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ORD. XXV. LOMENTACEA, — 
items 
(From Lomentum, a colour used for painting ) 
As many of the plants of this order afford beautifully, coloured 
tinctures, and some of them much used in dyeing, — 
MIMOSA CATECHU. CATECHU MIMOSA. 
Ex hujus plante lingo paratur Carzcav, vulgo Terra Japonica. 
Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
SYNONYMA. Mimosa Cate; spinis duabus stipularibus, foltis 
bipinnatis 15-30 jugis, foliolis 40 jugis, spicis elongatis axil- 
laribus. Wide Murray App. Med. vol. ti. p. 415.  Coira vel 
Caira in Provincia Bahar dicitur. See Kerr’s “ Description of 
the Plant from which the Terra Japonica is extracted. Med. 
Obs. & Inquir. vol. v.p. 151. Suppl. Plant. p 439. 
Class Poly gamia. Ord. Monoecia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1158. 
Ess.Gen. Ch. Hermayh. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. 5s. 
plura. Pist. 1 Legumen. 
Masc. Cal, 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. 5, 10, plura. 
Sp. Ch. M..spinus stipularibus, foliis bipinnatis multijugis: 
glandulis partialium singulis, spicis axillaribus geminis s. 
ternis pedunculatis. Syst. Veg. ed. 14.. 
No, 37.—vou. 3. oR. 
