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Vol. i is a well known publication, but I have been unable to consult the 
Vol. ii as above defined, and therefore not Mueller’s description of Acacia lunata. 
Probably only a few copies were issued. 
Prof. Ewart, in 1910, published a “ Plants indigenous to Victoria, Vol. ii,” 
consisting of some of Mueller’s drawings not previously published, and some of his 
own. In the preface he has given some bibliographical explanation, but the fact 
that there are now two Volumes ii of the work, the imperfect one quoted by 
Bentliam in the Elora Australiensis, and the totally distinct one published by 
Prof. Ewart, will give bibliographers trouble in the future. 
Botanical Name. — Acacia, already explained (see Part XV, p. 104) ; 
buxifolia, from two Latin words signifying box (buxus) and leaf {folium), like the 
European Boxwood, which has a leaf resembling those of this Wattle a good deal in 
outline. 
Vernacular Name. —I propose the name “ Box-leaved Wattle ” as good 
as any. Speaking of A. lunata (the Wattle with moon-shaped leaves), Lindley 
called it the “ Crescent-leaved Acacia” and Sweet the “ Lunate-leaved Acacia.” 
Synonyms. —Bentham quotes the following :— 
(1) A. falcinella, Tausch. in Flora 1836, 419. I have not seen this volume. 
(2) A. brevifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1235 (?) (1827). 
Raised from seeds collected in 1823. Although Bentham marks it with a 
query, I have no doubt (with Sweet) that the plant is A. lunata, Sieb. 
(3) A . oleaeifolia, A. Cunn. in G. Don. Gen. Syst. ii, 405. 
“ A. oleifolia (Cunningh. MSS. Loud. hort. brit. 407) stipulas small, caducous, 
phyllodia ovate-oblong, oblique, marginate falcate at the apex, mucronate, and are, 
as well as the branches, pubescent; heads solitary, axillary, length of the phyllodia. 
Native of New South Wales.” 
A. uncinata , Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1332. 
Olive-leaved Acacia. Clt. 1824. Shrub 4-6 feet. 
It may be that A. oleaeifolia is a synonym of A. lunata, but the synonym 
quoted by Don {A. uncinata ) refers to a very different plant. 
I have not seen A. oleaeifolia. 
(4) A. dealbata, A. Gunn, in Field, N.S. W. 345, not of Lindl. 
Cunningham’s words are :— 
Pallido-glaucescens, foliis ellipticis ovatisve glabris obliquis mucronatis : mucrone innocuo : margine 
superiore uniglanduloso, racemis erectis axillaribus, leguminibus albido-pulverulentis furfuraceis. A 
slender shrub of recent discovery. Hills on the Cugee-gong River, 50 miles north of Bathurst. 
I have seen a specimen through the kindness of Kew. 
