian Peninsula, sea-coast, Tiniyellj, Wight.

.
The affinities of this species must remain uncertain tiU the fruit
is known but it appears ;
'
allied to A. arabica, differing chiefly in the size and venation of the leaflets.
319. A. AEABICA, mild. Spec. iT. 1085. Glabra v. tomentoso-pubescens. Spin^

ra,nores recte r. ranus recurva., auctae
demum
eburne>B. pollicares longioresnue. pL«,
4-8.jug^, ranus 1-3-juga. foliola lO-SO-juga, oblongo-linearia.
;
obtusa, 2-3 lin. longa,
tomervia. Inyolucellum m
medio pedunculo persistens.
Legumen glabrum v cano-
tomentos^, p anum V. ad semina eonvexiuseulum,
inter seminaLpius Lstrilm.T -
polh are, 4-8 Im. latum.-ifa^^. Arzneig.
ûLmnêa, xxxy 335 ; Oli.. M. Trop.
x. t. 32 Nees, PI. OiHc. t. 333
'
;
ZweiJ '
'
Afr. ii. 350 ; Beda. M. Syh. t 47

Mtmosa arabtca, Lam. Diet. 19 Roxb.
i. ; 1 Corom. PI. 1. 119.
M. nihtica, Linn. Spec. 1506.
AcaaaniloHca, T>e.f. Cat. Hort. Par. ed.
2, 208; Nees, H. Offic. x.
XXXV, 333. 332; Schweinf. in Li„n.a,
Willd. Spec. iv. 1 085 ; Hayn

J. Adansonii, Guill. et Perr. Fh Seneg.
! 249.
Mim OSa
£^.S Tropical Africa and Asia: generally
distributed over the
Africnr, r, (gion, and
extendmg through Afghanistan to the Indian
peninsula.
The specimens of this plant show so great
a diversity in tl,« ;„j . ,
'
I>inn., and even in the fruit, that I sho^d "^ ')' -^^""^ *'^ ^"°^'" "'
readily ha^ Iptedt
species could I have ascertained
any constancy or L^Tat ^^^^ ^' ^^^ ^^"^
ott^^^^^^^^^
considered ^ th. f.r.,Voi j ..„.._„ :_ ..../ , , ^^ '"^ *''^ different
characters. What mavhe
abund
white-tomentose, rather deeply

betv indented
)nly yery slightly notched
ens, according to the notes Mimosa

«
spines being somewliat recurved. In a variety from Natal, wliicli I had named Kraussiana, the short
^pines are still more recurved, the pod sometimes like th^t of A. Adansonii, but in other specimens more
deeply indented, and sometimes nearly glabrous, or narrower. The Indian form is in most respects like
the typical A. arabica, but more glabrous, the pod always hoary or white. The A. nilotica or A. vera,
w
from Egypt and Nubia^ is quite glabrous^ the pod green and usually very deeply indented, the one-seeded
orbicular articles resembling flat beads, connected by narrow isthmuses; but the indentations of the pod
are as inconstant as in A, macracantha ; and I have seen, in two or three other cases, one portion of tlic
pod as little indented as in A. Adansonii, and another portion of the same pod as deeply so as in
A. nilotica.
A, pseudo-arabica, Blume, of uncertain origin, is very imperfectly described by Miqucl, Fl. Ind. Bat. i.
part i. 8, from a very bad specimen, which he thinks may prove to be a variety of A. arabica, or of
it w
A. Seyal.
320. A. KiRKii, Oliv.! FL Trop. Afr. ii. 350. Subglabra. Spinae miiiores rcctio uti
folia et flores A. arahicce. Legunien glabrum, 4-6 lin. latum, inter scmina Icvitcr con-
strictum et transverse depressum, articulis medio valde elcvatis late conico-tuhcrculatis.
Eab. South-tropical Africa : Highlands of the Batoka country, Kirlc.
The great tubercular thickening of the pod over 6ach seed may not prove to be more constant than
the other variations in the pod of A. arabica, to which in that case this plant TVuuld be referred a« a
variety.
C, Thyrsiflorae. Spince omnes recfce. Ififloresccntiafoliisjloralihusminmi&v.abor-
tientihus ad apices ramoiûm racemosa. Legumen continuum, rectum v. curvim, valris
eoriaceis plants v. convexiusculis.
321. A. HORRIDA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1082. Glabra. SpinoB minores conicoB v. snhulata;,
Pinnae 1-3-, rarius 4-jugse; foliola 5-12-juga, ohlongo-
auct^ ehurneae, 1-4-pollicares.
linearia, obtusa, 2-5 lin. longa. Involucellum in medio pedunculo persistens. Legu-
planum, incurvum, glabrum, continuum v, sinuatum.
men 4-6-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum,
Harv. ! et Sonet Fl Cap. ii. 281.
Mimosa horrida, Linn. Spec. 1505.
M, ehurnea, Hort. Par. ! j Boj. ! Hort. Maurit. 115, et Hortul. plur
M. leucacantha, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 75^ t. 393.
M. nilotica, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 432, non Linn.

Burch. Trav. 195 (ic. 189) ; Colla in Mem. Acad.Torin. xxxv. 175.
Acacia capensis, i.
A iCarroo, Hayne, Arzneigew. X. t. 33.
Hab. Extratropical South Africa: Cape colony ;

naturalized m Mauntms.
this species, supposing it to T)e tl.c Mimom capemi*,
Burchell adopted the name of ^. capensis for
probably Burraann, hoMCver, gives the name only, referring to

Burm. Fl Cap Prod 27, which it is.
different pknts, as the phrases

PlTeneVs plate 123. f. 2, which is evidently made up of several
reticuluia
refer to very different species.
but adds to It tne ae^cr.y.uu uf

Linnaeus
a
"
plant
refers
from
to
the
the same
Upsala garden ..th a
plat
flat
totally at var.anec „,th the

na^w
M
rct,eulatc P^'-"'
(nrg-d podfi gu red
"
and semipalmaris in breadth, which i,
iu length,
Spee. .v. 10.6, cop,e. Lu>nÛ. . refer-
W Plukenet Willdenow, in eharaeterizing hi. Acacia reticulata.
without reconelling the di««pane,e,. The L.nnean

1! td dterJtTon,
ences and aescnpuou, dum
ading,5,
however,>
the .. .., but
WiUdcnow's the A. reticulata is represented by a
herbarium does not contain the M. "
Walpers,
-f'^lf^";;"^'^.
in Lmmea, xm. 54-^, is lueuii ,,,, ~1,;„,,
hi, A. OiragJ. It becomes
snecimen which, according to ^
capen... a, be.ug a.a,leup of d-fferent .pec.,
the A. reticulata and A.
the™nelsary to reêt both
their principal basis.
but with the A. horrida as
ff-
.
322. A. NATALiTiA, M Met/. ! Comm. Fl. Afr. Aiistr. 167.. Glabra. Spinjxj minores
conicjfi, auctsB rarse, rectse, 1-2-pollicares. Pinna? 4-7-jugjB, rarius 2-3-juggB ; foliola
12-30-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusa, 2-3 Involucellum in medio pedunculo
lin. longa.
persistens. Legumen lineare, curvum, complanatum, glabrum, sub-4-pollicare, 2-3 lin.
latum, valvis obs6nre venosis.— ârz?. etSond, Fl. Cap. ii. 281.
Hab. Extratropical South-west Africa, Natal district.
323. A. Gereardi, BentJi.^ sp. nov.Tomentoso-pubescens. Spinas minores brevissime

conicae, auctsB ignotae. Pinnae 6-10-jugae ; foliola 15-25-juga, linearia, 2-3 lin.
longa,
supra nitida, subtus paUida. Involucellum infra medium
v. prope basin pedunculi.'
Legumen arcuatum v.circinatum, cano-tomentosum, ad 4 lin. latum valvis pi
subaveniis
Rab. Extratropical South-east Africa Natal district, W. F. Gerrard
;
n. 1702
horrida Stipulse crassse, conicae, subconnatte,
tomentosae, pungentes, in speciminibus vix 2 lineas
excedentes. communis 2-3
^ poll, longae. Pedunculi ad nodos fasciculati, pomcares,in racemum terminalem apliyl-
um di«positi. Capituk multiflora. Calyx ciliatus. Petala duplo saltem longiora, glabra. Semina
longitudmaha, oblouga, plana, funiculo lono-Insmiln anJp^ nnn ,-^.0.00.0+^
324. A AMYTHETHOPHTLLA, Steud. ! A. Fick. Fl. Ahyss.

245.
i. Puberula v -la-
brescens. Spin^ minores minimae, auctee desunt et
s^pe omnes obsolete. Pinn^
12-20-jugae foliola 30-50-juga, oblongo-linearia,
; 2-2^ lin. longa, glabra. Involucdlum
in medio pedunculo persistens Legumen lineari-oblongum, planum, 4-6.pollicare, 7-8
lin. latum, valvis coriaceis nitidis obscure
Linncea, xxxv. 360
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 346.
âJ. North-west tropical Africa Abyssinia, ^cî^^_p^^;.

:
'"'" ^^^'^^--
..L™Z;. !!""
r'" cm vum
Jêgumen coriaceum, continmmi,
centes.
''^^"^"^^^^'
^^-- tomentoso-pubes.
325. A mild Spec. iv. 1087. Velutino-tomentosa.

comp tomentos., auct. valid.,
l-2.pomcares, s.pius fuse..
Spina; minores
ohola 20-30,uga, anguste linearia, 2-3 PinnriO-lSuL

lin. longa.
iLolucellum nunc in medio pedTn
culo, nunc multo altms, rarius
ioferius, persistens. Legumen complanL^ curvum,
cano-puberulum v. glabratum, 4-6 -pollicare, 4-5
demum ad semma convexis obscure venoî^,
hn: Lum, vaMst";
tenuiter
Kleinii
Nat
oma
^.6. Tropical Asia Bengal, Java, Ceylon, and

:
perhaps the Penin
lean no difference between the Javan
find
specimens pushed by
typical Bengalese A. tomentosa, Miquel as
^' socoma and
which Miquel introduces into
hi. ^, V*'^^'^
without any attempt to compare the .^^^P^^^^^* on the authority of others,
two plants The Cevll
of the island are more rigid, with
what are probably from. a garden.
rather larger
^^^
leLetsTr^"
^^^^ ^^ ^^însular specimens except
326. A. LAsiopETALA, OUv. FL

! Trop. Afr ii <?4fi c. subflaTescenti-tomeii
ise. Pinna
—
Acacia,'] MR MIMOSE2E. 509
14-22-jug8e. Poliola 20-30-juga (v. plura?). Involucellum infra medium pedunculi

parvum, cadiicum, v. 0. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical Soutli-west Africa: Shire river, Kirk; also mBaines^s collection.
There are fragmeuts of what appears to be another species of Acacia with globular silky-pubesceut
flower-heads from the same region, but insufficient for description.
E. Normales. Sjpincs omnes rectcB. Flores glahri v. parce piiheritli. Legumen reclutn
V. arcuafum, valvis membranaceis v. tenuiter coriaceis {excepta A. Bidwilli) plants n.
demum convexls scepissime oblique jêliculato-venosis.
* Australiensea.
327. A. SUBEROSA, A. Cunn. ! Benth. in Booh. Bond. Journ. i. 400. ITirtclla. Sjiina'
tenues. Pinnse l-2-jug8e ; foliola 8-12-juga, oMongo-lincaria, rigiduln, 1-2 lin. longa.
Legumen complanatum, crassiusculum, pubcscens, ad 3 poll, lonirum, 3-6 Tin. lafuni,
valvis convexis coriaceis. Semina pubesccnti-lanata. Fl. Austral, ii. 420.
' Mob. Tropical North-west Australia.

This species is as yet but very imperfectly known.
328. A. BiDWiLLT, Bentli. ! in Binncea, xxvi. 629. Glabra. Spinge Tiiinores minut r
V. obsoletse. auctee vix 3 lin. lon^jae. Pinnae 16-20-jugae; foliola 15-25-juga, oLlonir;
obtusa, rigida, vix lineam longa. Involucellum in medio pcdunculo dcciduum. Legumt
rectum, glabrum, 3-6-pollicare, ad 6 lin. latum, valvis convexis coriaceis. Semina glabr
FL Austral, ii. 420

Sab. Tropical North and North-east Australia.
329. A. PALLIDA, F. Muell. I in Journ. Binn. Soc. iii. 147, pro parte. Glabra, pallid; I
breves v. obsoletae. Pinnae 3-10-jugai foliola 10-20

V. subo-lauca. Spinae crassiusculcC, ;
juga, o'blonga, coriacea, 3-4 lin. longa. Involucellum in medio pcdunculo dcciduum
Legumen ignotum.— Benth. ! Fl. Austral, ii. 421.
Sab. Tropical North Australia.
** Africans platycarpcs
1056. Glabra. Spina? auctoc teretes, \

330. ?A Willd. Spec. iv.
longa.
foUola 3-l()-juga, oblonga, obtuBa, 1-2 l.n.
licares. Pinn^ 1- rarius 2-jug^;
oblongs dicuntur.) legumen curvum. subplanum,
Elores ignoti. (Spic. ovales v.
Arzuetgcto. x. t. 28.
4.polUcare, ad 6 Un. latum. -ir«.y/^,
tomentosum,
in Poir. Diet. Suppl. 1. 164.
Mimosa gummifera, Brouss.
North Africa Morocco.
Sab. Extratropical :
and a loo^ pod m Wdl-

taken from a specimen in leaf oxdy,
I
1 oX
oniy know
Know this
tuis from Hayne's
j
figure,
o
,t j
gathered m
:„ G^nfTi
South oy Dr. Hooker and br
Morocco by Mc!»srf«. Knn
denow's herbarium, and from specimens
uncertam whether the spcciCs should be placefl
:. l..f nnlv. It remains, therefore, very
all
gst the spicate Gummifi
Morocco seeds, and only known in leaf
''Tfr D from
'
coromlUfoha, Dest.
f Ca
bat. Hort.
tion. Par. ed. r^ 3 , 207,, raised
^^^^^^^
luxuriant form spcci
p.nn., but longer leaflet..

but one pa.r of
êns I Le seen have, like the former,
y.
—
510 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. Mcam. »
331. A. ROBUSTA, Burch. ! Trav. ii. 442. Glabra. Spin£e minores validee, bonicsp,
auctse eburnese, 2-3-pollicares. Pinnae 2-4-jug8e ; foliola 8-15-juga, oblongo-Uncaria,

obtusa, 3-4 lin. longa. Involucellnm infra medium pedunculi persistens. Legumen
stipitatum, planum, rectum v. curvulum, glabrum, 2-3-pollicare, 6-9 lin. latum, valvis
coriaceis. Oliv. ! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 349 ; ITarv. et Sond, Fl. Cap. ii. 283.
Mab. Tropical and subtropical South Africa, Biirchell, Welwitsch.
332. A. CLAViGERA, E. Mey. ! Comm, FL Afr. Aiistr. 168, Glabra. Spina? minores
brevissima?, conicse; auctse desunt. Pinnae 2-4-jugge. Poliola 20-30-juga, obi
linearia, obtusa, coriacea, 3-5 lin. longa. Plores ignoti. Pedunculi fructiferi breves
Legumen subsessile, lanceolatum, curvum, crassum, complanatum, glabrum, sub-4-polli
care, ad 6 latum, valvis convexiusculis rigide coriaceis obscure venosis.
lin.
Hab. Extratropical South-east AustraKa Natal district, Brege. :
fru
*.
narrow
333. A. VERTJGERA, Scliwemf. I in Linncea, xxxv. 340, t. 9, 10. Glabra, pallida. Spina)
minores minimse v. obsoletse, aucta? tenues, teretes, 2-4-pollicares. Pinnj© 7-8-jug£e;
foliola 20-30-juga, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, ri^dula, 1-2^
>,^v.w...«, J. Jin. lonâ.
XKJXX^
,j.ixi. Involucellum ad
medium pedicelli v. altius, minimum. Legumen stipitatum, rectum, vix venosum, 3-6-
pollicare, f-l latum, valvis coriaceis crassiusculis.— Oîy. ! Fl. Trop.
poll,
Afr. ii. 354. ^
Kab. Tropical North-east Africa.

The fruit is described from Abyssinian specimens, which appear to belong
to the same species as the
Nubian flowering ones.
r
334. A. ABYSSiNiCA, Kochst. I Benth. in Sooh. Bond. Jonrn. v. 97. Molliter pubescens
V. glabrata. Spina3 (omnes breves
ad stipulas innocuas v. minutas reducta). Pinna?
?) v.
6-30-jugae foliola 20-40.juga, linearia, obtusa, 1^-2 lin.
; longa, v. in ramis sterilibus
majora. Involucellum infra medium y. prope basin
pedunculi persistens. Legumen
rectum subfalcatum, glabrum, loDgitudinaliter
v.
reticulato-venosum, 3-5-pollicare, 8-9
lin. latum, valvis coriaceis convexiusculis.-
0?i.-. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii' 347; ScJiicebif. in .^
LimicBa, xxxv. 320.

r
A. xiphocarpa^Hochst ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 96.

/wâ iVe/asia, Hochst. !
in A. Rich. PI. Abyss, i. 237.
Albizzia Nefasia, W&lip. Ann. u.4o7.
Sab, Tropical North-east Africa.
335. A. TRisTis, Weln,.-, Oliv. in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 3^9.

Cinereo-pubeseens. Spi.a.
mmores come, aucta, e ongat^, teretes. Piuna,
neam
6-ll.j„g^. io-i8.j„J, li- p„h1
acutmscula. 2-2* ha longa. Involucellum infx-a medium v. props basin pedun-'
cull, ijegumen rectum v. leviter curvum ooTYinlnTiofii™
^^1^™. complauatum, i, • i
basi contractum, tomentoso-
r.n-Koc.o. A IT
pubescens, 4-6-pollicare,
fK
' •
vix semipoUicem latum, "»J=»ûie
matumm
obscure vpnn.nm
venosum, m specimmibus vix
^r.
• •
-i
336. A. ETBAiCA, Schweinf. ! in Binnwa, xxxv. 330 pit.

recta, interdum obsolete,, auct^desuut. Piuua,
^ ^ !^t<^^.T^'
yj^
t
ugge
7
lolioia 14-30-juga, ,
ft
J^'"^ T
oblonga,
—
Acacia.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 511
obtusa, crassiuscula, l-lj lin. longa. lEvolucellum in medio pedunculo persisteu

Legumen rectum v. leviter curvum, complanatum, glabrum, lJ-8|-pollicare, 3-4 lii
latum, valvis coriaceis venosis. Oliv.! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 349.
A. wiphocarpa, Hochst. ! in Schimp. PI. Abyss, n. 1057 nee n. 522.
Sah. Tropical North-east Africa : Nubia and Abyssinia.

spines recurved. We
specimens before us for further
336*. A. XANTHOPHLCEA, BentLyS^. nov. Glabra v. pilosula. Spinai minorcs conica!,
auctae validê, teretes, 2-3-pollicares. Pinnae 6-10-jugoe; foliolal5-2p-juga, linearia, nd
2 lin. longa. Involucellum infra medium pedunculi e bracteis 1-2 niajiisculis. Lcgunirn
tenuiter stipitatum, planum, 2-3.pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum, marginibas carinatis, Mil vis
tenuibus subtransverse reticulatis,
Hab. Tropical South-east Africa : Senna on the Zambesi, Kirk ; Zomba fit the cast
end of Lake Shirwa, Mello the former specimens in ; fruit, the latter in llowor, but
apparently belonging to the same species.

" Arbor procera, gummifera, cortice flavo, ligno molli." Folia pilis pauciB conspcrsa. Glamhihi
interdum prope basin petioli, seepequc parv« inter foliola pariim.

scutellata inter pinnas paris ultimi et
1-U-pollicares. InvoluceUi bractca sxpiua obUqua, linea panHo longior.

paucorum. Peduncuh axillares,
Legumen stipite venatione et carina prominula ab omnibus jiniiabus

Mores in capitulo glabriusculi.
diversum ."
Lond. Journ. 498. Glabra v. junior pnbcsccns.
337. A. NUBiCA, Senth. ! in Booh. i.
rariu s
parvae, conicse, s^pius tomentosse aucta? rcctse, subsemiponicares,
Spim© minores ;
foliola 6-15.juga, oblonga, obtusa, sub-

subrecurv^ brevioresque. Pinnse 3-12-jug^ ;
Involucellum infra medium pedunculi persistans. Legumen

fflauca 2-3 lin longa. '^"--*-
ad 6 lin. latum, marginibus acute
subsessile, rectum v. yix curvum, 2-3-pollicare,
conYQxm^Gulis.-Schwemf. in Unn<ea, xxxr. 337
V. ai guste alatis, valvis
coriaceis
Oliv. I FL Trop. Afr. ii. 348

Aucheri
Hook. Lond. Journ
Benth. in
Hochst. !
;
rrovince Mascate, Au^êr

"^rT:;Sl =:;ast AMca and probaWy Arabia,
must be very near A. «u .... TI.c s.
Forsk. Fl. M,. Arab. 177, from DakU,
uZ^saVfota, nnUca they are nsuall, very short. Tb
whUst in A.
spl™ ielibU as being as long as
agrees
the
with
leaves,
A. mbica.
in other respects
short ctaraeter
*** Indicce, altera platt/carpa, altera stenocarpa.
S3B. A. J.C...™ B.a..l in KooU.L.^. -^^^ ^-

^^;,,^^:f^^
Juga, oblongo-lineana, ote^ 1-1, ^-^S^ ^ 6 lin. latnn. f
stipitatum, rectum, g
./^^^ ^.j,„Uie,,e,
cum Le«Timen longe
^3 «
valvis planis tenmssime

and Punjab.
1/
Sab. Tr p calAsia
Tropica : plains
I
of Upper India
^^^^^ ^ ^^ gp^ ^
EBUiiNBA, Wtlld. Spec. it. lus
339. A. Pinnse 2-4- rarius 6-8-
.,
„oUicarcs.
eburne« s.pe
tenues, recte; aucte ^^^^^f'\'frZ
obtusa, -i-l Hn. long T„volucellum m medio
6-10-juga,
' conferta,
jug® foliola 3
70L. XXX
512 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE/f!. [Acacia.
pedunculo caducum. Legumen stipitatum, planum, curvum, glabnim v. glaucum, 2-5-

poUicare, 2-3 lin. latum, valvis tenuibus vix venosis.
Mimosa eburnea, Linn. f. Suppl. 437; Roxb. Corom. PI, ii. 54, t. 199 (excl. leg.?).
_ __ *
Mab. Tropical Asia East-Indian peninsula and Upper India. Perhaps also Aden in
:
Arabia but the specimens from thence are not in fruit and are therefore doubtful.
;
A. Eoxburghii, Wight and Am. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. 276, was founded on Roxburgh's M. ebumea, who
figures the pod (detached) as twisted like that of ^. planlfrom, but (not turgid) like that of
flat A. ebumea.
confounded the two species. The specimen of Roxburgh's in the
Banksian herbarium mentioned by Arnott cannot now be found there; and I have not seen the^. Camp-
bellii, Arn. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xviii. 333, which,
according to T. Thomson, is the same species. The
flowering branch figured by Roxburgh appears to me without doubt to represent the true A, ebumea in a
very young flowering state.
*«** Africance stenocarpce.
340. A. Seyal, Delile. FL Eg, 142, t. 52. f. 2. Glabra v. puberula. Spinse minores
breviter conies, auctse demum eburnese, tenues, 1-3-pollicares, basi
interdum insectormn
ictu inflatae. Pinnae 3-9-jug8e foliola 8-20-juga, lineari-oblonga, 1^-2^ lin.
;
longa. In-
volueellum infra medium pedunculi caducum. Legumen curvulum
v. subtortum, planum
glabrum, 3-6-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum, valvis coriaceis
longitudinaliter venosis.
Schweinf.! in Linncea, xxxv. 348; Nees, FL • *
Offic. t. 336; Oliv.! FL Trop. Afr.
351 ; ILayne, Arzneih, x. t. 30.
A. GirafiE, Sieb. ! Herb. Seneg. n. 45 non Willd.
-Sa^» Tropical Africa, ranging over the greater part of
the region, extending perhaps
to Arabia and southern Palestine, but the
specimens uncertain for want of the fruit.
Var. fistula, cortice albo, foliolis 3-4 lin. longis.—
O/ir. / /. c.
A. fistula, Schweinf. in Linnaea, xxxv. 344, 1. 11-14.
!
Sab. Tropical N'orth-east Africa.
341. A. Eheenbeksiana, Sapie, Arzneik. Geto. x. t. 29. Glabra y. puberula. Spto

tenues, aucte ultrapoUicares. Pinnae 1- rarius 2-jug». Foliola S-lO-juga, oblonga,
obtusa, 1-11 un. longa. Involucellum infra medium pedunculi
eaducum! LegumeB
Lneare falcatum usûe ad
4J poll, longum, 2-3 lin. latum, inter semina sinibus latis
contractum.-,Sa«,m/. in Zimwa, xxxv.
.'
352, t. 15, 16 Oliv. ! Fl Trot>
A. Ehreniergii, Nees, PI. Offic.
;
Afr
^' •' ii 352.
t. 334.
Hah. Tropical North-east Africa : Nubia and Abyssinia.
342. A. STEKOCARPA, A Hick. Fl. AJ>y.s. 238. Glabn. v. minute pube-
SooM. I i.
rula. Spn.» mmores recte. Wssnn. v. obsolete
auct. pauc*. valida,, semipollicares. ;
Pmn» 4-10-jug^
;
fohola 10-20-jusa, linearia, acutiuscula, 1-2^
lin. onga Inyolu-
cellum medium versus v. prope basin pedunculi
Legumen lineare rfanuni, caducum.
curvum 2-4.pol,icare, ad 2 Hn. latum, inter semina
Stt?
"•'°°^'^-^^*^"^"^-.
- ^»-''-
non contractCvalvrê^ftrio"
355, t. 17, 18 on. ! Fl. Trap. — • ;
A. Giraffa, Hochst. ! in PI. Schimp. Abyss.

Mab. Tropical North-east Africa : Nubia and Abyssinia.
1
1
—
AcadaJ] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 5i:i
343. A. HiRTELLA, U. Mey. ! Comm. Fl. Afr. Austr. 167. Ilirtella. Spinae tenucs,
minores brevissimse v. obsoletse, auctse subsemipollicares. Pinnae 6-8-jugaj. Foliola
a
10-15-juga, oblongo-linearia, 1-lJ lin. longa. Involuccllum in medio pcdunculo ca-

ducum. Legumen stipitatum, lineare, planum, suhfalcatum, 2-3-p oil i care, ad 3 lin.
latum, inter semina late contractum, glabrum. Rarv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 281.
Sahi Extratropical South-east Africa : Natal district.
**** Boreali-AmericancB, stcnocarjpcB.
344. A. CONSTEICTA, \S^w/^. .' in A. Grcnjt P^- TP I CG Subglabra. R pinif;
minores tenues, rectae subrecu cctai, validfP, subsomipoU Pinn

2-6-jugse ; foliola 6-10-juga, oblonga, obtusa, vix lincam In\
pedunculo parvum. Legumen stipitatum, lincarc, plMmnii, 2-5-poiiicaro, 11-2

i
lin.
latum, inter semina distantia contractum, valvis tcnuitcr Tcnosi

'
Sab. Extratropical North America : Mcxicano-Texan region.
JBof. Emory Exped Cnncscons v. pallida. Spinuj minima'

345. A. ScHOTTii, Torr. !
P l-iugac; foliola 3-5-j alt 'rna, lincuri-terctia, ad

2-3 lin. lonsae,
o rectae.
Involuccllum in lucdio pcdunculo caducum
2 lin. longa, quam rhaclies non latioi
2-4.pollicarc, ad 3 latum, inter semina di
Xegumen stipitatum, lineare, curvulum, lin.
stantia contractum
Eah. Extratropical North America : Mexican-Texan boundary
CapUula hreviter pedunculata, secnv ramott

E. Paniculatae Sp omms rectce.
paniculcB amplce terminalis aphyll(B mm. A

LEUCOPHLCEA, WUld. Spec. iv. 1083 Tomentella v. demum glabrcsccn
346. A.
(rara?) fuscac, 1-2-polli arcs. Pinnae 6-1
conicê brevissimae v. 0, auctae
Spinse minores
2-4 lin. longa, gidula Involuccllum i
foliola 30-j oblon

J^g complanatum, tomentosum
caducum liPfûmen lineare, curvum,
medio pedunculo
coriaccis marginibus elevatis Brand. For. Fl
4-6-pollicare, 3-4 Hn. latum, valvis
fr
Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 48.
Corom. PI. ii. 37. t. 150.
Mimosa leucophlvBa, RoxTd.
Nat. Fr. Bcrl. Iseue bcbr. i
v. (1803) 208
alba, Roxb. ex Rottl. in Ges.
Mimosa
Berol. Suppl. 68 (nomcn tantum).
Acacia alba, WiUd. Enum. Hort.
Herb. Ind. n. 5262.
A. densa, WaU.! Cat.
Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5263.
Grab. in
A. microcephala, !
lud. BatM. pan. 9.

Jungh. Reise. 2G0, ex Miq. Fl. .^
A. e^lanata,
en Genee.k. Arch. m. 72 ex Miq. L c
ZoU. in Nat.
A. melanoch<etes, Burmah nd Archi
and Punjab to
Sah. Tropical Asia from the Peninsula
pelag but tbe specie- <k*u-ibrd a»
M. alba, Roxb.
*
;
ferruginea
different, and i? probably
A . ferruginea
the A. pennata
Descr. 133 Prsecedenti simillima et tIx nisi
ARcrATA, Dene. I Herb. Tim.
347 A.
obsoletis et legumi (T labro
varietas stipuHs saepius
Kab. Timor Island.

8x2
514 MR. G. BENTHAMON THE MIMOSE^. [Acacia.
^
Subseries 3. Basibracteatae. Fedunculi ima basi hracteis parvis stipati, cceterum
ehracteati. Spices cylindracece v. elongatce, rarius glohosce. Legumen bivalve.
* FycnanthcB AmericmKje ; Jlores in capitulo globoso v. spida ohlonga detmssime imbricati

regulariter spirales.
348. A. sPHiEROCEPHALA, Cham, et Schl. ! in LinncBa, v. 594. Glabra. SpinaB minores

*!
tenues, 1-2 lin. longse ; auctse 1-lJ-pollicares, inflatse, albse, basi connatae et ad 3 lin.
latae. Pinnae 6-8- rarius multi-jugae; foliola 10-20-juga, linearia, 2-4 lin. longa. Capi-
tula globosa." Legumen ignotum.
H
Mimosa cornigeraj Linn. Spec. 1505^ pro parte.
Acacia cornigera, Willd. Spec. iv. 1080, pro parte.

Mimosa campechiana, Mill. Diet. n. 21, ex char.
Eab. Tropical America Mexico and Central America also Porto Bello,
: ; Billberg.
The A. cornigera of botanical gardens has been most frequently this species.
349. A. SPADiciGERA, Cham, et Schl. ! in Linncea, v. 594. Glabra. Spina minores
tenues ;
auc1« l|-pollicares, inflatae, lividse,
basi connatae, J poll. lat». Pinnae 2-4-
rarius 6-8-jug8e ; foliola 15-20-juga, linearia, 3-5 lin. longa. SpicEe cyHndrace^, den-
sissime imbricatae, 6-9 lin. longae. Legumen sessile, obliquum v. falcatum, crassum,
glabrum v. vix tomentellum, IJ-poUicare, ad 4 Un. latum.
Mimosa
Willd
Rab. Tropical America Mexico, near Vera Cruz, Central
: America, (Ersted ; Panama
Cuming, n. 1270 Santa Marta, Furdie.
;
Cuh. i. 462), Wright

the horn-like spine
but with innumerable small
flowers very closely
and they apparently belong
to the same species.
" Amerkuna: laxiftor^. Spic^ eylmdracecB v. elongaU fioribm distmctu v. mbdisdtk.

350 A AMENiACEA, DC. Frod. ii. 455, e. ic. Me.ieana. Glabra. SpiuiB tenues,
auctse ^25.polhcai;es. Pinnae l-jnga, foliola 2-6-juga, obovali-oblonga,
:
3-6 lin. longa,
veuosa. Spica, pollicares, floribus confertis
^
nee imbricatis. Legumen
5 ..XXlCll ignotum
Ig
Journ
Sab. Subtropical North America : Mexicano-Texan region
351. A. PLExiCArLis, Benth ! ^ EooJc. Land. Journ. i. 505. Glabra v. junior pub.
rula.^ Spm^ tenues auct^ subsemipollicares.
Pinn^s^pius 2.jug^ ; foliola paris ultimi
«-juga, pans infenons 2-3-juga, obovato-oblonga,
membranaceaS:4 lin. longa. Spic.
tr'':r::J''^'^'''
crasso-coriaceis.
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^™' ^—^ ^-Pomcare, pollicem latu'm, vLis
Hooperia ariorea, Buckl. inProc. Acad.
Philad. 1861, 453.
JIab. Extratropical Nortb America, Mexicailo-Texan region
' ^ ' A.fl..icaun. The flowers and

(rCknown fruits of the garden-plan
Acacia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 515
352. A. HiNDSii, Benth. ! in Hook. Land. Journ. i. 504. Glabra. Spinse minores
subulatae auctae maximse, inflatae, lividae, 1-lJ-pollicares, basi coDnatae et J poll. lata?.
;
Pinnae 6-15-jug8e; foliola 12-20-juga, linearia, obtusa, 2-3 lin. longa. Spicoe tcnues,
|-lJ-pollicares. Legumen ignotum.
Hab, Tropical America, Mexico, Wnds, Jttrgensen, n. 109.
When tKe spines are inflated, this species resembles A. spadicigera ; but the pinnx and leaflets are more
numerous, the spines with the connate base very much broader, and the spikes of flowers very different.
(See also 388- A. acatlensis, in which the small fine stipules are almost spinescciit.)
*** GerOntogece. Spicm elongatcB v. breves^ laxijlora* v. densiuaculcc^ florlbus iamcn nun
imhrlcatis.
353. A. ALBIDA, Delile, FL Fff. 142, t. 52. f. 3. Glabra v. pilosula. Unmi albidi.
Spinge minores subconicse v. 0; auctrc validoD, basi lata incrassatir, ulbm, rarlus soni-
poUicem excedentes. Pinnae 3-7-jug8e ; foliola 7-15-jiiga, oblongn, obtusa, 3-4 lin.
lono-a. Spic£e 2-5-pollicares, laxiflorse. Legumen valdc arcuatum v. circinatum, f-l
poll, latum, basi stipiti sublaterali affixum, valvis crassis coriaceo-subspongiosis.— 0///'.
Fl. Trop, Afr. ii. 339.

Desv. in Hamilt. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occid. 60, patria falsa.
A, selenicarpa , !
A. gyrocarpa, Hochst. in Schimp. PI.!Abyss. Exs.
A. saccharata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 505.

Mossamb
KirkiL OUv. ! Fl
Sah. Tropical Africa ;

generally spread over tbe region
354. A. LAmoNUM, Willd. Spec. iv. 1077. Glabra. Spiu® semiauctae t«nuc8, J-l-j
longioresque, basi 3-4 lin. crass^. Pinna> 2-5-jugaj foliola
licares, aucta? 2-poUicares ;
nunc omnia vix linea longiora, nunc 2-3

6-i5-juga, linearia v. oblonga,
Legumen planum, falcatum v. arcuatum, utrinq
1-li-pollicares, demum laxiflorê.
6-9 latum, basi stipiti sublaterali affixum, valvi.

obtusum, glabrum, li-2-poUicare, lin.
tenuibus coriaceis. Wtght, Ic.—t. 1157.

Suppl. 438.
Linn. Spec. 1505, quoad syn. Sebie; Linn. f.
Mimosa cornigera,
Linn. Suppl. 438.
M. latronum, f.
Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. 4245.

Acacia umbraculata, Wight ! in
Roxb.
A. dumosa, W. et Am ! Prod. Fl. Penins. 274, excl. syn.
Tropical Asia East-Indian peninsula.

Sab. ;
^^n A Lahai Steud. et Sochst. ! Benth. m Book. Lond. Journ. i. 60G. Glabriu.-
auct. l-2.pomcares, alb.. Hun. 6-10 Jug.; r.liolal2^20.

eula Spinrttnul;
Spica. 2-4-pomcarcs longiflon.. Ugumen
ia linearia, obtusa, 2 rarius 3 lin. longa.
li-2.pollicare, ad pollicem ^^tu-, stiprt. .ub^^^^^^^^^^
glabrum,
iecturovai; xxxv. 859 Olw. Fl. Irop.
Schêinf. in Llnnaâ^ !
"Ss leuuibus nitidis reticulatis. ;
Afr. ii. 340. ^ ,

Abyss. App. 65, nomen tantum
R. Br. in Salt, !
A. fasciculata,
Norn. Bot. ed. 2.
A. Saltiana, Steud.
Hab. Tropical Nortb-east Africa.

516 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Aeaeia
Series 5. Vulgares.
Arbores v. frutices, iuterdum scandentes. Stipulse non spinoscentes. Aculci sparsi
infrastipulares v. rarius 0. Folia bipinnata. Pedunculi axillares v. ad apices ramorufn
paniculati, monostachyi. Spicse elongatse cylindraceae v. oblongse, v. capitula globosa.
Subseries 1. Gerontor/ecB Spicljlorce.

H
A. Triacantliae. Aculei terni, infrastipulares cum infrafoliaceo. Legumen valvis

memhranaceis tardius dehiscens, glahrum framverslm reticulato-venostmi, marginibiis ner-
viformibus v. suboarinatis.
356. A. HAMrLOSA, Benth. in SooJc. Lond. Journ. i. 509. Glabra, pallida. Aculei
infrastipulares recti v. incurvi, tertio infrafoliaceo recurvo, in petiolo minimi saepius
adsunt. Pinnae 2-3-jug8e ; foliola 3-8-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusissima, 2-3 lin. longa.
Spicse 1-2-pollicares. Legumen 2-3-pollicare, IJ-IJ poll, latum.
.-H«5. Arabia : Aden, Sooher and others Djedda, ; aS'. Fischer, n. 72.
Mimosa Asak, Forsk. Fl. ^g. Arab. 176, Vahl, Symb. ii. 104, or Acacia Asak, Willd. Sp. iv. 1077, from
Arabia, of which the flowers and fruits are unknown, probably the A. hamulosa.
is Forskahl describes
Vahl as a discrepancy which may be explained by the
lULciui struigui one or tne central recurvea one being most prominent in the specimen
described.
357. A. Senegal, Willd. Spec. iv. 1077. Glabra, pallida. Aculei infrastipulares
recti V. incurvi, tertio infrafoliaceo recurvo, petiolo rarius armato. Pinn» 3-5-jug£e.
Poliola 10-15 juga, linearia, obtusa, rigidula, ad
2 lin. longa. -
SpicjE 2-3.pollicares.
Legumen stipitatum, 3-4-pollicare, poll, latum.
|
Mimosa Senegal, Linn. Spec. 1506, excl. syn. fere omnibus.
M. senegalensis, Lam, Diet. i. 19.
Acacia Verek, Guill. et Perr. FL Seneg. 245,
I i. t. 56 ; Schweinf. in Linnâ, xxxv. 374, t. 22, fr. : Rel.
Kotsch. t. 3 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 342.
A. rupestris, Stocks ! Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 638.
Hab. Tropical Africa, Senegambia, and Upper Nubia : also in Scinde Stocks
M
furnishing the best gum
M. seneaalensis of Lamarck. LmnsWs reference to
Adansoa and to the three spines, with the
central one recurved, identify the species,
notwithstanding the confusion thrown
on it by the various
synonyms applymg to atoost as many different plants, and
his note that it was easily
known by it,
which
vain endeavonred
foliag
«
affirm that the area of the species
— -^ûxv^xxo. xuc lutermeai; Arabia
may not be more continuous
358. A. GLAUcoPHTLLA, Ste^. ! A. Mch. Fl. Abyss, i. 243. Glabra r. minute pube-
rula, paUida. Aeulei dum
adsint infrastipulares subrecti,
tertio infrafoliaceo recuryo,
ranns m erdum mermtbus. Pinn«> 8-8-jug«; foUola
10-20.jusa, obUque oblonga
" :'rV^'°T' °''*1^^' ^' "" lo-^S^- SP-^' «ub-2.pomeL. Mores glabri.
"^TT^-^^-
Oliv. Fl.
Trop. Afr. ii.
.1-^
34i2
«- iatun..-.o....;/. .,
^ x^:;- . 3V2 : r;
;;;
Acada,'] BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 517

. \
A. triacantha, Hochst. !
; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 244.
Hah. Tropical North-east Africa.
B. Diacanthge, Aculei dum adsint infrastiptdares, gemlni, recurvi
Mores distincte jpedwellati^ glabri. Legumen Triacanthamm.

359. A INENS, Burch. I Trax). i. 310. Glabra v. villosula. Pinnae sub-3-jug8e
foliola 1-juga, oblique obovata, obtusissima, 3-4 lin. longa. Spicse ovoideo-subglobosae
V. oblongse, laxiflorse, brevissime pedunculatse. Legumen 2-3-pollicare, |-1 poll, latxim.
Harv. et Soiid. Fl. Cap. ii. 282.

Sab. Extratropical South Africa..
360. A. FEROX, Benth. ! in Sook. Lond. Journ. v. 97. Villosula. Pinncc 4-6-ju£ra*
foliola 3-6-juga, oblique obovato-oblonga, obtusissima, 3-4 lin. longa. Spicai ovoidco-
subglobosse v. oblongse, laxiflorse, brevissime pedunculatse. Legumen 2-3-pollicare, J-1
poll, latum.—^«ry. et Sond. FL Cap. ii. 282.
BCab. Extratropical South-east Africa.
361. A. MELLIEERA, Benth. ! in Book. Lond. Journ. i. 507. Glabra, pallida. Pinna'
2-iug£e; foliola 1-juga, oblique obovato-oblonga, obtusissima, 3-6 lin. longa.
l-lJ-poUicares, laxiflorge. Legumen li-2-pollicare, J-f poll, latum.— ^c/wew/. in Ihi'
ncea, xxxv. 365 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 340.
Mimosa unguis-cafi, Forsk. Fl. ^g. Arab. 176, non Linn.

M. mellifera, Vahl, Symb. ii. 103.
Inga mellifera, Willd. Spec. iv. 1006.
Acacia vicioides, Ferr. et Galin. Voy. Abyss, iii. 119, ex descr. ct syn.
North-east and North-west Africa, Arabia. •
B:ab. Tropical
** Flores sessiles v. subsessiles, glabri. Legumen Triacantharum.

App. m. Glabra, pallida. Pinnae 2-3-jiiga'.
362 K. J.Mi^K, B.Br.! in Salt, Abyss.
oblanceolata v. obovato-oblonga, obtusa v. mucronulata, 3-1
Eoliola 2-5-juga, oblique
l-li-poUicares, ad nodos fasciculatae. I^S^nien 2-3.pollicar.,
lin. lonâ. Spic^ laxse,
t. 19 ad 21 Beliq. Kotsch. 2
1 poll, Schiceinf. in
latum.— nnrPM. XXXV. 367, L ; t. 1,
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 341. •

. i, //
and, perhaps the same,
i
Arabia, Botta
Tropical North-east Africa,
Sab.
341, Glabra, subglauca. Pinna' 2-t-
Welwitschii, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii.
363 A.
So
obovata, obtusa, 4-8 lin. longa.
3-6-juga, elliptica, oyata v.
foliola
J'
3-5-pollicarc, &-9 lin. latum
subpaniculat*. Legumen
4 2-pomcare.,
Africa
Sah. South tropical
subglauca. Pinna.
364
'
A
NiaEESCENS, Olw. ! Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 340. Glabra,
3^
n,gncant:a, 4^
Jl itga, obovato-rotundata.
tenues,
coriacea.
interruptse.
in fonn. tj-pK-a .cc.t.te
Legumen ignotum
long Spic^ rasâti
ms
Wab. South tropical Africa

Journ.j. 98. Glabra, pallida v.
Eook. Lond.
.fi, A VENOSA, SocUU, Benth. in
obovat,.
obhque oblonga. v.
n lauca. vZTU rarius ^7-jug» ; WO-juga.

foliola
—
518 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^:. {Acacia.
f,
oblonga, obtusa, 3-5 lin. longa. Spicse 1-lJ-pollicares, laxse. Legumen 4i-6-pollicarc,
pollicem latum. — Schweinf. inLinnceaf xxxv. 371 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 341.
A. sanguinea, Hochst. ! A; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 245 ; Schweinf. I.e. 364.
Hab. North-east tropical Africa.
366. A. MODESTA, Wall. I Fl. As. Bar. ii. 27, t. 130. Glabra v. pilosula, cinerascens.
I
Pinnae 2-3-jugse ; foliola 3-5-juga, oblique obovato-oblonga, obtusa, 3-4 lin. longa. Spicse
laxae, 1-2-pollicares. Legumen 3-4-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum. Jacquem. Toy. Bot. t. 56.
Mimosa obovata, Roxb, ! Fl. Ind. ii. 561. w
r
M. dumosa, Roxb. 1. c. 559. r
Mab. Subtropical Asia :*

North-western provinces of East Indies.
t
Very nearly allied to A. venosa, the leaflets usually fewer and shorter, the flowers pale yellow, not red,
and the pod much smaller.
367. A. LENTicULAEis, Samilt. I in Wall. Cat. Kerb. Fnd. n. 5244. Glabra, pallida
gla Aculei Pinnse 2-3-jugse ; foliola 6-8-juga, oblique obovato-oblong
obtusa, pollicaria v. paullo Ion Spicge laxse, 3-5-pollicares. Legumen ignotum a
Benth. in Hoolc. Bond. Journ. i. 508

Hab. Subtropical Asia : northern proyinces of India.
368. A. FERRUGiNEA, DC. Fvod. ii. 458 Glabra, pallida. Pinnae 3-6-jug» ; foliola
10-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusa, 3-5 lin. lonsa Sp tenues, interruptae, 2-polli
cares longioresque. Legumen ad 3 poll, longum poll, latum, quam in praecedentibus
rigidius, quam in sequentibus tenuius, glabrum, siccitate fusco-ferrusineum
Mimosa ferruginea, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 561.
Hab. Tropical Asia : East-Indian peninsula.
««» Flores sessiles v. subsessiles, scepe pubescent Legumen planum, valvis
marginibus vix prominentibus
369. ? A. PURPUREA, Bolle, in Feters, Mossamb. Bot. 6
Tomentoso-pubescens. Pinnae
8-jugse foliola 12-juga, oblonga, obtusa. 3
; lin. lonsa Spicae densae, longiusculae, pilos
Elores purpurei. Legumen ignotum Oliv.Fl. Trop. Afr. ii.MZ
Sab. South-east tropical Africa. I have not seen the plant
370. A. ERITBESOENS ^.toJ„ Oliv.Fl. Trop . Afr : u. 343. Glabra v. puberula. Pinna,
4.5-juga,; fohola 10-14-juga, oblongo-Unearia, 2-3
lin. longa. Spiea, densiuscul*. 1^-
pollicares. Elores albidi, griseo-tomentelli. Legumen
ignotum
Sab. South-west tropical Africa, Welwitsch I have seen no specimen
371. A. BuRKEi, Benth. ! in Sooh. Bond. Journ. y.
98 Villosula Pinnae 3-6 -jug
foliola 5-8.juga, obUque oblonga v. obovaKa,
obtusa 3 5 lin. longa. Spicae laxae, Ion
gmsculae. Legumen ignotum —Sarv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 282
^"' ''"*^""' ^'"^^
t '"^?if
anf apparently the same,'\T"'
and, Manganja hills
'^ ^--1-êrg, Burke and Zeyke.
on the Zambesi Kirk
•*
37 A. RovuM^, Oliv. ! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 353 Pubescens, fuscescens. Pinnse 7-9
jugaj ;
foliola 15-30.juga, oblonga, obtusa, 2-3 lin
long; Elores ignoti Lesrumen
labrum, fuscescens, 4-6-pollicare,
fere polHcem latum, valvis
ifad. South-east tropical Afripa,
. ;
l-^<:"(--ia
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEtE 519
Apparently allied to the following, but with a much larger and especially broader pod and larger
leaflets.
373. A. Catechu, Willd. Spec. iv. 1079. Glabra v. pubescens, ramis fusccsccntibus
Aculei saepe parvi v. 0. Pinnae 10-20-jugae; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, lin. longa
J-3
Spicae 2-3-polli cares. Corolla calyce 2-3-plo longior. Legumcn glabrum, 3-5-pollicare
6-8 lin. latum, valvis Brandis ! For. Ft. 186
Mimosa
M. Sum
WiUd
A. Sundra, Spreug. Syst. iii. 143 ; Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 510.
A. Sandra, Bedd. ! Fl. Sylv. t. 50.
Mimosa catechuoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 562.

Acacia catechuoides, Benth ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 510.
Kab. Tropical and. subtropical Asia: common in most parts of India and Eurmu
{Brandis).
This and the three following species are very difficult to diatingish from each other in dried specimens
and the synonymy much confused. I have followed Dr. Brandis, who has carefully investigated the
is
question, in considering the common brown-barked Indian species as the true Catcchv, of hich Roxburgh's ^^
M, Sundra is the glabrous type, and his M. catechuoides, or Catechu of the Coromaudel plants, the pubcMt-iit
form, and taking his name of Suma for the white-barked species, thus revcrsiTig tlie nomenclature I had
formerly adopted on the authority of most herbaria. I am not certain that the character
proportions of the calyx and corolla is constant. Generally speaking, the corolla is very much more
exserted in A. Catechu than in A. Suma, and still shorter in A. caffra ; but there are occasionally speci-
colour
specimens
which instances in Roxburgh's Flora Indien, printed after
By one of those errors of there are several
3 death from manuscripts which had

not been finally revised, M. Catechu has been three times repeated
" M. Catechu, Roxb. Corora. PI." 562, was intended
th distinctnumbers as separate species, whereas p.
a svnonvm to M. catechuoides, and ''M. Catechu, Med. Obs." p. 563, as a synonym of the preceding
M be
Willd. Spec. iv. 1079 (3/i
be
the A. Catechu or
referred
For. Fl. 187. Tubesccns, pallida, ramuliii albidi

374 A ÛMA Kurz ; Brandis !
yalidi. Pinnee lO-tO-jugBB foliola 30-50-jnga, lincari

rarius
Aculei sa^pius parvi v. 0,
2-5-pollicares.
;
Corolla calyce dimidio ranus -

acutiuscula, l-2i lin. longa. Spicê .
Legumen glabrum, 3-5-pollJcare, 6-8 lin. latum, vahis coriaccis

duplo Ion
lignosis.
Mimosa Suina, Roxb. Fl
Trop. Afr. ii. 344
t. 49, and most authors.

DC. Prod. ii. 458.
A. Wallichiana, „ , , „, vi
•
, i
A. Rich. El. Abyss, i. 242 Schwemf. PI. Îl. t. 1.
A. campy lacantha, Hochst. ! ;
Hochst. A. Rich. 1. c. 243.

A. erythrantha, q iu^^ iÂU
Tropical Asia and
!
Africa: the commonest species

.
m
•
Southern India t Jk.nÂ

(Brand
Sal 8 T
VOL, XXX.
— —
>
520 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. lAcacia.
the Abyssinian form requiring, perhaps, further investigation, the flowers said to be red,
which they are not in the Indian white-barked species.
The specimens sent from tropical America, where Catechu has sometimes been planted, appear to me
to be rather A. Siimathsiii the true A. Catechu as above defined. I should observe, however, that Major
Beddome does not quite agree with Dr. Brandis in the identification of the original Catechu with the
A, Sundra, but thinks it was rather founded on the pale pubescent form of ^, Stima, as I had originally
presumed it to be. might be better, perhaps, to consider A. Catechu as a collective name, and
It
r
to
include in it A. RovurrKBy A. Sundra^ A. Sumay A.hecatophylla^ and A. caffra.
375. A. HECATOPHTLLA, Steucl. ; A. Rich. I Fl. Abyss, i. 242. Canes centi-tomentosa.

Aciilei saepe parvi Pinnfe 10-20-jug^ ; foliola 30-50-i oblon o obtusa. 2-3
lin, Tonga, pallida. Spicae 2-3-pollicares, molliter pubescentes. Corolla calycem parvum
excedens Legumen 3-7-poilicare, fere poUicem latum, yalyis rigide coriaceis obscure
venosis. Oliv. ! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 344.
Kal). North-east tropical Asia.
Very near A. Suma, but with larger broader leaflets and the pod of A. Rovun
376. A. CAPFRA, JFilld. Spec. iv. 1078. Subglabra, ramis fuscis Aculei saepe parvi
V. Pinnae 6 jugae; foliola 15-40-j linearia 1^2^ lin. long Sp 2-3
pollicares. Corolla calycem parum excedens. Legumen 2-4-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum
valvis coriaceis obscure venosis. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr.
! ii. 345 ; Rarv. et Sond. ! FL Cap
282.
Mimosa caffra^ Thunb. Fl. Cap. 433.
Acacia fallax, E. Mey.
Comm. PI. Afr. Austr. 169,
!
f(
Sah. South tropical and extratropical Africa

Very closely allied to A. Catechu, but with a different
C Ataxacanth tk
Aculei dum adsint sparsi Sp superiores scepius racemoso
pani€ulat(B.
377. A. ATAXACANTHA, DC I'rod. ii. 459 Puberula v. glabrata. Aculei stepius

Pinna? 7 jugae, glandula petiol elevata glabra; foliola
20-40-juga, lineari-ûbfal
ad 2 lin. Ion o Spicae 2-3-pollicares Plores glabri Legumen 3-4-pollica 4-6
lin. latum, valvis chartaceis glabris Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 343
Hab. Westtropical Africa
• i*
appears
not identical with, A. atawacantha.
378 i. MACEOSTACHYA, Beichenb. Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ.

!
i. 511 Per
pubescens. Aculei validi Pinnae 20 30-jugae glandula
foliola 20-50-juga, lineari-subfalcata,
; petiolaris depressa, magna
acuta, 2-2 i im. longa.
Spicae 3-5-pollicares, laxse
Elores glabriusculi Legumen ignotum Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 343
Hab. West tropical Africa
379. A. ERiADENiA, Benth Hooh. Bond. Journ. v. 98 Tomentoso-villosa v. gla-
bresceu Aculei rari, validi, basi latissim Pinnae G-lO-jugae
elevata ; glandula petiolaris
illosa, V. rarius obsolet foliola ad 20-juga, linearia, 2, rarius 3 lin. Ion
Acacia.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 521
Spicse 2-3-pollicares. Corolla calyce duplo longior. Legumen longiuscule stipitatuin,

3-4-pollicare, 8-9 lin. latum, glabmm, glsiucescens .Sarv . et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 283.
Hah. Extratropical South Africa : Natal district.
Perhaps not really distinct from A. ataxacantha.
380. A. V'E.^YiLJJS.i, Benth. 8;p, n. Scandens ? glabra. Aculei crebri, parvi, rccurvi.
Pinnas 3-6-jng8e ; foliola 8-15-juga, subpetiolata, oblique oblonga, obtusa, mucronulata,
4-6 lin. longa, rigidula, subtus pallida. Spicse laxae, subpollicares, ad apices rauioruiu
paniculatse. Elores glabri. Corolla calyce obtusissimc subdcntato duplo longior. Legu-
men ignotum.
Sab. West Madagascar : Ambongo, Perville.
This species is very unhke any other one from the Old World, hut appoars mucli more nearly allied in
the Brazilian A. lacerans.
Subseries 2. Americana; Spicijlorce.
* Nudiflorse. Frutices rarius arhorescentes iricrmes v. rarlna {in A. (ircggii) acuU'i
1 ameales pauci validi, pctiolares 0.
381. A. EENiFORMis, Beuth. ! in HooJc. Ic. FL t. 1165. Glabra, glaucesccns. Aculci
rari. Stipulse foliace^, reniforraes, 3-5 lin. lat^. Pinna) l-2-jug3C ; foliola l-juga,
oblique orbieulato-reniformia, rigida, 1-li-pollicaria. Spicie laxcc, l-lfpolU cares. Ive-
gumen ignotum.
Hab. Mexico, Ehrenberg in Serb. Ferol.
382. A. Wrightii, BentJi. ! in A. Gray, Fl Wriyht. i. 64. Glabra, pallida, incnnis
2-4-juga, oblique obovata v. oblonga, obtusa, 3-5 lin. longa

Pinn^l-2-jug8e; foliola
subfalcatum, planum, 2-3
Spicaj lax£e, subpoUicares. Legumen basi oblique stipitatum,
poUicare, 8-12 lin. latum.
America, West Texas, W'right, Berlandier.
Sab. Extratropical North
Glabra, pallida. Aculei pauci, sparsi.
383. A. Geeggii, A. Gray FL ! TFrighL i. 65.
obovali- Y. anguste oblonga, obtusa, vix
foliola 3-7-juga,
Pinn^ 1-3-jug^, petiolo tenui;
Legumen 2-3-pomcare, ad 7 lin. latum, subplanum,
2 lin. longa Spic^ subpollicares.
glabrum v. minute glauco-tomcntellum.
rectum v.^'contortum,
Acad. Philad. 1861,453.
A. Durandiana, Buckl. in Proc. r.^nn ^, ,. ^, • -rrr •
.,
West Texas, and North Mexico, Wnght, Gregg^ ,
Sab. Extratropical North America,
and others
Aculei infrnfoliacci, solitarii,
glabi
384. A BentJi. Pilosula,
oUongo-Hucaria, oMusa. vald. .,„li„.
G-lO-juga,
caduci FiBn; l-I^S^; foliola
.gnotum
subpollicares. Legumen
3 iL. longa novella a
subtus pilosa. Spice laxa.,
Mimosa
America Mexico, Serb. Baton
Sab. Tropical :
Oreyyii simihs, sed aculei snh nodi, flori^ris
sparsi.
^^:^^^^^:^^
spcci ^Z^^^
demum decidui nee secus ramos
eoniei, basi valde dilatati,
iniftrum
setaccse, rigidulae, caduciE.
nonduin evoluta. Stipulse
pinnas jugi infcrioris, .a^pe tamen deesse
parva inter
tenues. 3y2
522 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Acacia.
Pinnae breves^ jugis secus petiolum distantibus ssepius 3. Spicjp ad uodos vetustos fasciculatae, fasciculis
interdum in ramuliim floridum cxcrescentibus. Mores omniuo A. Greggii.
385. A. Emohtana, Bentli. sp. n. Minute tomentella, glabresccns, inermis. Pinnse

3-6-jug9e ; foliola 10-15-juga, oblongo-linearia, valde obliqua, obtusa v. acutiuscula,
rigidula, 2-3 rarius 4 lin. longa. Spicae densse, 3-4 lin. longse, v. longiores basique
iaterruptae. Legumen oblique stipitatum, 2-2^-pollicare, poUicem latum, minute glauco-
tomentellnm, marginatum.
A. Coulteri, Bentli. ! in A. Gray, PL Wright, i. m, quoad plantam Texanam.
Kab. ExtratroxHcal North America: Texas, Wright \ also Emon/s Ex;pedltlon, n. 325.
I had formerly seen only flowering specimens of ^. Coulteri and fruiting ones of the present species; I
I have now before me both flowering and fruiting specimens of both, and find that they differ considerably
in both states as well as in their geographical station.
886. A. Coulteri, Benth. ! in A. Gray, Fl. Wright, i. 66, quoad jplantam Mexicanam.
Glabra v. inflorescentia minute puberula, inermis. Pinn^ 5-15-jugfe ; foliola 20-30-
juga, oblongo-linearia, valde obliqua, obtusa v. acutiuscula, 2-3 lin. longa.
Spic^ 2-2J-
pollicares, laxifloroe. Legumen recte stipitatum, 3-5-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum, ^labrum,
\
marginatum
Sab. Tropical North America Mexico, near Zimapan, Coulter ; between Sula and
:
Vittoria, Berlandier ; near Grenada, in Nicaragua, (Ersted.

387. A. MAMMiPERA, Schlecht. Zimcea, 563. Subglabra, inermis.
xii. Pinnse 2-4-
jugae; foliola 10-15-juga, anguste eUiptica,
obliqua, obtusiuscula, 3 lin. lon-a, utrinque
puberula. Spicae axiUares, rhachi fructifera
l-2.pollicari. Plores i^notL
^X±KJV±. Leffimien
-M^^
recte stipitatum, 3-6.pollicare, 4 lin.
latum, valvis papyraceis ad semina elevationibus
mammajformibus notatis
Hab. Tropical America : Mexico, Barranca de Acholaya, Ehrenberg
I have not seen this species. It must be nearly allied to A. Coulteri ; but the character does not alto-
gether agree.
388 A. ACATLENsis, BcutK in RooJc. Land. Journ. I

I
513. Glabriuscula v. canes-
centi-villosa stipulis subsetaceis fere acicularibus,
c^terum inermis. Pinn.B 3-10-
juga. folioLa multijuga, linearia, obtusa
; y. acutiuscula. 2-3 lin. lonâ. Snic^ densius-
cula?, ad 2 poll, longae. Legumen i^notum
ull
Tropical America Mexico, Andrieu^,

^j. : n. 396"; Galeotti, n. 3345.
coijartrrcan'
companion 1 can
'?no character
find h f t'^^
besides the denser pubescence.
^ ''^ "^'''^ '' ''''
^^ ^ ''^^^^
"
«P-- ^
^^^ -^ ^^^^
389. A. SCLEROXYLA, Tuss, I FL Antill t. 21 Tomenfolln

-Lomcntella, ,v •
-d- nn i^
10-15-
luo'fp- fnli'nln qn Tn •
T •
i.
mermis. Pmna?
^'"^'^^^^'^ ^^"''^^ ^^*^«^' 2-3
nlrâ'^ t v. rarius 4 lin. longa (per anthesin s.^pius
planum, glabrum, 3-4-pollicare, |-1 ^

1 poH.
poll, latum.
latum, vnlv,-«
valvis ..'^.m. ..„:„_•_
rr c ^
Mab, ban Dommgo, Ehrenberg
J. .
- rigide
and others.
Habit nearly of A. Catechu, but
no prickles, and a difi-erent pod
390. A
citate s^pe
sT^nP TiiVvtoo^^
Wllld Sêc. iv. 1058.
mgucans, merm.s. P„n«
-r..
•
Velutino-tomentella
•^^^^-tumcuieiia
•
• — v.
T. H.ln.e..ens. sic
giabrescens, ^
4-6.juga,; foliola lO-ie.juga, ovato-elliptica r.

.
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 52.*]
late oblonga, obliqua, obtusissima, demum coriacea, nitidiila, subsemipollicaria. Spicie

axillares, 3-5-pollicares. Legumen breviter stipitatum , rectum v. leviter arcuatum,
planum, glabrum, ad 4 poll, longum, 6-9 lin. latum, inter semina subseptatum, valvJs
rigide coriaceis.
Mimosa nudiflora. Rich, in Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 65.
Mimosa nigricans, Vahl Eel. lii. 37, t. 29, non Labill.
!
A, Rohriana, DC. Prod. ii. 457.

Sab. West Indies Danish Islands of St. Thomas and
: St. Juhn, v. Bohr, Balhh,
Bhrenberg^ and others Porto Rico, Herb. Far.
;
Mimosa i'( 1 >(>

>(>U'lj' upon
Plumier^s figure^ ed. Biirm. t. 11, which probably represents an exaggerated luxuriant form oi A. niffrU
cans, with larger, more numerous leaflets^ raised lenticlcs on the branches, and the spikes morr terminal,
be
sentatioii remains very doubtful. Grisebaeli refers the M. muiicuta, witlioi lijl
I
Mi
** Lacerantes. Frutices elatiores, scvpe sarmeiitoai v. idle acamleHlca. Aculei jmni

v. rari, pctin lares scepius adsunt minimi. Spircr mtjê-
scepius remrvh rameales crehri
riores v. omnes racemosce v. paniculalw.
t SpiccB l\-^pollicarc8
391. A. AMAZONICA, Benlh. ! in Mart Ft. Bras. Mm. Alte scandens, glabra v. ii fl
Aculei baud crebri. Stipulae lanceolatse, striatic. Tinnjc 8>2f)

rescentia puberula.
2-3 lin. longa. Spicsc pnniculaljr. Corpll;
jugge; foliola multijuga, anguste linearia,
Legumen stipitatum, 6-7-pollicare, polliccm latum, ralris mem

calyce 3-4-plo longior.
branaceo-cbartaceis.
F[ab. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil, Spjntce.
in Hook. Lond. Jouni. 511. Laxe ramosa

392. A JBefith. ! i.
Stipulse angustaD, caducissimte. Pinnte 2a-25ûg:r fo ml:

scandens. Aculei crebri. ;
longa. Spic- panirulat-r. Corol].^ oalv,.

multi- (40-70)-juga, anguste linearia, ad 2 lin.
ignotura.— J*/. if''<«. Mim.

dimidio longior. Legumen
lUo Janeiro, 8a<, Paul.,, an,l Rah.a.
America BrazU, pror.
Sab. Tropical :
dim. Elata v. altP ..and,-.,.

393. A VELUTINA, DC' Prod. ii. 4.59, non Bent/.,
Pinntr
Stipulic angusty, raducissfmir.
puberula Aculei crebri v. minimi rariquc.
pubc.ecnt.a. 3-6 hn. lon.a S,.,«r
sul.tus
Tl^C^- foliola 15-10-j«sa. lineari-falcata.
Uûmen stipitatum, ^.poH.ear., 1 J
longior.
:^^X: Coll ealyco%ubduplo
Jn>n.
Fl. »;•<«.
yalvis coriaceis marginatis.-J?.^^'. '"
poll, latum,
Brazil, prov. Kio Janeiro.
' „ . , • -»r / I.V 73,./>» Hfim Molliter pul)e«f'"ns. Acutci
10-20-juga, subfalaito-oblomm, subtus pilu

mmimi Pinna. 2-^juga> foliola ;
longioresquo. Corolla calyce sub

s«bracemosa>, 3-pollicarcs
3-4 lin. longa. Spicse
dimidio longior. Legumen ignotum.

America Brazil, prov. Piauby
Hab Tropical :
—
524 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.. [Acacu,.
ft SpiccB via; pollicares hrevioresve, in speciehus ziUimis variant ohlonya v. puMciJloroe ct
8uhglohos(e.
395. A. MONACANTHA, WUld. Enum. Hort. Berol. 105G, fide Jloricand. Arborea ?
velutino-pubescens, mox glabrata. Aculei pauci, ralidi, ssDpius infrafoliacei. Pinna)
4-ll-jug8e ; foliola multijuga, linearia, puberiila, 2-2i lin. longa. SpicsB densae, ad J poll,
longse, subpaniculatse v. fasciculatse. Legumen ignotimi. Benth. ! in Fl. Bras. Mim.
A. velutina, Benth. ! in Hook. Lend. Joum. i. 514, non DC.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil^ prov. Baliia, Minas Geraes and Sao Paiilo.
396. A. BoxARiENSis, Gill. 1 in Sook. Bot. Misc. iii. 207. Elata, subglabra. Aculei
saepe validi, baud crebri. Pinnse 6-12-jug8e; foliola 25-50-juga, oblique linearia, 2-3
lin, longa., glabra. Spicae semipollicares v. rarius longiores, axillares et pamculate.
Corolla caljcem breviter snperans. Legumen stipitatum, 2-3-pollicare, 6-7 lin. latum,
glabrum, valvis coriaceis marginatis.— jB^wÂ. in .Fl. Bras. Mim.'
Bab. Extratropical S out b- America : South Brazil, Argentine Republic, and Para-
guay.
397. A. Hatesii, Benth. sp. n. Glabra v. junior vix puberula, alte scandens. Aculei
minimi. Pinnae 8-10-ju^gae. Poliola 10-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, falcata, mucronata,
ad 4 lin. longa, costa valdfe excentrica. Spicae laxiusculge, oblongs, subsemipollicares.
Legumen
Q^^^V.^ isrnotum.
xj5
Hab. Tropical America Panama, Mammee station of the raHroad,

:
>S'. JIayes.
"Frutexin arbores altissime scandeijs pt_ ab apicibus saepe
dependens.- Ramuli subteretes, fusci,
glabri. Aculei in specimine nosiro liau3 Folionim Pinn?e
li-2-polHcai'cs. Glandulae adsnnt inter pinnas fere omnium parium et 1-2 infra par infimum. Spic«
ad nodos pamcul^ subaphyllae soljtarise v. fasciculate, pedunculo semipoUicari folta.. Flores sessiles
giabn. Calyx 1 lin. longus, brevissime dentatus. Corolla duplo longior.
398. A. PLUMOSA, Lowe 1 in Bot. Mag. t. 3366. Scandens, tomentoso-pubescens

Aculei parvi y rarius yaHdi, recurvi. Pinnae 10-20.jug^;
foKola 30-50-juga, linearia
ciholata 1-2 Im. longa. Spicae ovoide^ oblongs y.
subcylindracea., 2-4 Hn. longse
paniculate. CoroUa calycem breyiter superans.
Legumen stipitatum, 4-6.pollicare
^7 km ranus fere polUcem latum, breyissime tomentosum
y. glabratum.-^./^^/.. in Fl
Bras. Mim.
in Hook. Lond. Joum. i. 517, vix Willd
fl
Hab. Tropical America Brazil, proy.

:
Rio Janeiro.
AeTi .tr^'^''T'
f^tr^ZV
ite slrrw
caiycesubduplo
^T^^^^^'>
'"tLegumen
longior.
^'"''- •
""''" "
'" ^^^'- ^^^^- ^^-- i- 521.
ôHola 20-50.juga, linearia,
i-notum.-M
'"'^"^"^ ^' ^^-
7?^«..
^-^-' P-i-l-t..
miJ^
'
Scandens, subglabra.
falcata, 4-8 lin. W
Corolla
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, proy.

:
Eio Janeiro
*"' ''''"'' '' ^'^ '^^^^^^^^
^21^1^1^^' ^^^P^ ^^^^^ ^- tte flower-heads son.etin.es lengthened
;
Subseries 3. AmericaiKS CapitulatcB. Capitula (exceptis interdum Stipularibus) glohoso

* Stipulares. SiipulcB ampla 77iembranacecB cadnca.
400. A. &IIANDISTIPULA, BeutJi. ! in Sooh, Lond. Joiirn. i. 511. Scandcns, glabra.

Aculei subrecurvi. Stipulse oblique cordatse, J—|-pollicares. Pinnre 3-7-jngf^; foliola
10-15-juga, dimidiato-oblonga, subsemipollicaria. Capitula paniculata, ovoidca v. ob-

longa, floribus pedicellatis. Legumen stipitatum, 4j-7-pollicare, IJ poll, latum, glabruui.
— Fl. Bras. Mini.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Minas Ocraes.
+
Very variable in tlie breadth of the leaflets and the form of the flower-head, and may possibly inohulc
several species, all, however, very nearly allied to A. tamarindifuUa.
401. A. TAMAEiNDiFOLiA, WHUl. Spec. iv. 1092. Scandcns?, glabra. Ariilci rocti v.
subincurvi. Stipulse late cordatop, subsemipollicarcs. Pinn.T l-R-jugic ; foliola 10-20-
juga, oblique oblonga, subsemipollicaria. Capitula globosa v. ovoidoa, paiilcnlala. l^'Um-s
brevissime pedicellati. Legumen longiusculc stipitituni, sub-ri-pollicarr. 8-9 lin. latum,
glabrum.
Mimosa tamarindifolta
446
Hab. Trox)ical America : West Indies and Venezuela, 0//o, n. 00 1 ; Jf^ri/^, n. HOT.
Betith.! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Erccta? glabi-a v. pub(^crn8.

.402. A. BAHiENSis,
Stipulae late cordataj, 3-5 lin. longuc. Pinnaj 2-4-jugJ!'
Aculei recti v. subincurvi.
8-12-juga, falcato -oblonga, 3-4 lin. longa. Capitula globosa, per anthcsin longe
foliola
racemosa. Plores sessiles. Legumen ignotum.

Bab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
** Spince axillares valklcB, apice divaj'icalo-bifoda.
in Hook. Bot. Jlisc. iii. 20G. rraticosa, glabra. Aculei

403. A. FURCATA, Gill !
' scmipollicares, lobis api('alihii«*
Spinse (seu pedunculi steriles iiidurati)
minimi rari.
divaricatis pungentibus vix lineam longfs. PiniuT 2- l-jugac ;
foliola
(bracteis induratis)
Capitula brcvitcr racemosa. Flores .. ^.L-.
6-10-juga, oblongo-linearia, 1-2 Hn. longa.
^ stipitatum, 3-pollicare, | poll, latum, glabrum.

Leo-umen breviter
Soutb-America foot of the Andes of :\rendoza, CiUics, 2hcrn.
Sab. Extratropical :
««^ Foliola unijiiga, majvsctila v. ampin
in Mem. Jmer. Acad. v. 317. Glnhra, gl„ue..'-..ns

404. A. CKASSIFOM... A. Gray !
cuncato-orbiculana, l-li-po l,...r,a obh>.,v

Piuna; 1-juga;, foMolal-juga,
Aculei yalidi.
multiflora. J^gumen ,enotum-7/<w)*. 7r
» Capitula paniculata, dcn.c
sima coriacea.
1^
Mcxieano-Toxan mountains, Thurh,,:

îvisÊxtratropical North America :
Lond. Journ. i. 522. Sub"-nndciis, glabra

MiERSii, Bentk. ! in Jlooh.
405 A. 2-3
oblique ovali^blonga, acuminata,
1-jugaj ; foliola 1-juga,
mermis
1U.CXXJJLXO. Pinn^
A xjj."-- — u O ' ' - ~rn T> If
paniculata. Legumen ignotum. -K. o Ji,
Bras.
Capitula ample
hljuga, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 32 ?
Mimosa ^
Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro

Sah. Tropical America :
«'
.
520 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MDTOSE.€. [Acana.
M. hijuga, of VellosOj as quoted above, is a fair representation of tlils plant, except as to
of which the specimens show no trace. M. dichotoma, VellosOj 1. c. t. 42 {Tnrjn dichotoma

inflorescence and
duct of the artistes imagination.
406. A. MiKANii, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mini. Glabra, inermis. Piunie dissite
2-jugae ; foliola 1-juga, ovato-falcata, obtuse acuminata, 1 J-2-pollioaria, mcmbranacea.
Capitula gracile paniculata. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro, Mikan.
**** Foliola ovata v. late ohlonga, ohtusa, {excepta A. Langsdorfii) infra 12-jnga.
h
407. A. E(EMERiAKA, Sclieele in lAmivea, xxi. 456. Glabra. Aculei subrecurvi, baud
crebri. Pinnas 2-3-jugse; foliola 4-8-juga, oblique oblonga y. obovata, 4^5 lin. longa.
Capitula ad nodos pedunculata, fasciculata. Legumen stipitatum, rectum
v. subfalcatum,
4-6-pollicare, J-IJ poll, latum, subglaucescens
Sab. Extratropical North America : Nortb Mexico and West Texas.
408. A. MALACOPHYLLA, .B^/zY/^. ./ in A. Gray, FL WHgU. i. 64. Molliter pubescens.
Aculei subrecurvi, rari. Pinnae 2-3-jugge foHola 6-10-juga, oblique obovato-oblong
;
utrinque pubescentia, 3-6 lin. longa. Plores ignoti. Pedunculi ^fructiferi ad nodos
defoHatos. Legumen breviter stipitatum, 4.polHcare, poll, latum, falcatum, glabrum
j
Kah. Extratropical Nortb America West Texas,
Wrigl :
409, A. MiCRANTHA, Bentli. sp. n. Glabra, subglauca. Aculei recti. Pinnae 1-2-
jugee foliola 6-8-juga, late oblonga, obtusissima,
; subcoriacea, 3-^ lin. longa. Capitula
ad axiUas pedunculata. Legumen stipitatum, 2-pollicare, 6-9 lin. latum, glabrum,
glaucescens.
Sab. Tropical North America Mexico, BerUndier, n.
:
3U8, between Las Apuntas
ana las verdosas, FJhrenberg.
glandula oblonga sub p.nnarum pa« mfimo. Pinnarum rhaehos ^d.fe. tenues.
dulosse.
..bn^lwL. Maa
glan
ubtrinerv
Z,ZT "
poll, longi. Capitula
'""l
'''""''"' "-'- ""• '^^'''°-
^^'^ "Side setaok ante autbesiu
'" '"''""
clTla vix
Corolla .ilT ?
hneam longa, '°*'r"
petalis facUe solveudis.
^'"-^^ ^^^^'^'^' S'"''"- Calyx i lin. longus/membranaceu.
^"^^'7,^' ^^^- ^'^ ^^'^^^«' ^- 600.

