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( 3939 ) 
ACACIA DIPTERA; 8. erioptera. Two-wine- 
ED Acacia; downy var. 
KEKE KEK EEK KEK EKER K KE 
Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Monazcia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosaz. ) 
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 exsuceum 
bivalve.—Frutices aué arbores, habitu et foliatione valde 
varie. Spine stipulares, sparse aut nulle. Flores flavi, 
albi aut rarius rubri, capitati aut spicati, decandri aut poly- 
andri, eleutherandri aut monadelphi, petalis 4—5 liberis 
coalitisve constantes. D C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacia diptera; glaucescens, stipulis minutis v. obsoletis, 
phyllodiis parvis lanceolatis incurvo-falcatis longissime 
bifariam decurrentibus mucronatis eglandulosis, nervo 
margini superiori arcte approximato, pedunculis sim- 
plicibus v. hine inde racemosis, capitulis multifloris. 
Benth. 
Acacia diptera, Lindl. Bot. Reg. App. p. xv. (non Humb. 
and Bonpl.) Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. ined. Hook. Ic. Pl. v. 4. t. 369. 
(G.) erioptera (Graham) ; velutino-pubescens, alabastris 
ovato-pyramidatis angulatis (Tab. nostr. 3939). 
This plant we received, in 1840, at the Edinburgh 
Botanic Garden, from that of Glasgow, where it had been 
raised from Swan River seeds, sent over by Mr. James 
Drummonn. It has flowered sparingly with us during the 
autumnal months. It will be at once seen that this is very 
similar 
