Tap. 4588. 
ACACIA uitspipisstma, De Cand. 
Ihispid Acacia. 
Nat. Ord. Leaumtnosm.—PoLyGaMIA POLYANDRIA, 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4306.) 
Acacta hispidissima ({ Pulchelle) ; ramulis pubescentibus et piloso-hispidissimis, 
spinis axillaribus subulatis, foliorum pinnis unijugis, petiolo brevissimo sub- 
mutico, glandula longe stipitata (v.* nulla ?), foliolis 5-7-jugis v. linearibus 
glabris nudis v. margine scabriusculis ciliatisve, capitulis globosis. Benth. 
Acacia hispidissima. De Cand. Prodr. v.2. p. 455. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
_ Bot. v. 1. p. 388. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 908. 
Acacta Cycnorum? Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v.1. p. 388. Walp. 
Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 908. 
A Swan River plant, introduced by Mr. Drummond. There 
‘ are four Acacias enumerated by Mr. Bentham as nearly allied to, 
and perhaps not really distinct from, each other; A. pulchella, 
Brown, figured in Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 212 ; 4. /asiocarpa, Benth. ; 
A. hispidissima, De Cand. ; and 2. Cycnorum, Benth., —all from 
the Swan River settlement. Our plant accords best with the 
A, hispidissima, except that it should have pedicellated glands 
on the leaves, whereas both our native and cultivated specimens 
are destitute of them: in this particular agreeing with the 4. 
Cycnorum, which, however, ought to have pubescent and not very 
hispid branches. It may thus, we think, fairly be conceded 
that 4. Cycnorum and A. hispidissima are but varieties of each 
other. The present is a very handsome species, having much 
larger leaflets and much larger capitula of flowers than 4. pul- 
chella, and these flowers of a rich deep yellow colour. It is, 
further, much stouter and more compactly growing than that 
Species, forming very dense masses of foliage, and equally dense 
globose heads of flowers. 
Dzscr.: A much-branching shrw4, with angular dranches, and 
these branches and branchlets, and peduncles too, downy and 
densely hispid with spreading hairs, varying much in length. 
JULY Ist, 1851. 
