country, to which those plants are indigenous. Whatever 
their functions may be, Mr. Brown is of opinion, that cuta- 
neous glands more frequently occur on both surfaces of the 
leaves of plants on that continent, than in any other part of 
the world. 
Of the Genus Acacta, nearly one hundred species were 
known to that able and discriminating Botanist in 1814; 
of which, by far the greater number belonged to the sec- 
tion, containing such as are, in almost every individual, 
wholly destitute of true leaves, in the adult state : whose 
petioles therefore, greatly developed, put on the appear- 
ance, and doubtless perform all the requisite functions 
of leaves. Since that period, great has been the accession 
of new species to our living collections, and especially to 
the Herbarium ; for, in the latter, are now to be enume- 
rated full two hundred species, indigenous to Australia, 
of almost every form of phyllodium and habit—many in- 
deed, exhibiting, in the modes of inflorescence, a beauty, 
that renders them greatly to be desired in the living state, 
The species of which we now give a figure, is another of the 
discoveries of Arran Cunnincuam in the interior of New 
South Wales, to which this work has so often referred. It 
was discovered in 1822, clothing rocky hills near Bathurst ; 
and was subsequently observed occupying arid spots in the 
country lying N. W. from that settlement, at elevations 
exceeding three thousand feet above the level of the sea. 
Although an inhabitant of districts, in which the tempera- 
tare in the winter months, is often reduced to the freezing 
point, and where even snow remains upon the surface, fora 
short period, in seasons of unusual severity, for the latitude of 
that colony, it nevertheless requires, in this country, the 
Shelter of a greenhouse in winter, not having the constitu- 
tion of a compatriot, and indeed companion of its native 
hills, Evcanyprus pulverulenta (Sims), which bears our 
climate without distress, when placed against a wall ina 
Southern aspect. First raised from seeds received at Kew 
m 1823, and an acknowledgment of our thanks is due to 
Mr. Arron, for the specimens transmitted us, from which 
our drawing was made. This comparatively rare plant, 
Which neither ripens its pods with us, nor is by auy means 
readily propagated otherwise, isa very distinct species from 
any of the Australian portion of the Genus, enumerated by 
B Canpoute; it approaches however nearest to A. anceps 
of his Prodromus. 
Descr,.. A shrub seldom exceeding a height of four feet, and in its 
Rative country of variable, irregular habit, and much branched; the 
Tanchlets being of a dark colour, crowded with axillary flowers to their 
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