Pini!' ^' • Puberula, demum glabrescens, inermis.
-^^^^
I
vtrT.l r^^^^^^^^
^^^^^- obtusa, subsemipollicari; pallide
'"^^' ^'"^''^^'''' *^^^"^°^^- I^'-S^^^-^ longe stipifatmn
\Zml.r^2TV''"'\
îmmaturum) 5-poUicare, poll, latum.
1 ^ ^
Nom )
Sab. Tropical America

: Haiti, Mrenherg in Serb. Berol
"" '"'""• '^''- """"'•»• ' 521- Canescenti-tomentosa
{iutmis^P)'"pZrL-^"'*-'
^^- Oapitula paniculata, cano-tomentosa.
Ti T.„.„
Fl. Bras. ,..
Mim Legumen ignotum
Sah. Tropical America
: Brazil, proy. BaMa and Minas Geraes
— . — ;
-^(âciari MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 7
412. A. PEDiCELLATA, Benth. I in Sook. Lond. Journ. i. 622. Puberula, glabr

Aculei rari. Pinnae 4-6-jug8e ; foliola 6-10-juga, obovali-oblonga, 3-6 Hn. longa, pubes
•centia. Capitula in panicula per anthesin paucifoliata numerosa, multiflora. Floroi
pedicellis lineam longis fulti, nee ut in affinibus sessiles. Leguraen ignotum. Ft
Bras. Mim.
Mimosa paratyemis, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 41.
Mab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes, Bolivia.
***** Foliola multijtigay Imearia v. falcato-ohlonga
I
t Foliola supra scepius concaviuscula, suhtus convexay casta parum e^cenlHca.
413. A. Serra, Benth,! in Eooh. Lond. Journ. i. 519. Scjuiclnis, tomeniclla v. gla-
^rescens. Aculei crebri, 4-5-seriati, recurvi, ssepe conflucntcs. Pinnoc 2G-40-ju5.«'

foliola 50-80-juga, falcato-linearia, ud 2 lin. longa. Capitula paniculnta. I^-mncu
Kab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro.
Cat. Fl. Cub. 82. Scandcns, villosuh v. gla-
414. A. MASCHALOCEPHALA, Griseh. !
Pinnae 6-10-jugfp; glandula depiessa; foliola

jbrescena. Aculei crebri/ parvi, recurvi.
15-20-juga, falcato-linearia, 2-3 lin. longa, glabra. Capitula summis fasoi
•culato-pedunculata v. paniculata. Legumen ignotum.

Bab. Tropical America : Cuba, Wnght. n. 2395
prickles smaller, the pinnae ai
Very near the Brazilian A. Serra, but the
stem more pubescent. A
large pod sent with the Kew specimen probt
had
Mart. FL Bras. Mim. Ferruginco-tomcTil ( »>a
415. A. LASioPHiLLA, Benth. I in
6-8-jugae glandular parv* foliola 20-30-juga
Aculei pauci, validi, recurvi. Pinnae ; ;
Capitula subracemosa, majuscula. Corolla 3 li o

linearia, 2-3 lin. longa, viUosa.
Legumen ignotum.
BrazH, pôv. Minas Geraes.
Mab. Tropical America :
619. Glabra Aculei pan

416. A. BECURYA, Benth. I in Book. Lond. Journ. i.
depressae, majusculae foliola 30-50-jufi:a:

Pinnae 15-20-jug£e glandulae
curvi
2 Hn. longa, glabra.
;
Capitula racemosa v. paniculata, parva. Corolla U lia. louga.
i
Legumen ignotum.— jP'/. Bras. Mim.
Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro.
517. Scan dens fcrrug, nee

in Hook. Lond. Journ. i.
417 K.KmMi
417. A ADHERENS, Benth.!
10-20- nga.; glandul® pan'8B.
';^
elevatae; loliola dU-Di»-juâ,
trfoL^^^^^^^^^^ aiiouct
,
2
. ,.
' ^- ^^^^^'
n««..n«
Corolla
--
''''"^
1 1 Hn Inno-i
hn. lonjn.
''''''''
I^„umen
lieo-umen
-^^
parva, ample paniculata. 1,
et margine ciliata. Capitula
10-12 lin. latum, glabrum.-JY. Sras. Mm.
«ul,-3-pomcare,
no. q«.d. ... ll"t.
Herb, Fl. Bra,. 122, n. 174,
MiZa adherens, Mart. !
Norn. Bot. ed. 2.

U. Martimam, Steud.
VOL. XXX.
— ;
528 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Acacia,
Aculei rari, recurvi. Pinnae 6-9-jug8e; foliola 30-50-juga, linearia, ad 2 lin. longa,
glabra. Capitula subpaniculata. Corolla tubulosa, 2-2J lin. longa. Calyx quadruplo
brevior. Legumen ignotum.
Kab. Tropical America : Peru, Matthews, n. 1568.
419. A. KiPAKiA, K. I Nov. Gen. et Sp, ^. 276. Arborea v. alte scandens,

jff., B. et
subglabra. Aculei recurvi, baud crebri. Pinnae 6-12-jug80 foliola 15-40-juga, oblongo- ;
linearia, 3-4 lin. longa. Capitula ample paniculata. Corolla 1-1| lin. longa. Legumen
stipitatum, 4-8-pollicare, J-IJ lin. latum, glabrum v. glauco-tomentosum Benth. in
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa paniculata, West, ex Vahl, Eel. iii. 39.
M. retusa, Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 267, ex descr.
Acacia Westianay A. Guadelupensis et A, intsioides^ DC, Prod, ii, 464.
A. sarmentosaj Griseb. ! Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 221 vix Desv. ; Duch. et Walp. in Linnaea, xxiii. 745.
Mimosa plana, Veil. M. rium. Jc. xi. t. 28?.
Acacia quadriglandulosa, Mart. ! Herb. M. Bras. 110.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro and Minas Geraes, North Brazil,
Guiana, Columbia, and West Indies.
barium belongs to a form with ratber small and narrow L
P
very difficult to distinguish from the East-Indian A. c<b
M. sarmentosa
ft Foliola plana v. stipra convexiiisculay costa valde excentrica margini superiori

1 _
approximata v. contigua.
420. A. GLOMEEOSA, BeutJi. ! in Kook. Lond. Journ. i. 521. Arborea, pubescens v.
glabrata. Aculei rari, recti v. incurvi. Pinnae e-S-jugse ; foliola 12-25-juga, oblique
late oblonga, subtus appresse pubescentia, 2-6 lin. longa. Capitula ample paniculata.
CoroUae saepius pubescentes. Legumen stipitatum, 5 -6-pollicare, 1-lJ poll, latum.— i'/.
Bras. Mim. • -
Sab, Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janiero, Babia, Minas Geraes, and Goyaz
Peru, near Tarapoto, Spruce, n. 4408; Columbia, Bogota, Triana-, Panama, Sutton
Sayes.
vanes considerably, and sometimes comes very near to A.
polyphylla. A few of the
BraziKan specimens, as well as those from Spruce and from
Sutton Hayes, have the flowers near
lilk
421. A.POLTPflTLLA,i)a Cat.Hort. Monsp. 74; Proc?.

ii. 469. Arborea v. subscandens,
tomentoso-puberula v. glabrata. Aculei rari, recti v.

incurvi. Pinn^ foliola 10-20-iu2-^ :
50.juga, anguste falcato-oblonga y. linearia, ad

3 lin. longa, subtus minute puberula
Capitula ample paniculata. CoroUa pubescens.
Legumen eo ^. ^/om^ro^^ paullo minus
Benth. in Fl, Bras. Mim
H
fluviatilis
5ai. Tropical America Brazil, proy. Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes, and
:
Babia; North
Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Guiana.
considerably, and is sometimes very near some specimens
of A. alomerosa. The two
varieties
—
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEifi 29
422. A. STRIATA, Sumb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1089. Pubescens. Aculei sparsi,
acuti, erecti, compressi. Pinnse 9-jug3e ; foliola 13-16-juga, linearia, obtusiuscula, supra
glabra, subtus appresse pilosa, avenia. Capitula grani piperis magnitudine, paniculata.
Legumen falcatum, nitidum, l|-pollicare, setis raris brevissimis obsitum.
Mimosa sfnata, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i, 83.
Eab. South. America, Humboldt and Bonpland.

I laave not seen this plant. It is evidently very near the two preceding species, and ought perhaps to
include them both-
423. A. Martii, Benth. ! in Sooh. Lond. Journ. i. 619. Aculei subincunri J. poly-
phyllcB. Polia A. paniculafcB, costa foliorum vix a marginc discreta. Panicula pul)(;:,ceii8.
Elores A. paniculata. —Fl. Bras. Mim.

Rob. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Janeiro and Goyaz.
1074.^ Alte scandens, pubcrula. Aculei rr-
424 A. PANICULATA, WiUd. I Spec. iv.
parvi. Pinnae 10-20-jug8B; foUola 20-60-juga, angusto
curvi, baud crebri, validi y.
longa minora, rigidula, supra nitida. Capitula parra,

linearia, acuta, obliqua, 2 lin. v.
rarius subpcdale, poll, latum,
ample paniculata. Legumen stipitatum, 6-8-pollicarc v. 1J
pube brevissime demum evanida, opacum. Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.

Mimosa paniculata, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 74.
M. adherens, Mart
in. grandisiliqua, V
Acacia Clausseni.e^
Martin. Suppl. n. 109, non "Willd
A. martinicemis,'Presl,Bot. Bern. 65.
A. microcephala, A. Rich. ! Fl. Cub. i. 469

Mimosa tenuifoUa, Linn. Spec. ed. i. 523, e
temdfolia, Willd
^ru, Ecnjad^ôlun^
"Z^:^^ LZZ:.iM, spread over Brazil, Bolivia,
West Indies; also apparently the same m West tropical Afnca, from f
Guiana, and tbe
only from Bagroo, Mann.
«TiPPimPTi
specmien witb
Wltn youn
voun^ n
flowers j , . t
Iuh
•
«r.
Mtmo.c
^.^^^^^ subsequently reduced
The species is near the Old-World
fP"^^^'^^ neat -^
rigid j^Â.ts, with the nerve clo«» to th*
distinguished by the small
ienuifolia,but is readily
margin
^^8^^-
may be the same specie:, witn me pncKiw more
V
. , .
V ,,
p, Flum Ic xl t. 36,
Journ. 622. Cano-tomentclla^ in-

Senth. in Soak. Land. i.
I.. A BBKLA^mEKl,
425. ^.^^^''^^"2
I
ad 2 Ha. longa. subtu* v. u ru-
. .
f„iioi^ 30-50.juga, Unearia,
nr:ltluX»»' .elutlno-puW.. <^.Û^re,

incrassaU.
M poU. ,at.». .1™
co.vexis plus nuuus
SaXrLn. êruu. pla-
^^- Wri
PL
A. tephroloba, A. iim
Gray !
^-
"^^^rr" '
and West Texas

,
America Mexico,
Sab. Tropical
r.^. „Â u
and
onlv when unnpe
extratrop.cal
it u ^^^^^^^^
often tmcKens
j
; _,^^,^ ^ ^^ TalTtt be* omf
The pod is fl,f
flat only ;
,
hues to n ^^^ .^ ^^ ^^
vanes from under 2

more. „! i„„„ ..nv«x. The stipes 8z2
— ;
530 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^. [Acacia.
Subseries 4. Gerontoffece Capitulate. Capitula in omnibus stricte glohoaa.
426. A. Kraussiana, Meissn. ! Benth. in Sook. Lond. Journ. i. 515. Scandens, glabra
V. pubernla. Aeulei parvi, rari. PinnaB 3-4i-jugse ; foliola 6-12-juga, oblique oLlonga»
obtusa, glabra, 3-6 lin. longa. Capitula racemoso-paniculata, glabra. Legumen stipi-
tatum, rectum, obtusunij glabrum, nitidunij 3-4-pollicare, 8-10 lin. latum, valvis sub-
membranaceis, marginibus nerviformi-incrassatis. Ham. et Sand. Fl. Cap. ii. 283.
Hab. Extratropical South Africa : Natal district.
Very near some of the more glabrous forms of A. ccBsia, but with fewer pinnae and leaflets, and a thinner
almost truncate pod.

••A
427. A. c^siA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1090. Scandens v. sarmeutosa, tomentella v. glabrata.
Aeulei recurvi, saepius sat crebri sed varii. Pinnae 6-20-jug9e, v. hinc inde paucijugse
glandulae sessiles ; foliola 10-40-juga, oblonga, obliqua v. falcata, 3-6 lin. longa, subtus
canescenti-tomentella v. utrinque viridia et concoloria, costa parum v. valde excentrica.
Legumen stipitatum, 4-6-pollicare, j-1 poll, latum, Junius saepe tomentellum, maturum
glabrum, valvis coriaceo-chartaceis.
Mimosa ccesia, Linn. Spec. 1507.
M.Intsia, Linn. Spec. 1508.
Acacia Intsia,Vii\\({. Spec. iv. 1091.
Mimosa tenmfolia, Uoxb. Hort. Beng. 41.
M. sarmeutosa, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 1. 181 ; Pers. syn. ii. 266.
Acacia sarmentosa, Desv. 1 Journ. Bot. 1814, i. 70, ad specimina hortensia nondum florentia.
W
>xyphy III
A. aliacea, Harailt. ! in Wall. 1. c. 5258.
A. pseudointsia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pars i. 12. L
Hab. Tropical and subtropical Asia spread over nearly the whole of India to the foot
:
of the Himalayas, and extending to Sumatra, Java, and the

Philippines, Cuming,
n. 1499.
m
would appear
Tliere at first sight to be two very distinct forms, as characterized by Arnott in
^ __
W et Am.
Prod. 278: ^ ' , . . , . , .
more
underneath
more eastern and southern, often quite glabrous, the leaflets more acute
and falcate, thinner, and greeu
on both sides ; but the two are often geographically intermixed, and
the intermediate specimens are nume-
rous. ^ ^^^^ therefore felt obliged to follow Dr. Brandis, For. FL 189, in uniting them as a single
allied to the Amei
sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from it except by the broader
I
leaflets.
428. A. PENNATA, mild. Spec. iv. 1090. Scandens, tomentoso-puhescens v. glabrata

Aeulei recti v. recurvi. Pinnae 6-20-jug9e ; glandula petiolaris sessilis, sêpe majuscula
mter pinnas paucae foliola 20-60-juga, anguste Hnearia, 2-3
;
lin. longa, glabra v. subtui
puberula, 2-3 lin. longa. Capitula paniculata. Legumen stipitatum, 4-6.pollicare
8-10 bn. latum, glabrum v. minute rufo-tomenteUum, valvis
coriaceo-chartaceis.- 7^. e
Atn. ! Frod. Fl. Feuiris. 271 ; Olio. ! Fl. Tmp. Afr. ii.
345.
3/miosaj)e/iyiaâ, Linn, Spec. 1507.
M ferraginea, Rottl. ex char, m Spreng. Syst. ii. 207, et ex W. et Am. non Rottl. in Ges. nat. Fr. Berl
>i, Schr. quae A, leucophlcea.
Acacia.l MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 631
M.
247
A. megaladena, Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814^ i. 69.
Mimosa pentagon
Hook. f. ! Fl. Nigr
t
Welw
pterophylh
Mag. t. 8408
t
A. ccBSia, Wall. ! Cat. Hert. Ind. n. 5253 a, non Willd.
A. canescens, Grah. ! in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5256.

A nrnhhirnrna. Grail. ! in Wall. 1. C. n. 5260.
quoad
Miq
A.paludosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pars i. 14, ex cliar.
Tvinn f i^vi firrimn . Jnnffli. ! MS.

tenerrima
Miq
subtropical Asia and tropical Africa.
Sab Tropical and
species is very variable, especially in ir iluTTirrtnm, Th
widely diffused
Like the A. cmia, this
form has often the flower-heads tinged with purple, as represented the fi.n.rc quot, d m
more pubescent
forms, when the leaflets arc small, approach thr Amrnran
from the Botanical Magazine. The glabrous
neat and shining, nor the nerve so marginal as n> that ^m.,.
are not so
A paniculata; but the leaflets
BoL Scandens, tomentosa v. glabresccns.

429 A PLiJEiCAPiTATA, Stcud, NoM. cd. 2.
Pinn^ 20-25.jug^; glandulae parvce, elcvato., potu, ar.«

Aculei pam, recurvi, crebri.
bn.
foliola ultra SO-juga, anguste Imearia, ad 2
et inter pinnas parium plurimorum ;
Capitula paniculata, parva. Lcgnmon iôtnm.-

longa, glabra v. subtus sericea.
in Sook. Journ. Bot. i. 516.
Benth. !
Wall
PhiHppine Islands
Rab. Tropical Asia : Penang, Java,
pe
petiolar
suWrbor.a, tomc.toB.. v.
a. 464. Alte scaadens.
430. A .civNA DG.l Prod.
glabrescens
12 d(J-iuga, airamidtu u o -^
. ... . i„t^ „„«o.Â«f^ Trf^mimcn cru>-'>-ciirnosurii,
monospermos scccdcns.
in articulos
deprLum, et s«pius
Mimosa co\ n
Mimosa ru^
in
Heyne, Herb.
Acacia saponana,
Spreng. Syst. u. 207.
Koxb. in
Mim<,.« oi^fer^™'-
Acacia polycej,kalaVC-^ quoad n. USfi Cuîngi

Benth.
^^^^^^'^^^^
m Hook. I
j„,„, ,514,
^. ;,Aaip;n»a«»., ^0 ^^^
r
Rab. Tropical Asia : Eastern provinces of India and the Archipelago ; perhaps also m
Mauritius ; but Sieber's specimens, n. 252, may possibly have been cultivated.
The peculiar fleshy pod, often articulate, of this species, does not appear to me sufficiently to warrant
the establishing it as a distinct genus without any other character, when the habit and foliage so closely
resemble those of A. pennata, that without the fruit it is sometimes scarcely possible to distinguish them.
The inflorescence is less paniculate.
Series 6. Pilicinjg.
Frutices inermes, erecti, hirsuti v. glabrati. Pinnae pluri- v. multijugae, petiolo com-
muni eglanduloso; foliola multijuga, parvula. Capitula globosa v. ovoidea, summa
paniculata, inferiora saepe axillaria. Mores
Stamina alba, nunc pallide pedicellati.
fulva V. rosea. Legumen planum, valvis tenuibus, marginibus nerviformibus cras-
siusculis. L
431. A. VILLOSA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1067. Villoso-hirsuta v. rarius glabrata. Pinn®
4-10-jug8e; foliola 12-30-juga, late oblonga, obtusa v. acutiuscula, 2-4
Hn. longa. Pe-
dunculi plerique axiUares, summi pauci paniculati. Legumen
longiuscule stipitatum
1^2-poUicare, 5-6 lin. latum.
Mimosa villosa, Swartz Fl. Ind. ! Occid. ii. 982.
Mimosa arborea, Linn. Herb, et ! Spec. 1503, quoad descr., ex61. diagn. et syn.
Acacia lophanthoides, DC. I Prod. ii. 457.
A. carbonaria, Schlecht. in Linnsea, xii. 571.
A. Valmzuelana , A. Rich. Fl Cub. ! i. 462. r
A. Cumingii, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Joum. i. 525.

Hab. Tropical America Central America, South Mexico, and
:
West Indies. i
occurs
form in Jamaica.
432. A. FiLiciNA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1072. Piloso-hirsuta v. glabrata. Pinnae 5-20
jugae ;
fobola 10-60.juga, Hnearia v. lineari-
oblonga, acuta v. obtusiuscula, 11-2 rariui
fere 3 lin. longa. Capitula pleraque
paniculata. Legumen stipitatum, 1-2
rarius 3 poll
longum, 3-5 lin. latum.
L
Mimosa filicioides, Cav. Ic. i. 55, t. 78.

M. ptericina, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 74.
M. anaustissima. Mill. Diet. n. 20. !
acia penicillifera, Lag. Elench. Hort. Matr

umiellifera, Kunth ! Mim. 100, t. 31.
Wiss
' A. hirfa, Nutt. ! et^^. texensis, Torr. et Gr. ! Fl. a,, ^luer. i. ^
-A. glabrata, 'A. elegans, 'A. hirsuta, A. cuîdata, et A. stip^l
A. Hartwegi, Benth. xii. 569, ad 574.
! PI. Hartw. 13.
'A. elegam et A. tnsignis, Mart, et Gal. ! in BuU. Acad. Brux. x. pars ii 313
A. angulosa, Bertol. Fl. Guatem. 42, ex descr.
âfi. Tropical and Northern subtropical America, Mexico
'
n
^'' ^^ Arkansas, Central
Tptt^^c a..^ A ^ 1 ^
America, Columbia.
Now that I have
had a very large number of specimens
before me from a orp^t ^. '
, r . .- t a ^
the characters derived from
the degree of hairLss. the numhTJ "IJll Tf ^ ^' ^*^*^T' ] t'
N
Acacia.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. 533
distinguished glabroTis
forms may appear when exhibited in a few marked specimens, it becomes impossible to define distinct
varieties amongst the numerous intermediate ones. The species, abi

America
Magdalena
XXI. Lysiloma, Benth

con
MimosesB with monadelphous
firmed as more
nearest to Acacia and the pod at first bight appears to be that
stamens it is the one which comes the ;
Leucana. Acacia, and Albizzia, thin and flat, with thickeiunl more or ins
maturity
like
genera
intermediate thin Takes ultimately falling away from them, or perhaj

Mimosa, the
very distinct ^^perips,
gula
every n Lys llama with th<»
are very iKarly those
althougl, really distinct, is m many _re^

spread Aliizîa Leblek ; and the foliage,
an introduced specimen of that spec
thought it might have been
similar, that I had at first
mgni
the floors are, on examination, readily c
are
leaflets different ;
indumJntum and form of the
opens partially only along the imicr
It I, ,,„ nod. as far as I have been able to ascertain,
in all other Lynloma$.
margin young
membranous stipule, to the
Z t if noTauiTeT wh f he species of this genus have
most
large
fruiting and many flo.enng specimens
W,;hieh!orl* remain long peLten, although in
or nearly all, fallen away.

they have all,
(an ,emper dehiscen,.

. Floret umbeUati. Zeguminis margo interior ?)
Sta.ina ult^pomcana.
oWa ?X;L4rho..ea. |-Xfpomearia.
Taboga
Panama,
,ax ^ c^..^^,
near Sutton Hay
Albizzue Lebbek. Hamuli
Jtamoa p«ioi.
pctioli cv
pifhecolobii Saman ct
20-30-pedaUs v. procera, pinn« petiolum
Arbor
spe—
^^^^^f~2. delaps.. Foliorum
.ecu.
inflorescentia
.........
distantes.
al.ndiila in
ferrugineo-tomentos.
medio petiolo
^tipul^
mfra
a
jugum mtenus piîn^ J—^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^
obovata, 1-li-pollicana,
ililiuia. *^
summi parva. omnia obtusissima v. retuM,
sa^piusque minora,
axiUarcs, 1-U-poUicares. Umbc'lW
P..lnnnuli
glabrata, saows .u^.ô.. ^^ 3_^ ,„^^^ „t, eaiy
ra demum Bores ^^^^^^ ^^ p^^.^^^^j 1^^
-^l^-l-^ôsum. Bracteas non v.d.

.ptaenlum
rufescente
laris, 3-4-linearis,
ima basi adnatum crassiore indiviso, valvis
partim dehiscentihus
f
534 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Lysihma.
** Flores glohoso-capitati. Legtiminis margo undique indivisus
2. L. TERGEMINA, Beuth.y sp. n. Glabra. Pinnae unijugse; foliola sesquijuga, oblique

obovata v. oblonga, ultrapollicaria, obtusissima.
Rob. Tropical America: Mexico, Puebla district, Andrieux, n. 403. Also in Pavon*s
collection, marked " Mimosa carnosa, del Peru," but probably a misplaced label, and the
plant really from Mocino and Sesse's Mexican collection.
Frutex v. arbor, raraulis teretiusculis, cortice albido, primo intuitu stipulis delapsis Calliandram terge-
minam referens. Stipulse orbiculatae, basi cordatae, obtusissimse v. acutiusculae^ ssepe semipollicem
e3?-
um persistentes, a specimine fnictifero jam delapsse. Foliorum petiolus

nis et pmnarum rhacl s raro semipollicem excedunt. Glandula umbonata inter pinnas, et inter
terminalia, Foliorum majorum foliola terminalia 2-3 poll, longa, 1-li poU. lata, obtusissima V.
rarius hinc inde acutiuscula, basi dimidiato-semicordata, rigide
membranacea, pennivenia et reticulate-
multo
{)oIIicem excedunt. Pedunculi axillares, graciles Capitula dense multiflora. Bracteolae
parvse, Imeares, subspathulatse. Flores glabri. Calyx membranaceus, 5-fidus, 1| lin. longus. Corolla
S-fida, membranacea, 2 lin. longa. Stamina ad 30, corolla plus triplo longiora, filamentis tenuissImLs, in
tubnm corolla breviorem connatis. Legumen stipitatum, glaberrimura, glaucura, ad 5 poll, longum,
11 poll, latum, margine nerviformi persistente, valvis membranaceis
circa semina diu coh^rentibus a
margine demum solutis.
3. L. Sabicu, Benth, ! in SooJc. Kew Journ. 236.

vi. Glabra. Petioli pmnse
dissite 2-3-jug8e foliola laxe 4-5.juga, oblique obovalia
; y. late oblonga, obtusissima, sub
semipoUicaria. Legumen 4-6-pollicare, IJ poll, latum.
Acacia formosa, A. Rich. ! Fl. Cub. i.463 non Kunth.
Leucana formosa , Griseb. ! Cat. PL Cub. 82.
Sab. Tropical America : Cuba, Bamon de la Sagra, Wright, n. 2392.
4 L LATisiLiQUA, Benth. Glabra y. yix pilosula.. Pinn* 2-i-jug^ ; foliola 10-20
uga, oblique oyata y. oblonga, obtusa, 3-6 lin. longa.
Mimosa
Willd
urn
W
Mab. Tropical and subtropical N, America "
: American islands " (P/.,,,,,>, A Bal
cares rat*!!:::' ^!!rZt!! î:^-}^^^.

-"- nig..eunt. SHpu.. se..
in speciminibus floridis
persistentes
tes, saepius caduca.. Foliorum petiolus communis ^^r^^"^"^^""^
giores
2-3.pollicaris d.n
pomcans, pmnarum ""V
rhaches seepe Ion-
Glandula elpvpfa n.o=«; r •
lu •
3-6 lin. longa, 2-3 Iln." lata, basi obliqua. cseterum 4
mterdum additis
solitar
rioribus v
3m dispositi.
Capitula dense globosa,
absque staminibus 3-4 lin.
ante Calyx lineam ongus,
membranaceus, late S-dentatus. Corolla
paullo
STumen Le-
ure and description, upon
no doubt as to the
Lysiloma.'] MR MIMOSE.E. 535
identity of his plant with the one above described.
herbari
i Mimosa latisiliqm, is evidently the common LeuoBna
Mimosa or Acacia latisiliqua represented bv Leucama trich
Julibrissin,
5. L. POLYPHYLLA, :Be?ith. Glabra v. .minute puberula. Pinnrc 3-8-ju^; foliola

multijuga, linearia, ingequilatera, mucronulata, ad 3 lin. longa, puberula, costa valde
excentrica v. fere marginali.
Acacia polyphylla^ Clos ! in C. Gay^ FL Chil. ii. 234.
Hah. Subtropical South America: Chivesivi valley, south of La Paz, in ]?olivia, at an
elevation of 8500 to 10,000 feet, Fenfland. Cultivated in the province of Coquimbo,
probably from Tucuman, C. Oay.
Valde affinis L. SchiedeaiKB, foliorum forma ct venatio parum diversae. Stipulac a Rpcciminibus jam
delapsse. Glandulse parvse, rarse. Pedunculi l-l-^-poUicarcs, fasciculati. Capitula donsa, caiic:i<*(îitia,
omnino L. Schie'deancs, Calyx membranaceus^ lineam lougus. Corolla duplo luiiglor^ a])ice brcvitrr
4-fida. Stamina fere 50, semipollicaria, tnbo corolla parum brcviorc ct ab hac abasi lilx^ro. L<»pn>"i<'"
omnino L, Schiedeanm.
6. L. ScHiEDEANA, BentJi. I in Uooh. Land. Jouru. iii. 83 ; Bot. Sulph, 91, t. 81,
Glabra V. minute puberula. PinngB 6-8-jug3P ; foliola multijuga, linearin. ad 3lin. lonpâ,
glabra, costa subcentrali. Legumen 4-6-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum.

Acacia species incerta sexta, Scliiede in Liimaea, v. 596, xii. 573.
Mimosa
Willd
Hab. Tropical America: near Tampico, Schiede ; Central America, Smclair; island
of San Lucas, CErsted.
7. L. AUEITA, Benth. ! in Hooh. Bond. Journ. iii. 83. Hamuli petioli et pedunculi
Pinnae 20-25-jugte foliola multijuga, linearia, ciliolata, vix scsquilinoaria.

tomentelli. ;
Legumen 4-6-pollicare, pollicem latum.

Acacia aurita, Schlecht. ! in Linnsea, xii. 572.
" Malpays de Naulingo/' in Mexico, Schiede Guatemala,
Hab. Tropical America : ;
Skinner ; Segovia, (Ersted. ,

, . . , i
demum ut videtur a marginibns mdivisis «> ven

Leguminis valv* tenues, ri^dul*, glabra,
fruiting specimens, whicli, althougV
(Erstcd's
appear
Lond. Journ. 83. Putcsccug. Stipulir lan-

8 L MICEOPHYLLI, Benth.! in Sooh. iii.
multo anguslioro^. Pini,.- 6-8.jug«;

ceolateJ, pubescentes, quam in pr^cedcntibus
1-2-liaearia, subtus puberula.

foliola multijuga,
Cape S. Lucas. I*wcr California,

Sab. Tropical America : Leon in Jlexico, Mart«,eff ;
Xantus. n. 30
Flore, valde diversi. Legumen
bit; PitUcoloUi forvifm.
fere '
membrauacei, a margine uemform. .nd.vu» '"'^'"J^^^^^

™ ._« 1;„ latum, dabrum, teve, valvis tenuiter
sistente secedentibus.
4a
VOL. XXX.
*
536 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Li/sihma.
*** Flores ci/lindraceo-sîcati. Leguminis margo indicmis.

4
9. L. ACAPTjLCENSis, Benth. ! in Sook. Lond. Journ, iii. S3. Pubcscens. (Stipulê

parvae ?) Pinnae 7-12-jugge ; foliola multijuga, oblongo-lineariaj 2-3 lin. longa, pilosula,
costa subcentrali. Legumen semipedale, \\ poll, latum.
Acacia acapulcensis^ Kunth ! Mim. 78, t. 24.
A. desmostachyay Benth. ! PI. Hartw. 13.
Lysiloma desmostachya, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 84.
Sab. Tropical America Mexico, near Acapuico, Sumholdt andBonpland\ near Leon,
:
Bartweg, n, 75 ; Volcan de Santa Barbara, Betândier, n. 3144.

Petiolorum glandula in specimine Bonplandiano minus elevata quam in Hartweg:ianis et Berlandierianis.
caeterum conveniunt. Foliola in omnibus adpresse pilosula. Stamina
plandiano corolla subtriplo longiora. Leguminis margo solutus latiusculus.
10. L. nosTRATA, Benth. ! in SooTc. Lond. Journ. iii. 84. Scandens, glabra. Stipulê
orbiculatae, l-lj lin. latse. Pinnai G-S-jugae. Foliola multijuga, oblongb-linearia, costa
submarginali.
Acacia rostrata, Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1060.
Mimosa rostrata, Voir. Diet. Suppl. i. 66.
Mimosa ignava, H., B. et E. Nov. Gen. ! et Sp. vi. 259. i
Hab. Tropical America : New Granada, on the banks of the Magdalena, Hvmboldt and
o
Bonpland.
striata?
Foliola glaberrima
acuta. Spicse ad axiUas fasciculatse. Stamina plurima, basi monadelpha.
ti 3-4 poll, longum
m
articulos 12-15 nlus
sistente secedentibus.
Mimosa, but which on an ins

Paris
undoubted Lysiloma, with indefinite rather
, ,. -, " ' numerous
""^"-^"""'^^^^^ciuusmonaaeipiious stamens. The transverse
,
breaking up of the valves at maturity, exceptional
in this genus as in a fe«
species of PUhecolobiun, and
Acacia, is not constant in Mrmnsn
XXII. Calliandra, Benth

The heteromorphous flowers which occar in the
centre of the flower-head
of many species of this genus
d sometimes m a few snemRsof
lew species ol PUheMium,
Pi/A^/>n7..^;..™ o ./•_-. : . \? ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ b
appear in a few instances to be
the result of insect punc-
ture many cases, however, they must be constitutional
fertile than the normal ones.
any
within the cotyledons, which are
often attached far above
the base
Harrisii) borne on minute
The genus is a natural
"""^ """^^ûe It into Oistmct sections; those proposed
bv Grispbaph ha^^ r^v^^r^^ . x^ 1
^^^::^:^^r::^J^^:^.^ ^"^ ^^^- ^ -^--al south Aêril \^

Series 1. Macrophyll^. Pinn^ unijugfe. Foliola 1-3-ju
terminalis 1 |-8-pollicaria. Flores
sessiles.—Species 1-21.
Series 2. L^tevirentes. Pinn* bi- v. plurijuga. Foliola p]
branacea. caria
Flores sessiles.—Species 22-33.
Series 3. Pedicellate. Pinnae 1-2-jug^.
FoMola pluri
gmscule imibellulis
pedicellati. CoroUa membranacea.-Species 34-37
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E- 53
Series 4. NiTiD^. Pinnae uni- v. plurijugoe. Foliola pluri-, ssepius multijuga parva, rarius semipolli-
,
caria^ saspius nitida. Flores sessiles^ rarius breviter pedicellati. Corolla ssepius striata. — Species 38-95.
Series 5. Racemose. Pinnae multijugae. Eoliola multijuga^ parva. Capital i Dauciflora, lonflre race-
mosa V. thyrsoideo-paniculata. — Species 96-100.
Glandulae petiolares adsunt in speciebus 2 Brasiliensibus Lcntevirentium ct in spociebus 2 Geroutogeis
Nitidarum.
Stipulae spinescentes in speciebus 2 Gerontogcis ct 1 Andina MacrophyUarum, in specie 1 Pedirdla-
tarum et in speciebus 3 Americanis et 1 Asiatica Nitidarum.
Spicae oblongae v. cylindraceae in specie 1 Madagascaricnsi.
Series 1. Macropiitll-¥:.
Pinnae |-l-jug8B. Eoliola 1-lJ-juga, rarius 2-G-jnga, coriacea v. rigidulc chnrtno(\a,

terminalia ssepius pollicem excedentia et interdum G-S-polHcarKi. Pedunculi, exccjitri
C. amazonica, ad axillas v. ad nodos vctustos solitarii fasciculati v. brcvitor rnromosi.

T
Mores in capitulo sessiles, glabri v. rarius puLesceutes. Calyx, excepta C amazonhny

breviter dentatus. Legumen, cxcepta C. molUs'sima, glabrum.
* Bifoliolatse. Foliola in toto folio 2, ad apicempefioli artictilala
1. C. CTNOMETROIDES, Bedd. I Fl. Sylv. t. 317. Glabra. Stipnbc spino<«ccntcs v. ob-
soletae. Eoliola elliptica, ssepe obliqua, pennivenla, .S-4-pollicaria. Pedunculi teniTcs.
Calyx minimus. Corolla trifida. Legumen leviter falcatum, 4-5-pollicare, G-S lin.
latum, valvis rigide coriaceis intra margines incrassatos transverse rcticulatis.

Hah. Tropical Asia East-Indian peninsula,
: mountains of Tiuuivclly and Travancore,
JBeddome.
,2. C. HTMENôiDES, Benth. Glabra. Stipulse parvae, innocua. Eoliola lalcato-
2-3-ncrvia. Pedunculi tcnucs. Calyx
ovata, obtuse acuminata, li-2|-pollicaria, nitida,
1 lin., corolla ad 4 lin. longa. Legumen lignosum, 2-3-pollicare. 4-5 lin. latum, ralvis
inter margines latos elevates venosis.

Inga hymencBoides , Desv.! Journ. Bot. 1814, i. 70; DC. !
Prod. ii. 136.
Mimosa
Rah. Tropical America : Cayenne.
be reduced to a single pinna, tlie petiol
In this species tbe leaf appeared to
In C. cynomeiroides 1 can w
short common petiole, the other pinna deficient.
of the petiole.
l-juf/a, addito 8ap>n.f<,Vu)lo Irrtio Inforiore

** TJnijugs. Foliola in utraquepimia
mmore.
Glabra, foliosa. Pinna, l-jup.^
Baker fi^Hooh Ft. Ind.n.ined.
3 Q Qj^^^^vimi,
acut^' acummata,
v. oblongo-lanccolata,
petiolo br
•
foliola 1-juga, lanceolata
addito sxpius tertio minore. Pedunculi
nitida li-2i-pollicaria,
tenuiter coriacea,
tenues, glabn. Calyx 1 hn., corolb 1-5 Im.
filiformes, l-U-poUicarcs.
Mores sessiles,
longa. Legumen ignotum

Khasia, Griffith.
Sab. Subtropical Asia :
^
Hook. Gen. Tl I 597. Glabra. Pt.pul pm(

UMBKOSA, Benth. I in Benth. et
4. C.
,
— — ;
538 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [Calliandra.
centes v. obsolete. Pinnae l-jugae; foliola unijuga, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, parum

obliqua, pennivenia, 4-6-pollicaria v. in rarais sterilibus cluplo majora, addito ssepe tortio
minore. Pedunculi breves. 'Calyx vix lineam, corolla 4 lin. longa. Stamina albida,
tubo vix exserto. Legumen leviter falcatum, 4-6-pollicare, 8-10 lin. latum, valvis inter
margines elevates rigide coriaceis transverse reticulatis.
Inga umbrosa, Wall. ! PI. As. Ear. ii. 23, 1. 124.
Alhizzia umbrosa, Benth. in Hook. .Tourn. Bot. iii. 86.
Sah, Subtropical Asia : Silliet, Wallichj J. D. JSooher.
5. C. AMAZONICA, Benth. ! in Sook. Lond. Joiirn. iii. 94. Glabra. Pinnae 1-jugae
foliola 1-juga, falcato-ovata, obtuse acuminata, 4-7-pollicaria, elevate- 2-3-nervia, addito
rarissime tertio minore. Panicula laxissime divaricata, pedunculis ad nodos distantes
fasciculatis.Calyx 5-fidus f lin., corolla membranacea 2 J lin. longa. Legumen tenuiter
I
coriaceum, 8-pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Inga httuhinieefolia, Poepp. et Endl. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 80, t. 290.
I
Sab. Tropical America : Amazonian district of Peru.
6. C. TEiNERViA, ^^w^7*. .' in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 94. Glabra. Pinnae 1-jugse;
foliola 1-juga, falcato-ovata, obtuse acuminata, 3-6-pollicaria, elevato-2-3-nervia, addito i
saepissime tertio minore. Pedunculi axillares. Calyx breviter dentatus \ lin., corolla
3 J lin. longa, striata. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Eah. Tropical America : Brazil and Venezuela, along the Eio Negro.
7. C. BoMBYCiNA, Spruce! sp. n. Glabra. Pinnae 1-jugse; foliola ssepius 2'juga,

falcato-ovata, obtuse acuminata, 3-nervia, terminalia sub-4-pollicaria. Pedunculi sub-
fasciculati. Calyx IJ lin., corolla ad 6 lin. longa. Legumen coriaceum, 4-5-pollicare,
4-5 lin. latum.
Sah. Tropical America : Eastern Peru on the Huallaga, where the rich-coloured silky
flower-heads are much used as ornaments for the hair. Spruce n. 4235,
Arbor fide Spmcei 18-pedalis, haLitu et foKis fere C. trinervia, floribus dupio
majoribus statira dignos-
cenda. Foliolorum par infimuni ssepius adest perfectum, exteriore li-2-pomcare,
interiore multo minore,
trinervia Stipnlse late ovatse, obtusee, rigida, striata. Pedunculi i-l-pol-
licares ;
in ramo brevi aphyllo dissiti, basi bracteis stipulaceis cincti.
Corollse risridulae. striatse tubo incluso Legumen
v. vix exserto.
rectum v. leviter curvum, loeve, more generis basin versus longe contractum, marginibus valde in-
crassatis.
8. C. CARBONARiA, Benth. I in Rook. Lond. Journ. 95. Glabra.

iii. Pinnae l-jug£e
foliola 1-juga, falcato-oblonga, obtuse acuminata, elevato- 2-3-nervia, 3-5-pollicaria,
addito interdum tertio minore. Pedunculi subfasciculati. Calyx 1^ lin., corolla 4-4^
lin. longa.Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Legumen poUicare, 7-8 lin.' latum.
Kah. Tropical America: Andes of Quito, Jameson prov. Popayan, 964;
Hartweg, n. \
a,lso apparently the same on Mount Aguacate in Central

America, (Ersted.
9. C. LONGiPEs, Benth. ! in Mart.
Bras. 3Iim. Humilis, glabra. Fl Pinnse l-jug£e
foliola 1-juga, oblique obovato-oblonga, 2-3-pollicaria,
coriacea, costa valida, nervis
;
Calliandra.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 539
1-2 tenuioribus, addito tertio minore. Pedunculi subradicales, 6-8-poIlicares. Calyx

1 lin., corolla ad 5 lin. longa. Legumeii Junius jam 3-pollicare, 4 lin. latum.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, pro v. Goyaz.
10. C. EMARGiNATAj Betitli. ! m Sooh. Lond. Jmirn. iii. 95. Glabra. Pinna? l-jugae
foliola 1-juga, oblique obovato-oblonga, obtusa v. breyiter acumiuata,'lJ-2J-pollicaria,
tenuiter coriacea, sub-3-nervia, reticulata, nitidula, addito t(^rtio minore. Pedunculi ad

nodos fasciculati v. breviter raceraosi. Calyx linea breyior. Corolla vix 3 lin o
Legumen baud crassum, glabrum, 3-4-pollicare, \ poll, latum.
Inga emarginata, Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1009; Kimtli Mim. !
t. 17.
Inga coriacea, Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv.

! 1010.
Mimosa emarginata et M. coriacea, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 39.

Calliandra coriacea, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jonrn. iii 9;").
Acapulco, Evmholdl atid Boiipland\ near Con-

Bah. Tropical Amferica: Mexico near
saquitla, lAehmmm ; New Spain, Bcrh. Paeon.
GLTPHOXTLON, Spruce!, sp. n. Glabra v. pilosula. Pinna; l-jug<T; foliola sub-

11. C.
breviter acuminata, clevato-2-3-ncrvia, li-2J-pollicarI:i,
falcata, ovato-oblonga, obtusa v.
PeduncuH i-1-pollicares. Calyx vix llneam longus. Corolla

addito tertio minore.
3-31 Les;umen
lin. rigide coriaceum, 3-4-pollicare, 3-6 lin. latum, valvis
Pallatanga in Ecuador, called by tbc Quitonians " Palo 1
traversed under tlie barli by sovcn or morr

las siete vueltas," because the branches are
sli^btly spiral striae, Spruce, n. 5571. .

.
foliorum et partibns noveUis «a>riu« u>n

Irbor ramosa, 20-pedalis, pilis paueis pr^sertim in rhaehibns
Stipule lunceolato-subulatse, parvac. FoUorum petiolus communis m forma typioi 2-3 Im

spersa.
Stipcll^ brevissimoe v. obsolete. Stamma alba v. rourn
longus pinnarum rbaches duplo longiores.
Lcguminis forma omnino generis.
eadem planta (Spruce
^-l-polhcari, rhachihus piTinarum
Var. GLABERRiMA, folioTum petiole communi sa^pe
the Magdalena, Triana.

gustioribus.—Valley of
Glabra. Pin. ^ l-jugaB; foliola l-ju,ângu.tc
ANGUSTiroLiA, î.r... .^ sp. n.
12 C.
addito (..no
1-li-poUicaria, coriacea, nitidula, sub-2-nenia
oblong aide obliqua,
Calyx 1 lin., corolla fere 3 bn. longa. p'g"
multo minore Pedunculi 2-4 lin. longi.
margmi valvis vix
3-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum,
men subli^nosum,
suoiig
venosis. of the Unall^KH
very abun.hnt on tbc bank,
Tropical America Eastern Tcru,
(]
mi. :
Spruce, n. 4466.
and the Mayo rivers,
acuti-ma; Kolia
-"•»"«•»
Arbor 15-20-peaatis, patule^ra.osa,
"f^';,, 7', j^^^:,', t^,, t.,,..,.. ...
gines valde incrassati.
tertio mm valvis inter marline.

3-4.poUicarc, 3-3J Un. latum,
umen
Mimosa
lOOS
C - - lF
I
540 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE* ICaUimidra.
Inga caripensis, Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1009.
Mimosa caripensis, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 39.
Hah. Tropical America : West Indies ; Trinidad, St. Vincent's, Martinique, Dominica,
St. Lucia, etc.; Venezuela, Caripe near Cumana, Humboldt and Bonpland, Puerto Ca-
bello, Karsten. .
F
X 14. C. Seemanni, Benth. ! in Seem. Hot. Her. 116, t. 22. Glabra v. tenuissime pube-
rula. Pinnae 1-jugse ; foliola 1-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusa v. acutiuscula, tenuiter
coriacea, |-l-pollicaria, addito tertio minore. Pedunculi subfiliformes. Calyx 1-J- lin.,
corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen 3-4-pollicare, ad 4 lin. latum, yalvis inter margines
incrassatos tenuibus.
Inga semicordata, Bertol. Fl. Guatera. 41 ? ex descr.
Hab. Tropical America : Veragua, Seemann ; Cumana, FuncJcej n. 569 ; between Va-
lencia and San Estevan, Fendler, n. 2253.
This species closely resembles C. tergemina ; but the calyx, half instead of only one sixth the length
of the corolla, appears to be constant.
15. C. Haurisii, Benth. ! in HooJc. Lond. Journ. iii. 95. Molliter pubescens v. glabra,
Pinnae l-jugge ; foliola 1-jnga, oblique obovali-oblonga, subfalcata, obtusa , uninervia v.
inaequaliter 2-3-nervia, reticulato-pennivenia, bipollicaria, addito tertio minore. Pedun-

culi axillares, breves. Calyx IJ lin., corolla 4 lin. longa. Legumen sub-4-pollicare,
valvis crassis lignoso-suberosis subteres, marginibus baud incrassatis, more generis tamen
basin versus attenuatum, valvis debiscentia elastice revolutis.— i<7. Bras. Mim.
Inga Harrisii, Lindl. ! Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 41*; Bot. Mag, t. 4238.
Calliandra cylindrocarpa, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 96.
Clelia ornata, Casar. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 84.
Hab. Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro.
The foliage is that of C. tergemina. The /. Hairisii, Lindl., .ras said to be from Mexico. The spe-
cimens differed from those I formerly possessed of the Brazilian
C. cylindrocarpa in their pubescence;
and I had not seen the fruit ; so I concluded the two were distinct.
I have, however, since seen the fruit
of the garden I. Harrisii, which is precisely that of the C.
cylindrocarpa ; and among the numerous Rio
Janeiro specimens in the various herbaria I have now had
before me, many pubescent ones, often mixed
with the glabrous ones, agree so precisely with the
warden ones.tliaf T f««i ^w;„.^ +^ «^„«i...i« +T,«f all
Mexico. The fruit is peculiar in

the genus.
16. C. CANESCENS, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ.

! iii. 96. Molliter pubescens. Pinn»
l-jugae foliola 1-, rarius
2-juga, terminaHa, oblique obovali-oblonga,
;
obtusa. l-nervia,
reticulato-venosa. poU. longa, tertio minore, quarto minimo
v. deficiente. Pedunculi
•igiduU, l-2.poUicares. ilores viUosi. Calyx 2 Hn., coroUa Legumen 4 lin. lonâ.
gnotum.
Inga canescens, Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnaa,
! v. 592.
Hah. Tropical America: Mexico, Schiede (Herb.
Berol.).
»«» Foliola
perfecte %ûga, addito interdum foliola
infimo soUtaHo
yi. C suBNEKvosA, Benth. in Herb. Sois3. sp. n. Mola
'i
Pilosula. Knnie l-iug£e ;

2-]uga, termmaha, dimidiato-oWonga, nitidula. 2-3-nerria,
l-li-pollicaria Pedunculi
Calliandra,} MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEiE. 541
breves. Calyx linea longior. CoroUa 3-liiiearis membranacea. Legumen 2-3-pollicarej
crassum, sublignosum, glabrum.

Mimosa suhnervosa, Pavon, in Herb. Boiss.
Sah. Tropical America : Guayaquil, Tafalla.

Species C. tergemincB affinis, sed foliolorum
distincta. Ramuli divaricati, striati, pilis brevibus pltis minus pubescentes. ita
ebasilata longe acuminatsej 2-5-lineares. i-1 -poUicaris
breviores, basi stipella lato-lanceolata acuta 1-2 lin. longa stipatse. Foliola marginc cib"ata, inferidru
termiualibus multo minora. Flores in capitulo Laud numerosi, glabri.
18. C. GuiLDiNGii, Benth. ! in Book. Land. Jonrn. iii. 96. Glabcrrima. Pinnoc
l-jug£e; foliola 2-3-juga, terminalia oblique ovata, obtuse acuminata, l^pollicaria, sub-
3-iiervia, nitida, inferiora rbomboidea, interioribus minoribus. redunculi li-2-polHcnros.
Calyx li-linearis, striatus. Corolla 5 lin. longa, vix striata. Legumen Icvitcr falcatuni,
lignosum, 4-5-pollicare.— Gm^5. ! Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 225.
Sab. Tropical America : Trinidad and St. Vincent's.
in Ilooh. Bond. Jouru. 97. Mollitcr rufo-viUosa. Pinnsr

19. C. FALC*ATA, Benth. ! iii.
falcato-semiovata, obtuse acuminata, 2-3-nerTia,

l-jug«; foliola 3-4-juga, terminalia
minora. Pedunculi l^pollicarcs. flores
2-3-pomcaria, nitidula, pubescentia, inferiora
corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen rufo-pubcscens v. glabratum,
I
pubescentes. Calyx J lin.,
sublignosum, 2-2J-pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum.
Venezuela, near Caraccas, Birschell, Fendler n. 352, Fnncke
Sah. Tropical America :
n. 370.
in Sooh. Bond. Journ. iii. 97. Flavescenti- v. sericco-vil-

20. C. MOLLissiMA, Benth. !
I
'
sub-4-juga, oblique obovata, 2-nervia, terminalia l-l|-pol.

losa Pinn^ l-jugê; foliola
Plores glabriuscuU. CoroUa calyce quadniplo longior.
licaria. Pedunculi 1-2-pollicares.
tomentoso-villosum, 3-4-pomcare, ad 5 lin. latum.
Leo-umen lignosum,
WiUd
«
Mimosa
prov. Jean de Bmcamoras, near GucrocotUlo
America North Peru,
IF
Suh Tropical :
mmholdl and BonpUmd.

%
between the Amazon and the Choto,

rix hinc indc pilosula. Stipuli. breves s^p
Spruce, sp. n. Glabra y.
i
21 C ACULEAIA.
oblique °-'°-
spincscentes.
acuta V. rarius
Finn,
obtusa,
l-jug^.
terminalia
;
1-2-pollicaria.
foliola 5-6.juga
l-2.ncrvm --"'^f
mtidula.
.?^J°:'|
Peduncul, 2-p""' J
Corolla membrana,;ea, 2} hn. longa^ Legumen J ..-
It
.....
cares. Calyx yix lineam longus.
inter raargincs merassatos tcnuib.«.
glabrura, yalvis
nolUcare 4 lin latum, Spruce,^ 5054.
' of Mount Tunguragua,
IrTrojTca AmJri'ca : Ecuador, at the foot
„ V, c.;„,.i„Wvp>, ri.nda^.lmewi-la..ceolate T. comae, arice«Bpu»p»ngcnto. l.,l,.
Arbor Foliola inferiora

;;;,; eo...n. ^:-^±^--r.^^:^:::zz.
infimi adhuc minora,
"=::
mter.ore s«pe
tenu(^£»*
:i
JlibuB pauUo minora, pans

termi
deiitatus. Stamina foliagi
—— ;
542 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEyE. [Callimidra.
Series 2. L^tevirentes.
Pinnse 2- v. pluri-jugae. Poliola pluri- v. multijuga, parva v. rarius subpoUicaria, mem-
"branacea, Isetevirentia. Pedunculi ad axillas v. ad nodos vetustos solitarii fasciculati
V. breviter racemosi. Floras sessiles. Calyx ad medium v. profunde 5-fidus. Corolla

membranacea. Pilamenta alba H
v. rosea, rarius intensius colorata.
t
22. C. CAPiLLATA, BentJi. ! in HooJc. Lond, Journ. iii. 98. Glabra. Pinnae 2-3-jug0e;
foliola 3-4-juga, valde obliqua, obovato-eUiptica, terminalia ssepe
+
poUicem excedentia.
Pedunculi tenues. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2\ lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hah. Tropical America : Mexico, foot of Mount San Pelipe, Andrieux^ n. 404.
^23. C. roRMOSA, Benth. ! in Sook. Lond. Journ. iii. 98. Glabra. Pinnae 2-3-jug8e
foliola 4-8-juga, obovali-elliptica, valde obKqua, 6-9 lin. longa. Pedunculi tenues.
Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Legumen C. portoricensis, 2-3-pollicare, 3-4 lin.
latum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Acacia formosa, Kunth ! Mim. 102. t. 32.
Calliandra viridiflora, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 98.
Acacia gracilis, Mart, et Gal. ! in Bull. Acad. Brux. x. ii. 311.
Calliandra gracilis, Griseb. ! in Mem. Amer. Acad. viii. 180, pro parte.
C. marginata, Griseb. ! in Herb. Hook.
Sab. Tropical America Cuba, Mexico, and, apparently the same species, Bolivia,
:
Bridges; Mattogrosso and Paraguay, JFeddell; Sant' lago del Estero, Tweedie.
The species is closely allied to 0. portoricensis, distinguished chiefly by the
fewer, broader larger,
leaflets.
21. C. GRACILIS, Klotzsch ! Herb. Baker in Saund. Befug. Bot.

; ! t. 294. Pubescens
Pinn^ 2-3 foliola 4-6-juga, obovata v. late oblonga, valde obliqua, terminalia ad
poll, longa, subtus molliter pubescentia.
Calyx f lin., corolla Peduncali tenues.
\\ lin. longa. Stamina alba. Legumen C. portoricensis, 2-3-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum.
Hah. Tropical America Venezuela, near La Guayra,
Fendler, n. 358, Otto, n. 404,
:
3Ioritz, n. 887. .
Differs from C. formosa chiefly in the pubescence.
, 25. C. scuiELLiFEBA, Benth. ! in Hook. Jmrn. Bot.

139 ; Lond. Journ. iii. 98. ii.
Glabra y. leviter puberula. Pinnee 2-3-jug8e
; glandula soutellata ad basin petioli, parrs-
que inter pinnas ; foliola 6-9-juga, oboyato-obloiiga,
terminalia 6-8 Kn. longa. Corolla
IJ hn. longa. Stamina rubra, basi alba. Legumen C.
portorieenm, 3-4-pollicare.-J'i.
Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Eio
:
:Nêgro and Goyaz.
Distinguished
26. G^FiLiPBS, Benth. ! in Sook. Journ. Bot. ii. 139 ; Lond. Journ. iii. 99. Puberula.
glandute in petiolo et inter pinnas
3-4-jugae
T! ;
midiato-oblonga, 4-6 Im. longa. PeduncuU

parvaa
tenues. CoroUa 2
; foliola 10-16.juga, di- I
lin. longa. Legumen

ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas
Geraes or Goyas :
Closely allied to C. portoricensis, but

more slender, and the glands appear
— .
CaUiandra.'] MR. G. BENTJi.^.,, ON THE MIMOSE^. 543
> 27. C. Lambertiana, ^^k. ! in Rook. Zond. Journ. iii. 100. Villosula. Finn®
2-3- rarius 4-jugse ; petiolus eglandulosus ; foliola 10-15-juga, latiuscule oblonga, sub-
semipoUicaria. Pedunculi tenues. Corolla ad 2 lin. longa. Stamina sanguinca. Legu-
men ignotum.
Acacia Lamhertiana, Don in Bot. Reg. t. 721.
Sab. Mexico.
Distinguished from the broad-leaved varieties of C. porioricensis by the hairiness and the red stamens.
•u 28. 0. poRTORiCENSis, Benth. ! in Sooh. Loml. Jotim. iii. 99. Pubcscens v. glabrata.
Pinnse 2-4*-jug8e; petiolus eglandulosus ; foliola 10-2 o-juga, II uearia v. linoari-oblonga,

sgepius 4-6 lin. longa. Pedunculi tenues. Calyx 1 lin. longus. Corolla 1 J-2 lin. longa.
Stamina alba. Legumen glabrum v. leviter puberulum, 2-4-p()llicare, 2-4 \\r\. Intum
valvis inter marlines incrassatos tenuibus submembranaccis. Fl, Bran, Mini
Mimosa mrtoricensis
Willd
WiUd
Mimosa guineensisy Schum. et Thonn. ! Beskr, PI. Guin. 323.
/
Acacia ungulata^ Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814, i. 68.
A. linearis, Desv. ! in Hamilt. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occid. 59.
A. Hamiltonii, Desv. ! 1. c.
A. alba, CoUa, Hort. EipuL App. ii. 339.
A. Colleana, Presl, Eep. Bot. Syst. 183.

A. vespertina, Macfad. PI. Jam. i. 318. !
Lysiloma Marchiana, Griseb. ! Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 223.
West Indies, Mexico, Central America, British Guiana,

JSah. Tropical America:
Bolivia also introduced, or perhaps indigenous, in Brazil and Wost
Columbia, Ecuador, ;
Tropical Africa.
species in which the i>ods are old
Grisebach was founded on a specimen of this
Lvnloma Marchiana of
brf^ntne
Mimosa
3 J.AX v^t*t'»/wiA»»"^- "7 '
V
Benth. Pubescens V. glabrata. Pinnae 3-6-jugu;nH'tiol us pglan

29. C CARACASANA.
linearia, conferta, 2-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi tenues Calp
dulosuli foliola 10-25-juga,
Legumen C. portoncenm 2-3.poUicare.
1 lin corolla 1^ Hn. longa. Stamina rosea. ,
Mimosa
Willd. Spec. iv. 10G8.
Acacia caracasana, m.
A. fragrans^Hen. Cat. Hort. Nap. 1.

!
aud n
Qm} , i
ITab. Tropical America : Venezuela, New Granada

be constant in its smaller
The 9ix
m.ght almC be cIa..cH . (
l:!fl! IZ. however, allied to each other, .„,!

are very closely
Pilosa
^5 W., valvi. into. ^.^'^ inera..t. tonu.btts.

^^^'Z^::!^^^^^ lin.
TVilld
4
VOL. XXX.
—
»«IMO«F^f
544 MR. G. BENTHAM ON mar „mIM [CaUiandra.
Mimosa I
445
Mab. Tropical America : Mexico, Central America, Columbia
in Hook. Lond. Jauru. 100. Molliterm^bescens. Pinnae

31. C. ANGELICA, Benth. ! iii.
1-2-jugge ; foliola 6-10-juga, oblongo-linearia, valde obliqua, pubcscenti3}^-3 lin. long
Pedunculi tenues. Corolla vix linea longior. Legumen ignotum.

Acacia media, Mart, et Gal. ! in Bull. Acad. Brux. x. ii. 316.
ICad. Tropical America : Mexico, mountains of Regla, where it is known by the name
" CabeUito de Angel," Galeotti, n. 3362.
32. C. MALACOPHYLLA, Benth. ! in Sook, Lond. Journ. iii. 100. MoUiter villosa.
Pinnse l-jug« ; foliola 3-4-juga, oblique obovato-falcata, 3-6 lin. longa. Pedimculi gra-
ciles, vix pollicares. Calyx 1 lin., corolla ad 2 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. Tropical America : Mexico, foot of Mount San Felipe, AndrieuXy n. 401.
33. C. TETRAPHYLLA, Benth. Pilosa. Pinnae 1-jugge ; foliola 1-juga, oblique oboyato-
oblonga (semipollicaria ?), subtus sericeo-pilosa, supra glabra, addito inter dum tertio
minimo. Pedunculi graciles. Calyx striatus, dentatus, ad 1 lin. longus. Corolla 1\

lin. longa, membranacea, glabra. Legumen ignotum.
Inga tetraphyllay G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 392.
Kah. Mexico, Mogino and Sesse {JSerh. Pav. in Herb. Oxon.).
The leaves are as yet but imperfectly developed in the flowering specimen, and may be larger when
full-grown.
Series 3. Pedicellate.
Pinnae l-2-jug3e. Poliola 2- v. multijuga, parva v. subpoUicaria. Glandulse 0. Pedun-
culi axillares v. ad apices ramorum conferti. Mores in umbellula tenuiter pedicellati.
Corolla vix striata.
34. C. LEPTOPODA, Benth. I in Hook. Zond. Journ. iii. 101. Glabra v. villosa. Stipulee
late cordato-orbiculatse, foKacese, ^1-pollicares. Pinnae l-jugse ; foliola 2-4-juga, obovato-

falcata, terminalia subpoUicaria. Pedicelli corolla longiores. Legumen glabrum v. vil-
losulum, 2-2^-pollicare, 4 lin. latum, valvis inter margines anguste incrassatos tenuibus.
Fl. Bras. Mim. w
35. C. UMBELLIPERA, Benth.! in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii: 141; Lond. Journ. iii. 102-
^ Puberula. Pinnae sub.2-jugae ; foHola multijuga, ovali-oblonga, obtusa, subcoriacea, 1-2
rarius 3 lin. longa. Pedicelli corolla longiores. Legumen glabrum, 2-4-pollicare, 4 lin.
latum, vjilvis inter margines incrassatos tenuiter coriaceis, transverse //

reticulatis.—
Bras. Mim.
Rah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Piauhy and Ceara.
36. C. Bla^'cheti; Benth. ! in Kook. Lond. Journ. iii. 103. Glabra v pilosula. Pinu^^
l-jupe, petiolo brevissimo; foUola multijuga,
oblongo-linearia, glabra, \\ lin. longa,
nitidula. PediceUi corolla breviores. Calyx
2 lin., corolla 4 lin. longa. Legumen
Ignotum. Jl. Bras. Mim.
^
—
] MIMOSE^. 545
37. C. PEDiCELLATA, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 102. Glabra r. pilosiila.
Stipulae postice spinescentes. Pinnae l-jugse ; foliola 4-7-juga, oblonga, obtusa, coriaoon,
2-3 lin. longa. Pedicelli calyce duplo longiores. Legumen sericeo-villosum, 3-4-polli-
care, valvis inter margines crassos coriaceis.
Sah. Tropical America : Hayti, Elirenberg in Herb. Berol.
Possibly a variety of C. htRmatomma, remarkable for the pedicellate flowers.
(See also 77, C. turbinata, 83. C. Tweedii, and 90. C. Peckollii, in which the flowers arc usually
pedicellate, but the pedicels shorter than the calyx.)
\
Series 4. Nitidê.
Pinnse 1- v. plurijugae; foliola bi- pluri- saipius Tnriltijnga, p;n-\a, rariii*^ scnripoUiccm
excedentia, rigidula, supra plus minus nitida. Pcdunculi axillarcs v. in ramvilis abbns
viatis subterminales, v. capitula sessilia. Flores in capitulo sestjilcs v. rariiis prdiccilo
calyce breviore fulti. Corolla ssepius striata. Pilamenta rubra purpurea v. nirius nlba.
* J?inncB unijtfffCB.
+ Americana f petiolo cglanduloso.
38. 0. COLLETIOIDES, Griseb. ! in Mem. Amer. Acad. viii. 180. Spina btipulnrps
rectse. Folia minima; pinnse l-jugae; foliola 2-3-juga, addito infimo extcriorc, obornta,
coriacea, llin. longa. Pedunculi brevissimi. Plorcs sericei. Legumen l-li-polHcans

cano-sericeum. Hook. Ic. Fl. t. 1167.
«
Hab, Tropical America : Cuba, Wright.
39. C. H^MATOMMA, Scnth. I in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 103. Glabra v. pilosa.
Pinnse 1-jugse foliola 4-8-juga, oblonga, obtusa, 2-3

stipulares (dorsales) rectae. ;
sericeo-pilosi. Calyx vix lincam, corolla

longa. PeduncuU graciles. Plores sa^pius
3 lin. longa. Legumen 3-4-pollicare.— G^ri^^J. FL Brit. W. Ind. 224.
Mimosa
Mdm* Leff* 448
Indies, Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domimro, Bahamas
Hab. Tropical America, West
specimens )r
branches of C. Aâ/omma, with 10 to 13 prtirôf !«»flHs

fruit, and which are probably luxuriant barren
to the pinnae,
Booh. Zand. Journ. iu. inx PUis apprcsM, cancspms.

40. C. CHU.EKSIS, Benth. in !
Pinnae l-jug^ folioU S-S-juga, Clonga oMu«a v. «

Stipute par™, subspinescentes. ;
Pedunculi somipolhcaro. Calyx 2 lm„ cor, .

acutiuscl, H longa.
T.Tix 2 lin.
li-poUicare, i lin. latum, valr,s ,nter margme. T.ld-

4 lin. longa. Legumen putescens,
incrassatos rigide membranaceis.

in C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 253.
Acacia nigra, Clos !
America Chili, Bridges. C. Gay.

Hab Extratroplcal South :
141; Zond. Journ. iii. 103. Glabra

Ai r «...TTTs Benth f in Hook. Journ. Bot, ii.
acLseula,
1
^
Hn.,
4 rarius
coroUa 2 hn. longa,
lin.
striata. f^" ^^'2,^^ l^^r^^^^^^^
jje-,umcu ^
^L T^
glabri. Calyx
America Brazil, prov. Bahia.
Hab, Tropical :
^^ ^
— I
;
[Calliandra.
BENTHAM ON MIMOSEiE.
546
I
Mart FL -Bras. Mim. Laxe pilosa. Stipulse mut

C. AXILLARIS, Benfh. ! in
falcato-oblonga, acutiuscula, 3-4 lin. longa. Capi-
Pinnae l-jugê ; foliola 15-30.juga,
pilosuli, mox glabrati. Corolla 2i lin. longa, striata.
tula axiUaria, sessilia. Plores
Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen ignotum.
ffab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
in Mart FL Bras. Mim, Pilosa. Pinnse 1-jug^;

43. 0. ^scHYNOMENOiDEs, Be7ith. !
vix coriacea, 4-5 lin. longa. Capitula breviter pedun-

foliola 5-8-juga, falcato-oblonga,
culata V. subsessilia. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Staminum tubus longe exsertus.
Legumen ignotum. •
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
DEPArPERATA, Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim. Pilosa. Pinnae l-jugse; foliola

14. C. !
nitida, imbricata, vix lineam longa. Capitula breviter

6-10-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusa,-
pedunculata. Plores tenues, glabri. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Staminum tubus
breviter exsertus. Legumen ignotum.

45. C. coNFERTA, Benth. ! in A. Gray, FL Wright, i. 63. Subsericeo-pubescens.
foliola 8-12-juga, oblique oblonga, coriacea, vix 2 lin. longa. Pedunculi

Pinn« l-jug£e ;
breves, subfasciculati. Plores pauci, pilosi. Calyx 1 lin., corolla vix 2 lin. longa. Legu-
men sericeo-villosum, 2i-pollicare, 3 lin. latum, valvis inter margines crassos membra-
naceo-coriaceis.
FEah. Extratropical North America, West Texas, and North Mexico.
46. C. BUEVIPES, Benth. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. ii. 140 Lond. Journ. iii. 104. Glabra. ;
Pinnse l-juga?; foliola 15-25-juga, oblongo-linearia, falcata, nitida, 1-3 lin. longa.
Capitula breviter pedunculata, subfasciculata. Calyx vix \ lin. Corolla 2 lin. longa.
Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen glabrum, 2-3-pollicare, 3 lin. latum, valvis inter
margines crassos membranaceo-coriaceis. FL Bras. Mim. ; Bot. Mag. t. 4500.

Acada Selloi, Spreng. Syst. iii. 137 ?
Hah. Tropical and subtropical South America : Brazil, prov. Piauhy, Babia, Minas
Geraes, Sao Paulo, and on the Uruguay.
47. C. TAXIFOLIA, Benth. Sook. Bond. Journ. iii. 104. Pubescens. Pinnae l-jugse
! in
foliola 12-25-juga, oblique oblonga, nitida, 2-3 lin. longa. Stipulse rigide subulato-acu-
minatse. Capitula breviter pedunculata, pauciflora. Calyx f lin., corolla ad 3 lin. longa.
Inga taxifolia, Kunthl Mim. 64, t. 20.
Mab. Tropical America : Andes of Quito, Humboldt and Bonpland^ Jameson.

T
J-
48. C. LONGIPINNA, Benth. I in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Puberula v. glabrescens. Sti-
pulae parvse. Pinnse 1-jugge; foliola 30-50-juga, oblique ovata v. oblonga, obtusa,
«
crassa, venosa, nitida, ad 3 lin. longa. Pedunculi semipollicares. Flores pubescentes.
Calyx I-I4 lin., corolla 3 lin. longa, vix striata. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen
ignotum.
Bah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
r
49. C. PURPUREA, Benth ! in Hook. Lond. Journ.^ iii. 104. Glabra. Stipulse parvte.
^ ,
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 547
Pinnge 1-jugae ; foliola S-T-jnga, oblique ovata v. obovato-oblonga, obtusa, coriacea,

nitida, venosa, 4-6 lin. longa. Capitula pedunculata, glabra. Calyx 1 lin., corolla ad 3
lin. longa. Staminum tubus inclusus v. breviter exsertus. Lecrumen Klabrum
o"^""^" o
lignosum, 2-2|-pollicare5 3-4 lin. latum, valvis inter margines era
Mimosa purpurea^ Linn. Spec. 1500; Andr. Bot, Rep. t. 372.
Inaa vurvurea^ Willd. Spec. iv. 1021, Bot. Res:, t. 129.
Inga obtusifolia, Willd
Mimosa obtusifolia, Poi
Calltandra obtusifolia^ 131.

\
coroensis
Rob. Tropical America West Indies, Demerara, and Cumana.

:
Among the numerous specimens I have now had before me, I have been una})lc to separate Knrstcn'i
three species as distinct varieties. The number and size of the leaflets is very variable.
50. C. TENUIFLORA, BeutU. I in Mart, Fl. Bras. Mm. Glabra v. pubcsccns. Stipulre
PiniiEe 1-jugae foliola 5-6-juga, oblique obovata v. subrhomboa, obfusa,

lanceolatse. ;
"
subpoUicaria, glabra, nitida. Pedunculi subsemipollicarcs. Calyx 1- "
terminalia
longa, non striata. Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Lcgumru
corolla 3-3i lin.
ignotum.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Para.
Glabra vix pubcrula.
51 C. Magdalene, Benth. ! m Sooh Lmid. Journ. v. 102. v.
oblongo-linearia v. falcato-oblong.
Stipule breves. Pinn^ 1-jugee ; foliola 15-30.juga,
4-6 lin. longa. Pedunculi breves. Calj^
obtusa, glabra, nitida, ad 3 Hn. v. interdum
Lcgumen glabrum, sub-
Staminum tubus exsertus.
ad
corolla av^
lin^ uuruiJ-a Un. longa.
2 xx^.
^ .^^^
I
4-pollicare, fere 5 lin. latum.
lignosum, crassiusculum,
in DC. Prod. ii. 455, et in Spreng. Syst. m 137.
Magdalene,
Acacia Bert. !
the
^.r^.r., P^.ê. Veraguas, ^...u..-
Sab. Tropical America : Santa Marta, ;
Bombonasa in Ecuador, Spruce
5. C. S..XKAME.SXS; Bena.! in Boole. Lond. ^ô^^n

1^^^^^^
f ^-^^
B-12-ju,a, oblique o^^^^^^^
Pinn. 1-jug. ; foliola
glabri. âlyx ^ Im corolla 2 J 3 ^^^ô
dunculi tenues. Plores
2-3.pollicare, 4 hn. latum, vaivis m ^ 5
Leffumen glabrum,
longe exsertus. iêg
s tenuibus.-i^^. Bra^. Mim
Spec. iv. 10
fasciculafa, Willd. !
mmosajascicmatu,
Mimosa i-yj^' ^'^-- ^^ and Para; Guiana and
fi
prov. Qoyaz. ^ Ttin
R.o Neg
Npff
America : Bra.il.
Mai. Tropical
Columbia the number q«
Flora 1843, 759, from
scarcely agrees
oblo.so.
foUoU ZO-W-y;^.
Pizm^B l-jng^;
Bentk. Cal.
53. C. C0.0N..DKA,
linearia, subfalcata,
glabra, nitida, f7^-J^^/
4-5 1^°'^°"S
V^luLculi
4.5-poUicare, valvis
breves, rigidi.
inter mar
.
durum, glabrum,
longa. Legumen
lin., corolla 3 lin.
gines latos crassis .. ^ 122.

ll^s.rst. 1 1-
Codonandra purpurea, Coro, A
(,^âraien.
America : Venezuela, prov.
Sab. Tropical
i
—
[Calliandra.
tree central enlarged flowers alone that are
distinguislied The central flowers are similarly enlarged in
sometimes
forms
head
54. C. viEGATA, Benth. ! in MooJc. Jmrn. Bot. ii. 140, Lond. Joum. iii. 105. Glabra
V. vix puberula. Pinnge l-jugse ; foliola 20-30-juga, lanceolata, subfalcata, rigida, 4-8
lin. longa. Pedunculi rigidi, longiusculi. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 3J lin. longa, glabra,
leviter striata. Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Legumen sublignosum, glabrum,

M
2-pollicare, valvis inter margines latos crassis. Fl. Bras. Mim, ,
Bâb. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes, Pernambuco, and Goyaz.
Mimosa staminea, Thunb. Diss, ex Flora, 1821, 332, from Minas Geraes, is probably this species rather
than the C brevipes.
.
- - »
55. C. H^MATOCEPHALA, SossTc. ! Retzia, 216. Glabra. Pinnae 1-jugae ; foliola 7-10-
juga, oblique oblongo-lanceolata, obtuse acuminata, |-lJ-pollicaria, coriacea, nitida.
Pedunculi rigidi. Plores glabri. Calyx 1 lin., coroUa fere 6 lin. longa, striata, Sta-
minum tubus inclusus. Legumen glabrum, nitidum, 4-pollicare, ad 6 lin. latum, valvis
inter margines valde incrassatos tenuiter coriaceis.
Hah, Raised in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, from seeds of unrecorded orio-in.
This species appears to be allied to the American C. virgata, but with fewer, much larger leaflets,
bringing it near to the plurifoliolate Macrophylla. The corolla is also considerably longer than in C. vir-
very It has no affinity with any of the few Old- World species known
to me.
ft GerontogecBj petiolo communi glandulifero.
56. C. ALTERNANS, Benth, Hamuli rufo-pubescentes v. glabri. Stipule obsolete

Pinnae 1-jugae ;
foliola 4-10-juga, inferiora ssepe alterna, late
oblonga, obliqua, obtusis
sima, nitida, pennivema, 3-4 rarius 6 lin. longa. Pedunculi miformes. Spicse oblon^
Corolla calyce striato 3-4plo longior. Legumen 6-8-poUicare, ad 4 lin. latum, valvis
inter margines incrassatos tenuiter coriaceis reticulatis demum glabris.
Mimosa altemans, Valil ! in Herb. Mus. Par.
Sab. Madagascar, Commerson, JPerville, Gerard.
am Foliorum petiolus communis i-2
longus,
lin. pinnarum
;ares, tenues, puberali. Foliola subtus pallida, costa subcentrali.
vetustos
iasciculat, t soutan,, cum spieae rhaehe pollicares vU longiores. Flores sessiles, nunc apicem versus
y.
pauc nunc fere ad medmm pedunculi e^tensi. Calyx vh J lin. longus,

obtuse dentatus. Corolla 2 lin.
profUnde 4-5 lin. longa, basi brevissime
connata in tubum
,tniii
57. C. J^^ÂTA, Benth Eamuli puberuli. Stipule pkra^que spinescentes.

