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ACACIA ARMATA. SIMPLE-LEAVED PRICKLY 
ACACIA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PoLyYyGAMIA MONGCIA. 
Generic Charaffer. 
Hermapu. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida vel 5-petala. Stam, 
4—100. Pif.1. Ligum. bivalve. 
Mase, Cal.-5-dentatus. Cor, 5-fida f. 5-petala. Stam. 4—100. 
Specific Characler and Synonym. 
ACACIA armata ; foliis fimplicibus obliquis: margine altero 
reCliufculo altero undulato, ftipulis fpinofis capitulis glo- 
- bofis folitariis. 
ACACIA armata ; foliis dimidiato-oblongis, glabris mucronu- 
latis uninerviis: nervo parallele approximato margini inte- 
riori fubtruncato, ftipulis fpinofis, capitulis globofis foli- 
tarlis. Hort, Kew. ed, alt. v. 5. p. 468. 7 
Desc. Stem fhrubby: dranches flexile, ftriate, thinly haired. 
Leaves {cattered, feffile, fimple, quite entire, oblique, ap- 
proaching to the fhape of a bill-hook, the mid-rib ryaning 
parallel with and near to the inner ftraightifh margin, while the 
outer margin proceeds from the bafe in a waved line to the 
point where it is recurved and flightly mucronate. Szipules two 
{pines juft below the leaf, having a globular gland between them. 
Peduncle axillary, fomewhat longer than the leaf, folitary, bearing 
a globular head of yellow flowers, of which the greateft number 
are male. Stamens very many: filaments much longer than the 
minute corolla: anthers orbicular, yellow. When the corollas 
firft expand, the /fy/es in the hermaphrodite flowers are longer 
by half than the ftamens, but the filaments foon fhoot above and — 
conceal them, mG 
