papilionaceous, snow-white: vexillum orbicular, emarginate, 
clawed, folded back at the sides: ale projecting forward, 
plain, the size of the vexillum: carina considerably shorter. 
Stamens monadelphous, or having all the filaments connected: 
anthers incumbent: germen oblong, villous: style longer 
than the stamens: stigma capitate. The pedicles, calyxes, 
and young shoots, are covered with a soft woolly pubescence. 
The name of proliferus was given to this plant, from the 
circumstance of young shoots springing from the centre of 
the umbel. 
In a roomy greenhouse, when grown into a small tree, 
with its pendulous branches covered with a profusion of snow- 
white blossoms, as it usually is early in the spring, there are 
few more ornamental inmates. : 
Propagated by cuttings. Our drawing was taken several 
years ago, at Matcotm’s nursery, Stockwell-Common, where 
the beautiful appearance of a fine old tree, accompanied by 
one of equal size of Mimosa verticillata, both in full bloom 
at the same time, still remains impressed on our memory. : 
Our description was taken from a specimen communicated 
lately by Messrs. Wuittey, Brame, and Mitne. Native of 
the Canary Islands. Introduced in 1779. 
