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Acacia rotundifolia. Round-leaved 

 Acacia. 



Class and Order. 



POLYGAMIA MONCECIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Leguminos^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Flores polygami. Calyx 4 — 5-dentatus. Petala 4 — 5, 

 nunc libera,, nunc in corollam 4 — 5-fidam coalita. Stam. 

 numero varia 10 — 200. Legumen continuum exsuccum 

 bivalve. — Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde 

 varies. De Cand. 



Specific Name and Character. 



Acacia rotundifolia; ramulis angulatis puberulis, stipulis 

 minutissimis squamiformibus acutis, phyllodiis brevis- 

 sirne petiolatis oblique rotundatis obtusis v. retusis 

 cum mucrone costatis obscure penninerviis margine 

 subincrassato superiore versus medium uniglanduloso, 

 capitulis globosis solitariis v. racemosis, pedunculis 

 folio longioribus. 



Sent to us by James Backhouse, Esq., from Hunter's 

 River (he believes), New Holland in 1842, and it flowered 

 copiously in the spring of the following year in the green- 

 house of the Royal Botanic Gardens. It is a straggling 

 plant, but when trained upon a trellice in a garden pot it 

 makes a very elegant appearance with its graceful drooping 

 branches and copious heads of blossoms, more copious than 

 the leaves. It seems quite distinct from any described spe- 

 cies : in some respects, indeed, resembling A. undulajolia 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 3394) but very different in the inflorescence 

 and phyllodia. . , . . . . 



Descr. With us it forms a shrub three to four feet high, 

 with straggling, slender, angled, slightly downy °""j^ 



