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An erect rather sparingly branched shrub, up to 10 feet 

 high, the young branches and inflorescence pubescent with 

 short soft spreading hairs. Phyllodia crowded, scattered 

 and occasionally irregiilarly verticillate, slightly sprinkled 

 with hairs, chiefly on the edges, or almost glabrous, from 7 

 lines to nearlv 1 inch long and barely 1 line broad, narrowed 

 at the base and I'ounded at the top, ending with a small 

 oblique or lateral innocuous point, with a single scarcely vis 

 ible vein near the upper margin and generally with a very 

 inconspicuous small gland near the base of the upper margin. 

 Stipules minute. Bipinnate juvenile leaves with a single pair 

 of pinnfe, each with 6 to 8 pairs of leaflets, occasionally found 

 on apparently full -grown flowering specimens. Flowers in 

 racemes much exceeding the phyllodia, of few to rarely above 

 8 heads on slender peduncles. Flower-heads with about 20 

 or more 5-merous flowers. Petals free or slightly cohering, 

 about twice as long as the sepals, all slightly hairy. Pod 

 stipitate, flat, linear, generally curved, 3 to 4 inches long 

 and hardly | inch broad, with thickened margins. Seeds 

 6 to 9 in the pod, placed longitudinally and alternately im- 

 pressed on each side, but pods and seeds seen only in an 

 immature state. 



The affinities of this new Acacia ai'e with A . confer t a A . 

 Cunn., though it is the only species in Bentham's series 

 Brunioideae with a racemose inflorescence. Unfortunately we 

 have not been able to obtain full-grown pods and ripe seeds : 

 the pods are too immature to show the arillus of the seeds, 

 but they show distinctly that the seeds are placed longitudi- 

 nally, while they are placed transversely in A. conferta. 



The bipinnate leaves are quite a prominent character of 

 this species. Mr. Rupp writes that he does not recollect 

 seeing a plant which had not both leaves and phyllodia to- 

 gether, except when very young, and then it had leaves only: 

 even the tallest shrubs bore leaves quite freely, though the 

 phyllodia are more prominent in the general aspect of the 

 plant. 



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