?
_ Pinn*
1-ju^. FoLola 2-5.juga, obovato-oUonga. yalde obUqua,
glabra, &-9 lin. longa, addito
exteriore mmore ad basm rhacheos. Pedunculi
«^"^t.uu fPTinoo n -^ -n ^
lenues. i i i
Capitula glabra, pauciflora.
^ ,,
Corolla
, 1 X
calyce subtriplo longior.
.
1 1 .
T
Legumen ignotum. *
Wight et Arn. ! Prod. Fl
-'
Calliandra.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 5i9
*
Pithecolobium geminatum, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 202.

Inga fiexuosa, Grah, ! in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5286.
*
Hab. Ceylon, Mackenzie, Gardner, Thwaites, n. 1531.

The fruit of this plant not having been yet observed, its affinities cannot be determined with certainty.
I had placed it in Pithecolobium, notwithstanding considerable discrepancy in the foliage ; for I had then
thought that Calliandra was confined to America ; but we have now three other undoubted Old- World
species of Calliandra ; and the present species has so much in common with the C. alternans, that there
remains very little doubt that it will prove to be a congener.
** Paucijugse. Jinnee plerceque hi- v. paucijugce. Corolla glabra v. parce pilosulce {In
G. Gardneri canescentes) . Legumen glahriim minute tomentellmn v. parce villostdum.
58. C. EXPANSA, Benth., sp. n. Glabra v. rarissime pilosula. Polia parva. Piiin;v
2- rarius l-jugse ; foliola 10-15-juga, falcato-lineariaj nitida, 1-lJ lin. longa. Pedunculi
tenues. Calyx \ lin. longus, vix striatus. Corolla 2 lin. longa. Lcgumcn suljlignosunij
glabrum, 1^-pollicare, 2-3 lin. latum.

Mimosa expansa, Herb. Pav.
Sab. Tropical America Peru near Huanuco, etc., Buiz and Favon, Lobb.
:
I
Rami crassiusculi, rigidi, albi, ut videtur divaricati v. forte in rupcs prostrati. Stipulae parvse, ovalo-
lanceolatje. Foliorum petiolus communis vix lineam longus ; pinnae rlgidulse, 4-6 lin. longse. Foliola
obtusa V. acutiuscula, glabra v. subtus pilosula. Pedunculi 3-4 lin. longi. Corollae lirabus late cam-
panulatus, hand striatus. Legumen more generis basin versus longe contractum.
59. C. SQrAREOSA, Benth. I in Sook. Journ. BoU iii. 104. Glabra v. parce sericco-
pilosa. Pinnse sub-2-jugge ; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, conferfca, nitida, \\ lin. longu.
Pedunculi 6-9 lin. longi. Plores glabri, striati. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2J lin. longa.
Staminum tubus subinclusus. Legumen glabrum v. vHlosulum, 2i.pollicare, 4-5 lin.
latum, marginibus latis crassisque.— i^^. Brm. Mim.

Acacia squarrosa, Mart. Herb.
Bab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. BaMa.
Lond. Journ. v. 103. Humilis, glabra. Pinn*
60. C. LINEARIS, Benth. in SooTc.
anguste linearia, nitidula, 4-6 lin. longa. Pedunculi poUi-
2-iug« foliola 8-12-juga,
•
Calyx | lin., corolla 3-34 Hn- longa, laevis. Stnmi-

cares, crassiusculi. glabri. Plores
ignotum.-i^. Bras.
num tubus inclusus. Legumen ^!f ^
^ ^ ^ ^
'
.
prov. Minas Geraes, Biedel ^n Herb. Petrop.

Hab America
Tropical Brazil, :
Book. Lond. Journ. v. 103. Eami virgati, rigidi, rulb-

61. C. HIGIDA, Benth.! in
•
foliola 25-40-juga, anguste Imearia, ngida,

viUosi. Stipule ovat^. Pinn. sub.2-jus^ ;
rigidi. Plores pihs paucis conspcrsi. Calyx l-"-

4-6 lin. longa. Pedunculi polHcares,
Legumen sublignosum, mmute puberulum, 4.5.polhca
lin., coroUa 3-3*2 lin.
^^"' longa.
-"""3
6-8 lin. latum

Hookeriana
Guiaaa, Caramany VaUey.
3ab. Tropical America : British
Fl. Bras. Mim. Glabra v. leviter pdoMUa^ Stl

62. C. CA.TCIKA, Bentk. '. in Mart.
2-juga. v. foliorum
mfenorum 1-jug. fohola 20-^0.
pulee anguste v. obsolete. Tmn^
3-4 lin. longa. Peduncuh ngid., 1-1 i-polheares
La" IguBte linearia, rigida. nitida,
—
iCalliand
MR.G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.
550
Calyx 2 lin., corolla 4 lin. longa. Staminum tubus breviter

Capitula glabra, pauciflora.
exsertus. Legumen ignotum.— i^/. Bras, Mim
104. Glabra v. vix pilosula.

63 C BRACTEOSA, Benth, ! in ITook, Lond. Journ. v.
2- rarius 3-juge ; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, nitida 3-5
Stipulse lanceolate. Pinn*
Bractese exteriores amplse, foliaceae. Calyx
lin. longa. Pedunculi rigidi, li-pollicares.
parum brevior. Legumen ignotum.— i^. Bras, Mim.

corolla 4-lineari
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.

:
in Sook. Bond. Journ. iii. 106. Hirtella. Stipulse

64 C MERTENSioiDES, Benth. !
; foliola 12-20-juga, oblonga, obt nitida, maj

parvse. Pinnee 2-3-jugge
„ _
Pedunculi ad apices ramorum conferti, rigidi, 1-2-pollicares. Calyx
3-4 lin. longa.
1 lin., corolla fere 4 lin. longa. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen rigidum, IJ-pol-
r
licare, glabrum v. tomentellum.— i"/. Bras, Mim,

Acacia asplenioides , ISIees in Flora, 1821, 303.
Tnga mertensioides , Nees et Mart, in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 35, t. 5.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
65. 0. TASCicuLATA, Benth,! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. ii. 140; Bond. Journ. iii. 108
Glabra v. minute tomentella. Stipulse parvse-. Pinnae 2-4-jugse; foliola 20-30-juga
falcato-linearia, obtusiuscula, coriacea, nitida, 3-4 lin. longa. Pedunculi j-l|-polli
cares, rigidi. Capitula glabra. Calyx ^1 lin., corolla 2^-4 lin. longa. Legumen sub-
lif^nosum, glabrum v. Junius villosulum, lJ-3-pollicare, 3-4 lin. latum, marginibus latis
crassisque. FL Bras. Mini.

Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Bahia.
Tt la not Improbable tliat fiirther observation may induce the reunion of this somewhat variable species
may
developed bracts and calyces.
66. C. HiRTiFLOKA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl, Bras. Mim. Patentim pilosa, demum gla-
brescens. Pinnae 3-5-jugse ; foliola 20-30-juga, falcato-linearia, nitida, 4-5 lin. longa.
Pedunculi 2-3-pollicares, ad apices ramorum conferti, floresque piloso-hispidi. Calyx
2 lin., corolla fere 6 lin. longa. Legumen lignosum, glabrescens, 2-3-pollicare, 3-4 lin.
latum.
Mab, Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
Although nearly allied to the preceding species, the few specimens I have seen show too many points of
distinction to admit of their being united with it without further observation.
67. C. EETICTJLATA, A. Gray! Bl. Wright, ii. 53. Humilis, pilosa, mox glabrata.
Pinnae l-3-jug8e ; foliola 4-11-juga, ovalia, obtusa, 2-5-nervia, reticulata, 3-5 lin. longa.
Pedunculi breves. Calyx hirsutus, IJ lin., corolla glabriuscula, 3 lin. longa. Legumen
glabellum, IJ-pollicare, fere 3 lin. latum, yalvis inter margines crassos submem-
branaceis.
Rah. Extratropical Nortb America : New Mexico, Wright, Emori/s expedition.
68. C. Gardêri, Benth. ! in JECook. Bond. Journ. iii. 108. Humilis, glabra. Pinn®
2-3- rarius plurijug^ ;
foliola 15-20-juga, oblonga, obtusa, obliqua, coriacea, venosa.
—
Calliandra.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEJ!. 551
4-6 lin. longa. Pedunculi rigidi, 3-4-pollicares. Plores glabri v. tomentelli. Calyx
2 lin., corolla semipoUicem longa. Legumen minute puberulum, 4-5-pollicare, 7-8 lin.
latum, valvis inter margines incrassatos tenuibus reticulatis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
69. C. LAXA, Benth. Pilosula v. glabra. Pinnse 2-5-jug9e ; foliola 12-30-juga, oblique
ovalia v. falcato-oblonga, obtusa v- acutiuscula, 3-6 lin. longa, supra nitida subtus pal-
lida. Pedunculi i-1-pollicares. Flores glabriusculi. Calyx IJ, corolla ad 3 llu. loni;a.
tomentellum, 3-4-pollicarc, ad 6 lin. latum,
Legumen sublignosum, glabrum v. Junius
marginibus latis crassisque.
wnid
Mim
Hook. Lond. Journ. 106.
Calliandra xalapensis, Benth. ! in iii.
Mart, et Gal. ! in Bull. Acad. Bnix

petiolis tenuibus; legumen paullo nunus, rufo-ton. on-
Var.? PARViFOLiUM, foliolis vix 2 lin. longis
tellum.
Mexico, Central America, Columbia, British Guiaua; th<
Venezuela, Fendler, n. 2255.

parvifolmm,
be a distinct <<pecie8
but the specimen is scarcely sufficient to aetenuine its affinities.
Journ. Bot. 137 XoncJ. Mirn. iii. lOt

70. C. STIPULACBA, Benth. I in Root. ii. :
Pmna, ^-^-jugte f l,o a

Stipula, lanceolate, 3-4 lin. long«3. ;
Glabra v. vix puberula.
coriacea, glabra, 6-8 lin. longa^ "°'='^'
8-10-juga, obUiue oblonga v. obovata,
Flores glabri. Calyx li Im., corolla fere ^f
4 hn. :J
longn.
apices ramorum conferti, rigidi.
,f
Legumen isnotum ScUmUr^k.

on the Eio Quitaro,
m1 1Z;2 Anxerica : British Guiana
71. 0. COHOSH, BentU.

foliola 9-lO.juga, ovalia.
obtusissima,
!
basi
in Moo,. Lon,. Jo.rn r. 1^-
ûbglabra^
^^^
ra'L
^f ™*^;„t?s fuit^^ if plufe.
cantia. Capitula ^^^^-' 5un.en glabmi i.

poUicares ad apices
:^:':::i:^:^t:iX
ramorum contertim corym
maturum jam 3-pollicare.
Mimosa
Spec. PI. iv- W^«>-
Inga comosa, Willd. ^^ ^^^^^^
^. ^gi.
Bentb. in Hook. Lon
Pithecolobium comosum, ^j^c nortb Coast, wbcre it d^
^
rocKy ^^^^^^^^^ ^f
Jamaica,
day ^^^^^^^ ^^^ inflorescence

gathered siuce the
not appear to have been
yery peculiar
oUongo-Unearla. Flares ph
-Pj' 7 9, V multijuga
*** ouosenceu=.
Subserice^. Pim^
. .-.-•"- 2-6->^^.
- . - Species MexkancB v. Ceah
^
^'[Z^^^';.^,,cem.
gUhre^cem. o^;.
Faucm'^s et Sencp
Ame.-ûna>, inter ^,„,v.«r«. ui. IOC. Pube-
^^^
72 C™i>-an, Bentlu On Soot^f'!^'^ -^go-Unmia, falcata, coriacea, niUda
C.
10-2o-ju„a, ^l
foliola 4 ^
rula. PinniB 2-6-juga; ;
VOL. XXX.
— — .
{CalUandra.
552
-
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.
tenues l-lJ-poUicares. Flores pilis longis conspersi.

2-3- rarius 4 lin. longa. Pedunculi
Calyx vix i lin., corolla fere 4 lin. longa. Legumen sublignosum
in Bull. Acad. Brux. x. ii. 320.
Inga sjjeciosa, Mart, et Gal. !
Panama, Cuming Oaxaca, Galeotti Cliachapoyas in Peru,

Hah. Tropical America : ; ;
Matfhetcs.
none of them very satisfactory; but I believe they all belong to one
The specimens Ihave seen are
species.
in Hook. Lond. Jotirn. v. 103. Humilis, pilosa v. rarius gla-

73. C. HTTMiLis, £enth. !
briuscula. Pinnae 3-6-jug^ ; foliola 8-25-juga, oblongo-Unearia, obtusa, 1-2 lin. longa.
Pedunculi pollicares v. breviores. Calyx 1-lJ lin., corolla ad 3 lin. longa. Legumen
2-3-pollicare, 3 lin. latum, Junius birsutum demum subglabrum, valvis inter margines
latos crassosque membranaceo-coriaceis.

Acacia humilis, Schleclit. in Linnaea, xii. 567, ex char.
C. herbacea, Engelm. ! in A. Gray, PI. Eendl. 39.
Hab. Subtropical North America : Central and Northern Mexico.
74. C. ERioPHYLLA, Bcnth. ! in Hooh. Lond. Journ. iii. 105. Humilis, tomentoso-
villosa. Pinnae 2-7-jug8e ; foliola 10-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusiuscula, 1-2^ lin.
longa, subtus sericeo-villosa. Pedunculi tenues, l-lj-pollicares. Plores pilosi. Calyx

lin., corolla vix 3 lin. longa. Legumen sericeo-hirsutum, 2-4-pollicare, valvis inter
o latosq
in A. Grav, PL Fendl. 39, Pi. Wri
Hab. Tropical and extratropical North America : Mexico and West Texas.
75. C. CALiFORNicA, Benth. ! JBot. Sulph. 14, t. 11, 'et in Hooh, Lond. Journ. iii. 105.
L
E/igida, appresse pilosa. Pinnae 2-4-jug9e ; foliola 8-15-juga, oblonga, obtusiuscula,

pilosula, nitida, 2-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi tenues. Plores pubescentes. Calyx vix J
lin., corolla fere 4 lin. longa. Legumen ignotuin.
r
Hab. Extratropical North America : Bay of Magdalena, Lower California.

This may possibly prove to be a variety of C. Cumingii.
**** Sericiflorse. Tinnm {excepta C. abbreviata) 4- v.phmjtigce. Foliola muUijuga, ob-

longa V. linearia. Flores sericeO'villosi v. Jiirsutissimi. Legumen crassum dense
villosum.
76. C. DTSANTHA, Benth. ! in Hooh. Journ. Bot. ii. 138, Lond. Journ. iii. 109. Pu-
bescens. Pinnae 4-6-jugge ; foliola 20-50-juga, falcato-oblonga, rigidula, 4-8 lin. longa,
subtus saepius pilosa. Capitula sessilia, ad apices ramorum conferta. Plores sericeo-
villosissimi. Calyx 2 lin., corolla 5-7 lin. longa. Legumen crassum, sublignosum,
4~5-pollicare, villosissimum. M. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes, and Goyaz.
77. C. TURBINATA, Benth.! in Hooh. Lond. Journ. iii. 109. Pubescens. Pinnae
8-12-jugae ; foliola 20-40-juga, falcato-oblonga, rigidula, semipollicaria,
ciliata. Capitula
ad apices ramorum breviter pedunculata. Plores villosissimi. Calyx 3 lin., corolla 4-4i
lin. longa. Legumen ignotum. Fl. BtYis. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Matto h^
.
CalUandra.'] MIMOSEiE. '

553
1
'
78. C. LANATA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mint. Dense lanato-viUosa. Stipula
maximse, latse, caducse. Pinnae 3-8-jugge ; foliola 20-40-juga, falcato-linearia, 4!-6 lin
r
lon£?a, sericeo-pilosa v. glabrata. Pedunculi crassi, ^1-pollicares. Plores dense lanato
villosi. Calyx 3 lin., corolla ad 6 lin. longa. Legumen lignosum, densissime villoso-
lanatum, 3-pollicare, 5-6 lin. latum.

Rab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes.
79. 0. ABBREVIATA, Benth. I in Eooh. Lond. Journ. iii. 108. Villosula v. glabrata.
Pinnae 2-3-jugje; foliola 15-20-juga, oblique oblonga, coriacea, venulosa, 6-9 lin. longa.
dense sericeo-villosi. Calyx 1} lin., corolla i lin.

Pedunculi breves, crassi, floresque
longa. Legumen sublignosum, dense villosum, 4-5-pollicare, 6-6 lin, latum.— F^. Bras.
Mini.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Piauby and Pernambuco.
Sook. Journ. Bot. 140, Lond. Journ, iii. 108.
80. C. MACROCEPHALA, Benth. ! in ii.
foliola 20-50.juga, oblique ovato-oblonga, rigidula, 3-6 lin.

Pilosa. Pinnffi 3-7-jug8e ;
1-3-poUicares, floresque rufo-hirsutissimi. Calyx 2-3 lin.,

longa. Pedunculi crassi,
dense viUosissimum, 4^5.pomcaria, 5-C
corolla 5-6 Un. longa. Legumen sublignosum,
lin. latum.— ^/. Bras. Mim

Paulo, Minas Geraes, and Goyaz
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao
Lond. Journ. iii. 109. Villosa. Pinn. 3-5-ju

in SooJc.
81. C. YisciDTJLA, Benth. !
Im.loi. Pedunculi
rigida, demum glabrata, 4^5
foliola 16-30.jusa. faleato-oUonga,
viseidulo-vUlosi. Calyx 4 hn. lonsus. Co-
U-pomoares. Bracte^ floresque
rigidvxli.
ro la vi; cal^cem excedens,

Bra.il, proy. BaUa,
villosissinâ.
and a
legumen
^^-^'^^^^
whte ^^^^„,
variety, said to have stamens,
Sab. Ti-opical America :
prov. Minas Geraes. t^. o n •

«.«
foliola 40-60.juga, anguste

^^^^^T^^J^^^^^tosi. Calyx 3^ lin., corolla i
resque, ad apices ramorum poUicare, 4-3 lin.
poll, longa. Legumen

'^fÛi^lZlZe
crassum, suWignosum, aen villosum, 2-2f
latum.— jFZ. JBras. Mm Geraes

Brazil, prov. Minas
PUo
^ 1 T ^
Journ.
Tir^t 11 140* Zona. Journ. 111. i^J i
83.
»d. u.
C. TwEEBii,
TWEEJJii, Benth.!
ojt;/...-. . in SooJc.
^f;; ^f^' ^^•
„î;npnrk nitida,
,
,,^^^^
obliqua, 2-3
'1-6 Im.
im.
1 .^
Innâ
i"Ti^
Pinn. 3-4.Jng.; foliola 20-30.juga, ob^ngo^-^S pilosi. Calyx 2 Uu

moUitor
Hores
Pedunculi l-2.pollicares.
Legumen
b-^^^^'^'
crassum,
^-^^ J™'
subhgnosum. ^^ ,niosum, 2-3.polli»"-"
-
corolla 4 lin. longa.

Bot. Mag- 4188.
Fl. Bras. Mm. ;
1.
Sao j ^^j^^^. s„utlKTn pro
subtropical South Amenca
Sah. Tropical and
.
on the î^^^^,;^,,,;
vinces of BrazU and ^'« ..êriore, fere lineao, longi.
Pim^* 5-10-Jugse. f e
Vat. ? Sancti Pauh.
Hassk. Retzia, il
Calliandra Sancti Fault, yJ fr<,„ South BrMlian ccds
Buitenzorg, m Java, proba
j^
,;„,,
Raised in ™
*^„
tbe hntanic
botanic srardeu of
Sericeo-villosa; fnox glabresoens
84. C. Oeuegerii, OrUeh. ! FL Brd.^

f•/;,.;^
falcato
V .ûtiuscula,' nitida, ciliata, gla-
20-40-juga,
PinuK 3-6-iug£e ; foHola
M-
. ;
V
554i MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [CalUandr'^.
brescentia, ad 3 lin. longa. Capitula subsessilia. Plores hirsuti. Calyx IJ lin., corolli
3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum. A.
Hab. Tropical America : Trinidad, Qrueger.

This species appears to diflfer from C. Tweedii chiefly in its sessile flower-heads ; the specimens I liavb
seen, however, are very imperfect.
85. C. HiRSUTA, Benth, Subsericeo-villosa. Pinnae 3-5-jug8e; foliola 15-20-jnga,

oblongo-linearia, subfalcata, subtus sericeo-villosa, 2-3 lin. longa. Pedunculi 1^2-polli-
cares. Mores sericei, brevijter pedicellati. Calyx 4-4J lin. longa. L(^gumen Junius VV
densissime villosum.
Inga hirsuta, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 393.
Hah. Tropical or subtropical North America " JSêw Spain," He7^h. Favon (now in :
Herb. Oxon.) ; raised also in the Cambridge (United States) Botanic Garden from New
Mexican seeds. r
t
Species C. Tweedii quam maxime affinis. Stipulse breves, lanceolatse, muticse, sablanato-villosEe.
Hamuli pctioli et foliolorum pagina inferior in speciminibus typicis dense subappresse villosi v. fere lanati
in specimine culto villi minus
Foliorum petiolus communis i-1-pollicaris, pinnae 1-2-pollicares.
densi.
Foliola rigida, supra demum glabrata nitidaque. Pedicelli ut in C. Tweedii \-\ lin. longi. Calyx
sericeus, breviter dentatus. Corollse limbus anguste Legumen perfectum non
vidi ; Junius omnino C. Tweedii.
Were it not for the widely dissevered geographical station, I should have been disposed
to consider this
marked
86. C. GLOMERULATA, Karst Fl. Colomb. ii. 5, t. 108. Subferrugineo-pubescens v.

villosa. Pinnae 4r-12-jug8e. Poliola 20-40-juga, oblonga v. oblongo-linearia,
obtusiuscula^
1-3 lin. longa, utrinciue villosa. Pedunculi breves nunc brevissimi. Mores
villosi'
Calyx 1 lin., corolla ad 3 lin. longa. Legumen crassum, sublignosum, dense villosissimum
2-21-pollicare, 7-8 lin. latum.
Eab, Tropical America :
New Granada, Linden n. 696, Tnana ; Caracas, Mrschel -
Venezuela, Fendler n. 2256.

« Arbor 25-30-pedalis.- Ramuli pube brevi ferruginea viUis longioribus
et petioli
intermixtis vestiti
Stipule breves, ad nodos floriferos more generis imbricatae. Foliorum petiolus
commuuis li-3 pollicaris'
pmn.e 1-2-pollicares Foliora latiora obtusiora et minus rigida
quam in C. Tweedii, supra
demum
,™.„..„
gncantia „..„„.„^, pdosav. demum scabro-pubescentia, subtus pallida, densius villosa,
costa sub-
centrali ondita; Pedunculi crassi, ferrugineo-villosi, nunc brevissimi v. vix ulli nunc
^
fere
semipolhcares. Calyx striatus, viUosulus, breviter dentatus.
Corolla limbus campanulatus
alte 5 fidus
...,. ..... ........
senceus stamina hand numerosa, 1 1 -pollicaria, basi breviter monadelpha.
subferrugini
Legumen villis
csetenim
•"" Microphylte. Fi,M mnlUjug^, rarins Una inde 2-Z.jug^.

,.
Foliola muUijuga,
parca, Imearm. Mores glahn v leviter
pilosuli .
87. C
PEOSiRATA, Benth., sp. n. Parce pilosa, prostrata,
ramosissima. Folia narva con
ferta; pmn» a-ljju,.
; foHola 8-12.jusa, vix lineam
breviter pedunculata. pauciflora. Calyx | lin., corolla vix 2 lin. longa.
longa, angu.ste lineal Tapi I
Sab. Tropical America ^ô^^^n iô
Le.'umen urn
iguotum.
: Peru, M'Lean in Serb. Soolc
Ramuli cra.i, rigidi, tortaosi, novelli pilosuli,
demum glabrati, albidi. Foliorum petiolus commuuis
— ——
CaUlnndra.li
MIMOSE^. 555
2-3 lin. longus, pinnae eadem longltudine. Foliola nitidula, vix hiuc inde ciliata, tenuia, conferta.
Capi-
tula cum foliis in raraulis brevissimls v. ad nodos foliates conferta,
pedicello tenui 1-2 lin. longo fulta,
4-6-flora. Stamina hand numerosa, semipollicaria, tube incluso.
88. C. MICROPHYLLA, Bentk ! in Eooh. Journ. Bot ii. 139 ; Lond. Journ. iii. 110.
Glabra v. vix puberula. Pinnae 15-20-jugge ; foliola 20-40-juga, oblongo-linearia, imbri-
cata, vix lineam longa. Pedunculi crassi, J-1-pollicares. Plores sessiles, glabri. Calyx
IJ lin., corolla 4 lin. longa. Legumen durum, 3-pollicare, 3-4j lin. latum, valvis inter
margines latos crassos glabros breviter velutinis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
JEah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo, Minas Geracs and Goyaz.
89. C. MYRioPHTLLA, Bentk. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 111. Sericeo-villosula v.

demum glabrata. Pinnae 10-20-jug8e; foliola 20-40-juga, oblongo-linearia, imbricatn,
1-11 liji. longa. Pedunculi crassi, poUicares. Flores glabri, exteriorcs breviter pedi-
cellati. Calyx IJ lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen sublignosum, 3-4-pollic'are, 3-4
w
lin. latum, undique glabrum, marginibus angustis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes and Goyaz.

:
Very near C. microphylla, h\ii, I believe, a distinct species.
90. 0. Peckoltii, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Pubescens. Pinnae 8-15-jug«»;
foliola 40-60-juga, angustissime linearia, linea breviora. Pedunculi tenucs, poUicc lirr-
Calyx | lin., corolla 1^ lin. longa. Stamina

viores. Tlores glabri, tenuiter pedicellati.
pauca. Legumen ignotum.
Bah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro.
Bot. ii. 139 Lond. Journ. iii. 107- Pilosula
91. C. BicoLOR, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. :
3-6-jug^; foliola 20-30-juga, linearia, nitida, 1-2 lin. longa.

V. glabrata. Pinnae
glabri. Calyx IJ lin., corolla 3 Im. longa.
Pedunculi li-pollicares. Plores sessiles,
2-3.pollicare, valvis inter margines angustos con-

Legumen pilis brevibus conspersum,
aceis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
in Hook. Bot. Misc. 202.
Ingaparvifolia, Hook, et Am. !
iii.
305, 306, ex ic. et descr.

Calliandra diademata, Lem. Jard. Fleur. t.
^
southern provinces of Brazil and on

South America
Hah. Tropical and subtropical
:
the Uruguay.
Benth. in Mart. Fl Bra.. Mra.
92. C. CKASSIPES, !
^^^'^^^'^''^TJy!Zu Z
petiolo crasso 4-8-juga.; foliola
multijuga, falcato-lineam, ^l'
^ ".•'"^^"'^'^J
'a
lin.
lin.
longus.
longa. PedLuli
CoroUa calycem
sub-3-pollica.es.
parum excedens. ^-^:Zr$^î^^^)

Legumen me ^ isi
S-pollicare, 4 lin. latum.

nosum, fusco-puljerulum,
Brazil, prov. Bahia and Mmas Geraes.^
Hai. Tropical America :
93. C. .L, BentU. !

in Moo,.. Lon,. Jou^f^. fZ'^Z^C^^
3hn^^
o^^^^.P^^
peûn-
25-40.juga, linearza. acu a 2
foliola -^^^^ ^^1^^^^^.
12-15.JUS.;
conferta v
culata, ad apices ramorum ^'^^'"^ \^^ numcrosissima. Ugumen
CoroUa Sj lin. lonâ.
Calyx linea paullo longior.
formse typiose ignotum.

Syst. iii- 141-
Acacia bella. Sprang.
Brazil, pror. Balna.
;
'
556 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE- MIMOSE^. ICalliandra.
Trianji, floribusque minpribus. 2i-3A-pollicarej4-5

Var. ? foliolis
margines
Sab, New Granada, Triana, Jervise, Schlim n. 783
m
Sericifl
brasiliemis
C. bella.
91. C.PuRDiî, Benth. ! in Kooh. Lond. Journ. iii. 104. Perrugineo-pubescens. PinngB
8-12-jugae; foliola 30-40-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusiuscula, ciliata, 2-3 lin. longa.
Pedunculi l-2J-pollicares. Plores sessiles, subglabri. Calyx 3 lin., corolla 6 lin. longa.
Legumen pilosulum, 3-pollicare, 4-5 lin. latum.

C. clavellim, Karst. Fl. Colomb. i. 159, t. 79 ex ic. et descr.
Sab. Tropical America : mountains of Ocana, New Granada, Purdie, Schlim n. 203
the same locality indicated by Karsten.
95. C. SUBSPICATA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim.. Glabra. Pinnae 2-4-jug9e ; foliola
multijuga, linearia, nitida, eleganter pectinata, 2-3 lin. longa. Capitula ovoideo-globosa,
sessilia v. breViter pedunculata, ad apices ramorum conferta v. breviter tbyrsoidea. Flores
subsessiles, glabri. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia
inflorescence of the following
series.
Series 5. E/ACEMOSiE.
Pinnae multi- rarius unijugse. Poliola multijuga. Petiolus eglandulosus. Capitula

pauciflora, in racemum tliyrsoideum seu paniculam terminalem apbyllam disposita.
96. C. Wendlandi, Benth., sp. n. Velutino-villosa. Pinnae unijugê ; foliola multi-

juga, linearia, falcata, 2-3 lin. longa. Bacemus elongatus, thyrsoideus. Plores pedi-
^^^^ ay.^±y.^x.
cellati, striffoso-sericei. Lesrumen crassum, villosissimum.
^v.5
Sab. Tropical America : Guatemala, Wendland
omnibus [ert pinnis unijugis.
Habitus indumentum inflorescentia flores et
legumina fere C. Houstoni. Foliorum petiolus commuuis 2-3 lin. longus, pinnae poUicares, foliolis con-
fertis. Filamenta purpurea, numerosa, 2|-3-pollicaria.
97. C. CALOTHTRsrs, Miq. in LinncBa, xxi. 251. Petiolis exceptis glabra. Pinn^
12-14-jugfTp, foliola 40-50-juga, oblonga, obtusiuscula, 2
; lin. longa, subtus pallida.
Inflorescentia semipedalis, terminalis, aphylla, glaberrima, apice
bracteis 3-4 lin. longis
comosa, basi ebracteata. Capitula breviter pedunculata, pauciflora.
Plores pedicellati,
glabri. Calyx f lin., corolla vix 3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America : Surinam, in mountainous woods near the river Mariepastor-
kreek, Kegels n. 1465 (Mlquel)
I liave not seen this plant, allied
species.
98. C. Houstoni, Benth. ! in SooL Journ. Bot. ii. 139 ; Bond. Journ. iii. 111. Fer-
rugineo-pubescens. Pinnae 7-11-jugiB ; foHola 30-50-juga, oblongo-linearia." subfalcata,'
3-4 lin. longa. Capitula pauciflora, breviter pedunculata, longe racemosa. Flores
: ;
3 MIMOSE^. 557
dpresso-villosi, breviter pedicellati. Xalyx latus, ad 2 lin., corolla 4-5 lin. longa
Legumen sub-4-pollicare, j poll, latum, crassmn, dense villosissimum.
Mimosa Houstoni, Lher. Sert. Angl. 30; Banks, Rel. Houst. t.26.
Acacia Houstoni, Willd. Spec. iv. 1062 ; Bot. Reg. t. 98.
Jnga Houstoni, DC. Prod. ii. 442.
Acacia metrosideriflora, Schlecht. Linnseaj xii. 567.
Sah. Tropical America Mexico, about Vera : Cruz and Jalapa.
to be distinguished from C. grandiflora by the fewer pinnae, rather larger leaflets and flowers,
Scarcely
and perhaps by a broader more densely villous pod.
been usual to add to the synonyms that of Gledifschia inermis, Linn. Spec. 1509, wliich, howcvrr,
It has
Linnsus took up the name and diagnosis from Duhamel, who had tlius designated
is scarcely correct.
the thornless varie

named
widely diflPerent plants
javanica, although nothingis known of itk^sidca the foliage of a
and taken up by DeCandolle as Acacia
appears to have taken hkhabitat and short d.xripUou. The
seedling from this source Linnseus
young ;
which indeed represents the C. Hondo,,',, hut ....

to Miller's excellent figure (Ic. t. 5),
other reference is"
through some inadvertence or mistake in copying.

quoted by Linnûs at second hand, or
only have been
Bot 139; Land. Journ. iii. HI.
GUANDIELOBA, Henth. ! in Hook. Journ, ii.
99 C oblongc
Pinn^ 15-25-jug^ foliola SO-GO-juga,
Ferrusineo- v. subrufescenti-pubescens. ;
uZfa, obtusiuscula, 2-24 Hn. longa.

glabrescentes, breviter pedicellati.
Capitula pauciflora,
^^V^^^^f^ Cal x ad Ii
adpresso-villosi v.
racemosa mores villosum.
3-4-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum, crassum,
lin., corolla 4
3-4^ Im.
lin. long
lon.a. Legumen
Mimosa grandiflora, Lher.
Colla, Hort. Bipul. t. 9.
Willd 1074 j
Acacia grandiflora,
Mim •
Linnsea
.^^^
CaUiandra Kmthn, iientn.m
and Guatemala, sent
.
by
xiuu...
numerous
n
•
^ collectors.
America Mexico :
Hab. Tropical
112. Pubescens Pinn. 12
f in Eooh Unci. Journ, iii.
100. C. PAKVirLORA, 'Bentl Capitula mmima, pa

30-40-juga, linearia scs.iles, glabri
juga, ; foliola '''"'^^'J^^J^lx,^,,^l^,. Florcs
ramulis peduncu
pule
ciflora, paniculata,
CrW^râHlin-louga.
paaiculis
^^^^^^
Leg grassura, lignosmn,
Stamina 10-12. ^
ulum, 24-pollicare, 4 lin. latum
Herb. Jî- -Dxct». - Buiiv
Acacia pachyloma. Mart. !
^ ^nd Matto-rosso
^Trojical America »a ... to.aU, ....
m..
are those of
:
^^^:^Z^Sr^.2
Mmosa
TUe habit and foliage
Albizzia, Durazz
XXIII.
PL 596. ,i,hout the fruit, from corrc^p-di.M

Benth. et Hook. Gen. i-
j^^
very difficuU d^^ ,,„, ,,^,,,,,,«,
large leaflets are g^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^,^
The species with un
proposes to marked as to
and F. Mueller
.... ..
species of Pitheco
r
^.......„7./..-.«, .
^f of oriority : but the differences

m irm. a.y
; ^
so strongly
^^^^^^
^.êr hga. The onlv
« bet^^^
pod of the two genera ^.^^,^ ,p„,,a
approach iu the ^^^^^ ^^^
whicn aie
tha and montana, groups
I
558 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Albizzia.
The peculiar hard infrafoliaceous hooks or prickles, sometimes reduced to conical tubercles, observable
in four species {A. pedicellata, A.' Millettii, A. rufa, and A. macrophylla) , appear to be rather more than
epidermal, but require further observation on the living tree.
Sectio 1. LOPHANTHA.
IPlores in spicis cylindraceis v. elongatis conferti v. dissiti
Series 1. Platyspermse. Species Amtro-Caledoniccej seminibus uhi nota planissimis

late orhiculatis.
1. A, Paivana, Fourn. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, xv. 172. Scandens, glabra. Pinn®
l-jugae ; longe petiolulata, ovali-oblonga, obtusa, 3-8-pollicaria. Spicee
foliola 2-3-juga,
interruptse, 6-10-pollicares. Elores sessiles, glabri. Calyx latus, linea brevior. Corolla
3-3J lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, n. 420.
I refer this toFournier's species on the authority of Vieillard^s specimens, in
which, however, the leaf-
lets are fuUy twice as large as those described by Fournier;
and the flowers are sessile, not pedicellate.
2. A. OBOVATA, Benth,, sp. n. Perrugineo-tomentella, foliis glabrescentibus. Pinn^
1-jiigcc ;
foliola 2-3-juga, sessilia, oblique obovata ovato-oblonga, obtusissima, Isete
v.
virentia, 2-3-pollicaria. Spicse elongatse, interrupts. Plores sessiles, ferrugineo-
pubcscentes. Corolla calyce vix diiplo longior. Legumen ad 8 poll, longum, fere pol-
licem latum.
Rab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, nn. 418, 2516 ; Beplanche, n. 347 ; Tancher, Mon-
trouzievt Balansa.
Hamuli juriiores petioli et inflorescentia pube v. tomento brevi ferruginef. Foliola prima juventute
pariter vestita, mox glabrescentia. Petiolus communis |-l-pollicaris; pinnarum rhaches l-li poll, long^
Glandule parvse. Foliola basi valde inaequilatera, costa cseterum subcentrali
pennivenia et tenuiter venu-
losa* Spicarum rhaches cum pedunculo 6-8
interrupt
Calyx campauulatus, 5-dentatus Corolla vix 4 lin. longa, latiuscula. Legumen basi
reticulatis
3.A. FULGENs, Benth. in Sooh. Loud. Journ. iii. 85.
Subglabra. Pinnae 2-4-jus^ "
foliola 3-4.juga, ex ovato oblongo-rhombea, basi

angustata, subsessilia, 1-2-pollicaria'
Spicse 2-4.pollicares, breviter pedunculatse. Flores sessiles, glabri.
Calyx \ liu corolla
ad 3 lin. longa, angusta. Legumen subsessile, 5-6-pollicare, 6-7 lin.
latum'' valvis
labris reticulatis.— iôwrw. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser.
4, xv. 173.
Acacia fulff ens, Labill. ! Sert. Austr. Caled. 68, t. 67.
A. cijclosperma, DC. Prod. ii. 456.
AJbizzia rivularis, Fourn. 1. c. 172, ex char.
Hab. New Caledonia, ZabUlardiere, Vieillard, n.
421, 423 424
LabiUardiere^s own specimens van^ in the number of pinn., 2, 3, or' 4, as well as in the breadth ..d
respects Fonrnier's A. rivulans must be intermediate
between ]
I can trace no other distinctive character
in his elaborate
diagnosis ^" ^-"^^^'^ = -''^«^*« cycwsperma was described from a specimen
^, , in Herb
^ entenat had probably from Labillardiere. The seeds are
about | in. broad, as in .
Caledonian species.
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMO&E^
55D
4. A. LENTisciEOLiA, Benth., sp. n. Perrugineo-tomentella, foliis mox glabrescentibus
Pmn^ 3-4-jugai ;
foliola 6-8.jiiga, late oblonga, obtusa, coriacea,
nitida, 6-9 lin
gidulse, 2-pollicares. Mores sessiles, minute tomentelli. Calyx
| lin., corona"
campanulata \\ lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. New Caledonia.
Partes novellas et inflorescentia 'tomento minuto ferrugine^, folia adulta glabra." Petiolus communis
rigidulus, l-l|-pollicarisj pinnarum rhaches tenuiores, 1-,2-pollIcarcs. Glatulula; inter pinnas parvro,
scutellatse. Foliola omnia opposita, sessUia, ultima ssepius basi injcquilatera et interdum
oboYali-oblonsa,
csetera ssepius subregulariter oblonga, ad 3 lin. lata, C9sta centrali
tenuitcr venulosa, utrinque nitida]
subtus vk pallidiora. Spicse in speeimine nostro 1 ^pollicarcs, dcnsiflora;, pcdnnculo
G-0 lin. lon-m
ferru Corolla latiusculc campanulata. Staniina corol!
duplo longiora, basi breviter monadelpha et ima basi cum corolla connata.
5. A, GRANULOSA, Benth. in SooTc. Bond. Joiirn. iii. 85. Pubernla, foliolis glaljratis.
Pinnae 4-7-jugse ; foliola 10-14-juga, rhombco-ovata v. oblonga, basi valdc obliqnn, Infore
interiore sub auric ulata, submembranacea, 4-6 lin. longa, soepe altcrna. Spjcic tcnues,
3-4-pollicares. Elores sessiles, subglabri. Calyx ^ lin., corolla 1\ lin. longa, angusta.
Legumen rectum v. curvulum, 6-8-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum.î^(??(rw hi Ann, Sc. Nat..
ser. 4, XV. 173.

Acacia granulosa^ Labill. ! Sert. Austr. Caled. 67^ t. (SQ.
Hab. New Caledonia^ Lahillardiere^ Vieillai^d^ n. 416.

• L
6. A. SUBFALCATA, Benth.^ sp. n. Pvufo-tomentella, foliis glabrcscentibns. P *
2-4-jugse ; foliola 6-12-juga, falcato-lanceolata, basi valde inacquilatcra, membran

nitidula, 6-9 lin. longa. Spicse elongatse, interruptse. Calyx pubescens, 1^ lin. loi
Corolla ignota. Legumen sub-8-pollicare, leviter falcatum, 6-8 lin. latum, ferrug
tomentellum, demum glabratum, reticulatum.

Hab. New Caledonia, Banch
longior. /'
Foliorum petiolus communis tenuis, semipedalis v.
glabra, falcato-acuramata, costa curra

per paria distantes. Glandule parv^ v. obsolete. Foliola saepius
subangidato fructifcrr
Calyces qui snpe sunt iis A. fulgentis multo môres

crassiuscula, rufo-tomeiitella,4-5-pollicaris.
corollas nee stamina vidi. , , -r v i T>t
lately received at tl... .lardm .1<> Plamc,,
collection,
Prom a hasty glance at the rich New-Calcclouian
there appeared to mc to be two or three additional ne^v species
'^
f^^'":^^-;';^-^;^^:^
Wlic
visitto Paris I had not time to examine and describe.
to the c
iomc
bable that some extension also will have to be given
scribed species have been distinguished.
v. Javan., ê^niuilm oratMlonr> cra»

Series 2. PacLyspem.. Mstralie«.e.
siu sculis
8-lO.jug. ;
stinete pedicellati.
foHola 20-40.jusa,
puterala, costa valde
lineana
excentrica.
Calyx
Fl- ^«*''-«''
ad
"•
1 lin.,
*-^-
coroUa
^^
2H
—
Sp«f,.=^f "^
Im. longa.
W'^^^^^^^^^^^
.'
^.
Le<»umeii
,
'
,,.
21-4
^°-
\>m. longum
,
Plan;**
"'
6-9 lin, latum, glabrum.--B«»//*. 4

VOL. XXX.
[^^^
560 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ.
Willd. Spec. iv. 1070 ; Bot. Reg. t. 361 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 716; Bot. Mag
I
Mimosa lophantha^ Pers. Syn. ii. 264.
Mimosa distachya, Vent. Hort. Cels. t. 20.
Mimosa elegans, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 563.
Acacia insigniSj Hoffm. Verz. ex DC.

Sab. Extratropical South-west Australia.
8. A. MONTANA, Benth. ! in FL Jungh. i. 267. Perrugineo-villosa. Pinnge 7-12-
jugae ; foliola 20-40-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusiuscula, 3-4 lin. longa, glabra v. subtus
sericeo-pilosa, costa valde excentrica. Spicae cylindraceae, subinterruptae, 2-3-pollicares.
Plores brevissime pedicellati, uti legumen omnino A. lopJianthce . Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat.
i. pars i. 29.
Tnffa montana, Jungh. Reise, 288, ex Miq.
Acacia montana, Jungh. ! in Tijdschr. Nat. Wet. i. 246.
Acacia saltuum, Jungh. ! in Bot. Zeit. 1845, 703.
Acacia vulcanica, Korth. Hort. Bogor. ex Plora, 1847, 705.
Albizzia Benthamiana, Blume in Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pars i. 30, ex char.
Hab. Tropical Asia : mountains of Java.

This is scarcely to be distinguished from A. lophantha except by the denser, more ferruginous indu-
distinctly
Sectio 2. Eu ALBIZZIA.
Flores in capitulis globosis v. paucifloris sessiles v. pedicellati. Staminum tubus
inclusus V. corollam breviter excedens. Semina ssapius (an semper?) planissima
orbiculata.
Series 1. Macrophyllse. JBinncB X-^jitgce.

I
Foliola amjjlay majora sesquipollicem
excedentia.
9. A. GLOMERiFLORA, S. Kuvz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 74. Puberula, gla-
brescens. Pinnae l-jugse ; foliola 3- rarius 2-juga, oblongo- v. subrbombeo-lanceolata,
breve mucronato-acuminata, 1-2-pollicaria, tenuiter et rigide coriacea. Pedunculi tenues,
fasciculati, paniculati. Plores sessiles, pubescentes. Calyx vix lin., corolla 1\ lin. J
longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. Tropical Asia : Martaban.
I have not seen this species. It must be very near A. lucida, but with smaller leaflets, much smaller
flowers, and the whole more pubescent.
10. A. LTJCIDA, Benth. ! hi Sook. Loud. Journ. iii. 86. Glabra v. pube rara conspersa.
Pinnse 1-jugse ; foliola saepius 2-juga, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, pennivenia, nitidula,
majora 2-4-pollicaria. Pedunculi tenues, fasciculati, paniculati. Plores sessiles glabri-
usculi V. puberuli. Calyx j lin., coroUa ad 3 lin. longa. Legumen 8-10-pollicare, 1-1 i
poll, latum, glabrum, nitidulum, vix venulosum.
Mimosa lucida^ Roxb. ! Fl. Ind. ii. 344.
Inga lucida, Wall. ! Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5267^ excl. litt. B
F pro parte. et
Eab. Tropical and subtropical Asia : Bengal, Silhet, and North-west India,
F
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 561

Ihe Javan specimens i reterred to this species in PL Jungh. are not in fruit, and on further com-
parison appear more probably to belong to Pithecohbkm bigemimm.
11. A. Jaubertiana, Fo^lm. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 381. Glabra. Pinn^
l-jugae ;
foliola 1-3-juga, longiuscule petiolulata, late oyata, obtusissima, coriacea, nitida,
li-3-pollicaria. Pedunculi elongati. Flores ignoti. Legumen 3-4-pollicare, basi bre-

viter contractum, 1-1^ poll, latum.
Hab. Madagascar Ambongo district,: Ferville.
12. A. SAPONARIA, Mume, in Miq, Fl. Ind, Bat. i. pars i. 19. Ecrruginco-tomcntolla,
foliis demum glabratis. Pinnae l-2-jug8e ; foliola 2-4-juga, petiolulata, oblique ovata r.
subrhombea, obtusa, majora 2-5-pollicaria. Pedunculi fasciculati, paiiiculnti. Florog
sessiles, breviter ferrugineo-sericei. Calyx l-lj lin. Corolla fere 3 lin. longa. Legu-
men subsessile, 3-4-pollicare, 1-1J poll, latum, tenuiter transverse rcticulato-vcnulosuiii.
Mimosa saponaria, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 653.
Inga saponaHa, Willd. Spec. iv. 1008.
Hab. Tropical Asia : Malayan archipelago.

was founded on Rumphius's description of his Cortex saponarim,
Willdenow and Loureiro's species
The above character is derived partly
Herb. Amb. iv. 131, accompanied by a rude unintelligible plate.
specimen of Teysmann's, communicated by Ilasskarl. \\hether ill
from Miquel, partly from a Javan
belong to one species is as yet very uncertain.
pars 20. Ferrugineo-tomentella. Pinnae

13. A. TOMENTELLA, Mq. I Fl. Ind. Bat. i. i.
oblique ovata v. obovata, acutiuscula.

2-4.juga^ ; foHola 3-6-juga, rhombeo-elliptica,
puberula, subtus pallida. Pedunculi tenues,
majora li-2-pollicaria, utrinque sparse
sericeo-pubescentes. Calyx 1 lin., corolla angusta
fasciculati, paniculati. Hores sessiles,
fere 4 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.

Hab. Tropical Asia : Malayan archipelago, Java.
U. A. KOTUNBAIA. BUme m Mn- Fl. Ind. Sat i. pars i 20 Al>

^-
'•'"'^"^L.'i^'
rotunaat.s,
magis Hrtello, fo >o hs potm,
maxime affinis, differt indumento baud sericante
stamineo non e^serto [M.quel).
pilis paging superioris sa=pe sulstellatis. tubo
New Guinea.
Sab. Tropical Asia
W
:
stellate ha>rs on any M...,a.

nor have I observed
I have not seen this species ;
m. pars 21.
15. A. S...,.KX..A, m,. Fl. B.t. i. i.
^^^^^ ]Z i
pubescentia. Capitula peau î^^^

utrinque tenere ^^^^ ^ ^^^.^^
brevior. I^gnmen
^^^_
Calyx multo
Corolla 14 lin. longa.
sessiles, pubescentes
8.pollicare, li poll, latum (if^'j^^Ô. ..
of Celebes
Celebes, ^.//%^^,
z. j ti. 1081
Salajen island, S.
TroDical Asia
Hab. Tropical Asia.
I have seen no specimen L
rf
Foliola phmj^'go, ot
.
ro a .arms S-dAjugcB.
Series 2. Obtusifofe. ^«^^7^'^^^'"^"^^^^^ glabrescente usque
sapius ^\l-pollicana {
•
V. ohlonga, obtusa, ,,,i,ccnlrall

i^cequMera, costa c^te.
^.poll.lbasi breviter .. panm .
4d2
—
562 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. lAlbizzia.
* Flores in capitulo pedicellati. JPedmicuU axillares v. hrevlter racemosi. Corollcs

scepius ad 3 lin. longce v. longlores {exce^ta A. glabrescente). Foliola pleraque pol-
long
16. A. Le Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 87. Glabra v. minute puberula
Pinnae 2-4-jug9Bj foliola 4-9.-ju^ oblique ovaK-oblonga, obtusissima, subsessilia, basi
deorsum latiora, |-2-pollicaria. Pedunculi lonsiusculi, fasciculatii, subr icemosi. Mores
pubescentes v. glabriusculi, breviter pedicellati. Calyx lJ-2 lin., corolla ad 3J lin. longa,
Legumen J-1-pedale, 1-1 J poll, latum, glabrum. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. 358 ; Bedd
Fl. Sijlv. t. 53.
Mimosa Lebhek. Linn. Snffio. 1503.
WiUd
Mimosa
Willd
r
Mimosa Sirissa, Roxb. ! Fl. Ind. ii. 544.

Acacia Sirissa, Ham. ! in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5265.
Acacia macrojjhylla, Bunge ! Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 20.
Alblzzia latifolia, Boiv. in Encycl. xix. Siecl. ii. 32.

Ingq, borbonica, Hassk. Ilort. Bogor. 291.
Inga leucoxylon, Hassk. in Flora, 1842, Beibl. ii. 103, Hort. Bogor. 292.
Mwos«/c^M05a, Eottl. ex W. et Arn. Prod. Fl. Penins. 275.
Sab. Tropical and temperate Asia and Africa from Senegal and Egypt to
Burmab
China, and Japan but in many places planted. Introduced also into the
;
West Indies
and South America. • ,
This species, as observed by Fournier, from the three following African ones in the leaflets
differs
havin«-
the lower side dilated at the base instead of the upper side ; but the character
can scarcely be carried
further, for in the subsequent species, with more numerous leaflets, the
dilatation is often equal, or some-
times rather broader on the upper, sometimes on the lower side, in difi'erent
parts of the same pinna.
Acacia Habbas, Link, Enum. "' "
Hort. Berd. ii. 444, is described as being
allied to A. Lebbek,^yf ith the
leaflets twice as large. know1 c Mimosea, and it is certainly not the Mimosa Habbas
Mimosa
17. A Welw. in Oliv FL Trop. Afr. ii. 359 Tomentoso-pubescens

Pinnae 2-4-jugoe ; foliola 3-6-j brevissime petiolulata, oblique obovali-ellipt
\
ob
tusa, basi sursum latio maj li-2-pollicaria Pedunculi fasciculati, long
Flores breviter pedicellati, pub Caly l*-3 lin oUa 5-6 lin. long
Legumen " 4-1 0-pollicare, \\- 2 poll, latum
ILab. Southern tropical Africa.
18. A. GLABRESCENS, Ollo. ! Fl. Tfop. Afr. ii. 357 Minute puberula, mox glabrata
Pinnae 1-2-j foliola 4-6-juga, breviter petiolulat oblique oblongo-rhomboidea
obtusa, basi sursum latiora, 1-2-polli Pedunculi pollicares, ad apices ramorum
breviter fasciculato-racemosi Plores puberuli, pedicellati Calyx 1 lin., coroUa 2h lin
long Legumen ignotum
Hab. South-eastern tropical Africa.
Foliola fere Macrophyllarum sed nuraerosiora et ssepe Inflorescentia A. procera accedit. sed
flores longiuscule pedicellati.
4
^^^'"'^'•] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 563
19. A. RHOMBiFOLiA, Benth ! in Sook Lond. Journ. iii. 87. Pubemla v. folia
o
brata. Pinnae 2-3-jug3e; foliola 3-6-juga, obovali-oblonga v. rhombea, obtusa,
culata, basi sursum latiora, majora l-li-poUicaria. Plores glabri, pedicellati. Calyx
1-1 lin., corolla ad 3 lin. longa. Legumea ignotum.— 0/iv. ! Fl. Trop, Afr, ii. 358.
Mimosa yluberrima, Sclium. et Thonn. ! Beskr. PI. Guin. 321.
Albizzia glaberrima, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 88.
Hah. Western tropical Africa.

Thonning's specimen, which I saw in Vahl's herbarium at Copenhagen in 1846, appeared to me to
differ in no respect from the other Senegambian ones except in being more glabrous; the young branches
and petioles are pubescent, and are so described by Thonning, notwithstanding the name.
** Flores in capitulo longiuscule pedicellati. Capitula in racemum mhcorymhoaani

disposita. Foliola infrapoUicaria.
20. A. RETUSA, Benth,! in Rook. Lond. Journ. iii. 90. Glabra v. inflorrscculin
tenuiter cano-puberula. Pinnae 4-6-jug8e; foliola 6-10-juga, obovato-oblonga, obtusa,

-pollicaria. Capitula pedunculata, subcorymbosa. Plores puberuli, pedicellati. Calyx
J-f
1 lin., corolla 3 lin. lonâ. Staminum tubus subexsertus. Legumen ignotum.
Hah. Tropical Asia : Philippine Islands, Cuming, nn. 1223 and 1593.
Aculci (v. spinie ?)
21. A. PEDICELLATA, Baker I in Hook. FL Bid. ined. Puberula.
solitarii, infrafoliacei, crassi, uncinati. Pinnse 4-10-jug8e ; foliola 15-20-juga, late ob-
Capitula peduuculata, subcorymbosa. Kores

longa, obtusissima, 6-9 lin. longa,-glabra.
pedicellati. Calyx IJ lin., corolla IV-rc
adpresse villosi, in rhachi liueari longiuscule
3 lin. longa. Legumen 8-pollicare, 2-2J poll, latum, avenium.
Hab. Tropical Asia : Malacca, Maingay. „ ,

Muucul. ,
«.u
Arbor procera. Aculei (an revera epidermales ?) m A. ruf,. aut A. MilkUii simile.
apicem versus pcduncdo, plunmo.

ram! floriferl apbylli, crassi, ferrugineo-pubesoentes, 6-8 -poUicares,
quoad fol.a I.aud I»>„a.
imperfectam ostendu.t, et
fasdculatos ferentes, specimira tameu infloresceutiam
speciebus convcxa tantum.
J lin. longa, nee ut in plerisque
Capitulorum seu spicarum rhachis 1-1
corolla 3-5 i,a lo,^^

v. .ubsemles
•»• mores m capitulo breoissirnhne pedieeUati
ad a,,ccs rancor.,. L, e.t.r
anllares, ad nodos fa^cicraati v.
Feaunouli Jonocephali,
7âce?nosi. . , ^^
centi-pubescens.
liter pubescentia, 6-9
pedicellati, yiUosi.
Pinn. 3-6-iug.;
Hn.
Calyx
longa
fere 2
I-^-^""
hn., corolla
^ ^S:,^X£r'£:::Z^^^
f4^»f ^"7;^,. V„,„,eu ^.C-poUicn-
Im. lon,a. o
Afr. n. 361.
i-1 poll, latum.— OZ«P. M. Trop.
In,afûginea, GuiU. et Perr. F'- ^^''S .' '^^ fructifera, n. 521.

!
specimina
Abyss, quo ^
Acacia malacophylla, Steud. ! m Schimp. PL i
Kioh. Fl. 376.

Inga malacophylla, A. ""^
So. Nat. scr. 4. xiv.
^'>y^'-]f'''^2
ioT loum. I,,,
AlU^zia malacophylla, Walp. Ann. n. - ;
^by ssm
Africa : Senegambia «°^ ^^^ ^^^.^^ ^ id en tit
Hab. Nortb tropical ^^^^^^ .__
perhaps
—
564 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Albizzia
23. A. vajAjIDA, Fourn. ! in Ann. Sc. Nat, ser. 4, xiv. 375. Pallide pubescens. Pinnae
5-7-jug9e ; foliola 8-20-juga, oblonga, obtusa, 6-9 lin. longa, pallida, glabrescentia. Pe-
dunculi axillares, subgemini. Plores brevissime pedicellati, sericeo-tomentelli. Calyx
IJ lin., corolla vix 3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum. Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 359.
Acacia malacophylla^ Steud. ! in Schimp. PL Abyss, quoad specimina florida, n. 1578.
Inga malacophylla ^ A. Rich. FL Abyss* i. 235^ pro parte.
Sab. North-east tropical Africa : Abyssinia.
Certainly very closely allied to A. ferrugmea^ but appears to be distinct in indumentum^ rather more
numerous pinnae and leaflets, and smaller flowers.
24 A. CORIAEIA, Welw. in Oliv. Fl.Trop. Afr. ii. 360. Perrugineo-pubescens~v. mox

glabrescens. Pinnae 3-6-jug8e ; foliola 6-11-juga, breviter petiolulata, elliptico-oblonga,
obtusa, ^l-poUicaria, glabrata. Pedunculi subfasciculati, axillares v. breviter racemosi.
Plores sessiles, puberuli. Calyx 2 lin. longus, ssepe basi circumscissus. Corolla 4 lin.
longa. Legumen 5-8-pollicare, 1-lJ poll, latum
Hab. Soutb-west tropical Africa, Welwitsch.
I have not seen tliis or the following species, and have taken their characters from diverts '
Flora.'
25. A. ANGOLENSis, Welw. in Oliv. FL Trop Afr. ii. 360. Breviter ferrugineo-pu
bescens. Pinnae 3-5-jug8e ; foliola 5-13-juga, sessilia, oblonga, v,û^.^«, 6-9
-,.., obtusa, w I, lin. lono>a
XXLX. XV^XJ.j3
utrmque pubescentia. Pedunculi axillares, breviter racemosi. Plores pubescent

subsessiles. Calyx 2 lin., corolla 4 lin. longa. Legumen 9-10-pollicare, lJ-2 poll,
latum.
Hah. Soutb-west tropical Africa, Welwitsch.
ANTHELMiNTiCA, A. Brongn. in Bull. Soc, Bot. Fr. vii. 902.
26. A.
Glabra v. junior
vix minute puberula. Pinnge 2-3- (rarius l-4-)jugffi ; foliola 2-3- (rarius 4-5-)juga,
obovata suborbiculata, obliqua, tenuia, pleraque J-1-pollicaria.
v.
PeduncuH axHlares^v.
ad nodos vetustos breves fasciculati. Flores glabri, brevissime pedicellati.
Calyx l-l^
lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen 2-6-pollicare, 4-9 lin. latum.— 0/eV. Fl Trov Afr
/" ^
•
ii.357.
Besenna anthelmintica, Fourn. These Inaug. cum A. Rich.
ic. ; ! Fl. Abyss, i, 253.
Albizzia florihunda, Kotschy, in Schweinf. Rel. Kotsch. 4.
5, t.
Hah. East tropical Africa : Abyssinia, and Cordofan to tbe Zambesi.
*** Flores sessiles brevissime pedicellati, parvi, corolla 2 v.

v.
rarius fere 3 lin longa
FeduncuU tenues, fasciculati, in imflorescentia aphylla
paniculiformi scepius nume-
'
roslj brevinsculi (Parviflorse),
27. A. CAÊSCE^s, Benth. I FL Austral, iim. Sericeo- v. canescenti-pubescens. Pinn^

2-3.jugae 5-8-juga,
foliola oblique obovata, obtusa, |-1
;
J-poUicaria, pinnarum infe
lorum pauciora mmora. Inflorescentia panicuHformis,
foliis brevior Plores sessiles
sericeo-pubescentes. Calyx 1 lin., coroUa vix 2^ lin. longa.
Legumen S-lO-pollicare!
IJ-z^ poll, latum.
Hali. Tropical North-east Australia.
28. A. PROCERA, Bern. ! in Hooh. land. Joum. iii. 89. Sericeo-puberula, demura
glabrescens. Pmnae subtrijugte; foliola petiolulata, 6-8-juga, oblique ovali-oblonâ.
! • .
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 565
obtusa; subpollicaria, costa excentrica a margine distante. Inflorescentia paniculiformi

foliis brevior. Flores sessiles, puberuli. Calyx 1 lin., corolla yix 2 lin. longa. Legumen
5-7-pollicare, J-1 poll. Mum.—Benth. FL Austral ii. 422; Brand. For. Fl. 175, t. 26
Mimosa procera, Roxb
Acacia procera^ Willd
«
Mimosa elata. Roxb.

in Wall. Cat. Herb
Mimosa
Sab. Tropical Asia eastern provinces of India, Burmah,
: the Archipelago, and appa-
rently the same on the north coast of Australia.

Adenanthera falcataria, Linu. Spec. 550, A.falcata, Willd. Spec. ii. 550, taken up from Rumphius't
figure, Herb. Amb. iii. t. Ill, is probably an Alhizzta nearly allied to, if not identical with, A.proeera.
29. A. ODOEATissiMA, Setith. ! in Book. Lond. Journ. iii. 88. Minute pubcrula. Pinna)
3-8-jug£e; foliola 8-25-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusa, 6-9 lin. longa, pube minima con-
costa saepius excentrica sed a margine distante.

spersa v. canescentia, rarius glabra,
Flores sessiles, pubescentes. Calyx \'ix scmiiinfarn
Inflorescentia paniculiformis.
Legumen semipedale et longius, 1-li poll, latmu,
excedit; corolla fere 3 Hn. longa.
glabrum v. minute tomentellum.
Corom. PI. 12. 120.
Mimosa odoratissima, Roxb. !
ii. 1.
Acacia odoratissima, Willd. Spec. iv. 1063.
micrantha
Ceylon, the Indian peninsula, and NortW-st
Sal. Tropical and subtropical Asia :
India Cualpara,
the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, from .,
Ind. ii.547, brought to
Mimosa teto™, Eoxb. Fl.
glabrous form of A. odoratmma.
imperfectly described as to foliage only, may be a
A„^ w /L<\1 •Fir i„ ±o m

Folia et inflorescentia A. oioratksi m,
30. A. QUARTKJIANA, Walp. Ann. u. 457.
Flores ig Legumen 6-10-pollicare, H poll. latum.-Oft.. / Fl. T, op. 4f> " ^'>
%a auar/mana, A. Rich. ! n. Abyss, i. 235.
11 North-east tropical Africa :

Abyssmia,
a-J^^-£f- pecimeni
our
of the East-Indian A. odoratissima. I-
374 Puberula, Pinnje S-jugsc

Nat. ser. 4- riv
31. A. ELLIPIICA,
ELLiPiiCA, Foum. «
Foum.m Ann.
^nn. So.
ov. ..
»
•
^ttcnuata, costa obliqua, subtu.
8 12-juga, elliptica, basi medium corolb-

foliola ^«f'^'^..f**""..
solitaj ,
. ^,î. Caly^
axillares
aU-: ;m:r P;d:ncull elonâti.
poUicem atum fere gla ^^^
^^^
W
Legmen 3-4-pollicare,
d--fc-puixi^«-,
Lerans.
superans
Derans. XiCgumen ^
^n1iimt>er. n. 1087
Africa Abyssima^^f^^ "^^^^^^^^^
^
Mm. North
Eab. I. oru.-ca». tropical :
,.^^ ^^^ p^^„,ai„g, very

ery near
^^^^ ..
^^
A. »»..»....."-
odoratisshm.
..J.™-
specimen. It pro y.
I have seerL no ^ ^j^^j^ ^^^„^,,
^^ ^^^^^
32. A. MiLLETTii,
^.«Â- i^ •'
Tmn^ 3-6.jug^ foUola «n-
^f-.^'^'f^/Zsmt
^°Waru '*P^
;
sub foliis glabra, costa ,ubcentr«li

Aculei crassi uncinati ^trfnûe
obtusa, ob iqua, linea brevior, corolb.
juga. obovato-oblonga, ^Jf"- ^^„^^. Calyic
102.
Morescentia paniculiformis. ^l°f/^™iU._5.«rt. Fl. Hon,!:.
vix 2
Mimosa
lin. longa. I^S--^'^
corniculata, Lour.
Fl.
^f Pf
Cochinch. £ ^J 6ol, dlcr'.
566 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEiE. lAlUzzia.
Ccesalpinia lebbekoides, DC. ! Prod. ii. 483.
Hab, Tropical Asia : South China, Macao, and Hong Kong.

33. A. BUPA, Benth. I in Sooh. Lond. Journ. v. 101. Tomento rufo pnbescens. Aculei
crassi uncinati suh foliis solitarii saepe adsunt. Pinnae 4-6-jug8e; foliola 8-12-juga,
obovata v. obovato-oblonga, obtusa, obliqua, 6-8 lin. longa, appresse pilosa, costa sub-
centrali. Inflorescentia paniculiformis. Plores sessiles, villosi. Calyx linea brevior.
r
Corolla vix2 lin. longa. Legumen 4i"6-pollicare, IJ-IJ poll, latum, glabrum, glaucum.
Acacia ir^fa, Hassk. ! Hort. Bogor. 290,
_ ^
Hah. Tropical Asia : Java.
***** Species Australienses, pinnis 1-2-Jugis, petiolo hrevi. Capitula in axillis pedim-
cidata. Flores parm, sessiles, staminihus corolla hand duplo longioribus (Brachy-
stemones). .
34. A. Thozetiana, F. Muell. ! in Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 422. Glabra v. junior cano-
pubcrula. Pinnae 1-jugae ; foliola 2-3- rarius 4-juga, cuneato-oblonga v. late linearia,
obtusissima, paris ultimi ^1-pollicaria, csetera multo minora. Elores minute cano-pube-
M
ruli. Calyx fere lincam, corolla IJ lin. longa. Legumen 6-8-pollicare, J-f poll, latum,
coriaceum. #
Acacia Thozetiana^ F. MuelL Fragm. iv. 9. !
Hab. North-east tropical Australia.

c
35. A. BASALTIC A, Benth. I Fl. Austral, ii. 422. Minute ferrugineo-puberula. Pinnse
1-2-jugyD; foliola 5-10-juga, oblonga v. fere ovata, obtusissima, 2-3 lin. longa, coriacea,
cano-pubcrula. Elores puberuli. Calyx 1 lin., corolla \\ lin. longa. Legumen ad
3 poll, longum, 4-5 lin. latum, coriaceum.
Acacia basaltica, P. Muell. ! in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 146.
Hah. North-east tropical Australia. •
Utikik***
Species Madagascarienses a me
36. A. rurvPUREA, Boiv. ex Fourn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 378. Glabra v. glau
cescens. Pinnae 2-jugaB; foliola 3-5-juga, ovali-lanceolata, pollicaria. Pedunculi fasci
culato-paniculati. Legumen fere pedale, 1-1^ poll, latum.
Hah; Islands of Comores and Nossi-Be, Boivin. •
37. A. BoiviNi, Fourn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 378. Glabra. Pinnae 2-4-juj?«
foliola 4-5-juga, summa quadrangularia, li-pollicaria, inferiora minora, rotundata
supra lucida. Pedunculi axillares. Plores glabri. Corolla calyce duplo lono-ior Leo'u
en ignotum.
Hab. Madagascar, Gulf Diego-Suarez, Boivin
38. A. viRiDis, Fourn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 377. Pinnee 8-jugse ; foliola 5-9-
juga T. numerosiora, basi inaequaliter truncata, glabra, infra pallida. Legumen 4-pollicare
obtusum. •
Hab. Madagascar? JDupetit-Thouars.

39. A. POLYPHYLLA, Foum. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 372. Subferruirineo-tomen
] MIMOSE.E. 567
tosa. Pinnae 25-30-jUg8e ; foliola permulta, linearia, parva, supra nigricantia, utriiKûe
pubescentia. Legumen 6-7-pollicare, 2> poll, latum, longe stipitatum, ferrugineo-to-

mentosum.
Saf). Madagascar : Diego-Suarez, on the north coast, Bernier.
Series 3. Microphyllse. Finnce multijugce. Foliola multijiiga^ parva (1-3 tin. longu\
scepius falcatUi casta suhcentralL
40. X. h:iiiKKkiBow, in Encycl. XIXSiecl.il. Puhescens. Pinnnp 7-12-jugap; foliola
20-40 juga, oblongo-linearia, recta v. subfalcata, obtusiuscula, 1 J-3 lin. louga, pubcrula v.
subsericea, costa subcentrali. Pedunculi ad nodos ssepius fasciculati. ilores sc^ silos,
puberuli. Calyx 1 lin., corolla ad 2^ lin. longa. Legumen 5-S-polHcaro, J-li poll, latum,
tomentoso-puberulum v. glabratum.— OZiw. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 356.
Mimosa
r
Willd
WigUiana, Grah. ! in Wall
Wightii, W. et Arn. Prod. ]
Mimosa
Grah. ! in Wall
sphala, Fenzl
A. sericocephala, f'enzu ! m riora,
in Flora, 1844
xo'*^, ox-*..
.
u rv . «i. «
i r r
Lond. Journ. m. 91 Schwemf. Rel. Kotscb. 6, t. ., C.
Albizzia sLocephala, Benth. ! in Hook. ;
Bicli. Fl. Abyss, i. 236.

Inga sericocephala; A.
ScNat. ser.4,xiv.371. ...
^/ii^rtafl#m5, Fourn.inAnn. ^ ^ ,„ ..^
East-Indian peninsula, Cordofan, and Abyssinia.
Sab Tropical Asia and Africa :
Jmrn. 90. Pubescens. Aculei

f in Eooh. Lond.
iii.
41. A. MYRIOPHYLLA Benth
"• 15-18-jug^ foliola 20-50.jugo,
"'r^T
foils am
solitarii
oli s^pe
sa3p6 adsunt.
aa Pinn^ ;
crassi uncmati sub f oli s

subcentralL Pedun-
oblongo-linearia, subfalcata, 1-2 rarms 3 Ixn.
^-^^^^^^
parvi. ca ^^^^^^ ,d
sessiles, puberuli, j ,
paniculati. Piores
culi fasciculati,
2 lin. Legumen
longa.
4-6-pollicare, ^l poll, latum.
Mimosa micr
Wall
A.foliolosa,Gr^h.\ /. c. n 5341.
of India.
p^.tern provinces
4.2.A.^YmJ.^vcA,Olw.!FLAJ^^^^p ûbtus pallida v. canesccntia, costa

acuta, 2-^ pub...
ad 20.juga, lineari-falcata,
Peduuculi lu axiUis supeHori '^Mns fasciculati. Plorcs senile.,
parum excentrica
T^nvnirv. .^.«r.t.r,Va.
Legumen ignotum
lin. long
centes. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2-2i
Fl. Cap. ii. 284.
A. pallida, Harv. in M' Cahe.
Vcami,
„earUkeN„am,
tropical Africa :
Hub. Southern .„„,,„.,

plus mill'"
,.•• ^ Miola 10- muUijuga, J'
P««« 2- m««i/«^^;_ Fedmcunfa>ck.!"l.

Series 4. Palcifofe. J^^___^.
snpe^ ^ri
^^^^^.^^^
excentrica v. margim
scepius acuta, costa Ide
axillares v. breviter from the margin than the others, and ^

the midrib more
The first two species have
Julibrissin
' ^' ' leviter puU-rula
a,;
u- 359
^^^- Glabra v.
FL Trop. Afr. ^^
OUv
43. A. SCHIMPERIANA,
VOL. XXX.
;;
I
568 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [AlbizzlA.
PinncB4-5-jiig8e; foliola 11-20-juga, oblongo-subfalcata, oblique acuta, 5-8 lin. longa,
costa valde excentrica a marline tarnen distante. Pedunculi axillares. Tlores ignoti.
Legumen subsemipedale, 1-lJ poll, latum, longiuscule stipitatum

Hal), North-east tropical Africa : Abyssinia.
M. A Benth. ! in HooJc. Lond. Journ. iii. 89. Tomentoso-pubes

mox glabrcsceus. Pinnae 3-8-jug9e ; foliola 20-30-juga, subfalcato-oblonga, acutiuscula
»
6-9 lin. longa, coriacea, glabra, supra nitidula, subtus glaucescentia, costa valde excen^
trica a margine tamen distante. Capitula subpaniculata. Flores parvuli, subsessiles.
appresse pubescentes. Legumen breviter stipitatum, 4-6-pollicare, j-1 poll, latum
Acacia lebbekoides, DC. Prod. ii. 467; Dene., Herb. Tim. Descr. 133.
Hab. Tropical Asia : Java, Timor. >
When I saw this plant in De Candolle's Herbarium I thought it might be a variety of ^. odoratissima
but on comparing the specimens both from Timor and Java^ received from the Leyden Herbarium^ I am
inclined to think that the form and venation of the leaflets^ Avhich are^ moreover^ perfectly glabrous^ are
sufficient to keep it distinct.
45. A. PoRBESii, Bentli. ! in Kooh. Lond. Journ. iii. 92. Velutino-pubescens. Pinngg
2-4-jug8B ; foliola 10-15-juga, falcato-oblonga, obtusa, 2-4 lin. longa, coriacea, utrinqûe
rufo-sericea v. supra glabrata, costa submarginali. Pedunculi axillares. Plores sessiles,
rufo-scricei. Calyx \-\\ lin., corolla Z-Z\ lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hah. Subtropical soutb-east Africa : Delagoa Bay, Forbes.
The small obtuse leaflets distingish this from all other species with the marginal midrib.
46. A. JuLiBRissiN, Burazz. in Mag. Tosc. iii. pars iv. (1772) 11, ex F. Muell. in Trim.
Journ. Bot. 1872. Glabra v. moUiter pubescens. Stipulse lineares. Pinnge 7-11-jugai
foliola 20-40-juga, falcata, acuta, 4-6 lin. longa, costa margini contigua. Pedunculi
fasciculati, axillares v. subracemosi. Plores sessiles, puberuli v. sericei. Calyx 1-lJ lin.,
corolla 3-4 lin. longa. Legumen 4-6-pollicare, poll, latum.— 0/iv. Fl Trop. Afi\
f-1
356
Mi
Willd
Mimosa arborea, Tbunb. Fl. Jap. 229 ; Kampf. Ic. Sel. 19 Gmel. Reise, M
t. ; t. 40 : Forsk. Fl.
Arab. 177.
•J
M. yjeciosa, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 336,

Acacia Nernu, Willd. Spec. iv. 1065.
Mimosa Nemu, ?oir. Diet. Suppl. i. 69.
Var. MOLLIS, undique molliter pubescens.
Acacia mollis, Wall. ! PL As. Ear. ii. 7Q, t. 177.
Albizzia mollis, Boiv. in Encyl. XIX Siecl. ii.
Acacia Isembergiana, Schimp. ! PI. Abyss. Exs.

Tngalsembergiana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 236.
Albissia Isembergiana, Foumier in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 373.
Sab. Subtropical and temperate Asia, from Persia
to China and Japan, also North-east
tropical Africa Abyssinia, but frequently planted
:
introduced also into tbe Mediterranean ;
region and many parts of America.
47. A. STIPULAIA, Boiv. in Eiieycl. XIX Sled ii. Pubescens. Stipula, amplre, mem-
f
Alhizzia.']
MIMOSE.E 509
branacese, caducissim^. Pinnse 7-10-jug8e; foliola 20-40-juga, lincari-falcatn,

acuta,
3-5 lin. longa, costa margini contigua. Pedunculi breves,
axillares v. racemosi. Ploro^
sesiles, sericeo-puberuli. Calyx 1-lJ lin, corolla 2^-3 liu. longa. Lcgumen 3-6-polli.
care, 9-10 lin. latum, inter semina saBpe transverse secedens.— J5^?^. Fl. IIongkA02\
Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 55.
Mimosa stipulata, Eoxb. ! Cat. Hort. Beng. 40 [M. stipulacea, Fl. Ind. ii. 549).
Acacia stipulata, DC. Prod. ii. 469.
Arthrosprion stipulatum^ Hassk. Retzia^ 212.
Mimosa marginatay Lam. Diet. i. 12.
Acacia marginata^ Ham. in Wall. Cat. Herb.
! Ind. n. 5243.
Acacia lomatocarpay DC. Prod. ii. 467.
Inga umbraculiformis, Jnngh. in Flora, 1847, 508.
Mimosa Smithiana, Roxb. ! Fl. Ind. ii. 550.
Acacia SmithianayWdlL I Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5237.
9
Acacia arrophula, Wall. 1. c. 5257, non Don.

