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ACACIA longissima. 
Narrow long-leaved Acacia. 
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POLYGAMIA MONGCI4. 
Nat. ord. LeGuMINOS®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Corolla regularis. 
Legumen multiloculare, szpits bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis 
monospermis. Stamina distincta. Arbores aut {frutices; folia abrupté pin- 
nata.—MiMosEm. Brown gen. rem. in flind. voy. 2. 551. 
ACACIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 98. 
Div. Foliis simplicibus. (Aphylle.) 
A. longissima, inermis: spicis axillaribus pluribus (plerbmque) ramosis; 
petiolis (foliis) linearibus longissimis: calyce sinuato-quadridentato. 
Wendl. acac. 45. t. 11. 
Acacia longissima. Link enwm. hort. berol. 2. 443. 
Frutex decempedalis, glaber, cortice brunneo: ramis teretibus, erecto- 
patentibus, virgatis: ramulis superne angulatis, subpubeseentibus. Petioli 
(folia) alternt, remotiusculi, erecto-patentes et patentes, exacté lineares, an- 
gustissimi, interdim subfalcati, utrinque sensim attenuati, apice mucrone 
parvo recurvato innocuo instructi, wninervit, longitudinalitér venuloso-striati, 
submarginati, glabriusculi, 4-5-pollicares et ultra, lineam lati. Stipule 
nulla. Flores laxé spicati, lutet, bracteolis ovatis minimis suffulti, remo- 
tiusculi vel nonnulli glomerati. Spice eax axillis petiolorum (foliorum) 
plures, rarius simplices plerimque ramosi, petiolo (folio) duplo triplove bre- 
viores, pedunculati, pedunculis subpubescentibus, bast bracteA lineari acutéd 
concavd instructis. Calyx brevissimus, subpubescens, monophyllus, sinuato- 
quadridentatus dentibus obtusis. Corolla glabra tetrapetala: petalis ovato- 
oblongis, acutis, reflexis, Stamina numerosa, corolla duplo longiora. Ger- 
men subrotundum, albo-tomentosum. Stylus stamina subequans; germinis 
apici insertus. Legumen non vidi. Wendland loc. cit. 
Introduced within these four or five years from New 
Holland. 
Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith, 
where it is cultivated in the greenhouse. 
We have taken the description from M. Wendland’s 
work on the simple-leaved, or, as that author more criti- 
cally terms them leafless, Acacias, their apparent leaves 
being nothing more than dilated stalks, while the true 
leaves are only found on the seedling plant. See the ob- 
servations of Mr. Brown on Leguminose in the fifth 
volume of this Register, page 2 of the 36Ist article, 
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