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ACACIA Drummonpit. 
Drummond’s Acacia. 
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Nat. Ord. Lecuminos#.—PotyGaMIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4306.) 
Acacta (Pulchelle:) Drummondii; inermis, ramis pedunculis petiolisque tenui- 
ter puberulis, stipulis subulatis, pinnis bijugis, glandulis verruceformibus 
sepe obsoletis, foliolis 2-6-jugis oblongo-linearibus glabris, spicis cylin- 
dricis folia superantibus. Benth. 
Acacta Drummondii. Benth. in Lindl. Sw. Riv. Bot. p. 61; in Hook. Lond.: 
Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 388. Walp. Rep. Bot. Syst. v. 1. p. 908. 
In foliage the present species (one of a very extensive genus) 
very much resembles the Acacia Cycnorum (of our Tab. 4653); 
but there the branches and rachises of the leaves are densely 
patenti-hirsute, and the flowers are collected into globose, deep- 
yellow Aeads. Here the flowers are in cylindrical spikes, and 
of a pale lemon-yellow colour. The leaflets, too, are here much 
broader. It forms a good-sized bush, and flowers copiously in 
the early spring months. This and its numerous allies are not 
encouraged in our ornamental greenhouses so much as they de- 
serve to be, for they render them gay at a season when compa- 
ratively few other plants are in blossom; and as soon as they 
have done flowering, they may be removed to the open air, 
which will greatly strengthen and benefit them; and they give 
place to the more gaudy summer flowers: so that by means 
of plants of temperate regions of the southern hemisphere in 
the winter, and those of the northern hemisphere in the sum- 
mer, a perpetual flowering season may be maintained through 
almost the entire year. Acacia Drummondii is a native of Swan 
River. 
Fig. 1. Leaflet. 2. Flower :—magnified. 
JULY Ist, 1860. 
