conservatory. In the form of the leaves, and in certain 

 other characters, it so closely resembles certain states of 

 Acacia mucronaia, that they are often mistaken for one 

 another ; bnt besides the great difference in habit, there is 

 no resemblance whatever between their pods. For cuttings 

 of the true plant, the Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. 

 H. Knight, gardener to His Grace the Duke of Eoxburghe, 

 at Floors Castle, where a single plant festoons the glazed 

 corridor for full 50 feet of its length, flowering during many 

 months of the year, from March or April onwards. 



Descr. A very handsome small dark-green tree, ten to 

 twenty feet high, with copious pendulous slender branches, 

 which are villous at the apices only. Phyllodia scattered or 

 whorled, laterally appressed, very narrow, one to two inches 

 long, linear, acuminate, pungent, less rigid than in its con- 

 geners of this section, one-nerved. Stipules minute, broadly 

 ovate, membranous. Peduncles slender, divaricating, longer 

 than the phyllodia. Flowers large for the genus, solitary 

 or aggregated by two or three together along the very 

 slender pendulous peduncle. Bracts small, appressed to the 

 base of the flower, ciliate. Calyx very minute, cup-shaped, 

 three-lobed; lobes ciliate. Petals generally three, persis- 

 tent, glabrous. Pods two to three inches long, narrow, 

 much curved, shortly stalked, retaining at their bases the 

 persistent petals ; valves very convex, coriaceous, contracted 

 between the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle 

 much folded, and thickened nearly from the base. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Phyllode ; 2, bud ; 3, leaf; 4, pod : — all but 4 magnified. 



