PLATE DLXIII. 



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ELEGAN 



Elegant Mimosa. 



CLASS XXIII. 



ORDER I. 



POL YGAMIA MONCECIA. 



Various Dispositions upon one Plant 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Hermaph. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida. 



Stamina 5, sive plura. Pistillum 1, legumen. 



Mascul. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida. 



Stamina 5— 10, sive plura. 



Hermaph. 



toothed 



Blossom 



Male 



5-cleft. Chives 5 or more. Pointal 1, apod. 

 Empalement 5-toothed. Blossom 5- 



cleft. Chives 5—10, or more. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



irrucosis 



foliis bipinnatis, pinnis propriis 8- ad 9- 

 jugis, partial i bus 20- ad 24-jugis, cum im- 

 parl ad imum minorej spicis axillaribus 

 oblongis divaricatis. 



Mimo 



leaves doubly winged, the first of 8 or 

 9 pairs, the second of 20 to 24 with a 



odd 





flowers axillary, oblong , and divaricate. 





REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A flower. 



2. The same spread open. 



4 Thl B T ^7" , fr ° m ^ inner SMe > ° De «P "unified 



4. The S eed-buJ and pointa], summit ifi( £ 



elegi 



bein 



Lambe 



being abou, te „ ^^^!Z!L~ " . "J " .«T » * "— '" *» 



ed, with profusion of flowers. It is 



, ., ., , . w — "'3" d »u very much brand 



hardly possible to express the extreme delicacv of th. w„ 

 phous) towards the h*«. ™A Z Z_~f ° f ^ blossoms - 



phous) towards the base 

 pregnation of a single stigma ! 



The stamens are united (monadel- 

 frer. What an apparatus for the im- 



country, cultivators will do well to give them a m h W, k eaUWul and interesting plants of this 

 afford j as well for the health of the plant as to di 1 ° f POt ^ branch room as their houses wiU 



the circunucnbed scale of our work would only J] t0 advanta £ e the ■*» of its fine foliage, of which 



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