Inga purpurascens, Hassk. in Flora, 1842, Beibl. ii. 103, Ilort. Bogor. 291.
. Albizzia purpurascens, Blume, ex Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pars i. 28.
Hah. Tropical and subtropical Asia: Ceylon and the Peninsula to Nepani, Klinsin,
Burma, Soutli China, and the Archipelago.

T linrl fnn-nprlv nn tlifi aiitlioritv of Wiirlit and Amott, referred Lamarck's^, mnrmnnta io A.offfrrrr-
hfiry
The
(Waff a, Rheede, Hort. Malab
Arthrosprion, the breaking-up of the pnrl into mmio
and showing so rarely on dried specimens uf upparn.tk n,-
spermous articles, is so very vague a one,
pods, that I formerly thought he must have alluded to the Acacia concinna, m wlilch tl.e depuration of tl.n
but on studying his description, it i. evident he \md

pod into articles seems to occur at least as frequently ;
the true A, stipulata in view.

Sectio 3. Zygia
sessiles v, brevissime pedicellati. Staminum tubus tentiiH

Elores in capitulis globosis
spiraliter tortus, filamentis apicc 1)n.vitor hhem.
corolla pluries longior, in alabastro
Pin n 2-3- rnnun
362. Glabra r. pubcrula. -.
48 A. Beownei, Oliv. ! FL Trap. Afr. ii.
rliombeay.o1)OTata,™joml,-^3-polli nria. P
4-jug£e; foliola 3-5-juga, oblique
fasciculati, axillares ad apices V

ramorum
ad
breviter
poll,
raccmos,.
latum.
Calyx 1 ^ l.n., coroll
3^ Un. longa. Legumen 4-6-pollicare, 1
Mem. Leg. 440, 63.

Inâ zyffia, DC. !
t.
Walp. Rep. i. 928.

Zyffia Brotmei,
Hab. West tropical Africa. .
Tinn..
w; Trnn Afr n.6362. Glabra v. cano-piibcrula.
49. A. Welwitschii,
r,,-
Oh^. ! FL T^ ,
op. AJ,. ii
ovato „,,,„„go.rtombca, mr-jora 1-2

4-8-juga, oblique
3-4- rarius 5.jug=e ; foliola
breviter racemosi.
^^^^J
Caljxn.ll. /^^^ ^ ,^
Ûicaria.
polli Pedunculi axUlares v.
long Legumen 4-5-poUicare, |-1 poll

Schweinf.
was. tropical Africa

west uop. ^^.-^
.St ana
Sab. East and .
Pinn-
„ ^^^ ^^,^,_, ^ ^^ puborula.
A
50. A. PETEESI.A.NA,
Peteksi.\>a, w---
Oho., -J
^
---y
ti. J-iop.
„w„c.
obtusa. i lin. V. maiora,
4-61in.lon!rfiv.maiora,ranu
A-R lonsa ranu' ,ul)-
4.jug=B. 3-6-jusa,
Foliola
obovato-rhombca, . ^^^^
:
570 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. [Albizzia.
poUicaria. Pedunculi tenues, fasciculati. Mores distincte pedicellati. Calyx vix 1 lin.,
corolla ad 5 lin. longa. Legiimen ignotum.

Zygia Petersiana, BoUe in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. i. 1. 1.
Hah. South-east tropical Africa.

51. A. FASTiGiATA, Olw. ! Fl. Tvop. Afr. ii. 361. Perrugineo-puberula. Pinnae 4-7-
jugae ; foliola 8-15-juga, ovato- v. oblongo-rhombea, obtusa, 4-6 lin. longa. Pedunculi
axillares v. Calyx lJ-2 lin. longus.
ad nodos fascicnlati. Corolla 3-4 lin. longa. Legu-
men 4-6-pollicare, 1-1J poll, latum. -
Zygia fastigiat ay E. Mey. Comm. PI. Afr. Austr. 165.

!
Inga fastigiatay Steud. Nora. Bot. ed. 3.
Mimosa adianthifolia , Schum. et Thonn, ! Beskr. PL Guin. 322.

Willd
Mimosa
Hob, Tropical and South-eastern subtropical Africa to the Natal district ; and, appa-
rently the same, Madagascar, Commerson,
52. A. BRACHYCALTX, OUv. ! FL Trop. Afr. ii. 361. Puberula. Pinnae 4-7 -jug^.
Eoliola 8-15-juga, ovato- v. oblongo-rhombea, 3-5 lin. longa. Pedunculi tenues. Plores
distincte pedicellati. Calyx \ lin., corolla 3-4 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.— Qiânt in
Tratis. Linn. Soc. xxix. a
t. 37.
Sab. North-east tropical Africa : Lake Victoria Nyanza, Speke and Grant.
XXIV. PiTHECOLOBiUM, Mart

Hook
The pod in this genus is almost as much diversified as in Acacia, often very different in species otherwise
closely allied, and in many species as yet unknown. The following sections, therefore, already somewhat
modified from those I had formerly proposed, may require some further alterations as the snecies become
=f
better known
Sect. 1. Unguis-cati. Stipulae plurimse v. omnes spinescentes. Pinnse l-juga v. in^qualiter 2-jugffi.
Foliola 1- paucijuga. Legumen valde curvatum v. circinatum, valvis post dehiscentiam contortis.
camosam expansus. Species 1-12, omnes Americanse, una in orbe vetere
inquilina.
Sect. 2. Clypearia. Inermes. Pinnae 1- paucijugse. Foliola 1- paucijuga, ampla. parva

prumoso) circinatum
P. bubalino), valvis post dehiscentiam flexuosis v. contortis. Seminum funiculus hand dilatatus.-Species
omnes
Scries 1. Sessiliflor(e. Species 13-29.
Series 2. Pedicellatce. Species 30-35.
• t
Sect. 3- Abaremotemo. Inermes. Pinnae 1- plur multijuga rarius l-juga

axillares Legu
contortis. Seminum funiculus hand dilatatus. Species 36-53, omnes Americans.
Sect. 4. Samanea. Inermes v. rarissime spinae axillares. Piunee pluri- rarius l-jugse. Foliola uni-,
pauci- V. multijuga. PeduncuU axillares v. paniculati. Legumen planum v. subteres, '
indehiscens v!
tortas ^^^^^^^^«' ^^^c articulatum. Series prima amphigaa, esters omnes Ame-
iricanse. Species 54-81.
Series 1. Subarticulat(B. depre
monospermos divisiun. Pedunculi axillares v. raceraosi. Species 54-62.
I
Pkhecolobium.} MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 571

Series 2. Carnos^. Legumen crasso-carnosum, compressum v. teres, continuum v. moniliforme, nee
articulatum. Pedunculi axillares v. breviter racemosi. Species 63-69.
Series 3. Coriacea. Legumen planum, coriaceum, continuum. PeduncuU axillares v. breviter race^
raosi. Species 70-76. *
,
Series 4. ParviflorcB. Legumen planum, tenuiter coriaceum, continuum, Capitula parva, racemoso-
paniculata. Species 77-81.
Sect. 5. Ortholobium. Stipulae spinescentes. Pinnae 1- plurijugse. Fc urijuga. Legu-
num rectum Species 82-86, omnes Amcricanoe.
Sect. 6. Caulanthon. Inermes. Pinnae 1- rarius plurijugae. Foliola paucijuga, ampla, rarius pluri-
juga et minora. Legumen planum, rigide coriaceum, rectum v. arcuatura, Spicae breves v. elongatce, ftd
nodes ramorum defoliatorum aggregatse. Species 87-102, omnes Americanse.
Sect. 7. Chloroleucon. Spinse bine inde axillares solitarise v. geminse. Pinntt 2- plurijugie. Foliola
5- multijugaj parvula. Spicae ad axillas pedunculatse. Flores tenues, glabri. Legumen planum, cori»
subcamosum, rectum v. curvum Species 103-108, omnes Amcricanae.
Sectio 1. TJnguis-cati.
Stipule spinescentes v. rarius 0. Pinnae l-jugge v. inaequaliter 2-jugae. Toliola
Glandula inter pinnas. Pedunculi axillares v. supc

paucijuga, cujusve paris gequalia.
omnes racemosi v. paniculati. Flores glabri v. pubescentes. Legumea valde
interdum 2-3-gyrosum, valvis planis v. convexis, post debis-

curvatum v. circinatum,
centiam valde contortis, intus rubentibus (et pulposis ?). Seminum funiculus apice in
coloratum dilatatus (excepto P. paraguensi).

arillum carnosum
* S;plG(B ovoidece ohlongcd v. elongate.
EooJc. Land. Journ, v. 105, non ejmd. I c, m. 198.

1. P. MACEOSTACHYUM, Beuth. ! in
oblongo-lanceolata, falcata,
Pinnae l-jug^; foliola l-juga,
corolla 4-5 Im.longa. Stammum
f'^'^'^''^'^^^ tuln.
pedunculique pluripolHcares. Calyx li-2 lin.,
longissime exsertus. Legumen ignotum. nr knsu

brachystachya, uti
,.
„
a DC, lapsu cahmi
calami,
, Tr Ci f T?oi
Eel. m.
\\\ q4<
6^, t
t. ô, nee M.
26 i^. y
Mimosa macrostachya, Vahl!
citatur.
437
Cayenne, v, Bohr,
T f
'
TT ..h Tt^rnl Pinute l-iu":ae ; foliola l-juga, obliqi
ovato-oblonga, obtusa v. «^*--;^™^:' ôroUa 2-3 Hn. long

Flores
^''S^^^^ f lin.,
Spic^ tenues, 1-3-polHcares. V^^^f\^'^^^^^^^
valvse eoriacco..
Leo-uminis
Jêg
exsertus v. subinclusus.
Staminum tubus
Mimosa ligustrim, Jacq. Fragm. 29,
v»mu. Spec.
Willd. iv. 1007
^t iy», ext
Lond. Journ.ui.
',,
Mimosa lanceolata, roir. ^^^'" ^ rr v. lOo.

Journ.
s
Pithecolobium lanceolatum,
Benth. !
m Ho^.
and Central Amenca
1 1.^0^^^^^ ^^^ Granada,
America : Cayenne, Vene
Rah. Tropical
Vera Cruz
f
! ;
572 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. IPithecohbmm.
3. P. HYMENE^FOLiuM, Benth. I in Sooh. Lond. Joiim. iii. 198. Pinnae l-jugse

foliola 1-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusa v. obtuse acuminata, 2-4- rarius 5-pollicaria,
glabra. Spicse densissimgej oblongsc v. cylindracesBj l-S-pollicares. Elores appresse pubes-
centes. Calyx vix 1 lin., corolla fere 6 lin. longa. Staminum tubus longe exsertus.
t
Inga hymenemfolia Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1008.

^ !
Mimosa hymenecBfolia^ Poir. Diet. Siippl. i. 38.

Pithecolobium panamense, Walp. ! in Linnsea, xxiii. T46.
Hab. Tropical America : Venezuela, New Granada, Panama.
4. P. OBLONGUM, Benth. ! in SooJc. Lond. Journ. iii. 198. Pinnae 1-jugae ; foliola 1-juga,
oblique ovali-oblonga, 1-2-pollicaria, glabra. Pedunciili tenues. Spicae novelise fere
globosse, demum tenues, J-| poll, longa. Calyx \ lin., corolla fere 2 lin. longa. Sta-
minum tubus subinclusus. Leguminis valvae ante dehiscentiam planae, ad 4 lin. latse,
demum valde contortae.
Rah. Tropical America : Panama, Cuming, n. 1155, Seemann, Duchassaing ; Gulf of
Ponscca, Sinclair ; Nicaragua, (Ersted ; and appparently the same, Trinidad, Crueger.
** Capihila glohosa.
a V
5. P. DULCE, Benth. in Sooh. Bond. Journ. iii. 199. Inflorescentia cano-pubescente

excepta, glabrum. Pinnae 1-jugae; foliola 1-juga, obovata v. oblonga, obtusa, valde
obliqua, subpoUicaria. Capitula breviter pedunculata, superiora paniculato-racemosa.
Plorcs cano-pubcscentes. Calyx 1 lin., corolla IJ lin. longa " alba." Legtimen torulosum,
valvis 4-6 lin. latis demum valde coîiovii^. ^Bedd. Fl. Sylv.i. 188.
Mimosa dulcis^ Roxb. ! Corom. PL i. 67^ t. 99.
Inga dulcis, Willd. Spec, iv, 1005; Wiglit, Tc. t. 198.
Inga pimgens-^ Humb. et Bonpl. ! in Willd. Spec. iv. 1004.
L
Mimosa ptmgens, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 36.

Mimosa unguis-cati, Blanco, Fl. Filip. 731, in ed. 2. omissa, non Linn.
Inga leucantha, Presl ! Bot. Bern. 65.
Inga Javana^ DC. Prod. ii. 436, ex char, et fragm, in herb. DC.
Acacia obliquifoUa, Mart, et Gal, ! in Bull. Acad. Brux. x. ii. 317,
Hah, Tropical America : Central America from
South Mexico, intro- New Granada to
duced into the Philippine Islands, and thence into East India, where
it is now common,
occurring also in the Archipelago, the Mauritius and other tropical
countries.
6. P. PUBESCENS, Benth. ! in Booh. Journ. Bot. ii. 141 Bond. Journ.
;
iii. 199 Pu-
bescens. Pinnae l-jugse ;
foliola 1-juga, ovali-elliptica oblonga, obtusa, Valde obliqua,
v.
1-2-pollicaria, utrinquc pubescentia. Capitula breviter pedunculata,

superiora panicu-
lata. Plores tomentelli. Calyx | lin., corolla ad 3 lin. lons-a
o "rosea" Le-"'-"-
3n vidi.
Inga pubescens, Bert. ! in DC. Prod. ii. 437.
Inga paniculata, Spreng. ! in DC. Prod. ii. 437.
Hah. Tropical America : British Guiana and Santa Marta.
1. p. -ONGUis-CATi, Benth. ill Book. Lond. Journ.

! iii. 200. Glabra Pinna; 1 m^si
foliola l-juga, obovata orbioulata v. late oblonga. yalde obliqua, obtusa,
i-2-pollicari8
:
PUheeolobtum.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^. 573'
Capitula longiuscule et^ tenuiter pedunculata, superiora paniculata. Flores glabri v. vix
puberuli. Calyx f-1 lin., corolla ad 3 lin. longa. Legumen subtorulosum, glabnim,
valvis 3-6 lin. latis, deuium valde tortis.
Mimosa unguis-cati, Linn. Spec. 1499^
Inya ilnguis-cati, Willd. Spec. iv. 1006.
Mimosa rosea, Vahl, Eel. iii. 33. t. 25.
437
Ingaforfex^ Kunth Mim. ! 52^ t, 16^ foliolis saepius ]
Pithecolobium forfeXy Bentli. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ

luffa guadalupensis, Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814^ i. 70.
Mimosa auadalumnsis . Pers. Svn. ii. 262..
Willd
*
Mimosa
"f
Pithecolobium microphylhm^ Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 200.
Sah. Tropical America ; West Indies, Venezuela, and New Gran

tliree
leaflets, and forfex with narrower large leaflets, which I had maintained as distinct, prove to be connected
the Liunean species, which iucludcd

by so many intermediates, that I have felt obliged to revert to
F
all tliree.
Hooh Ic. Tl 1168. Glabra, rolia minima; piuua-

8. P. HYSTEix, Benth,! in t.
coriacea, 1-2 lin. longa. Pedunciili axillarcs. Florcs

l-jugae ; foliola 1-juga, obovata,
corolla lin. longa. Legumen annulare, vah-is demiun
o»labri. Calyx vix 1 lin., 3-3i
tortis tenuiter coriaceis 4 lin. latis.
Inga hystricc, A. Rich ! Fl. Cub. i. 471.
Calliandra hystrix, Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 83.
Pithecolobium calliandrifolium, Griseb. \ I. c.

w
Hah. Tropical America : Cuba.
in Eoolc. Und. Jou,-n. iii. 201 Glabrum - P'^-u'-

9. P. CIROINALE, Benth. !
terminalium ^-S-JUga la « ov.ta . obo
Pinna. 1- rarius 2.jus. ; foliola pinnarum
oumsa, saBpius lonîuoou *

hm lon.a. J^.
I/w,,iaien îibnnnu
Calyx corolla feie 3
Flores minute tomentelU. j lin.,
lare, valvis demum tortis 4-5 lin. latis.

„ „ . , ^, ,, , «-
Mimosa
W *-> --
in Journ. Jôi. xoi^, x.
spinifolia sv. ! ^^_
'-'- Cu"'^W.H. 35.0 St. Bon.

Sab.
"tiVliriir
Tropical America
n, ;
-.^tih^r^îCatesby).
Sertero.Ehrenberg, Hitter Finn..
tenuiter cancsccn
.TT
Serb. FL Btm.^y
-Rra, 115 1. m Glabra v. ».
„^.
10. P. EXOELSUM, Mart. !
^^^^^ ^ ^Hipti^^
1- rarius 2-juga, ^1-1^ P^""'^^;^'" *'''"'"'ÊuM'eduneulata,

; paniculata. Plum, vix
tusa, Tis mucronulata,

l--
H poU- lo^ga. ^ I
'^^^ ^^,3^ arcuatum v. annular.-,
puberuli. Calyx i-i .t^ valde tortis

-"-"f
ralvis 5-6 Im. ti^TL--^
latis,
puberulum v. glabrum,
Imm exceha. Kunth Mim. 57, * I*-
!
—
574 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEtE, [Fithecohbmm.
Inga Candida, H. B. et K. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 399.

Pithecolohium candidum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. JoTirn. iii. 201.
Sab. Tropical America ; Guayaquil, and on the river Magdalena.
11. P. DIVEESIFOLITTM, Benth. in SooJc, Lond. Journ. iii. 201. Pubescens. Pinnse
1-2-jugse ; foliola pinnarum terminalium 2-3-juga, obovata v. oblongaj -l-l-pollicaria v.
foliorum ramealium minima, obtusissima, valde obliqua. Pedunculi axillares v. ad apices
ramorum conferti. Plores cano-pubescentes. Calyx fere 1 lin., corolla 3J-4 lin. longa.
ft
TiCguminis valvse ad 4 lin. latae, minute tomentellae, demum valde contortse. M. Bras.
Mim. 9
Sah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov, Piauhy, Bahia, and Minas Geraes.
*-«-#
Species anomala, inermis. JLeguminis valvce hand contortos. Seminum funiculus
' haud dilatatus.
12. P. PARAGUENSE, Bcnth., sp. n. Glabra. Pinnse l-jugse ; foliola 1-juga, obovato
oblonga, |-l-pollicaria. Mores ignoti. Spicse fructiferse rhacHs ^1-poUicaris. Le it_^
men l^-pollicare v. abortu brevius, 4-5 lin. latum, valvis coriaceis convexis.
Kah. Subtropical South America : Paraguay, Monte Claro, Gihert.
Kami teretes, rigidi, cortice albido, in speciminibus nostris omnino inermes. Foliorum petiolus com-
munis i-^-pollicaris. Glandula inter pinnas parva. Foliola rigidula, obtusiuscula, basi valde obliqua,
pallida vu-entia, pennivenia, venis venulisque utrinque conspicuis. Spicarum rhaches seu pedunculi ad
1
nodos annotinos rigidi. Leguminis valvse extus fuscse, intus rubentes pulposEe. Semina alba^ crassa,
subquadrata, funiculo filiformi flexuoso.
Sectio 2. Cltpearia.
Inermes. Stipulae inconspicuae. Pinnse uni- v. paucijug^ foliolis uni- v. paucijugis

amplis,. V. plurijugse foliolis plurijugis minoribus. Capitula parva, ssepius paniculata,
ramis panicul^ pedunculisque ssepius superposite fasciculatis. Legumen
valde curvatum
V. circinatum, interdum 2-3-gyrosum, valvis coriaceis
post dehiscentiam varie tortis.
Seminum funiculus apice haud dilatatus. Species omnes Asiaticse v.
Australasic^.
urn, parum curvatum
Series 1. Sessiliflorae. Mores in capitula sessiles, pauci v. rarius

cepto P. subcoriaceo) 1-2- rarius ^-jug^B ; foliolis
mmerosi. F
amplis paucijugis, vix oUiq
foliagi
as
very
stant in eacb species.
geographical
9tud,ed on the livmg trees, constant characters in the
proportions of the flowers, the glands,
r= &c. may
j
be
discovered which have hitherto escaped us. >
_
13. P PouRNiERi. rmi. ! {mb Albizzia)
juga oblonso-elliptica t. obovato-oblonga, obtusa,
,
^ . n. Glabra. Pinna, i.j„g^ ; foHok 2-3-
majora 2-3.pomcaria, basi contracta,
brenter petiobdata. Panicute laxae. Flores
in capitulo 10-15, glabri.
Calyx 1 lin,,
corolla 4 liu. longa. Legumen valde eurrum v. cochleatum
valvis subpl
demum tortis
hecohbium.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^
75
Hah. New Caledonia, Vieillard, n. 409, 427.
ennno Differt foUolis non vel vix acuminatis, floribus
majoribus glaberrimis.
34. P. BIGEMINUM, Mart. ! Serb. FL Bras. 115. Minute tomentellnm v. glabresccns.
Pinnae 1- rarius 2-jug8e foliola 2-4-juga, oyata v. oblonga,
;
acuminata, 2-3- rarlus i-pol-
licaria. Paniculae laxse. Piores in capitulo pauci, appresse
puLcruli. Calj-x f-1 lin.,
coroUa 2-2^ lin. longa. Legumen ssepe bigyrosum, margine exteriore integro
v. rarlii^
leviter sinuate, valvis subplanis coriaceisaveniis demum tortis. Semina comprcssa.
Mimosa
Inga bigeminal Willd. Spec. ii. 1007.
Inga Wightiana, Grab. ! iii Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5281.
Inga annularis, Grab. ! /. c. u. 5269.
ITab. Tropical and subtropical Asia : Ceylon, tlie Peninsula, Nepal, and Sikkim.
Altbougb tbe leaves are rarely, if ever, truly bigeminous, tlus appears to be the plant Linna;u;> ]ia(l
in view, and is certainly tbat of Vahl and others. The Ceylon specimens arc mure glabn>ns, witli sh^rti r
calyxes; tbe nortbeni ones, on tbe contrary, more tomentose (though very minutely w), with thr cilvx
longer in proportion to the corolla. The Archipelago specimens referred Ijcrc b) myself iitu! othws
belong probably to P. lobatum.
15. P. LOBATUM, Benth.! in Hook. Lond. Joiirn. iii. 208. Glabrum. Pinna.' 1 2-ju^^r;
foliola 2-3-juga, ovata v. oblonga, acuminata, 3-6-pollicaria. Panicula) plcraiquc in
ramis annotinis laterales, laxse. Piores in capitulo pauci (saspius 2-3), glabri v. pube-
ruli. Calyx ^-1 lin., corolla ad 2 lin. longa. Legumen bigyrosum t. elongiitum irro-
gulariterque tortum, margine exteriore inter semina ad medium v. altius diviso, lobis
orbiculatis crassis 1-2 poll, diametro. Semina magna, compressa, orbiculata.
Inga lobata, WaU. ! Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5280.

Hort. Beng. 40 Fl. Ind. 543.
Mimosa Kmringa, Eoxb. ; ii.
Mimosa Jiringa, Jack, in Mai. Misc. i. i. 14.
Inga Jiringa, Jack, /. c. ii. vu. 78.
Mimosa scutifi
iiferum, Benth. ! in Hook. Load. Journ
ifl
n. 3060; Burmah, Wallich, Philippmn
Java, Borneo, Beccari,
Hah. TropiJal Asia',
Cuming, n. 475, 1603, 1854 bclon. tothi.
I referred to AlU..ia lucidaprohMy
slimen wuiû
specimens ;hich m
i^ 'Plant.
x Junghubnian.
&
„
^
, „ •^„. i,r.r1.^ri"n to P bioemtmm. from ucrtber

.
species, as
the pod. Usually
readily distinguished without
of which can this species be «rrdi th<*m
80 (b'ply indented n» to
selves are said to be as large as lengthened
rhachk. T e po is
^^
leave between the seeds only a narrow
igul r coil.
specimen
Blanco
m the
^^^
Pans HerDari ,
'^
\^ , J, ,,,,,
^ ^ ^^^
.Hh the
^^^ ,necimeat in which
lobe. ^^
.^
that all belong to one hterifii ^-c^^^

twisted fnduced to believe d
has, according to the «pecimem EXJciu
i 34)' to P. anguhtum,
'
Miq. (Fl .. K.. rîsrinrt from P. lobatim.
from Leyden
^'"^"
Pinn« l-jugm ; foliola l-2.jugn
Benth., sp. n. waoru
16. P. MoTTLEYAi^TJM, ^ ^
VOL. XXX,
;
[PlthecoJobhrn
76 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^.
ovali-elliptica, acuminata, subcoriacea, nitidula, li-2-poUicaria. Panicula ampla, laxi
Plores in capitulo 1-3, appresse puberuli. Calyx | lin., corolla 3 lin. long
flora.
Leo-nmen coclileato-contortum, marline exterior e leviter sinuato, valvis extus fuscis ad
6 lin. latis.
Sab. Tropical Asia : Borneo, Mottley.

Pluribus notis P. laoeifloro accedit. Folia in spe ramnlum lateralem pertinere videntur
I
et forte in ramulis majoribus majora. Petiolns ollicaris, pinnarum rhaches plerseque

iciehus finitimis non observavi. Glan-
dula petiolaris oblonga. Panicula rami tenues. Pednnculi nltimi filiformes, 2-3 lin. longi^ apice
rarius laanji
similes sed pubescentes nee glabri.
17. P. LAXiFLORUM, Bentli. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 212. Glabrum. Pinnae unijugae
foliola 2-3-juga, ovali-oblonga, obtuse acuminata, ad 3 poll, longa, petiolo rbacbibusque
tenuibus. Paniculae laxte. Plores in capitulo 2-5, glabri. Calyx vix 1 lin., corolla ad
2 lin. longa. Legumen (an ejusdem speciei ?) subcontortum, 6 lin. latum, margine ex-
teriore leviter sinuato, valvis in sicco rufescentibus.
Acacia laxiflora, DC. ! Trod. ii. 455; Dene. Herb. Tim. Descr. 132.
Hah. Tropical Asia : Timor and perhaps Amboina.
The Timor specimens described by De CandoUe and Decaisne are in flower only ; and in that state it
is impossible to determine how far they are distinct from C. lohatum, from which they differ in the neat
slender petioles and slightly in general aspect. A specimen from Amboina, in Herb. Mns. Par., gathered
by Labillardiere, appeared to me to be the same species; and if so, the pod is much nearer that of P.
higeminum ; but probably this specimen may be referrible to P. Mottley anum.
18._P. BTJBALiNUM, Benth. Inflorescentia rufo-tomentella. Eolia glabrata. Pinnae

l-jugae ; foliola 1-2-juga, ovata v, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, 3- rarius 4-pollicaria, nitidula.
Paniculse axillares v. terminales, folio ssepius breviores, floribundge. Plores tomentelli,
numerosis breviter pedunculatis pauci. Calyx ad | lin., corolla 2^ lin. longa.
in capitulis
Legumen sessile, curvum, tomentellum, 2-8-pollicare, l-lj poll, latum, valvis crasso-
coriaceis valde convexis vix tortis. Semina crassissima, conferta, mutua compressione
truncata, J—| poll, diametro.
Mai. Misc
Hab. Tropical Asia : Malacca, Griffith, Maingay ; Penang, Wallich
and
distinsruished
19. P. MiCROCARPUM, Benth., sp. n. Inflorescentia rufo-tomentella. Folia glabrata

Pinnae l-jugse ; foliola 2-4- juga, ovata v. ovali-oblonga, acuminata, 3-4-pollicaria, nitidula
Panicula? axillares, laxiusculge, floribundae, foliis saepius ir
breviores. Plores tomentelli,
capitulis pauci. Calyx ad \ lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Legumen glabrum, siccitate nigrum
flexuoso-contortissimum, valvis convexis, 3-4 lin. Semina
latis. distantia, subglobosa
3-4 lin. diametro.
Hah. Tropical Asia : Malacca, Griffith, Maingay.
difficult to distinguish from P. bubalimm, the pod very 111
any other species of the section.

—
Pithecolobium.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEyE. 577
20. P. LUCIDTJM, Benth. ! in EooJc. Lond, Journ. 207.

iii. Ferrugineo-tomentellum,
foliis demum glabratis. Pinnse l-2-jug8e ; foliola 2-4- rarius 5-juga, ovata v. late oblonga,
acuminata, subcoriacea, nitida, 1^3-pollicaria, inferiora stepius alterna. ranicuhr
axillares, foliis breviores. Plores pubescentes, in capitulo 15-20. Calyx |-1 lin., corolla
fere 3 lin. longa. Legumen circinatum v. laxe contortum, margine exteriore Irviter
sinuatum, valvis f poll, latis aveniis demum contortis. Semina crassa, ovoidca, semi-
pollicaria. Fl. Hongh. 102.
Inga bigemina, Hook, et Arn. ! Bot. Beech. 182, non Willd.
Alhizzia Championi, Benth. ! Kew Journ. iv. 79.
in Hook.
Mab. Tropical Asia : South China, Hongkong, and Macao.
Distinguished from all the allied species by the lower leaflets of each pinna very rnn-ly opposite.
V
21. P. FASCicuLATUM, Benth. ! in Eook. Lond. Journ. iii. 208. Glabrum v. inflorcsccntia
puberula. Pinnae unijuga;. Foliola 2-3-juga, ovali-oblongn, 6-10-pollirnria. Panicula

terminalis, floribunda, ramulis pedunculisque secus ramos insignitcr fasciculato-supra-
positis. Plores adpresse pubescentes, in capitulo 3-5. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2 3 \m.
longa. Legumen breviter stipitatum, circinatum, valvis planis corincis aveniis 1|-1 \
poll, latis. Semina ovata, crassa, nigra, j-pollicaria.

Inga Jiringa,Wa\l. ! Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5268, non Jack.
Mab. Tropical Asia : MalsiGca, Griffith ; SinâiôveJFallich, Main gay, Jiw 'd,J>mghidm,
Teijsmann ; Borneo, Beccarit n. 1134.
22. P. CONFERTUM, Benth., sp. n. Glabrum v. inflorcsccntia vix rufo-tompntelln.
Pinn^ 1-jugse ; foliola 1-S-juga, ovata v. ovali-oblonga, breviter acuminata, coriacca,
Panicul^ axiUares, breves, floribundae. Pedunculi confcrti^ J-1-

nitida, 3-4-polUcaria.
Calyx | corolla 3-3J lin. longa, tubo tenui. Legumon
poUicares. Bores glabri. lin.,
ignotum.
Sab. Tropical Asia Malacca, Griffith. :
pinnarum rhaches 3-4-polIicares. Glandula ad ba.m pmrntrum

Poliorum petiolus communis brevis,
corollis tcnuibus inter affincs £icile d.stmgticncia.
brevi conferta et
saepius magna. Species inflorcsccntia
FL Ind. Bat. Suppl. 282. Fcrrugineo-tomcntella. Vmmv

23 P KOSTRATTJM, Miq. !
petiolulata, obovali-oblonga, abrupte acuminata, mcm-

2-3-iug^
branacea,
;
nitidula,
foliola
l-4.pollicaria.
3-6-juga,
Panicula terminalis. Florcs fcrûgmco.^.r^^. C^
'^ circularxter cochleatoônaccum, i poll, latum,
2 lin., corolla fere 5 Hn. longa. Legumen
nigrescens. Semma ovoidca, nigrcsccntia.
extrorsum subsinuatum, extus
Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. 1. 24.
Albizzia rostrata, Bl. in Miq.
Sab.
Our
Tropical Asia
speeinên is not good and
: Java.
w.^^^^^^^^^^
" :^:X. .peeie.,
^
ialler than
^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^
in the r.llowin.
^^^
^'
Tomentellum, foliis glabr«<ppTitibii«?.
. ,
-
-rr^r^h VJ Tnd ined
Pinn. l-2,.gj. Flores sessile,, angusti appr.=.

'^'fl^^^^
3-b-pouicaiici. "pLcula longa.
oblonsra, acuminata, T^r,nn.pn
I^g spssilo. cireinutum.
8-9 Im. longa.
° \ r«lvx
pubescentes. Calyx
T lere
fere 3
6 Hn., corolla lin.
,
J
tomentellis
4?2
;;
578 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEif!. IPitTiecoloUum.
Bab. Tropical Asia: Malacca, Maingay, and (apparently the same without fruit)
Borneo, Lohb
distinguished from all the prec
as by the pod forming a complete circle, and at least as broad as in P. fasciculatum, but with a few pro-
minent transverse branching veins, which in all the allied species are either very obscure or quite obsolete.
25. P. GRANDiPLOErM, Benth. ! Fl. Atistral. ii. 424. Subglabrum. Pinnae 1-2-jugae
foliola 2-6-juga, ovata, acuminata, lJ-2-pollicaria. Panicula terminalis. Flores sericeo-
pubescentes. Calyx fere 3 lin., corolla 9 lin. longa, infundibularis. Legumen non vidi.
Mimosa grandifl&ra, Soland. ! in Herb. Banks.

Pithecolobium Tozerij P. Muell. ! Fragm. v, 10.
Albizzia Tozeri, F. Muell. in Trim. Joum. Bot. 1872, 10.
ITab. Tropical and subtropical East Australia.

F. Mueller blames me for not having adopted his specific name of Tozeri, which he had sent me attached
to his specimens, and which he now proposes to restore. I have always felt it my duty to adopt his
manuscript names to the new Australian species where there were no predominant reasons against it
but in this instance I had already described the plant from Banks and Solandcr's specimens under
Solanderâ name when I received P. Mueller^s. Moreover^ having two manuscript names before me, I
could not adopt both ; and if any right of priority can be admitted in unpublished names, it was certainly
by far in favour of Solander^s. The farther ground urged by F. Mueller, the accident met with by Mr^
Tozer in gathering the specimens, is one for sympathy on the part of botanists, not for changing the
name of a species ; the tree is said to be a very handsome one, with flowers still larger than in P. affi,ne.
26. P. Hendersonii, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 191. Glabrum. Pinn« l-jugse ; foliola 2-3-
juga, sessilia, ingequilatero-ovata v. lanceolata, basi valde obliqua. Elores glabri, brevissime
pedicellati. Corolla elongata, tubo calycem duplo superante.
Albizzia Hendersonii, F. Muell. in Trim. Joum. Bot. 1872, 10.
Hah. Extratropical East Australia, near Ballina, Eichmond river, Henderson.
I have not seen this species, which P. Mueller says resembles P. ffrandifl&rum, but has no glands
between the leaflets, which are more sessile, and the flowers slender and glabrous.
27. P. CONTORTUM, Mart.! Herb. Fl. Bras, 115. Eusco-tomentellum. Pinnse 4-5-
jugse foliola pinnarum superiorura 12-20-juga, oblique ovato-oblonga,
;
obtusa, 6-9 lin.
longa, subtus tomentella. Panicula terminalis. Plores tomentelli, in capitula 3-4,
S3cpius secus rhachin dissiti. Calyx vix | lin., corolla fere 2 lin. longa. Legumen
cochleatum, 2-3-gyrosum v. demum elongato-contortum, margine exteriore sinuato, valvis
fere 9 lin. latis demum contortis.
Inga contorta, Grah. ! in Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5283.
Inga Fmlaysoniana , Grab. I in Wall. 1. c. n. 5284.
Hab. Tropical Asia : Penang and Singapore.
SUBACUTUM, Benth. I
28. P. in HooJc. Bond. Joum. 210.
iii. Eufo-puberulura, gla-
brescens. Hamuli subangulati. Pinnae 5-7-jug8B ; foliola pinnarum superiorum 15-20-
^
juga, oblique ovata, incurvo-acuta v. acuminata, subsemipoUicaria, subtus puberula.

Panicula terminalis, brevis. Plores in capitulo 5-6, brevissime pedicellati v. subsessiles,
tomentoso-pubescentes. Calyx l-li
ad 3 lin. longa. lin., corolla Legumen cochleato-
contortum, margine exteriore sinuato-lobato, ad
6 lin. latum.
.
PithecoloUum .-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. ',

79
r
Rob. Tropical Asia : Philippine Islands, manco, Cummg, n. 502.

The branches appear to be sometimes slightly angular, but much less so than in P. civvearia and
allies. The flowers are not so borne
in the truly pedicellate species.
w
29. P. SUBCORIACETJM, Thw. ! mum. PL Zeyl. 100. Fermgineopuberulum. Ramuli

suhangulati. Pinnse 3-12-jiigse : foliola 10-25-juga, oblique oblonga, obtiisa v. ftoutivis-
cula, 3-4 lin. longa, coriacea, supra glabra, nitidula, subtus pallida v. villosula. Podun-
culi in summia axilHs v. ad apices ramorum conferti. Plores pubcsccntes, in wpituio
plurimi, sessiles. Calyx IJ, corolla fere 3 lin. longa. Legumcn " cochloaf imi, puhf*.
j»
rulum L
P. anamallay anumJ Bedd. ! Fl. Sylv. t. 189.
Hab. Tropical Asia: Ceylon, Thwaites; Peninsula near Courtallam, Wight; A

4
mallay hills, Beddome.

Major Beddorae, suspecting that his was the same as the Ceylon plant, forwarded spcclnicn* to
Thwaites, who thought it very distinct. can di»oov
more s two. Th (»h
4-13 specimens from Th waiter hlT* wrmr

times 4 pair of pinnae ; and in those we have from Beddome they vary from 3 to 7 pair.
.Flores in capitido plurimi^ singuli pcdicello distinct o n(ppim

Series 2. PediceUatse.
PmiuB valde irregulares, addita interdum tertia adjugum ternmiaU.
1-2-lmeari fulti,
t Bamuli teretes. Foliola majuscula, paucijvga.

i
Minute puberula, glauccscens. Knnffi l-2-jugii>

30. P. BOENEENSE, Benth., sp. n.
acuminata, 21-4-poUicaria, coriacea, nitida. Pani

foliola 2-3-juga, Talde obliqua, ovata,
rhaclie breviter lineaxi plures, podicellat.
cula terminaHs, parum ramosa. Hores in
corolla ad 3 lin. longa. Legnmen ignotum.

pubescentes. Calyx yix 1 lin.,
Borneo, Beccan, n. 1715, 3491.
Hab. Tropical Asia :
FoHorum I^'.o>- ';'«-'™;

Ramuli terete,, demuM gbbrati, glaucescentes. ^^^" J^^tl"
eodem pan wep^ vainr
, ,, :^:^„ PJnnnmm rhaches 2-4.polIicare«, in
maj benda, drmuiu
inaequales.
perpauci.
r:rir::;:»=:;r.iter
gricanti
„.te ^^..u^, ...««.. s. ... .o... ,. ^
ni in spocimin*^
lineani longos
ceUos 4-6 ferunt subdissitos,
super orum 3^ ju a o q
.ub-2-jug« ; foliola pinnarum ^^^^^^^ ,.^^^^^,
acuminat., majora 3.pollicar.a, -^^ ''',—,:*,"„ puLcentc. X-Y
Hores m S^^""
J pedicelli.
axiUares. 3-pollicares.
lin. longis. Calyx i lin., corolla ^f 2i Im-
"
longa.
^^'^.^
^S"-" ' /ochleatum v. clon«,to.n„
valvis^8-9 bn. latis.

exteriore sinuato,
tortum, margine
Albizzia tengerensis, Miq
ivxiii- ^ > , ,. ^
ex 3iiq.
r 7nil Nat en Geneesk. Arch. iv. 13,
u
Inga . -o ZoU.
tengerensis, Iât.
^^^^^ ^^
Muell.
1^1.^^^^^- in Trim. Joum ^^^^
Junghuhmana, F.
}t
Albizzia .
n. 2521,
^^ /olhnger.
.
Xo66
Java, Junghuhn.
Mab, Tropical Asia :
—
580 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [Flthecohbivm.

t
32. P. PRUiiôsTJM, Benth. ! in SooJc. Lond. Journ, iii. 211. Tenuissime rufo-pube-
rulum V. glabrum. Pinnae 1-2-jugse ; f'oliola pinnarum siiperiorum 3-4-juga, late ovata
V. subrhombea, acuminata, majora 2-3 -poUicaria, subglabra. Pedunculi in summis

axillis V. in panicula brevi corymbosa terminali. Plores glabriusculi, in capitulo globoso
numerosi, pedicellis fere 2 lin. longis. Calyx \ lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Legumen
cocbleatum v. J^XIA-K^V/IA^V. contortum,
lonefiuscule »labrum,
^^^^^^^^^î Q valvis 7-8 lin. latis. Fl. Austral, ii. 423.
Muell
Sab, Subtropical and extratropical East Australia.
Very near P. Junghuhniana, cHefly distinguished by being nearly glabrous, witli smaller flowers.
ft hamuli angulati. Foliola phiri- v. muUijuga.
33. P. ANGTJLATUM, Beuth. ! in Kook. Lond. Journ. iii. 208. Pusco-puberulum, gla-
brescens. Pinnae 2-4-jug9e; foliola pinnarum superiorum 4-8-juga, oblique ovali-ob-
longa, acuminata, 3-5-pollicaria, inferiora multo minora, ovato-rbombea. Panicula ter-
minalis. Plores in capitulo baud numerosi, pedicellati, tomentelli. Calyx linea brevier,
corolla fere 3 lin. longa. Legumen circinatum v. elongato-tortum, 6-8 lin. latum,
margine exteriore ad medium v. altius lobato.
Mimosa heterophylla, Roxb. M. Ind. ii. 545.
Inga acutangula, Grab. ! in Wall, Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5271.
Acacia acutangula, Hamilt. ! Herb.
Rah. Tropical Asia eastern provinces of India and tbe archipelago
: ; Assam, Silbet,
Burmah, Malacca, Penang, Borneo, &c.
P. acutangulum, Miq. El. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 282, from Sumatra, must, from tbe description given, be the
true P. angulaium, whilst tbe fruit referred by Miq. l. c. to P. angulatum must rather be that of
P. bubalinum.
SJj. p. CLTPEARIA, Benth. ! in Sooh. Lond. Journ. iii. 209. Pusco-pubescens v. gla-
brescens. Pinnae 4-6-jug^; foliola pinnarum superiorum 10-12-juga,
valde oblique
ovata V. trapezoidea, obtusa v. acuta, 1-li-pollicaria v. inferiora minora.
ter- Panicula
minalis. Plores in capitulo baud numerosi, pedicellati, tomentelli.
Calyx | lin
2-21 lin. longa. Legumen circinatum, 6-8 lin. latum, margine exteriore
sinuato valvis
tortis
Adenanthera
Mai. Misc
Mimosa trapezifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 546, non Vahl.
Inga dimidiata, Hook, et Am. ! Bot. Beech. 181.
Rob. Tropical Asia Malacca, the Archipelago, Penang, Singapore,
:
Sumatra, Borneo,
BeccaH, n. 3745 South China. ;
35. P. MONTANUM, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. 209.

iii. Pusco-pubescens v. gla-
brescens. Pinnte 7-12.jugge; foHola pinnarum superiorum
12-20-juga, oblique ovato-
oblonga, falcata, obtusiuscula v. acuta, 3-6 Hn. longa.
Panicula terminalis. Plores in
baud numerosi, pedicellati, tomenteUi. Calyx lin., corolla 2-2i
capitulo
| 2 lin. lon-a.
O
Legumen circinatum, margine exteriore sinuato, valvis varie tortis
Inga montana, Span, ex Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. i. 36, non Jungh.
Pithecolobium falcifolium, Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 418.
'
PltJiecohhinm.']
MIMOSEiE. 581
Ing a falciformis et Lfalcifolia, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 291, ex Hassk. /. c.
L subfalcata, Zoll. in Flora, 1847, 706.
Sah. Tropical Asia : Khasiya, Griffith ; Java ; Borneo, Motley, Beccari, n. 2751.
Var. ? MicROPHYLLA. Follola ssepius 3-4 lin. longa (in forma typica sapius 4-6 lin.).
Sah. Java, Philippine Islands, Cuming, n. 1918 ; and perhaps with still smaller nar-
rower leaflets, Borneo, Beccari, n. 3730; our specimen insufacient for accurate de-
termination.
appears
and stipulate, sometimes rather large aad sessile ; and occasionally I have seen both on the same leaf.
Sectio 3. Abaremotemo.
Arbores v. frutices elatiores, inermes. Stipulae parvse caducissima3 v. obsoletse. Pinniu
pluri-v. multij Poliola uni- pauci- v. multij uga. Pcdunculi
lares v. ad apices ramorum conferti. Mores parvuli, in capitulo sirpius numerosi,
staminum tubo incluso. Legumen planum, valde curvatum v. circinatum, valvi** post
dehiscentiam varie contortis. Seminum funiculus baud v. vix dilatatus.
This is the American representative of the section Clypearia, and scarcely differs from it in Ci>i>eutial
characters. The inflorescence is distinct from that of most species of Clypearia, but is represented in the
P, Junghuhniamm and P. prumosum, which, notwithstanding their geographical station, might, pcrliai)s,
be better placed in Abaremotemo.
* PinniB l-jug<je, petiolo alato. Foliola l-juga, Z-i<-pollkana.
in Sook. Lond. Journ. v. 106. Glabrum v. minute pube-

36. P. EURCATUM, Benth. !
communi rhacbibusque late alatis foliola l-juga, obHque

rulum. Pinnae unijug^, petiolo ;
acuminata, 3-4-pollicaria. Plores in capitulo ovoideo sessiles.

obovato-oblonga, obtuse
puberulus. Corolla 5 lin. longa, sericeo-viUosa. Legumen
Calyx 21 lin. longus,
ignotum
Mexico, on the banks of the river Tcapa, Zi.dû
Sab, Tropical America: South
723
bipinnate as in PiiheMium, but with the rhach
This Is the only species known to me with the leaves
AM
2-^.jôlUcaria, obtu.a, co^nacea, nitida

** FimuB 1-2-jugw, Foliola 1-Z-juga,
^7
JLS,r «.»
P
^^
a ^
T TTTTroPHTLLTlM, Spruce
America North
!
t Tiaîh
Bent fl.
Brazil, Spruce.
-^.t-r
m Mart Fl.
in Marc.
sr:":;=: :s
Bras. Mini.
rt. îô. Glabrum v. vix
3ab. Tropical :
hvum.—Fl. Bras. Mim.
i
—— ;
[PUhecolobium.
Journ
crassifolia
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Baliia; Venezuela, Otio.
39. P. MICEOCALYX, Spruce! Benth. m Mart. FL Bras. Mim. Glabrum v. minute pube-
Pinnse l-2-jug£e foliola 2-3-juga, oblique obovato-suborbiculata, obtusa, coriacea,
rulum. ;
nitida, li-2i-pollicaria. Pedunculi 2-3-pollicares. Plores in rhache 3-6 lin. longa pe-
dicellati. Calyx vix 1\ lin., corolla fere 2 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Bah, Tropical America : North BrazU.
40. P. OBOVALE, Benth. Glabriusculum. Pinnse 2-jug8e. Poliola 2-4- rarius 5-juga
obovalia, obtusissima, coriacea, venosa, majora sub-2-pollicaria. Pedunculi 2-4-pollicares

riiîduli, Flores in rhacbe 3-4-lineari pedicellati, tomentelli. Calyx 2 lin., corolla 4 lin
longa. Legumen crasso-coriaceum, planum, valde incurvum fere circinatum, valvis 4-5
lin. latis. w
Inga obovalis, A. Eicli ! Fl. Cub. i. 472.

Calliandra revoluta^ Griseb, ! Cat. PL Cub. 83.
Hah. Tropical America : Cuba, Be la Sagra^ Wright^ n, 2399.
41. P. ASPLENiPOLiUM, Grisel). ! Cat. Fl. Cub. 83. Glabrum. Pinnae 2-4-jug8e
foliola 6-12-juga, oblique oblonga v. obovali-oblonga, obtusa, coriacea, nitida, 6-8 Hn.
longa. Pedunculi longiusculi. Plores in rbache breviter lineari longe pedicellati, glabri.
1
Calyx fere 2 lin., corolla 4 lin. longa. Legumen glabrum, circinatum, margine exte-
riore leviter sinuato, valvis 3-4 lin. latis.
Hab. Tropical America : Cuba, Wright, n..24iO^.
*** PinncB \-4i-jugcB. Foliola 2-4i-Juga, ovata v. oblonga, acuminata, 1- pluri-pollicaria.

h
42. P. L^TrM, Benth. in Sook. Lond. Journ. iii. 203. Eerrugineo-villosulum. Pinnse
1- rarissime 2-jug8e ; foliola 1-juga, ovali- v. oblongo-elliptica, acuminata, majora semi-
pedalia, utrinque viridula. Flores in capitulo sessiles, apice villosi. Calyx 1 lin., co-
rolla fere 3 lin. longa. Legumen curvum, margine exteriore sinuato, semipedale, 6-8
lin. latum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Inga keta, Poepp. ! et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 80.
Pithecolobium polycarpum, Poepp.! et Endl. /. c. 81.
Rah. Tropical America : Cayenne, Martins ; Surinam, Focke (distributed by Miquel
under the name of I. capitata, Desv.) ; North Brazil, Eastern Peru.
43. P. COCELEATUM, Mart. ! Eerh. Fl. Bras. 115. Glabrum. Pinnge 1-2-jugse ; foliola
2-3-juga, ex ovato oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, supra nitida, subtus glaucescentia v.
pallida, 1-2-pollicaria. Plores in capitulo breviter pedicellati. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2
lin. longa. Legumen valde curvatum v. circinatum, margine exteriore sinuato, 4-9 lin.
latum. Benth. m Fl. Bras. Mim.

wmd
Mimosa
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Para.
44. P. AuAEEMOTEMO, Mart.! Serb. FL Bras. 115. Glabrum v. minute glanduloso

PUhecohbium.] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MTMOSEiE 58
pubemlum. Pinnge 2-3- rarius 4-jugge ; foliola 2-3-juga, ovata v. rliombea, acuta acu
minata v. rarius obtusa, concoloria, 1-2-pollicaria, paucivenia. Elores m capitulo sessiles
glabri. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen circinatum v. gyris 2-3 cochlea
turn, IJ poll, diamctro, valvis ad 6 lin. \aLtis.—£enth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
Inga nandiiujefoUa, DC- ! Prod. ii. 440.
* H
I*
Mimosa vaqa. Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 13.
Mimosa
Mart
Sah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Ceara.
45. P. CA.MPESTEE, Spruce ! Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Glabrum v. vix minute
puberulum. Pinnae 2-4-jug8e : foliola 2-5-juga, ovata, acuminata, basi late rotundata,
Xi-21-pollicaria, utrin(jue laete virentia, yenosa. Plores in capitulo subsessilcs, gla-
briusculi. Calyx IJ lin., corolla fere 4 lin, longa, Legumen circinatum, ad 3 poll,
diametro, valvis f poll, latis.

Mab. Tropical America North Brazil. :
**** JPinncB plurijugcB. valde ohliqua,

Foliola pluri- {4^-l2-)juga, pleraque i-l-polllcaria,
rJiombea v.falcata, obtusa. . r
142, Lond. Joum. 204.

46. P. TRAPEZiFOLiTJM, Benth. ! in EooL Journ. Bot. ii.
iii.
2-4-jugffi; foliola 4-8-juga, pleraque

Perrugineo-tomentellum v. glabratum. Pinnse
Plores in capitulo sessiles.
rhombeo-ovata, coriacea, subpoUicaria, subtus puberula.
Legumen minute puberulum, cn-cmatum,
tomentosi. Calyx 1 lin., coroUa 2 lin. longa.
ad Ii poll, diametro, valvis 4-5 lin. Mis.—FL Bras. Mim.

Mh/iosa trapezifolia, Vahl ! Eel. iii. 36, t. 28.
Inga trapezifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 441.
Mimosa vaga, Aubl. PI. Gui. ii. 945, non Linn.

_ _ ^ ^
wnid
Mimosa
Mimosa
Mimosa atakta. feteua. i m iîora^ loô, iou. . . , , -r^ • *«« nr.lirim^?n
Columbia, Mnril?
Mo. .H.
Guiana, Tnnidad, Dommica,
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil,
n. 1457. .X i. 11
.™.M, Bent,. ! in Koo,. Lond. J^rn iii. 204.

47. P.
J^^^^^^^^
Pinn. 2-5-jug.; foliola
maiora -1
majora i-it-pomcaria.
1 i-rôllicaria.
3-6.juga,
Plores
xxuxc. in
oblique
capitulo
.^ ^^^^^^^
ovoideo l^reviter peaice
,
^^^^^^^^^ i
Vclloziana) pknum,
P
curvum
Legumen (ex icone ;
Calyx fere 2 lin., corolla 4 lin. longa.
valvis demum contortis.—^. Bras. Mim

Mimos -
J
Inga brackystachya, DC. ! Prod. ii. 440.

Hook. Lond. Journ
m
i.ona.ôiuu. •
Ca«i««^m o6oi'«;«. Benth. in

^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ perhaps, a
prov. Sao Paulo ana
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, :
smaU-leaved variety, Bio Janeiro.

^^^^
_ ^^^ Ferrugineo-tomenlo-
Sooh on
48. P. FEREUGiNErH, Benth. ! in .
\,
rhomb ^^.^ta v. oblonga, coriacea,
6-10-juga, oblique
sum. 2-3-jug^ foliola ^ ^
Pinn^ ;
VOL. XXX.
N
— —
584 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [FithecoloUum.
reticulata, glabra v. subtus puberula, |-l-pollicaria. Elores in capitulo ovoideo-globoso
subsessiles, ferrugineo-tomentelli. Calyx 4 lin., corolla ^ lin. longa. Legumen villo-
sum arcuatum v. circinatum, valvis 6-8 lin. latis contortis.
Hah. Tropical America : British Guiana, SchomhurgJi;.
49. P. HHOMBEUM, Benth. ! in HooTc. Lond. Journ. iii. 217. Ferrugineo-tomentellum.
Pinnae 6-8-jug8e; rhombea,

foliola 8-12-juga, oblique vix coriacea, subglabra, majora
8-9 lin. lono-a. Elores in capitulo globoso sessiles, ferrugineo-puberuli. Calyx 1 lin.,
corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen curvum, coriaceum, venosum, ad 5-pollicare, 8-9 lin.
latum, planum. FL Bras. Mim.

Sab. Tropical or subtropical South America : South Brazil.
It does not appear whether the valves of the pod, after separating^ become twisted or not; and the
place of the species, whether in Abaremotemo or in Samanea is nncertain* It appears to be nearly

allied to some of the foregoing; but the foliage is more like that of theWestJndian P. micradenium^
I
with pale-coloured rather thin leaflets.
***** PinncB pluri' (3-8-};z/^<e. Foliola multi- (10-30-};*w^6«, rarius d-S-juffa, in sp. 2
prioribus memhranacea ad 6 lin. longa^ in 2 sequentibus dimidio minora.
m
50. P. FLORIBUNDUM, Spruce I Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Eerrugineo-tomen-

tellum. Pinnse 4-6-jug9e ; foliola 12-20-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusa, semipoUicaria,
membranacea, subglabra. Plores in capitulo globoso brevissime pedicellati, minute
pubescentes. Calyx fere 2 lin. longus, corolla duplo longior. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Spruce.
51. P. MiCRADENiUM, Benth. ! in Eooh. Lond. Journ. iii. 217. Eerrugineo-tomentellum.

PinnDD 3-8-jug3e ; foliola 6-12-juga, oblique rhombeo-obovata v. oblonga, 6-9 lin. longa,
membranacea, subtus puberula. Flores in capitulo subgloboso v. elono*ato breviter
pedicellati. Calyx 1-1 J lin., corolla 2 J lin. longa. Legumen glabrum, curvum v. fere
circinatum, margine exteriore sinuato. —
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 226.
P. Brongniariiii Duchass. et Walp. ! in Flora, 1853, 232.
Hah. Tropical America : West Indies, Jamaica, Dominica, Guadeloupe.
52. P. AURicuLATUM, Benth. I in SooL Lond. Journ. iii. 217. Eerrugineo-tomentellum.

Pinnae 5-7-jugae ; foliola 6-12-juga, oblique rbombea, obtusa, hinc obtuse auriculata,
3-4 lin. longa, supra nitida, subtus pallide rufescentia. Elores in capitulo globoso
sessiles. Calyx j lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.—i^^. B^xw. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America : Nortli Brazil.
53. P. Langsdorfii, Benth. ! in HooTc. Lond. Journ. iii. 205. Eerruo-ineo-tomentel

lum. Pinnae 5-7-jug9e; foHola 15-25-juga, oblonga, obtusa v. acutius^'cula, ad 3 lin
longa, supra nitida, subtus albida. Elores in capitulo globoso rarius oblongo sessiles y
breviter pedicellati. Calyx 1-lJ lin., corolla 2-2^ lin. louffa. Lesumen arcuaturo
b kbrum, 4 lin. latum. Fl. Bras. Mim
Wab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo, Rio Janeiro, and Minas Geraes
Pithecohbium,] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. * 585
-T H*
Sectio 4. Samanea,
Arbores v. frutices inermes v. rarissime spinis axillaribus armati. Pinnae pluri- v-
rarius multijugae. Poliola uni- pauci- v. multijuga. Legnmen rectum arcuatum v. cir-
cinatum, nunc planum et rigide coriaceum v. carnosum, rarius tenue, nunc crassum
V. subteres, indehiscens v. tardius in valvas nee tortas nee elastice dissilientes secedons,
interdum monilif orme v. articulatum. Pedunculi axillares v. ad apices ramorum race-

mosi V. paniculati, in fasciculo baud unilateraliter suprapositi. Flores in capitulo glo-
boso sessiles v. pedicellati.
Series 1, Subarticulatse. Legumina nunc crassa inter semlna linea transversa dcpressa
notata, nunc tenuia et plana, scepissime

^ -
demum in articulos monospermos SNlH/uadratos
dimsa. Inermes excepto P. umbellato.

« GerontogecB.
I
in Sook. Lond. Journ. 202. Pubcruhim. Spin:n
54. P. TJMBBLLATUM, BentJi. ! iii.
Pinnse l-2-jug8e foliola 4-iO.juga cum oxtcriore propc

bine inde axillares validse. ;
oblonga, obtusa,i-|-pollicaria. Pedunculi axillares v. ad uodos

basin rbacbeos, oblique
pedicellati, glabriusculi. Calyx 1-1| lin., corolla
fascicUlati, tenues. Plores in capitulo
crassum, 3-4.pollicare, poll, latum, inter semuia
^-^ lin. longa. Legumen curvum, |
transverse depressum.
Mimosa
WiUd
Mi
441
Mimosa
A,
Acacia nitida, WiUd. Spec. iv. 1086.

269.
%« .Kffl^Ji, W. et Am. Prod. Fl.
Joum.
Penins,
in. 202.
Benth. in Hook. Loud.
PithecoloUum nitidum, !
peninsula and Ceylon

Sab. Tropical Asia East-Indian :
sa.d to be red
Mmosa nUida is there
The specimen in Herb. Vahl marked
this spec.es rather than
ago to belong to
me when I saw it maiiy years
determining it positively.
have had no means of
Jotim. iu. 211 Tomcntellura. 1
in Mook. Lond.
55 P MONILLFERUM, Benth. !
supra n,t da et
v. ovali-oblonga, obtusa.
ol,%~e obovata
1
1-2-jug^. f°^7 * \J"^;^
2 i'ui foUoST-T- uga,
axiUaro.. Alore.
venosa, termmalia l-lj v. fere 2 P°" %. 1,, cietera minora. Pedunculi
^ J '
^ Calyx 1 \\a., corolla ad 2 lin. lonya
in eapitulo
Leffumen
l-eTlLêtt
curvum j^ ;:mt. | A 'atuui, crassu.. fere llgnosum
Benth. Vt. Austral, ii. 421
inter semlna transverse
depressun.
Prod.
^^^-^^l'
«0; Dene. Herb ^^..f^'^
Tun. Descr. 131.
Inga rÛiformis, DC.
ii.
1847, 706, non Vahl.

4« nMlata, ZoU. in Flora,
Hort. Bogor. Descr.^ 2- „.
moMiferum. Hassk.
Cathonnim ^ ^
MueU. in Trim. Journ
lifera, F.
Mimosa montana, Hassk. Cat. """g^ ™ â plantam Archipclagi, non Benth

^°'^-^f'^^'.
Miq. F Ind a^
PithecoloUum umbellalum,
.
^ iimor. ^^^^^ ^^ Australia-

Australia Java,
Sab. Tropical Asia and :
4
^ g2
;
1*
S86 . MR. G.* BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. [Pithecohbimn.
56 ? P. Pervilleanum, Benth.y sp. n. Tomentellum. Pinnee 2-3-jug9e ; foliola 5-6-

juga, petiolulata, oblique ovalia ovali-oblonga v. subrhombea, obtusa, f-lJ-poUicaria,
teimiter subcoriacea, glabra v. ad venas tomentella, pennivenia, venulosa. Pedunculi
axillares, 2-3ni, l-lJ-poUicares. Elores in capitulo sessiles, appresse pubescentes.
Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2^ lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Kah. Madagascar, northwest coast, JBermlU, n. 327.
Until the fruit is known, the place of this species, very unlike any other Old-World one, cannot be
determined on ; but it appears to be allied in foliage to the preceding, in flowers to the following species.
57. P. ALTissiMUM, Olh. I FL Trop. Afr. ii. 364. Perrugineo-puberulum. Pinnje

5-G-jug9e foliola 10-25-juga, lineari-oblonga, subfalcata, glabra, 4-6
\ lin. longa. Pedun-
culi axillares. Elores in capitulo sessiles, glabri. Calyx \\ lin., corolla 3 lin. longa.
Legumen valde curvum v. 2-3-gyrosum, dum "extensum f-1-pedale, 6-9 lin. latum,
crassum, inter semina transverse depressum.
Nigr A I
Rah, West tropical Africa

from West tropical Africa eathered bv Mann
be a distinct species allied to the last, with much
iuffi
** AmericanKB,
58. P. MARGINATUM, ^pruce I Benth. in Mart. Fk Bras. Mim, Glabrum. Pinnae 1-

jugae foliola 3-4-juga, ovato-oblonga
; v. falcato-obovata, obtusa, coriacea, nitida, venosa,
1-2-pollicaria. Pedunculi ad apices ramorum plures. Plores in capitulo
plerique longe
pedicellati. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen arcuatum,
crassiusculum, 4-6-
polhcare, 6-7 lin. latum.
Calliandra marginata, Benth. ! in Spnice PI. Exs.
Ilah, Tropical America : North Brazil.
59 P. PANURENSE, Spruoe ! Benth. in Mart. Fl. Srm. Mim.

Glabmm. Pinnje l-iusw
fohola 4-6-jusa, obUque subrhombea v. oblonga, J-1-pollicaria, v.
terminalia obovalk et
po Ucaria, mtida, subtus pallida. PeduncuK ad apices ramorum plura. Plores in capi-
tulo longiuscule pedicellati. Calyx fere 2 lin., corolk 3^ lin. longa. Legumen
Ignotum. o -^ b
..!!!:!!!;^!!:5'^!!^:!?:^^ .^^^T^- .
^-- l^-g- ;
^^nola 3-4ûga, obllq
obtusissima, j-l-pollicaria, nitida.
T^""^^"'^^"' Pedunculi breves, tenues, in
rnnpn.-
^^"^7^ P^^"-^^ «^-^-î- Elores sessiles, glabri.
CO nn";l I'T^"^'* '""" '''''""' '"*"""
Calyx i
^^^"""^ sub-4.pollicare, ad 6
lin.,
rJlm.
Mab^^ Tropica America savannahs on the Baule river
:
near Guayaquil, Spruce,
n. 6330.
amosissmia
parvis aequentium, inflorescentia
ab omnibus diversa
foliorum hinc inde
pnberuli, cjeterum ex omni
parte glabra. Foliorum
minuta
— ;
Flthecohbium.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 587

V. obsoleta ;
pinnanim rhaches 1-2-pomcares. Foliola tenuiter coriacea, pennivenia et basi
3-4-nervia,
venulosa. Racemi ad apices ramorum plurimi, erecti, 3-4-pollicares, densiflori pedunculi secus rharhiii
;
fasciculati, 2-4 lin. longi. Capitula parva. Legumen ut in P. marglnato crassiuscnle coriaceum, inter
semina lineis transversis insigniter depressis notatum, et ut videtur ibidem tardius in articulos monospcnuDS
secedens v. omnino indehiscens.
61. P. COBYMBOSUM, BentJi, ! in SooJc. Lond. Journ. iii. 221. Glabrum v. tomeutellum.
PinnsB 2-5-jugae ; foliola 8-12-juga, oblique subrbombeo-olDlonga, obtusissima, vonosa,
^-| poll, longa V. terminalia fere pollicaria. Pedunculi axillares et ad apices ramorum
corymbosi. Plores in capitulo pedicellati, puberuli. Calyx l-ljlin., corolla infimdibu-
liformis 2-2-| lin. longa. Legumen planum, coriaceum, liaud crassum, 2-4-pollicarc, 1-5
lin. latum, inter semina transverse lineatumet demum saepius divisum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa corymbosa^ Rich, in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 1792, 113 ex diagnosi brcvi.
Inffa frapeziformis^ Steud. ! in Flora, 1843, 759-
I
Kah. Tropical America : North Brazil, Surinam, Cayenne, and Britlsli Guiana.
-
62. P. BLANC HETI, J5e/^M. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Vix pubcrulum. Folia ctinflores-
centia P. corymbosi. Calyx | lin. Corolla IJ lin. longa, fere ad basin 5-fida. Legumf^n
ignotum.
Enterolobium Blancheti. Bentb. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ
Mab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Babia.
Series 2. Carnosê. Legumen crasso-carnosum, compressum v. teres
articulatum, indehiscens tardius bivalve, inerme. Bedunculi

forme nee v.
4
Hooh Lond. Journ. 216. Pubescens. Pinnae 2-i-jug;T.

63. P. Samak, Benth. in iii.
suborbiculata, majora sesquipoUicaria, vix

foliola 2-8-juo'a oblique ovato-oblonga v.
Pedunculi 4-5.pollicares. Plores in capitulo brevit.T
coriacea, subtus pubescentia.
Corolla 5 lin. longa, sericeo-villosa Lo
pediceDati. Calyx 3 lin. longus, pubescens. *^'
C-8-pollicarc, poll
eoriaceo-camosum, indehiscens, J-1
men rectum, crassum,
sessile,
latum, compressum v. subteres.— -Pi. Sras. Mim.

Mimosa
^'
n. Brit. W
! Nov. Gen
. ! in Willd.
Journ
Mimosa pubift
Journ
Sab CS Am
Tropical America
,a ; but in the
J amaica
North
latteyât^"^'
BrazU,
P
Eastern
P ^^^^
Peru,
^^^^^^
Columbia
^^,g,„Û^
.^ ^, .^^
Central
p,^„t„,.
Ameru.,
„,,, ., ,
^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
from reru
i!.astem
race's specimens quite terete, or, accordinK to Spn.rr
accon
ripe, becomes
f J\.\f^h T have seen the fruit, it is broad
In the Lâcas
Caracas ^P-^---^^
thicker than broad. ^^^^^^^^ i„ the specimens, which nlso
^^^^^
fi^^^'^/^'
very thick, but remains Guachnpek, with which th.y arc-
^^ . _.f ^ , , .
^„d of LysUoma
resemble at first
flower only.
sometimes confou»ded when in
*
—
588 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [PithecoloUum.
64. P. PEDicELLARE, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 219. Glabrum v. ferrugineo-
tomentellum. Pinnae 6-10-jug8e ; foliola 20-30-juga, oblongo-linearia, obtusa, 3-4 lin.
longa, demum coriacea. Pedunculi axillares. Plores in capitulo pedicellati. Calyx vix
linea longior, corolla 3-4 lin. longa. Legumen rectum, crassum, 3- (4-?) pollicare, f
poll, latum, continuum, indehiscens, inter margines crassos transverse venosum, Fl:
t
Bras. Mim.
Inga pedicellarisy DC, ! Prod. 441.
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Cayenne.

^
Mimosa chrysantha^ Vahlj Eel- ii. 38 (Acacia chrysantha^ DC. Prod. ii. 471), from Cayenne, r. Rohr^
probably When
fillClfi I
with Vahrs description than the nearly allied Cayenne P. pedicellare. The only objection is VahFs
express statement "Petiolus eglandulosus/^ whereas in P, pedicellare there is usually a prominent gland
about halfway from the base to the lowest pair of pinnae. De CandoUe has reversed the numbers
respectively assigned by Vahl to the pinnae ai owing
oomraon with many of the older botanists, always given the name of foliola to the primary
tlie leaf now called pinntB, and that of pennula to the secondary segments
now always te foliola
or leaflets.
65. P. FiLiPES, Benth. Glabrum. Pinnae 2-jugge ; foliola 2-4-juga, obovata, ottusis-
sima, coriacea, pollicaria v. paullo longiora. PeduncuK axillares, tenues, recurvi, 3-4-
poUicares. Plores in capitulo globoso sessiles, tenues. Calyx ad 2 lin, longus. Corolla
fere semipoliicaris. Legumen semipedale v. longius, leviter arcuatum, poll, latum,
f
crassum, leviter torulosum.
Inga filij)es, Vent. Choix, t. 38. r
Rab. Tropical America : San Bominjô.

66. P.? Bertolonii, Benth. Pubescens. Pinnae 2-jug^; foliola 2-juga, elliptica,
obtusa, basi oblicjua, pilosa. Spicse capitatse, raceraata), solitarige
v. geminate, altera
pedicellata altera subsessili. Legumen compressum, torulosum, falcatum, 3-4-spermum,
rubens, velutinum.
Mimosa monilifera, Bertol. Fl. Guatem. 41.
Hab. Tropical America : Guatemala, Velasquez.
1 have not seen tliis plant but from Bertoloni's very incomplete character,
;
from which I have extracted
the essential pomts, it would appear to be nearly allied to the preceding and
following species.
67. p. so^ROROc^nvuM, Benth. !m Benth. et Sooh Gen. Bl i. 598. Ferrugineo-pube-

rulum, glabrescens. Pinnae l-S-jug^. Poliola 5-12-juoa, obUque oblonga v. subrhombea,
obtusa V. acuta, maxmia 2-pomcaria, minora vix semipollicaria.
PeduncuU axiU
li-2-poUicares, tenues. Mores in capitulo sessiles, glabri.
Calyx linea brevior, coroUa
2^ lin. longa. Legumen teres, carnosum, inter semina valde contractum,
moniUbus (ad 9)
ovoideo-globosis subsemipoUicaribus.
Hab. Tropical America " New Spain, "Herh. Tavon
: ; Costa Eica on Mount Pantarmo
m begovia, and at Candelaria, (Ersted.
legtxmme, fere Sophora^ Japonic<B, distinctissima,
an frutex an arbor hand Eamuli
patet.
tenues. teretes evanida. Stipulae parv«, caduc^.
Folia valde variant, pinnis folio-
parvis, nunc in ramulis laxioribus
ninn* l-o_;„„_ ., .„ . _i„-u.,. :
.
Pithecolohium.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 589
subsemipedalibusj foliolls paucis, 1-2-pollIcaribus. Glandula inter pinnas parvse, nunc minutse. Foliola
rigide membranacea v. tenniter coriacea, ssepe subfalcata, acuminata v. obtusa, supra nitidula. Florcs
tubulosi* Stamina numerosa, corolla duplo saltern longiora, tubo corolla incluso-
_ w
• ^ - - I
68. P. MICRANTHTJM, BentJi., sp. n. Glaberrimum. Pinnge 1-jugge ; foliola 8-12-juga,
oblique oblonga, obtusissima, coriacea, nitida, 2J-4i lin. longa. Pedunculi axillarcs, J-J-
poUicares. Elores in capitulo sessiles, glabri. Calyx vix J lin., corolla 1 lin. longa.
Legumen curvum, carnosulum, subteres, inter seminaMnc inde contractiTm, IJ-pollicnre,
3 lin. latum.
•
Hob. Tropical America : San Domingo, Schombiirgk, no. 149 {Eerb. Jlerol.)
verniculosi timn
longo.
lOngO. Pinnae
irinnse 1 i-2-pollicares.
ij—^-ûu.n:ii,iva. vjriaiiu.u.icc o\ûi'V.Jxti..iA. iii^v.^ ^,.^.^.vw, ^ —
,^
^w parvse Inter —
foliola panim
-
j[
'îipcriorum
i
-
supra in statu sicco nigra, subtus fusc'spentla. Pedunculi

Foliola obliqua at vix falcata, costa centrali
Corolla tubulosa, apice 5-dentata. Stamina numerosa, corolla dluudio lotigiora,
in axiUis ssepius gemini.
•
basi in tubum brevem valde in^qualiter monadelpha. Legumen ei P. filicifom
Hooh Lond. Journ. 205. Pcrruginco-tomcut^'Uuni.

69. P. MLiciFOLiUM, Benth. tin
iii.
Pinnse 8-12.jugge ; foliola 20-30-juga, oblique falcato- oblonga, obtusiuscula, I. 3^

axiUares supra-axillares, 2-3-poUicarcs. Florcs in
longa, glabrescentia. Pedunculi v.
pubescentes. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 3 lin. longa.

capitulo globoso sessiles, apice ssepius
mox glabratum, teretiusculum, carnosulum, inter semma

Legumen tomentellum,
Junius ^
contortum, 2-3-pollicare, 4-6 lin. latum, demum

contractnm, arcuatum V.
Griseh. FL Brit W. Ind. 226.

Mimosa filicifolia, Lam. Diet. i. 13?
M.
waid. Spec. iv. 1 064, pro parte ; Macfad
Southern Mexico and Central America, Jama
Hab. Tropical America : W. Indies,
Galeotti ; Nicaragua, (ErHed.
San Domingo, Cuba, Xalapa, , „ ^,. ., ,. ,
I^-"- ,
»'"'
thi» to
Thave now' oê doubts wh'her I wa, cornet
time
in
there
referring
are objections to the substituting for

'
^f^"{f- the ^ it
but imperfectly to one onlv

cific name arboreum as Linnean.
r
.e„^^^ vaffuc
one hundred ^^^feent' spe.. c. *..
out of near,,
Linnaeus
botanists deftcript
and Miller and others of Lmn«u« s content

in his herbarium ;
course api^âr;
Albizza Mihrissin^
applied the name arborea to the
filicifi
Series 3.
,„. Pe— «
Coeiace^ Leanê. fanurn,
-•«- - — Hoê
*'--'^'- ™—
cori.ee.. i,^^^^^^^^
•
^""" """'''• """"
70. P. siHABi.o.im î'7^ coriacea. nitida, majora H-

;ff ;J/:;' Jissima,
^-'- "-''''-
;£i"'".is^^^^^^^^^^ ----
borders.on the Hver Paciôni
near the Brazilian
Venezuela,
^^!"op^l America:
Spruce.
. ;
590 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. tPithccolohium
71. P. LiNDSEiFOLJUM, Spruce ! Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras, Mim. Alte scandcns,
glabrumv. leviter tomentellum. Pinnae 3-4-j ug£e ; foliola 8-14-juga, falcato-rhombea,
obtusa, coriacea, nitida, |-l-pollicaria. Elores tomentelli. Calyx 3-4 lin., corolla \~\\
poll, longa. Staminum tubus exsertus. Legumen ignotum.
Sah. Tropical America : North Brazil.
72. P. Spruceanxjm, Benth.I in Mart. M.Bras. Mim. Alte scandens, glabrum v. minute
tomentellum. Pinnae 6-9-jug8e ; foliola 12-18-juga, falcato-rhombea, incurvo-acuta
coriacea, nitida, 6-9 lin. longa. Plores tomentelli. Calyx subpoUicaris, corolla 2 poll,
longa. Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Legumen ignotum.
ILah, Tropical America North Brazil. :
L
73. P. LONGiFLORUM, Beuth.

Sooh. Bond. Journ. v. 107. Alte scandens, ferru-
! in
gineo-tomentellum. Pinnae 4-8-j ugse foliola 12-2 0-juga.
oblongo-falcata, obtusiuscula,
;
coriacea, nitida, 6-10 lin. longa. Plores minute tomentelli. Calyx ad 3 Hn. longa
corolla ^poUicaris. Staminum tubus longe
j^v^ exsertus.
vy^vovyii;iA£3, Legumen
JUICgUOXlCU mnoiMm.—Fl.
ig Bras
Mim
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil
The preceding species are aU evidently allied to P.
tliree
adiantifolmm, but are all described as tal
ôody climbers, ^'hilst P. adiantifolium is said
to be a loosely brancbed shrub or smaU
tree ; and besides
iinor differences, they have the staminal
tube much longer.
A,
ADIANTIFOLIUM, Benth. I in Hook. Lond.

