( 4032 ) 



Acacia dentifera. Tooth-bearing 

 Acacia. 



Class and Order. 



POLYGAMIA MONCECIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — LeguminosjE. ) 



Generic Character. 



Flores polygami. Calyx 4— 5-dentatus. Petala 4—5, 

 nunc libera, nunc in corollam 4—5 fidam coalita. Stam. 

 numero varia 10—800. Legumen continuum exsuccum 

 bivalve. — Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde 

 varia?. Spina? stipulares, sparse aut nulla?. Flores jlavi, 

 albi aut rariiis rubri, capitati aut spicati, decandri aut poly - 

 andri, eleutherandri aut monadelphi, petalis 4—5 hberis 

 coalitisve constantes. D C. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Acacia dentifera; ramis angulatis, phyllodiis elongato- 

 lineari-lanceolatis falcatis acutissimis penninerviis e- 

 fflandulosis inferne attenuatis, racemis demum toliatis 

 ?apitulis numerosis multifloris globosis majuscul.s pe- 

 dicello duplo brevioribus, leguminibus elongatis line- 

 aribus teretibus strictis. . 



Acacia dentifera. Benth. in Botanist, 4. t. 179. et in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. ofBot. v. I. p. 363. 



A new and very graceful species of Acacia from the 

 Swan River, with unusually long racemes of flowers, longer 

 than the leaves, of a full yellow colour, and highly fragran 

 These racemes, however, Mr. Bentham observes, run out 

 into leafy branches, and thus the species would appear to 

 belong to the division with solitary capitula. The seeds 

 were deceived from Mr. Drummond ; the flowering season 



