1434 



MIRBELIA?* Baxtcii. 

 Baxter's MwbeUa. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Leouminos.t. Juss. Tribus SophorecB Dc Cand. — {Intrn- 

 ducdon to ilie natural system of Botany, p. 87.) 

 MIRBELIA.— Supra, vol. V2. fol. 1041. 



M. ? Baxtcri ; tbliisoppositis stipulatis oblongis obtusis subcrenatis mucronu- 

 latis sessilibus subtiis leviter sericeis, racemis capitatis 4-5-floris ter- 

 minalibus, calyce reflexo. 

 Mirbelia Baxteri. Mackay's catalogue. 



Frutex prostratus, subscaiidcns, ratnis Jiliformihus, subsericeis. Folia 

 opposita, sessilia, leviter crenata, mucronulata, suhtiis subsericea, vix re- 

 ticulata. Flores lutei, in capitulis pedunculatis, terminalibus, A-5-floris con- 

 gesti. Calyx patdo infra basi7i bibracteolatus, campanulatus, bilabiatus, 

 pilosus, labio superiore bijido, inferiore tripartito ; laciniis omnibus recurvis. 

 Petala vitellina ; vexillum duplb latius qudm longum, retusum, basi rubro- 

 maculatum ; alte subpatentes, vexillo hreviores ; carina ventricosa, obtusa. 

 Stamina 10, libera, incequalia, asccndcntia. Ovarium pedicellatum, albo- 

 villosiim, ovale, A-spermum ; stylus ascendens, glaber ; sUgma. simplex. 



We on this occasion adopt the name by which this plant 

 is cultivated in the Nurseries, although there can be no 

 doubt that it belon2:s to some pfenus different from that in 

 which it is provisionally placed. Its legumes not having 

 been ripened in England, and the plant not being other- 

 wise known to us, we have been constrained to leave it 

 still unsettled. 



It originally was sent us by Mr. Mackay, in June 1830, 

 with the information that it had been raised from New 

 Holland seeds received from JVIr. Baxter about five years 



* So called in honour of the celebrated Mons. C. F. Brisscau-Mirbel, 

 one of the most distinirnishcd vegetable physiologists of our age, now director 

 of the .lardin du lloi at Paris. 



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