LER0MINOS-E. 



128 GYMKOCLADUS. 



C. pulche'rrima. 



Aculeate ; Iciifeis obovate ; cahjx smooth ; petals fimbriate, on long claws ; 

 JloiDcrs on long pedicels. An ornamental shrub from W. India, with large, 

 orange-colored, variegated flowers. 



32. MIMO'SA. 



Flowers polygamous. Perfect /Z.^Caljx 5-toothed ; co- 

 rolla 0, or 5-toothed; stamens 4 — 15; legume separated into 

 one-seeded joints; sterile f. like the perfect, but without 

 ovaries or fruit. 



Gr. ftiftoi, a buffoon ; because the leaves seem as if sporting with the hand 

 tliat touches them. 



M. SENSITi'VA. 



Stem and petiole prickly ; leaflets in pairs, the interior ones minute. Native 

 of Brazil. Slender, about 18 inches high, with small, pink flowers. 



33. ACA'CIA. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 4-toothed; corolla tubular, 

 campanulate, 4 — 5-cleft; stamens 8 — 200; legume not joint- 

 ed, many-seeded. 



A large and exceedingly ornamental genus, abounding in important pro- 

 ducts, as Catechu and Gum Arabic, and is of very easy culture in the green- 

 house. They are trees, often shrubs. 



A. Juhbra'ssin is a small, ornamental tree, native of Persia. Leaves with 

 8 — 12 pairs of pinnae. Flowers white, with a multitude of long, silky stamens, 

 on account of which the Persians have called it Gul ebruschim, i. e. Rose of silk. 



34. GYMNOCLA'DUS. 



Flowers dioecious. Sterile f. — Calyx tubular, 5-cleft ; cor- 

 alla 5-petaled. Fertile f. — Calyx and corolla as above ; style 1; 

 legumes 1-celled, pulpy inside; seed large, roundish and hard. 



Gr. yv^voi, naked, and jtXa^o^, a shoot ; on account of the naked appear' 

 ance of its strange, rigid shoots in winter. 



G. Canade'nsis. 



Leaves bipinnate; leaflets ova.], acuminate, pubescent. The Coffee tree is 

 found in Western N. Y., Ohio, 4'C., on the borders of lakes and rivers. It 

 grows to the hight of .50 feet, with a diameter of 15 inches. The trunk is 

 straight and simple, 2.5 feet, covered with a very rough, scaly bark, and sup- 

 portinir a ratiier small, but regular head. The compound leaves are 2 — 3 feet 

 lono- and I5--2() inches wide, being doubly compounded of a great number 

 of dull o-ri-en leaflets. Flowers large and white, succeeded by large, curving 

 pods containing several hard, gray seeds. The wood of the Coffee tree is 

 reddish, fine-grained and strong, and is valuable in architecture, and in cabi- 

 net-work. May— July. 



