European collections shortly after its first discovery, and 
has been in cultivation in England ever since. Doubt- 
less it has been reintroduced oftener than once; the last 
occasion on which this has occurred at Kew was in 1909 
when seeds were received from the Sydney Botanic 
Garden. One of the plants raised then flowered for the 
first time in the Temperate House at Kew in February, 
1914, when the drawing from which our plate has been 
_prepared was made. It has flowered freely in spring 
every year since then. As Mr. Hutchinson points out, 
_it is nearly related to two other Australian species of 
Acacia, A. polybotrya, Benth., and A. pruinosa, A. Cunn., 
both of which are to be met with in greenhouse 
collections. 
Description.—Shrub of considerable size; twigs eventually becoming 
purplish, at first covered with spreading pubescence, but soon becoming 
glabrous. Leaves 2-pinnate, hardly as long as the inflorescence, over 2 in. 
long; pinnae 2-5-jugate; glands obscure; leaflets 4-8-jugate, oblong or 
obovate-oblong, rounded and finely mucronate at the tip, rounded and faintly 
3-nerved at the base, glabrous, glaucous, 3-2 in. long, 1-1 in. wide ; petiole 
softly pubescent. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, up to 4 in. long; rhachis 
sparsely pubescent; peduncles about } in. long, glabrous; bracts minute, 
acute. Heads globose, yellow, about } in. across. Calyx minute, red; lobes 
rounded, densely ciliolate. Petals united below, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat 
acute, abruptly narrowed downwards, ,1; in. long, 1-nerved, finely papillose on 
he margin. Stamens many. Ovary oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous; style nearly 
ateral, yellow, about 5 in. long. Pod 2-3 in. long, 2 in. wide, straight, flat, 
quite glabrous, glaucous ; valves subcoriaceous. Seeds 6-10 ellipsoid, black, 
3 in. long. : 
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Tas, 8860.—Fig. 1, portion of a leaf: 2 : : : 
& piatil «cal Bil ts a a leaf; 2, bract; 3, flower; 4, stamen; 
