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ACACIA PLATYPTERA. BROAD-WINGED 
ACACIA. — 
SRR KERR RK KE EERE 
Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Moneccia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5, 
nunc libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stamina 
numero varia 10—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum 
bivalve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde 
varie. Spine stipulares, sparse aut nulle. Flores flavi, 
albt aut rarius rubri, capitati aut spicati, decandri aut poly- 
andri, eleutherandri aut monadelphi, petalis 4—5 liberis 
coalitisve constantes. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacia platyptera ; capitulis in pedunculo solitariis, stipulis 
minimis subpungentibus, phyllodiis bifariam decurren- 
tibus pilosis apice recurvo-mucronatis; nervo unico 
centrali, margine superiore dente unico glandulifero, 
internodiis linearibus longissimis. Graham. 
Acacia platyptera. Lindl. Bot. Reg. Miscell. 1841, n. 10. 
This beautiful Acacia compensates for the absence: of 
leaves in the quantity and rich yellow colour of its heads 
of flowers. It was obligingly sent from Oakfield, Chelten- 
ham, by Mrs. Wray, who had obtained seeds of it from the 
Swan River settlement. That lady rightly judged it to be 
the A. platyptera of Dr. Linpiey; though we received, 
about the same time, another and nearly allied Swan River 
species from Dr. Granam, under that name, but which will 
soon be figured in this work as A. ertoptera of that gen- 
tleman. 
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