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No. 161. 
Acacia buxifolia, A. Cunn. 
(Including A. lunata, Sieb.) 
The Box-leaved Wattle. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOSE/E.) 
Kotauical description. —Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. —Species, A. buxifolia, A. Cunn., (1825). 
The following is the original description :— 
50. Acacia buxifolia. —Glabra, foliis ovatis acutis : margine superiore uniglandulifero, capitulis 
racemosis axillaribus folio duplo longioribus. Pine Ranges, Macquarie River. (A. Cunn. in Field’s New 
South Wale!', 344), which is translated as follows :— 
Glabrous ; phyllodia ovate, acute, bearing a gland on the upper margin ; heads of flowers axillary, 
twice the length of the phyllodia. Native of New Holland, in pine ranges at Macquarie River. A. 
conferta, Cunningh. MSS. (G. Don’s “ General History of Dichlamydeous Plants,” ii, 406.) The synonym 
of A. conferta quoted is an error. 
Then we have the figures and description in the leones, which are valuable 
in that the figure is made from a co-type and the description amplifies that of the 
original:— 
Tab. CLXIV. Acacia buxifolia. —Glabra, ramis virgatis, phyllodiis oblique lanceolatis obscure 
venosis marginatisque acutis, glandula infra medium marginis superioris saepe obsoleta capitulis racemosis 
axillaribus phyllodia duplo longioribus. 
Acacia buxifolia.— All. Cunn. in Field’s Austral, v. 2, p. 344, n. 50. Hab. Pine ( Callitris) ranges, 
Macquarie River. Allan Cunningham, Esq. 
A shrub ; with slender twiggy branches, and numerous, nearly erect, lanceolate, very smooth and 
glabrous phyllodia, on which the marginal gland is sometimes conspicuous, but more generally wholly 
wanting. Racemes of 4-6 globose capitula, longer than the leaves, deep yellow. (Hooker’s “ leones 
Plantarum,” ii, 164 (1837). 
Bentham’s description is :— 
A glabrous shrub with angular branchlets. 
Phyllodia obliquely oblong-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, narrowed at each end, usually under 
1 inch, rarely 1^ inch long, rather thick, with a scarcely prominent nerve and obscure 
veins, the marginal gland small or none. 
Racemes scarcely exceeding the phyllodia, with several small globular heads of 8 to 12 or rarely 
more flowers, mostly 5-merous. 
Calyx short, broad. 
Petals smooth. 
Pod straight or curved, flat, 3 or 4 lines broad. 
Seeds longitudinal, close to the upper suture; last fold of the funicle thickened into a lateral 
club-shaped aril, the lower ones very small. ( B.Fl. ii, 372.) 
