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(5) A. furfuracea, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii, 405. 
Glaucescent; leaves elliptic or ovate, glabrous, oblique, ending in an innocuous mucrone, bearing a 
gland on the upper margin ; racemes erect, axillary ; legumes covered with white furfuraceous powder. 
Native of New Holland, on hills on Cugee-gong River, 50 miles from Bathurst. A. dealbata, Cunningh. 
in Field’s New South Wales, p. 345, but not of Link. A slender shrub. 
I have seen a specimen through the kindness of Kew. 
Other synonyms are 
(6) A. lunata, Sieb. 
(7) A. neglecta. Maiden and Baker. 
A. buxifolict, A. Cunn. is “nearly allied to A. lunata, and perhaps a variety 
with narrower, straighter phyllodia, and some specimens appear almost to pass into 
A. decora:’ (B.Fl. ii, 373.) 
This was the sagacious Bentham’s view, and experience gained since that was 
written justifies the mergence of one into the other as a synonym. 
With a large series of specimens of the two forms such as I have, and my 
wide experience of the plants as they grow in the bush, I find it absolutely 
impossible to maintain the species apart. The work has not been inconsiderable, 
and I take the opportunity of recording the valuable help I have received in this 
connection from Mr. Edwin Cheel, Botanical Assistant, Botanic Gardens, in this and 
many other matters. 
Both names were published in the year 1825, and inquiries made in Europe 
fail to elicit which is the earlier. I have, therefore, adopted the name buxifolia, 
since thereby less disturbance of nomenclature will result. 
The shape, texture and colour of the phyllodia are the result of environment, 
and I am unable to propose varieties of the species, although odd forms, taken here 
and there, seem dissimilar enough. 
In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. IV., xix, p. 163, t. xiii, (1894), Mr. Baker and I 
figured a plant which we named Acacia neglecta, and discussed its relations with 
A. lunata. I think the foundation of the species was fully justified under the then 
existing circumstances. 
In the same publication, xxv, p. 661 (1900), Mr. Baker has the note— 
Bentham (B.Fl. ii, 373), when describing this species (A. lunata) states that the seeds are close to 
the upper suture of the pod. Specimens having this feature have been obtained on Forest Reserve No. 1, 
Mulwala, N.S. VV., by Mr. Wyburd. This is the first time I have ever found pods corresponding to 
Bentham’s description. 
The Acacia generally passing under the name of A. lunata is A. neglecta, Maiden and Baker. 
In my “Wattle and Wattle Barks,” 3rd Edition, 1906, p. 68, it is proposed 
to make it a variety of A. buxifolia. 
