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MIRBELIA dilatata. 
Wedge-leaved Mirbelia, 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lucuminosm. Tribus I. Sophorew. Decand. prodr. 2.94, . 
MIRBELIA. Smith. Calyx 5-fidus, bilabiatus. Legumen dispermum, 
longitudinaliter biloculare, sutura utraque, superiore preesertim, introflexd. 
Suffrutices australasici, fructu ad Astragalum, staminibus et habitu ad 
Sophoreas accedentes. Folia ternatim verticillata. Flores purpuret. Decand. 
prodr. 2. 114. 
M. dilatata; foliis cuneiformibus: apice dilatato trifido. Brown in hort. 
Kew. 3.21. Decand. 1. c. 
Suffrutex ramosus; ramis pilosis, triquetris, subalatis. Folia ternatim 
verticillata, sessilia, leviter pubescentia, cuneiformia, apice dilatata, 3-5-fida, 
lacinits aristatis, utringue precipue subtis reticulata. Flores leté purpurei, 
terminales, capitulis laxis subsexfloris. Calyces pubescentes, pedicellati, 
pedicellis apice incrassatis, utrinque bracteolatis, bilabiati, labio superiore 
lato, bifido, subtruncato, inferiore 3-fido, lacintis ovatis, subacutis, equalibus. 
Ovarium glabrum. Legumen oblongum, glabrum, calyce longius. 
This beautiful species of Mirbelia is a native of the 
south-west coast of New Holland, where it was collected, 
during Captain Flinders’s expedition,’by Mr. Brown. From 
the Hortus Kewensis, it appears to have been sent to Kew, 
in 1803, by Mr. Peter Good. The plant from which the 
accompanying figure was made, was raised from seed 
collected on the same coast by Mr. William Baxter, and 
sent to Mr. Mackay, of the Clapton Nursery, in 1823. 
To the liberality of Mr. Mackay we are indebted for 
specimens. 
This is a hardy greenhouse plant of eminent beauty. 
It is particularly valuable in a collection on account of the 
intense bluish purple of the flowers, which are produced in 
great profusion, and form a most agreeable contrast to the 
prevailing yellow or orange of the greater part of the plants 
