MIMOSA shrubby, unarmed: with warty branches: leaves doubly winged, the first of 8 or 9 pairs, the second of 20 to 24 with a small odd leaflet at the bottom: spikes of flowers axillary, oblong, and divaricate. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower. 2. The same spread open. 3. The same shown from the inner side, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. * * * * * Mimosa elegans is one of the handsomest of the family that yet been introduced from New Holland, and very rare, being at this time in no other private collection in this country, but that of A. B. Lambert, esq. from whom we received our specimens; and in whose conservatory it is now in full flower, his plant being about ten feet high and very much branched, with profusion of flowers. It is hardly possible to express the extreme delicacy of the blossoms. The stamens are united (monadelphous) towards the base, and are above two hundred in a single flower. What an apparatus for the impregnation of a single stigma! From what we have already seen of the beautiful and interesting plants of this country, cultivators will do well to give them as much both of pot and branch room as their houses will afford; as well for the health of the plant as to advantage the size of its fine foliage, of which the circumscribed scale of our work would only allow us to represent one half. [Illustration] PLATE DLXIV. IXIA CURTA. _Short Ixia._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, æqualis. Stigmata tria erectiuscula, patula. BLOSSOM six petals, spreading and equal. Summits three, nearly upright, and spreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. IXIA foliis falcatis: floribus alternis, tri-coloribus: caule humili. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. IXIA with scimitar-shaped leaves: flowers alternate, and three-coloured. Stem low. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two sheaths of the empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. * * * * * This new species of Ixia was delineated from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, esq. the summer before last, and although low in stature is certainly high in beauty, and surpassed by very few of loftier growth. It flowers about the middle of April, and requires the same treatment as most other Cape species. [Illustration] PLATE DLXV. RUTA LINIFOLIA. _Flax-leaved Ruta._ CLASS X. ORDER I. _DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Ten Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 5-partitus. Petala concava. Receptaculum punctis melliferis decem cinctum. Capsula lobata. EMPALEMENT 5-parted. Petals concave. Receptacle beset with ten honey-bearing points. Capsule lobed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.