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P L A T E DLXIIL
M I M O S A E L E G A N S .
Elegant Mimosa.
C L A S S XXIIL ORDER I.
POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various Dispositions upon one Plant.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
HERMAPH. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida.
Stamina 5, sive plura. Pistillum Ij legumen.
MASCUL. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida.
Stamina 5—10, slve plura.
HERMAPH. Empalement S-toothed. Blossom
5-cleft. Chives 5 or more. Pointai 1, apod,
MALE. Empalement 5-toothed. Blossom 5-
cleft. Chives 5—10, or more.
MIMOSA frutescens, inermis : ramis verrucosis :
foliis bipinnatis, pinnis propriis 8- ad gjugis,
partialibus 20- ad 24-jugis, cum impari
ad imum minore; spicis axillaribus
oblongis divaricatis.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
MIMOSA shrubby, unarmed: vifith warty branches :
leaves doubly winged, the first of 8 or
9 pairs, the second of 20 to 24 with a
small odd leaflet at the bottom : spikes of
flovi'ers axillary, oblong, and divaricate.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower.
2. The same spread open.
3. The same shown from the inner side, one tip magnified.
4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
MIMOSA elegans is one of the handsomest of the family that has yet been introduced from New Holland,
and very rare, being at this time in no other private collection in this country, but that of A. B.
Lambert, esq. from whom we received our specimens; and in whose conservatory it is now in full
flower, his plant being about ten feet high and very much branched, with profusion of flowers. It is
hardly possible to express the extreme delicacy of the blossoms. The stamens are united (monadelphous)
towards the base, and are above two hundred in a single flower. What an apparatus for tlie impregnation
of a single stigma!
From what we have already seen of the cultivation of the beautiful and interesting plants of this
country, cultivators will do well to give them as much both of pot and branch room as their houses will
afford ; as well for the health of the plant as to display to advantage the size of its fine foliage, of which
the circumscribed scale of our work would only allow us to represent one half.
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