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ACACIA PROMINENS. Conspicuous Acacia, 
or Nepean Wattle. | 
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Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Monaccta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos#. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nune 
libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. numero 
varia 1O—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum bivalve.— 
Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde varie. Spine 
stipulares sparse aut nulle. D C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacia prominens ; glabra, phyllodiis (sesquiuncialibus) 
lineari-lanceolatis acutis patentibus retrorso- falcatis 
rectisve uninervibus tenuissime ciliatis, mucrone sub- 
uncinato terminatis, margine antico versiis basin uni- 
glanduloso, glandula leviter elevata, racemis termina- 
_Tibus axillaribusve 6—10-cephalis phyllodio pauld lon- 
gioribus, capitulis (in racemo) solitariis geminisve 
‘pedicello brevioribus, floribus quinquepartitis, petalis 
ovato-oblongis subacuminatis, stylo staminibus parum 
longiore. Allan Cunn. e 
Acacia prominens. Allan Cunn. MSS. (1817.) G. Don’s 
Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. 406. n. 67. 
A charming conservatory shrub, native of New South 
Wales, where it inhabits barren forest-grounds, in the 
immediate vicinity of the Nepean river ; and although it 
may, in its native regions, be truly said to be, like Goxp- 
suitn’s village thorn, ‘“ unprofitably gay,”—no one caring 
to receive it into his garden, it nevertheless seldom fails, 
even there, in the month of September, when decked with 
Fe blossoms, 