74. p.
Journ. iii. 218. Frutescens v. arto
eum, glabrum y. vix puberulum. Pinnae
2-8-jug=e ; foliola sa^pius 10-12-juga, obliq
S oblonga y. linearia, coriacea. rutida, suhpollicaria.
Flores tomentelli. CalyxVs lin
J longus. Corolla pollicaz-is.
Staminum tubus corollam breyiter supcrans.
, ^ Legumen rectum
V. valde curium, sem.pedale, 1 poU. latum,
yix minute tomenteUum.-P/.Vo,. Mm.
adiantifoUa, Kunth, Mim
Humb
Mimosa
Mab. Tropical America : North BrazU, Guiana, and Venezuela.
Pithecolobium Miquelianum, Meissn. in
n Liunaâ
-Linnaea, tt^
XXI. 9^(\ f.^^, c
2o0, from r^ .
Surinam, Kegel, n. 1162, would appear
m hi. d...r,-.f,- J.. ^^ o J..
mann's specimens
75. P. Kegelii, Meissn. in Linncea, î- 249

xxi. ^jj» ^ ParoPTiilnciL.w,
-Tdrcc puosulum. r.- a n -
fnli'nTo iA_iQ-„ 1,1 i ,

. PmusB 4-6-iug3e;
pit Int^' P. r '^''"'''''' -l-P°lli-ria.

membranacea, glabra,
SIn Tonlu:,
ttL\Vrr:us.'^rurSrtnm.
C
P. stipellatum, Bernh. PI. Kappl.

1
exs.
T T,
,f"'
"• "' ' ^" ^°''^- ^'"'^ --les. Calyx tubulosus.
•
^^"' '''^-' -P^^-n Staminum — Z

Sab. Tropical America Surinam, Kegel,
: n. 1173, Kappler, n. 1341
It h s I ipd'eZr 'T:f' ^'"'^' r; "' ''^*^'^^^' ^^^-^ «» -'«> ^--^^ character.
staminal tube much
^' ^^^ preceding species ; and the
shorter.
6 P. iNCuuiALE, Benth. in
Hook. Land. Journ. iii. 218. Perruîneo-viUosum
gmeo-viUosum. Pinnae
! —
Pithecolobium.1 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEvE. 591
(j-lO-jugse ; foliola 15-25-jiiga, oblique oblongo-Iinearia, nitidula, ad 3 lin. Tonga, gla-
briuscula v. ciliata. Calyx IJ lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen

!Flores villosi.
rectum v, curvum, tenuissime tomentoso-rugosum, 4-8-pollicare, f-lj poll, latum. Fl.

JBras. Mim.
Mimosa
Martianum
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro and Minas Geraes.
.
Series 4. Parviflorse. Legumen planum, rectum v. curvuhm, tenuiter coruweiim, inde-
Capitula parva, ad apices ramonm racemoso-patilculata. Florcs

hiscens v. tardius bivalve.
sessllesy 2 lin. longce v. breviores.
Pinnae l-jugae foliola 3-i-juga, oblique obovali-

77. P. TRIFLOEUM, :Benth. Glabrum. ;
6-9 lin. longa. Capitula pedunculata, pauciflora, brevitcr

oblonga, obtusa, coriacea,
Calyx 1 lin., corolla 2 lin, longa. Legumen ig-
fasciculato-racemosa y. paniculata.
notum.
Mimosa trifiora, Herb. Pav.
Tnga triflora, G. Don Gen. !
Syst. ii. 394.
tt t» •
Guayaquil, Tafalla, Herb. Fav. in Eerb.

i.
Bom.
Eab. Tropical America :
Habitus sectionis m,uis-Cati. sed stipul. spinescentes ornnino

rigid..
desnnt.
Glandul. parv..
^^^^^^"T;^
pinnarum rbacbes l|-polllcares, ^^1^;^^; ^^^^
ra.0 semipolllcaris,
Pedunculi breves. Corolla lat.uscule campanulata, 4-fida, glaW. ^
nervia, venosa, subtus rufescentia.
Staminum tubus vix exsertus.
e-lO-jnga, oblongo-falcata, subdun.d.ta^lO 1- l-^>; m

Pinna, l-i-juga, ; foliola -^
breviter pedunculata,
subnWnali Capitnla
^'^'--^''''^l'''''^lJ^^l_^''^^;:
maturum ignotum.-^^. Jiras.
Legumen rectum, planum,
oUa vix lineam lonâ.
long
Mim
multiflora
mbdimidiaia, Splitg. Pi. Nov. Surin

Reise, 555.
A. inundata, Mart.
i.
!
^^^.^^ ^^^^^ p^^^jj^ ^.^^^^^^
^^^^^^ ^^^
America 15razii, piov.
Sab, Tropical :
Central America
Columbia, Peru,
Spreng. Syst. iii
mjiora,
Kunth^s homonym.
tbe same species as Ferrugineo-tomcn-
fohola 12-2o jv '
tellum. Pinnte S-lO-jug* ; . .acemoô-paniculata. Caly.

Capitula pea
puberula. costa pamm e^ccentnca.
V. laica
3_5.poUiea,-c, ad f poll
,,.._ „„
'
f„„„ "J lin. longa
lonaa. Legumen rectum , 1
*
* lin..
""•' coroUa
^"'"" fere 2
indeUiscens.— VI. Brat. Mim
i„ii„Tn lit
ut videtur
viaetur
latum, ferrugineo-tomenteUum,
/^m«&, Veil. ^L F'"- ^=„- J '
and Mlaas Geraes. Eastern
Min,osa .^ j^„,i,„, Bal.ia,
America : Brazil, prov.
*;^
Sab. Tropical Bogota, Triana

^pnice,n.^^î,
Peru, Spruce ; ^
Britisb 7m
Guiana, also
^^^^ ^.^ Cano-puberulum, glabrcFcens
80. P---POXPBS,:^P--^ lin. longa, coriacea, nitidula

juâ,
foliola ad 30 4 ii
Pinna? G-S-jugse ;
VOL.
i
692 MR. G, BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Pi
costa fere marginali. Capitula pedunculata, racemoso-paniculata. Calyx -J lin., corolla
1 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.

Sab. Tropical America North Brazil. :
With the foliage of Acacia paniculata, this has precisely the inflorescence and flowers of the two pre-
ceding species.
81. P. FRAGRANS, BentJi. in JBLooh, Lond. Jouim. iii. 220. Glabrum v. minute pube-
rulum. Pinnae 8-10-jiigae ; foliola 30-40-juga, oblongo-linearia v. lineari-falcata, 2-4
lin. longa, nitidula, subtus pallida, costa excentrica v. submarginali. Capitula pedun-
culata, racemoso-paniculata. Calyx J-f lin., corolla l|-2 lin. longa. Legumen rectum,
planum, baud crassum, 3-4-pollicare, vix 6 lin. latum, indebiscens.
Ingafragrans, Macfad. ! Fl. Jam. i. 309.
Acacia Balbisii, Spreng. ! Syst. iii. 140.
A. Berteriana, DC. ! Prod. ii. 470.
Joum
Eab. Tropical America: Jamaica, San Domingo, Bertero, Bhrenberg \ Veraguas,
Seemami,
Sectio 5. Ortholobium.
L
Prutices (rarius arbores ?) spinis stipularibus armati. Pinnse 1- v. plurijug®. Poliola

1- V. plurijuga, parva v. rarius'poUicaria. Pedunculi axillares v. ad apices ramorum breviter
racemosi. Plores in capitulo globoso sessiles. Legumen ubi notum planum,
rectum, in
valvas membranaceas v. tenuiter coriaceas nee tortas nee elastice revolutas debiscens.
Serainum funiculus baud dilatatus.
The species of this section have the fruit approaching that of
Alhizzia lophantha and A. montana; but
m other respects the section diff'ers more widely than several others
from that genus.
Spin(B stipulares rectcB. Mores jparvi, glahri v. puberul

82. P. ALBICANS, Benth. Cano-puberula v. pallens.Pinnae 4-6-jugse foliola 12-20- •
juga, oblique oblongo-linearia, 3-4 lin. longa, puberula. Pedunculi axillares, summi
breviter racemosi. Mores glabriusculi.
Calyx i lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Legumen
glabrmsculum, stipitatum, S-o-pollicare, ad 6 lin. latum,
valvis tenuiter coriaceis
Mim
êns
Kab. Tropical America Mexico, Campeachy, Mumboldt and

:
Bonpland Zimap 3
Coulter, Berlandier, n. 3147
83 P BREYirOLiUM. Beuth. an A. Oray, PI. Wright, i. 67. Puberulum, glabrescena

Pinn« 3-5-ûgae;
fobola 10-20-juga, oblongo-linearia, 2-3
lin. longa, subtus pallida
Pedunculi ad apices ramorum racemosi, breves.
Plores cauo-puberuli Calvx i lin..
corolla 2 lin. longa. Legumen breviter stipitatum, ad 3 poll,
lonsum. 6 lin Mum'
alvis submembranaceis
euciaiia
Tropical and subtropical North

Jff«6.
America: Mexioano-Texan region, WiÛzems
^z- *
BeHundter, Emort/s Expedition, n. 6 ,
331.
Pithecolobium.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 593
** Spince reeurvce Mores angusti, longiusculi. Corolla sericeo-pi
84. P. PREHENSILE, Bentk. Glabra, procumbens. Spinse recurvse. Eolia minima.
Pinnae l-jugse; foliola l-juga, obtusa, coriacea, vix linea longiora. Capitula sessilia,
2-3-flora. Calyx glabriusculus, 3-3J lin., corolla sericeo-pilosa, 7-8 lin. longa. Staminum
tubus longe exsertus. Legumen lJ-2J-pollicare, ad 6 lin. latum, valvis membranaccis,
marginatis
Wri
Sah. Tropical America : Cuba, Wright
"With
Wright and Sauvalle placed in Calliandrn, on acconut of tliC
recurved stipular spines and the flowers. it
revolute dcliisctMicc cha-

straight flat pod; but this pod has neither the contracted base nor the clastically
racteristic of that genus.
Beuth. in Book. Lond. Joimi. v. 105. Glabrum, corolla ex-

85. P. SERiciFLOEUM, !
2-jugJE foliola 2.juga, oblique obovata r. cliiptica, 4-1-

cepta. Spina? recurvse. Pinnae ;
pauciflora. Calyx glaber, 4-4* lin. longa. Corolla

polUcaria. Capitula pedunculata,
Staminum tubus longc exsertus. Legumen semlpedah',
dense sericeo-pilosa, 7 lin. longa.
latum, valvis membranaceis.

IJ poll,
Syst. 144 ; DC. Prod. ii. 472.
Acada platyloha, Spreng. iii.
! !
Venezuela,
, ^ ^
FuncJce,
^^
n. 5«i6.
.
Tropical America: Santa Marta, Bertero

Hah ;
doubt that both

flower only, and Bertcro^s in fruit only ; but I have but Uttle
Funeke's specimens are in
Ungms-cah, its long flo.xrs
remarkable for its foliage, that of some species of
belong to the same species,
and following species, and its large pod very much like that of
those of the preceding
closely resembling
some varieties of Albizzia Lehheh

Pubescens. Spinae breves, conicse v. rccurvae
86 P ACATiENSE, Betith. in herb. plur.
8-12-juga, oblonga, acuta, ad 2 lin. longa, pubcscentm. -'•
Capit
'
2-4-jug» ; foUola
Pinnas art
laxe pubescens. Corolla al.x,-v,llo».
fuwL. pLkora. Calyx 4 lin. longus,
legumen ignotum.
tubus exsertus.
1 lin Inn™ Staminum
Mexico, Acatlan. in the Pueblo district, An,Heu.n. 39o.
5«*
Mat), Tropical
iropicdx America :
vetustos confcrti. Petiol us

^^ Folia et flores breviter ad nodos
Ramuli Pinn» semipoUicarcs v. paullo lon-
;ns. Glandulfe parva.
communis '
Calyx ut in binis prwcedcnti-

venulosa wi^ro, in ramtnlo 4-8. sessiles.
FoUola rigidula, sub pube
giores.
t/?<
gularit'
Sectio 6. Caulanthon
1- v. paucijuga, ampla (cxcepto
-p-
Pmnse^ 1
1- V
v. rarius 2-
^ v
v. pau
paucijug^.
j ^
Poliola
Inermes.
spicis ad nodos ..^^r„m
ramorum dnfoliatorum
tenues, capitulis v,
P. clavifloro). Bores s^pius
fasciculat
breviter pedunculatis
Tlores ^caiu
*Pinncel-juga..Vet^locommuniirev-^mo.
2-5.juga, ovali-elliptica
t ..
Sprucc, f sp
.T. n
H- Glabrum. Foliola
87. P. MACKOPHYLLTJM, semipcdales longioresque
^l-pedalia, addito
^^f^^^^^^^^^^^^
Calyx 1-1, im., J, lin. longa. Staminum tubu,
interrupttfi. Plores glabri.
longe exsertus. Spmce.

^^^^^^^J^^^^^^
America larapoio ^
m Eastern
.i.
Peru,
Hah. Tropical .
^^^
.
594 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. [^'
" Frutex volubilis robustus." Foliorum petiolus communis brevissimus, crassus. PInnarum rl
6-10-pollicares. Glandule depressse. Foliola breviter et acute acuminata, iraa ba insequilatera

lis primariis ]
Spicse cum floribus "undique rubrae/' Florcs solitarii v.

subtus prominulis et reticulato-venosa.
gemini sessilesque, secus rbachin spicae dissiti, inferiores a basi 1-1 i poll, distantes. Staminum tubus
tenuis, corolla duplo longior ; filamenta ultra 20, parte libera 8-9 lin. louga.
88. P. cocciNETJM, BentK Glabrum. Eoliola 3-5-juga, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, 4-6-
poUicaria, addito minore ad basin rhacheos. Spicse semipedales longioresque, inter-
ne. Flores glabri. Calyx 1 lin., corolla fere 4 lin. longa. Staminnm tubus inclusus
V. vix exsertus. Legumen immaturum tomentelluni stipitatum, jam semipedale, 6 lin. ,
latum
Mimosa cocdnea v. M. punicea, Pavon [Herb. Boiss. et Owon.).
Inga coccinea, G. Don ! Gen. Syst. ii. 390.
Sab. Tropical America : Muiia in Peru, Buiz and Favon.

Foliorum petiolus communis subsemipollicarisj pinnarum rhaches semipedales. Glandulse parvse v. 0.
Foliola subcorlacea^ penninervia^ venulosa. Spicse P. macrophylli^ sed flores multo minores staminum
'
tubo abbrcviato.
89. P. Selloi, Benth. I in Soolc. Lond. Journ. iii. 214. Glabrum. Foliola 1-3-juga,
oblonga v. ovato-lanceolata, 2J-4-polLicaria, addito ssepius minore prope basin rhacbeos.
Spicse 1-1^-pollicares, densae, bre^dter pedunculatse. Calyx \ lin., corolla Plores glabri.
6 lin. longa. Legumen minute puberulum, breviter stipitatum, semipedale, 1 poll, latum.
M. Bras. Mim.
Hah. Tropical or subtropical South America : Brazil, probably southern, Sello.
90. P. SANGUINEUM, Betith. I in Mart. Fl. Bras. Glabrum. Eoliola 2-3-juga, ovali-
elliptica, coriacea, nitidula, majora 4-pollicaria, addito minore prope basin rhacheos.
Spicae l-l-|-pollicares, densse, breviter pedunculatse. Calyx lj-2 lin., corolla fere 5 lin.

MSS.
Inga sanguinea, Burch.
-
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo.
91. P. Vahlianum, ^^?^Â. Glabrum. Poliola.l-juga, oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata,

3-5-pollicaria, addito ssepius tertio minore prope basin rhacheos. Spicae densiflorse,
rhache cum pedunculo brevissimo ^1-pollicari. Plores tenues, glabri. Calyx 1 lin.,
corolla vix 3 lin. longa. Staminum tubus vix exsertus. Legumen 4-6-pollicare, poll,
|
latum.
Mimosa ligustrina, Vabl ! Eel. iii. 34. t. 27, non Jacq.
Inga Vahliana, DC. Prod. ii. 438.
Journ
Inga fakiformis, DC. Prod. ii.
I 438.
/. longifolia, Humb. et Bonpl. ! in Willd. Spec. iv. 1010.
Mimosa longifolia, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 59.
Hah. Tropical America Santa Marta, v. Bohr., Bertero
:
; in the Bracamoro district
Hmtiboldl and Bonpland.
COGXATCM, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. v.

92. P.
107. Glabrum. foliis et inflores
centia omnmo P. Vahliani. sed caljx vix
J lin. longa. Corolla tenuis, 3 lin. longa
—
Pitheeolohium.'\ MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 595
Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Legumen curvum v. undulatum, |-l-pedale, | poll
latum . .
in
glomeratum, var
Kah. Tropical America : Mexico, hot region, Schiede and Deppe ; Costa Rica, (Ersted
Panama, Seemann, Sutton Raves.
** Tmnce unijugce, petiolo communi brevissimo. Flores capitatL
93. P. UNiPOLioLATUM, Benth ! in Soak. Zond. Journ. iii. 212. Glabrum. Foliola
quaque pinna solitaria (in folio 2), ovali-elliptica v. oblonga, mnjora 4-9-pollicaria.
Calyx rainutus. Corolla 3-di lin. longa. 3>irunien
Capitula brevissime pedunculata. .
ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mm.

Rob. Tropical America : North Brazil.
Benth. in Rook. Zond. Journ. iii. 213. Glabriusculuni. Poliol I
94. p! divaricatum, !
acuminata, 4-8-pollicaria, addito rarius tertio infcriore minnr(\

1-juga, oblongo-lanceolata,
lineam, corolla 2 longa. Legumen siL'pe pedah>,
CapMa pedunculata. Calyx lin.
arcuatum, 7-10 lin. latum, valvis coriaceis planis v. demum subtortis.—JP/. Bras. .Vh,t.
Tropical America North Brazil and Mattogrosso.

Rah. :
Glabrum. Poliola 1-2-

GLOMERATTJM, Beuth. in Rook. Zond. Journ. Ui. 213.
95 P 1
oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, 3-1-pollicaria, paris inferioris dum adsit

iuga'ovatav.
Capitula sessilia y. brevissime pedunculata.
interdum inferiore minore.
opp Jsita addito
longa. Legumen arcuatum v. circinatum, polhccm v.
Calyx m'inutus ; corolla ad 3 lin.
Bra^. Mim. Miq. Stirp. Surin. 1. 1.

quod excedit latum.-i^^. ;
Nov
Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 213.
Pithecolobium cataradcB,
_ * < .r^ .^-H.. J'"^
ijlora
Mimosa
Guiana, and Venezuela.
Tropical America North Brazil,
Sab :
214. Glal.rum toliola sa-pin,

P lATlPOLi™, Bentk. ! in Book. Lond. Jonrn. iii.
y
„« par.s iBfonor. nunon.
3-6.poll!caria,
j/oX oTrto:oblonga, aeununata, majora
9
T Lttrrpequinto
alterna, addito ssepe
Calyx
qum inferiore
mmutus.
minore.
Corolla 3-3 , Un
Capitula
longa.
laxiflora,
Legumen
»
sutscssU.a
arcuatum,
v.
sa>pe
bre\
nrev.xe,
pedale
.
pedunculata.
poUicem latum.-iV. Bra,. Mm.
1499, ad Plum. Ic. t. 9.
latWia, Linn. Spec.
Mimosa
latifolia, WUld
latifolia, Grlseb. ! Fl. Brit. W
roseum
British Guiana, St. Vin.-nf. Ja.naica

'North Brazil, Surinam,
S'io^lâllmS'cI
Panama Glabrum pul)erulum.
v. puiKrrLuuu.. ^.^'-^^
Stipulae
nr.rf f Rerh FL Bras. 116.
obtuse acummata, majora
''; ^' ovali-oblonga, obtusa v.
deciduse v. obsoletse'''r:r''i^^^>
—
[PUliecohhium.
596 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE j:, •
3-4-pollica.ria, parium inferiorum opposita minora, addito saepius minore infciiore. Ca-
pitula parva, breviter pedunculata. Calyx minutus ; corolla 3-3^ lin. longa. Legumen
arcuatum, 3-8-pollicare, ad 6 lin. latum.—i^/. Bras. Mim.
Inga cauliflora;
Mimosa caulifli
Mart
lasiopus, Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 141 ; Lond. Journ. iii. 214, forma puberula
ijli
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes, North Brazil, Surinam, Cayenne,
British Guiana.
f
98. P. STiPULAEE, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Puberulum. Stipulse acutae,
induratae, persistentes. Poliola 1-2-juga, ovata v. elliptica, 2-3-pollicaria, addito saepius

inferiore minore. Capitula sessilia v. brevissime pedunculata. Calyx minutus, corolla
3-3J lin. longa. Legumen 4-poIlicare, ad 7 lin. latum. M. Bras. Mim.

P. cauliflorum} Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 214, excl. synon.
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Guiana.
99. P. iN^QUALE, Benth. Glabrura v. pilosulum. Poliola 2-3-juga, oblongo-elliptica

V. subovato-lanceolata, majora 3-4-pollicaria, addito saepius inferiore minore. Capitula
pauciflora, breviter pedunculata. Calyx Ij lin. longus, corolla ad 3 lin. Legumen
arcuatum v. circinatum, 8-9 lin. latum.— i^. Bras. Mim.
Inga ineequalis, Humb. et Bonpl. ! inWilld. Spec. ii. 1019. L
Mimosa iruequalis, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 44.
Eâb. Tropical America : North Brazil, Guiana, and Venezuela.

I had already, when seeing the single leaf preserved in the Paris herbarium, and described as simply
pinnate, suspected that was one only of the two pinnae of a more compound leaf j and tliis view is now
it
confirmed by the inspection of Willdenow*s specimen, in which the very short common petiole remains
attached, and shows the scar of the corresponding opposite pinna.
100. P. AMPLTJM, Spruce /, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Puberulum, foliola 3-4-
juga, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, majora 9-10-poUicaria, addito inferiore minore. Capitula
brevissime pedunculata. Calyx 1 lin., coroUa 3 lin. lonoja. Legumen
O***"^" ignotum.
xw .
Mab. Tropical America : North Brazil

*** Binn<B petiolo
evoluto 2- v.plurijugce. Flores fasciculati v. breviter spicati
101. P. EAMIFLORUM, Benth.
Sook. Lond, Journ. iii. 215. Glabrum v. tenuiter
! in
puberulum. .Pinnae 2-jugae; foliola superiorum 5-7-juga, oblique oblongo-rhombea,
coriacea, nitida, ultima 3-pollicaria, inferiora gradatim minora. Spicge breves, subsessiles.
Calyx linea brevior. Corolla fere 3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.—i^/. Bras. Mim.
MSS.
Inga ramiflora, Bong.
102. P. CLAVIFLOETJM, Sprucef, Benth. inMart. Fl. Bras.

Mim.. Perrugineo-villosulum.
Pinnae 4-6-jugae ; foHola 10-4i5-juga, falcato-oblonga,
membranacea, 6-9 lin. paUida,
longa. Plorum fascicuH sessHes. Calyx 1 coroUa 2-2i
lin.,
2 lin.
-iXXi. lon^
XV»ilgc*. Le^-umen
-LH^Q
gnotum
• I Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil.
— ;
PithecoloUum.] MR. Gf. BENTHAM ON THE M1M0SE.E. 597
Sectio 7. Chloeoleucon.
Spinse hinc inde axillares, solitariae v. geminse. Pinnae 2- v. plurijugse. Foliola 5- v
multijuga, parvula. Capitula axillariaj pedunculata. Flores sessiles, tennes, glabri

Legumen planum, coriaceum v. subcarnosum, rectum v. curvum, vix dehiscens.
103. P. TORTUM, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 114. Glabrum v. pubescens. PinnsB 2-5
e; foliola 6-9-juga, oblique oblonga, 3-5 lin. longa. Calyx vix lineam long
J^g
corolla 2i-3 lin. longa. Legumen arcuatum v. fere circinatum, seraipedale, 6-8 ]
latum. Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.

Pithecolobium tortum et P. Vincentis, Benth. ! in Hook. Lend. Journ. iii. 222.
Acacia Vincentis, Griseb! ! Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 222.
Acacia lentiscifolia, A. Rich. ! Fl. Cub. 469; Griseb. ! Cat. PI. Cub. 82, foliolis rigldioribus.
Var. undique pubescens.

in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 222.
Pithecolobium tenuiflorum, Benth. !
Rio Janeiro, Minas Geraes, Bahia, Para, etc.

Sab. Tropical America : BrazQ, prov.
and a variety with rather fewer and longer bâficts
Guiana, Columbia, and West Indies,
p
in Bolivia, D' Orbigny.
in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 223. Perruginco-pubescens v.

104. P. DTJMOSUM, Benth. I
Pinn^ 3-4.jug^; foliola 9-16.juga, oblique oblonga, 2-4 Un. longa.

tomentosum.
Corolla 2^-3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.— F/. Bras.
Calyx vix lineam longus.
Mim.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia.
pubescent variety of P. tortum.
Very closely alUed to the
Sook. Lond. Journ. iii. 222. Pubescens. Pinnae 5-8-
Benth. in
105 P Mathewsi, !
2-3 longa. Calyx 1-1 lin., corolla 3-3^}

• 15-20-juga, oblique oblonga, lin. J
iu-^ foliola
Legumen rectum v. arcuatum, semipedale v. longius, demum crassum, sub-
lin. longa.
parnosum, 3-4 lin. latum.

Mozabamba, Mathew,; Tarapoto, Upruce
Tropical America: Eastern Peru,
Hob.
n. 4185.
Bras. Mim. Puberulum. Pinna- -Mi-juga!
Senth. in Mart. Fl.
1 06 P GlAZiovi, !
S-3i hn. longa.
JS aolst^ga, o'bMue l-aria. 3-4 lin. longa. Calyx 1 lin.. corolla
Legumen ignotum. _. ^ .
Tropical America : Brazd, prov. Eio Janeiro.

TTab ent.cly thee of the
without spines, but the inflorescence and flowers
are entirely
T^fspeciZ^
spines may very probably be formed in other specimens.
section and the
Jmmu 223 Puberulum. Pmn:.
! in EooL Lond. iii.
PAKViroLiUM, Benth.
107 P -oUa
5 Mola
•uJ.
°
10-30-juga, linearia, 1-2
5-6 Im.
lin.
latum.
longa. Calyx fere 1 -^ ^^
•^
crassum, durum, pluripoUicare,
Le^-umen
x-eg falcatum,
lineis longior.
Fl. Bras. Mim.

mangensis, Jacq. Stirp
Mimosa !
Sw. Fl. Ind

Mimosa parvifolia, !
ifoli
Mimosa
— —
[Pithecohbimu
598 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE Mlia§£^-
crocaniha,
micrantha
Bot. 1814, i. 69.
MarthtBy Spreng,
mdra
! in
Snruceana, Benth. PI. Spruce, e

DC. Prod, ii. 44 s
Sab. Tropical America: North Brazil, Guiana, Columbia, Central America, West
Indies.
108. P. FOLIOLOSUM, £entL I in Sook. Zand. Journ. iii. 223. Glabrum v. puberulum
Pinnge 7-8-jugse ; foliola 20-50-juga, oblonga v. linearia, ad lineam longa, imbricata
obtusa. Calyx | lin., corolla ad 2 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum
:Bab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia and Pernambuco
XXV. Enteeolobium, Mart.

The genus only differs from Pithecolobium in the fruity and might well be added to it as a section.
X
1. E. ELLIPTICUM, Benth. ! in Soolc. Lond. Journ. iii. 224. Subglabrum. Pinnae

1-2- rarius S-jugse ; foliola 4-6-juga, oblongo- v. ovali-elliptica, obtusa, coriacea, venosa,
1-lJ-poUicaria, costa subcentrali. Legumen tomento tenuissimo canescens, 2^-3 poll,

diametro. M. Bras. Mim,
Pithecolobium gummiferum, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 116.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, proy. Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes, Goyaz, Bahia, and
Pernambuco.
2. E. TiMBOuvA, Mart. ! Serb. Fl. Bras. 128. Pabescens v. glabrum. Pinnse 2-5-
jugge ; foliola 10-20-juga, falcato-oblonga, 6-9 lin. longa, costa submarginali. Legumen
opacum, vix 3 poll, diametro. Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa contortisiliqua, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 25.
Enter oloUum glaucescens. Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 117.
Var. CANESCENS, foliolis fere pollicem longis.

E. Tamboril, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 117.
Sah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia, Ceara, Minas Geraes, and southward on
the Uruguay, Ttceedie.
3. E. CTCLOCARPUM, GHseh. ! FL Brit W. Lid. 226. Subglabrum. Pinnse 4-9-

jugse ; foliola 20-30-juga, falcato-oblonga, 4-6 lin. longa, costa submarginali. Legumen
glaberrimum, nitidum, 4 poll, diametro.
Mimosa cyclocarpa, Jac
Inga cyclocarpa^ Willd
Mart. ! Herb
Sab. Tropical America : Venezuela, New Granada, Central America, West Indies
H., B. et K. Nov
bably, from the description of the fruit taken from Bonpland's notes,
the E. cychcarpum.
4. E. MoNJOLLo, Mart. Serb. Fl. Bras. 117. Pinnae 6-7-jug»; foliola multij
parva, ovata, imbricata. Legumen ad 2 poll, diametro.
Mimosa MonjoUo, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 26.
!
/
^^
Fnierolohmmri MR. G. SENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 699

r
_ r
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro ? Known to me only thr
Vellozo's figure, j
•
5.E. SCHOMBTJRGKII, dentil, in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mlm. Ferrugineo-pubescens. Pinna*
10-20-jug9e; foliola 50-60-juga, lineari-falcata, 1-2 lin. longa. Legumen opacum, ad 2
poll, diametro.
Pithecolobium Schomhurgkii, Benth. ! in Hook. Loud. Journ. iii. 219.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro, North Brazil, Cayenne, Central
America.
XXVI. Serianthes, Benth.

f
1. S. GRANDIELORA, Benth. ! in Hook. Bond. Journ. iii. 225, p'o parte. Pinnae 4-8
jugse ; foliola 8-15-juga, falcato-oblonga, obtusa, basi sursum dilatata, |-l-pollicaria
tenuia, supra nitentia, subtus pallida, glabra, venis tenuibus. Spica^ intcrruptue, d-O
florae. Plores breviter pedicellati, dense tomentoso-villosi. Calyx semipollicaris. Co

rolla pollicaris v. paullo longior. Legumen lignosum, semipedale, 2 poll, latum, ertbrc
et obscure transverse venosum.
Inga grancUflora, Wall. ! Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 5285.
Hah. Tropical Asia : Malacca, Griffith, Maiiigay ; Philippine islands, Oimvnyy n. 159
2. S. viTiENSis, A. Gray I Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 485. Pinna? 6-8-jugaB; foliohi
10-16-juga, obliq[ue oblonga, obtusissima v. retusa, basi sursum dilatata, subsemipolli-
caria, supra nitida, subtus pallida, costa parum prominula. Flores ignoti. Legumen
semipedale, 2 poll, latum, venis paucis valde elevatis a margine superiore subtransyersis
ramosis.
Hab. Feejee islands.
HooJc. Bond. Journ. v. 108. Pinnae 6-8-jugaB foliola

3. S. MTEIADENA, Planch. ! in ;
oblonga, obtusa, 4-9 lin. longa, supra nigricantia, subtus pallida,

:
10-20-juga, oblique
Flores ad apicem pedunculi semipollicaris 2-4,
puberula v. glabrata, costa prominula.
Calyx 3-4 Hn., corolla 9-12 lin. longa. Legumen 4-6-pollicare, 2 poll
demum glabratum, crebre et obscure transverse venosum.- J. Gray

ufo-velutinum,
Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 485.
Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, 359.
Acacia myriadena, Gnillem. ! Zeph. Tait. in Ann. vii.
Hab Islands of the Pacific from New Caledonia to Otaheiti.
Pinn^ 10-12.juga^; foliola 15-20-juga, oblique v.

4 S TENrirLOUA, Benth., sp. n.
subsemipoUicaria, opaca, subtus pallida utxmque nppre^..
subfalcato-oblonga, obtusa,
i-j-pollicans breviter pedicellati, su^>d.. .
puberula. Flores ad apicem peduncuU
speciebus tenuior. T^gimên
Calyx li lin., corolla 9-10 lin. longa, quam in ceteris
gnotum
" in Herb. Hooker. I do not know the histor
Hab Pacific isknds, Cunningham
island.
of this specimen.
.-„i:. /^.....^.«.
.vriadena
Allan Cunningham
..-d
never
.inn^ nnmerosioies.
visited the
Inflorescenha
Pacific
et flores valde diversi.
Pedunculi 4-b^
peduDCulo
communis 3-4-pollicaris coiyra
cellis crassiuscnlis 1 Hn. longis fulti, tomento brevi canescentes.

4
VOL. XXX.
i
[Senanthes.
600 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE Ml|Ki?^'*-
5. S. CALYCINA, Benth., sp. n. Pinnae 10-12-jugse; foliola lO^J^â, oLlonga, ob-

tusa, parum obliqua, subsemipoUicaria, opaca, utsinque pubescentia, Vbtus canescentia,
Plores ad apicem pedunculi sessiles, dissiftL Calyx amplus,
costa rufa valde prominente.
8-9 lin. longus; corolla vix poUice longior. Legumen arcuatum, semiWale, pollicem
latum, rufo-tomentosum.
Sab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, n. 419, Beplaîche, n. 344.
Calyx amplus S. grandifiorce, et flores pariter interrupte etsi breviter spicati, sed sessiles v. subsessiles
et corolla proportione multo brevier. Folia valde diversa, fere S. viiiemis, at foliola vix obliqua. Le-
gumen quam in omnibus cseteris speciebus longius et midto angustius.
XXVII. Archidendron, E. Muell.
Benth et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 1004.

ft
1. A. Vaillantii, F. Muell. 1 Fragm. v. 60. Glabmm. Pinnse 1-jugge ; foliola 3-4-juga,
oblique ovata, subsemipedalia, utrinque viridia, penniyenia et reticulato-venosissima,

addito minore prope basin rbacbeos. Plores in capitulo subsessiles. Calyx ad 4 lin.
longus, crassus, toraentellus. Corolla pollice pauUo longior, sericeo-tomentosa. Legumen

2-5-pollicare, 6-10 lin. latum, tortuosum, margine interiore incrassato, exteriore irregu- t
lariter crenato.
Pithecolohium v. Alhizzia Vaillantii, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 9.
Rah. East tropical Australia, Ttockingham Bay, Dallachj ; and probably the same spe-
species, a single leaf, Endeavour river, A. Cunningham. w
2. A. LiJCYi, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 201. Glabrum. Pinnae 2-jug8e ; foliola 2-3-juga,
oblique v. orbiculari-ovata, 3-6-pollicaria, utrinque nitidula, reticulato-venosissima. Plores
pedicellati, glabri. Calyx 2 lin., coroUa ad pollicem longa. Legumen lignescenti-coria-
ceum, margine exteriore profunde lobatum.
Pithecolohium Lucyi^ F. Muell. /. c.
Mab. East tropical Australia : Eockingham Bay, Ballachy.

I liave not seen this species, but take tbe above characters from F. Mueller's detailed descrintion.
XXVIII. Inga, WiUd.

Willd. Spec. iv. 1004
The following section
confused
of species in which the pod is unknown :
Sect. 1 . Leptinga. Flores glabri v. tomentelli, in receptaculo brevissirao distincte pedicellati, capitulura
seu potius umbellam globosam formantes. Species 1-16.
w
Sect. 2. DiADEMA. Flores glabri, in receptaculo brevissimo sessiles v. brevissime pedicellati, capitulum
globosum formantes. Species 17-31.
Sect. 3. BouRGONiA. Flores glabri, parvi minimus. Species
2^3.
Sect. 4. PsEUDiNGA. Flores spicati V. capitati. Corolla sericea v. rarius
glabra, calyce evoluto. Leguminis raargines nudi v. elevati, nee Species
lateraliter dilatati.
44-
Series 1. Glabrlfiorx. Corollse glabrae, in sequentibus sericeae v. vUlosa. Species 44-47.
^ /
)
%«•] MR. G- BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 601
Series 2. Gy mnop o d(S, ' Vetioln^ ssepius nudus. Floras tenues, pollice breviores. Bractese caducissimte.
Species 48-65.
Series S. PilosiuscuI(S. Petiolus ssepius alatus. Flores tenues, pollice breviores. Bractese caducissimie.
Species 66-80.
Series 4. Lepiantha. Petiolus alatus. Plores tenues, pollice breviores. Bractesc pcrsistentes. Specie s
81-86.
Series 5. Longifiora. Petiolus alatus. Flores pollice longiores. Bracteie caducissimse v. minimic.
Species 87-93.
Series 6. Calocephalee. Petiolus alatus v. nudus. Flores pollice longiores. Bruetoje persistcntes.
Foliola ampla. Species 94-104.

Series 7. Vulpina. Hirsutissim^. Petiolus alatus v. nudus. Glandulsje stipltatae. Brartew cuducuv
Species 105-116.
Lirsutissimi anrm. SpcHps
117, 118.
Sect 5. EuiNGA. Flores secus rhachin linearem spicati, ssepius latiorcs quam in Psmdinga. Coroll:
Leguminis tomentoai margines valde dilatati, plurisulcati. Species 119-110.

sericeo-villosa.
Icviter toraentosi v. rarius lonientoso

Sectio 1. Leptinga. Plores ssepius parvi, glabri
umbellato-capitati, pcdictaiis calyco lonj^no
villosi, in receptaculo minimo v. subgloboso
ribns v. rarius calyce ampliore brevioribus.
Petiolus late alatus. Floi

« Fedicelli calyce multo longiores.
289. Tomontclla
MYEiANTHA, Fcpp. ct Endl. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 77, t.
1. 1.
emptico-oblonga, acuminata, majora 5-polhcam
Petiolus late alatus ; foliola 2.jusa, "^
Hores tomentelli. Pedieem i-f-poUicare. C^yx H
glabra.
Staminum tubus vix exsertus. legumen igaotum.-iJ.««. / « Fl. Mras Mm
long
....
North Brazil, British Guiana, Eastern Peru, I c^f,
Mathews, n. 1593.
77. Tonnentoso-puberula
2 T TIMBKATIOA PW- et Endl. ! No.. Gen. et Sp. iii.
I^^gumen " rectum, planum, glabrum.

tubus longe exsertus.
lone, Steminum
Eastern Peru, Fapp'S
.'
. TT ? r„.,™ Tint ii 141; Lonil. Joum. iv. 680
ioliola 2-jusa. o^Ûv. o. on^ , J

•T,..,!.. Petiolus late alatus;
Puberula.
poUicaria,
^^^^ZZZ.
molUter pubesceutia. Um
Umbell.
eua=
poduncul
^^^
Srevissiê
Staminum tubus vix cxscrtii
corolla fere 4 Im. Ion
Un., calyx fere 2 lin.,
PedicelU 2-3
Leffumen iojnotam
Umbellie
1
. — — V
—
60 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. f ^

[%
Bores tomentelli. Pedicelli 3-4 lin^^^^îfx vix 1 lin., corolk
lirevissime pedunculatse.
ad 3 lin. longa. Staminum tubus breviter exsertus. Legumen ignotum.
Kab. Tropical America Cayenne, âgot, n. 959,
:
Surinam, Eostmann, n. 170.
This may prove to be a variety only of /. myriantha.

A,
** Fetiolus scepius angmte alatus, I'ediceUi calijce longiores. Flores glahrL
5. I. PANURENSis, Spmce /, Benth, in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Glabra. Petiolus vix
alatus; foKola uni- rarissime 2-juga, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, majora 4-5-pollicaria,

nitida. Umbell^ pedunculatse. Pedicelli ad 3 lin. longi. Calyx linea brevior. Corolla
3 lin. lonâ. Staminum tubus breviter exsertus. Legumen planum, glabrum, 6-9 lin.
latum.
Hah. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil.
0. I. UMBELLiFERA, Steud. ex BG. Frod. ii. 432. Glabra v. tomentella. Petiolus
breviter et anguste alatus ; foliola 2-juga, oblongo-lanceolata, majora 3-4-pollicaria,

iiitida. Umbellse longe pedunculatse. PediceUi 6-9 lin., calyx vix 1 lin., corolla 4-5
lin. longa. Staminum tubus vix exsertus. Legumen glabrescens, sessile, planum, 9 lin.
latum.
w
Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa umbellifera, Vahl ! EcL iii. 30.
Tnga rutilans^ Spruce ! PI. Exs.
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Cayenne, British Guiana,
7. I. LATERIFLORA, Miq. ! hi Binnuea, xix. 131. Glabra. Petiolus marginatus v.

*
anguste alatus ; foliola 2-3-juga, ovato-lanceolata v. oblonga, acuminata, nitida, majora

2-3-pollicaria. TJmbellse parvse, secus ramos confertse, breviter pedunculata. Pedicelli
1-1 J lin.,calyx J lin., corolla vix 2 lin. longa. Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Legu-
men breviter stipitatum, semipedale, ad 6 lin. latum, glabrum. Benth. in FL Bras.
Mim
I. parvijlora, Spruce, PI. Exs.
Hah, Tropical America : North Brazil, Surinam.

8. I. viRGULTOSA, Besv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ix. 426. Glabra v. minute tomentella.
Petiolus marginatus V. anguste alatus; foliola 3-6-juga, lanceolata, acuminata, nitida,
majora 2-2|-pollicaria. Umbellge breviter pedunculatae. Pedicelli 3-4 lin., calyx | lin.,
corolla 2|-3 lin. longa. Staminum tubus breviter exsertus. Legumen o'labrum, semi-
pedale, ad 6 lin. latum. Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa virgultosa, Valil ! Eel. iii. 32.
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Cayenne.

»
*** Fetiolus nudus v. stihmidus. Fedicelli calyce longiores. Flores glabri

{excepta I. quaternata).
9. I. HETEROPHYLLA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1020. Glabra. Petiolus nudus v. brevissime
marginatus ; foliola 1-2- rarius 3-4-juga, ovato-oblonga v. sublanceolata, acuminata,
nitida, majora 2-3-pollicaria. Umbellge breviter pedunculata?. Plores glabri. Pedicelli
2-3 lin., calyx J-j lin., corolla 2|-3 lin. longa. Staminum tubus longiuscule exsertu
l£»gumen breviter stipitatum, 3-5-pollicare, 6-7 lin. Idîmn..—Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
> '
/
—
Inga.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. 603
Mimosa Par(B, Poir. Diet. SuppL i, 44.
Inga umbellaia, G. Don Gen. ! Syst. ii. 391.

Lprotracta, Steud. ! in Flora, 1843, 758.
/. stenocarpa et /. vouap<Efoliay Spruce ! PI, Exs.
Kab. Tropical America: North Brazil, Guiana, West Indies, New Granada, Peru, and
apparently also Coroico in Bolivia, Fearce.
m
10. I. SERTULiFERA, DC! Fvod. ii. 436. Glabra v. ferrugineo-tomentella. Petiolus
teres v. brevissime subalatus ; foliola sub-2-juga, ovata v. ovato-oblonga, brcviter acumi-

nata, coriacea, nitida, majora semipedalia. Umbellae pedunculatsc. Plorcs ylabri.
Pedicelli 4-6 lin., calyx l-lj lin., corolla 3J-4 lin. longa. Staminum tubus vix exscrtus.
Leûmen sessile, 3-4-pollicare, 1 poll, latum. Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mm.

• «
Mimosa
Inga coriacea, Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814. i. 71.
Rah. Tropical America : North Brazil, Surinam, Cayenne, British Guiana.

Var. LEPTOPUs, pedicellis duplo longioribus.
in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 580.
/. leptopus, Benth. !
Foeppig, Mathews, n. 1592.

Bab, Eastern Peru,
Mart Herh. Fl. Bras. 112. Glabra. Stipulac falcato-ovata-
11. I. FLAGELLiFORMis, I
oblongo-elliptica, coriacea, nitida, 4-C-pollicaria

Petiolus nudus ; foliola ^-5-juga,
Flores glabri. Pedicelli semipollicares. Calyx ad 2 lin. >
Umbellae longe pedanculatiB.
3-4 longa. Staminum tubus vix exsertus. Legumcn ignotum.-J?^WA. ui
corolla lin.
Fl. Bras. Mim.

Flum. Ic. xi. t. 27.
Mimosa fiagelliformis, Veil. Fl.
America Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro, and Mmas Gera^s.

Hah. Tropical :
lc,^^îmYi.oi^^. Benth. lin Hook. Land. Journ. iy.m. Glabriuscula. Petiolus

12
subseniipedalia. Umbell^ laterales, pnrv^,
S-juga, oblongo-elKptica,
nudus /foliola
Pedicelli 2-3 Im., calyx vix J hn., corolla 3 hn.
brevissime pedunculate. Hores glabri.
longe exsertus. Legumen ignotum

lon„ Staminum tubus
Tropical America British Guiana.
Hah :
Nov. Geu. et Sp. iii. 79. Tomcntoso-lanuta v

QUATEKNATA, F^pp. ct Budl. !
13 I
3^4-juga, elliptico-oblonga, demum glabra v. ad
glabrescens Petiolus nudus; foliola
TJmbelte longiuscule pedunculate^ i

pubemla, 4-8-pollicaria.
corolla fere 6 Im. long- Staminum
Rt^" ttiimsvix
Pedicelli 3-6 lin., calyx 2i lin.,
villosi
Ugvimenignotam.-Senth. in Fl. BrM. Mim
exsertus
New Granada, Ocana, Scklm. n. 201.
SjTropiLl America: North Brazil,
Pedicelli breves. Flore, fflabr!.

.«. Petiolus nudus v. angusle alatm.
corolla H-S,, lin. lo.

^°"%ê1^rL£^1S\YK;;
longe
Calyx-lineim.
Lesrumen imotum Peru, Sp

woods about Lalla. Eastern
si Tropical America :
— ^
— \ :
N
V
604 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [fnynr.
Arbor IS-pedalis^ ramosa, pluribus notis /. ftagelUformi afl5nis, sed stipulis parvis, foliis non nitidis
et pedicellis brevibus facile distincta. Glandulse parvse, Pedunculi 3-5-pollicares. Staraiuum tubus
vix corollam excedens.
15. I. Selloana, Benth. I in Hook. Lond. Joiirn. iy. 583. Glabra. Petiolus nudus
V. anguste alatus. I'oliala 2-3-juga, ovali-oblonga v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata,
nitida, majora 2-3|-pollicaria. Umbellse longiuscule pedunculatse. Pedicelli 1-1^ lin.,
calyx vix \ lin., corolla 2i-3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bms. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Staminum tubus variare videtur corolla brevior v. longior,
16. I. COEDISTIPULA, Mart. ! Kerb. Fl. Bras. 111. Glabra. Stipulge foliaceê, late,
subsemipollicares. Petiolus nudus v. anguste alatus; foliola 1-3-juga, oblonga v. sub-
lanceolata, nitida, majora 2-4-pollicaria. Umbellse longiuscule pedunculatse. Pedicelli
1-3 lin., calyx amplus, 3-4 lin. longus. Corolla calyce paullo longior. Lei>umen sessile
o
8-10-pollicare, poUicem latum.— 5ewÂ. in Fl. Bras. 3Iim.
Mimosa plana. Veil. Yl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 10.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil prov. Bio Janeiro.
full
are sometimes and in

the section Dladema tlie pedicels are , sometimes very shortly developed in some of the glabrous
species.)
DiADEMA. Flores glabri v. parce puberuli, ssepius parvuli v. tenues,

Sectio 2.
in recep-
taculo minimo v. subgloboso capitati, sessiles v. rarius breviter
pedicellati. Eoliorum
petiolus nudus v. rarius angustissime marginatus.
Glandular parvae v. obsolete.
Pedunculi ssBpius longi, axillares.
Fetlolus supra canaliculatus, inter jug a marginatus

v. angustissime alatus. Foliola
sesszha. Species Brasilienses.
17. I. LENTisciFOLiA, Benth.! in Hook. Lond. Journ.' iv. 592 Glabra Petiolus
margmatus ;
foliola 2-3.juga, oblongo-lanceolata,
obtusa v. emarginata, coriacea, nitida,
l-li-polhcaria. Pedunculi erecti. Calyx li lin., corolla 3^ lin. longa. Staminum tubus
inclusus. Legumen ignotum. M. £rcis. Mm.
Hab. Tropical or subtropical South America : South Brazil, '
Sella.
18 I. DiÊMA, Marl. JTerb. M. Bras. 114.
Petiolus 'nudus y. anguste .....=
alatus
I-ohola 4-5-juga, eUiptico-oblonga, utrinque
angustata. PeduucuU longissimi,
° tenues,'
penduli. '
Mimosa diadema, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 45.
Hab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro.

:
This is only known from Vellozo's rude figure, from

which wmilr? .^
/. n.ans but ..th Ws a. least twice as larg!
it
and the peduncle ^; o:

îr^^^^^^
. ^.
TL^^^ôf"
IS figured as a mass of filaments without distinction of calyx,
corolla, and stamens
very
arc ^
_, ^^ .ivjiiage auu peauncies,
The pod is shortly stipitate,
wide 8 in. long and
— I
;
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 605
19. I. NUTANS, Mart. ! Herh. Fl. Bras, lU, Glabra. Petiolus anguste mar-
nudus ;
foliola 4-7-juga, ovali-oblonga, obtusa
v. mucronulata, nitidiila, majora
1-lfpol-
licai Pedunculi longi, tenues, penduli. Plores in capitulo pauci, brevissime
pedicellat
Calyx vix i lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Staminum tubus exsertus. Legumen longe stipi-
tatum, semipedale v. longius, f poll. \n.ivim,—BentJi. in M. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa
Mimosa
Mart
20. I. SCHINIPOLIA, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. iv. 584. Glabra. Petiolus angus-
tissime marginatus y. nudus ; foliola 8-12-juga, oblongo-rbombca, subfalcata, pleraque
vix semipollicem excedentia, nitida. Pedunculi tenues, penduli. Flores in capitulo
sessiles, ultra 20. Calyx \ lin., corolla 4 lin. longa. Staminum tubus inclusus.
Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Eio Janeiro
** Betiolus tereSf nudus. Foliola arete sessilia. Species Ceniro-Americance

V. Columbiana.
21. I. Eook.
TUBULIFERA, Benth. Bond, Journ. iv. 584.
! Ferrugineo-pubesccns.
in
Foliola 6-8-juga, oblique oblonga v. lanceolato-ovata, majora 2-2i-pollicaria. Capitula
densa, longe pedunculata. Calyx pubescens, ^ lin. longus. Corolla glabra, 4 lin. longa,
tenuis. Legumen ignotum.

Hah. Tropical America : West coast of Columbia, J5arc% ; Panama, Cuming, n. 1282,
Veraguas, Seemann.
in Book. Bond. Journ. iv. 585. Perrugineo-villosa.
22. I. UUFESCENS, Benth.!
4-5-juga, obovaH-oblonga, basi oblique subcordata, majora 2-3-poUicaria, mem-
Foliola
Capitula densa, longe pedunculata. Flores in speciminibus nondura pcrforf c
branacea.
evoluti. Legumen ignotum.
West coast of Columbia, Veraguas, Kinds.
Sab Tropical America :
more villous, the leaflets fewer and larger, the^yeins more con
This is evidently near /. tuhulifera, but
the bracts more prominent, species
surface, the peduncles more slender,
spicuous on the upper
specimens with the flowers further advanced.
however require confirmation from
585. Ferraginco-tomenteUa.
Smth. in Soak. Zand. Journ. iv.
23 I GMBTOiFERA, !
basi breviter cuneata, 2--4-po hcana,

obovali- v. oMongo-effiptica,
Poliola 'sub-4.iuga,
Calyx puberulus, vix 1, Im. longus.
Capitula densa, longe pedunculata.
membranacea.
glabra, lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Corolla 3J
Veraguas,
„
Barcla, , t,
Panama, „
SuUou c,
Western Columbia, ;
t
Hayes, Seemann.
585. Ferrugineo-pubosceu<
94 T Btllbeegiana, Benth. ! in Soot Zand. Journ- ir-
3-4-pollicaria. Capitula densa, longe

ouneata,
foul afuroX^tica. basi breviter
sed spec.mm.bus suppeten- m
/. .loMifer. similes,
pitclr Bores subglobosi, iis
bene evoluti. Legumen ignotum.

tibus nondum
BeUo, BUlberg {Bvrb. Be, ol.)
America Porto :
Sai. Tropical
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [%«•
606
*** Fetiolm teres, nudus. Foliola petiolulata
A>- t Species ColumhianO'Mexicance

v^'^ uî^'^d, 25. I. MEMBEANACEA, Beutk., sp. n. Subglabra. Poliola 2-3-juga, brevissime petio
"^
X- liilata, ovali-elliptica, obtusa v. obtuse acuminata, 2-3-pollicaria, membranacea, nitidula,
V
venulosa. Pedunculi tenues. Mores sessiles, glabri. Calyx 1 J lin., corolla 3 Kn. longa.
Tjcgumen ignotum.
Hab. Tropical America : Western Columbia, Yeraguas, Seemann.
Partes novelise minutlssime puberulse, specimina cseterum glabra. Rami tenues. Stipulse obsoletse.
Folionira petiolus tenuis, 1^-3-pollicaris. Glandule minimse v. obscurse. Pedunculi axillares v. ad

nodos defoliates laterales, 1-li-pollicares. Receptaculum minimum, globosum. Staminum tubus
inclusus.
26. I. JiNicuiL, SchlechL ! in lAnnmat xii. 559. Glabra. Poliola 3-juga, longiuscule
petiolulata, ovali- v. elliptico-oblonga, basi breviter cuneata, acutiuscula, nitidula, majora

4_g.pollicaria. Capitula densa, longe pedunculata. Flores glabri, sessiles v. brevissime
pediccllati. Calyx 1 lin., corolla 3 lin. longa, Legumen glabrum, 6-10-spermum.
Hab, Tropical America: Mexico, Schiede, Jurgensen n. 594, Sumiclirast n. 1037;
Guatemala, Fraser.
27. I. DAEiENENSis, Seem. ! Bot. Her. 117, t. 23. Perrugineo-pubescens." Poliola 2-4-
juga, longiuscule petiolulata, ovali-elliptica, acuminata, basi cuneata, nitidula, subtus
venosa, majora 4-pollicaria. Capitula densa, pedunculata. Calyx 1 lin. longus, pubes-
cens. Corolla glabra, ad 3 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hah. Tropical America : Darien, dark woods at Cape Corrientes, Seemann.
Vei-y near to /. Jinicuil.
ft Species BrasiliaiicB.
28. I. LANCE^FOLIA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mini. Glabra. Poliola 2-3-juga,
oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, in petiolulum angustata. Pedunculi rigidi. Plores
o labri v, vix puberuli, subsessiles. Calyx ad 1 lin., corolla 3 lin. longa. Legumen
ignotum.
Hah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro.
29. I. Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Glabra. Poliola 3-juga,
ciNNAiiOMEA, Spiûce /,
longiuscule petiolulata, oblongo-elliptica, majora 8-pollicaria. Capitula longe pedun-

culata. Plores sessiles, glabri. Calyx 2^ lin. longus, corolla vix longior. Stamina vix
semipoUicaria. Legumen "Ingcs.^^
Hab. Tropical America : Nortb Brazil.
30. I. BULLATA, Benih. I in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 607. Rufo-hirsuta. Poliola 2-3-
juga, breviter petiolulata, ovata v. oblongo-elliptica, obtusa, 5-9-pollicaria, subbullata.
Pedunculi breves, pauciflori. Calyx campanulatus, fere 5 lin. longus, glaber. Corolla
semipoUicaris, apice setosa. Stamina sesquipollicaria. Legumen ignotum.— JF'/. Biâs.
Mifn.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro.
u
Im MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 607
31. I. CAMPANULATA, Beuth. ! in Mart Fl. Bras. Mim. Rufo-viUosula. Foliola

2-3-juga, brevissime petiolulata, ovali-elliptica, abrupte acuminata, majora 4!-polHcaria,
membranacea. Capitula multiflora, longiuscule pedunculata. Calyx campaniilatus, 5
lin. longus. Corolla semipolKcaris, parce pilosa. Stamina sesqnipoUicaria. Legumen
ignotum.
f
Possibly a variety of/, bullata; but, besides the diflferences in foliage and inflorescence, the flowers are
said to be white in /. bullata, yellow in /. campanulata.
Sectio 3. Bfrgonia.
Plores parvi, glabri v. parce puberuli, in spicas clongatas cylindraceas r. breves
ovoideas v. oblongas dispositi, in rhacbe lineari sessiles v. brevissime pediccllati. Corolla
tenuis, infundibularis, calycem sa^pius minimum triple saltern supeians. Foliorura
angusteque rarius undique v. late alatus. Gluudulu) so'^'^noR

petiolus nudus v. breviter
V. parum elevatse.
species are distinguished from each other is con-
None of the characters by which the first four or five
pecimcus
wide
\
« SpiccB elongates, axillares, smpius laxifi
1018. Glabra. Petiolus nudus v. vix angustissime

32. I LAURiNA, mild. Spec. ir.
ovata v. ovali-oblonga, obtusa v. obtuse acuminatn, conacon,

marg tus- foliola 2.juga,
Spica3 axillares, elongatLX). Calyx vix lineam, corolla 3
^tidTmai Jra 2-3-pollicaria.
Legumen basi valde obliquum, 3-4.p ol 1 rare, 1
lon-a. Staminum tubus inclusus.

lin
latum.— 6^m^5. FL Brit. W. Bid. 227
fere polUcem
978; Sieb. Fl. Trin. n. 110.
Mimosa laurina, Swartz ! Fl. Ind. Occid. ii. !
164, non Lmn.

Mimosa fagifalia, Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 264, 1.
Seeânn, seem rather to be.o.c
«W Specimens aUo from Veraguas.

GufdaW St. Thonâs.
i^êcUy WêU d^win,

'V":
*:• ê% flguêa b, .acui. and f.n. hi. ,.,
specimen ha.n,
p„a. ^.^ ^^^^^^^_ ^^,.^,^,
jiae
^^^^^^ ^
oo T WUld. Uero.
33. I FAGiroLiA, ovato-oblonga, obtus.'
.ginatus anguste alatus v. ^ ^^^ rariu longa. Spic'nxilb..

coriacea,
^^- nitida,' majora
^^^ 3 p -
obtuse acuminata,
juiuiixai-c, .
-
Stamiuum tuDu.s
^
«„^niln nd 3 Un. j<
elongatse
uscule es
Mimosa fagifoUa
excl. syn
Mimosa
Mart IK
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008 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ
spread over the greater part of tropical Brazil, Guiana, and

Venezuela.
laurina in its more decidedly bordered petiole, exsertcd starainal tube
This differs generally from /.
more coriaceous, less acuminate leaflets but intermediate

and narrower pod, and from /. marginata in its ;
specimens occur on botb sides.
Mimosa didyma, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 46, may be a rude representation of some form of this ;
but
the drawing is evidently so inaccurate as to be quite unrecognizable.
34. I. MARGINATA, JVUld. ! Spcc. iv. 1016, excl syn. Glabra v. puberula. Petiolus
sub foliolis terminalibus breviter v. anguste alatus rarius subnudus ; foliola 2- rarius
3-juga, oblonga v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, 3^-pollicaria v. maxima duplo majora,
submembranacea. Spicse axillares, elongatse. Staminum tubus ssepius exsertus. Calyx

ad "I
lin., corolla 2 lin. longa. Legumen vulgo 2-3-pollicare, semipollicem latum.
Mimosa semialata, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 5.
Inga semialata, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 111.
/. guayaquilensis, G. Don! Gen. Syst. ii. 391.

/. odorata, G. Don, I. c. 388 ? ex char, nimis brevi.
/. excelsa, Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 78.
/. puherula, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 589.
7. pycnostachya^ Bentli. ! /. c. spicis longis dense floribuhdis.
/. leptostachya, Benth. ! in PI. Spruce Exs. spicis longis laxifloris.
/. sapida^^,^ B. et K. Nov. Gen* et Sp. vi. 286? ex specimine manco.

Sah. Tropical America common in tropical : Brazil, extending into Bolivia, Peru,
4
Ecuador, and Columbia, to Panama.

Exceedingly variable, especially as to tbe wings of the petiole, wliich ai-e usually short, cuneate, or
obcordate, but are sometimes narrow, and extend almost or quite to the lower pair of leaflets, or even, in
some leaves, disappear altogether. /. verrucosa, Presl, Bot. Bern. 66, may belong either to this or to tbe
preceding species.
35. I. CYLINDEICA, Mart. ! Serb. Fl. Bras. 114. Glabra v. puberula. Petiolus nudus
V. rarius bine inde marginatus, foliola 3-4i-juga, oblonga, obtusa v. acuminata, tenuiter
coriacea, majora 4-6-poUicaria. Spicse axillares, elongatee. Calyx ad J lin., corolla 2
lin. longa. Staminum tubus exsertus. Legumen ad 8 poll, longum, 9-10 lin. latum.
Mimosa cylindrica, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 9.
Inga poly st achy a, Benth. ! in Hoot. Lond. Journ. iv. 587.
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes, Bahia, and Goyaz, and perhaps
:
also North Brazil, but sometimes difficult to distinguish positively from J. coruscans^ of
which it may prove to be a variety.
36. I. COKTJSCANS, Hwmh. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1017. Glabra. Petiolus
nudus ; foliola 3-juga, ovali-elliptica v. oblonga, coriacea, nitida,
2-4-pollicaria. Spic®
axillares, elongatse. Calyx semilinea brevior, corolla ^~^ lin. longa. Staminum tubus
vix V. breviter exsertus. Legumen ignotum.
Mimosa coruscans
Sab. Tropical America : British Guiana, Columbia
1
^''d<'''\ MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 609
37. I. TOMENTOSA, Benth,, sp. n. Tomentosa. Petiolus inter juga alatus; foliola
3-juga. oblonga, obtuse acuminata, 3-4-pollicaria. Spicse axillares, elongate. Flores
minute tomentosi. Calyx linea paullo brevior. Corolla 2 lin. longa. Staminum tubus
inclusus. Legumen ignotum.
Hah. Tropical America : near El Garania in Peru, Leohler, n. 2323.
Tota pilis brevissimis crispulis tomentosa, tomento demiim a pagina superiore foliolonim detergibili.
Raniuli angulati. Stipulas non vidi. Foliorum petiolus 6-8-pollicaris, inter juga alatus, infra jiigum
infimum subnudus. Foliola brevissime petiolulata, basi rotuudata. Spic.-e in speclminibus visis semi-
pedales, interruptse, breviter pedunculatse. Mores sessiles. BractcsR parvte, caducse. Stamina numcrosa.
With the inflorescence and small flowers of /. marginata and /. cyUndrka, this species is well marjccd
by the tomentum, exceptional in the section.
** Spicce hrevesj ad nodos defoUatos v. rarius in axillis fasciculatce.
38. £. AGGREGATA, G. Dofi, Gen. Si/st, ii. 391. Glabra. Petiolus angustc nktus r.
subnudus ; foliola 2-4-juga, ovali- v. elliptico-oblonga, acuminata, mcmbranacca, majora
.5-pollicaria. Spicge in axillis v. ad nodos defoliatos pluros, sessiles v. breviter peduncu-
latse, rhacbe vix semipoUicari. Plores subglabri. Calyx 1 lin., corolla ad 3 lin. longa.
Legumen rectum v. arcuatura, 6-7 lin. latum.

Inc/a sapida, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. 590, non H., B. et K.
Kah. Tropical America : Peru, Tavon ; near Yurimaguas, Toeppig n. 2208, and, appa-
rently tbe same, Britisb Guiana, Schomhurgh.

I have little doubt that Pavon's specimen of this plant in the Fielding herbarium, now forming part of
described by Don as /. aggregata, although the Pavonian label attached

the Oxford herbarium, is the one
name of Ruiziana in Don's handwriting ; but it is evident that, by some
to the label-sheet bears the /.
that of one of the three specimens in the same collection

mistake, the label has been exchanged with
with the characters of the true /. Ruiziana. Pavon's specimen and Schomburgk's specimens
agreeing
small and persistent in Poeppig's fruiting specimens but I believe that
have lost their bracts, which are ;
all belong to one species.

Glabra v. puberula. Petiolus sub foliolis breviter
39. I. BouBGONi, DC. Trod. ii. 434.
2-3- 4-juga, ovato-oblonga, acuminata, nitida, majora 4-5-polli-
alatus •
foliola rarissime
'
oblongs, laterales, aggregate. Calyx vix | Un., corolla 3 lin.
caria Spic^ dens^,
exsertus. Legumen rectum, planum, glabrum, baud crassum,
lon-a Staminum tubus
3-5 poll, longum, ad J poll, latum.
marginibus parum elevatis,
Mimosa
Mimosa
M Guiana.
Surinam, Cayenne, and British
Hah Tropical America :
Journ. W. 587 Tomentella, foliis glabrxs

Bentn. I in Hooh. Lond.
..
40 T PEZIZI.ERA,
ovato-oblonga, acumumta, conacea.
glandulae maxim.; foUola 4.juga,
Petblus nudus ;
aggregate. Bores glabn
oblong., luterales,
r£TsXomL.. Spica. dens.,
Staminum tubus exsertus. Legumen .gnotum.
longa.
S^xi lin
,
'corolla fere 3'lin.
Guiana, Schomburgk
Tropical America British
Lb. :
foliola 2-3-juga;
Glabr Petiolus subnudus;
i.jN»iB, Spruce
TARAPOTENSis, sp
r
41. I. «i- - !
.
obtuse acummata,
pnriacea
coriacea, muuu a, 2-3-pollicaria.
nitidula, ^
.Spica5
^
oblomô-ellipt obtusa V.
4k2
I
— i
610 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [%<».

r
dens^, subgloTaosse, laterales, aggregatae v. breviter racemosse. Calyx vix J lin., corolla
2J lin. longa. Staminum tubus breviter exsertus. Legumen ignotum.

Sah. Tropical America : Eastern Peru, near Tarapoto, Spruce n. 4221.
Arbor 18-pedalis, coma patula. Foliorum petiolus 1-2-pollicaris, nunc omnino nudus, nunc sub foliolis
brevissime marginatus. Foliola basi in petiolum brevissimum contracta. Glandulae parvse, scutellatse.
Pedunculi tenues, i-l-poUicares. Spicarum rhachis vix 2 lineis longior. Flores numerosi, albi, pedi-
cello ^ lin. longo fulti, odore Narthecii ossifragi scatentes, tenuissimi.
42. I. TENuiFOLiA, Benth. ! in Hooh. Lond. Journ, iv. 587. Glabra. Petiolus nudus.
Poliola 4-juga, lanceolata, acuta, ^2-pollicaria. Spicae densae, oblongo-cylindraceae,
laterales, pedunculatae, ssepius fasciculatae Calyx vix \ linea longior, corolla fere 2
. lin.
longa. Staminum tubus vix exsertus. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mini.
Mab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Minas Geraes. :
43. I. ALBA, Willd. Spec. iv. 1013. Glabra v. vix puberula. Petiolus subnudus;
foliola 3-5-juga, ovata v. oblonga, submembranacea, majora 3-4-pollicaria, Spicae ovoideo-
globosse V. breviter oblongse, densae, laterales, aggregates v, breviter paniculatse. Calyx
\ lin., corolla 1^ lin. longa. Staminum tubus exsertus. Legumen sessile, semipedale,
J poll, latum. — Benth. in FL JBras. Mim.

Mimosa alba^ Swartz ! Fl. Ind, Occid. ii. 976^ non Vahl,
Inga fraonnea^ Willd. ! Spec, iv. 1019.
Mimosa fraxinea^ Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 44.
Inya thyrsoidea, Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814, i. 71.
Inga Spruceana, Benth. ! in PL Spruce Exs.
Inga parviflora^ Sagot ! PL Exs.
Sah. Tropical America : North BrazU, Cayenne.
(See also 45, /. microcalyx, which has the short calyx of Burgonia,)
Sectio 4. PSETJDINGA.
Flores in spieas primum breves demum parum elongandas rariiis oblongo-cylindraceas

V.interrupte paucifloras dispositi, in rhaclie lineari sessiles y. rarius pedicellati. Calyx
anguste tubulosus, rarius in speciebus parvifloris subcampanulatus, pilosus v. rarius
glaber. Corolla (excepta seriei prioris) sericeo-villosa. Legumen ubi notum planum,
crassum v. tenue, marginibus nudis v. elevatis nee lateraliter dilatatis, quam facies
plansB ssepissime angustioribus, glabrum v. hirsutum. Petioli nudi v. alati. Glandulae
saepissime adsunt. Spicae ssepissime axillares v. ad apices ramorum corymbosse.
Although readily distinguished from the foregoing sections, it is very difficult to
trace any definite line
to separate this section from Euinga, especially whilst the ripe fruit of so many
species remains unknown
•nsiderably
species become better known
Series 1. Glabriflorge. :Petiolm nudus. Calyx glaber v. tenuiter puherulus. Corolla

glabra
This series approaches the section Burgonia, from which it is distinguished chiefly in habit and in the
more developed calyx.
44. I. sTiPULARis, DC. ! MSm. Lig. 440; Trod. ii. 435. Glabra. Stipulae late, rigide
fohace», subpersistentes. Poliola 2-3-juga, ovata, coriacea,
nitida, majora 4-6.polli-
—
X
Inga.-] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. 611
caria. Spicse ovoideo globosse, pedunculatae, axillares v. subpaniculatse. Calyx 2 lin.,
corolla 4-4J lin. longa. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen 6-8-pollicare, 7-8 lin.
latum. Benth. in FL Bras. Mim

Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Cayenne, Surinam.
45. I. MiCROCALYX, Spruce I, Benth. ! in Mart. FL Bras. Mim. Glabra. Stipule
anûstge, caducae. Poliola 2-3-juga, ovata v. elliptica, subcoriacea, nitida, majora 3

Spicse oblongse, axillares, louge pedunculate. Calyx
poUicaria v. rarius 6-8-pollicaria.
Stamina ultrapollicaria, tube exscrto. Lcgumcn
linea brevior, corolla S-SJ lin. longa.
ignotum.
•
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil.
of the short-spiked species of Bursfonia but the long stamens and
This has the small calyx and corolla ;
inflorescence are those of Psending a.

Glabra. 2jusa, ovato- Tuliola
46 I CAPITATA, Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814. i. 71.
3-6.pollicaria. Spic^ ovoideaB, densa.,^ axillares, longc

oblonga, coriacea, nitida, majora
Stamina scsqmpollieana. tubo
pedunculate. Calyx 3-4 lin., corolla ad 6 lin. longa.
Legumen ignotum.— jB^^^. in FL Bras. Mim.

incluso.
L albicans, Walp. ! in Linnsea, xiv. 298.
peduncularis, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. n. 1095.

/.
/. calydna, Salzm. ! PL Exs.

Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro.
TTnh Tronical America:
Miquel under the name of/. capUata belong to P.W^Jn,™
SuriZ P ctens distributed by
~s ngrspecinêns
bome smgie
b
bi^cc amougt.
the Brazilian ones
^.
of /. capitaia
.^ u^
^
™.y
_,„,,_
shghtly from
_ ^^«
the above
varieties or dis- rpaaraea as marked
characters^
tinct species.
Toliola 3-4:-juga, pctiolulata, oblonga
sp. n. Glabra-
47.
47 I. STENOCALTX, Spvuce /,
pedunc
2-2i.polUcam. Spica. elongate, axUlarcs,
^-;^--t:: litW rnaô a
Tloros perfecte evCuti et le,
"t^^rrXiola^Tlin. ôlU anûstus.
in Ecuador, Spruce
Anêriea summit of Mouut Guayrapurina
"irTroplcal :
4882 8cd spicis
rigid^, cadu-.e v. mmimn'. Foli.

StipuleE lineari-falcatse,
3-4 acumi
nibus
orum
cuneata,petiolulol-libn.longo,f
pedunculo
p.uu.. longiusculo
nltrapoUicarcs,
ultrapollicarcs,
jam staminft
perfecte evoto
nitidi, sessdes.
Flores glaberrimi,
Lflor^.
but has winged pet
numerosa glabrous flower.,
said to have
(See also luo, ±. ^^r"-
Cahcephala) .
habit of several
series 2.
êm.^ foliar^
G^nôpod-^^-.^^^^^^^^^^
-- »•
^'-Ti.rt:::^™'
rarius glaher. Corolla dense
Moms, p^loml^ - ^'^ i^»*^
Le<e.
caducce Caly.
—
\
612 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. l^nga.
sericeo-pubescens v. villosa, rarius parce strigosa. Legumen planum, ante maturitatem

hand crassum, glahrum v. via; puberulum.
* Foliola Ujuga. Mores strigosi.
48. I. MARTiNiCENsis, Fresl ! Symh. i. 65, t. 42. Perrugineo-pubescens. Foliola

2-juga, obovata, pilosula, 4-5-pollicaria. Spicse breviter pedunculatae, densissime ob-
longo-cylindracese, IJ-pollicares. Mores sessiles, strigosi. Calyx 1 J lin. longus ; corolla
3 lin. longa, usque ad calycem 5-fida. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen ignotum.
Griseh. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 227, pro parte.
Mimosa coriacea, Sieb. ! Fl. Martin, n. 325.
Hab. Tropical America : West Indies, Martinica, Sieber.
49. I. DOMiNiCENSis, Benth., sp. n. Glabra v. pilis raris conspersa. Foliola 2-juga,
ovato-lanceolata v. oblongo-elliptica, obtusa, nitida, 3-4-pollicaria. Spicse breyiter pedun-
culatoe, dense oblongo-cylindracese, IJ-poUicares. Flores pedicellati, parce strigillosi.
Calyx linea paullo longior. Corolla infundibularis, fere 3 lin. longa, tubo calycem ex-
cedcnte. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen ignotum.
/. martinicensis , Griseb. ! Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 227, pro parte.
Hab. Tropical America : "West Indies, Dominica, Imiây.

