Addisonia 11 



(Plate 198) 

 ACACIA LONGIFOLIA FLORIBUNDA 

 Narrow-leaved Sidney Golden Wattle 



Native oj New South Wales and Victoria 

 Family Mimosaceae Mimosa Family 



Acacia flonbunda Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1051. 1806. 



Acacia longifolia floribunda F. Muell.; Benth. Fl. Austral. 2: 398. 1864. 



This is one of the best of the acacias, both for cultivation as a 

 flowering plant and for cut bloom. It forms a graceful shrub, with 

 slender curved or somewhat drooping branches which bear in the 

 axils of the phyllodes a great abundance of pale yellow blossoms, 

 arranged in cylindric spikes instead of globose heads, as is the case 

 in the other species illustrated here. In full bloom it is one of the 

 most showy and attractive plants for the cool conservatory, either 

 planted out or in pots. Its flowers have a delightful fragrance, a 

 fragrance which is evident but not obtrusive, perfuming the air for 

 a considerable distance. In the central display house, range 2, 

 New York Botanical Garden, there are fine specimens of this 

 acacia planted out; they form a striking feature in the large col- 

 lection of acacias there. The illustration was prepared from one 

 of these. 



The narrow-leaved Sidney golden wattle is a shrub, or more 

 rarely a small tree, with the foliage at the ends of the glabrous, 

 curved, or somewhat drooping branches. The phyllodes, which 

 are placed at an acute angle to the stem, are commonly two to four 

 inches long, rarely longer, and a quarter of an inch wide or less; 

 they are glabrous, elongate linear-lanceolate, narrowed at both 

 ends, and are distinctly nerved and more faintly reticulate. The 

 pale yellow flowers are borne in dense ascending spikes, one to one 

 and a half inches long, which arise from the axils of many of the 

 upper phyllodes. The pods are about three inches long and three 

 sixteenths of an inch wide, somewhat curved, and strongly con- 

 stricted between the seeds, which are oblong and placed longitudin- 

 ally. 



Gkorge V. Nash, 



ExpirANATiON OF PLATE. Fig. 1. — Flowering branch. Fig. 2. — Flower, X 5. 

 Fig. 3.— Fruit. Fig. 4.— Seed. 



