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ACACIA DECIPIENS, var. premorsa. Para- 
DOXICAL Acacia, variety. 
KEE EEE EEE EEK EK EKKER EEE 
Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Monaecia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—65, 
nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stamina 
numero vario, 10O—200. Legumen continuum. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacta decipiens ; stipulis spinescentibus deciduis, phyllo- 
diis triangularibus passimque trapezoideis, nervo lateri 
inferiori approximato in spinam producto, margine 
superiore dente acuto unico glandulifero (varietate, 
sepius premorso dentibus duobus vel tribus glanduli- 
feris), capitulis subsolitariis multifloris. Graham. : 
Acacta decipiens. («.) Brown, in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 
465. Bot. Mag. t. 1745. we rg rh v. 2. p. 
449. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. ef 
Var. 8, premio leihat, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. for 
April, 1833. 
‘ee, 
Descr. Shrub erect, twigs arched, angled, glabrous ; 
bark brown on the stem, green on the twigs. _ Phyllodium 
With one nerve, which passes near its lower side, triangular, 
the upper angle, except at the apices of the branches, trun- 
cated, and terminating in two or three short points, tipped 
With the glands, the lower angle extended into a prickle 
the continuation of the nerve. Stipules spinescent, spread- 
ing, subdeciduous. Peduncles glabrous, pellucid, spreading 
longer than the phyllodia. Flowers yellow, capitate, nu- 
= merous 
