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ACACIA DISCOLOR. Two-coLouRED- 
LEAVED ACACIA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
. PotycAMia Monaccia,. 
Generic Charaéter. 
Hermapu. Cal. 3-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida vel 5-petala, Stam. 
4—100. Pil. 1. Legumen 2-valve. . : 
Masc. Cal, 5-dentatus. Cor, 5-fida vel 5-petala. Stam. 4— 
100. ; 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms, 
ACACIA difcolor ; inermis, foliis bipinnatis: partialibus quin- 
quejugis : propriis fub decemjugis fubtus difcoloribus, 
{picis globofis pedunculatis racemofis terminalibus et axil- 
laribus. Willd, Sp. Pl. 4. p. 1068. Hort, Kew. ed. alt. 5. 
p. 467. : 
MIMOSA dyfcolor, Bot. Repof. 235. sd 
A handfome /brué with dark green fmooth /eaves, underneath 
More or lefs white, fometimes reddifh brown. The young 
hes are angular, clothed with a thick fhort pubefcence. 
Flowers in globular heads, about twelve in a head, on racemes : 
pedicles alternate, diftant, growing nearly in right lines from the 
common peduncle, which is clothed with alternate, fmall, acute, 
{ealy braGes. Calyx five-cleft. Petals five, whitifh. Stamens 
very many, in little brufh-like tufts. Germen oblong-ovate. 
Style generally longer than the ftamens. 
Native of New South-Wales. Flowers in all feafons. Pro- 
| duced in 1788, by the Right Hon, 
_ Pagated by cuttings. Intros 
a cag Joseru Banks, Bart, 
