JACARANDA MIMOSIFOLIA. 
(Mimosa-leaved Jacaranda.) 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
Natural Order. 
BIGNONM€E5iE. 
Order. 
A N GIOSPERMI A. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five- 
toothed; rarely tubular, truncate, entire. Corolla 
tubular at the base, very much dilated above, campar 
nulate, ventricose beneath ; limb bilabiate, five-lobcd. 
Stamens four, didynamous, with a fifth longer sterile 
filament which is villously bearded at the top. Anthers 
one-lobed, in most species with an obsolete rudiment 
of another lobe ; rarely two-lobed, with the lobes equal 
and diverging. Stigma bilamellate. Capsule broad, 
compressed, two-celled ; valves thick, ligneous ; disse- 
piment contrary to the valves, placentiferous on both 
sides. Seeds flat, transverse, with foliaceously- winged 
edges ; outer testa coriaceous, rugosely plicate.— Don’s 
Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character.' — Plant, a tree with grey bark, 
nodose from cicatrices at bottom. Leaves bipinnate, 
with many pairs of opposite pinnae (fourteen to twenty- 
four pair), each pinna bearing ten to twenty-eight 
pair of trapezoid- oval, oblong, mucronate, downy leaf- 
lets, the odd or terminal leaflet lanceolate, and longer 
than the lateral ones. Panicle large, terminal, naked, 
erectly pyramidal. Flowers drooping. Corollas silky, 
having the tube a little arched, and three times shorter 
than the throat. 
Synonyme.— J. ovalifdlia, R. Brown, in Bot. Mag. 
If handsome flowers of large size, and a soft cerulean hue, borne in copious 
panicles standing conspicuously at the termination of the shoots, be any criterion 
of the worth of a plant, these alone must constitute the present species one of the 
fairest gems in Flora’s garland. 
Nearly all the several families which compose the natural order Bignoniaceae 
comprise species that more or less merit the esteem of the culturist. They are 
chiefly plants of elegant habitude, and handsome foliage, many bearing large richly 
coloured, or elegantly formed flowers, and some even uniting all these recom- 
mendatory qualities. For the airy elegance of the many-cleft, acacia-Yike foliage 
cf the present member of the tribe, its slender tree-like stems, and the beauty 
exhibited in the delicately soft azure hue of the trumpet-formed flowers, collected 
loosely together and standing erect, it is eminently worthy of extensive cultivation. 
To this we may add, that it will grow to a tree ten or twelve feet high, and, under 
skilful tendence, unfolds its blossoms freely. 
It may be urged, perhaps, that this large size must exclude it from limited 
collections, and where economy of room is a material consideration. But this is, 
n reality, no objection, as specimens may be flowered when little more than six 
)r eight inches high, and are perhaps more enchanting in this dwarf state than 
