Tas. 8860. 
ACACIA sPECTABILIS. 
Eastern Australia. 
LEGUMINOSAE. Tribe MimosEAgE. 
Acacia, Willd. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 594. 
. Acacia spectabilis, Cunn. ex Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 883 
* (1842); Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxix. t. 46 (1843); Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vol. ii. p. 413 (1864), et in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 496 (1874); 
affinis A. polybotryae, Benth., et A. pruinosae, A. Cunn., ab illa foliolis 
paucioribus ramulis molliter pubescentibus, ab hac foliolis et capitulis 
majoribus differt. 
Frutex elata; ramuli demum purpurascentes patule pubescentes, mox glabri. 
Folia 2-pinnata, inflorescentia vix aequilonga, circiter 6 cm. longa; pinnae 
2-5-jugae; glandulae obscurae; foliola 4—8-juga, oblonga vel obovato- 
oblonga, apice rotundata et minute mucronata, basi rotundata et obscure 
3-nervia, glabra, glauca, 5-10 mm. longa, 3-4 mm. lata; petioli molliter 
pubescentes. Injlorescentia axillaris, racemosa, usque ad 10 cm. longa; 
rhachis parce pubescens; pedunculi circiter 5 mm. longi, glabri; bracteae 
minutae, acutae. Capitula globosa, ad 1°3 cm. diametro, flava. Calyx 
minutus, ruber, lobis rotundatis dense ciliolatis. Petala basi coalita, 
ovato-lanceolata, subacuta, inferne abrupte angustata, 2°5 mm. longa, 
l-nervia, marginibus minute papillosa. Stamia numerosa. Ovariwm 
oblongo-ellipsoideum, glabrum; stylus fere lateralis, flavus, 2°25 mm. 
longus. Legwmen 5-8 cm. longum, 1 cm. latum, rectum, planum, glaber- 
rimum, glaucum, valvulis subcoriaceis. Semina 6-10, ellipsoidea, nigra, 
6 mm. longa.—A. chrysobotrys, Meisn. ex Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 906 
(1843).—J. Hurcainson. 
Acacia spectabilis well deserves the name suggested for 
it by Cunningham on its first discovery in Wellington 
Valley, New South Wales, nearly a century ago, for in 
spite of the fact that as cultivated under greenhouse - 
conditions in this country it develops into a plant of 
somewhat straggling habit, it is when in full blossom an 
exceedingly beautiful object, the glaucous hue of the 
foliage greatly enhancing the effect produced by the 
yellow globose flower-heads it produces in such abun- 
dance. A native of the subtropical regions of Eastern 
Australia from about Lat. 26° 8. in Queensland to about 
34° 8. in New South Wales, it was introduced to 
JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1920, 
