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MIRBELIA ?* Baxtéri. 
Baxter’s Mirbelia. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosæ Juss. Tribus Sophoree De Cand. — (Intro- 
duction to the natural system of Botany, p. 87.) 
MIRBELTA.—Supra, vol. 12. fol. 1041. 
M.? Baxteri ; foliis oppositis stipulatis oblongis obtusis subcrenatis mucronu- 
latis sessilibus subtüs leviter sericeis, racemis capitatis 4-5-floris ter- 
minalibus, calyce reflexo. 
Mirbelia Baxteri. Mackay’s catalogue. 
Frutex prostratus, subscandens, ramis filiformibus, subsericeis. Folia 
opposita, sessilia, leviter crenata, mucronulata, subtüs subsericea, vix re- 
ticulata. Flores lutei, in capitulis pedunculatis, terminalibus, 4-5-floris con- 
gesti. Calyx pauld infra basin bibracteolatus, campanulatus, bilabiatus, 
pilosus, labio superiore bifido, inferiore tripartito ; laciniis omnibus recurvis. 
Petala vitellina ; vexillum duplà latius quàm longum, retusum, basi rubro- 
maculatum; ale subpatentes, vexillo breviores ; carina ventricosa, obtusa. 
Stamina 10, libera, inequalia, ascendentia. Ovarium pedicellatum, albo- 
villosum, ovale, 4-spermum ; stylus ascendens, glaber ; stigma simplex. 
We on this occasion adopt the name by which this plant 
is cultivated in the Nurseries, although there can be no 
doubt that it belongs to some genus different from that in 
which it is provisionally placed. Its legumes not having 
been ripened in England, and the plant not being other- 
wise known to us, we have been constrained to leave it 
still unsettled. 
It originally was sent us by Mr. Mackay, in June 1830, 
with the information that it had been raised from New 
Holland seeds received from Mr. Baxter about five years 
* So called in honour of the celebrated Mons. C. F. Brisseau-Mirbel, 
one of the most distinguished vegetable physiologists of our age, now director 
of the Jardin du Roi at Paris. 
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