Certainly allied to /. martinicensis ; but tbe two species, placed side by side, have a very different
aspect.
*» Foliola pier a que v. omnia bijuga. Corolla
50. I. LEIOCALTCINA, Benth. ! in ILooh. Lond. Journ. iv. 598. Puberula. Foliola
2-juga, ovali-oblonga v. elliptica, nitida, majora 4-5-pollicaria. Spicee dens^, vix demum
semipoUicares, longe pedunculatae. Calyx glaber, 2 lin. longus ; coroUa duplo lono-ior,
sericeo-villosa. Legumen 6-10-pollicare, | poll, latum. Fl. Bras. Mini.
I. muUijlora, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 598.
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Cayenne, British Guiana.
51. I. DTJMosA, Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Glabra v. pilis raris consper
Foliola bijuga, subsessilia, ovaK-elliptica y. oblonga, nitida, majora
semipedalia. Sp
breves, densse, longe pedunculatae. Calj-s adpresse pubescens, 2-2^
lin. longus*; corolla
sericeo-villosa, ad 5 lin. longa. Legumen pluripollicare, f-l^poU. latum
/. splendens, Benth. ! in Spruce, PI. Exs., non Willd.
Hab. Tropical America : N orth Brazil.
52. I. STRIGILLOSA, Spruce ! in Mart. Fl. £ras. Mim. Puberula Foliola 2 iuca
longiuscule petiolulata, ovali-elliptloa oblonga, acuminata, y.
minute pUosula, maiora
semipedalia. Spicse breves, densae, longe pedunculata,.
Calyx pubescens 2 lin corolla
Ulosa 4 lin. lonsra Legumen pubescens, 3-6-pollicare,
f-l poU. latum
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil
53 I KrriNEKVis, ^ruce
Benth. in Mart. Fl. Brc^. Mim. !,
Tube nitente rufesoens.
FoMa 2.juga, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, pagina inferiore margins
nerviformi et oosta
pagma, supenons rafo-pubescentibus, majora
6-7-pollicaria. Spicse breves dens*
I^gO"'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 613
pedunculataB. Calyx adpresse pubescens, 3 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-viUosa, 6 lin

Kab. Tropical America : North Brazil, and Eastern Peru, near Yurimaguas, Voeppig.
54. I. MaynensiSj Benth.i sp. n. Eerrugineo-tomentosa, glabrescens. Foliola 2-jnga
ovata V. late elliptica, coriacea, majora 3-4-pollicaria. Spicae breves, subcapitata;
pedunculatse. Calyx tomentoso-pubescens, 3 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-tomentosa,
6-7 lin. longa. Legumen sessile, basi valde obliquum, seniipedale et longius, pollicem
r
latum, glabrum.
Hab. Tropical America : Eastern Peru, near Yurimaguas, Jl?(£ppi(j {Herb. Vhuh).
Species tomento Euingis accedit. Floras et fructus Pseudingarum Gymnopodarum. Florcs qnara in
ffi
Ramiili petioli ct pcduiieuli tonicnto
moUi rufescente
tella. StipuljB breves, ovatae, caducae. Foliorum petiolus teres, 1-2-pollicaris. Glandulie orbiculatu;,
sessiles, variant parvs v. majusculae. Foliola subsessilia, obtusa v. brevissime acuminata, doinnm riglcbile
manri
Pcdunculi axillarcs, poUi-
foliorum ramealiura variant multo minora et acutiora.
Spicarum rbachis oblonga v. ovoidca, 2-3 liu. louga. Bractcsc mi-
cares v. pauUo longiores, rigiduli.
Flores tenues, sessilto. Stamitia fere scsquipoUicaria, tube
nimge, lineari-spatbulats, s^pius caducaj.
vix exserto. Legumen /. punctata, planum, glabrum, marginibus vix elevatis.
55. I. LENTICELLATA, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mm, Glabra v. vix minute pubc-
oblongo-lanceolata, nitidula, majora 3-4-pollicaria.

rula. Eoliola 3-juga, ovata v.
pedunculatse, axillares subpaniculatncquc. Calyx f-l Hn.
densê, ovat^ v. oblongse,
pubescens. Corolla vix 3 lin. longa, cano-sericea. Legumen ignotum.
longus, minute
:Eab. Tropical America : Brazil.
1016, excl syn. Pilosula v. glabrescens. FolioU

56 1 PUNCTATA, mild. Spec. iv.
acuminata, coriacea, majora 4-pollicana.
nitidula,
2- rarius 3-juga, ovali-oblonga,
ad apices ramorum paniculata3. Calyx apprcss.
breves, dens^, breviter pedunculata3,
sericeo-villosa, 3 lin. longa. legumen brenssm.
pilosuL, 14 lin. longus. Corolla
longius, pollicem latum. Junius pubescens, demum glabratum
Lpitatu;, semipedale et
planum, marginibus parum elevatis.
Tenaaic.
'S:^S^£l^^^' Caraecas. MorU., ^.„.... and oth .rs ;
Triana
ramulis
densae, m
4 lin. long
demnm incrassatum^
latum, planum, I ^^ Sourgea,,.
America New Spam, Se> h. .
Sab. Tropical :
Veraguas, Seemann.
Costarica,
Costa Kica, (Ersled;
2396 Ferrugmeo.pube«:cns. Poliola
r„„«
^
,„... Joum. iv.
land. iv. 694
694
Benth. in HooL
58 L LiNEATA,
.
614 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. llnga-
3-jugaj ovali-elliptica, acuminata, majora 6-7-pollicaria, venis numerosis parallelis utriu

que prominulis. Spicse ovoideae suLcylindracese, pedunculatse, ad axillas fasciculatse v
superiores breviter racemosae. Calyx vix lineam longus, pilosulus. Corolla 2 lin. longa
villosa. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America : Tarapoto in Eastern Peru, Mathews n. 1594.
69. I. J TJGLANDiFOLiA, TJÛld. Spec. iv. 1018. Perrugineo-pubescens. Poliola 2-4-
juga, oblonga, acuminata, majora 6-7-pollicaria, tenuiter coriacea, venis venulisque
utrinque conspicuis. Petiolus eglandulosus. Spicse axiUares, pedunculatae, subfasciculat^.
Corolla villosa. Legumen planum.
Mimosa juglandifolia, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 44.
Sab. Tropical America : Caraccas, Bredemeyer.
The only specimen I have seen of this species is from Bredemeyer, in the Vienna Herbarium, and is
only in young bud. It is very near the large-leaved forms of /. nobilis, but appears to be always without
petiolar glands.
60. I. NOBILIS, Willd. ! Enum. Sort. Berol, 1047. Glabra v. puberula. Foliola 3-4-
juga, ovata oblongo-elliptica v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, majora
subsemipedalia,
tenuiter coriacea, venis venulisque utrinque conspicuis. Glandule depressjse
v. scutellatse.
Spicse breves, ovoidese, pedunculatae, ad apices ramorum fasciculato-paniculatse. Calyx
pubescens, 2t rarius 3 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-villosa, 5 rarius 6 lin. longa. Legumen
4-6-pollicarc, 9-10 lin. latum, tomentellum v. glabratum.— ^^^z^^. hi Fl. Bras. Mim.
I. Humholdtiana, Kunth. ! in H., B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 285.
/. corymhifera, Benth. in Hook. Joum. Bot.
! ii. 144: Lond. Joum iv 5^5
Journ
Miq,
Sab. Tropical America Nortb Brazil, Guiana, Columbia, Ecuador, apparently
:
common
and widely spread.
Var. ?Pavoniana, floribus pedicellatis
/. Pavoniana, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. r
!
Sab. Lima, Matliews, from Serb. Pavon

The venation of the leaflets distinguishes this species from most of those allied to it.
61 I. ACROCBPnALA Steud. ! in Mora, 1843, 759. Puberula,

foliis glabratis. Foliola .
mb-l-juga, ovah- V elhphco-oblonga, acuminata,

majora semipedalia, coriacea, nitida.
^''^'^' pedunculate, paniculate..
!^wr
pubescentes. pT ,T
Calyx li-2^T'"' "T"'"''''
Im., corolla yix 3 lin. longa. Legumen ienotum
Plorcs
Hab. Tropical America : Surinam, Sostmann.
''" "• '''•

^l-^'^S'^^'^'V:-''"'
Pohola 4-6ûsa, clhptaco- y. anguste oblonga, acuminata ^f
'r«--t-o-puberula, mox glabrata.
v. obtusa, majora 6-10-pollicaria
conacea, mtida vems supra impressis subtus
OYOide*. tomentosae, breviter pedunculate,
prominulis, vcnuk inconLcuis
^^.^^^'']^- °1" Sp .T
paniculatce Oalw ^ ,
^\ * ?™' ^ ^^ ^°''^"'
Corolla sericeo-pubescens. 3 rarius 4
semipedale,
L fagifoUa, G. Don
/".
fnliosc,
M
Benth.
!
lin
'poll. latu^.-^..^.^^^.
Gen. Syst.
T.
ii. 391, non Willd.

^
onr
1^7"" ^"^'"'^''^" '^ ^'^''''''^
! in Hook. T.nnil T^,,^,, ;.. en^

. '
) v
^ K
^^^"'•^
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. G15
Ilah, Tropical America North Brazil, Eastern Peru, Mulz,
and apparently the same
:
Mathews n. 1923, Pa^h
species, Panama, Sutton Kmjes.
63. I. Mathewsana, BentK I
Eook. Lond. Journ. iv. 594. Pen-ugineo-pubescens.
in
Poliola 5-6-juga, oblonga, acuminata, majora
4-5.pollicaria, venis venulisquc utrinciiie
conspicuis. Spicffi ovoideae, pedunculatae, ad axillas fasciculatê v. brevifer raccmosrr.
Calyx pubescens, 3 lin., corolla sericeo-villosa, 5 lin. longa.
Xegumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America Eastern Peru, near Mozobamba, Mathews. :
64.MULTiJUGA, Benth., sp. n. Eerrugineo-tomentcUa. Eoliola 7-10-juga,

I.
oblonga,
subacuminata, basi rotundata, 2-4-polMcaria, utrinque pubcrula,
pennivenia, reniilis
parum conspicuis. Spica? ovoidesB, ad axillas pedunculatae. Calyx pubescens, 4 lin.,
corolla sericeo-villosa, fere pollicem longa. Le^ûmen
C5"'"^" i'^notum.
Ô
Hab. Tropical America : Panama, Sutton Hayes, Fendler n. CI, and perhaps a varif
with rather smaller flowers, Costa Rica, (Ersted.
Arbor 20-40-pedalis. Foliorum petiolus 6-8-poIlicaris. Glandulje scutellatte.
65. I. Thibatjdiana, i)C..^ Frod. ii. 434 Eerrugineo-tomentella. Petiolus nud

V. auguste alatus ; glandulse ssepius raagnae elevatas ; foliola 4-5-juga, ovali-oblonga
elliptica,acuminata, majora 4-5-pollicaria, pennivenia, venulis parum conspicuis.

breves, axillares v. paniculatae. Calyx 2-3 Hn., corolla |-1 poll, longa. Legumen fulv(
tomentosmn, demum glabratum, J-1-pedale, J-1 poll. hiixnn..—Benth. in Ft. Bra.
Mim
I. gladiata, Desv. ! in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ix. 427.
/. macradenia, Mart. ! Fl. Bras. n. 1096.
/. tenuifiora, Salzm. ! Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 596, errore typogr. /. tenuijolia.
Hah. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro, Bahia, and Para; Cayenne
Surinam, British Guiana, and, apparently the same, Tarapoto in Eastern Peru, Sprue '(
4915 ; and Cape Corrientes in Ecuador, Seemann

petiole is someti
wingless).
Petiolus inter foliolorum paria alatus v. rarius mhnudvs. Gian-

Series 3. Pilosiusculee.
dul(B sessiles v. suhsessiles. Bractece parca v. caduca. Calyx tuhilosus, pilosus, laxc
pubescens v. rarius suhglaber. Corolla tenuis, dense sericeo-villosa, pollice brcvior. Legti-
men ubi notum planum, marginibus parum elevatis.
1017. Glabra v. vix pubcrula. Petiolus angustc

m. I mild. ! Spec. iv.
ovali-elliptica, rigide coriacea, nitida, mnj

alatus; glandule magn^; foliola 2-juga,
pedunculatae, corymbosse. Calyx 4-5 Ln. longus, pul
6-8-polli SpicfB breviter
rarius fere pollicem longa, senceo-viUosa.
villosa. Legumen
J^g
cens. Corolla I poll.,
culum, semipoUice \2.ims.- Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mm

Mimosa
143, Lond. Journ. iv. 606.
Inaa noribmda Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot, ii.
t'C/ ;
Huh. Tropical 1 ±r
.Pri«.
America : North Bra.a. Surinam, British Guiana, VcnczuoU on th.
Orinoco, Spruce n. 3664

Eufo-pilosa. Petiolus alatus apice long
6.. I. DC! Prod. ii. 432.
4
VOL. XXX.
—— /
— (
—
616 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEiE. [Jnya.
setifer; foliola 2-juga, ovata, coriacea, majora ad 10 poll, longa, iitrinque pilosula.
Spicse densse, longiuscule pedunculatse. Calyx pilosulus, 3J lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-
villosa, 6-7 lin. Legumen subsemipedale, l-lj poll, latum, nitens, appresse pilosum r.
glabratum. Benth. in FL Bras. Mini.
LplatycarpUy Benth. ! in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 142.
/. macrophyllay Hook. ! Bot. Mag. t. 5075^ non Humb. et Bonpl.
/. affinis, Steud. ! ia riora^ 1843, 758.
/. versicolor, Spruce ! PI. Exs.
Hah. Tropical America : Nortli Brazil, Surinam, Cayenne, British Guiana, Trinidad,
Crueger.
68. I. PiLOSiuscrLA, Desv. ! Journ. Bot. 1814, i. 71. Pilosula v. subglabra. Petiolus
late alatus ; foliola 2-juga, rarius 3-juga, ovata v. ovali-oblonga, tenuiter coriacea, nitida,
majora 4-6-pollicaria, adulta glabra. Spicse densae, longe pedunculatse. Calyx pilo-
sulus 3-4 lin., corolla sericeo-villosa, 6-7 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum. Benth. in Fl.
Bras. Mini.
Mimosa pilosula J Rich. ! in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 1792, 113.
Mimosa lucida, Vahl ! Eel. iii. 31, t. 24.
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Cayenne.

69. I. NITIDA, TFilld. ! Spec. iv. 1013. Glabra v. parce pilosula. Petiolus late nunc
breviter alatus ; foliola 2-juga, ovato-bblonga, tenuiter coriacea, nitida, majora 4-6-polli
caria, glabra. Spicse densse, longiuscule pedunculatse. Calyx parce pilosulus, 2-2 2
1
lin., corolla sericeo-villosa, 4-5 lin. longa. Legumen iojnotum. Benth, in Fi. Brai
Mini
Mimosa nitida, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 41.
I
Inga quassuefolia , Willd. ! Spec. iv. 1013.
Mimosa qtiassiafolia, Poir. 1. c.
Hab, Tropical America : North Brazil

This differs from the preceding chiefly in the smaller flowers. "VTilldenow's specimen of/, guassicefolia
lias peduncles about 1 in. long, and of /. nitida nearly 3 in. ; but they appear to me to be otherwise the
same ; and some of Burcliell
70. I. STENOPTERA, Benth. ! in SooJc. Journ. Bot. ii. 143. Bond. Journ.
; iv. 599. Pilo
sula.^ Petiolus anguste alatus v. hinc inde subnudus foliola
; bijuga, ovali-oblonga
tenuiter coriacea, nitida, majora 5-6-pollicaria, demum glabrata. Splc^ breves, Ion o
pedunculatae. Calyx pubescens, 3 lin., corolla sericeo-villosa 6-7 lin. Ion
ga. Leg
o notum. Fl. Bras. Mim
Mab. Tropical America : North Brazil ; Eastern Peru, near Tarapoto, Sp nice
Var. PEDUNcuLARis. Foliola majora 10-poUicaria. Petiolus subnudus.
/. pedtmcutaris, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 599.
Hab. North Brazil.
1. I CHARTACEA, Bcpp. et EndL ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. iv. 79. Junior ferru^lneo-
hirta mox glabrata
Petiolus alatus; foliola 3-juga, ovali-
v. obovaU-elliptica, !acu-
mmata tenma, ngidula, nitida, subsemipedalia, nervis
subtus valde prominentibus.
Spic«. densae, subgloW, pedunculis
senceo-villosa, 2i Im. longa.
fasciculatis. Calyx
Le-umen
3"'"^" ignotum
pilosulus, ^ lin., coSlla
"O
\
;
)
^^'I/^^'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^. 617
Ilab. Troîical America : Eastern Peru/prov. Maynas, Toep^ng.

r
This has the small flowers of /, acrocephala, but is easily distinguished by the winged petiole and other
characters. M
72. I. MAUITIMA, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 601. Pubescens. Petiolus alatus
foliola 2-3-juga, ovali-oblonga v. elliptica, ssepius obtusa, coriacea, majora S-pollicaria.
Spicse densae, ad apices ramorum confertse. Calyx adpresse pubescens, vix 2 lin,, corolla
sericeo-villosa, 4 lin. longa. Legumen puberulum v. hirtum, 4-6-pollicare, 9 lin. latiun."
Fl. Bras. Mim.

I. Velloziana, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. 118 quoad specimina, excl. syn. Veil.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, proy. E.io JaDciro.
73. I. Hatesii, -S^^^/i., sp. n. Pubescens; Petiolus alatus; foliola 2-1-juga, oUij).
tico-oblonira,- acuminata, 2-4i-pollicaria. Glandulae parvae. Spic» breves, dcnsrr, ad
xillas V. apices ramorum subsessiles. Calyx 3 lin., corolla sericeo-villosa, 6 Im. long
Legumen ignotum
Hab. Tropical America : Panama, Sutton- Hayes.
maritimcs subaffinis, sed foliola minus coriacea, diu pilosula, spicre vIx podi lU-
Frutex 10-15-pedalis, I.
culatae et Acres majores latiores.
sp. n. Perrugineo-pubescens. Petiolus alatus foliola

74. I. DENSIFLORA, Benth., ;
supra nitida subglabra, subtus pubescentia, 5-0-

3-5.juga, elliptico-oblonga, acuminata,
Glandule parv^. Spic^ densse, ad apices ramorum confcrtim corymbosac.
pollicaril
latum, crn<^sum,
Calyx li-2 lin,, 4 lin. longa. Legumen
corolla sericea,
pedale, 2 poll,
durum, transverse lineatum.

Peru, near Tarapoto, î^rw^^, n. 4501 and, appa-
Hab. Tropical America:, Eastern ;
same, at Ibague in New Granada, Triana

rently the
3-3-pollicarem fasciculatse, singula \
ramorum secus rhacMn
Flores in spica dense conferti.
i-3.pollicai-i fultse. w
'
Nov. Gen. el Sp. vi. 288. Glabra. Pctio
75 I BoNPLANDiANA, Kmth in E., B. et K.,
acuta, subcordata, subconacoa, supm n,t
elliptico-oblonga,
l„««iatus- foliola 5-iuga,
glabrum, 2-^-poliicarc, mar^

...1^ .,,!..!... «.rinea.
sericea. Le-umcn
-ueg complanatum,
lonffior, tubulosa,
.s mcrassaub.
bus incrassatis '^,
J^^r^
Jaen Bracamoi
de BrncaLmoraiS, Humboldt and BonplamI
Hab. Tropical America : prov._
^^^
notes I liavP
takeu from Boupland s
description of the flower is
very
from Peru, winch I have not seen
{Mmo5fli.f.a««,Pav.),
identification,
uT2 în^^
sibly be the same species
•
,
^tl.
D cha^cter giv;n is insufficient
.,
fbr
x.,... ,v fiOn TTirtella

Hirtella. Petiolus alatus
\
^
T
Ferrusineo-tomentosa.
reuoius m »
h
\ Benth., sp. n. iêuu^

77. I. LONGIPES,
—J
618 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE M1M0SE.E. X

[/nf/rt.
/'
4-juga, ovata, coriacea, supra glabrata, subtu^ velutina, majora 8-9-pollicaria. Spicse
densse, pedunculo semipedali v. longiore. Calyx semipollicaris. Corolla villosissima,

poll, longa. Legumen ignotum.
Hab, Tropical America : Eastern Peru, Spruce n. 4935.
Arbor 35-pedalis^ coma patula. Foliorum jpetiolus crassus, 6-8-pollicaris, undique alatus, alls interduni
iitrinque semipoUicetn latis. Foliola venis supra impressis subtus valde elevati§ fere buUata^ ssepe 5 poll,
lata. Pedunculi erccti^ rigidij ferrugineo-tomentosi. Stamina 2^-pollicaria^ fiavo-viridiaj tubo iiicluso.
78. I. Salzmanniana, Benth, ! in Sook. Lond, Journ. iv. 608. Minute puberula. Pe-
tiolus anguste alatus ; foliola 4-5-juga, obovali- v. oblongo-elliptica, acuminata, submem-
branacea, rnajora4-5-pollicaria. Spicae densae, breviter pedunculatse, ad apices ramorum
corymbosae. Calyx striatus, puberulus, 3-3 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-villosa, 6-7 lin.
longa. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.

Ilah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia and Para.
79. I. NUDA, Salzm. ! Benth, in Hook, Lond. Journ. iv. 607. Parce birtella. Petiolu
breviter et anguste alatus v. nudus foliola 3 -4-juga, elliptico-oblonga v. ovato-lan-
;
ccolata, demum glabrata, majora 5-6-pollicaria. Spicae ovoideae, densse, breviter pediin-
culatss, subcorymbosge. Calyx striatus, subglaber, 3-4 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-
villosa, 6-7 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum. Fl. Bras. Mim.
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia ; Cayenne.
Var. ? LONGiFLORAj calyce seinipollicari_, corolla fere pollicari.
Hab. Cayenne, Boileau {Herb. BeroL).

(See also 65. /. Thibaudiana, and an occasional specimen of some other Gymnopod(E
with the petioles
slightly winged.)
80. ? I. PRUEiENs, Pcepp. et Midi. Nov, Gen. et Sp. iii. 78 Piloso-birf a pilis fragilibu
Petioli alae oblongge, apice basique angustse ; foliola 2-3-juga, ampla, elfiptico-obovata
obtusa, basi cuneato-rotundata. r gidissima, supra glabra, basin
) glandula cupuli
formi instructa, subtus birte pilosa, terminalia 10-pollicaria. Sp
solitariae. sessiles
Calyx corollaque hirsuta. Legumen ignotum.
Hab. Tropical America : Eastern Peru, Bceppig.
I have seen no specimen answering to the above character and Poeppig had
;
it in bud only. It may be
therefore doubtful whether it belongs really even to the Order. I have seen no Inga with a gland on the
Mirface of the leaflets.
_ _ 9
Series 4. Leptanthae. Fetiolits inter foUolorum paria latiuscule alatus GlandidcB

sslles V. stlpitatcB, Bractempersistentes, cahjcem sceplus cequantes
v. snpero ?. Flores
t Calyx striatus, glaber v. appresse p Corolla apice pilosa, v. undiq
nceo'villosa.
81. I. ACUiiiNATA, Benth Hook. Lond. Jom iv. 600. Glabra v. vix pilosula
Foliola 2-3-1 uga lanceolata V. ali-oblon -^
acuminata g lab laevia, nitida

majora 1-5-pollicaria. Glandulae subsessiles
oideo-srlob pedunculata?
Bracteae persistentes, calvce bre Calyx glabriusculus, insigniter
acuminatus. 4 lin
long Co rolla sutissima, semipoll Legumen ignotum
Hah. Tropical America : Trinidad
species differs from all others known to me in the remarkably
acuminate ffower-bud
, —
J
-^»i/«] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. 619
82. I. CILIATA, 'Presl I Symh. ii. 11, t. 58. Pilosula. Glandulse subsessiles ; foliola
4-5-juga, ovali- v. anguste oblonga, acuminata, tenuia, Isevia, nitida, majora 1-2-polli-
caiia. Spicae pauciflorse, pedunculo tenui. Bracteae setace£e, calycem subcequantes. Calyx
striatus, parce pilosus, 1 J-2 lin. longus. Corolla subsericeo-pilosa, 5-6 lin. longa. Legu-
men 3-4-polIicare, 5-9 lin. latum, birsutum. Benth: in Fl. Bras. Mini.
I. CdBrulescans, Walp. ! in Linnsea, xiv. 298.
/. fagarafolia, Mart. ! Herb. Fl. Bras. n. 1093.

T. microphylla, Salzm. PL Exs.
Rab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro, Bahia and Pcrnambuco.
83. I. LEPTANTHA, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 603. Pilosa. Glanduliu sti-
pitatse; foliola 2-4-juga, lanceolata, acuta, tenuia, Ise via, nitida, majora S-l-polHcaria.
Spicae laxffi, pedunculo tenui. Bractese lineares, persistentes, calyccm a^quantes. Calyx
striatus, pilosulus, 2-2^ lin. longus. Corolla hirsutissima, ad 7 lin. longa. Lc-mncn
sessile, pilis longis rufis birsutum, 4-6-pollicare, fere polliceni latum.— P/. Bras. Mira.
Brazil, prov. Uio Janeiro and Baliia.

sinemanensis^Von.D'n^X. Siippl. i. 40, iioti uliorum), niu^t

/ angustifolia Willd Spec. iv. 1012 [Mimosa
It was described from a Caracas specimen of
now to be determined.
remain among the plants not
Bredemeyer's^ in leaf oiily- Willdenow
brancli
A specimen in leaf of a rayennt
yet betetisfactorily identified.

Sagot very oloseTy resembles it, but ca.iuot
plant from
Lond. Journ. iv. 608. Bufo-viUosula. Glamlul t
84 I STRIATA, Benth. ! in Book.

ovata v. oWon?o.elliptica, utriuque vJlosuU.
pary^ substipitate : foliola 4-5-jaga,
Spieoe pedunculate, ovoidea, v demum elonsat». Brae ea.

mai
fu^jora subsemipedalia.
Calyx striatus, ad 4 Im. longus. parce p. osu «..
calycem .quantes.
lin ares, persistentes,
Leguraen crassum, fcrrugmeo-v.llosu.u, scnu-
Corolla sericeo-villosa. 7-10 lin. longa.
latum, marginibus valde
pedale, 7-10 lin.
Lond. Journ. iv. 603.
r Ctiiharina Benth. in Hook.!
„ . ., .
n
prov. E.o Janc.ro, Sao c-
P
ZZUo.!
Sah. Tropical or subtropical South America : Brazil,
and perhaps also Bolivia

nd Minas
and Geraes,
notwithstanding its small flo..^,. i.
^«-«^';-^";X
ought, perhaps, to be ;;;;a
remote ,o tl,e C./«c.,../.,
This spee.es of Eumâ.
j,,^j„f ,,,„j ie,
zi2L,I)on,*ehdiffersehieflyinthemuehgreaterlengthofthe«o.e„^
ferrugineis conspersa
j.oiii*gxxx..x>. —
,„...:..,-. .nn«nersa.
J.
membranacea nitidula.
pan 36
ôinn
âj-a
Glandular
_^^
S-4.nollicaria.
3 4 P
Spica.
opiuu; puuaA^^"-
pcdunculata., 1- .-.,
1^^.^^^^^^
=%- P~„^
acuminata,
ovato-lanceola fee.
distich*. Bracte* nifo-villosum (semi
hirsutissnua, 9-10 Im- 10"=a- j^l^^,,
o
,„ „f„.v„«ns.
„ strig Corolla
longus,
adpollicem la'""^-
pedale?), Sclwmburyk.
Amenca Butish Gmana. :
if„6. Tropical Eufo-hirsuta. Glanduh,
Bentk. majora 5-7-po.
86. I. P.AT.PTBH.. ^^'''^^^î^,
^-S-juga. ovata
'.
voblongoaacco^.^^ „trincp.e plloâ,
turbinate ; foHola '^,,UUuie.. ealyce mult

pedunculate. Bractee
licaria. Spic« oblongae,
— i
620 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.?:. [Inf/a,
longiores. Calyx 3-4 lin. longus, striatus, pilosus. Corolla subpoUicaris, dense pilosa
Hab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro
Series 5. Longiflorae. JPetiolus alatus. GlaudulcB sessiles v. hrevissime stipitatce.

BractecB caducca v* mimmce. Flores angusti, ulfrapoUlcares. Calyx fiihiilostts, glaher v.
villosus. Corolla sericeo-villosa . Legumen ubi no ium planum, crassum, riifo-villosiim.
87. I. PcEPPiGiANA, Benth. 1 TIooTc. Lond. Journ. iv. 602. Pilosa. Poliola 3-j
ovali-ol)Ionga, acuminata, maj )ra 4-5-polli supra nitida, utrinque pilosa Spicae
oblonsse. sessiles. Bracteae ovatae. breves Caly poll ris, vix ciliatus. Corolla
poll, longa, apice pilosa. Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Legumen ignotum
/. ciliata, Poepp. et Endl. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 78^ non Presl.
B[ah. Tropical America : Eastern Peru, prov. Maynas, Bcepplg.

The specimens I saw in the Vienna Herbarium had the flowers almost destroyed by worms.
88. I. LONGIFLORA, Sp r
in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim Eufo-liispida, glabrescens
Foliola 2-juga, longe oblongo- v. ovali-elliptica, acuminata, coriacea, nitida, majora 8-9
poll Spicac densae, breviter pedunculatae. Plores pedicellati Caly glaber, 7-8
I-
long Corolla pilosa, IJ-pollicar V. paullo long Staminum tub

longe exsertus. Legumen ignotum.
nab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Sp
89. I. MICRADENIA, Spruce I Benth Fl. Bras. Mim Perrugineo-hirsuta Poliola
3-juga, oblonga v. sublanceolata, acuminata, membranacea que pil maj
4-pollicaria. Spicee pedunculatae. Plores sessiles. Calyx semipollicaris, pilosus. Corolla
1-1| poll, longa, sericeo-pilosa. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen ignotum
Hab. Tropical America North Brazil, Spruce. :
measure connects the Longijl The glands are very shortly

[)itate, as in 7. longiJl\
90. L SPECIOSA, Sp Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim Rufo-pubescens. Poliola

3-juga, oblongo- v. ovali-elliptica, subobtusa, pubescent
forma typica 4-pollicaria,
glandulis parvis. Spicae brevissime pedunculatge. Plor
.
sessiles. Calvx molliter
4 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-villosa, 11 lin. loncra Staminum tubus longe
D
exsertus. Legumen ignotum.
Kab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Sp
ATOPHYLLA Foliola 8-9-pollicaria, margine ner\'iformi dense hirtello cincta. Glandulsp.
maj ores Flores longiores.
Hab. North Brazil, Spruce
91. I Willd Sp iv. 1014 Perrugineo-pubescens v. villosa Foliola
2-3-juga, ovalia, obtusa, pubescentia, majora 6-10-pollicaria.
Spicje pedunculatae Plores
sessiles Calyx rufo-sericeus, 8-9 lin. longus Corolla sericeo-villosa,
subsesquipollicaris
Staminum tubus saepius exsertus. crassum, densissime Legumen
rufo-hispidum, semi
pedale et longius, poll. \2i>t\\m.— Benth. in FL Bras.
1-1 J Mim
Mimosa velutina, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 42.
Mab. Tropical America : North Brazil )
->
1
y
luija.'] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 621
92. I. PLUMiFERA, Spmcef, JBenth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Fermîneo-tomentosa

roliola 4-5-juga, ovali- v. oblongo-elliptica, acuminata, pilosula, majora semipocblia
Spicae breviter pedunculatse. Flores sessiles, dissiti. Calyx semipollicaris, rufo-villosus
Corolla dense sericeo-villosa, sesquipollicem excedens. Staminum tubus loi
a
Leguinen ignotum.
Hab. Tropical America : North Erazil, Epruce.
93. I. NEGRENSis, Sprtwc !, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Ferrugineo-hirta. Foliol
4-5-juga, oblongo-elliptica, acuminataj pilosula, majora 3-4-pollicaria. Spicse brovitt'
pedunculatse. Flores sessiles, dissiti. Calyx striatus, pilosus, ad 5 lin. longus. Coroll;
dense sericeo-villosa, poUicem' parum excedens. Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Lcgu
men ignotum.
Hab. Tropical America : North Brazil, Spruce.
Y
Series 6. Calocephalê. Fetiolus alatus v. rarlus subniuJus. Glanduhc sees t lea
Broctece persktentes. Flores pollicaiês v. long lores, quam hi serlehiis prcBcedciiUhi'}
Cahjx tuhulosiis v. campamilatus, sceplus striatus. Corolla scricco-villoso

scepius latiores.
Legumen uhi notiim pi 'ninihus vice v. vaUle eJevatis
V. setosa.
Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Rufo-tomentosa. Fc

9tt. I. OBTUSATA, Spruce !
late ovata, obtusissima, coriacca, pubescentia, scmipt

subnudus ; foliola 3-4i-juga,
dense corymbosaj. Bractese ovatse, imbricate',
Spicse bre'vissimie, pedunculatse,
sericeo-pubescens, lin. Ion Corolla dense
poUicares longioresque. Calyx 3-3i .
Legumen crassum, villosum, 6-10-polhcarc, |-1 poll.

pilosa, sesquipollicem excedens.
latum, marginibus vix elevatis.
North Brazil, Spruce.

Glabra. Eamuli angulati. Petiohus

sPECTABiLis, mild. Spec. iv. 1017.
95 I.
ovali-eUiptica, obtusa v.brevitor acuta,
anûste alatus foliola 2- rarius 3-jnga,
nudusT ;
Bract... ova to-

semipedalia et longiora. Spica. oblongs, pedunculate.
coriacea' nitka, subpolh-
Corolla senceo-lnrta,
Calyx 3-4 longus.
WeolX calyce longiores.
lin.
crassum, planum, glabrum, margm.bus non

1^2.pedale, 3 poll, latum,
tZ^t:,^^'^
"^^ sêctam., YaH in S.rift.
! Nat. SelsU.
stamin.bus
W^-
rub™
1702, ii. pa« i. .1 9, 1. 1 0.
Lwa fulgent, Mim.

KuntU, 36, 1. 11,
287, stamimbus
fV K Nov. Geu. et Sp. vi.
alb.8.
„ ,,„
S
r TT
CpLrAmerioa:
H et
Santa Marta, .. Bonn New Granada,
,
JIu.W.U ..4/
Bentk. ^n Mart Fl Sn..mn. L n

96. I EunsETA, ^
'
UpoU. loaga Staminum tubus
Corolla parce setosa,
lonirus.
ignotum
r.;^,a..>...o.--2"i--[r;i5
Nov. Gen. Sp. non et Ui. 80, /.
, Endi. .
""/Î^razil
North Brazil
Peru, and perhaps
Eastern
Hab. Tropical merica
* :
'
>
622 •
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. [Tnga.

1
97. I. MACROPHYLLA, Siimh. ct Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1015. Parce pilosula v.
glabra. Ramuli crassi, angulati. Petiolus alatus foliola ; 3-4i-juga, ovata, acuta, nitida,
majora semipedalia efc longiora. Spicse ovoidese, pedunculatae, superiores corymbosse.

BractesB ovato-lanceolatse, persistentes. Calyx striatus, parce pilosus, |-pollicaris. Corolla
dense sericeo-villosa, IJ-l^ poll, longa. Legumen iguotum.
Mimosa macrophylla , Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 42.
Inga calocephala, Poepp. et Endl. ! Not. Gen. et Sp. iii. 78.
Hah. Tropical America: Eastern Peru, Foeppig; North Brazil, Spruce, Biedel; and,
if rightly determined, on the Orinoco, Humboldt and Bonpland.
I liavc seen leaves only of Humboldt^s plant; its identification must therefore remain uncertain; but I
liave every reason to believe it to be correct. ,
98. I. BRACHYPTERA, BcntJi. ! in Soolc. Lond. Journ. iv. 610. Parce hirtella. Eamuli
crassi angulati. "
Petiolus apice breviter alatus ; foliola 3-juga, ovali-elliptica, acuminata,
nitida, semipedalia et longiora. Spicse ovoidese, pedunculatse. Bractese ovatse, per-
sistentes. Calyx striatus, 6-8 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-hirsutissima, ultrapollicaris.
Legumen hirsutissimum, Junius jam 6-8 poll, longum, marginibus valde elevatis.
JIah. Tropical America : Tumaco in Columbia, Hinds.
4
99. I. HETEROPTERA, Bcnth. ! in HooTc. Lond. Journ. iv. 611. Glabrescens. Eamuli
crassi, angulati. Petiolus alatus ; foliola 3-juga, ovali-elliptica, acuminata, nitida, sub-
pedalia. Spicse ovoidea?, longe pedunculatfB. Bracteae ovata?. Calyx 3-3 J lin. lono-us,
puberulus. Corolla sericeo-hirsutissima, fere poUicaris. Staminum tubus exsertus.
Legumen " ei /. brachypterce simile
)j
Hah. Tropical America : San Pedro in Columbia, Hinds,

The three preceding species require further comparison from a more perfect series of specimens ; but they
appear to me to be quite distinct from each other.
100. I. BRACTEOSA, Bcnth. / in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 609. Parce hirtella. Ramub*
crassi, angulati. Petiolus nudus; foliola 3-juga, ovali-elliptica, breviter acuminata,
|-l-pedalia. Spicae ovoidese, densae, pedunculatse.
Bractese lanceolatge, acuminatissimge',
calyces sequantes. Calyx glabriusculus, pollicaris v. longior. Corolla 1
hirsutissima,
poll, longa. Staminum tubus longe exsertus. Legumen io-notum.
Hah. Tropical America British Guiana, Schomhurgh Cayenne,
: ;
Boiteau (Herb
Bcrol.).
101. I. LiNDENiANA, Bcnth. 1 in Hook. Lond. Journ.

Dense rufo hirsuta v iv. 608.
velutina. Petiolus alatus; foliola 3-juga, ovata, acuminata,
membranacea, maion
9.poUicaria. Spicae oblongcB, pedunculatae. Bracte^ lineari-lanceolat^
\
CaJyx pilo
sulus, 5-8 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-villosa, subpoUicaris.
Legumen i-l pedal
longius ?), 2-2i poll, latum, dense rufo-villosissimum,
crassum, immaturum planum
demum tortuosum. ^
/. Mucuna, Walp. et Duchass. ! in Walp. Ann. ii. 459.
Hah. Tropical America Caracas, Fendler ; Chagrea. Fendle,-
:
; Panama, I>ueha,,ai»a
^
leapa, Linden.
, c
i
MR ON THE MIMOSEJE. 623

/Mrt.]
Rufo-pilosula, glabrescens. Stipulae

102. I. PANA^^rENSis, Seem.! Bot. Her, 117.
oblongsc, persistentes. Petiolus alatus ; foHola 2-3-juga, ovata v.^ ellipt*
ovatce V.
I
ll
brevitcr acuminata, membranacea, glabriuscula, majora semipedalia.

oblonga,
sublanceolatae, calycem sequantes. Calyx pubescens
pedunculatic. Bracteje lineares y.
8-9 lin. longa. Legumen glabrum, crassum

Ll lin
2
lon-us.
^^ô
*^'*' Corolla sericeo-pubescens,
latum, mai-ginibus Talde elevatis
semipedale ct longius, 1J poU.
Sutton Eayes New Granada, Linden
Hab Tropical America : Panama, Seemam, ;
not identical with th.s species

from Ocaila is also very near, if
366 ScUlm's n. 256.
1012 Pilosula.
SAPI.BOIBES, mild. Spec. ir. -]- ^^^ ! =^7;^^°"
i„ga,
103. ? I.
oblonga, acuminata, submembranaeea, tete
liores glabri. Legumen

;-»t-'
glabrum,
^\*
Imcare, pedalc.
/"f "
;^Yi
'^'"^
bto^^,, pedunc^xlat..
Mimosa
America Caracas,
^^.^^^-, Bredemeêr
Hab. iropicai
Tropical îaiit:iiâ :
. ^
not unlike that of/, prrvamen
Ip.fonlv which is
WilldenoVs herbariun. contains a specimen
s, ,e says, arc glahrou,
I'^l^^!^^^^^
uthor ot
SIS Willdenowhadnot seen the flowers.which,
Pseuding
on the
cept the
y
first small scries, J
consisting ^^
of plants ^^ a
of
C7 A
very different aspect. < «
Rufo-pubcscens. Pctiolus alat

P.VOHX...,
rAVOjNiAîv, -.
a. Bon!
->-- ^l-pe(UUia,
M-pedalia, n.rin
u. n.iH"«
10.. I. .
^^'^'frLll'tiZLn.i.,
.y^ga ^ ,
acute acnminata,
.noia o-4-Jusa, ovato-laneeolata v. °-l*f^^^^,t,, Bi^ctea,
,emum elongata,.
puberula, subtus elevato-venosa. ^P"= Corolla sericco-
_
j^^ 1„ „,.
f
lineares, persistentes. CalyK ^t™"f
Stammum tubu^
;
b^ "iJ,, ,,,ertus. Legumen (si rite hue
villosa, H poll, longa.
longius, 1 poll
^^^^^^^ ^„gîb^ ,,lde
relatum) 3j-polli
elevatis.
Hab, Tropical
Tarapoto, Spruce n. 4503
Weddell
)
/. striata.
Petiolus alatus v. nudm
Vulpin.. FoUoU et ««'*/''";" ,,„,^, ,rem, pedunculata. .
Bracte<e
Series 7.
Glandular sapim parvce, longe «'*'*";';•
j îUosum ^. Urmlmu
notum ^,,,,
.„,,.„^ r^Jnii^ villoB<B.
legumen nU
caducce. Cor oil cb
1
' Stipule Ut.. Glaadul.
mm. ^''Z
Specn.
tllîspid^^-
I
105. I. .ASTUOSA,
minim.,, longe stipitat. :
^'HJ^n^ûi.,
f oUola
supra
4-5ûsa, de—
-f-^TTl^
°-^°
f jj;,.,;,,
pUosus. Corolla
paueiflor^. C^y-P^^^ j^^^ên dense rub.giaoso
pedalia. Sj^c. pedunculate,
bipollic
Stammum
•villosa,
vs&iii,+4-p^4a^^' ^ p^^^-
Fragm
^^*T
Mwo5a fastuosa, Jacq. I
"^
*
Carac Setoso-bispida.
Glan
M.b. Tropical America
106.
:
I.VE.os.'?«^j^
^^^ ^^^ ^^^
^^^,,
ovata v.ov^^
'"flX^^^^^
J'
stipitats
Sola 3-4.Juga, ^^ ^
dnhe parvse, breviter
VOL. XX.X.
1
— J
(
;
624 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [-'"w^/^.
nitida, majora semipedalia. Spicse pedunculatae, pauciflorse. Calyx 7-8 liu. longus,
parce pilosus. Corolla bipoUicaris, liirsutissima. Stamiuum tubus breviter exsertus.
Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America : Trinidad, Sieber n. 104.
Species 7. fastuosa: affinis. Pili ferruginei seu setae in ramulis petiolis peduneullsque copiosi, in pagina
utraque foliorum prsesertim ad venas sparsi, demum evanidi. Stipulae lanceolato-lineares, semipoUi-
cares, caducae. Foliorum et longior, alls latis coriaceis apice basique contractis.
FoHola pennivenia, venis utrinque elevatis. Pedunculus folio brevior, supra medium florifer^ floribus
sessilibus dissitis. Bractese anguste lanceolatse;, subtus bispidsBj caducse.
107. I. viLLOsissiMA, Benfh., sp. n. Undique rufo-villosissima. Glandulae parvse,
longiuscule stipitatse ; foliola 3-4-juga, ovata, demum coriacea, subbuUata, 3-4-pollicaria,
Spicse pauciflorse, pedunculatse. Calyx semipoUicaris, villosus. Corolla pollicaris,

sericeo-villosa. Staminum tubus vix exsertus. Legumen ignotum.
Mab. Tropical America : Venezuela near Tovar, Fendler n. 264.
108. I. SETOSA, G, Don ! Gen. Syst. ii. 388. Longe setosa. Stipulae latse. Glandulae
parva3, stipitatse ; foliola 5-6-juga, oblongo-elliptica, breviter acuminata, utrinque longe
pilosa, majora semipedalia. Spicse densse, longe pedunculatse. Calyx striatus, pubes-
cens, 5 lin. longus. CoroUse tubus calyce brevior, laciniae angustse, villosse, dimidio
longiores. Staminum tubus corolla brevior. Legumen ignotum.
Hob. Tropical America : Peru, Favon {Serb. Oxon.).
109. I. MULTiCAULis, Spruce !, sp. n. Eufo-hispida. Stipulae latae. Glandulae parvae,

stipitatae ; foliola 5-6-juga, oblongo-elliptica, breviter acuminata, utrinque pilosa, majora
semipedalia. Spicae densse, longe pedunculatae. Calyx striatus, pubescens, 4 lin. longus.
Corolla sericeo-villosa, 9-10 lin. longa. Staminum tubus breviter exsertus. Legumen
ignotum.
Sab, Tropical America : Ecuador, foot of tbe Chimborazo, common at an elevation of
3000 feet. Spruce.
110. I. Blanchetiana, BentJi. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mim. Eufo-birsutissima. Glan-
dulae longe stipitatae ; foliola 3-4-juga, oblouga v. lanceolata, majora semipedalia. Spicae
laxae, floribus pedicellatis. Calyx hirsutissimus, semipoUicaris. Corolla villosissima,
sesquipollicaris. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen ignotum.
Sab. Tropical America: Erazil, pro v. Babia, Blanchet n. 2632 {Serb. DC).
111. I. BARBATA, BentJi. I in Sook. Lond. Journ. iv. 604. Bufo-pilosa. Stipulge latee,
persistentes. Glandulae parvae, longe stipitatae ; foliola 3-4-juga, ovata v. oblono-a
acuminata, majora 3-5-pollicaria. Spicae oblongae, breviter pedunculatse. Calyx pilosulus,
3-4 lin., corolla birsutissima, 6-9 lin. longa. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen
Sab. Tropical Americji : Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro and Sao Paulo
>
112. I. GuiLLEMiNiANA, BentJi. ! in Sook. Bond. Jou7^n. iv. 605. Dense rufo-villosa
Stipulae parvae, caducae. Foliola 2-4-juga, eUiptico-oblonga, acuta, majora
3.pollicaria
glandulae stipitatae, parvae, inter villos saepe occultae. Spicae ovoideo-oblongce, peduncu-
+
— !
4 ] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^. 625

lata). Calyx liirsutus, 3^ lin., corolla villosa, 6-9 Un. lon-a.
o"* Leûmen
-"^b sessile. 3-4
pollicarc, ad 9 lin. latum, undique rufo-villosissimum, marginibus parum elevatis.— JP/.
Bras. Mim. '
JSah. Tropical America : Brazil, proy. Rio Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Very near /. barbata, but with a shorter more dense indumentum, small stipules, less stipitate
glands, &c.
113. I. VULPINA, Mart. ! Serb. Fl. Bras. n. 1097. Eufo-villosissima. Foliola 2-5-
juga, ovata v. oblonga, acute acuminata, majora 3-4-pollicaria. Spicae ovoideae, longe
pedunculatse. Calyx pilosus, ad 4 lin. longus. Corolla dense villosa, calyce pauUo t.
vix dimidio longior. Legumen setoso-hirsutissimum, |-1 poll, latum, margiiiibus parum
elevatis. Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
I. ferruginea, Planch, in Fl. des Serres, t. 773.
/. superbiens, Lem. Jard. Tleur. t. 299, 300.
Hab. Tropical America : Erazil, pro v. Minas Geraes.

Differs from /. barbata in the small stipules, less buUate leaflets, and short corollas.
** Fetiolus nudus.
114. I. VESTITA, Benth. ! in Eooh. Lond. Journ. iv. 604. Dense rufo-villosa. Poliola
majora 2-2i-pollicaria. Spicoe ovoidea?, pedunculatai.

3-4-juga, elliptico-oblonga, acuta,
Calyx strigosus, ad 2 lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-villosa, 5-6 lin. longa. Staminum
tubus breviter exsertus. Legumen densissime velutino-villosum, pollicem latum, margi-
nibus parum elevatis.— i^^. Bras. Mim.

South Brazil, Sello {Serb, Beroh).
Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim. Rubiginoso-hispida. Foliola 3-4-

115 I. HispiDA, Schott ;
4-6-pollicaria. Spicae breves, densse, longe pedunculatae. Calyx

juga, elliptico-oblonga,
3 lin. longus. Corolla dense sericeo-villosa, 7-9 Im. longa.
latiusculus, dense strigosus,

Schott {Serb. Vindoh.).
Sah. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro,
Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim. Ferrugineo-hirta.

116. L rEEETJGiNEO-HinTA, Mart. !
rigide coriacea, nitida, ^'^':'''^^':^^

Foliola 3-iuga, elliptico-oblonga,
Calyx tubulosus,
^Tl
ferrugmco-putecens, ^V^^^^^^ 4. li
caria Spies densa=, pedunculate.
longa. Staminum tubus inclusus. Legumen
7-8 lin.
Corolla dense rufo
1 ignotum LuscHnatH iHerB.
prov. Balua or Kio Janeiro,
"Tropical America : Bra.il.
«««.T,QM9nTi showed too much difference in the pro-
^
B^^brtu. etf^^
7 •. * 4'^T.^ -PniTif^ Fetiolus alatus. Olandul(B seasiles.
Series 8. Dysanto- Mo»usUni. Legumen u6i

Corolla et oaiyxj iV;,^^
J^J'
:iâ:lax^. Broctea cadnc<B. £ . ..
:..!.... L tKe Wts of all the species of «»,. and fseu^â

other
.. .n„,„, the two
4m 2
626 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. U'H!'^
DYSANTHA, Beiith. in Mart. M. Bras. Mim. Eufo-villosa. Toliola 3-4-juga,

117. I. !
Spicse laxse. Elores

ovali-oblonga, acuminata, marginata, villosa, majora 5-pollicaria.
sessiles. Calyx campanulatus, 3-4 lin. longus. Corolla subpoUicaris. Legumen

ignotum.
Kab. Tropical America ; North Brazil, Spruce.
r
118. I. CATENNENSis, Sagot ! Benth. in Mart. M. Bras. Mim.. Eufo-pubescens v

villosa. Poliola 4-5-juga5 ovali- v. oblongo-elliptica, acute acuminata, 3'-4-pollicaria
Spicse laxse, breviter pedunculatse. Plores longiuscule pedicellati. Calyx subcampanu

latus, 2i-3 lin. longus. Corolla }-pollicaris. Legumen mfo-tomentosum v, villosum
3^-pollicare, 6-8 lin. latum, planum, crassum, marginibus parum elevatis.
BLah. Tropical America ; Cayenne, Boiteau^ JSagot n. 164.

The stipitate flowers and the form of the calyx and corolla are not unlike those oiLinffoides i
but their
indumentum is densely crisped, and the pod is totally diflferent. Poiteau^s specimen in Herb
Mimosa inooides of Richard : but this has since
determination
Species Pseudingse dubi(B.
The
identification without inspection of authentic specimens.
I. coRiACEA, G. Bon, Gen. Syst. ii. 390. Petiolus nudus. Foliola 3-4-juga, lanceolata, acuminata,
basi obliqua, margine undulata, uti petioli et ramuli novelli pilosa, Pedunculi breves, pauciflori, laterales,
terminales et axillares.
Mimosa cortacea, M05. et Sess, MS.
Hah. Mexico, Mof^no and SessS.
1. CARNOSA, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 391. Petiolus nudus. Foliola 3-juga, late elliptica ; mucronata,
glabra. Pedunculi axillares, uti ramuli rufo-tomentosi. Legumen lanceolatum^ planum.
Mimosa carnosa, Herb. Pav.
Hab. Peru, Ruiz and Pavon.
Sectio 5. EuiNGA.
Flores quam in JSiiinga saepe latiores, in spicas ssepius laxiusculas v. paucifloras dispo-
siti, in rhache lineari sessiles v. breviter pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus v. tubulosus,
BaRpius brevitertomentosus v. puberulus, striis parum prominulis. Corolla sericeo-villosa.
Legumen ssepius tomentosum, crassum, marginibus convexis dilatatis plurisulcatis, facies
saepe partem V. omnino obtegentibus, in una specie latum undiquevelutino-birsutissimum.
Indumentum ssepius breviter rufo-tomentellum. Foliorum petiolus, duabus speciebus
exceptis, alatus. Glandulse sessiles ssepissime adsunt. !Poliola 4-6-juga, rarius 2-3-juga
V. bine inde 7-juga. Spicse in axillis superioribus solitarise v. geminae, rarius ad apices
ramonim subcorymbosse. Elores plcrumque semipoUice longiores, poUicem baud v. vix
excedentes.
The discrimination of species in this section is attended perhaps with greater difficulty than iu any
other Mimosete. The foliage and flowers often show more diflPerence between different specimens of one
species than between different species, as characterized by widely different fruits. The majority of herba-
rium specimens are without fruits, or, when in fruit, the matching them with flowering ones is often very
uncertain. Moreover the pod frequently acquires its characteristic form only at the last stage of ripenin g^
Inga .
] BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 627
in which state it is rarely gathered by collectors. The determmatious, therefore, of the foilowmg species
must be received with more than usual caution.
« Petiolus nudus.
119. I. viSMLEFOLiA, roepp., Endl. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 79. Villoso-hirta. Foliola 3-
juga, late ovata, obtusa, supra glabra, subtus villosa, -i-l-pedalia. Spicre mnfrnic,
globosse, longe pedunculatae, ad apices ramorum longc racemosaB. Calyx 5 liii., corolla
7-S lin. longa. Stamina numerosissima, tube vix exserto. Lesrumcn isrnotum.
O""'^" *o
Sab. Tropical America : Eastern Peru, prov. Maynas, Foeppig.
120. I. KTJBiGiNOSA, DC! Tvod. ii. 434. Perrugineo-velutina. Foliola 4~5-jnga,

ovata V. elliptico-oblonga, acuminata, nitida, subtus velutina, majora 6-8-pollicarin,
Spicse^breviter pedunculatge, interrupte pauciflorae. Flores sessiles. Calyx caiupaimlaf lu»,
rufo-velutinus, 3 lin. longus. Corolla pilis crispis villosissima, subpolHcaris. Lcgumcn
ignotum.
Mimosa rubiginosa, Rich. ! in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 1792, 113.
Hah. Tropical America : Cayenne, Martin ; Demerara, Tarher.
** Fetiolus alatus.
121. I. VERA, Willd. spec. iv. 1010. Eerrugineo-tomentella v. pubcacens. loliola 4

^ obovali- V. elliptico-oblonga, majora 4-5-pollicaria. Spicge pauciflorai v. dcmum
J^g I,
interrupts. Elores sessiles v. brevissime pedicellati. Bractcoe paiTSe, orata;. Calyx
tubulosus, tomentellus, 6-7 Hn. longus. Corolla villosa, yix dimidio longior. Lcgumen
ad poll, latum, marginibus valde dilatatis plurisulcis et
subsemipedale (v. longius ?), f
undulatis, faciebus tamen apertis.—^^^//^. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
Mimosa
Mem. Leff. 438 ; Prod. ii. 434
iflora, Walp. et Duchass. in

Mociniana
West Indies, Central America, Columbia, and perhaps
Hah. Tropical America :
Guiana, but often planted

appears
irttcd
Central- American and South-Mexican specimens, including
Santa Marta. The
in the proportions of the flo«r,, to p«, .nto /. raiapû
and Don, appear, <^
» vnunvu.» u. Walpers
ones often approaeh those of /. affin,, and I. ur,uj....^ «! u
I sJria whilst the Columbian pre«n. .„
so that the limits of the .pec.es eannot at
.anting
I.
Z2\ perfect frnits are
Ind altogether ;
determined on,
JmTeT:t;"
trom tne true i
which the
r.i::«:^ Me-
fruit
.
iêra
is
•
,
also unknown,
•„,
is
fr„m Surinam
most
~/bc/t«,
nrnhablv
probably
from the
likewise
iiKewisc
character
to be
giien,
inn.a; .i. .53

included
can «arr^l,-
fro. Surmam.
dilTcr
.... .
amongst the rane-
.0. of
ties of /. vera.
U.S. Commission of Ii.quinr, may be ibo a
Domingo
/. la,.pro,nylla. C- ^"=* ^ "fl^' 1^'^^^^^^^^^^^^ flowers appro.chi..g tho.
of /. spuria,
Mim. iii. 202. rcrrusi.co.to.en.
i. UooU. Bot.
:;Kâ™s, Eoolc. ei Ar.. /
122. I
;
ling
g28 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MlMOSEiE.
4-6-juga, oblonga, majora 3-4-pollicaria. parum Spicae breves, densae v.

tella. Foliola
Bractese parvse, ovatse. Calyx tnbulosus, tomentellus, ad 5
elongatê. Plores sessHes.
lin. longus. Corolla Yniosa, parum v. vix dimidio longior. Legumen I. verm v. "brevius,
latioribtis, faciebus angustius apertis.— JBewÂ. in Fl. Bras. Mrni.

margintbus sêpius
Tropical and subtropical South America Brazil, prov. Sao Paulo, and perhaps
Sab, :
Rio Janeiro, and on the Uruguay.

be southern representative, differing slightly in foliage and inflores-
Very near /. vera, this appears to its
cence, in smaller flowers, and perhaps in the pod.
XALAPEXsis, Benth. ! in Sooh. Lond. Journ. iv. 616. Ferrugineo-pubescens

123. I.
V. villosa. Poliola ad 5-jnga, obovali- v. elliptico-oblonga, majora 4-pollicaria. Spicae
oblongs, laxiusculai v. interrupte pauciflorse. Elores sessiles v. hrevissime pedicellati.

»
-
::.?
1",
Bractege lanceolatse, subpersistentes. Calyx tnbuloso-campanulatus, 4J-5 lin. longus
corolla villosa, dimidio longior. Legumen ignotum.

Mah. Tropical America : Mexico, Coulter, Linden n. 671, Jurgensen n. 595.
Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 615, from South Mexico, Coulter, Berlandier {Herb.
/. eriocarpa, Benth. in !
DC), may be the same species. The pod in these specimens is narrower and longer than in /. vera,
with the margins more closed over the faces.

/. fiexuosa, Schlecht, Linnfca, xii. 559 (7. Schiedeana, Steud. Norn. Bot. ed. 2), of which the
flowers are not described, may be the same species.
124. I. SPTJRIA, numb, et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec, iv.* 1011. Perrngineo-pubescens,

Poliola 5-6-juga, oblongo-elliptica, acuta, majora 4-5-pollicaria. Spicse laxse. Plores
breviter pedicellati. Bractese parvse, ovatae. Calyx latinscule tuhnlosns, tomentoso- .'
viUosus, 5-6 lin. longus ; corolla parnm v. vix dimidio longior, Legumen I. v
Ktmth, Mm. 39. t. 12 ; Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.

Mimosa spuria, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 40.
Scib. Tropical America : Columbia and apparently also in Brazil^ prov. Bahia and Rio
Janeiro.
This differs from /. vera in the flowers stipitate, sometimes almost as much as in /. ingoides : but
this
known
nd Besides the specimen figured as L spuria, Kunth^s coUection in the herba-
same name
/. spuria.
125. I. Ij'etjillei, DC. Prod. ii. 433. Pubescens. Eoliola 4-5-juga, ovali-oblonga,
utrinque acuta, glabrescentia, majora 4-6-p ollicar ia Spicse longae, rbacbe demuml^2- .
poUicari. ¥lores sessiles, subdissiti. Bractese lineares, calyce breviores, subpersistentes.

Calyx tubulosus, tomentosus, 4-5 lin. longus. Corolla rufo-sericea, 8-9 lin. longa.
Legumen " 1-2-pedale," ex icone planum, marginibus dilatatis.
Inga reticulata. Sprang. Syst. iii. 130.
/. Cumingiana, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jonm. iv. 616.
Hah, Tropical America Lima in Peru, where it is much planted in gardens, Feuillee ;
:
lima, Gtmiing n. 980 ; temperate valleys of the Andes, Jameson.

Tliis species, readily known by its inflorescence and bracts, was estabUshed both by De CandoUe and
Feuillee^ s figure
Aublet, PL Gui
] MR. G* BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. 629
same figure for his Mimosa

Cayenne plant he had mist
mistaken for Fenillee's. G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 388, under the
stnemariensis seems to have mixed up with the Peruvian plant the /. laurina, Sw. Mimosa
Pacat, " Fres, in Vitm/' inserted in Steud. Norn. Bot. ed. %, is probably founded also on Feuillee's plant.
'
126. I. iNSiGNis, Kunth! Mim. d3, t. 13. Ferrugineo-liirta v. tomentosa. Foliola
4-5-juga, ovali- y. oblongo-elliptica, acuminata, coriacea, liirta v. glabrata. Spices
ovoideo-oblongge, densae, peduiiculatse. Elores sessiles. Bracte-ae oblongaj v. lanceolat??,
caducissimse. Calyx tubulosus, pilis crispis viUosus, ad 5 lin. longus. Corolla villosis-
sima, poUice brevier. Legumen crassum, durum, marginibus latis subscqualitcr tctra-
gonum, semipedale, pollicem latum et crassum. — Benth, Fl. Bras. Mim.

I. pachycarpay Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 617.
JSah. Tropical America common Andes of:

Quito, Jlimholdt and Boiq^landt
in tbe
the same species, but not in fruit,
Sarticeg n. 966, Spruce n. 5096 and apparently ;
Brazil, proy. Minas Geraes, BurcJiell n. 5835.
433. Eufo-velutina v. pubescens. Toliola 'ir-6-juga,

127. I. APFiNis, DC. Brod. ii.
obtusa, majora 3-6-pollicaria. Spicic breves t.

ovali- V. oblongo-eUiptica, acuminata v.
Bracteai parvse, ovatae. Calyx tomontosus,

demum longiuscul^. Elores sessiles.
Corolla sericeo-villosa, 7-8 lin. longa. Lc^gmnen tomcn-

latiusculus, 3-4 lin. longus.
sulcatis, faclebus apertis.-i?e.^M. tn Fl. Bras. J/7...
sosum, fere J. verw. marginibus latis
Mimosa
Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. 113, non WiUd
Nom
amtifoUa, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ
different from I. «#«». only known in leaf, without

Hort. B.roi ^^^^ ^^^^^ Uoffraanêgg.
Inga rhoi/oha, Willd. Enum. ,
ra^cr ^-J^^; «-
flowed or fmit, resembles in that state
Fl. "
^L, Mart. Fl. Bras. 114 (non eiuM. ibid.
Mimosa umbeUata,yd\. ^^'^J-^y,'^^

'
„f i, affinis, although the braoU are rc,.re«=.,...l
as ''"'""•
linear.
BubiKiioso-toracntosa. Poli.ila 4-6-jnCT,
,. , cr V, <J.„.;« 2
suHauceolata
oblongo-elliptica v. ^'^^^^^'"'^^^ ,,M^. 1-2-pollicures. Tloro,
.ubsLlles, .ua. in p^ce«us te—^ ^^

Corolla sericeo-Tillosa, ad 9 ^- 2- '
Cayenne, Sagoi n. 026.
^^^f
Sui-mam, ^0 .
America : ,
Tenuiter fcrruginco
if«5. Tropical ^^
129.
puberula.
I. sc.BBX.se...,
PoHola ^^g^
bpicse ^t
Benin.
oreviL
/ in
^l— ^^^'J^^^^^
y;
^^^
!la.i-«l. su^Hores
acuminata vix ooria^,.
suW™ W
majora 5-pollicaria.
——
630 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. {.Inga.
Plores sessiles, angusti. Calyx puberulus, 3-3J lin. longus. Corolla sericeo-villosa,
6-8 lin. Tonga. Legumen semipedale, J poll, latum, marginibus
(perfectum ?) quam in
J. vera minus dilatatis, faciebus late apertis. Fl. Bras. Mim.
/. uncinata, Spruce^ PL Exs.
__ A
Sab. Tropical America : North Brazil^ Guiana, and Columbia.

With the narrow floTêrs nearly of /. edulis^ this has a pod nearer to that of 7. vera, to which latter
species it appears to Lave been referred in some herbaria.
130. I. EDULis, Mart.! Herb. Fl. Bras. 113. Perrugineo-tomentosa. Glandulse

magnse, saepe compressse transversseque. Poliola 4-6-juga, ovali- v. oblongo-elliptica,
acuminata, submembranacea, majora 6-8-pollicaria. Spicse breviter pedunculatae, sub-
corynibosae. Plores sessiles, angusti. Calyx molliter tomentosus, 2-|-4 lin. longus.
Corolla sericeo-villosa, 7-9 lin. longa. Legumen ultrapedale, subteres, marginibus valde
dilatatis plurisulcatis supra facies clausis. Benth. in Fl. Bras. Mim.
I. vera, H., B. et K. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 289, non Willd.
Mimosa Ynga, Mum. Ic. xl. t. 3.
Veil. Fl.
,
ILab. Tropical America North Brazil, Guiana, Columbia, Peru and Central America';
:
sent also from Minas Geraes and Eio Janeiro, but perbaps not indigenous, as it
is fre-
quently cultivated.
With the fruit of /. ingoides, this has the very different inflorescence and flowers of /. scabriuscula, and
the foliage rather distinct from both.
131. I. FASCICULATA, Bcepp. et Fndl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 79.

iii. Perrugineo-velutina.
Poliola 4-juga, ovali- v. elliptico-oblonga, quam in I. eduli magis coriacea. Inflo-
rescentia I. edulis, flores minores, corolla ad 5 lin. longa. Legumen 6-8 poll, lono-um,
1 poll, latum, Junius tenuiter villosum, demum glabrum.
Bah. Tropical America Eastern Peru near Cuchero, Bceppig.
:
I have not now seen this species, which requires further

comparison with some others of the section.
132. I. (Erstediana, Benth. in Seem. Bot. Rer. 117.
! Dense rubiginoso-pubescens.
Glandule parvae v. obsoletae; foliola 4-juga, oblongo- y.
ovali-elliptica, obtusiuscul
majora 6-8-pollicaria. Spicse oblongae, breviter
pedunculate, superiores corymb
Plores sessiles, angusti. Calyx velutinus, 3 lin. longus. Corolla rufo-viUosissima, 6-7
Im. longa. Legumen I. edulis, elongatum, subteres, sulcatum.
/. clavigera, Moritz, in Herb. Sond.
Sab. Tropical America : Costa Pica, (Ersted ; Panama, Seemahn ; Columbia,
Moritz.
CONFEETA, Beuth. I in SooJc. Bond. Journ. iv. 620.
133. I.
Tenuiter puberull Glan-
dulaa magnse; foHola 5-6-juga,
ovali-elliptica y. oblonga, acuminata, pleraque semi-
pedaha. Spice oblongae, pedunculate, fasciculatae, superiores numeros* denseque corym-
bose. Plores sessiles. Calyx tomentosus, 3 lin. longus.
gus. Corolla sericeo-villosa,
iôroila 6-7
Im. longa. Legumen icjnotum
xg
O ""^"^
Hah. Tropical America : Eastern Peru, Tarapoto, Mathews n. 1595.
Eufo-tomentosa. Glandule parvule.

Jhli^TT^""^^^^^
sub-4-juga, ovata y. elliptica, Poliola
obtusa, supra nitida, subtus
Spic. dens^, numeros., in
corymbum densissime conferte
^bigmoso-tomentosus, 3 Hn., corolla rufo- sericea,
6-7
pubescentia, 4-6-pollicaria
lin. Wa.
ga.
Plores essnef
.i::!^!.?^!
Legumen oblongum
S
—
1 MR ON THE MIMOSE^. goi
margin ibus
^«i. Tropical America Columbia, valley of Macarao,
:
Fendler n. 2259.
•
135. I. LusCHNATHiANA, Seuth. / in Booh Land. Journ. h. 618. Ferruîneo-tomen
osa V. pubcscens. Poliola *-5,-„ga,
polhcana. Spic* longee. breviter pedunculata,,
ovali-oWonga, obtusa .. acuminata. '^^TZ
axillares. Hores subsessiles Cal
latmsculus, li-2 Im. longus. Corolla
rite
sericeo-yillosa,
relatum) crassum. latiusculum, tomentosum,
7-8 liu. longa. _
Lesrumen
„„..„
•
,., ,.„,
marginibus plurisuleatis latissimis
tacies ommno obtegentibus.— J?i. Bras.
Mm
/. eriantha, Benth. in Hook. Lend. Journ.
!
iv. 614.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Rio. Janeiro and Minas Gcraes.
I am not confident of having correctly matched the fruiting specimens ^nth the flowering one.,
which
are distinguished from /. affinis and its allies chiefly by the proportions of the flowers.
136. I. SUBNUDA, Salzm. ! Benih. ! in Sook Lond. Journ. 613.

iv. Fcrrugineo-
pubescens. Petiolus breviter et anguste alatus. Foliola 2-3-juga, ovali- v. oblongo-
elliptica, acuminata, majora semipedalia. Spicae breviter pedimculatse, suporior*^ bn>-
viter subpaniculatae. Mores pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus, velutinus, fere 3 lin.
longus. Corolla dense villosa, 7-8 lin. longa.
g«,. Lesrumen Xij
^V^QWXliV^XX ignotum.—i^/. Bras, 2Ilm.
Mab. Tropical America : Brazil, prov. Bahia.
The flowers are nearly those of/, Luschnathiana^ but pedicellate; and tlie foliage is very diflerent.
137. T. liAXiFLORA, Benth. ! in Hooh Lond. Journ. iv. 617. E/ufo-velutina. Foliolr
5-juga, oblongo-elliptica, acuminata, hirtella, demum nitida, majora 5-pollicaria. Pe-
dunculi elongati, interrupte floriferi. Flores pedicellati. Calyx latiusculus, velutinus
4 lin. longus. Corolla villosissima, ad 9 lin. longa. Legumen ignotum.
ILah. Tropical America : Peru, Sesuya, Mathetcs n. 3274.
The long loose inflorescence readily distinguishes this from /. ingoides.
138. I. INGOIDES, Willd. Spec. iv. 1012. Perrugineo-tomentella. Foliola 4-5-juga,
ovali- V. oblongo-elliptica, mucronata v. acuminata ; majora 4-6-pollicaria. Spicae brevca,
laxee, superiores subcorymbosae. Plores pedicellati. Calyx latiusculus, tomentosus,

3-312 lin.
""^- lonffus. Corolla sericeo-villosa, 6-7 lin. longa. Legumen uni- v. pluripedaUs,
"I
-^"Ô
subteres mar^'inibus valde dilatatis plurisulcatis supra facies clausis. Benth. in Fl
Bras. Mim.
Mimosa ingoides, Rich, in Act. Soc. Nat. Par. 1792, 113.
Inga ornata, Kmith Mim. 46, ! 1. 14.
Meriance
Walp
Guiana, West Indies, and Columbia, and probably also Xorth
Hah. Tropical America :
Brazil
# Without the pod it is readily confounded with
by Meriana. is that of /. eduUs.
the leguml
^
well figured
^
' / . ., . e Â v.Tr Tnnna tn M. ornata. there are some with
but
larger flowers, or a
,
sible
4
VOL. XXX.
— — \
632 BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^. .

[^»5'«-
in Hooh. Lond. Journ. iv. 618. Eolia flores et inflo-

139. I. BAHiENSis, Benth. I
magis corymbosse, et corolla ratione calycis sublongior.

rescentia I. ingoides, nisi spicse
semipedale, 8-9 lin. latum, marginibus valde dilatatis, facies tamen
Leo-umen I. affitiis,
non obtegentibus.— i^/. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Tropical America Brazil, prov. Babia,
: and, if rightly determined, also E,io
Janeiro, Minas Geraes, and Goyaz ; but the specific characters require further investi-
gation.
140. I. SESSiLis, Serb, Fl. Bras. 114.

Mart. I Rufo-velutina. Eoliola 5-7-juga,
oblon'T'a v. ovali-lanceolata, acuminata, majora 3-5-pollicaria. Spicse axillares, inter-
rupte pauciflorse. Flores sessiles. Calyx crassus, ovoideo-campanulatus v. inflatus, 7-14

lin. lono-us. Corolla villosissima, calyce parum v. dimidio longior. Legumen rufo-hirsu-
tissimum, crassum, semipedale, 1-1 J poll, latum, rectum v. arcuatum, margine exteriore
irresrulariter incrassato. FL Bras. Mim.
Mimosa sessilis, Veil. Fl. Flum. Ic. xi. t. 21.
Inga calycinay Beuth. ! in Hook. Loud. Journ. iv. 612.
Sab. Tropical America : Brazil, proy. Rio Janeiro and Minas Geraes.
The calyx, although very variable in size, is always large, nearly of the shape of that of Affomea, but
thicker. The pod is a very distinct one.
XXIX. Affonsea, St.-Hil.

The genus is confined to Southern tropical Brazil.
1. A. DENSiFLORA, BentJi. ! in Sook. Bond. Journ. v. 76. Petiolus nudus. Foliola

3-4-juga, oblonga, acuminata, nitida, plana, glabra, majora 5-6-pollicaria. Bractese
cum floribus in spica brevi densa imbricatae. Calyx 8 lin. longus. Corolla poUicaris.
Sab. Brazil, prov. Bahia.
2. A. JUGLANDiFOLiA, St.-SH. ! Voy Biam.
. i. 385. Petiolus interrupte alatus. Poliola
2-4-juga, ovali- v. elliptico-oblonga, vix acuminata, tenuiter coriacea, nitidula, plana,
majora 4-6-pollicaria. Spica laxa, bracteis patentibus caducisve. Calyx 9-10 lin.
longus. Corolla pauUo longior. Legumen \.^mA\kVi\ .—B enth , I in Fl. Bras. Mim.
A. comosa, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 76, 1. 1.
Sab. Brazil, prov. Bio Janeiro and Baliia.
3. A. BULLATA, Benth. ! in Sooh. Lond. Journ. v. 77. Petiolus alatus. Poliola 3-5-
juga, longe oblongo-lanceolata, buUato-rugosa, majora 6~9-pollicaria. Bracteê cum
floribus in spica densa imbricatse. Calyx 5-6 lin. longus. Corolla paullo lono-ior. Le-
gumen crassum, compressum, ferrugineo-villosum, 3-4 poll, longum, 9-10 lin. latum.
Fl. Bras. Mim.
Sab. Brazil, prov. Rio Janeiro.
:
I
]
MIMOSE^ 633
Species dubiê.
Species which may be distinct from any of the foregoing,
yet so imperfectly described
that I am unable to fix upon the genera to which
they should be ascribed
t
Mimosa Jlava,FoTsk,'F\. o Arah.

JEs. ^xau. 176
x/u. Pimup
rmnae ^ î i,io-» Prîiû in v
.
d-D-jugse. iôliola -r
7-10-juga, Imeana, semmnffueiu
1.
longa, obtusa. Glandula nulla. Flores pallide flavi.
Hab. Surdud in Arabia, Forskal.
Schweinfurth thinks that this comes nearest to Acacia Verek, above referred to A. Senegal; but tliat
species has the petiolar glands very prominent.
Mimosa glomerata, Forsk. Fl. %. Arab. 177. Folia bipinnata. Legumen nigrum contorto-globusum.
Hah. Arabia, included in the Fl. Arab. p. cxxiii, but no further clue given to its station or character.
Mimosa Sejal, Forsk. Fl. ^g. Arab. 177 [Acacia hadiensis, DC. Prod. ii. 472). Tncrmis. Pinnse
^3-jugse, inferiores squama una, extimae squama duplici distinct^. Foliola 14-juga, ovali-lincaria, ungue
breviora.
Hab. Hadie in Arabia, Forskal.

