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the plant which is described by Thunberg in his Flora 
Japon. under the name of Mimosa arborea, first shown to 
be an error by the late Mr. Dryander in Kampf. Icon. 
Select. published by Sir Joseph Banks. Thunberg after- 
wards, in his paper on Japan plants in the second volume 
of the Trans. Linn. Soc., named it Mimosa speciosa. Will- 
denow in his edition of Species Plant. calls it Acacia Nemu ; 
he appears to have made his description from Kempfer’s 
figure, and places it in the genus next to his Acacia Juli- 
brissen. ‘The Japan specimens in Mr. Lambert's possession 
prove that the Mimosa Julibrissen of the Hort. Kew., the 
Acacia Julibrissén of Willdenow Sp. Plant., and the Acacia 
Nemu of the same author, are all the same plant. 
The figure in Gmelin's Travels, vol. iii. p- 372, pl. 40, 
which he calls there Mimosa arborea, seems not to 
have been quoted by any of the editors ofthe Species 
Plantarum, except Richard, who has taken it up as Mi- 
mosa Lebbeck with a doubt. Having found very fine spe- 
cimens of Gmelin's plant in Pallass Herbarium, sent to 
. - him by Gmelin, and from which his figure was drawn, 
Mr. Lambert has been enabled to determine it to be Mi- 
mosa Julibrissen of Linn. Hort. Kew, ed. 1, and Acacia Ju- 
librissen of Linn. Species Plantarum by Willdenow. 
—— Hypoxis spicata of Thunberg’s Flor. Japonica, which is 
Aletris farinosa of the same author in the second volume of 
the Trans. Linn. Soc., is a new species, and Thunberg’s spe- 
- cific character sufficiently distinguishes it from the Lin- 
nean plant, to which at first sight it seems nearly allied. 
Mr. Lambert therefore calls it Aletris Japonica. 
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