Refugium Botanicum.| ‘August, 1868. 
TAB. 31. 
Natural Order LEGuUMINOSA. 
Sub-order MrmosE&. 
Tribe ACACIER. 
Genus Acacia, Willd. 
A. stricosa (Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. vol. ii. p.444). Ramis strigosis, sti- 
pulis minutis scariosis linearibus, foliis subsessilibus sequaliter bipin- 
natis, pinnis plerisque bijugis, foliolis 4—6 jugis sessilibus oblongis- 
strigosis, pedunculis foliis equantibus, capitulis parvis congestis 
globosis 12—-15 floris, calycibus turbinatis truncatis, corollis stami- 
nibus duplo brevioribus, seminibus transversis.—D.C. Prodr. vol. ii. 
p- 466; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. ii. p. 419. A. ciliata, R. Br. non 
Willd. A. Browniana, Wendland, Flora, 1819, p. 139. 
A native of Western Australia. 
An unarmed shrub, attaining a height of two to four feet, with 
slender striated woody branches, which are naked when old, but 
more or less densely clothed when young with spreading gray 
hairs. Stipules minute, linear, scariose. Leaves nearly or quite 
sessile, the fully-developed ones bipinnate, with two opposite 
pairs of pinne, the main rachis two or three lines long, tipped 
with a bristle, the pinne with four or five pairs of oblong obtuse 
sessile leaflets, which are an eighth of an inch or two lines long, 
firm in texture, full-green in colour when young, more or less 
hispid on both sides, the edges revolute when dry. Lowers in 
dense rounded heads from the axils of the leaves, on slender firm 
pubescent peduncles three to six lines long, which about equal 
the leaves; flowers twelve to fifteen in a head; the calyx turbi- 
nate, green, pubescent, half as long as the corolla. Petals boat- 
shaped, not more than half as long as the very numerous yellow 
stamens when the flower is fully expanded. Pod about an inch 
long and a quarter of an inch broad, leathery in texture and dark 
brown in colour, naked, narrowed at both ends, the faces flattened 
and valves much thickened, containing six or eight transverse 
seeds.—J. G. B. 
This is a very ornamental small species of Acacia, growing 
freely in a cool greenhouse or conservatory, and producing a large 
quantity of bright yellow flowers. It thrives in a soil of sandy 
peat and leaf-mould. It was raised from seed obtained from 
South Australia by my friend 8. Solly, Esq., F.R.S.—W. W. S. 
