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DESCRIPTION OF AN APPARENTLY NEW ACACIA 

 FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., and R. T. Baker, F.L.S. 

 (Plate XIII.) 



Acacia neglect a, n.sp. 



A variable shrub often flowering when only a few inches high, 

 but attaining a height of 12 feet or more; glabrous in all its parts, 

 rarely glaucous, the branchlets acutely angular at the extremities 

 but soon terete. 



Phyllodia ovate, narrowed at each end, sometimes obliquely 

 falcate, mucronate, the margins thickened, coriaceous, much 

 thicker than in A. prominens, 1-nerved, obscurely veined, marginal 

 gland on the upper margin a little removed from the base, often 

 absent ; ;^ to 1-|- inches long, ^ to ^ inch broad. 



Racemes about twice the length of the phyllodes, with 3 to 15 

 globular heads of 6 to 10 flowers each, mostly 5-merous. 



Flowers larger than those of A. j^roininens and seemingly smaller 

 than those of A. lunata, as defined in the Flora Australiensis. 

 Calyx smooth, short, and broadly lobed. Petals smooth, thin, 

 easily separating. Pod flat, slightly glaucous, straight or slightly 

 curved, about 4 io 6 lines broad, usually about Z to ^ inches long, 

 neither so short nor so broad as the pods of A. i^rominens. 



Seeds small, slightly oblique, in the centre of the pod, funiole 

 thickened at the end near the seed into a club-shaped aril, and 

 one small fold below it. 



Hob. — Bowenfels and Rylstone District, and other trans-Blue 

 Mountain localities. 



This species is fairly common in the above localities ; its range 

 cannot yet be fully defined. 