Mimosese
Mimosa
Mimosa stellata, Forsk. Fl. M^. Arab. 177; Vahl, Symb. i. 81 [Acacia stellaln^ Willd. Spec
pul Pinnae lO-jugse. Foliola 13-juga, oblonga. Petiolus commiuiis
recurvis ad singula paria et suora intra foliola sinffulorum arulcus
erectus. Pedunculus axillaris, superne villosus. Flores in racemo coraposito numerosi, patcntcs, sparsi,
pedicellis longitudine florum. Sepala 5, ovata, acuta. Petala 5, lanceolata. Stamina 10, distiucLu,
corolla parum longiora. Legumen compressum, membranaceum, lanceolatum.
Hab
Mimosa allied to M.
V Mimoseous
Mimosa pilosa, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 650 [M. crinita, Pers. Syn. ii. 261). Inerrais, pil sun
Foliola multijuga, ovata, obtusa, utrinque pilosa, superiora minora, Flos tcrminalis
pliciter pinnata.
in capitulum magnum albissimum. Calyx 5-fidus, erectus. Corolla campauulata, 5-fida.

conglobatus
Antherse minimae. Stylus filiformis. I aeare
Filameuta numerosa, corolla dupio longiora.
tenue, rectum, polyspermum.
Hah
fruit descriDea mignt oe rnose oi Aiiîu,,.^tu, uu. ± . World Mim
The flowers and
nor with the peculiar inflorescence described.
with simply pinnate leaves,
inrrmis
Mimosa
linearia
5-8
sessiles. cavae.
loDgi
angustissima, glabra. Glandulae
latere altero
Stamina numerosa, monadelpha.
erectEe. Flores parvi.
Hab The only plants named M.

allied to A. mdifl'
ery different
73
Mimo
Spin, .tipulares recuna^-
et Sp. 16).
^""^^J'^^^^^^^^^.^^^.ît.lc.L.
Stamina sub 40, monadelpha ^'^.S^"^"
pedunculata. '~;^^^^^^
^«.. Kaisea in the Ma<hid
snmes or
^f^^^^^^ZZtZ-XZc..
mfrastipular dre prickies
pC.andro. m.^
Po.,..,.o.l «timiLir
4n2
^^^ MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEÊ. [Species dubite.
I am unable to suggest the affinities of this species possibly an Acacia allied to A. Rcemeriana, or a Pithe-
;
•.olobium {Oriholobiim) , or Calliandra allied to C. chilemis.
Mimosa strigosa, Vers. Syn. ii. S63, non Willd 137 non Link;
A.strigulosa, Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2). Pinn^ unijugse. Poliola bijuga, obliqua, siibtus pilosa. Mores
capitati* Legumen compressum, strigosum.
Hah. Peru, êri
be
Mimosa of the Sensitive s
Mimosa arcuata, Mart. Lix. X. ii. 308. Glabra. Spicse geminae^ validae. Pinnje
2-3-jugae. Poliola 10-15
Pedunculi axi Hares, folio longiores. Capitula globosa.
Legumen arcuatumj linea:
1
//iai. Mexico, calcarnm

The stamens are not described; the flowers in
the Latin character are' said to be white. In the Fiênch
notes yellow,
match
have seen.
Mimosa geminata, DC. Prod. ii. 427. Caules diffusi petiolique aculeati. Pinn^ 2-jug^ (jugis di-
tautibus). Foliola 15-20-juga.
M.
Hub. Mexico, Mocino
very rude drawing of Mo9ino and
Sesse^s ; the fruit unknown
mentioned. Being placed in the division "pinnis }y
distantibus.
M
M. fragrm\
mmoâmonaMpka Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 544. Pinu. subbijuga,. Foliola subbijuga, oblique oblonga,
glabra. Pamcula tormmahs. Staaniua numerosa, in tubum l„„gissimum eonnata. LeguLu stipita:
tuiDj 1-2-spermum.
Hub
l«m»MC„mj„^ Blanco Fl. Filip. 734, ed. 2.
507, from the Philippine Idands, may possibly be
Nemu)
scribed.
Mimosa
Piptadenia, although I cannot
rude
Hab
Acacia nutans strong. ^ystiilUl. Lêrmis, glabra. Petiolus eglandulosus. Pinn^ 12 iu^^
hoi a muU,uga, hnearia, ' Fo-
obtusiuscula.
Capitula racemosa, nutantia. '
Legumen lineare
Hab. New Granada, on the Majjdalena. Bertero
M
The specimen named by him
Mim 3ct Spikes.
Acacia pubescens
Pubescens.
Aculei stipulares gemini,
basi «uDoonnati. Pmn^ 4-5-jug8e.
oasi suboonuati.
Foliola 12-14.juga, anguste ellinti^n 9 r '^r
^ recti '' '"''""^
v. curvuli.
-J^_^"S^^*^«^^%tica, 2 hneis breviora. Petiolus
T
uniglandulosus. Legmen ultra 4 noil !....„. ^_ j
semina hinc inde contractura.
Semina septis nullis distincta.
1 should have considered this plant an Acacxa closely

allied to if not i^.„t;„ ... .
for the earpologieal character,
which points rather to
i
"*' ^^ '"*""' ''"'
some Al^;:^!
ifiora, A. Rich. FI. Cub. i. 461 (Calliandra paucifi
pubesce,.,. Aeulei gemini. stipulares, recurvi, ''"'• '''' ''"'"'
breves. F^l a l^ma Pin \
...a, oblonga, obtus.si„,a, coriacea,
ciliata, pilosiuscula. CaZ: ^'l^^J'^ axillaria,
-^^-
pedunculata,
J *''^- «• BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^
635
2-3.flora. Calycis tubulos
Corolla lobi acuti,
Legumen ignotum. ciliati. Stamina 12^ libera.
Hab. Cuba. 7?. dp. In Sinn
[OrthoMium), differing from P. prehensile
always straight and acieular in

C«.L., recurved! ol'J!^ "It^^T^.^
A. Richard describes
^--^' -
the stain Cll^
be
insularis
Inermis, villosa.
acutissimse, pilosae. Pinnae s«pius 3-jugffi. Toliola 24-35 -ji
pilosa, ciliata, subtus 3-nervia. Capitula ovg solitaria, axillaria
Hab
described Nepfnma, but ()<»r^ not
agree with any specimen known to me.
Acacia httoralis, A. Rich. Fl. Cub. i. m7. Inermis, tomentoso-pubescens. Stipule vix conM.icua,
Petiolus eglandulosus. Pinnae 2-8-jug^. Foliola 30-«)-juga, oblongo-augusta,
obtusa, •^„bcr,riar(.a'
nitida, subtus pallidiora. Capitula parvula, sphaerica, pedunculata, in raccmiira
terniinalcm l.-,x.,m'
ramosura disposita. Calyx turbinatus, obsolete 5-dentatus, apice viUosus.
<
Corolla calyce triple \mmun
I glabriuscula. Stamina circiter 20-25, libera. Legumen ignotum.
Hab
Grisebach refers this to Calliandra portoricensis ; but the inflorescence described and
some other cha-
J
racters are quite at variance with that species.
Albizzia {Serianthes) amcsnissima^ F. Muell. Fragm. viii, 165, from the N.E. extremity of New South
Wales^ would appear^ from the characters given, to be intermediate as it were between Serumihes yrandi'
flora and S. myriadena , which F. Mueller unites under the name oi Albhzia grandiflora. Thepo<l, Ijovv-
ever, is unknown, and the genus must be in some measure uncertain.
Berterii, Spreng. Syst. iii, 127 (/. Spremelii C2& stinnlarn

geminae, rectse. Pinnae l-jugse, Foliola 1-juga, oblique oblonga, obtusa, coriacca, glabra. Florr> i^^.-
mosi. Legumen glabrum, rectiusculum.

Hab. South America, Bertero.
I found no specimen with this name amongst Bertero's plants named by Sprengcl in Jfcrb. Balbiii, uor
ioli
of which Magdal
curved.
395 {Mimosa circinalis, M05. et Scss. MS.), glabra. Pii. lilt'

alierni/olia, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii.
recta. Peduncul
multij
soliturii. Capitula globosa. Legumen glabrum

Hab
doubtful
Species
some of them imperfectly known are all either refer t<»

The foUowinff. altliouffh
a 5 o'A^^^^'ô
Leguminous plants at
the Suborder Csesalpinie^, or are not
Cuid
Mimosa nodosa^ Linn, i
Gav
Mimosa balsamicay Mol
.
^Species exchm^
636 MR BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE.
Mimosa ft Gleditschice sp. ex char.
Cochinch. 651 {Acacia tawifolia, Willd. Spec. iv. 1050 Mimosa taxifolia, Poir.
Mimosa stellata, Lour. Fl. ;
Syn. and M. sinuata, Lour. c. 653, from Cochinchina, are

Diet. Siippl. i. 59 Mimosa ternata,
; Pers. 261), 1.
evidently, from Loureiro's descriptions, not Leguminous plants but I am unable to guess
;
at their real
affinities.
bauhiniafolia
Mimosa Kantuffa, DC. Prod. ii. 4<^l, = Pterolobium lacerans, Br.
Mimosa crocea, M. laxa, M. Musa, M. Pacoba, M. pulchra, andilf,

all species of Sivartzia.
,,„ „^..^„„, Dennst. Schluss. Hort. Malab. l5,=Ailantus malabaricns
dolabriformis, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 5o,=Daviesia incrassata, Sw.
Bancroft Casalpinia bijuga, Sw.
by Millet tia ferru
i. 4A\, = Peltophorum ft
Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 7i Macrolobium
Nomina delenda.
Supposed from the confusion of synonyms, or undescribed, or
species, either resulting
so described as not to be henceforth identified, although all with very little doubt
founded on species already described under other names.
A. Compound species.
Mimosa vaga, Linn. Spec. 1503 [Acacia vaga^ Willd. Spec, iv, 1063) ^ was originally characterized in
Hort. Cliff. 209^ from Albizzia Lebhek^ to which was added the Brazilian Guaibi-pocaca-biba^ which^ from
Piso's rude figure, copied by Marcgrave^ comes nearest to Piihecolobium Saman. This, however, is
scarcely Brazilian ; and Breynius^s plate 15, quoted more doubtfully by Linnaeus, is evidently Piihecolobium
Auaremotemo.
Mimosa Ouyrarema, AubL PL Gui/946 [Acacia Ouyrarema^ DC. Prod. ii. 469), made up of references
belonging to Pithecolobium fiUcifolium , and of a Cayenne plant undescribed, but represented among
Aublet's by a leaf wliich may be that of Pithecolobium adiantifolium or some allied species. De Candolle^s
character is taken from a leaf which may or may not be taken from tlie same species.
Mimosa Sinemariensis, AubL PL Gui. 945, made up of references belonging to Inga Feuillei and of
ôme undescribed plant from Cayenne (where Inga Feuillei is unknown), of which no evidence exists.
G. Bon, Gen. Syst. ii. 388, still further confuses his Inga sinemariensis by mixing it up with what appears
to be /. laurina.
B. Species which there is ecery reason to believe are included amongst those above
described^ but ofiohich I have seen no authentic specimens, and which are so imperfectly
described as to render identification^ generic or sjpecific, otherwise impossible.
r
Prosopis elegansy Spreng. Syst. Cur, Post. 165, from Brazil, Sello, may be Piptadenia rigida or
>erma
Mimosa brevifoUa and 3f
)m South America, with specime
admit
to
Willdeno
guess
M
] MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.
63
fl
t'tted
by Sello
Mimose '<*
(
ab
I have been quite unable to identify even the genera of these So
five. also Acacia Bertenan
Syst, iii. 138, non Balb. {A. Sprengelii, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 410, non Hook, et Arn.), from jlmaka^
must be some :Mimosea known under another name. I did not find in the Bertcrian collections
it named
by Sprengel which I have seen.
Ml Herb
East-Indian species ; but the diagnosis is insufficient to identify it.
Journ 1
for Desvaux's plants are not to be relied upon. The characters given do not agree witli any known En«t.
Indian species, and are wholly insufficient for identification with any others. I found no specimen in
Desvaux's herbarium.
Albizzia macrothyrsa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 281, from Sumatra, of which the fruit is unknown, is,
from the description, most probably either PiMeco/oJmwi bubalinum, or P. microcarpinn, two «p<»ci(s uhicli
without close comparison of specimens it is almost impossible to distinguish when in flower only.
C. Species described from foliage only, without flowers or fruit, and vldch cauuol hf
where specimens are preserved. Others helonging to this clafts ir/iirh hua;
identified even
been approximatively determined, are mentioned under the species to which they are pro-
bably referrible.
Mimosa semispinosa, Linn. Spec. 1508 [Acacia semispinosa, Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2).
rhombifolia, and J/, fn-
Mimosa coronillMia, M guay aquikmis
.
, M. lentiscijolia, M. rhodacantha, M.
coronillcefolia , A. guayaquilensis, A. lentisciJuUu
bifolia
peruviana, iiumo. t.
Acacia cassioides,WiM. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1051, and A.
as far as can be judged of by the young foliage.
1056, both belonging to one species
Berol. 105,
A..^z^ .:n... ^.,A A ^./„;. WnmT. Pt Bnnnl. in WiUd. Enum. Hort.
Mimosa indica, P iA
Mimosa fruttcosa 4GC

taKen up .xuxx. ^..^^^^•^.^^-,
Acacia javanica, DC. Prod. u. 471, is
^ ^-^^
_
represented by
the foliage known. In Herb. DC. ^.>../c« is
» only
^
is
_- ,^ Â 1,^,... fi.n camp as A. cassioiats ana a pertn
Mimos
A. .eÛa, A.
Minôsa nepaUn^s, Acacia aÛûa, :X//i!l, "ofT™
^««''':;^,f
\^.xj.ujjmuastyyn,xj^.),--'r"'-~- ' seen Hull
'
^ Rnf at T have uot
Dresa. Gart., aU taken up in DC. Prod, or ^t-^-
N-.«°;-
ix. «7.
j
J *^^;,„„ i
V
,„ ,o„t ii
Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1,
Inga molliuscula,
Calliandra.
Wall
L fr^nicntfi, Ik lon^'inic
Herb. Inc. n. ..«", •= ^r-
-
Inga ve«trioosa. Grab. I in Wall. Cat.
-C, -<• "''-'?'""•<'.

probably to different species. _ .
^jji-.-io mcluccam, Miq. '• <:
and Pithecoto !> '/I
Miq. /. c. Suppl. 281,

Miq. /• c. Suppl. ^»", oppiaiium
Miq. ;. c. 37, A. spkndens, Pithecolobium
the Malav
fagifolium, Miq. I. c. i. pars i. 35, aU from û'.^^^ T have not obser
have the uppe,

Suppl. 283, from Sumatra, is said to
Pithecolobium or Albi:sgia.
; .
[Nomina delenda
638 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^
garden catalogues, etc, by name only, without diagnoses
D. Species entered into travels,
or description, and yet taken up by Steudel and others.
Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 [Acacia semicordata, Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2)

Mimosa semicordafa,
Chr. Smith in Tuck. Congo, 249, from the Cape-Verd Islands.
Mimosa glandulosa,
Syst. Mat. Med. Fl. Bras. 53, is not described, although a chemical
Acacia Jurema, Mart. Reise, ii. 788,
analysis is given of the bark.

Bonpl., A. coccinea, Link, and A. semitnptera, Mart,, all in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2.
Aeacia curvifolia,
Boj. Hort. Maurit. 115, 116, from Madagascar.
Acacia hiria, A. lucem, and A. habbasioides,
Ten. Cat. Ort. Napol. 77, raised from Brazilian seed.

Acacia viarum, Allem. ;
Jacarandm, &nd.lnga afzelioides, 'LoM., Acacia Lawsoni
yjmosa Barclay ana, honH., Acacia fuscata, A.
A. leucoloba, A. platyphylla, and A.
and A. persoomides, Ait., Acacia heteromalla, A. guilandinafolia,
entered either in Loudon's or in Sweet's Hortus
Richardsmi, Sweet, and Inaa pulcherrima, Cerv., all
Britannicus.
om
The followln"- determinations of a few numbered collections more or less generally dis-
tributcd may be found useful
Asiatic and Australian Collections.
Beccari : Borneo.
1134 rithccolobium fasciculatum. 2751 Pithecolobium montanum 3491 Pithecolobium borneense.^
1447 Parkia Roxburghii. 3060 Pithecolobium lobatum. 3730 Pithecolobium montanum,

1715 Pithecolobium bornecase, 3072 Adenanthera pavonina. var. ?
22r>l Adenantb pavonina 3084 Parkia Roxburghii. 3745 Pithecolobium Clypearia.

2749 Acacia pcnnata.
Cuming : Philippines
475 Pithecolobium lobatum. 1261 Mimosa pudica. 1 603 Pithecolobium lobatum.

L
502 rithccolobium subacutiiin. 1372 Mimosa pudica. 1691 Adenanthera pavonina.

953 Acacia pcnnata, 1499 Acacia caesla. 1692 Entada scandens.
IIGO Acacia concinna. t^ l/jB.^ Albizzia procera, 1854 Pithecolobium lobatxim.
F
1223 Albizzia retiisa. i^592 Serianthes grandiflora. Malacca.

12<i*» Entada scandens. 1593 Albizzia retusa. 2352 Kêptunia oleracea.
Scliultz : Port Darwin

127 Acacia polystachya? 359 Acacia Simsii. 763 Acacia humifasa.
1 89 Acacia polystachya ? 378 Acacia binervata. 795 Keptunia gracilis
247 Acacia dimidiata, 380 Neptunia gracilis. 870 Acacia polystacbya-
248 Acacia tumida? 415 Acacia holoscricea. 871 Acacia plectocarpa ?
293 Acacia tumida. 432 Acacia tumida, 871 oncmocarpa
301 Acacia binervata. 433 Acacia tumida, var.? 872 Acacia tumida.
302 Acacia tumida. 434 Acacia tumida, var. ? 873 Acacia latescens.
Acacia Simsii. 538 Acacia tumida. 874 Acacia dimidiata.
327 Acacia dimidiata. 550 Acacia tumida. 876 Acacia holosericea.
336 Aeacia latescens.
W
5226 Acncia fermginea. 5230 Acacia modesta. 5234 Albizzia odoratissima.
'^227 Acacia Catechu \ 5231 Dichrostachys ciuerea 5235 Albizzia Julibrissin, var.
522S Acacia Suma hP^<^™^ns
5232 Acacia latronum, 5236 Albizzia stipulata.
5229 Acacia Sundra J
™^^- 5233 Albizzia procera. 5237 Albizzia stipulata*
MR C39
5238 Albizzia amara.r

5260 Acacia pennata. 5280 Pithecolobium lobatum,
5239 Lencccna glauca. 5261 Acacia leucopbloea. 5281 Pithecolobium bigemlninn.
5240 Leticsena glauca. 5262 Acacia leucophlcea. 5282 Pithecolobium dulee.
5241 Albizzia myriophylla* 5263 Acacia leucophlcea. 5283 Pithecolobium contortum.
5242 Albizzia myriophylla. 5264 Acacia farnesiana. 5254 Pithecolobiura contortum.
5243 Albizzia stipulata, 5265 Albizzia Lebbek. 5255 Serianthcs grandiflonL
5244 Acacia lenticularis. 5266 Fragmenta sp. dubioe. 5286 Calliaiulm geminata.
4
5245 Acacia latronum. 5267 Albizzia lucida. 52S7 Pithecolobium umbollutum.
5246 Acacia arabiea. 5267 Pithecolobiura bigeminum. 5288 Purkiii Roxburghii.
526S Pithecolobium fasciculatum 52^9 Mimosa rubicftulis.

5247 Acacia tomentosa.
5269 Pithecolobium bigeminnm. 5290 !if imosa hamaU.
5248 Acacia Intsia.
5270 Pithecolobium Clypearia. 5291 MimoRfi Inti'tpinoia.
5249 Acacia Intsia^
5270 Pithecolobium angulatum. 5292 MimoM pudidiL
5250 Acacia concinna.
Pithecolobium angulutura. 5293 Entndn biûiidutti.
5251 Acacia concinna. 5271
5272 Pithecolobium bubalinum. 629 1 Eiitaila ^'-finJcJiN.
5252 Acacia Intsia,
Calliandra umbrosa. 5295 Neptnnia olariDcn.
5253 Acacia Intsia. 5273
Folia sp. dubice. 5206 D<*''mnTithiiN tri<]uH-*r.
5254 Acacia pennata. 5274
62!)7 DetnumtbiiH virgatus.
5275 Folia sp. dubiae.
5255 Acacia pluricapitata.
62y8 Ncptuttk ph.
5270 Folia sp. dubia;.
5256 Acacia Intsia.
6299
5277 Xylia dolabriformis.
n254 Acacia Intsia.
5300 Adcnanthorn ptfoi ii <^

5258 Acacia pennata.
5259 Albizzia amara.
South -American Collections
Appun : British Guiana.

Ifoli
920 Pitheedobium t I
337 Mimosa myriadena. c»ulif1'"^'m»

15 Mimosa polydactyla. 1011 Pithecolobium
373 Inga nobilis.
33 Pentaclethra filamentosa. 1844 Piptadenia jNTf^firrina.
386 Pithecolobium latifolium.

312 "Calliandra surinamensis.^ 2A43 ilimow wpcrata.
400 Inga Tliibaudiaua.
333 Pitliecolobinm adiantifolium
Blanchet: Brazil
3319 In«*iuu^lnfltfi
2762 Enterolobium Timbouva. *=-nm
3327 Entt-rolobinm ellii
86 A Inga ciliata.
Pithecolobium cauliflonim
2764 33;iS Tnga eylindne*.
222 Inga siilmuda.
2772 Acacia monacantha.
282 Inga biillata. Pithecolobium Blanchcti.
ii-
2776
Stryphnodendronnonuuuuu..
397 2816 CaUiandra sessilis.
fohMll.
1551 Piptadenia laxa. leptopoda.
2833 Calliandra
341^3 Pitbecolobium Amm" '
Pithecolobium filamentosum.
1596 Mimosa pteridifoUa.
PitlKVHjlohinin AamKmim
3 };i2
1602 Piptadenia laxa. polycephala.
Parkia Miir-^ Bliiuuhrfi
Affonsea densiflora. verrucosa.
1684 Mimosa Undiici*
fagifolia.
^^^^ Misii i.'« '
y
1832 Inga Mimosa acutistipula. "rmt-
j-^-i «tM-v
2870 3<;n Pit l-'-^flWrnw t
polyccphalum. 1
1848 Pithecolobium niliforroi

calycia*.
2890 C Hiandm
Blancbeti.
2584 Calliandra
2912 )sa rhodoatachya.
^,5ms pithr -niobium Myl m*
Mimosa cordistipnia. Thibaudiana.
2597 3018 :?.,-. Pii ^'î«l««»-
2620 Calliandra viscidula. .ooa iiisrlandifolia*
3080 A
2632 In 3083 a a ripana. ;',7( .s AmmM.
diversifolium.
2670 Pithecolobium denia lasa. — — w; I
1082a rfi ^>
Mimosa modesta. gubnuda.

2697 3083 a . • I •^
PiUi«*^l(^ttia ••rj
t
iliolo«uau
2700 Neptunia plena. CaUiandra depnupe ».
3136 ;Û00
moniliformis. Blancheti.
2701 Piptadenia Piptadenia
multiflorum. axillaris-
2756 Pithecolobium CalHandra
3315
5
Piptadenia colubrina
2761
i
VOL. XXX
BENTHAM MlMOSEiE
640 MR. G.
Biirchell: Brazil.
6066 Mimosa radula.

711 Mimosa sepiaria- 4626 Piptadenia communis.
6081 CalKandra parviflora
729 Mimosa Yelloziana. 4672 Mimosa sepiaria. 4
6088 Mimosa laevigata.

794 Acacia velutina. 4705-14 Mimosa Selloi*
6089 reticulatum
803 Mimosa elliptica. 4724-2 Mimosa sepiaria. 1
6114 Mimosa axillaris.

897 Piptadenia latifolia. 4749 Mimosa dolens. 4
Piptadenia colubrina. 6121 Mimosa invisa.

944 Pithecolobium Auaremotemo 4758
Mimosa 6130-2. Mimosa falcipinna.
1080 Piptadenia colubrina.
Langsdorfii 6170 Mimosa multipinna.
1196 xicacia glomerosa, 4779
Piptadenia communis. 6196 Mimosa gracilis.
1215 Mimoaa elliptica. 4794
6204 Mimosa rudis.
1355 Mimosa elliptica. 4835 Piptadenia falcata,
6232 Calliandra mertensioides, var.
1427 Acacia lacerans. 4843 Acacia riparia.
6287 Piptadenia macrocarpa.
Piptadenia nitida. 4844 Acacia grandistipula.
1453
Stryphnodendron Barbadeti- 6315 Calliandra parviflora.
1465 Acacia paniculata. 4909
mam. 6329 Acacia glomerosa.
1485 Mimosa elliptica.
TffiH
4934 Acacia paniculata. 6399 Piathymenia reticulata.

1594 Mimosa elliptica.
6482 Calliandra parviflora.
1641 Leucsena glauca. 5028 Mimosa conferta.
5090 Piptadenia falcata. 6488 Mimosa distans.
1688 Acacia velutina.
5103 Stryphnodendron Barbadeti- 6538 Calliandra longipes.
1827 Inga nutans?
mam. 6584 Mimosa trijuga.
1851 Inga Lusclmathiana.
5174 Enterolobium ellipticum. 6625 Acacia adhserens.
1856 Acacia glomerosa,
5176 Mimosa rixosa. 0626 Acacia glomerosa.
1975 Acacia lacerans.
Inga barbata. 5233 Piptadenia falcata. 6657 Mimosa brachycarpa.
1984
2337 Inga Luscbnatbiana. 5235 Piptadenia falcata. 6670 Mimosa neuroloma.
2556 Inga campannlata, 5253 Enterolobium ellipticum^ 6681 Mimosa Gardneri.
2622 Inga Thibaudiana. 5309 Leucsena glauca. 6700-4 Desmanthus depressus.
2648 Mimosa sepiaria. 5346 Enterolobium ellipticum. 6700-14 Mimosa multipinna.

2699 Mimosa extensa. 53G1 Inga marginata, 6700-15 Mimosa Gardneri.
I 2711 Inga nrnguensis. 5363 Mimosa laevigata. 6715-2 Calliandra microphylla.
2784 Piptadenia communis. 5368 Mimosa distans. 6739 Mimosa vestita.
2787 Mimosa Velloziana. 5452 Mimosa melanocarpa. 6779 Mimosa vestita.

2824 Acacia velutina. 5479 Piptadenia falcata. 6790 Mimosa neuroloma.
2952 Mimosa Velloziana. 5485 Mimosa dolens. 6848 Mimosa Clausseni.
2970 Acacia adhserens. 5581-2 Stryphnodendron Barbade- 6882-2 Mimosa vestita.
3031 Acacia farnesiana. timam. 6942 Mimosa Velloziana.
3032 Albizîa Lebbek. 5600 Stryphnodendron polyphyl- 6951 Mimosa Clausseni.
3036 Inga Luscbnathiana. lum. 6967 Plathymenium reticulatum.
3039 Lucsena glauca. 5686 Mimosa paucifolia. 6973 Mimosa invisa.
3049 Piptadenia laxa. 5705 Calliandra macrocephala. 7058 ûlis
3108 Pithecolobium sanguineum 5736 Mimosa densa. Mimos

3176 Inga faôlia, yar. 5747-2 Str)T;)hnodendron Barbadeti- 7188 Calli
3379 Pithecolobium lusorium. mam. 7216 nobilis

3414 Pithecolobium lusorium. 5809 Enterolobium ellipticum 7307 Mimosa adhserens.
3435 Piptadenia communis. 5835 Inga insignis. 7361 Mimosa melanocarp;
3420 Mimosa Velloziana. 5838 Mimosa melanocarpa. 7387 Mimosa verecunda.
3545 Acacia gran^tipula. 5909 Calliandra virgata.
7390 Inga marginata.
3816 Pithecolobium Langsdorfii. 5913 Calliandra parviflora. 7403 Inga spuria.
3869 Inga barbata. 5913-2 Mimosa Clausseni. 7445 Mimosa concinna.
4053 Mimosa dolens. 5941 Mimosa Clausseni. 7461 Mimosa neuroloma
4072 lUmcâ furforacea. 5968 Mimosa paludosa. 7471 Mimosa e
echinocarpa
4232 Mimosa Sclloi. 5974 Inga fagifoHa. '490 Mimosa capillipes.
4244 Inga uruguensis. 6020 Piptadenia peregrina.
7499 Calliandra longipes. 'tI^B
4277 Mimosa dolens. 6022 Mimosa setosa.

7507 Mimosa setosa.
4605 Pithecolobium Langsdorfii 6053 Calliandra virgata.
h -
i 518 Mimosa macrocenha
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MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E. 611
7526 Calliandra surinamensis. 8148-2 Mimosa distans. 9331 Pentacletlira filamentosa,

7563 Mimosa concinna. 8161 Calliandra parviflora. 9341 Entada polyphylla.
7564 Mimosa Clausseni. 8162 Acacia Martii. 9344 Mimosa rnfescens.
7576 Mimosa Clausseni. 8183 Mimosa Burchellii. 9355 luga myriautha.
7577 Mimosa vestita. 8192 Mimosa bijuga. 93S0 Pentaclethra filamentosa.
7587 Mimosa foliolosa. 8193 Mimosa hirsuta. 9427 Pithecolobium coclileatum.
7632 Inga affinis. 8199 Mimosa hirsuta, 9446 Inga virgultosft.
7651 Mimosa hirsuta. 8200 Mimosa barbigera. 9448 Pithecolobium trapmfoliura

7653 Calliandra macrocephala. 8201 Mimosa angusta. 94G7 Inga uitida.
7672 Calliandra myriopliylla. 8219 Mimosa angusta. 9482 CalHnndra surinamensis.
7678 Mimosa asperata. 8244 Mimosa brachycarpa. 9505-2 ritUiH;«)lobinm cuJileatum.
7686 Mimosa Clausseni. 8247 Mimosa cinerea. 9521 Mimosa asperata.
7694 Mimosa macrocephala. 8343 Stryphnodondron obovatum. 9522 Schrankia Irptocaqja.
7704 Mimosa densa, var. 8402 Plathymenia foliolosa. 9541-2 Acacia faruesiana.
7702-2 Mimosa macrocephala, 8481 Schrankia leptocarpa. 9599 Mimosa sonsitiva.
8535 Inga 9610 Inga RfjTrmntmianft.

7713 Mimosa scabrella ? affinis.
7724' Mimosa melanoearpa. 8541 Entcrolobium ellipticum. 9610 IngacJulis.
8573 Mimosa asperata. 9014 Inga nitida,

7737 Mimosa lasiocarpa.
8618 Mimosa somnians, var. 9G28 Inga Intcrophylla.
7802 Mimosa longipes.
8628-2 Plathymcniura reficulatum. 9650 Parkia penduln.
7834 Mimosa vestita.
9672 Pithocolobiutn trapezif .Hum.
7834-2 Mimosa longipes. 8687 Mimosa desmodioides.
Mimosa glomcrosa. 9713 Inga Thibaudiaua.
7862-2 Mimosa macroceptala. 8711
Mimosa viscida. 9731 Inga hcterophylla.
7886 Mimosa Clausseni. 8899
Mimosa microphylla. 9772 Mimosa somnians.
7915 Mimosa Clausseni. 8949
r
9371 Pentaclethra ftlamenlo»a.

8962 Pithecolobium glomeratura.
7983 Piptadenia colubrina.
Inga nobilis.
8003 Calliandra Gardner!. 9003 Mimosa apodocarpa.
9915 Mim'via aBpemtn.
8007 Calliandra maerocepliala. 9011 Mimosa viscida.
Mimosa asperata. 9070-2 Calliandra nurinamen-iH.
8025 Mimosa nitens. 9025
Mimosa invisa.
10021-7 Mimosa seasitivA.
8048 Mimosa asperata. 9048
10040 3Iimosa casta,
9109 Inga velutina.
8075-2 Calliandra macrocephala Inga edulis.
polycarpa, 10068
9214 Mimosa
8077 Mimosa nitens. 10084 Pithecolobium coryrabosum.
9263 Inga strigillosa.
8122 Mimosa vestita. lOODl Inga rclutina.
9267 Inga heterophylla.
8142 Mimosa neuroloma.
Fendler: Panama.
%^ Mimosa pudica.
89 Inga punctata, var.
67 Inga spectabilis. Inga «pc«tebili*.
97 (or 67 ?)
9^ Pithecolobium latifolium.
87 Pithecolobium latifolium. 98 Sfimosa asperata.
91 Mimosa Yelloziana.
Fendler: Venezuela.
366 Inga panamena*
352 Calliandra falcata.
195 Pithecolobium Saman 367 In!m margiaata.
353 Calliandra laxa.
264 Inga villosissima. 36S Inga punctata.
354 Calliandra laxa.
317 xicacia tamarindifolia. 369 Inga punctata.
355 Calliandra caracaiiuna.
333 Acacia riparia. 370 Schrankia ^ptocarpa*
356 Calliandra tctragona. ^
Acacia riparia. Pitheoolobinm tortum.

depresbu
357 Pithecolobium uopu«-cati
342 Mimosa asperata. 372
358 Calliandra gracilis. * am duLv.
343 Mimosa pudica. 373 Pitlit 1 5
359 Mimosa arenosa incrmis.

Mimosa torarensis. 468 Inga Iiu«icniana.
Mimosa arenosa aculcata.
>rimoi» d-^bila.
345 Acacia riparia.
Piptadenia psilostachya. S&mau
rithacolobium
347 Acacia farnesiana.
362 Acacia macracantha.
Acacia tortuosa.
Mimow polyctff^
348 Inga (Erstediana,
363
Mimosa floribunda, var
350^ Leucsena trichodes.
364 ? Inga villosiBsima-
1869 Calliao^ra Uxa, w.
3G5 Inga Lindeniana. <>
«51 Acacia paniculata. 4o
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642
2256 Calliandra Fendleri*
2248 Acacia macracantha.
Mimosa Cabrera.
2257 Enterolobium cyclocarpum
Pithecolobium tortum. 2249 Entada polystachya.
1873 2258 Inga spuria,
2250 Pithecolobium tortum.
1874 Piptadenia peregrina. Inga Fendleriana.
Pithecolobium tortum
2259
1875" Pithecolobium ligustrinum 225
2260 Inga (Erstediana,
2253 Calliandra Seemanni.
2244 Mimosa schrankioides.
2254 Calliandra C. laxse aff.
2245 Mimosa spiciflora.
2255 Calliandra laxa, var.
2246 Prosopis juliflora.
Gardner: Brazil.
2833 Mimosa sericantha.

22 ot 23 Calliandra Harrisii. 1583 Inga fagifolia.
2834 Enterolobium ellipticum,
1584 Piptadenia macrocarpa.
201 Inga affinis.
2835 Calliandra abbreviata.
359 Acacia recurva. 1685 Mimosa asperata.
3128 Calliandra Gardner!.
360 Acacia adha^rens, 1586 Mimosa leptantba.
3129 Calliandra macrocephala.
361 Acacia grandistipula. 1587 Mimosa rhodostachya.
1588 Mimosa malacocentra, 3130 Calliandra parviflora.

362 Inga barbata.
1589 Platbymenia foliolosa, 3131 Mimosa angusta.
303 Inga sessilis.
1940 Acacia glomerosa. 3132 Mimosa barbigera.

364 Stryphnodcndron polyphyl-
1941 Acacia paniculata. 3133 Mimosa lupulina.
lum.
1942 Mimosa paludosa. 3134 Mimosa Gardner!, var.
365 Inga marginata.
1943 Piptadenia commnnia. 3135 Mimosa distans.
750 Inga buUata.
1945 ;ryphno( 3136 Mimosa Gardner!.
751 Inga maritima.
folium. 3702 Calliandra dysantha.
889 Mimosa pudica.
89] LcncsBna glauca. 1 946 Pithecolobium dumosum. 3703 Calliandra Gardner!.
9" i i Acacia farnoBianu 2132 Mimosa ursina. 3704 Mimosa invisa.

978 Piptadenia communis. 2133 Mimosa bijuga. 3705 Mimosa goyazensis.
979 Mimosa sepiaria. 2134 Mimosa misera. 3706 Mimosa leiocephala.
980 Mimosa polydactyla. 2135 Mimosa acutistipula. 3707 Mimosa discolor.
981 (v. 982) Mimosa sensitiva. 2136 Mimosa verrucosa. 4123 Mimosa pteridifolia.
982 (v. 981) Desmanthus virgatus. 2137 Mimosa csesalpiuisefolia. 4124 Calliandra dysantha.
983 Mimosa asperata. 2138 Calliandra leptopoda. 4520 Mimosa pogocephala.

984 Inga fagifolia. 2139 Piptadenia moniliformis. 4521 Mimosa calodendron, var
985 Ingae affinis var. 2554 Pithecolobium diversifolium 4522 Mimosa aurivillus.
986 Strjrphiiodendronfloribundum. 2555 Calliandra umbellifera, 4523 Calliandra bracteosa.
1280 Pithecolobium Saman. 2556 Calliandra abbreviata. 4524 Calliandra bracteosa.
12S1 Acacia paniculata. 2557 Pithecolobium multiflorum 4525 Calliandra foliolosa.
1579 Enterolobium Timbouva. 2558 Piptadenia biuncifera. 4526 Inga flagelliformis.
1580 Desmaitthus virgatus. 2830 Mimosa sericantha, 5446 Piptadenia peregrina,

1581 Calliandra umbellifera 2831 Mimosae sp. dubia. 5447 Inga nutans.
1582 Parkia polycephala. 2832 Mimosa polycephala.
Glaziou: Brazil.
G20 Albiz2ia Lcbbck. 1566 Pithecolobium Auaremotemo 3722 Piptadenia latifolia.

621 Inga nutans. 1567 Piptadenia contorta. 3783 Mimosa Glazioui.
624 Mimosa sepiaria. 1587 Mimosa rhodostachya. 3780 Pithecolobium longiflorum
626 Enterolobium Schomburgkii. 2122 Inga 3933 Inga SeUowiana, var.
627 Pithecolobium Langsdorfii. 2549 Inga 3934 Inga barbata.
629 Acacia glomerosa. 2550 Inga marginata. 3935 Inga edulis, var.
632 Acacia pteridifolia. 2972 Parkia mnltijuga 3936 Inga cordistipula.
662 Mimosa asperata. 2973 Langsdorfii, 3937 Affonsea bullata.
1143 Enterolobium Schomburgkii 2974 Langsdorfii 4793 illif^
1379 Inga maritima* 2975 Inga lanceaefolia.
4794 Inga capitata.
13^0 Inga capitata, var. ? 2976 Inga Luschnathi 4795 Affonsea juglandifolia
1403 Leuca^na glauca. 2977 Inga cordistipul 4796 Inga lenticeUata.
1 ")6o Pithecolobium Glazioui. 3414 Pithecolobium 1
4797 Inga ciliata. #
54

643
5825 Inga fagifolia. 5834 Piptadenia communis. 5842 Mimofia invisa.
5828 Piptadenia laxa, 5835 Acacia lacerans.
f
5844 Mimosa pudica.
5829 Piptadenia polyptera. 5836 Acacia glomerosa. 6188 Pithelocobium lusorium, \ ur
5830 Piptadenia macrocarpa. 5837 Pithecolobium incuriale 6189 Acacia Miersii.
5831 Piptadenia colubrina et 5838 Desmanthus virgatus. 6191 Mimosa Glazioui.
5831 Mimosa sepiaria. 5839 Mimosa malacocentra. 6192 Pithecolobium Lau^sJurfii.
5833 Pithecolobium polycephalum. 5841 Mimosa Yelloziana, var.
Hostmann : Surinam,
77 Inga Burgoni. Pithecolobium trapozifoHum 970 Iiigu Burgoni.
149 Pithecolobium glomeratum. Neptunia plena. 1012 Parkin m^tidii.
Mimosa myriadena. Mimosa pudica* 1033 Ptntaclcthra fllamcntoftai.

Inga sciadion. I^cptunia plena. 1067 luga iicrorrphnln.
171 Calliandra surinameusis. 670 Inga splendcns. 1157 Ingaiotifcra.
174 Pithecolobium cauliflorum. 685 Injra ingoidcs. 1173 Pithutolohium rnuliliorum.
214 Pithecolobium corymbosum. 708 Inga splendens. 1190 PitlH'* '»'"bium oorymbotu'".
23 / Inga sertulifera. 807 Inga Thibaudiana, 1 194 Tnga heterophylla.
258 Inga capitata. 813 Mimosa caraporum, var. 1 2n,j^ MiinoHu ilrl»ili«.
261 Pithecolobium cauliflorum. 830 Inga nobilis* 12;i3 >1uaa«(b*bilil.
262 Pithecolobium corymbosum. 858 Inga scabriuscula. 1245 PilhooolubitiTn mtiltirtorttni,
353 Acacia famesiana. 884 Inga ingoidos, 1277 PithfH^lubium adiAiiUfoIiuia.
447 Entada polystachya. 887 Inga scabriuscula. 1690 Inga Burgoni^
459 Albizzia Lebbek. 971 Inga nobilis.
Regnell: Brazil.
Coll. I. 94 Acacia polyphylla. 504 Mimosa furfuracea.
94* Acacia glomerosa. 507 Mimoift aapcrata.

90 Mimosa distans.
95 Mimosa laevigata. 508 Mimota inviaa.
91 Mimosa insidiosa.
M. tre- 96 Pithecolobium incuriale. 509 Mim oapiiii
92 Mimosa conferta et
97 Mimosa cylindracea. 510 MimoM meknooarpa.
mula.
612 Mimoaa patifif-Ua.
.92*Mimosa insidiosa,
Coll. III. 612 Eriterolobiuin e"'pticum
9.3 Mimosa dolens.
494 Mimosa sensitiva. 613 StrjpbnodiJiidxai
93| Mimosa rigida.
494* Mimosa rixosa. m&m.
94 Acacia famesiana. PkthjTiwnia i wJ'*« JaU.
495 Mimosa nuda, var. 51
adhaereus et A. pani-
95 Acacia 61 rk h ymenia raiieiibla.
1
Mimosa
496 trichocephala
culata.
497 Mimosa ramoaissima. 5W Calliandra mymphylUu
96 Mimosa risosa.
616* CaUiaadram .J.vlla.
498 Mimosa hirsuta.
97 Inga marginata. 617 Pipta^ -^ ia p«««rii»
499 Mimosa pogonoclada.
98 Inga vulpina. 617* ripUuL-U fiit'iu.
499* Mimosa huraifasa.
99 Calliandra brevipes. 619 Ing-i L
500 Mimosa incana.
IngastriaU.
501 Mimosa tremula.
CoU. II. 621 Iiig» " alia.
502 Mimosa neuroloma.
92 Enterolobiiun Timbouva 622 Calliaaî Mtmoaphali
603 Mimosa subMri-a.
93 Mimosa Kegnelli.
Guiana and Brazil, Ut coU

Robert ScLomburgk :
ea4 Entada polyphyli*.

25 Inga disticha.
Pithecolobium eauliflorunu
716 y «« SdhomiNiiiî.
487
226 Inga nobilis. 725 HimîM eamponiiD.
498 Pentaclethra filamentosa-
Pithecolobium trapezifoUuiji Viiiwcehhivmgnbmmm,
284 740
530 Pithecolobium multifloram-
Pithecolobium adiantifolium 740 lafibnmpei.
320 Inga getifera.
534
364 Inga splendens. 761 Kqjtnni* i»Iim.
582 Calliandra stiptdacct.
Pithecolobium glomeratum. lai^ff ra
471 inga Euiziana.
t
595
471 Inga Burgoni. %
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644 MR. G. BENTHAM MIMOSE^
iGmosa 874 Enterolobium Schomburgkii 973 Parkia discolor cum foliia

848 sensitiva.
903 Mimosa invisa. Heterostemonis mimosoidis
852 Acacia riparia.
852 Piptadenia peregrina. 917 Mimosa myriadena.
866 Piptadenia peregrina. 931 Schrankia leptocarpa.
Richard Schomburgk : Guiana^ 2d coll.
Bob. S. Eich. S. Eob. S. Eich. S. Eob. S. Eich. S.
31 Inga nobilis. 387 353 Pithecolobium adianti- 586 959 Inga setifera.
62 Inga nobibs. foKum, 663 994 Pithecolobium ferru-

rr
70 Pitheeolobinm glo- 396 493 Piptadenia peregrina, gineum.
1
meratum. 469 758 Pithecolobium glome- 695=1080 Inga bracteosa.
i 2 Inga coruseans. ratum. 751 = 1400 Inga myriantha, var.
105 53 Pentaclethra filamen- 470 765 Mimosa schrankioides. 756=1396 Inga sraciliflora.
tosa. 490 756 Pithecolobium multi- 799=1433 Stryphnodendron
114 160 Pithecolobium corym- flonim. guianense. i
bosum, 493 763 Acacia polyphyUa. 810=1427 Inga sertulifera.
124 50 Inga pezizifera, 494 767 Entada polystachya. 822=1415 Pithecolobium inse-
158 99 Pithecolobium glome- 495 768 Acacia riparia. quale.
ratum. 508 788 Mimosa pudica. 829=1391 Inga leiocalycina.

188 180 Pithecolobium cauli- 524 814 Mimosa microcephala. 831 = 1423 Inga spuria y.I.affinis?
florum. 525 824 Pithecolobium poly- 839=1419 InganobiHs.
214 Inga coruscans. cephalum. 852=1474 Mimosa myriadena.
299 586 Acacia paniculata, 571 806 et 1419 CalHandra 918 = 1443 Inga fagifolia.
313 497 Mimosa Schomburerkii. laxa.
380 645 Mimosa Selloi ?
Spruce : Brazil^ Peru^ and Ecuador,
233 Mimosa camporum, var. 813 Ingi heterophyll 1240 Mimosa invisa.
236 Inga nobilis. 816 Kep ;unia 1264 Inga scabriuscula.
243 Mimosa asperata. 820 Mimosa myriadena. 1328 Pithecolobium inaequale.
X
245 Pithecolobium trapezifolium 828 Piptadenia peregrina. 1334 Inga heterophylla.

246 Inga alba. 882 Pithecolobium parvifoli 1336 Pithecolobium adiantifolium
249 Acacia famesiana. 910 Inga microcalyx. 1404 Pithecolobium divaricatum. i
252 Entada polyphyUa. 917 cauliflorum 1409 Inga lateriflora.

253 Inga sertulifera. 960 Pithecolobium corymbosum 1418 Inga obtusata.
254 Pentaclethra filamentosa. 962 Inga edulis. 1434 Inga stipularis.
259 Calliandra surinamensis. 973 Inga species a. 1473 Parkia oppositifolfe.
263 Mimosa sensitiva. 976 Mimosa Velloziana. 1534 Acacia polyphyUa.
284 Mimosa asperata. 977 Inga mierocalyx* 1554 Inga scabriuscula.
389 Calliandra tenniflora. 1016 lylindrica 1555 Inga nobilis.
41 6 Mimosa myriadena. 1023 Inga lateriflora. 1586 CaUiandra seuteUifera. 4
438 Mimosa asperata. 1076 Inga alba. 1638 Neptunia oleracea. i
447 Schrankia leptocarpa. 107S Parkia pendula. 1651 Inga cinnamomea.
484 Inga longiflora. 1088 poides 1658 Pithecolobium marginatum, I
494 Acacia paniculata. 1100- Inga margiuata. 1665 Inga setifera.

518 Slimosa orthocarpa. llOS Inga duraosa. 1681 Entada polyphyUa.
529 Stryphnodendron flori- 1111 Entada polyphyUa. I
1690 Pentaclethra filamentosa.
bundum, 1126 Pithecolol .um 1691 Stryphnodendron flori-
571 Parkia discolor. 1164 Schrankia leptocarpa.
bundum.
66 i Inffa nobilis. 1165 Mimosa Spruceana. 1694 Pithecolobium divaricatum,
671 Pithecolobium Saman 1197 Mimosa asperata.
t 1697 Acacia amazonica.
730 Mimosa somnians. 1208 Parkia auriculata. 1706 Inga myriantha.
i i 1 Pithecolobium campestre 1218 Stryphnodendron flori- 1706* Inga mieradenia.
783 Mimosa debilis. bundum. 1717 Pithecolobium glomeratum.
780 Schrankia leptocarpa. 1228 Calliandra triuervia.
1750 Inofa scabriuscula.
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1755 Tnga striglllosa. 2805 Piptadenia uaupensis. 4405 Saman
1786 Piptadenia peregrina. 2877 Pithecolobium claviflorum. 4407 Pithecolobium polycephalum.
1787 Inga nifinervis. 2886 Pithecolobium cauliflorum. 4408 omerosa
1802 Pithecolobium anriculatum. 2893 Mimosa annularis. 4466 Calliandra angustifol
1810 Pithecolobium S^ iruceanum 2925 Pithecolobium lindsesefolium 4480 Acacia paniculata.
1816 Inga dysantha. 2968 Pithecolobium glomeratom. . 4494 Calliandra
1826 Entcrolobium Schomburgki 2977 Inga negrensis. 4503 Inga Pavoniana.
1852 amplum 3060 Mimosa microcephala. 4504 Inga pycnostachya.
1862 Stryphnodendron flori- 3096 Mimosa rufescens. 4518 Acacia polyphylln.
bundum. 3097 Inga speciosa. 4536 Piptadenia ptcroclada
19 14 Inga setifera. 3183 Mimosa myriadena. 4548 Acacia farnoslana.
2002 Pithecolobium unifoliolatum 3187 Inganobilis. 4565 Inga I. diademati uH'.
2052 ilimosa rufesccns. 3320 Pithecolobium marginatum, 4583 Inga heterophylla.

r
2058 Mimosa myriadena. 3329 Pithecolobium simabsefoUum. 4882 Inga stonocalyx.

2091 Pithecolobium cauliflorum. 3364 Pithecolobium corymbosum. 4915 Inga Tliibaudiana, var.
2252 Pithecolobium claviflorum. 3372 Pithecolobium trapezifolium, 4926 Calliandra amazonica.
2267 Inga scabriuBCula. 3414 Pithecolobium longiflorum. 4935 Inga longipcs.

2283 Pithecolobium insequale. 3478 Calliandra trinervia. 4966 Calliandra Magdulonae.
2288 Pithecolobium microcaljx. 3561 Inga heterophylla. 5054 Calliandra aculoata.
2289 Inga alba. 3626 Mimosa microcephala. 5096 Inga insignia.
2351 Pithecolobium Isetum. 3627 Mimosa microcephala. 5124 Inga marginata.

2400 Mimosa punctulata. 3654 Mimosa tomentosa. 5475 Mimosa floribunda.
2425 Pithecolobium panurense. 3664 Inga splendens. 5571 Calliandra glyphoxyla.
2429 Pithecolobium corymbosum, 3673 Pithecolobium cauliflorum. 6892 Mimosa quitensifl.
2430 Inga plumifera. 3786 Pithecolobium longiflorum- 6058 Mimosa andina.
3788 Inga laterifolia. 6063 Acacia macracantha.

2471 Pithecolobium floribundum.
3795 Inga fagifolia* 6162 Inga nobilis.
2551 Inga lucida,
4112 Pithecolobium macrophyllum. 6163 Calliandra tetnigonu.
2566 Inga umbellifera.
Inga stenoptera. 6306 Pithecolobium cxcebum.
2629 Inga panurensis. 4126
Pithecolobium Mathewsi. 6330 Pithecolobium daullenie.
2727 Parkia panurensis, 4185
Inga tarapotensis. 6381 Desmanthus virgatus, var.
2743 Pithecolobium microcalyx. 4221
bombycma. 6382 Mimosa floribunda.
2786 Pithecolobium leucopliyllum 4235 Calliandra
North-American Collections
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Andrieux: Mexico.
404 Calliandra capitata.
400 Mimosa mollis.
395 Pithecolobium acatlense-
405 Calliandra eriophyila
401 Calliandra malacophylla
396 Acacia acatlensis. 407 Neptunia plena.
402 Mimosa floribunda.
397 Mimosa polyantha.
409 Entada polystachya.
403 Lysiloma tergemina.
398 Acacia filicina glabrata.
399 Mimosa biuncifera.
Berlandier : Mexico and Texas.

1413 Acacia amentacea.
779 Acacia Coulteri.
127 Acacia amentacea. 1605 Schrankia unciJiati.
807 Leucaena pulverulenta.
143 Acacia famesiana. glabra 1851 Neptnnia lu(^^
815 Mimosa malacophylla
153 Dubia. 2006 Acacia Berlandieri.
842 Acacia flexicaulis
597 Acacia Berlandieri. 2019 Acacia Wrightii.
Leucae: lulverulenta
868 Deamanthtw depr«s«»u
609 Acacia Wrightii. v. '
872 Mimosa
Desmanthus depressus Kepttinia pub««ens.
908 Acacia farnesiana.
Neptunia pubescens. Acacia Berlandieri. J
Acacia flexicaulis.
916 l^niosa strigilkwa.
Acacia Berlandieri.
940 Pithecolobium brevifoUum
661 Mimosa acanthocarpa, 2120 Acacia Wrightu.
Desmanthus depresgus,
1035 Acacia Bph^rocepbala.
698 Mimosa strigillosa. 2145
1369 Acacia farnesiana. dull
703 Acacia Wrightii. 2146 Pithacolobium
iSSf Acacia amentacea.
728 Acacia sphaerocephala.
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646 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE

2199 Acacia Coulteri. 2346 Acacia flexicaulis. 3145^ Mimosa M. monancistrjo aff.
2227 Leucsena pulverulenta. 2370 Pithecolobium brevifolium 3 146 Mimosa Borlandieri.
2235 Mimosa malacophylla glabra Desmanthus depressus. 3147 Pithecolobium albicans.

2251 Mimosa M. raonaucistrse aff. 2510 Acacia filicina. 3148 Acacia micrantba.
2262 Acacia flexicaulis, 2513 Schrankia acnleata. 3149 Acacia AVrightii,
2288 Leucsena pulverulenta. 3002 Mimosa strigillosa. 3150 Acacia Wrightii.
2302 Mimosa 3144 Lysiloma desmostachya. 3151 Acacia filicina, .
Acacia farnesiana. i>
ADDENDA.
1. POSSIL MlMOSE^.
In the prefatory matter to the present paper I have made no reference to any fossil
remains of Mimosese for at the time of drawing it up I had no ready means of ascer-
;
taining what evidence on the suhject had heen supplied by palseontologists, and I had
not yet heard from Professor Schimper, who had kindly promised to communicate with
me on the suhject. Since, however, the early sheets of this paper were printed oflp, the
third volume of his magnificent work on Vegetable Palaeontology has reached us and in ;
it I find that a number of supposed fossil Mimosese from the

Central-European Tertiary
described and figured, and referred severally to the genera Frosopis, Inga, Etitada,
Mimosa, and Acacia The great majority of the species so determined are founded
impressions of leaves only and these I pass entirely over ; for although
;
withoiit collateral
it is impossible to deny that they may belong
to the g Question, it
equally impossible to affirm that they do so belong for none
of them show forms or
;
venation exclusively characteristic of any of these I thus see no reason to con-

g
elude on this evidence that any Inga, Mimosa, or Fhyllodineous
Acacia was any part
of the Tertiary period an inhabitant of that part of Europe,
when other evidence would
tend to an opposite conclusion. With regard to Frosopis,
the presumption that it might
have been there is to my mind neither confirmed nor refuted
by the fossil impressions
described as Frosopis leaflets On
the other hand, those fruits
of which so many
exceUent impressions are figured by Schimper, point to
, .
species
- of Acac -' Mitada, and
.1 •
XI „ .
perhaps ^^6^^.^«, very similar to those now found in Africa-a
case analogous to that of
the Fodogomum. of which specimens so very perfect
have been preserved as to enable us
satisfactorily to identify it as closely aUied to some
African Csesalpineous genera not yet
quite extinct.
^ o j
Descendi n g to particulars, the fruits figured by

Schimper, plate cvi. figs.
4, 5. 6, 7, 12
and 13, all referred t^ Acacia are probably eorreetly
determined, and represent species
Of the groups Gummifem and Vulgares, both of
which arp nf fi.^ 5 i 1^4.
^•n A f.-.. PI. 4, indeed, if the leaves of figs. 1
J n^.t^.T... .^ *!,. ^„
to the A. Catechu of the present day. ,,__. 2,,
2
'^""^v
'17'
belong 1 Zt b^
to it, .
'
must .
be very f
The pods, fi 20 and 21, are determined
Mimos(B ; but if I had had such pods shown to me
v.« „-*i..„^ i,„„:*„i^.._.. X. .
in a
^ fresh
^^^^^ stntp
state, T
I .1
should i,
have ,
referredi n
them without hesitation to Ac -o. ,^^
. .
from the United States, and ^-Jl tfatlftrv^ '^^T. 1r' '"t'"'' Lcvv very narrow-fruited Gummiferous
: .

647
Acacice of Africa, as weU as to some of the Australian PhyUodinea. Pig. 21 is very Hke
the pod of several AcacicB of the group Vulgares, which,, when
rotting, often break up
irregularly, as shown in the drawing. Both are very unlike any J/«mosa-pods known
to me. In this genus the lines separating the articles of the valve
are always quite
I straight, and at right angles to the margin. Pigs. 8 and 9, referred to Acacia, arc more
i
like the pods of some species of Cassia. Pigs. 23 and 24 may represent Alhlzzia-ôds.
Fig. 22 may be an Entada, as determined, though not any recent species but it is also ;
nearly as much like some Ormosia pods. Both these genera are still represonted
Africa
2. Species nov^ et Synonyma omissa.
The following are either synonyms accidentally overlooked, or supposed new species of
which the descriptions have reached ine since the present paper has been in the printor's
I
hands. I have not seen specimens of any of them.
P. 365, after Adenanthera Bonplandiana, add
Prosopis Bonplandiana, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 165.
P. 373, PiPTADENIA
Macfad
Macfadyen's detailed description is totally at variance with that tree, and agrees wcU with Piptadeiw
peregrina, to which also belongs the synonym he quotes, Acacia angustihha, DC.
P. 400, Mimosa marginata.

now described as new by Kegel in Dcscr. PI. Nov. u
Mimosa prostrata of the Berlin gardens has been
Card. Petersb.) , without comparing it with the M. mcrr
21 (from the Memoirs (Trudi) of the Imp. Bot. St.
ginata, and wrongly referring it to the Casta.
p. 414, Mimosa guatemalensis.

quoted as Acacia guatemalcns,>
Inga guatemulemis, Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech., is by mistake
P. 442, Leucena Porsteei.

Ann. Sc. Nat 2. vii. 360.
imularum (not A. qlandulosa), GuiUem. in
P. 458, after Acacia

243. Patentim pilosula, vsckIuI
A. SPONDYLOPHXLLA, F. Muell. Fragm. viii.
apioe recta. Pedunculi ud

striato-rusulosa,
lodia m
yerticillo plurima, 4-8 Kn. longa,
lobatas. Petala S^"" •-"" 1--
poUicem usque Jgi- Calyx tenuissimus, ^
nee hgaescens ncc striatum.
undulato-crispum,
l-lJ-poUicare. 3-4 In. latum,
Sah. Central Australia.
P. 461, after Acacia iDioMORPHA. snincscentr-^ phvUodii'
.quilong. Pi'.Uodia o^^- stipLu., Û.^^

_
l-ri-
trientem aequantia
VîXn^turu.)
pathulata, corolhe
oblongum, planum.
Sah. Central Australia
P. 477, after Acacia setulieera. Phyllodia glabra
lenu pubescens.
p
Muell Fragm, viu. 243.
A. MiNUTiFOLiA, F, ^ ^
VOL. XXX.
(J48 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^.
rostellata, lineam longa, plurinervi-rugulosa. Calyx dentatus

rhomteo-ovata, lateraliter
Petala prommenter carinata. Legumen (immaturum) sessile, planum, 2-3-pollicare.
Hab. Central Australia.
P. 503, Acacia Siebeeiana.

Prosopis dubia, GuiU. et Perr. El. Seneg. 243.
r
P. 557, Calliandra Houstoni.

Anneslea falcifolia, Salisb. Parad. Loud. t. 64.
P. 562, Albizzia Lebbek

M
M. Cub. i. 466 (
P. 564, after Albizzia cakescens. #
A. LiTTOUALis, Teijsm. et Binnend. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind, xxix. 259. Eolia de-
scripta fere AlhizzicB Lehhelc var. foliolis subtus pubescentibus. Capitula pauciflora, pani-
culata, floribus sessilibus A. procerce. Legumen semipedale.
Hah. Amboyna.
This must be very near A, procera, but is perhaps specifically distinct.
P. 573, PiTHECOLOBIUM UNGUIS-CATI.

P, guadalupense Chapm. YL S. U. States^
, 116.
Besides the numerous variations in the form and size of the leaflets in diflferent specimens of this species^
those of the fruiting specimens have often a much more coriaceous aspect than those of the flowering
ones.
J-
NOTES ON PLATES LXVI. TO LXX. f
These Plates are not intended to illustrate the pods characteristic of the several genera
of MimosesB they would have been too numerous), but to show the great diversity
(for
exhibited, not only in one and the same genus, but even in some of the most natural
subordinate groups.
Plate LXVI. exhibits the pods of twenty-two species of Mimosa and SchranUa, the
two genera forming naturally a single one. Their chief common character consists in
the unity of the prominent margin or rim. It neither splits into two with the valves, as
in the case of most genera, nor separates transversely with the enclosed valves, as in
tlie few species of Acacia, Albizzia, and PUhecolobnun which have a more or less articu-
late pod. The seven species occupying the first row all belong to the section Eumimosa
with isomerous stamens. M. floribunda is one of the commonest forms althouo'h fre-
quently more setose-aculeate, consisting usually of three or four very flat articles.
M. dolens represents also the pod of a series of species, very convex, containing one or
two seeds, and sometimes opening at the end only, the two articles scarcely marked ; and
sometimes even the rim appears to split at the end. The remaining five are monotypic,
or nearly so. J/, desmodioides, if seen alone, might, from its indumentum, as well as
from its shape, be easily mistaken for a true Desmodium. M. glabra has the persistent
rim nearly as broad as the enclosed valves, and the lines
separating the articles are
obiiciue, which I have not observed in any other species of
the genus. M. eriocarpa and
I

r
M.ftirfuracea are like balls of wool, enclosing small, almost membranous pods, with one
or two seeds, and are scarcely dehiscent. In the whole section there
are very rarely
above four seeds and articles, except in the six species forming the very distinct series
Spicifiorcc, which might almost be regarded as a separate section, with the flowers of
H
Eii^nimosaj the habit of SchranJcia, and the pod of the subseries Schrmkioidece of llah-
basla. One of them, M. myriadena, is figured in the lower row.
The remainder of the JfmoM-pods figured are those of the section Hahhasia, charnc-
terized by diplomerous stamens, and the pods most frequently, but not always, with
more than four seeds and articles. The thin membranous pod of M. acantholoha and
M. platycarptti the thick, convex, setose ones of M. brachycarpa and M. Claiisscni, the
rigid ones of M.flexiiosa and M. adversa, and the flat, shining, rather coriaceous, r(^t icu-
late ones ofM. andina do not break up trans versally, and belonged to ihc section for-
merly distinguished on that account under the name of Ameria but ns the fruits of ;
more species become known, the distinction proved too artificial to be kepi up. Tji
M. horealis, M. dysocarpa, and a few others the valves fall away from the rim on tiro or
broken into articles in the same specimen; and some species, with the reticul.'itîly
veined pod of 31. andina^ when quite ripe, have occasionally the transverse fissures
between the seeds irrespective of venation. M. acantholoha and J/, platycarpa, with
in habit and inflorescence, that of the one beinLr
almost identical pods, differ very much
the other a long and slender spike
globose-capitate, that of
the last row do not dilTcr as to the pod from
The two SchranMce figured at the end of
proportionate length and breadth. In habit they are widely

M, Clausseni, except in its
removed from that species, but closely resemble M. Selloi, and stiU more M mvm (not
had been presumod to he Schranl.r
here figured), both of which, as well as some others,
till the pod became known. ScnranUa platycarpa is, indeed, ^^-^* ^ ^^
more as a matter of conên.oneo
1^^
genus is still retained
as a SclanMa^ and the latter
than on strictly scientific grounds.
represent the pods of twenty-six u of
^"- ^70 ^r^
cTi,.cIe«^
Plates LXVII. and LXVIII.

of Australian PLyllodineous
which it has been
Aeacie..
found
one
hitherto
of
'^^^^^ ^"^^
impossible to breal^ "?
^^l^:^^^
and
'7° ^"^^^„,,
^„a ^.,„,, f
the phyllodia, into series which n.>.

wnica ha\
the
"-—3
calyx and corolla been in any do^rr,-
ixuit; nor have the differences observable in <^^ .^ p,^,,, ^Vll.
more connected with the variations in

^"^^^ '^^ the spikes arc cylindrical or
have aU glohose-capitate flowers ;

those "/ m
P'^'^
„„,, ,,^ract«r attrn.ul-
equaUy variable in both w
elongated, with the pods t„r,;d, or nlmoH
^^^^^
are more frequent y
except that they „f ,h, ,pi„„y
able to either ^^^,J^^^^^ ^^^^^j^
woody in the Spka/a; than m the Capim<e.
^ ^ ^^^ ^,„,. ^^,
twisted pod. the spire t«-°^" '^-^ tigu "f V*a have rery little in common -- -"
pod; the three

men even in the same ^^^.^ ^^^^ ^^^
^^ ^^^
corola.
their phyllodia, infloi -—^^^^ rache'llia sencs of the (hm
« -" - """ -'
-'•'n-' "..t::! rrî*:
f/ertB; but others
-" p-^' "
>
650 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.E.
r
woody valves, are entirely vsrithout the pith or pulp ; and in no case can the nature of
the pod be safely guessed at from the examination of a flowering specimen.
Plates LXIX. and LXX. represent some of the pods of a series as natural as that of the
Fhyllodinece, the Gummiferce, of which the majority are African but are also represented
in Asia and America. Among A.farnesiana (PL LXIX.) has been frequently pro-
these,
posed as a distinct genus, under the names of Vachellia, Farnesia andAldina, on account
of the seeds, although at first normally arranged, becoming, as the pod advances towards
maturity, irregularly imbedded in a pithy substance filling the turgid pod. A similar
arrangement will be observed in A. giraffce; and the pithy substance, although with a
more regular arrangement of the seeds, is developed in A macracantha and a few others,
.
all of which agree also in the little annular bract under the flower-head being at the
summit of the peduncle, instead of in the middle or lower down. This, however, appears
quite insufficient to constitute a genus when there is nothing to distinguish it in habit,
foliage, inflorescence, flowers, or seeds ; for the pods of ^. macracantha show an approach
to those ofA. arabica (erroneously placed by Grisebach in VachelUa, for they are not
-
pithy between the seeds) ; the pithy substance occurs in many Australian FhyllodinecB
without any corresponding differences. It would be, moreover, very unnatural to place
]
in two different genera A. giraffes and A. heheclada (figured immediately under it), two
species very similar in every respect, even in the thick, turgid, oblong pod, merely on
account of the pith, abundant in the one and absent in the other.
Por the A, macracantha, with turgid pods pithy inside, and A, arabica, with flat,
though thickly coriaceous pods continuous inside, I have figured several specimens,
showing the gradation from the deeply indented to the straight-edged forms observable
which have induced many botanists to distinguish two species
in both species, differences
in the A. arabica; but in the numerous specimens I have now seen from
various parts
of the wide area of the species, I have observed several intermediates
between any two of
the four forms figured, and in one borrowed specimen, returned before
these plates were
drawn, one half of the pod was deeply indented and the other half
quite continuous.
The pod of ^. macracantha varies, moreover, from flat to almost
cylindrical— in the
former case, however, usually dried before it is fully ripe.
In Plate LXX. the first three pods of the upper half have their
valves thick and some-
what succulent, so that A. albida, seen without the flowers, has
been moi than
taken for a Trosopis with exceptionally exalbuminous seeds.
In the loi^^r half the
pods of ^. latromm and A, abyssinica are quite flat, but coriaceous
,. ^,
coriaceous; in
in ^.cZ«%em and •
A. nubica the valves are convex m A. ebumea from India, and A.

, .
;
comtricta from Texas
the pods closely resemble those of a large proportion of
Australian JPhyllodinecB
I have not figui-ed any bf the Acacice Vulgares ; for the
pods are much more uniform
generally flat and straight, sometimes Uke those of
Alhizzia, but usually not
so broad
more conaceous and more readily dehiscent, and often
undistinguishable from those
of P^ptadenâ, of which the flowers are so different. The
exalbuminous seeds readily dis-
tmgmsh them from the otherwise similar fruits of Zeuccena
... . . . . .. . . ,
. . v ....., 1
MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE^ 651
INDEX OP GENERA, SPECIES, AND SYNONYMS.

Page Page Pagr
Acacia 444 Acacia Acacia
'
aJneU'nay "Willd 472 aroma^ Gill. 500 Burkei, Bi-nth 61«

abyssinica; IIochsL , 610 aromatka^ Poepp 502 BurMttii, /'. MtuH 4^.^
acanthocarpa^ Willd. ....... . 428 arrophida^ Don . 631 Burmmmiana, JJC •'Xl:.'
acanthoclada, F, MneJL . 463 arrophulay Ham. 5GU buxifolia, Cunn 47a

aeantJiolohUy Humb. et Bon2)L . ,
420 Asak, Willd. . . . 516 Bynoeaiia, Benth, 4'Ji
acaptdceiisisy Kxmth 636 asparagoides, Cunn 463 cadiwa, Iliiiiib. et Bdiipl., , , , . -111
acatlensiS; Benth 622 aspera, LtndL , . 4G0 CDDsia, ll'illtl 5.1(1
aciadarisy Br 453 asperulacea, F. Muell. 468 ceesia, Wall iui

aciczdariSf AVilld 602 aspidioideSy Mey SCO callhi, Willd. H20
acinacea, Lindl 4(>4 asplenioides, Nees 550 calaniifolia, Str,-' ^, 4. »>
acipliylla, Benth 487 astringenSjCunn 4rt8 Cafef/i, CiiJiii ... *r<^ . . 47

acuifera, Benth., 503 ataxacantha, DC. 520 catlis/i'Hiwi, Schkclit. . . 5<'<r
acideaticuyyaj Lag. 428 ataxiphylia, Benth 451 callonn, Spreng 4 .... 370
acuminata, Benth 490 atomiphylla, Burcli 504 calyculatii, Cuun 101
^ ^
acidangida, Ham 580 atramentaria, Be7ith
'
502 VamphdUi, km. fil'i
aeidistipula, Mart 415 Aucherif Benth. 611 catnpgl'fd/idia, Ifm li^t 510
Adansonii, GuilL et Perr. # • 606 aulacocarpa, Cufm, , 4!)3 CRiiipylophylla, Bcitth 450
adenantheroideSj Mart, et Gal. 416 auric uliformis, Ciom, 404 coHdHcutatii, Sw iot
•''^'
adenopa^ Hook, et Ai'n 602 mmta, Schlecht, . . 535 Cainhlh'UHii, Mt'iuso.
adenophora, Sprang, 496 auronitens, Lindl. . .

451 rrt/u'.irciis, (irah Î
382 Ansfeldij Reg 460 cfinc^cpm, Mart, et ftfll 425
adenostylis, Fenzl.
adhterenSy Benth,
,
,
527 axillaris, Benth 454 Burcb.
capciuiii, W7
caracannnn^ Willd 54^5
adiantouks, Spreng. 367 hahamensisy Giiseb 534
'•''-
374 bahiensis^ Benth 625 c«/"ioHa;kJ, Scbleclit
adstringens, Mart. .
adiinca^ Cunn. 473 Balhisii, Spren«^ 592 cardiophylla, Cwm '.

. .
^
407
. . , <
DC 080 casinotdes, Willd .•'X)0, mt

alata^ Br ,
447 Bancroftianay
Catecbu, Willd. .../ 'l*'
alba^ Cglla 543 barbinervis, Benth 451
5G0 Catecfiu,Bnith ^10
alba, Willd 513 basidtictty F, Muell
cateehmides, Benth 51<»
albicans, Iv until 592 Baueri, Benth 458
451 caudaUt, 1>0 ^^>
ol5 Baxteri, Benth.
albida; Delile
Undl 601 Baxteii, Meissn.
. .
.
400 Cavenin, Ilook. ft Am 60:i
albida, 45*t
555 cedroidua, Btnth
aliacea, Ham. « » * ,
530 belhy Spreng. . . . .
-175
449 celadrifolia, Benth
alpina, F. Muell 486 Benthmniiy Meissn.
ceraionia, Willd ^--
567 Berlandieri, Benth. 520
amaray Willd, chlorantha, Zuec ^^'-
523 Berterianay DC. .
502
amazonica, Beîth chordophylUt, F. Muell 45**
Berteriantx, Spreng. 6;i7
amhigua, Hoffmans 637 ^^^
443 choriophylk, Benth
526
ambigua, Vog.
amblycarpa, Grab. .
631
476
bicepSf AVilld,
bidentata, Befith
Bidwilli, Benth,
463
*jOO
chnjsontha, DC.
chrysubulrgi, Meissn-
._ ^
4^*'
amblygona, Cmm. .
402 chnjiôfoma, Miq «'*^
514 biflora, Br
amentacea, DC. . .
403 chn/mtstachyH, Sw^./. • • •^'^
484 bj/lara, Paxt. . . ««t««»***« «1'*
amentifera, F. Mttell. 4Ji8 Chujidra \\ iUiL
,
470 biglandulosaj Meissn. ^

amcena, Wendl. 423 ciliata,hr
470 bimncrmiata^ DO, .
amama, Sieb 483 I cili<d<i,Ilumb. 't IJonpl ^*

Steiul 508 binervata, DC. .... 3*t5
amythethopliyUa, 477 einfraria, Uilld
anceps, DC 406 bineroosaj DC a'ni'/OHrfru, Sieb
^'*'*
. . . >
bivenosa, DC.
477
anceps, Hook
482 emirea, Spn-ng.
469 •J^-
aneura, F. MueU. 489 Blomeiy Olilend.
474 CVfl-'^rw!, IWflth
W»
3ti9 bombycina, Benth, ^*'
A:ngico, Mart. 524 clauda, Scbb'fht •
496 bonariensis, Gill »'•'

auffulata, Desv. 410 Ckvigem, ^. -V'y •
Bonplandiy Gill, et Tea

. .
angulosa, BertoL
angttstifolia^ Lodd.
.
532
487 bosslffioides, A. Cunn.
Seem
.
447
447
i
ewciti€a,Unk
^
angiist'ifolia, Wendl. 471 bossiceoideSy
406 cocbliacanth*, irwnb. d lUmpl.
JW
373 botrycephahy Desf. .
angustiloba, DO. . . •12H

385 brachyacantha, Willd Colkmui, Prail 'j*^
angiistisiliqua, Desf. 474
brachybotrjâ, Betdh. « * « «
472
« •
3>7 coiletioides, A. Oi' *'^

apicitlata, Meissn.
brachyhba, Willd. ,.-•••••
•
506 455 aMdioides. Y. Muell ^^

arabica, Willd, . .
bracbyphylla, Beidh
•
Arar, Ham 530

t • • .
448 colubrim, Mart ^*

535 brachypfe'ra, Benth. .
coniplanatA, Cunn. «j
arborea, Benth • • • 4i»
589 bracbystachva, Benth ooncinna, J^f ' ..^
arborea, Wîlld « « • * 556 **
453 brasiliensis, fepreng. .
conferla, Cim»
arceuthos, Spreng. . 485
513 brevifoliaj Benth. . .
congesta, Benth.
arcuata, Bene
481 brevifolia^ Lodd. , - •
473
MueV.
/'.
^^
*^
4k1 co^»p«;râ,
arcuatay Sieb. brevipeSf Cunn Benth
416 4''>3 conatrictft, ''J
armomj Willd. . * -
Brmcntij Steud. '

* I
coutum»t Senth.
. « t
Hook 474 ^^
argyrophylla^
480 Brmcnianaf AN'endl
499
contortii , hC . ^*
arida, Be^h Cmm.
armata, Br.
461 brunioides, .
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Acacia Page Acacia Page
Acacia P^Re
coriacea, DC. 479 dumosn, W. et Am 5l5 fruticosay Mart 307
514 dura, Benth 405 fulgensy Labill 558
cornigera^ AVilld
Durandianaf Buckl 521 furcata; GUI. 525
cormillafoUa, Bed. 509, 037
4.51 dysophyUa, Benth 465 furcatuy Desv 378
costata, Benth
522 eburnea, Willd, 511 furciferay Lindl. 461
Coulteri, Benth
Conlteriy Benth. ,.,.... 522 echinula, DO 453 furfuraceuy Don 473
DC 426 Edgeworthii, T. Anders 504 fuscatUy Lodd 638
Coiirrantiana,
494 edulisy Humb, et Bonpl 502 galioides, Benth 458
crassicarpa, Cim7i.
525 eglandulosa^ DC 449 gemellay Iloffm 637
cra8=»ifolia,A. Gr.
crassistipula, Benth 462 Ehrenbergiana, Hayne ...... 512 geniculatay Wendl 514
WendL 473 Ehrenheryiiy Nees 512 Link
genistifolitiy 453
ci'assiii8cula,
crasm(.soula^ Meissn 471 elata, Cunn 405 genistoides, A. Cunn 452
erispula, Benth 4tjl elata^ Grab. 665 Gerrardi, Benth 508
cultriformis, Ctinn 474 eleganSj Schlecht. .- 632 giganteay Noronh 361
ctimanensls,Willd 377 elephantina, Burch 365 Gilbert!, Meissn 498
Cumingiiy Benth 532 elephanto7*hizaj Burch 365 Giraffe, Willd. 503
cuneata; Benth 463 elliptica^ Cunn 477 GiraffcBy Hochst 512
OunniDghaTiiii, Hook 492 elongata, Sieb 478 Giraffccy Sieb. 512
f
1
CHnni7ighamiiy Don 450 ^««r^m«â^ Wendl 406 ylabratUy Schlecht 532
curvifoli(tj Boiipl 638 Emory ana, Benth 522 gladiiformis, Cunn 470
cuspxdata^ Cunn 453 Endlicheriy Meissn 499 glandulosGy Guillem. 442
cmpidata^ Schlecht 532 ephedroides^ Benth 488 glandulosa^ Willd 387
cynuophylla, Lindl, 409 eriadenia, Bentli 520 glaucuy Willd 443
cyclopnylla^ Schlecht 464 erianthuy Desv 637 glaucescens, Willd. 491
Cyclops, Cunn 481 ericifolia^ Befith 457 glmmfoUay Baiini 475
aji'Jnsperma, DC 558 erinacea, Benth 459 glaucophj 11a, Steud, 510
cijtnorum, llook 498 erioclada, Benth 451 glaucoptera, Benth. 447
cggnormn^ Benth 498 eriolobn^ Edgew 504 glomerosa, Benth 528
cymbacantha, Zucc 501 erioloba. E. Mey 503 glutinosUy F. Muell 480
cvpcrophylla, F. MuelL 488 erubescens, Welw 518 Gnidium, Benth 467
f)awtreanaj F. Muell 481 er'ythi'antha^ Steud 619 gonoacanthay Mart 370
Didctty Desv 382 erythrocephalay Cunn 400 gonocarpa^ F. Muell. 489
Dallachiana, F. MmU. 486 ei^ythropusy Ten 454 gonoclada, F. Muell. 486
daphmfoUay Meissn 469 esculentay Mart, et Gal 443 gonophylla, Benth 457
dasyphyllay Cunn 464 esculentUy Moc. et Sess 44S gracuisy Mart, et Gal 542
dcalbata, Link , 497 etbaica, Schiceinf. 510 gramineay Lehm 457
dealbatitj Cunn. 473 excelsca, Benth 481 grandifioray A^îlld 557
decipiens, Br. ,-, . 403 explanata, Jungh 513 grandisy Henfr 497
decoraj Reichb 473 extensa, Lindl. 457 Benth
grandisiliqtiay 529
. decmreiiSj JFilkL 490 exudans, Lindl 460 grandistipula, Benth 525
deciissata^ Ten 487 fagonioideSy Benth 497 gramdosay Labill 559
delibrata, Cunn 490 falcata, Willd. 408 gratuy Willd. 372
. . . ;
deltoidea, Cunn 476 faldôrmisy DO 468 Cunn
graveolenSy 466
densa, Wall 513 falcinellay Meissn 469 Greggii,^. Gr 521
densifolia^ Benth 460 faleinella^ Tausch 473 461
Gregorii, F. MuelL
dentlfera, Benth 467 fcdlaxy E. Mey. 520 GuachapeUy H., B. et K. . .
533
demfdata, Lehm 497 farinosa, Lindl. 480 guadelupensiSy DC 528
dependenSj Cunn 487 famesiana, Willd, 502 414
guatemalensisy Hook, et Ârn. .
depaupcrata, Mart 386 fasciculatuy Br 615 guayaquilensisy Desf. .'

