Report upon New or Rare Plants, fyc. 47 



Farquhar, Bart., at that time Governor of the Colony ; and it 

 flowered in the stove in November, 1825. It forms an elegant 

 bush, from three to four feet high, remarkable in its tribe for 

 the broad triangular white aculei which clothe the stem and 

 petioles. The stem is downy ; the leaves abruptly bipinnate, 

 with many pairs of leaflets, which become smaller towards the 

 extremity ; petiole downy, angular, and scattered over with 

 minute black glands, bearing between each pair of leaflets two 

 opposite compressed triangular white aculei. Stipules subu- 

 late. The flowers are white, and are produced in many- 

 flowered terminal panicles. Pedicels rufous, glandular and 

 hairy. Heads round, about the size of a pea. The florets 

 are polygamous, and have at the base a single persistent su- 

 bulate bractea, which is slightly dilated at the end. The 

 calyx is very small, four-toothed, and somewhat truncate. 

 Corolla monopetalous, funnel-shaped, four-toothed. Stamens 

 twelve. Anthers small, round. 



Unfortunately no female florets were observed, so that the 

 station of this plant, which has been left in doubt by M. De 

 Candolle, from the flowers and fruit being unknown, is not 

 much more certain now that the flowers have been discovered. 

 It is, however, an undoubted Mimosa, as will appear from the 

 foregoing description, and is, probably, referable to M. De 

 Candolle s second section, Habbasia. A tender stove plant, 

 propagated with much difficulty by cuttings, but is most 

 commonly raised from seeds which are received from the 

 Mauritius. It grows freely in a mixture of loam, peat, and 

 sand, in a strong heat. 



