No. 235. 
Acacia i^eriifolia A. Cunn. 
The Oleander-leaved Wattle. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E: MIMOS^E.) 

Botanical description. Genus, Acacia. See Part XV, p. 103. 
Botanical description. Species, neriifolia A. Cunn., in Bentham's " Notes on 
Mimosa; " in Hooker's London Journal of Botany, i, 357 (1842). 
Following is a translation of tlie original description : 
A. neriifolia (Cuun. M8S). Branchlets subangular, and the young phyllodes with a mealy 
tomentum, whitish and finally glabrous, phyllodes elongate-lanceolate or linear, subfalcate, with a hard 
mucro, gradually narrowed at the base, somewhat thick, scarcely marginate, uninerved, veins indistinct, 
glands 1-3, indistinct, racemes tomentose, shorter than the phyllodes, heads of flowers small, densely 
many flowered, sepals distinct, spathulate, ovary tomentose. 
Phyllodes 2-3 inches. Liverpool Plains, N.S.W. Cunningham, Fraser, also amongst Bauer's 
collections. Perhaps, notwithstanding the very narrow leaves, this species should be placed amongst 
the Falcatac. 
Then comes Bentham's ampler description in B.F1. ii, 363, as follows : 
A tall and handsome shrub or small tree ; branchlets slender, slightly angular, glaucous or mealy 
tomentose when young, but soon glabrous. 
Phyllodia linear lanceolate, more or less falcate, with a small callous point often recurved, much 
narrowed towards the base, mostly 3 to 5 inches long and 2 to 4 lines broad, 1-nerved, 
obscurely pennivcined, with one or sometimes two or three distant marginal glands rarely 
all wanting. 
Racemes always simple, rather slender, much shorter than the phyllodia, the rhachis and peduncles 
usually toniento.sc. 
Flower-heads globular, small, with 30 to 40 flowers, mostly 5-merous. 
Sepals spathulato, more than half as long as the corolla, ciliate, free or slightly adnate below the 
middle. 
Petals smooth, usually free. 
Pod flat, straight or nearly so, several inches long, about -i lines broad, often slightly contracted 
between the seeds. 
Seeds oval-oblong, longitudinal; funicle with the last fold appressed and thickened from the 
middle upwards into a club-shaped aril, the lower folds short and filiform. 
