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Acacia prominens, A. Cunn. 
The Prominent Glanded Wattle. 
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(Family LEGUMINOSvE: MIMOSEyE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. —Species, A. prominens, A. Cunn. 
A. prominens (Cunningh. MSS. Loud. Hort. Brit. 407) Phyllodia divaricate, retrorsely falcate, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, ending in a hooked mucrone, with a rather prominent gland on the upper 
margin at the base; heads of flo wei-s in terminal and axillary racemes. Native of New South Wales. 
Phyllodia 1 i inch long, and 1J line bi'oad. (G. Don, Gen. Hist, of Dichlamydeous Plants, ii, 406, 1832.) 
The reference in Loudon (1830) is 
Evergreen greenhouse shrub 4 feet high. Flowers in February and June ; colour of flowers yellow. 
A native of New Holland, introduced in 1824. Propagated from cuttings, likes sandy loamy and peat 
soils, 
and is not adequate as a description of a species. Its date as a species is therefore 
1832. 
Under Bot. Mag. t. 3502 (1836) W. J. Hooker quotes Allan Cunningham’s 
original description of Acacia prominens as follows :—• 
Acacia prominens; glabra, phyllodiis (sesquiuncialibus) lineari-lanceolatis acutis patentibus retroi’so- 
falcatis rectisve uninervibus tenuissime ciliatis, mucrone subuncinato teiuninatis, margine antico versus 
basin uniglanduloso, glandula leviter elevata, racemis terminalibus axillaribusve 6-10-cephalis phyllodio 
paulb longioribus, capitulis (in racerno) solitai'iis geminisve pedicello brevioribus, floribus quinquepartitis, 
petalis ovato-oblongis subacuminatis, stylo staminibus parum longiore. 
It is taken from Allan Cunningham’s MSS. Journal dated 1817. 
Hooker then describes it in the following words :— 
A tall, slender shrub, often 10 feet high, of expect growth, numerously branched, the branches 
being smooth, greenish, and slightly angular. 
Phyllodia copious alternate for the most part, 1£ inches in length and 2| to 3 lines in 
bi-eadth, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, mucronated, mucro rather hooked, towards the 
apex often retrorsely falcate, with several slightly-marked veins diverging from the midrib, 
on the upper edge near the base is a rather prominent gland. 
Flowers golden-yellow, very fragrant, formed in axillary and terminal racemes, cacli raceme 
having from six to ten heads, generally longer than the phyllodia. 
1leads many-flowered, distinct, solitary, or in pairs. 
Pedicels patent, very smooth, longer than the heads, having at the bases short, brown bracts. 
Calyx very short, five-parted. 
Petals five, ovate-oblong, subacute, erect or slightly spreading. 
Stamens numerous, shorter than the style. 
Stigma simple. 
