ce Pex: 1. Side view of a single Flower, 
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green, six or eight inches long, and two to four broad. Stipules very 
minute, narrow-ovate, erect, withering. S#ipells ovato-acuminate, per- 
manent. Petvoles geniculate at the base ; the part below the elbow two 
lines long, thickened and cylindrical; above, an inch long, angular and 
Slender, the upper-side channelled, with an oblong, hollow, boat-shaped 
gland a little above the elbow: copiously clothed with short, glandular, 
fulvous pubescence, and furnished with recurved, scattered prickles 
beneath, like the main rachis, which is elegantly curved. Secondary 
rachises similarly pubescent, but not prickly; one to two inches long, 
slightly curved, rarely fewer than eighteen, or more than twenty pair 
(except towards the end of the branches): from eight to eleven of the 
upper pairs have a small cylindrical, elevated, hollow, green gland at 
eir origin, on the main rachis. Leaflets very minute and delicate, 
apparently smooth and naked, but through the lens minutely and irre- 
gukarly puberulous, especially at the edges; very small, numerous, and 
close together, linear, rather obtuse, straight or nearly so, with the 
midrib almost central, scarcely two lines long, and only one-fifth as 
broad; from forty to fifty pair or thereabouts, They close up and lose 
all their beauty towards four or five o’clock in the afternoon. The 
sptkes (not heads) of flowers are short and oblong, pale ochre-yellow, 
produced four or five together from the axils of the upper leaves, which 
become less and less developed, towards the ends of the branches, so as 
to form a long irregular sort of terminal, leafy, compound, branched 
anicle; slightly fragrant. Pedicels half to three quarters of an inch 
fog: round, unarmed, densely fulvo-pubescent. Spikes oblong, abbre- 
viate, about half an inch long. Calyz very minutely pubescent; in 
five shallow segments like the corolla: both pale green. Stamens very 
numerous. -Anthers simple. Legume large, five to six inches long and 
one broad; flat and generally thin; to the naked eye smooth, but to the 
touch and through the lens very closely and minutely velutino-pube- 
‘Tulous ; dark reddish-brown, with paler veins branching off at right 
se eg with the sides, which are often somewhat sinuate : within one- 
celled and quite dry; truly that of our Acacta. It is usually blunt, 
with a short point at the apex, attenuated and stipitate at the base. 
Seeds numerous, (ten to twelve,) rather large, flattened but convex in the 
middle, oblong or oval, shining, dark brown, approaching to black ; the 
edges thin and darker than the raised middle ; about five lines long, and 
two to four broad. 
Though the flowers of this plant are not remarkably conspicuous, it is 
impossible to conceive any thing more graceful and elegant than the 
me — a eae or the extreme delicacy ns symmetry of 
its parts, € pod and seed are singularly large in proportion to the 
rest of the plant. Rev. R. 7 tee ae. as 
(My valued friend, Mr. Lows, does not give the native country of this 
lant, which is without doubt cultivated in Madeira, and would be a most 
esirable inmate of our stoves: nor does he make any remarks on the spe- 
pie ey waives Synon ya. Nor will I venture to offer an 
_ Opinion without an examination of original specimens. The accom in 
figure and full description of a beautifal Species of a most difficult Geta 
: cannot but be acceptable to our readers, D.] 
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3 1 2. A Flower seen from beneath. 
9% A-Seed, nat. size. 4. Lower of a Leaf with Petiole. 5, Upper 
‘Part of the same. Fig. 1, 2, 4, and 5 more or less magnified. 
