(. 3358) 
~AcACIA BREVIPES. SHORT-PEDICELLED 
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Class and Order. 
Potyeami1a Monaccia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminos.. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Cal.4—5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nune 
libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. nu- 
mero varia 1O—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum bi- 
valve. DC. 
Specific Character. 
Acacia brevipes ; stipulis acuminatis minutis deciduis, phyl- 
lodiis lanceolato-oblongis vel sepé elongato-lan-— 
ceolatis falcatis striatis plerumque trinerviis glabris, 
margine antico ad basin attenuatam uniglanduloso, 
capitulis solitariis axillaribus brevissimé pedicellatis, 
pedicellis phyllodiisque junioribus cinereo-furfuraceis,. 
floribus quinquepartitis, staminibus stylo brevioribus. 
All. Cunn. 
The specimens from which our drawing was made, were 
obligingly communicated to us last year, by Mr. Arron, 
from the Royal Gardens at Kew, where this previously 
unnoticed species, which appears closely allied to A. mul- 
tinervia, D C., has been cultivated for upwards of twenty 
years. It is said to be a native of New South Wales ; and 
at Kew, where it is treated as a hardy conservatory plant, 
it usually flowers in the earlier months of the year, when 
its numerous congeners, under similar care in the King’s 
Gardens, are also induced by the return of spring, to put 
forth their more abundant, and, in most examples, gayer, 
and more attractive blossoms. 7 
Descr. 
