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ACACIA UNDULHFOLIA, WAVED-LEAVED 
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Class and Order. 
PotyeamiA Monazcia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Cal.4d—b5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nunc 
libera, nune in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. nu- 
mero varia 10O—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum bi- 
valve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde 
varie. Spine stipulares sparse aut nulle. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacta undulefolia ; stipulis minutis acuminatis deciduis, 
phyllodiis laté ellipticis ovatisve obliquis interdum 
subequilateris undulatis planiusculisve acuminatis — 
leviter parallelo-venosis glabris, mucrone attenuato — 
incurvato terminatis, margine autico prope basin uni- 
glanduloso, capitulis solitariis geminisve axillaribus 
pedunculatis, pedunculis glabriusculis vel parcé pi- 
losis phyllodium superantibus, ramulis teretiusculis 
diffusé dependulis cano-pilosis, floribus quinquefidis, 
petalis erectis apice uncinatis, stylo staminibus feré 
duplo longiore. Allan Cunn. 
Acacia unduletolia. Allan Cunningham MSS. (1822.) G. 
Don’s Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. 404. n. 41. Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 1544. 
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That considerable portion of our globe, now more gene- 
rally called by geographers Australia, by whom it has been 
justly regarded as a fifth continent, exceeding in extent 
full three-fourths of Europe, has long been characterized as 
a land of anomalies, furnishing many extraordinary incon- 
Stuous features, not simply in its physical constitution, 
Seographically and geologically considered, but in the 
character of jis aboriginal inhabitants, and especially in its 
animal and vegetable products. On the characteristic fea- 
tures and Seographical range of the latter, in that dg ¢ & 
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