C 8266 ) 
ACACIA VERNICIFLUA. VARNISHED 
ACACIA. ’ 
; 
. Class and Order. : 
\ Potyeamia Mone cia. F 
. (Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa. ) 
Generic Character. | 
Flores polygami. Cal. 4—}-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nunc 
libera, nune in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. / Stam. nu- 
mero varia, 10—200. Legumen continuum, exsuccum; 
bivalve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde 
4 = f nil 
varie. Spine slipulares sparse aut ae Cand. 
Specific Character and Synony 18. 
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Acacia verniciflua; phyllodiis lineari-lanceolatis subfalcatis 
binerviis utrinque glanduloso-punetatis basi attenu- 
atis antice uniglandulosis marginibus crassiusculis 
scabris, capitulis solitariis subraecemosisve axillaribus, 
pedunculis capitulo plus duplo longioribus, ramulis 
Virgatis viscidis. A. Cunningham. ‘ 
Acacia verniciflua. A. Cunningham, in Field’s N.S. Wales, 
p. 344. (1824.) Don’s Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. A404. 
Acacia virgata. _ Loddiges Bot. Cab. t. 1246 (1828.) 
Descr. A slender, twiggy shrub, remarkable for a glu- 
tinous substance, which clothes not only the young stems, 
but, although in a less degree, the young foliage also. 
Leaves (ov phyllodia,) remote, alternate, two inches or two 
inches and a half long, coriaceous, linear, attenuated at 
both extremities so as to be somewhat lanceolate, more or 
less faleate, two-nerved, punctato-glandulose on both sides, 
slightly thickened at the margin, and having a solitary, 
conspicuous, sessile gland near the base on the upper mar- 
gin. Flowers deep yellow, in globose capitula of a deep 
yellow 
