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tlie plant wliicli is described by Thunbcrg in liis Flora 

 Japou. under the name of Mimosa arhorea, first shown to 

 be an error by the late Mr. Dryander in Kcempf. Icon. 

 Select, published by Sir Joseph Banks. 'J'hunberg 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. caWs \t Acacia Nemu ; 

 he appears to have made his description from Ksempfer'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 Julibrissen of Willdenow Sp. Plant., and i\ie Acacia 

 Nemu of the same author, are all the same plant. 



The figure in Gmelin's Travels, vol. iii. p. 372, pi. 40, 

 which he calls there Mimosa arhorea, seems not to 

 have been quoted by any of the editors of the Species 

 Planfarnm, except Richard, who has taken it up as Mi- 

 mosa Lehbeck with a doubt. Having found very fine spe- 

 cimens of Gmelin's plant in Pallas's 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. Keza. ed. 1, and Acacia Ju- 

 librissen of Linn. Species Plautarum by Willdenow. 



TJypoxis spicata of Thunberg's Flor. Japonica, which is 

 Aletrisfarinosa of the same author in the second volume of 

 ihc 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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