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ACACIA spectabilis. 
Showy Acacia. 
POLYGAMIA MONCECIA. 
Nat. ord. Leguminosjs, § Mimose,e. 
ACACIA. Willd. 
Senes II. Botrycephalce. Inermes, foliis bipinnutis, cajpitulis racemosis, 
pedunculis solitariis. Benth. 
A. spectabilis (Cunningham); glaucescens, glabra v. ramulis petiolisque hir- 
tcllis, pinnis 2-5-jugis, glandula petiolari depressa obscura jugalibus 
nullis, loliolis 4-8-jugis obovato-oblongis obtusissimis crassiusculis obscure 
2-3-nerviis, capitulorum racemis folio longioribus supremis paniculatis, 
flonbus subglabris, calyce corolla dimidio breviore. Bentham in Hooker's 
London Journal of Botany, 4. p. 383. 
Among 340 species of Acacia enumerated by Mr. Bentham 
tins is one of the finest ; and it certainly is the very hand- 
somest we have seen from New South Wales, beautiful as 
many of them are. Unfortunately our means of publication 
render it impossible to represent the softness and delicacy of 
surface which are among its principal characteristics. The 
leaves and branches are covered with the most delicate bloom, 
and the flowers, produced in large masses at the end of the 
shoots, are of the clearest and softest yellow. 
It is a native of Wellington Valley, and other places on 
tiie hast coast of New Holland, where it was found by the late 
Mr. Allan Cunningham and by Mr. Frazer. For its intro- 
duction to this country we are indebted to H. B. Lott, Esq. 
who presented it to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. of Exeter, 
from whom we received a flowering specimen last April. 
It belongs to the same section of the genus as A. discolor 
and dealbata, but is probably more decidedly a greenhouse 
plant than they are, for it comes from the country to the north 
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