South Brazil, where it was detected by the indefatigable Botanist 

 whose name it bears ; found also by Mr. Sellow. From seeds 

 sent to Lord Derby at Knowsley, plants were raised by Mr. 

 Jennings, which produced the flowering specimens here repre- 

 sented, in March 1845. It has likewise been grown at Kew, where 

 the plants flowered a little later in the season. It requires the 

 heat of a stove and to be kept moist. 



Descr. A small tree or in mountainous places a low shrub, 

 according to Tweedie. Our plant seems disposed to trail with 

 its branches ; the younger branches are slightly villous. Leaves 

 bipinnate. Pinna three to four pair, each with very numerous 

 oblong acute leaflets three to four lines long, bright green, paler 

 and slightly hairy beneath. Stipules ovato-scariose, brown, hairy. 

 Peduncle axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaf, bearing a head 

 of about twenty flowers. Calyx campanulate, rather deeply five- 

 toothed. Corolla silky, pale greenish -white. Stamens numerous. 

 Filaments long, red, monadelphous at the base. Anthers very 

 small, subglobose. Style shorter than the stamens. 



Fig. 1. Flower from which the stamens are removed : — magnified. 



