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[Plate 28.] 
THE GILLIES POINCIANA. 
(POINf TANA GILH1 BII.) 
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A Half-hardy Shrub, of great beauty, from Chili, belonging to the Order of Leguminous Plants 
&ptti8t Cljarartrr. 
THE GILLIES POINCIANA.— Unarmed. Leaves bipin- 
nate ; leaflets in about twelve rows on a side, oblong. 
Rachis, bracts, &c, covered with a coarse brown glandular 
coating. Sepals fringed with hairs and glands, dis- 
articulating at the base, closely covered when young by 
bracts of the same nature. Petals erect. Stamens very 
Ion g, red. 
POINCIANA GILLIBSIL — Inermis, foliis bij.innati 
foliolis utrinque seriebus 18 oblongis, raehi bracteisque 
glandulosis, sepalis fimbriatis ciliatis et glanduloria basi 
articulatis, bracteis conformibus dense imbricatis, petalis 
erectis, staminibus longissimis declinatis sangiiineia. 
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Ceesalpi 
A 
known 
figure. According to Dr. Gillies, if 
discoverer in Men 
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Mol 
& 0>, and is very abundant in the cultivated parts of the province, where it has the benefit of the 
water used in irrigation, seeming to be incapable of living on the dry arid lands, which are not 
under 
Along 
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Diamante and Atuel, it is found abundantly with other shrubs in sheltered I 
thickets along the western side of the Kio Quarto, near the western boundary- of the Pampas ; those 
plants to be found growing in Buenos Ayres owing their origin to seeds sent from Mendoza 
They do not ascend farther than to the foot of the mountains, neither are any traces of them 
seen in the province of San Juan, which follows Mendoza to the north, along the foot of he 
Cordillera of the Andes. The flowers have a sickly disagreeable smell, ^ - -"-"-fl 1"' the 
injurious to the sight 
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