202 GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



A. dealbata. — The leaves of this species are bipinnate, 

 the pinnae bearing many pairs of pubescent leaflets, deep 

 green on the upper side, white beneath. It is very free- 

 blooming, the plants producing beautiful deep lemon -coloured 

 flower heads in axillary racemes, forming panicles at the ends 

 of the branches, and contrasting finely with the dark-coloured 

 foliage. Native of New Holland, where it makes a large tree. 

 It is the Silver Wattle of the colonists. 



A. diffusa. — A difiuse-habited shrub, with linear-pungent 

 phyllodes, and bright yellow flowers, especially valuable 

 for being produced in mid-winter. Native of Victoria and 

 Tasmania. 



A. Drummondii. — One of the most handsome species of 

 this very extensive genus, forming a dwarfish shrub, with 

 pinnate leaves consisting of two pairs of pinnse, having deep 

 green oblong-linear leaflets. The flowers are of a pale lemon 

 .colour, and borne very freely, in cyUndrical spikes. It forms 

 a handsome bush, and blooms from April to June. Native 

 of Swan Eiver. 



A. grandis. — This plant is in habit and appearance mnch 

 like A. pulchella, but it is larger, and the bright yellow balls 

 of flower are also larger, and more freely produced. Native 

 of the Swan Eiver Colony. 



A. hispidissima. — A very desirable and showy species for 

 spring flowering. It is a branching shrub, having the 

 branches clothed with spreading hairs. The leaves are 

 sessile, or nearly so, one pinnie, bearing about seven 

 pairs of oblong-obtuse, dark green leaflets. The flowers, 

 which grow in globular heads, are produced in great pro- 

 fusion, generally in pairs, of a deep rich yellow. Native 

 of Swan Eiver, Australia. 



A. linearis, — An erect shrub, the narrow linear phyllodes 

 of which are very long and entire. The spikes of yellow 



