Tas. 4419. 
MIRBELIA Metsnert. 
Meisner’s Mirbelia. 
Nat. Ord. Leaguminos%.—Dercanpria Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus bilabiatus. Legumen dispermum, longitudinaliter 
biloculare, sutura utraque superiore presertim introflexa.—Suffrutices Austra- 
lasici, fructu ad Astragalum, staminibus et habitu ad Sophoreas accedentes. Folia 
ternatim verticillata. Flores purpurei. De Cand. 
Mrrpeita Meisneri ; foliis (parvis) flabelliformibus in petiolum brevem angus- 
tatis apice inciso-multifidis segmentis spinosis. 
Mirsexta dilatata. Meisn. in Plant. Preiss. p.6. (not Br.) 
From the collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., who 
raised it from Swan River seeds sent by Mr. Drummond, and in 
whose collection it blossomed profusely in May, 1848. It is a 
very different species from J. dilatata, Br., being smaller in all 
its parts, more compact, bushy, with denser flowers and denser 
foliage, and the leaves are , broadly flabellate, multifid, with 
spinous segments. It is a most lovely greenhouse plant, and 
ought to be in every ornamental collection. 
Descr. The plant, as hitherto seen with us, constitutes a low 
bushy shrub, much branched and copiously leafy. Branches many- 
angled. Leaves generally ternately whorled, scarcely an inch 
long, cuneately flabellate, harsh, rigid, dark green, much waved 
and, as it were, crisped, tapering below into a short petiole, the apex 
in reality three-cleft, and pretty regularly so, but from the undu- 
lation this is not at first apparent; the middle lobe is small and’ 
simple, the lateral ones multifid, every segment tipped with a 
spine, directed forwards or backwards according to the undulation. 
Flowers copious, in leafy racemes. Pedicels with two opposite, 
small dracteoles. Calyx campanulate, downy, two-lipped, upper 
lip trifid, lower bifid. Corolla red-purple, deeper in the lower 
half of each petal. Carina obcordate, with a yellow eye near 
the base. Keel obtuse, about as long as the blunt wings which 
JANUARY Ist, 1849. 
