JACARANDA (the name of one of the species in Brazil). SYNS. Icaranda, Kordelestris. ORD. Bignoniaceae. A genus comprising about thirty species of ornamental stove shrubs and trees, somewhat resembling in habit the fine-leaved species of Acacia. Flowers blue or violet, showy, panicled, usually terminal; corolla tubular at the base, much dilated above, campanulate, ventricose beneath. Leaves opposite, bipinnate. JACARANDAmimosifolia is, probably, the best-known of the two or three species in cultivation. It thrives in a compost of sandy peat and fibry loam; plenty of drainage is most essential. Cuttings of half-ripened shoots will root, during the early summer months, in sand over sandy peat; they should be placed in heat, and kept shaded until well rooted. The same treatment will answer with the second species. JACARANDAmimosifolia (Mimosa-leaved). fl. blue, drooping; panicles large, terminal, naked, erectly pyramidal; corolla silky. Early summer. l. about 1 1/2ft. long, bipinnate, with many pairs of opposite pinnae, each pinna bearing ten to twenty-eight pairs of trapezoid-oval-oblong, mucronate, downy leaflets. h. 10ft. Brazil, 1818. Shrub. (B. R. 631; B. M. 2327, under name of JACARANDAovalifolia.) JACARANDAtomentosa (downy). fl., corolla dark purple, downy externally, with a short tube; limb tubular-campanulate, 1 1/2in. long, with a pale spot under the upper lip. June. l. bipinnate, downy; leaflets with an odd one, ovate-rhomboid, acute, very unequal. h. 20ft. Mexico, 1824. Shrub. (B. R. 1103.)