Botanical Name - Mimoseae

----- SUB-FAMILY NO. III. MIMOSEAE.

----- Flowers small, regular, in heads, spikes, racemes or small umbels. Sepals usually 5, valvate, connate, rarely free. Petals valvate, as many as sepals, usually connate, hypogynous. Stamens hypogynous, definite or indefinite.

Stamens definite, usually 10. Anthers gland-crested.

Flowers in globose heads. Tree. ---------------------------- ..... (29) XYLIA.

Flowers in slender spikes. Erect unarmed tree. ------------- ...... (30) ADENANTHERA.

Erect prickly tree. Pod turgid. ------------------------------ ...... (31) PROSOPIS.

Spinous tree. Pod thin, coriaceous, finally twisted. ---------- ...... (32) DICHROSTACHYS.

Anthers not gland-crested. Stamens 10, monadelphous. ----- ..... ( 33) PARKIA.

Stamens 8 or 10, free. Pod joined. -------------------------- ..... (34) MIMOSA.

Stamens indifinte, free. -------------------------------------- ...... (35) ACACIA.

Stamens indefinite, monadelphous. Pod thin, ligulate,

sutures not thickened. --------------------------------------- ...... (36) ALBIZIZA.

Pod circinate or twisted. ------------------------------------ ....... (37) PITHECOLOBIUM.