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ending in a very sharp point. The whole plant is woolly, particularly the pod. The species is found in New 
South Wales, in rocky places between Port Jackson and Bathurst, and it was introduced in 1888. 
A. LINEATA Cum. 
A very pretty little shrub, with short linear leaves and small heads of flowers, which are produced on long 
peduncles. It is found abundantly in the interior of New South Wales, and it was introduced in 1817. It flowers 
in April and May. A. BREVIPES C 
P umn. 
This species is not very ornamental, as the large size of the phyllodia overpowers the small heads of flowers, 
which are on such short pedicels as to seem clustered round the stem. The phyllodia are from four to six inches 
long, and broad in proportion. The species was introduced in 1810, but from its want of beauty it is very little 
known. 
A. UNDULALFOLIA Cunn. 
A very handsome shrub, about four feet high, of variable habit, and with innumerable branches, which are of a 
dark colour and crowded with flowers to their tips. This species was discovered in 1822, ‘clothing rocky hills 
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near Bathurst ;” and it was subsequently found in various dry sandy places at an elevation of about three thousand 
feet above the level of the sea. It is, however, a remarkable circumstance that though the situation where this 
species grows is quite as cold as any part of Great Britain, the plant always requires a greenhouse in this country, 
and is in fact less hardy than any of the other species. 
A. TRISTIS Graham. 
This species is most nearly allied to the common A. armata, but it differs from that plant in the drooping 
disposition of its branches, and the dull almost brownish green of its leaves, which are somewhat long and pointed, 
so as to add to the drooping character of the whole. The species is a native of New Holland, whence it was 
introduced in 1828. 
A, ELONGATA Dec. 
A very slender and graceful plant, with drooping branches and long slender leaves, which are curved at the 
extremity. It was introduced from the Blue Mountains of New Holland, in 1828. 
A. CALAMIFOLIA Sweet. 
A very singular looking plant, which appears to be entirely without leaves, as the phyllodia take the form of 
very slender branches. On this account it has been called the Bodkin-leaved Acacia. It is a native of the south- 
west of New Holland, whence it was introduced in 1822. It is very seldom seen in collections. 
§ 2. Flowers collected into globose heads, and the heads disposed in racemes. Stipules nearly obsolete, never changing into spines. 
7.—ACACIA IMPRESSA Lindl. THE FEATHER-NERVED ACACIA. 
Synonyme.—A. penninervis Seb. Spreiric Cuaracter.—Phyllodia lanceolate, acuminate, subfaleate, 
Eneravines.—Bot. Mag., t. 2754; Bot. Reg., t. 1115; and Lodd. | with a thickened margin, strongly veined, with one single sunken gland. 
Bot. Cab., t. 1319. Flowers five-cleft. 
Description, &c.—This is rather an ornamental species, from the great abundance of its flowers, which are 
nearly white and are collected in globular heads, the heads being disposed in racemes. The phyllodia are of a very 
dark green. The species is a native of New Holland, whence it was introduced in 1822. 





