Tas. 4500. 
CALLIANDRA BREVIPEs. 
Short-peduncled Calliandra. 
Nat. Ord. Lrguminos#.—PoLyGaMl1a POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4238.) 
CaLLIANpRa brevipes ; glabriuscula, pinnis unijugis, foliolis (1-1} lin.) multijugis 
oblongo-linearibus falcatis obtusiusculis glabris, petiolo brevi eglanduloso, 
pedunculis brevibus subfasciculatis, calyce parvo corollaque campanulata gla- 
bris, legumine coriaceo glabro. Benth. 
CaLLianprRa brevipes, Benth. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. v. 2. p. 141. et Lond. Journ. 
of Bot. v. 3. p.404. Walp. Repert. Bot. v.1. p. 927. et v. 5. p. 604. 
An elegant and graceful shrub, a native of Brazil, whence seeds 
were received by Mr. Van Eoutte, of Ghent, who sent plants 
to us, marked “ Acacia, sp.” It is a species of the same 
general character as the C. Zweediei, but considerably smaller, 
and the flowers are of a much paler red. Still it is ornamental 
when in bloom: the leaves are geminate or unijugate, and the 
leaflets very closely pinnate. It flowers in October, in the stove. 
Duscr. A much-branching shrub, about four to five feet high, 
the dark brown. Leaves alternate, geminate, each portion 
oblong, very closely pinnated with small linear-oblong, acute 
leaflets, and these generally drooping. Heads of flowers on short 
peduncles from the axils of the leaves, few in each head. Calyx 
minute, four-cleft, the lobes erect, appressed, ciliated. Corolla 
monopetalous, yellow, funnel-shaped or almost bell-shaped, four- 
cleft. Stamens six times as long as the corolla: ji/aments very 
slender, pale red or rose-colour: dzthers minute. Our flowers 
do not produce pistils. W. J. H. 
_ Cuur, A pretty shrub which grows luxuriantly in the warm stove, 
if potted in light loam mixed with leaf-mould. Being a dry, 
fibrous-rooted plant, it requires to be freely supplied with water. 
With a little attention to tying up and pruning, it may: be 
made a compact, handsome bush. When in flower it is 
MARCH Isr, 1850. 
