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Acacia rubida, A. Gunn. 
Red-leaved Wattle. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOSE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. —Sjiecies, A. rubula , A. Cunningham, in Barron Field's 
New South Wales, 344 (1825). 
Polio wing is the original description :— 
Acacia rubida. Foliis ovato-lanceolatis; apice obliquis mucronatis; mucrone innocuo: margine 
superiore um-glanduloso, raceinis pedunculatis (parvis) axillaribus terminalibusve, costae margine que 
foliorum rubido-coloratis. A shrub frequent on the edge of mountain-rills, Blue Mountains. (Allan 
Cunningham in Field’s N. S. Wales, 344.) 
Then we have the description in English by Don :— 
A. rubida (Cunningh. in Field’s New South Wales, p. 344). Phyllodia ovate-lanceolate, ending in 
an oblique innocuous mucrone at the apex, bearing a gland on the upper margin ; racemes small, peduncu¬ 
late, axillary, and terminal ; the rib and margins of the leaves coloured with red. Native of New Holland, 
frequent on the edge of rills on the Blue Mountains. 
Reddish Acacia. FI., April, June. Clt., 1823. Sb., 4 to 6 feet. (Don’s Gen. Hist. Dichlaniydeous 
Rls., Vol. 2, p. 406.) 
The description in Bentham’s revision of the genus follows:— 
A. rubida (Cunn. in Field’s N. S. Wales, 344), glaberrima, ramulis angulatis, phyllodiis elongato- 
lanceolatis acutis breviter calloso-mucronulatis rectis v. leviter falcatis crassiusculis basi longe angustatis 
uninerviis tenuiter marginatis, venis inconspicuis, glandula a basi distante, racemis phyllodio plerisque 
brevioribus, capitulis parvis 10-20-floris ovarioque glabris. A. amoena, Sieb. PI. ex., non Wendl.—Planta 
siceitate rubescit. Phyllodia pleraque 3.-poll. longa, 4-6 lin. lata. Racemi numerosi, 10-12-cephali. 
Pedunculi 2-3 lin. longi. Rami inferiores etiam iloriferi folia saepe ferunt bipinnata, petiolis pubescentibus, 
glandula basilari immersa, jugalibus nullis, pinnis 4-7 jugis foliolis 10-15-jugis oblongo-falcatis mucronulatis 
crassiusculis glabris subciliatis.—Blue Mountains, Cunningham, Sieber , n. 452. (Hooker’s London 
Journal of Botany, Vol. 1, 355.) 
Bentham’s description in Euglish is as follows :— 
A. rubida, A. Cunn; in Field, N. S. Wales, 344. A tall shrub, quite glabrous, allied to A. amoena, 
and perhaps a variety ; branchlets angular. 
Phyllodia lanceolate, often falcate, rather acute, much narrowed towards the base, mostly about 
3 inches long, rather thick, 1-nerved, with nerve-like margins, the veinlets inconspicuous, 
and never more than 1 marginal gland. 
Racemes shorter than the phyllodia, with several, often 10 to 12, rather small heads of 10 to 
15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. 
Sepals half as long as the petals, usually coherent. 
Petals smooth. 
Pod unknown. (B.F1. ii, 366 ) 
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