spikes, shorter than the leaves. Calyx short, quadrifid. 
Corolla deeply quadrifid, the segments oblongo - ovate, 
rather obtuse, and reflexed at the apex. Stamens very nu- 
merous, twice the length of the corolla, and half the length 
of the filiform wavy style. 
From the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it has been long 
cultivated among the plants that were the earliest intro- 
duced from. New Holland: but which does not yet appear 
to have been taken up by any author. My friend, Mr. 
Axian Cunnineuam, has justly pointed out the Acacta flori- 
bunda, Witip. and Vent., Choix des Plantes, t. 13, and A. 
mucronata, Witty. and Wenpt., Diss. t. 12, as among its 
nearest allies :—but the former has longer leaves, much 
larger spikes, with exceedingly remote five-fid flowers, and 
a much shorter style ; and the latter has linear-spathulate 
leaves, with a rounded apex and a mucro, and lax flowers. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—magnifed. 
