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A. prominens, A. Cunn., is, as I shall show in Part XLIII of this work, a 
sufficiently distinct species, and there seems no adequate reason why A. linifolia, 
Willd., A. fimbriata, A. Cunn., and A. prominens , A. Cunn., should he confused with 
each other. 
Bentham ( B.Fl . ii, 371), under .4. linifolia, says :— 
“ The broad-leaved forms of this species, with the margins less ciliated or not perceptibly so, connect 
it with the following— A. 'prominens ’’; and again under A. prominens, “ This species ( prominens , in which 
he includes fimbriata ) may prove to be a broad-leaved variety of A. linifolia.” 
I will try and clear the matter up, and incidentally, I pay a tribute to Allan 
Cunnino-ham’s discrimination. 
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Following are copies of labels on a sheet of specimens in Herb. Kew :— 
(a) “ 120. Acacia prominens, A. Cunn. {A. fimbriata, A.C.), Bot. Mag. t. 3502. Benth. in Load. 
Journ. Bot., i, 357. 
Nepean River, Sept., 
Brisbane River, Sept., 
413 
1817'. 
158 
18281 
New South Wales. A. Cunningham.” 
(b) “ Acacia fimbriata phyllodiis anguste lanceolatis uninerviis mucronatis margine antico 
uniglanduloso, junioribus margine ciliato-fimbriatis, racemo elongato axillari duplo longioribus, ramulis 
angulatis villosis. Tn rocky courses in forest ground on the Brisbane River. Flowering in Sept., 1828. 
158/1828.” 
I will now deal with the references in the above labels :— 
(1) Bot. Mag. t. 3502 gives a figure and description of A. prominens , A. Cunn., 
wdiich I shall deal with in Part XLIII when I come to that species. At the end, 
Sir W. J. Hooker gives a full description (in Latin) of A. fimbriata, which he calls 
a “ closely allied but very distinct species.” 
(2) Bentham in Bond. Journ. Bot., i, 357 (1842), does not take up A. fimbriata, 
A. Cunn., placing it under A. prominens, A. Cunn., as a synonym. He adds the 
note “ Vix non var. latifolia A. linifolice .” By that he means, I take it, that he 
considers A. prominens and A. fimbriata hardly the broad-leaved form or forms of 
linifolia. 
Bentham thus suppressed A. fimbriata as far back as 1842. He continued 
this in B.Fl. ii, 371, Avhile Mueller followed his example in his “ Second Census.” 
(3) Nepean Biver. This means that the specimen was Allan Cunningham’s 
No. 413, collected by him in September, 1817. 
I have a drawing of this specimen made by Miss Smith, of Kew, with Colonel 
Prain’s permission, and also a fragment of the specimen itself. I then turned to 
Allan Cunningham’s MS. Journal, and find under folio 354, and date 7th September, 
1817 :— 
We left Springwood about 8 o’clock in order to cross the Nepean River at about 1 o’clock. In our 
road I gathered the following specimens. Acacia, allied to A. suaveolens, leaves linear and sulcated, 
capitulum globose in racemis, branches 3-angular. 
