

698 



ACACIA vestila. 

 Cunningham's Acacia. 



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P0LT6AMIA M6N<ECU. 



NaUerd. Leguminosjr. Jamew ^r en. 345. Dip//. C^mlla refralans- 

 Legumen miiltiJoculare, ss^pi&s bivalve, dissepimenlis traOBTer^', IdcAis 

 monospertnis. Stamitfa distmcta. Arbores aut /hoice^ ; foUa iAriipti ptii- 

 nafa.— MiMOSEJE. Bn^fiugen. rem. m FOnd, mu, 2* ddl. 



ACACIA. SuprdvoL2.foL9Q. 



A.ve$Hta, hirsuta, cano-vtresceiis ; ranuft divkricatiBy foliis hniitis 



diato-ellipticis lanceolatis aristaiis aijst& inar^js exterioris rectioria ter- 

 minali; nervo uqo k margine utiAqae seqtiidistaotc; stipulis minutia^ cadu- 

 CIS ; capitulis sphaericis lax^ spar^que racemosis subsoUt&riigVe. 

 Fratex robustus, erec^^ htrmltu; viUU cany^umii^que prmter^fiaret Wffi- 

 Hmmus, cinereo-virescens, comoso-rav&ma, ramh diwricaHs teretttn9 foUo- 

 simmiSf superne Jloridis. /Fo\ia^numerp§af praxima, sparia, iCMgiUa, &ecto- 

 patentia cum piano p^rpentUcularif ^tmidiato-eUipiicaf bmceolata acumbife 

 de latere tnterUfre oblique aitenuato, aristata arista ettetUricd margim$ extt^ 

 rioris rectiaris continui, unineiisia n^rvo medio, ^ md'i mneuElhnffa cum 

 latiindine triple minore : BtipdfefRintni<B^otwtotJ%rni^^ft^M;ii&6i^ 

 Flpres lutei, cajntati: capitula piso mediocri minwa, Jph^a etracemom ad 

 soliiaria: racemi numerosi, in ramis supemi, axillare$,joliohngiore$, itricti, 

 patentisHmi (sesquiunciales?), pediceuis raperae iporm, robustis, terBtibuMy 

 pubescentibus, cAhroleucis, diametrum capituH longitudine ^Equantibus^ 

 Cal. minutWy tomentoms, allms^ ^Jidas. Fetala fi, Mtramtneo-bttescetitia, 

 calyce pbirimum Umgiora^ unguieulata lamind lanceohto-^pticd, extus 

 pihsiusculd. Stam\ fiatoa, petaUs duplo hmgiora : anth'. gbboio-didgmiB. 

 Stylus ^avus, ^lamentis duplo craanor, laieri aUero apids germiniM inser- 

 tus. Genn. giaberrimum, 8ubtrapezeide$, obUmgum campre$$um^ marginem 

 alteram versus attennatum, MbhyaUnum^ fine utroque odteMm. 



An unpublished species found by Mr. Cunningbam in 

 the interior of New Holland ; and raised in this country 

 from seed sent home by that indefatigable and intelli- 

 gent collector. The drawing was taken from a plant that 

 flowered this winter in the conservatory of Comtesse de 

 Vandes^ at Bayswater ; the firsts we believe^ that has blos- 

 somed here. 



A stout upright soft furred shrub of a cinereous Or grey- 

 ish green hue, and of ^ich tr6 cannot coffjcCttire the' I5ta- 

 ture it may hereafter acquire ; divaricately branched at the 



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