637
. .
demiatophylla, Benth 460 fasciculatay Guill. et PeiT 600 gnianenmSy Willd 374
desmostachya^ Benth 536 Kunth
fasdculatay 414 Guilmuhncey DO 422
detinens,Burch 517 fasciculiferaj F. Mtiell.
didyocarpa^ Benth
467 guilandincefoliay Sw 638
474 ferox, Benth 517 gummifera, Willd. 509
dictyoplileba, -F, Mtiell 480 fen-uginea, DC. , 518 yummiferay Del 505
difl'usa, Lindi. 453 jilicieoma^ Mart. 368 Gunniiy Benth 462
dilatata, Benth 463 filicina, Willd. 532 guttatuy Hoffin 637
diuiidiata, Benth 495 Benth
Jilifoliay 488 guttnliferuy Hofiin .- 637
(Utieura, F. Muell. 483 Jimbriata, Cunn 473 gyrocarpuy Hochst 515
diptera,»i/nr?/ 447 Jistulay Schweinf. 612 HabbaSy Link 562
diptera, Willd 377 flaccidUy Spreng 637 habbasioideSy Boj 638
discolor, Willd. 490 Jlavay Spreng
dimti/lora, Benth 487 flavescena, Cunn
371 hadiensisy DO 633
4^3 hcematomma. DO 545
dutachyay DC 417 flexicauliS; Benth., 514 hsematoxylo'n, Willd. 504
divaricata^ Willd 535 flexifolia, Cunn 465 hakeoides, Cunn. 470
divergent, Bf^th 462 flexuomy Humb. et Bonpl.
. ,
500 Hamiltoniiy Desv 543

divLr,iifoliay Schlecht 443 JiexuosUy hm 377 hamulosa, Benth 510
dodouiei folia, WllUl 467 Jlexuom^ Sieo 593 hai-pophylla, F. Muell 481
dolabfnfortms^ Colia 463 ^ribimday Willd 437 Kartwegiy Benth 532
dolalnôrnusj Cunn 495 Jluviatilisy Spreng §28 Harveyi, Benth 471
dolahnfot-nxk Wendl,
, . . , 030 fcetida, H^ B. et K 366 hastulata, Sm 462
dommgfvnhy Bert 424 foUolmay Grah 567 Hayeaii, Benth, 524
, doratoxylon, Cwm. 490 formosa^ Kunth 542 Cunn
hebecephalfty 478
doratoxylmiy Meissn ...• 490 fonnosay A, Rich 534
drepanocaija, F, Muell hebeclada, DC. 504
4^9 fragransy Ten. ,][[
Drummondii, LindL, ....,..., 543 hecatophyUa^ Steud 520
490 FraseHj Hook.
Mlumetorum, DC 474 hemignosta, F, Muell 479
309 frondosuy AVilld .../.!!. 443 hemitelesy Benth 472
. . . . . . . . ., . . .
MR 653
Acacia Page Acacia Page Acacia Pj
hetera cantha,i?w?'cA 505 Zamhertiana, Don 543 macradenia, Btnth
heferocarpayUel. , 376 Langadorfii, Benth, 526 macroloba, Willd SCO
heteroclita, Meissn 477 laniêra, Cunn. . . • 449 tnacrophyllaj Bunge 562
heteromalia, Sweet G38 laricina, Meissn, 452 macrostachya, Etnchb 520
heteroneura, Senth 480 lasioearpa^Benth. 498 Magdahm^] Bert 547
heteropliylla, WiM 482 lasiopetala, OKd. , 508 MaUland;, F. Muell 4*W
heterophylla^ Hook, et Am. 4^2 lasiophylla^ Be^dh. 527 malacocentruj Mnrf 410
Benth
Ilindsii, 515 latescenSj Benth, , 483 malacophylla, Benth 52^1
^
hippuroides, Hetcard 468 latifolia, Benth 494 inalacophylla, Steud. 663, 664
hiraiday Schleclit. . . 532 latiJôUay Desf. . 481 mamniifeVa, SchkchL ^^2
hirta^ Boj. ..,,•... 038 latipeS; Benth, . 449 Maugium, Wilhl 496
hirtay Mart, et Gal. 429 lafisiliqua, Willd 534 maryinatuy Br. 17'>
htrta^ Xutt. 632 latispinosa, Desf. 419 maryinata, 1 lain 5t W

hirtella, E, Mey 513 Latrolei^ Meissn. , 464 nuiriti)Hff, BtuAth 4***^
hispidissima, DC. 497 latronum, WilkL olO Martii, Timfh 62i»

liispidula, Willd, 465 laurifolia, Willd, 482 ffKfrfinircftsh^ Prcsl ,....,»,.. "*'
Hoffmanseggiij DC 637 Lawsoni, Ait 038 inasclittloccpLalaj 6'r<V».. , , . . .
''.'7
holcocarpa (err, typ. holocarpa), laxuy Willd 661 IMauromnna, D(\ *t^'i
Senth , 492 laxi/lora, DO 676 media^ Mart, et Oft! . ill

holosericea,Cunn 495 Lebbek,}\md 502 megaladfHUf Deav 6.*U
homalophylla; Cunn 478 lehhekioides, DC 5r>H inc^^jiliintlia, F, Murti, ^k''*
492 473 4f'J

homomalln, Wendl Leichardtii, Benth Mi'i^-'ri'Ti, Ltli/n
Jfookerij Meissn, 457 leiophyllay Benth. . , .

4< 19 3fris<mm, mr., .M*'i*!sn. J^'^-i
Hooperiana, Zipp 531 leiophyllUf var,, Meissn 409 Vielaun(hf/te$^ Zoll *513
**^1
horrida, Waid 507 lerdicellata^ F. Muell. 502 niulauoxylon, ///•
horridula, Meissn 462 lenticularis, Ham, .
618 mellifrrnj Jhnih. 517
^""'7
Jwstilis,7 Mart 415 kntiscifoliuj Desf 037 niclrosideriAorn^ P(hl<*cht
w ^^ 4<W
657 hniiscifoliuj A. Rich. 597 micracanthn, Dielr ....
Sousfoni, Willd
Huegelii, Bmth 4(50 kpidota, Hook, et Am, 410 micrndmay Dt utli 6ii7
[*2ti
500 leprosa, Sieb 406 micranthfti Bmtli.
Humboldtii, Desv.
492 inicrantha, IV^'jV *'^
humifusa, Cunn 495 feptocarpaj Cu7in • . *
..
'"
552 leptoclada, Ciimi 407 miuuLotrya, Betdh ^'
humilis, Schlecht 40i>
461 leptoneura, Benth 450 microcarpa, F. MfwIL
hyhrida, Lodd ^J*'
leptoneuruy var.^ Meissn, 488 microcephula^ (irah • . .
idiomoi'pba, Cunn 461

472 mkruvcphula^ MacCad. 6W)
imhricata, F. Muell. . . ; 404 leptopetala, Benth. . .
'**..
485 microcephfdaj A. Illcli
implexa, Benth 481 leptophleba, F. Muell. .
477 leptophylla^ DC 602 micruueura, Meiasn - 4^

\ impress."!, F. Muell. ''" *^
460 mtcrophylliif AV illd.
im^yressa^Lindl 408 leptoi^hylhy F. Muell. .
''-•'*
478 MiVrsii, Benth
incana, Spreng 409 leptospemioides, Benth
Mikanii, Bmth 6i*i
463 leptostachya, Benth. 491
incrassata,Hook. . .
rainutifolia, F. MuelL *••*'
448 leucacanthUj Bert, 501

incurva, Benfh 4'-
402 Mit^^helli, B*nih
indica, Desv 637 leucadmdrony Cunn,
443 mod^ * WalL 6ii:f
leucoc^hahy Link
,
ingrata, Benth 463

Sw. 038 mada^ Lindl f'^'*
insiffnis, Hoffiii
660 lencoloba, '^*^
613 muViny \\ Jill
Mart, et Gal. 532 leucophloea* Willd.

insignis, 479 molfi nm^ Willd -
. *
^
635 leucophylla, Lindl. 'W*

insularis, A. Rich, .
470 mouacantha, WiUd.
647 ligulatUy Cunn.
inmlanim, Guill. . .
Meissn 464 muJjtana, Tfrnth 4^

tntet-media, Cunn. » .
487 ligustrina^
montma^ .Jiin^
intertexta, Sieb 487 limbata, F. Muell,
4>^5
uii fimhtn'um^, Boll©
^^
oW
630 linaiioides,Benth •
j;^^ 4*^7
Intsia, Willd 4/-i murronain^ Willd.
DC 628 Lindleyi; Meissn
intstoides, 4s 7 Mutlleri, Ifenth f^*
691 linearis, Sinis '*'
inundata, Mart 643 mulfif' ra^ Kunth
497 Desv
linearis, <
irrorata, Sieb.
668 Uneata, Cunn
MM
i
Isemhergiana, Schimp 479 Uitdfmt^ li, I>C. * — •41*
468 lineolata, Benth ff*^ *""
iteaphylla, F. Muell. .
472 roidti"A.ic^
480 linifolia, WUhl • '
'*^'
ixiophylla, Benth fMif'icd*'. ^N illu. . • .
038 litakunensifi, Burch, . « « t - « #

Mft^ 472
Jacarandce, Lodd Murrayana, F, . .
511 littorali^, A. Rich.

Jacquemonti, Benth -^
037 lomatocarpa, DC. . • • *
myriiiiAnnK ^^ '"^. ...... 4W

javanica, DO '^'^''
lon^îfolia, Willd.
• • •
» •
629 . . V
Jidibrissin, Sieb.
•
* • *
Paxt 4«7
^ 4 • # • •
Ifmgifolia, » # •
Julibmsin,^m Imgispicata, Benth

4P2
.R iVry. «^
j ulifera, Bmth^
juHJlora. Willd
-
J^^
466
hnqissima, Wendl.
lophantha.^îM.^ .
4«7
560
OEUliti.a.
m'lhj>t.*M, HraL
...
^
juncifolia, Benth hphmUhoides, DC.
6.^2
453
juniperina, Willd, loxocarpa, Cunn, • > « «
583 .
Jupiinba, AYilld loxophylla, Benth.

47(5 neriifolia,0«« ^^
638 638 .V«*<iV, F. Mmrfl
Jiireviaj Mart btcens,^}'
» * * • *
J-'
avnumi, DC.
•
507
^
. •
• • •
Karroo^ Ilayne ^' X«Jtt;ii^«,Ohlend.. # • • # 475 **f^

Xeuciana, I'.uckl
OKv ^^ 473
Kirkii, lunata, Sieb
384 •rrvurpa^ Cunn. • "*
Koa, A. Gray • •
630 lutea,Leavenw
Meimi, 458
E^raussiana, lycopodifolia, C«?m •
• • *
« * « «
523 384
laceranSj Benth Desv
lycopodioideJi,
383
laciistris, Desf. . . - -
lysipUcea, F. MueU. . . -
..••• ««
484
Iseta, Br
517
macracantha, ITnmh. et Bmpl. .
WO » «t K, 373
378 OUU Xu>po, II., .
Icenigata, Willd ji,.:j— T^.r+

macracanthoides, Bert
615
Lahai, Stetid. .
'.
d
" . ' ,

Acacia Paê Acacia Pam Vcacia Pag^
nitida.^YiM.,.,. 685 pilosay Spreng 646 reticulatajWilld 607
nitidula, Benth 477 pinifolicty Benth 466 retincrvis, Benth 403
nodiflora, Bmth 459 pinnntay Link 525 retinodp?, iiehlerht 4CS
notabilis, F. Miiell 469 pityoides, J'', Muell 488 retivenia, ^. Mntll 433
nubica^ Benth 511 plagiophyllay F. ISIuell 465 relrursa, Mviasit .•.,.., 4o2
nudiflora, Willd, 522 plagiophylliy Spreng. 468 Vivohday Kunth. • 405
niitanSy Spreng 634 planifrons, W, et Arn 5U5 rhigiaphyllaj F. Muell 454
ni/ssophijUa, R Muell. , 450 platyacantha, Schlecht 601 rhtHlacantha, Decsf. (337
obliqua, Cunn 464 platyccapa, F. Muell 4S3 rhombi/oliay Di .^f. 6S7
obliqua, Desv 471 pkUylobay Spreng 693 Riceana, Jlenst, 454
ohUquifoUa^ Mart, et Gal 572 platyphylhy Sw. 638 Bichardsoniy bweet 638
obova'ta, Benth 460 flutypteray LindL 447 Richci, A, Gray 4o:i
obscura, A, DC, 498 plectocaxpa, Cunn 492 rifen% Cunn 45G
obtmaj Hiimb. et Bonpl 500 plunaosa, Lour ...,,.. 524 rigiduluy Benth 514
obtusata, Sieb 470 pluricapitata, Steud, 531 riparia,H.j B. et K, 628
ohtiisifolia^Cunn. 487 podalyriaefolia, Cunn 474 npariay Bert 528
odorata, Desv , , 471 polyacanthay Willd 519 Burch
Tobusta, 510
odoratissima^ Willd 565 polyanthuy Spreng. 591 Roemeriana, Scheele 52()
OUIfieldii, F. Muell 490 polybotrya, Benm 49G Rohrianay DC 523
decefoliaj Cunn 473 polycephalay DC 631 rosttiUifera, Benth, 471
oligonem-a, F. Mtwll. 491 polycephala. Grab 531 rosteUiftray Seem , 469
oligophyllayHoiFmans 637 polypbylla, DC. 628 ro^tratiiy II.. B. et K 536
omalophyllaj Cunn. 478 polyphyUdy Clos 5;i5 rotundata, Benth 521
oncinocarpa, Betdh 493 polystachya, Cunn 492 rotundifoliOj Hook
'
464
oncinophylla, Zindl. 489 podoricensis,Willd 543 Rovumae, Oliv 518
ornithophora, Sw. 461 pravifoUay F. Muell Eoxburghiiy W. et
476 Arn 512
orthocarpay F. Muell 489 ?ravissinia, F. Muell 475 rubescetis^ Mart, et GaL 551
OsAvaldi, F. Muell 479 ^reissiana, Lehoi 498 rubida, Ctmn 470
Otiyraremaj DC 636 prenmnsy Lowe 531 ntfuy Ilassk 566
ovoideay Benth * 454 prisynatica Hoffmans mtgaiay Hum
, 6.jJ7 531
oxycedrusj Sieb 454 procera, Willd 565 mnciformisy Cunn 464
I
oxyclada, F. MmJL 457 procumbenSy Hoffmans Tupe^trisy Stocks
}
I
t>37 516
Grab
I
oxyphylla^ 530 prominens, Cunn 472 rupicola, F. Muell. 453

pachycarpa^ F. Muell. 493 propinquay A. Rich 648 rttsci/oliay Cunn. 4-34
pachyloma^ Mart 557 prosopoidesy DC 366, 418 ndafoliuy Linlc 498
pallida, F. Muell 509 prostrata, Lodd 453 Sahianay Buckl 444
palUda, Willd 377 pniinosa, Cunn 490 saccharatuy lienth 615
paludosUy Miq 631 pseiidoarabica, Bl 507 salicina, Lindl 470
pianictdcejlora, Steud. ........ 408 j)seudointsiay Miq 630 saligna, Wendl 409
paniculata, Willd. 529 pseudotdchodcH, uC 444 sulinarumy DO 377
papyrocarpa^ Benth 456 psilostachya, DC 372 Sahianay Steud 515
1 paradoxay DC 461 psoraleay DC ] ! [ ^ [ 421
] mltuuniy ^\mA\, ."
6OO
parvifolia, Willd. 597 . . .
pteridifoha, Beîth. 524 Sandra, Beda

patens, F. Muell, 519
i
r 452 pterigoidea^ Seem
pattd^, Humb. et
469 sanguiuea, llochst 518
Bonpl 637 pterocladciy F.Muell
paucifloray A. Rich. ...,.....,
448 sapimaria, Horno 531
634 pterophyllay Hoffmans
Paiclikowskyana, Ohlend 531 sarmentoauj Desv 530
475 pterygocarpuy Hochat.
lyectimiay H., B. et K.^
511 sarjnetitmay Griseb 528
362 ptychophylla, F. Muell
])ectinafa^ Iloffin. 485 scabra. Bmth 459
. , . / 637 pubescens, Br
pedicellata, Benth * 497 scalpelliformis. Mcissn 475
527 pubescensy Schlecht
jyeduncidatay Willd.
] 034 scandetiSy Benth. 524
. /, 602 pugioniformis, Wendl ...".!!!]
,
•
pellacanthay Vog 456 scandensy \Mlld 363
500 pugioniformisy Wendl
pendula, Cunn 453 scapuUfonniSy Cunn 475
479 pulcheUa, Br.
pentcillifera, Lag. T 497 scldnmdesy Benth 496
532 jmlcherrimay Willd
pennata, Willd, W.* 374 Schottii, Torr 513
[[ 530 pulverulentaj Cunn *
\. pennatula, Benth, 457 scirpifolia. Meissn 457

499 pulverulentuj Schlecht
penninervis, Sieb W, 443 sclerophvlla, Lindl 479
468 punctatUy Desf, *
pentadenia, LifidL 334 scleroxyla, Tws^ '^-2

493 ptmctata, Humb. et Bonpl. .... ,
pentaedra^ Kegel 600 secundijtoray Ju8S 365

457 pungensy Spreng
pentayonrij Hook ,, 5.31
_ ^ 4.^3 selenicarpa, Desv ^15
purpurea, Bolle _' ]
pentapteray Wehv [ gjg SelloiySpreng, 546

53X p^'cnantha, Benth * *
peregrinay Kunth 1 [
] 4^9 semicordatay Steud. ^38
\\ 372 pycnophylla, Benth .\'
peregrina, Willd i , [ 47 ^ semisptnosa, Steud.
*../. 373 pycnostachya, F ^^7
Perrottetii,
persicuy ^texl^t
Steud \\ 50(5
37^5
pyrifolia, i5a
Muell, ... '
4^6
475
se?mtriptera, Mart.
semivcrticillata, Knowl
'
^
454
]
quadrangulartSy Link
persoonioides, Ait. 638 544 Senegal, WiUd. 516
]
quadnglandidosa^ Mart. .."!!'
Peniilei, ^6/iÂ \\\,\ 521 528 Sentis, F, Muell 467
penm'ma, Humb. et Bonpl. /,.]
quadrilateralisy DC WWWW 450 sericata, Cunn 483
637 quadrisidcata, F. Muell "!].*!!]
Peferstana, Bolle
506 451 sericeayMart, et Gal 523
*
Baddiajiay Savi *
kqi*
Lehm.
petiokin's,
4^39 sericocephala^Fenzl 56/
]
ramosissima, Benth, ..,:].".*[]
Pence, F. Muell
Philippinarum, Benth
WWW .' 448 ramosissima, Benth !.','.'.'
467
471
sericophylla, F. Muell • • •
4/9
i 531 Serra, Benth 527
[
reclinata, F. Muell.
phlebocarpa, F, Muell .
4^^ ^65
[ [ 449 recui-va, ^«rf;.
[i;::;:;;
sertiformisy Cunn
piauhiensis, BmtK ... *
523 627 semlis, Benth 45J
iwWa Cunn
reticiens, Waura r/v--
46o
\\ ^^ renifonnis, Benth., ty?
seitgeray Cunn
puosa, Bmth ^q^ restiacea, Benth,
. ,
" " " setigeray Hook ^54

.... ^.rg
êiosay Spreng ^3/
, J ,
* . . . .. 3
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MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE 655
Acacia Page Acacia Page Acacia Piig*

setulifera, Benth 477 tamariudifolia, Willd. 625 viarumj Allem i^\x
Seyal, Del 512 ta7nat'indifolia, Griseb 422 vicioides, Ferr. et Galin 517
Shuttle'ôrthii, Meism 461 tamarisctnaj Willd 376 Victori<B^ Benth 407
fiiculiformis, Cunn 452 tavifolia, Cunn 450 villosa, WilM. 532
Sieberiana, DC. 503 taxifolia, Lodd 454 ViiicentiSy Grertn 597
Sieherianay Scheele 496 taxifolia, Willd 636 virescetis, BC , , G»37
Sichenana, Tausch 473 teiierrima^ Miq 631 virgattty Gjertn 3^5
signata, F, Muell 490 tenuiflora^ Willd 416 virgaia,Lodd 406
sHiquastrinrty Lag 378 tenuifolia, F. Muell 453 viridi^ruj Kunth 869
Simsii, Cunn 478 ^^z«^/J^ Willd 529 viridirami^j Hiirch 36l
Sing Guill. et Perr o03 tenmssima, F. Muell 489 viscidula, Cunn 4>^'^
J
Sirissa^ Ham oG2 tephroioba, A. Gr 529 visci/tiuit F. Muell 4n7

amilacifoliaj Field 476 teretifolia, Benth 450 rtscosaf Schrad 4*»7
643 vifiuetndeHy Collii •>37

SmithianUj Wall 569 tetragona, Willd .
491 tetragonocarpa, Meism 465 Vogeliaym^ Stcud 0:^1

Solandri, Benih •
4' "2
sc^yhorce, Br, . , 487 tetragonophylla, F, Muell 452 yonierifornuH, Cunn. ,,..,,,
514 texensis, Ton:, et Gr 532 vulcmttcaf Korth 5<K)
spadicigera, Ch. et Schlccht
Thibaudiana, DC 871 Wullirhiana, DC 619
spathulata, F, MimlL 465
Thozetiana, F. Muell 666 WatL-iaiiu. F. Muell 474
spathulatay Tausch 487
Zipp 531 Welwittiicliii, Olir 617
speciosaj Willd 562 tomentella,
496 tonieutosa, Willd. 508 Westi(wn, DC 62^
spectabilisj Cumi
sphacelata, Benth 452 torquatay Lag -^80 Whanii, F Muril 1^0
ScJdecht, 514 tortilis, Ilmpie 506 VViclrhnniij lirttth 4^
sphserocephala, Ch. et .
6(;7
601 WightiuHiiÔuih
spinescensj Benth 449 tortuosa, Willd. .y
tondosa, Beidh * 491 Wightii; Hoher ">0»'i
Spmi, Balb 415 •
Cunn 477 Wight il \V. et Arn '"tû

spmosa, E. Mey. - • " 382 traiisluceus,
Wilhebniamtj V. Mu*'!! 457
459 triacantha, Hoehst 517
epinosissima, Be?ith Willdeywirimta^ WenJL 447
505 triangularis^ Beiith 463 r
flpirocai'pHj Ilochst
443 ^^'îghtii, Benth ^^21
*spirorbis, Labill 494 trichandra, Zucc
444 Xdfdhinn, lienth 477
spondylopbylla, F. Muell 647 trichodes, Willd
<>47 xanthoplilcjua, Betdli 611
Don 637 trichophylloidesj Macftid
Sprengelii, G, xiphova rpa,U oehst filO, 611
476
Sprengelii^ Hook, et Am 410 tngona,^..DG
448 xylocarpa, Cu/m iM
455 trigonophylla, Meissn
sqûamataj Lindl 4iK) aylocurpa, Willd *^
455 trinervata, Sieb -
squamata, Morren C37 Adenanthera ! • 375
549 trinervis, I)esf. ;
squarrosa, Mart 4/7 abroBperuta, F. Mi'^fl y76
633 trineura, F. Muell
stellata, Willd • •
aculeafa^ Itoxb "*
triptera, Benth
448 - *
• - • • •
stenocarpa^ Hoehst 512 bicolor, Moon . •" '^

4*>o ,
479 triptycha, F. Muell

stenophylla, Cimn 4*4 BoniibmdiiUidy Kunth •'^^
447 triquetra, Benth "
stenoptera, Benth chry$**iitfichyn^ Benth. ••*
Desv 872 trisperma, Mart '^l^

stenostachya, vircinalU,\)G 6XJ
Stephaniana, Willd 370 trisso7ieura, R
Muell 4/8
f(draia^ Willd - . *> _'
•• 51()
stereophylla, Meissn 400 tristis, Welw *•««
4td fakataria, Linn,
485 tristis,Gv^\i 375
stigmatophylla, Cunn microsperma, Tei/^fn. ei Bir^ .
stipellata, Schleclit 532 tnberosa, SterL ^^ pavonina, Litm** »

569 Benth
tubulifera, 'j^7
dipulata, DG poUtay Miq» - • . . - * • • •
(
stipuUgera, F. Mtiell 484 tumida, F. Muell • •

^' icandenn^ Forst .... • •
Meism 4oJ . * 4 I * J
37'
476 ulicina, Srhum.
fltipulosa; F, Muell ietrapfera, • • •
504 umbellata. Cunn, ....^ *^

stolonifera, Burcb
umbellifera, IL, B. et K
WJ triphgsOj Dennst. ... . . • • I
striata, Mumk et Bonpl -

5^ umbracvlata, Wight ^^'^
Adeuopodta .
Benth $picatii^ Pr*'>^l « t 364

striatula, J^ tmihrosa, Cunn ^^ Afton?pft *4a«»'V •' « •
atricta, TFa/W *
f06 iincifera, Benth

strigosa, Link *' bullata, lietdh
^^^
400 uncinata, Lodd ^?2
,,;.|osa, LincU comom^ Ii**ntli
uncinella, Betith ^'Jl * • • •
strigosa, Spreng
•
,
^^ uncinella, Desf. -
•
*-^ ^''
-Jlfl ........
M
juglttiidifoliaj
strigulosa, Steud -
J>^^ undulifolia,Ctmn
WiUd. 3bl ^"î Albi/zia
stromhulifera,
647 unduUita,^\m> ••
acradenay 3Iiq s 9 •
f^
strongylophylla J^. f^^ , I
ungulata^ Desv ' '

*•••' if
affinuiy Fotim.
i
Stuartiana, F. Muell
.
.
^^- nniglavduhmy Seem* p' aftif*»i$n4if lluok. f.

suaveolens, Willd. ^tj- urophvlla, Benth. 6*57
î i y^^ • •
« a • # *
subbinervia, Meissn
'
innG^nuntimu, F. .M"« H
subcsernlea, Lindl *^j rA'4
snhdimidiata, Splitg. Benth •
J Br.
^^^ varians,
^^^ anthebiiiatu:*? ,
suberosa, Cunn DC. ,*«<•*

^^^ velutina, ../^ biwaiticu, BnÔi.
subfalcata, Meissn f^ vehdi7iu, Benth.
'
JietdhamifW'^ HL
mbinermisy Bert
sublanata, Benth
^
V}!^
^/o
venosa, Jlochst
venulosa. Benth
^^
.
^^.^
j^
Jjoivini,
brach^calyx,
Jivi/r?/
0/<r.,
« 9 * « • • •
670
subporoâ, F. Mvell
subternata, F, Muell
K
^^^
rmM5ir/, WUld-
veruy Willd. . .
.
•
' •
' ^
ei/j
lirowiuei,
Cflt}«^Ce&i^7
OUr
Benfh. .
6^4
^^
.
.«6^//^Ma, H., B et ^j^ re;4,0uilLetPerr Championi, Iteuih. ... ^**

48b
subtilinervis, F. Muell .
verniciflua, CV/n/?. . Welw

Conflrli^
miUilis, Hoffmans ^J^ verticillata, Willd. F'y^'m.
^^^.^ ellipti<*J*.
subulata, Bonpl î^ verticillata, Sieb.^
....••••"
Br ^^^ 6t^
sulcata;
^^ verugera, Sehweinh r.^*^ r.^Z^ZL n^fh
femitnnet,jiSf4^f/
Sieb - " .mM
suleipes, ,^ vespertina. Macfad.
474 fortbmda, KoUchy
Suma, Knn Ker
Sundraj Spreng •
•
^.^
*^^^ vefitita,
4R
VOL. XXX.
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656 MR. G. BEXTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE

yilbizzia Page Page Calliandra Page
Forbesii, Benth 5(!8 Archidendron 600 hirtiiiora, Benth 660
Fou?'nie)'i, Vieill, 574 Lucyi, F. MiielL 600 Jlookeinanay Schonib 549
fulgens, Benth 558 Vaillantii, J^. MuelL 600 Ilourituni, Benth 550
gJaberi'hnay Benth 563 Arthrosprion humilis, Benth 652
glabrescens, Olw 562 gtipidatumj Hassk 569 hymnteoides, Beidh 637
glomeriflora, Kurz 560 hystnx, Griseb 673
grandiflm-a^ F. Muell 635 KwUhiij Benth 557
.
Besenna
granulosa, Benth 659 Lambertiana, Befith 543
anthebnintieaj Foum 564
Benth
Hendersonii, F. Muell 578 lanata, 563
hjôleuca. Oliv 667 htifuliuy Griseb 595
Isemberffianay Foum 568 Ccesalpinia laxa^ Benth , 551
Jaubeitiana^ Fown 661 lebbekoides^ DC. , , 560 leptopoda^ Benth 544
Durazz
Julibrissin; 508 Caillea linearis,Benth 549
Jnnghuhniana^ F. Muell 579 dichrostachys, Guill. et Perr. . 382 longipes, Benth 538
latifoh'a, Boiv, 662 maerodaehyay Steud 360 longipinna, Benth 546
Lebbek, Betith 562 Calliandra 636 macrocephala^ Benth 553
lebbekoides, Benth 568 abbreviata, Benth 553 Magdalenfe, Benth 647
lentiscifolia, Benth, . . . , ^ 559 aculeata, Sjirace 541 malacophylla^ Benth 644
littoralis, Teijsm. tt Binnend, , . 648 seschynomenoi Jes, Benth 546 maryinatay Benth 586
lophantha, Benth 659 alternans, BeMh 648 maryinata, Griseb 642
lucida^ Benth 560 amazonica, Benth 5;i8 mertensioides, Benth 650
macrothyrsuy Miq 637 angelina, Benth 644 microphylla, Btnth 555
maJacophylla , Walp 563 angustifolia, Spruce 539 mollissima, Benth 641
micrantJiay Boiv 565 axillaris, Benth 546 myriophyila, Benth 555
Millettii, Be)iih 565 bella, Benth 655 obovata^ Benth, 683
7nolltSj Boiv 6(^8 bicolor, Beîth 655 obtnsifolia, Karst 647
moluccana, Miq 637 Blauchbti, Benth r44 pallens, Benth 592
Muell
inoniliffraj F. 685 bombycina, Spruce 638 parviflora,Benth 557
montaTia^ Benth 560 bracteosa, Benth 550 paucifiora^ Griseb 634
mossamlicenaiSj BoUe 620 brevipes, Benth 54t> Peckoltii, Beîth 555
myriophylla, Benth 567 californica, Benth 552 pedicellata, Benth 545
Nefama, Walp 610 calothyrûs, Miq, 55(3 portoricensis, Benth 543
obovata, Benth 568 calycina, Benth 549 prehensilisy Wright 593
odoratissima, Benth 566 canescens, Benth 54O prostrata, Benth 554
Paivana, Foum 558 capillata, Benth 542 Purdisei, Befith 556
pallida, Fmirn 564 cai-acasana, Beath 543 purpurea, Benth 546
palliday Harv 567 carbonaria, Benth 538 reticulata, A. Gr 650
Kdicellata, Baker 663 ehanit^drySj Engelm 552 revolutaj Griseb 582
jtersiana, Oliv 569 chilensis, Bmith 545 rigida, Benth
polyphylla, Foum
549
566 clavellina^
Karst 65t) Smnan, Griseb
procera, Benth
587
564 codonandra, Benth, 647 Sancti Pauli^ Ha.ssk
prmnosa, F. Muell 553
580 collelioides, Griseb 645
purjmr ascenty Bl
'
scutellifera, Benth 542
560 comosa, Benth ]
551 Seemanni, Benth 640
purpurea, Boiv 666 couferta, Benth. .\\[. 546 sessilis, Benth 646
Quartiniana, IFalp 505 cmiacea, Benth \\\\\ 539 Sprnceana, Benth 598
retusa^ Bejiih 663 coroensis^Karst \\^\ 547 squarrosa, Benth 649
rhombifolia, Beîth 663 [
crassipes, Benth
.WW 655 stipidacea, Be7ith 651
rivulaiîs^ Foum 558 Cruegeri, Griseb W\ 553
rontratay Bl subuervosa, Benth 540
577 Curaingii, Benth ] '
551
rotundata, BL
[ ]
subspieata, Benth 666
561 cylindrocmpa, Benth '
540
rvbiginosa^ Miq. surinamensis, Benth. .- 647
637 cynometroides, Bedd, W. 637
.
lufa, Benth 5(56 depauperata, Benth *//.''

taxifolia,Benth ,
646
546 tenuiflora^ Benth 547
salajeriana, Miq 561 diadetnata^
Lemaire [
paponaria, BL
W 555 tergemina, Benth 539
561 dysantha, Benth ]
'/.
552 tetragona, Bmith 543
Scliimperiana, Oliv, 567 eiuarginata, Benth .'
]
! 539 tetraphylla, Betith 644
sericocephala^ Benth 567 eriophylla, Benth '
' 552 trinervia, Benth 538

pplendenSy Miq, 637 expansa, Benth
'
"
] 549
stipulata, Bow 508 falcata, Benth
[ | [
]
[
54]!
tubulosa, Benth *.
587
Ribfaleata, Benth, 559 iasciculata, Benth turbinata, Benth. -!..*.'.'!!!!.. 652
!,!.'!!'' 550
teneni?na, Vr, . .» . 531 fiiipesj BentK !'" Tweedii, Be7ith .,,..., 553
..... .\W' 542
tengeretistSy Miq 679 foliolosa, Benth, ...!.!.'/.]'" umbellifera, -Be>i/^ 544
Thozetiana, F, MvelL ....••..
tomentella, Miq.
566
661
fonnoaa, Benth
Gardneri, Benth
"_'
W,\
^
55,3
559
umbrosa, Be7ith.
virgata, Benth
637
548
rocm',F. MueU 678 geminata, Benth, ......!!.*"" viridiflora, Benth [.,., 642
umbrosa, Benth. " 543 viscidula, Benth 553
5.3<8 glomerulata, Karst '/.'
VaUlantii, F. Muell 554 Wendlandi, Benth 556
600 glyphoxylou, Spruce
versicolor,
viridis, Foum
Wehc
,
662
5QQ
gracilis,^/.\:......
graciiis, Griseb
\
"
"
'
S
K^â
âlapensiSy Benth
Cathomiion
651
Wehvitschii, Oliv
Alyarohia
669 grandiflora,
Griffithii,
^«ifA.
5«A^ ..
,..
•
"
^
^4^
^'^^
monilifemmy Hassk.
Chithonanthus
585
didcisy Benth 377 GuMmîi^ Bmth,, restiaceiiSy Lehm 455

glundtdom^ Toit.
, W Z!a
378 Chrynoxylon
Ann^slea
haematoeephala, Hassk, TA
falcifolia, Salisb
hsematomnia, Benth. "" kT- Vinhatico, Casar. 365
648 Ilarrisii, ê;,M Clelia
Anw^ychitim ^^ ornata, Caaax 540
/if /-iarm, Engelm i.';"'" ^f;
hnceolatumj Schweinf, , 377 inxmt^^ Be?ith. Codonondra
;;;;; g?|
purpurea^ Karst 547
. , , . .. . . .. .. . .. . . . ., «
-¥
MIMOSEiE 657
Cofdteria Page Entada Page Inga Page
G ulll.
I
afrzcana, et Perr S77 Plumieriy Spreng,

,
, 365 calycmay Salzm Gil
J —
polyphylla, Benth. 365 campanulata, Bmth

Darlingtonia 007 r
polystachya, DC. 364 Candida, H., B. et K 674
hrachyloba^ DC * 387 Purs€etha, DO 363 eanescenSy Ch. et Schlecht. 5 10
fflandidosa, DC 387 Bkeedii, Spreng. 363 capitata; Desv , . Cll
intermedia^ Torr 387 JRu7nphiiy Scheff. 363 capitatttj Miq 6^3
Desmanthus . . .• 385 scandens, Benth 363 cariperms^ lluuib. et Bonpl • 640
acinaciforviis^ Span 385 sudanica, Schweinf. '
364 carnosa, Don C2tj
acuminatua, Benth, 387 Wahlbergii, Harv 364 cataract(e, H., B. t-t K 695
adenanthera, Wall. 384 Wrbeana^ Presl 360 Cathartnay Benth. ClU
arborescens, Bojer, 387 Enterolobium 598 Willd
fhyiora, b'M
brachylobus, Benth, 387 Blmichetiy Benth. . 687 cayeuaensia, Sayot friti t:
calliatachySy DC. . 382 cyclocarpuni, Griseh. 598 chartacea, Pwpp. 01(1

cinereiiSy Willd 382 Ilipticum^ Be7ith 698 ciliata, J'resl iWU
depressiis, Ilmnb. et Bonpl, 386 glmicescenSy Mart. . . 698 ciliatuy Piju]*]) yi>0
dimtsus, Willd 386 Monjollo, Mart, . . 598 cinereay Hmnb. et Bonpl 687
divergens, Willd 382 Schombui'gkii, Benth 699 cinuaiuunu'a, Spruce OOtJ
falcatus^ Scheele 387 Tamhorily Mart 598 drcinalhy Willd TiTi
incunus, Benth 387 Timbouva, Mart 598 claoiytrUy M fritz (litO
Janiesii, Torr, et Gr, . 386 clypeuria, Jack 6d0

lacustrisy Torr. et Gr. , 384 Fariieda coccinea^ Don oJ >
J
lacudrisj Willd 383 odorUy Caspar 502 cochkatay WillJ 6H9

leptolobus, Tmir. et Gr. 386 cocJUocurpoSy Mart. 6k'{
leptophyllusy H,, 13. et K 385 Gagnebina 376 cognafay iirhhcht ...-'i
leptostacJiySy DC \ 382 axiUarisy DO 378 covutcyncnsis^ M iq 027

natansy Willd 383 tamariscina, DC. 376 comosa^ Willd oo 1
nutansy DC. 382 Gleditschia concordianay i)U , • • . 6tt6

^ . .
pedmicularisy Buckl. . . 386 inei^Sy Linn. .'

657 conferta, Bvnth 030 t--
384 Javanicay Lam 567 coutorta, lirah. 67H

plenu^y Willd
poly2>hyllus, DO 384 corJi^ti})ula, Marl 004
386 coriacea, Don 02u
pratormn, MTad. ...... Hooperia
384 arboreUy Buck! 614 coriaceaj Desv. Wî
ptmctatuSy Willd
385 co/7(^tra, 11 umb. et Bonpl .... «'>•''*
pusillusy îpp
GOO coruscanSi Hnmh, et. Bonpl. ... 60>
reticidatus, JSeîth .^ . . 886 Inga
614 coryfubiferUf IV'nth 014
rhomhifaliusy Buckl 387 acrocephala, Steud,
018 Klotzsch
crassifoliay 6b2
saliiiariimy Steud 37/ acuminata, Benth,
aeutanguhj Grab, 680 Ctfmwgiana, Benth 62tt
stolonifeTy DC 383 .
cyclocarpa, ^^'ilI(^.
61*"'
strictusy Bertol. ^
aciitifolia^ Benth
.
cyhndrics, Mart 008
tenellusy DC adiantifoHay Kunth 51)0
629 darieneuAiiB, Seem 000
tricJiostachySy DCJ 382 affinisj DC.
616 denjjiHora, Benth. 6i7 t
triqneter, Willd. 384 affinisy Steud... ,
638 diadeniflj Mart 00 J

386 afzelioideSy Lodd,
trisper^nus, Span ^',*
009 dichofontUf ]Mart »
velutinus,' Scheele 386 aggregata, Don .

- -
610 dimidiata^ J look, et lixn. 6oO
virgatus, 385 alba, Willd,
611 discolory llunib. et BonpL 6tfO «
.... 381 albicans, Walp- . .
DichrostaclijTS diflticha, i^mÂ 6IM
382 altemifolia, Don .
ftJo
caffray Meissn, . . .
619 dolabrifirrmis, (jrraL - **7'^
Hassk. 382 angustifoliay Willd

callistachySy
576 douilniceuBii^, Benth, 012
W. et Arn 382 anmdaris, Grab. .
<«7
cinerea, 657 rff/Jm, (irab.
Miq. 382 anomalay Kunth .
'^_*"
cinereay -
629 didds.UBXt.
383 Arrabidce, Steud. .
Forbesii, Benth 000 dutciSy Willd ^>' -
383 assifniliSy Miq 612
Kirkiij Bmith. 637 dunjosa, BentJi <
383 attenitatay (jrah

Muelleri, BentK d> ^thn, lifuth • • 6-*»
382 bahiensis, Benth. .
nutans, Bmth. .
barbata, Benth
024 eiulifl, Mart 0^
platycarpa, Welw.
382 emarginatd, riiimb. et fJonpl . . C""'
381 banhinmfolioy Poepp.
tenidfolia, Bentlu f)27 cHanthnj Wnih *
'*'^'
Benthamianaj Miq.
027 eriiKar/Hij li**iilh, • •
36o Berteriana^ DC Ktinth 67*

Elepbantorhiza CI 036 f.m ' * ..
Berteni, Spreng ****
Burchellii, BeiitK rrcHnuj IV*
^^ bigeinina, Iiook. et Ani,
677 j^p*
Burkei, J?e«/A ^?9 bigemina, Willd

676
^fagar^fdiay Mart. 6l$<
Petersianuy BoUe Willd 801
Entada
^^ hiylobosa,
606 iifcîiolui, WiUd. W7
on]i Billborgiana, Benth. . .
«U
abyssinica, Steud. 624 fagifolia, Don .
BlancLetiana, £mth.
f-
Benth ^^ .
017 fakifohn, Hmk. - -

~^ ^
acacisefolia^ Bonplandiana, Kmith .
adenantheray DO ^^ 502
horbmica, Ilassk •- ^1
africana, Guai
chiliantJiay DC.
et Perr. ......
^
^^
Bour<joiii,
brachyptera, Benth
DC. 609
622
Lji.
/fliej/brmw,
fiiUffiCH^ ^-S
/w«fi//aâ, WUld.
UaiiL
I*ÔSpp0 . . . r • ' **'*'
W'
Duparquetiana; Baill - •
•
brachystachya^ DC.
f>
!
^^^ C22 fattwiata, Steud. *f'
fe
duri^sima^ Baill •
^^ bracteosa, Benth. .
hutVLom, htUd.
^
. :
Gandtty Hoffin 601 .
brevipes, Benth. . iendlemnft^ ifc«^

t--
gigalohiitni^ DC „^*,
bubahna, Jack
676
ingcefoliay Vresl A^
. .
606 Feuillei, 23 C*. ^^

bulla ta, Benth
L -,
Otiill. et Perr. . *'»"•

6.'JC ferruginea, '^-
Kirkiij Oliv byrsinocarpa, Hocliat • •*••• -•

g^^ /mn/'7TV»«J, I'lanch.
moriostachya, DC •
^g ccerukscensy Walp. 610 **-"
L.
temii^neo-hirt*? Mart.
.
.
myriadenay Beuth. .....-.•• 622 .
""-
calocephala, Pojpp. .
Benth 632 JUicitM, Willd

natalensis, ^^
*^
calycinay Benth. . .
'
parranUy Spreng
1
. . ., . . ' .,
.
658 .MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSE.^.

Paffe Inga Paê
Page Inga ;
maeradeniay Mart 6l6 prunensj fcepp
Pcepp. 618
Vent 588
JilipeSj
578 macrophylla, Humb. et BonpL 622 pterocarpay DO 636
Fijilaysonianaj Grab.
.
macrophyllay Hook 616 pnhenday Benth 608

flagelliformis, Mart 603
macrostachyaf Steud 671 pid)escenSy Bert 572
flexmsuy Grab 549
563^ 564 pid)irameay Steud 547
malacopbylla, A. Hicb
.
fiexuascij Schlecbt 628

615 marginata, WiUd. 698 piilcherrima y Cerv. / . 638
Jloribunday Benth
366 marginata, Willd 607 punctata, Willd. .• . . 613
f<Btida. Willd
614 maritima. J5e/^/A 617 pungenSy Humb. et BonpL • » 572
foliosa, Benth
573 MaHhce, Sprang. 698 pu?pu7'ascens, Ilassk 569
forfeXy Kunth ,
637 mai'tinicensis, Presl, 612 pnupnreay Willd. 547

foyjicatay Hoffin.
592 Matbewsana, Betith 615 pycnostachyay Bentb. • 608
fragraiiSj M'Fad
610 maynensis, B^tth 613 pyriforj7iiSy Jungb 300
fraxhieay WiUd,
621 Meissneriana, Miq 029 quartinianay A, Bicli 565
ftilgenSj Kuntb .
f/alibica, Walp. 631 mellifera^ Willd 517 quussi<^foliay Willd 616

geininatOy ,W. et Am. 548 membranacea, Benth GOG quaternata, Poapp 003
Desv.
ffladuitaf 615 Meriance, Splitg 031 7'ayni'ôray Bong 596
glandulosay Steud. 6*33 7nertensioides, Mart 550 ramifioray Don 595
globulifera, Benth 605 micradenia, Spruce 620 ramlfloray Steud , , 596
fflomeraia, DO 595 microcalyx, Spruce 611 reticulatUy Sprang 628
graciliflora, Benth 603 mic7'ophyllay Humb. et Bonpl. 573 .
rhoifoliay Wnid 629
ffrmidiflorayWall 599 micraphyllay Salzm 619 Riedelianay Benth j . 614
ffuadalupermSj Desv 573 Mocinianay Don 627 roseay Steud. 673
ifuatvinalemiSy Hook, et Arn. . 647 mollisy Grab. G37 rubiginosa; DC. 627
ffuaj/aqidlemisy Don 608 mollissimay Humb. et Bonpl. 541 . .
rufeiicens,Benth. ..,,..,..... 605
Ouilleminiana, Benth 624 molliusculay Desv 637 ruiinerviSj Spruce 612
Jlarrmiy Lindl 640 moniliformisy DC 585 rufiseta, Benth 621
Ilayesii, Benth 617 mo7itana, Span 680 Kuiziana, Don . 614
heterophyllft, Willd. 602 7no7itanaj Jungb. , 560 rutilanSy Spruce 602
heteroptera, Benth
*»•
Macuna, Walp salutarisy H,, B. et K '87
o
hirmta, Don . 654 multicaulis, Spmce 624 Salzmannianaj Benth 618
hispida, Schott 625 muUiJlora, Benth 612 Samcmy WiUd 587
Hottsfonif DC. 557 multijuga, Benih 015 sapidUy Bentb 609
Hwiiboldtiana, Kuntb. 614 myriantha, Peepp 601 sapidttj H.y B. et K 608
hymcnerefoliay Humb. et Bonpl.. 672 7iandin(Bf(dia, DO 583 sapindoides, Willd. 623
h/mentBoideSy Desv 537 Nefasia, Hocbst. 510 mponariay AVilld 561
Hf/atrivy A. Ilicb 573 negrensis, Spmce 621 Sassuy Willd 670
uupqualisy Humb. et Bonpl 596 m'opoy Willd 373 scabriuscukj Benth 629
ingoides, Wilhl 631 nitida, JVilld 616 Schiedeanaj Steud 628
iiii?ignis, Kiinth 629 nobilis, Willd. 614 schinifolia, Benth.\ 605
Isemherffianay A. Rich. 568 nodosa, Willd 635 sciadion, Steud 601
Javmmy DC. 672 nuda, Salzm 618 Selloana, Be^h 604
Jinicuil, Schlecht 606 nutans. Mart 605 semialatUy artM 608
Jirinffu, Jack 575 obovalisy A. Bich 582 semicordata, Bertol 640
Jirimjay Wall 577 obtusata, Spruce 621 senegalensisy DO. *
361
juglandifolia, Willd. 614 obtusifolia, Willd 547 sericanthay Miq 614
Kfrnigily W. et Am. ,... 585 odorata, Don 608 ' serieocephala y A. Bicb 607
/<?/«,Poepp , . . 582 (Erstediana, Benth, . . 630
., sertulifera, DC. 603
lallensis, Spruce .... 603 omata, Kuntb 632
.'
631 sessilis, Mart
lamprophylla^ C. Wrigbt .... 627 ornifoliay H., B. et K. ..,,.,., 615
629 setifera,Da
Uiiieaefolia, Benth, .... 606 pachycarpa, Benth 621
629 setigeray Poepp
lanceuluia, Humb. et Bonpl, .... 571 panaraensiSj Seem. setosa, Don
lateriflora, Miq .... 602 paniculata^ Spreng 636
572 sinemarensiSy Don
iatifoliay Willd .... 595 panmensis, %>rtice 602 speclosa, Spntce 620
lauriua, Willd- .... 607 parmfioray Sagot 552
610 speciomy Mai't. et Gal
kxiriora, Benth 631 parmjloray Spruce 002 spectabilis, WiUd. 621
leiocfdycina, Benth 612 parvifoUa, Hook, et Arn 573
555 sj/inifoliay Desv
lenticellata, Benth 613 patem. Hook, et Am 306 splendens, Willd. 615
lentiscifolia, ôith 604 Walp
paiieiflora, 027 splendenSy Bentb 612
leptantha, BetUh 619 Pavoniaua, Bon 023 Sprengeliiy Don 635
kptoloba, Scldecht 613 Pavo?iiana, Bentb oi4 Spruceana, Bentb 610
kptophjUa^ Lag ftJS pectinatay Humb. et Bonpl 362 spuria^ Humb. et Bonph ...... 628
leptopiiSf Benth. 603 pedieellarisy DO , ,^ 5Qg stenocalyx, Spruce 611
kpioHtachya, Benth 608 pedunctdarisy Benth qiq ste7iocarpay Spruce ... ^. .... .
603
leucanthGj Preal ....,, 572 peduncidaris^ Mart
611 stenopteraj Benth. 616
kiwoxylon^ Has^ pendiday AVilld
. ,
[\\ 3(39 stenostachya, Desv ^^^

lignom^ Grab. pennatiday Cham, et Schl ][[[ 500 stipulaceuy Don 621
lifm^rina, Willd. .
pezizifera, Benth
Liudeniana, Be^dh pilosiuscula, Desv
qqq stipularis, Da 610
lineata, Benth.
,[\\ qiq striata, Benth 619
. .
pimnay Don * gi
hbata. Wall. pistaciêfoliaj Spreng ]
' ' y strigillosa, Spmce ^^
longiflora, &i)ruce 49]^ szihfalcata^ ZoU 581
platycatpa, Benth
Innrp^yia^ Ihimb- et Bonpl.
.[// 616 subuuda, Salz^n 631
. .
platyptera, Benth
Benth
lonjnpes, ..[[.. 619 mperbiensy Lemaire ^^
.
plumifera, Spnice ....'" 621 ^^
/"-''a.lI.,B.etK tarapotensis, Spruce ........-
Poeppigiaua, Be7dh. ...,[//' goa
Inridn^ Wall taxifoliay Kuntb 546
polystachyayBenth. ...
T.u^scbiiathiana, Benth *'" 608 tenerriynUy Juno^b 531
protractay StQud
gQg tengerensiSy Zoll. 679
,. .. .. . . H

Inga
temnjivray Salzm 615
Page
Mimosa
Mimosa page ^
gyg bipinnatay Aubl St>5
tenuifolia, B^fdh 610 abietinaj Poir ;fr
472 biuncifera, Bi'idh 42*i

tmuis^ Mart 605 abstergens, Roxb 531 Blanelietii,Benth 483
tergemma, AVilld 539 acacioides, Benth 873 boliviana, Benth S96
:*
tetraphylla, Don 644 acantbocarpa, Beîth 428 Bonplaudi, Benth 410

teti'apht/Ua, Mart 607 acantholoba, Poir 426 borealis, A. Gray 420
Thibaudiana, DC. 615 acerba, Benth 403 botrycephahj Vent , , 406
f*^
thyrsoidea^ Desv CIO Acfe, Blanco 373 Boitryonij Aubl tx>l>
timoriana, DC 8G0 acukaticarpa, Ort. ..,..., 428 brachycarpa, Beufh 435
tomentosa, Benth 609 aetdiflora^ Bentb 434 bracteohiris, ^<>////i ••..« 4^1
trapezifoliaj DC 583 acutistipula, Benth , 415 bnmliemis. Sprung. *v;U
trapezifonniSy Steud 587 adenanthera, Roxb 384 hrtrifoliaj ilimib, et iMiiipl.. ... »».>«i
trifioray Don . . 601 adenautberoides, Benth 416 brcvlpf^fi, Be^dli ijJti

tiibulifera, Benth 60o adenocarpa, Benth 437 broTipinna, Benth 4H^
umhellata^ Dou 603 adenotricba, Benth ; 439 Bureht'llii, Btfifh . . . . 432
umbellata, Willd "..... 585 adhsereus, //., B.etK. 891 Gubrura, Kartit 41C
tmibellata^ ZoU 585 adhcerens, Mart 627, 529 cadnna^ Poir 114
iimbellifera, Steud, 602 , adianthifolia, Sebum 670 C8e»«alpnuM'fiiIia, Sûth 41
umhractdiformis, Jungh 509 adpressa. Hook, et Aiî 409 casia,Linn M)
umbratica, Poepp 601 adstringens,Sebum, et Tbonn. 60(> cafrOf Thunb. , r>UO
itmbrosa, Wall 538 adversaj Benth 439 catcarva, lliirkl 3Ul

undnata, Spruce 630 • • * a * mnulay Spreng. 630 cah'sfnrhi/a^ Vvi'A 107
9 «
unijuga^ Poepp 636 ceschynomenis, Benth, 436 vn]]i-m^ hndh. ,.... 402
rniffim-catij Willd. 573 aygregcda, Pers 037 calucf'pbala, Mart 401
uruguensis, Hook, et Am. 627 * • « • agrctitis, Sieb 376 calocfphftla var. Mnrt
J
4iU
VahlianUy DC 694 alba^ Koxb 613 cal(»deiulr(»n. Mad 411
610 calothainnti5, Mart 4 1'»
VeUozianUy Mart 617, 629 alba. Swartz
Vabl 609 calycina, Benih 404
velutina, WilkL 620 a/i«,
Humb. Bonpl. 890 cmupvajiiana^ Mill. ^'4
venosa, G^îseh 623 albida, et
4*'*^
637 altemans,Vabl 548 camporum, Benth
veiitricosay Grab*
vera, Willd, ... 627 amara, Roxb, 567 cfl?iMcwa, Willd ^^
471 capvn:' Bunn fi07
veruy H., B. et K 630 ambigiia^ Salisb
427
,
capilHpee, hmih 4't8

verrucosa^ Presl ^ 608 - -
andina, Benth
*^'*
angulata, Spreng 686 caraciUianUjidiiO\ '
versicolor, Spruce 616 - •

iW
««»»•«•• carijyeUMf roir ..*•.*.
vestita, BentK 625 •
t
angusta, Benth ^****
Cari^qniSf Blauco
# •
624 angudifolia, Jacq.. «•*«••* 471 - -

j
villosissima, Benth • • ^^'''
Lam, 385 Ca&cmtllUof Colla
vh'escens, Benth. 617 » « « • • • •
angus '^^''^
532 C^^ta, Lir^n • -
^02 angtistismna, MilL » t • • * t « « •
virgultosa, Desv Catechu,Unn

'.
'S^p
annularis, Spruce » • 4iy
'vismisefoliaj Pcepp ^27 • •
• * * • • •
catechftin'd \ Roxb ClU

J
antiltarum, Poir. 597 •
vouap(Bfolia, Spruce •• 603 •

car/data, \ ah) •>• "^ J
antrorsa,Benth 439 r
vulpina, Mai't 415 catdijlyra. J*oir ^^

575 apodocarpa, Betdh '^
Wtghtiancij Grab,
xalapensis, Benth
xyloearpUy DC.
628
373
aquatica, Pers
arabica, Lam •
•
-
^
500
carnda, ^\fA
ceratonia, Linn j**
4-f*
.
569 arborea, Linn - 53--, oW cerai"ffi<mfeM^ Kl. . . *
zygiuj DC. ...... Tbunb

chilianiha^ ^f*,'} • '^
arbmêa,
arcmta, Mart, et Gal
pg
^^'^
chry»^fttha. Vahl » **
Lagonychium 410
370 arenosa, Ppir t ikij m»j^
Stephaniamim, Bieb chrym9tuchy$, H<*1«.
LeptogloUis
armata, Rottl ~^ ciliata, Sjn^fjuj
4«tf
442 Asak,¥oTsk 4
NuttalUi, DC ...... ^]^ dtti<«, Willd. •
Leucaena
canescens, Benth
'//.; 442 asperata, Xtn«.
aspemma, BetUh
.^
••"
^
^ cifararia, LlDOf
rinenâ, IWt. " •
***
*' '\
diversitblia, Benth.
esculenta, Benth.
y*^
443
442
atakta, Steud
atonuiria, Poir
^
430
cinerta, Tiinn. ... - •
534 auriculata, BentL . . • • " •
Llnzt .,,...*.*.. ^'^

formosaj Griseb.
Forsteri, Benth.,
442 aurivillus, Mart ^
410 cirrinaJiSf
rirn'na*' , Moy. et SiMk .
443 axillaris, JS^*Â BewM.

glauca, Benth.
bahamensis, Benth
J^
;*!:
Clfl"«*î, .
**f
**
444 hiî$, ijanii.
macrophylla, Beyith,
443 bahamica, Molina..... cochh-'K Von.
pulverulenta, Benth
.
\ ell 374 j
443 Barha'de-Timam, ^'^^
retusa, Benth Badh
444 barbigera,
tricbodes, Benth. est)
Barmyana, Loud.
. .
•
533 .
coitjhn'tfa. V«-n '
"/t^
Lysiloma baubinisefolia, Karst. * • » •
530
acapulcensis, Benth. .
banhini<efolia, Salisb.
» • • •
535
aunta, Benth -
bellatrix, llotlni T' Willd- .-

534 ^^^ .i, T"
hahamensis, Benth. .
536 Berlandieri, A
CrVî/
^
desmosiachya, Bentb. biceps, Poir. • • • • • t «

*•##*'
.
Guacbapele, Benth. ,
hicohr, Hels. et Boj ^-

Benth
latisiliqua,
643 bicohr, Sebum. ^^
Marchiana, Griseb, .
bifurca, Bnith
535 | ^-5
micropbylla, Benth. « t « »
.
535 bigeminn, Linn.

polypbylla^ Berdh hig/obom, JacQ.
V
53(5 3110
roîmtB., Benth.
« » > • «
« •
. • • * '
biglobom, lloxb.
•
534 4.i5
Sabicu, Benih
L ,
O bijuga, Beuth. .
Schiedeana, Benth. bififgih Veil. . - » • • •
534
I >
.
401 3
tertremina, Benth.. b'inerriSf Weadl. 48

VOL. XXX. ^y.
» ,.,. ,
! '!''
,, ..
..!
.." .

Mimosa Pat>*e Mimosa Page Mimosa Page
cornieulata, Loiu' 5(55 Jacq 807
fagifolia, , , heterocarpa, Presl 393
cornigera^ Linn 514, 515 fagifoliay Linn 007 heterophyllay Lam. , 482
coronillcefolia^Pers 0:37 falcatay Poii*. 468 heterophyllay Roxb.
. . . ,
580
coritscans, Poir 608 falcipinna, Betdh. 400 hirsuta, Spreny 399
coruscmiSy Sieb 007 fnrcta, Russ , 376 hirsuta, Moc. et Sees 897
corymhoscty llich 587 farnesimmy Linn 502 hirsutissima, MaH 399
costaricensis, Benth 423 fasciculata, Benth. 414 hirtay Veil 398
crinita^ Pers 633 fasciculata, Benth 403 hispiduy Willd 438
crocea^ Veil. fascicidataj Poir hispididaj IL, 13. et K
.
647 397
cruenta, Benlli. 431 fastuosa, Jacq 623 hispidula, Sm .... 465
cifmanay Poir 377 fera^ Lour
^ . . ,
636 honesta, JIart 402
cyclocarpa^ Jacq 598 ferruginea, Rottl 530 horrida, Linn 507
cylindracea, Benth 411 ferruginea, Roxb 518 horriduhfj Mich 442
cylindrical Veil •
008 fervida. Mail; , . 391 hostilis; Benth 415
daleoides, Bnith 411 JilicifoUa, Lam. 589 Ilostmanni^ Benth
debilis, Ilumh, Bonj)!.
391
et 891 Jilicinay Poir 362 Honsta)iiy Lher. 557
decipieus, Keen 403 JiUcioideSj Cav 532 humifusa, Benth 400
decurreuflj Boj, 420 iiliformis, Benth 432 humilisy liumb. et Bonpl
deciureiiS, WeudL ...... 496
,
435
iilipes, Mart 432 hymencvodes, Pers
densa, Benth 440 537
flagellaris, Be)dh 400 hymenectfoliay Poir.
depauperata^ Be/dh 425 572
Jlagelliformis, Veil. 003
dcpressa. Pair hypoglauca, Mart 405
386 Jlava, Forsk
desmodioides, Be7ith
633 igmivay H., B. et K 536
392 JlavescenSy Splitg 436 illinoenmy Mich. /
detinena, Bmlh 420 Jlaviseta, Benth
. . 387
43(3 imbricata, Benth.
diade?7ia, Veil 604 flexuosa, Betdh
404
493 implesa, Benth 430
dichotorna, Veil 520 Jlexuosa, Poir 5Q0
didymay Veil inaqnalisy Poir 596
(j08 Jlexmsay Rottl. .'
dimisa, Benth.
,
552 inauioena; Benth 424
. ^ joi florihunda, Wilkl
'
Benth
digitftta,
390 incana, Betdh 409
398 JlorihundayBenth ,
diuiidiata, Betdh 390 mctirialiSy Veil 591

404 Jtoribmday Vent , . *
diplacantha, Benth / 437 indieuy Poir

'
424 JtiiminemiSy Veil. ."

637 '.
.
diplotncha^ Wright
. . ,\\\ 524 Ingay Linn
436 627
discolor, Benth
fmtiday Jacq " ggg mgoidesy Rich 631
413
di^cohvy Andr 490
foliolosa, Benth WWW 440 '
insidiosa; Mart 395
fragrans, A, Gray ..,."!,'!.'
43(>,
,
discolor, Poir 590 imidiosay Benth 995

franciscana, Benth ]
W. 4:]1 intermediay Kunth
dispersa, Benth • •
309 fraxinea, Poir .'.'..'.'.'] 435 [ ! !
distacbya, Cav 010 interrupta, Benth 415

4x7 frondosa, Iflein
distachya, Vent
.!!!!.."
* " 443"
intricata, Benth
560 fruttcosay Roxb, . .
.- " '
430
distans, BentK 400 Intsia^ Linn 530
fruttcosuy Veil
divaricatUj Jacq 535 3^7 Intsia^ Walt .';..'.',.
furcata, Desf. , 442
divcryensy^Poir 382
.'.'.'
.W ! 377 invisa, Mart
, .
furfuracea, Benth '. WWWWW. 436
dodon€<Bfol!a J Pers 467 Galeottii, Benth. ...!".'//.
' '
'.
''
^w involucrata, Benth. ..!.'!]]!! 409 1
dolens, Veil, 395 499 irritabilisy Presl

,
Gardueri, Benth. .....'!!.''"' 397
domingenîid, Benth 424 449 jiramenensisy Karat ,'.,'.
getninatuy DO. !!.'!!]!" 890
dominicuina, Desr 893 634 Jirinyay Jack
Gilliesii, Benth
'
575
durmiens, Ilumb. et BonpL 435 ylaherrimay Schuni.
^g Juglandifalia, Poir. ....WW... 614
diilcis, Roxb 572
& Thonn.
."
[ 503 Julibrissiny Scop

glabra, Benth 668 ; .
dtdcis, Veil. 629 ^Qg juKjloray Sw !!,'!.'!
glandulosa, Forst 377
dumetorum, St.-Hil 369 440 jimiperinay Vent
ylanduhsa, Mich, .
007 W. 453 .
dnmosa, Roxb 518
.
Jupunba, Poir.
glandidosay C. Sm. . , no^ 583
dvsocarpa, Benth 414
.
Kalkora, Roxb
glandulosayYBhl .... aoo 565 '
eoumea, Ilort 607 '

Kantiiffay DC
glaucaylAnn ..; Jjo 636
tburneoy Linn. f. 512 kermesinay Otto
echinocarpa, Bmfh.
glaucescens, Benth. ., om 430
393 ylaucescm^^ Foix Kleimiy Poir !!.".'.'/.
508
". '. '.
echinocauhi, Benth. 421

i;;;" \q{ '.
Glazioui, Benth kceringay Roxb 575

tUita^ Roxb
*
tat
565 lactiflua, Del. 393 "
degam, Andr. 560 !

lactistris, Humb.
.
eUiptica, Benth
, ,
433
ylomeratay Forsk. . , . S, laevigata, Betdh
et Bonpl. .".'.. 383
glomerata, Veil. . XX. 434
elongata, Benth 399
, , ,
ffonoclada, Bentk .W l^mgata, Poir. 378
cmaryinata^ Poir 539 goyazensis, Benth.
Hr lanata, Benth
,", ,
. T^l 4O0
t'luimensis, Benth 419
, ,
lanceolatQy Poir.
acilis, ê;^Â. 571 ,
Emory an a, Benth 426 rahami, A. Gray
. .
.
' 12^
lasiocarpa, Benth. \
endymionUy Mart . ]
]
Jno [
!!!.'!!.'!.
'. 434
[
397 grandijl^ray Lher. ... lasiocephala, Benth.
enmfolia, Sm , . 437 ^„ lasiophylla, Be?dh
401
P'andiJl<,ra,ô\. ^2^ 41^
Eidaday Linn 304
.
."
! *
grandiA^^^^ Veil latifditty Linn. .
_
ephedroides, Benth 429 guadalnpensisy Pers.
."
! !
'.
'. !
'
gt latisiliqua, Linn
595
ermaceaj Beidh . ^
^70 534
493 guatemalensis, Benth. ' " *
'
" '
latispinosa, Lam ].'!!"!!. 419
eriocarpa, Ben^h 410 J'^J
yuayaqidlensisy Pers. po3 latrmmniy Linn. f. .'. 515
eriocaalis, Benth 403
. .
W...
gmanensis, Aubl. laiiriôliay Poir 495 ]
«riophylla, Benth 403 gutmensk^ Schuni. et
. .
*
" J^^
laurina^ Sw
' . .
Ervendbeîi, A. Gray Thonn ^1 ',*./.'/,.. 607

e9aU€)day Pav
exprmAa^ Pav.
437
443
gnmmifera, Brouss. ,
^»i//u/^ra, Porsk. .
'
'
*
^
2S
laxtty Poir
h.va, Veil .'
'
\ W
.'..'
..
,'
55I
636
' " '
'.
, .
, . . , , 549 gyranoloma, Benth. laxjfiora, Benth
extenaa, Benth. ....... [,] 413 ,W ^, Lebbeky Linn
418
6Xtranea, Benth 433 562 ' . .'
i
hamata, Wtlld, leiocai-pa, DC.
iagaracantha, Grlseb, ./..'/..[ 422 hebecarpa, Be,dh.
.
^^ ..W... [ [ [ 416 [ '
.'
leiocarpa, Benth. .*...'../!!! 416

^f?
413 leiocephala, Benth. ,./!!,'!.. 439
. . . 1 , ..
MR
661
Mimosa Parre Mimosa pô-e Mimosa
Pers
lentiscifoh'a, (St mjriadenia, Benth
p^-^
leptantLa, Betdh 4O8 pihmhy Eich cjq
432 mpiophylla, Bong 406
leptocaulia, Bmth IjUidiferUy Benth 410
434 myHifoliay Sm 475
,'
leptophylla^ Cav pistaciaefolia,Wdld. 42I

.'
, G33 TrntmiSy Vahl 383

leptorhachis^ Benth pithecolobioides, Benth 413 \
4:34 Nemuy Poir 5^8 planay Veil
lencacantJiaj Jacq, 507 528, 604
,
nepalemiSy Hoffm , 637 platycarpa, Benth
leucjenoides, Benth 421 417
nervosa, Bong 398
Imcocephala, Lam
platyloviay Benth 440
443 neuroloma, Benth 406 platyphylla,
leucopJiloea, Roxb 7?t7//7< \\\\ »>1
: 513 nigricans^ Labill 498 plena, Linn
ligit^trina^ Jacq , . . . -î
571 nigricans^ V' ahl 523 podocarpa, Bonth
Ugiistriiia^ Valil 434
C94 ntloticay Linn 506 pogocepbala, Betdh , , . . 408
Lindlieimeri, A, Gray 429 nilotica, Thimb 507 pofjonoclada, Benth. ....,, ;jyy
UneariSy AVeudl 472 NiopOy Poir 373 PMiiy B*'iith , . _ 404
imifolia^ Vent 472 nissobiensis, Benth 420 polyacanthuy \\'iJId. 438
lihgiosa, Mart 390 nitens, B&nth 439 Benth
polyancifitra, 422
longifolia^ Andr 487 nitida, Poir 616 pulyantha, Bv/dh 417
longtfolia^ Poir 594 nitida^ Vahl 586 polyearpa, Kunth ;^ttj
longipes, Benth 400 nodosa, Linn 635 pulycepnala, Benth , , . , , 4^!
Imigipimia^ Bentli 396 notatay Steud 391 polydaotyla, IL, B.ctK, :fu7
longisiliqua, Lam 436 nuda, Benth 392 pohjstachya^ I Ann ,k»4
longisiliqtiay Veil. ' 634 nudifloray Rich 523 poduricefmSy Jarr^ ^4;i
lophantha^ Pers 560 nutans, Pers 382 2)7'0('era, Eoxb tjtiS
Ixicida^ Eoxb , 560 . mikmsy Veil 605 procttmhena Sclium, etThonn.
^ 4<V
lucida^ A'ahl 016 obliqna^ Lam '.
471 procurrens, Budh 3P0
lucidula, Benth, 430 obliqtia, Wendl 468 prostratayWori 'KKl, (VJ7
Ltmdiana^ Benth 395 oblonga, Benth 394 prostrata, Lain , WB
lupulina, Benth 435 obovata, Benth 422 psoraiea, Br/dh }jl
hisoriaj Veil 583 obovatay Eoxb 618 pierinnay VoiV 5.'i2
lutea^ Mill., 600 obtiisay Poir 500 plerldifulia, BaUk 412

lycopodmdesy Pers. . . . • 384 obtusifolia, Willd. 391 pterocnrpay Lam. 876
macracanthay Poir 500 obttcsifoliay Poir. 547 puberidft, BentL 413
Vent ">7
macrocephala, Benth 398 octandray Eoxb 420 pubeacenSy
macroloba, Poir 360 odoratissimay Eoxb 565 jmbifera, Poir 5o7
macrophylla, Poir 623 oligaeanthay DC 417 pidibunJa, Willd ')'
'7
mac7ôstachya^ Poir- 487 ophthalniocentra, Mart, 415 pudica, Linn , 397

macrostachyuj Vahl 571 Orfota, Forsk. 511 pdchelluy Eoxb 687 I.--
orthacantha, Bmth 396 jndclurrhna^ Poir , 874 I

malacocentra, Benth 415
malacophylla, a/Gt. 423 orthocarpaj Spruce 437 jmkkra, Veil • i*-^*
malitiosay Mart 390 OtiyrareviUy AubL 036 pumila, Schlecht. ^7

Pacaiy Fres, 029 piindata, Linn V"^^
viangemis, Jacq 697
paehycarpa, Benth 440 punctulata, Spmce 408
Mangiimiy Forst 482
PacobayYeW f^^^ jmngenSy Poir. 57ji
Mansii, MaH, 396
377 ptfrpureay Linn 647
mai'ginata, LmdL 400 pdliday Poir 4*"^
Humb. et Bonpl 434 pusilla, Bcidh
marginatay Lam. 669 palpitansy
437 pyawr(fvia, 1! "th. . , 44(1
Martmsanaj Steud 527 paludosa, Beidh,
419 quadrafUfiduriSy Puir. ,......* 644
^nascarensis, Spr. 419 paniculata, Benth 6*"*
629 quudrawjrdofUy Veil
"niaurocemiay Desf. 604 panievlatay Poir.
496 qnadrijifga^ Salzm. .......... ^Â
melanocai'pa, Bcntli 437 paniculatay Wendl
628 qfuulriralvUy Linn. 441
TnelUferaj Vahl 517 pamcidata, West -
404 qvnmafMa^ Poir, 616

meticulosa, Mart 402 papposa, Benth. .
60:3 qiiitenp^'^ Bmth VSI

meticuhsay var., Mart 395 ParcBy Poir, . .
'**'!
527 racemusa^ Sfhh»cht
406 paratyensiSj Veil
metieulosa^Benth 73 mdula, Bmth. 404
micracantha, Benth 418 partfoliayVovc. -^^ îM
ramowi^îinfl, Ji^nth,
microcarpa, Benth 403 parmfohuy Sw ^"i ^^*'*
rauiulosa, iVCT#//*.
microcepnala, Humh. et Bonpl, 438 parv'ipinua, Benth ^^ Et'tm<4Iii, Btndh «*

>*
673 paucifolia, Benth 417

microphyllay Poir J|-5 remota^ iieuth

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THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

SOLD AT THE iSOCIETY'S APARTMENTS, BURLINGTON-HOUSE;

AND BY LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER, PATERNOSTER- ROW

THE LINNEAN SOCIETY i*

SOLD AT THE SOCIETY'S APAUTMENTS, BUELINGTON- HOUSE;

AND BY LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER, PATERNOSTER- ROW

PAUT I.—June, 1874*.

PART II.— November, 1874.

V, On the Lecythidacese. By John Miers, Esq., F.R.S., V.B.Z.S., Dignit. et Com-

PART III.— March, 1875.

THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Eead Pebruary 17th, 1870.

three-miles walk from the bungalow on the Cinchona plantations at Eungbee.

* Sikkim, I was much struck on mv return

equally distributed In the

months bv our modes

In the Darjeeling Teraie, beyond

observant who haye seen the \^ V "^

Those marked * are all found in the vicinity of Calcutta

Gleichenia dichotomaj Willd, Nephrodium pennigerunij Hook

crenata, Sw. scandens, Sw.

Nephrodium extensunij Hook. •

6 MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM.

moister to drier habitats, so that they are with difficulty separable.

"'T" '"' --^-— in which the interior of the caudex,

MR. JOHN SCOTT ON THE TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKIM. 7

Cryptogams,' remarks that "the distribution of the vascular bundles in the

between the positions of the branches and fronds of the

supports by the occurrence of what he considers truly axilbry buds in various

Zt. I .^^^Jf ^^^^^ ^^^^^^-^ ^

of A. glabra, so that, as shown in the ahovc-noted plates, their examination is much

growth of the latter.

appeared to me to have their origm on the summit of the stem, on lines

arrangement, gygyj radial section of any length ought to have shown

fern-stem, unlike that of the free bundles, is

nearly horizontal sui'faco, in oval-ellipsoidal figures

considerable increase from the numerous

'T r"' T ™' «— disproving facts

days. The disarticulation

lozenge-shaped openings, enclosing a central parenchymatous mass, and enveloped in a

TREE FERNS OF BRITISH SIKKTM.

amongst moist rocks, comparatively free from all other

evident relations to mechanical conditions. In the sections of the diirerent species

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they form a dense mass extending hi jh up the stem),

rooting species there is a greater tendency to a general decay

adventitious huds. Hofmeister, as I have stated in my prefatory remarks, further

completely suppressed in the weak axis ; the latter is

larity of structure, however, there can he no

in length, and from 3 to 13 inches in circumference. A. gigantea never (tlmt I have

an aajoimng bustie, who had seen ns measuring

adventitious buds from bifurcations of the apex, there can be no question,

state, with a brown, glossy, carbonaceous

and thus contmues unt.l the

contents which thev have ^''''^' '^^^^ ^

T^' ''' '^'^ "^"^ ^° »^« -adequate

of the main nxi» T,t r.

fronds and consequently mcreases their liability to injury, which, however r

assume that the lonSra L/el p

apparent even in the '"^""*"^«

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