No, 884. 
“ACACIA LUNATA. 
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Class. Order, 
POLYGAMIA MONECIA. 
This elegant plant is a native of New 
Holland, whence it was brought several 
years since. 
The leaves are about an inch long, in 
form resembling the moon, at three or four 
days old: they are placed edgeways, and 
have a single rib. The upper, or convex 
side, is only half as wide as the other, and 
has a single very small gland on its edge, 
at about one-third of its length from the 
insertion in the stem. 
At the axils of the leaves, toward the top 
of the shoots, the racemes of flowers come 
out in abundance, composed of a number 
of little heads of usually five flowers each : 
these are of a most brilliant yellow : their 
season is March and April, during whic 
time few plants exceed this in splendour. 
We have never yet succeeded in propa- 
gating this, any more than the foregoing 
sort, and there seems no disposition in the 
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