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Acacia pendula, A. Cunn. 
The Weeping Myall. 
(Natural Order LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOSE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103 .) 
Botanical description. —Species, A. pendula , A. Cunn., in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii, 
404 . 
A handsome tree, the foliage pale or ash-coloured, with a minute pubescence; branchlets usually 
pendulous, slightly angular, soon terete. 
Phyllodia. —Linear-lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, narrowed towards the base, 2 to 3 in. long, 
rigidly coriaceous, very finely striate, with numerous parallel nerves, only to be seen under 
a lens. 
Peduncles. —Usually clustered on a very short common peduncle, rarely above 2 lines long, bear¬ 
ing each a small globular head of about 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous, much smaller 
than in A. homalophylla. 
Calyx. —Turbinate and lobed, but readily separating into distinct sepals. 
Petals. —Smooth. 
Pod. —Linear, but very flat, and fully 5 lines broad, thinly coriaceous, transversely reticulate, the 
sutures bordered by a very narrow wing, 
Seeds. —Nearly orbicular ; funicle thickened into a narrow clavate aril, and scarcely folded below 
it.* 
Bentham adds, “ Without the fruit the specimens are very difficult to distinguish from those of A. 
liomalopliylla. In both species, but especially in this one, 3 of the nerves of the phyllodia are sometimes 
slightly prominent.” (B.F1. ii, 383.) 
It will be interesting to quote the original description from G. Don:— 
A. pendula (Cunningh. MSS. Loud. hort. brit., 490) aspect greyish; phyllodia linear-lanceolate, 
rather arcuate, attenuated at both ends, ending in a somewhat hooked mucrone, having one gland in front 
at the base, and 2-3 longitudinal nerves; heads of flowers racemose; branches slender, pendulous. 
Native of New South Wales. Phyllodia—3 inches long, and 3 lines broad. Habit, of Salix Babylonica 
or Weeping-vnllow. 
Droopiny-branched Acacia. FI. April, Clt. 1824. Shrub 6 to 10 feet. 
* Bentham adds the words “ but not seen perfect.” I have seen perfect seeds and these four words may be 
eliminated. 
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