PLATE  COCLAAR. 
MIMOSA PUSP UR # A: 
Soldier Bush Mimosa. 
CLASS XXIII. ORDER Tt. 
-POLYGAMIA MONOECLA. Various Dispositions. Upon one Plant. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Hermarn. Calyx 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Hermarn. Cup 5-toothed. Blos. 5-cleft. 
Stam, 5 seu plura. Pist. 1. Legumen. Chives 5 or more. Pointal one. A Pod, 
Mascul. Calyx 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. Male. Cup 5-toothed. Blos. 5-cleft. Chives, 
5—10, plura. 5, 10, or more. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Mimosa, inermis, foliis eonjugatis pinnatis, {| | Mimosa, unarmed, with leaves eonjugate prin- 
foliolis intimis minoribus. Linn. Sp. Pl. nate, and the inner leaflets smaller. 
ed. 3. p. 1500. 
M. foliis tergeminis. Plum. Ic. t. 10.f. 2. M. with leaves three times twinned. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A single flower. 
2. The cup. 
3. The blossom. 
4, The seed-bud and pointal. 
Tue Mimosa purpurea is a native of the West Indies, and is there known by the expressive appellation 
of Soldier Bush ; from the plants being sometimes almost covered with their bright red-purple flowers, 
in which state it is said they are visible, and even cognizable, on the sides of hills, at ape distance of 
a mile. 
The Soldier Bush in this country must be treated as a tender hot-house shrub, and —- constantly in 
the tan-bed, planted in rich earth. Itis a plant of handsome growth and foliage; but its charming 
flowers are so very rare, that we do not recollect seeing any of them except those which are here repre- _ 
sented, from a plant which flowered in March last, in the collection of Mrs. Wright at Bayswater. It is 
propagated by cuttings in the usual way. 
