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No. 208. 
Acacia long! folia wnid. 
Sydney Golden Wattle. 
(Family LEGUMINOS./E : MIMOS^E.) 
Part 1. 
Hot Uliioal description. Genus, Acacia, (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. Species, A. lonyifolia "VVilldenow, Species Planlarum, 
iv, 1052 (1805). 
Following is the original description : 
"Acacia long/folia; inermis, foliis liueari-lanccolatis utrinque angustatis 
trincrviis striatis, spicis axillaribus geminatis cylindraceis." I have been unable 
to sec the type, and suggest that it was that referred to in the following paragraph, 
to which the name longifolia would be specially appropriate. 
In the " Botany of Cook's First Voyage " (Banks and Solander), edited by 
J. Britten, Acacia longifolia Willd., is depicted at Plate 86, from a painting by 
F. P. Nodder, 1781. It displays a very long-leaved (phylloded) form' up to as 
much as 22 cm. The specimen came from Botany Bay, but there was no description 
in the original M.SS. Phyllodes as long as these are unusual in the species. 
In Alton's Horlus Kewensis, 2nd Ed. v, 401 (1813), the species is stated to 
have been introduced into England in 1792 by John Ord, Esq. 
In Andrews' Botanists' Repository, iii, 207 (1802 ?), it is figured under the 
name of " Mimosa longifolia, Long-leaved Mimosa." The length of the phyllodcs 
is under 1 dm., and the average width is 1'5'cm. This is the common Sydney form. 
The figures of this species under the names of Mimosa longifolia Ventenat, 
Plantes de Malmaison 62, and Mimosa macroslachya Poiref, Suppl. i, 61, I have 
not been able to consult. 
In Bot. May. to 1827 (1816) a very fair figure of the species is given, but 
Avith no additional information. What is shown is rather a weak, pale-flowered 
specimen. Under t. 2166, it is referred to as variety a "foliis apice clongatis, 
spicis exacte cylindraceis." 
A. longifolia is figured in Bot. lic'j. v, 362 (1819), a rather weak specimen, 
and showing the venation very imperfectly. 
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