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ACACIA alata. 



Wing-stalked Acacia 



POLYGAMIA MONGECIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminosje. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Corolla regularis. 

 Legumen multiloculare, saepius bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, Joculia 

 monospermis. Stamina distincta. Arbores aut Jrutices ; folia abrupte pin- 

 nata.= MiuosKJE. Brown in append, to Flind, voy. 2, 551. 



ACACIA. Sujjra vol. 2. Jot. 98. 



Div, foliis simplicibus. 

 A. alata, caule bifariam alato, foliis decurrentibus uninerviis spinula termi- 

 nals; margine interiore dente unico glandulifero, stipulis spinosis, capi- 

 tulis pedunculatis subsolitariis. Brovon in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 464. 



Native of the south-west coast of New Holland; where 

 it was first observed by Mr. Brown. Introduced in 1803 by 

 Mr. Peter Good. 



The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered 

 in the greenhouse, at Mr. Colville's nursery in the King's 

 Road, Chelsea. 



The only species, yet found in New Holland, which has 

 a winged stalk. We know of no representation of it before 

 the one now published. 



Distinguished from its congeners by a two-edged winged 

 stem, decurrent one-nerved leaves terminated by a small 

 prickle and having a single gland-bearing tooth at their 

 inner margin, by prickly stipules and stalked flower^heads, 

 which are mostly solitary. 



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