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ACACIA longissima. 
Narrow long-leaved Acacia. 
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POLYGAMIA MONT CIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSÆ. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Corolla regularis. 
Legumen multiloculare, sæpiùs bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis 
monospermis. Stamina distincta. Arbores aut frutices; folia abrupté pin- 
nata.-MIMOSEE, Brown gen. vem. in flind. voy. 2. 551. 
ACACIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 98. 
Div. Foliis simplicibus. ( Aphylle.) 
A. longissima, inermis: spicis axillaribus pluribus (plerúmque) ramosis; 
petiolis (foliis) linearibus longissimis: calyce sinuato-quadridentato. 
Wendl. acac. 45. t. M. 
Acacia longissima. Link enum. hort. berol. 2. 443. 
Frutex decempedalis, glaber, cortice brunneo: ramis teretibus, erecto- 
patentibus, virgatis: ramulis superu? angulatis, subpubescentibus. — Petioli 
(folia) alterni, remotiusculi, erecto-patentes et patentes, exacté lineares, an- 
gustissimi, interdèm subfalcati, utrinque sensim. attenuati, apice mucrone 
parvo recurvato innocuo tnsiructi, uninervü, longitudinaliter venuloso-striati, 
submarginati, glabriusculi, 4-5-pollicares et ultrà, lineam lati, Stipulae: 
nulle. Flores laxé spicati, lutei, bracteolis ovatis minimis suffulti, remo- 
tiuseuli vel nonnulli glomerati. Spice ex axillis petiolorum (foliorum) 
plures, rariüs simplices plerümque ramosi, petiolo (folio) duplo triplove bre- 
viores, pedunculati, pedunculis subpubescentibus, basi bracteä lineari acuta 
concava instructis. Calyx brevissimus, subpubescens, monophyllus, sinuato- 
quadridentatus dentibus obtusis. Corolla glabra tetrapetala: petalis ovato- 
oblongis, acutis, reflexis. Stamina numerosa, corollá duplo longiora. Ger- 
men subrotundum, albo-tomentosum. Stylus stamina subequans; germinis 
apici insertus. Legumen non vidi. Wendland loc. cit. 
Introduced within these four or five years froin New 
Holland. 
Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith, 
where it is cultivated in the greenhouse. 
We have taken the description from M. Wendland's 
work on the simple-leaved, or, as that author more criti- 
cally terms them leafless, Acacias, their apparent leaves 
being nothing more than dilated stalks, while the true 
leaves are only found on the seedling plant. See the ob- 
servations of Mr. Brown on Leguminose in the fifth 
volume of this Register, page 2 of the 36lst article, 
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