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ACACIA MELANOXYLON. BLACK-woopED 
ACACIA. 
WE RE RR RE Rae 
= 
Clafs and Order. 
Potycamia Monaerza. 
Generic Chara€ter. 
Hermaru. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida vel 5-petala. Stam. 
4—100. Pit. 1. Legumen bivalve. 
Masc. Cal, 5-dentatus. Cor 5-fida f. 5-petala. Stam. 4—100. 
Specific Charaéter. 
ACACIA melanoxylon ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis fubfalcatis, 
capitulis fubracemofis, ramulis ultimis pedunculifque an- 
gulatis furfure tenuiflimo te&is, funiculo umbilical; colo- 
rato plicato femen fubcingente. Brown Mf. et in Hort. Kew. 
ed. alt. v. 5. p. 462. 
This fpecies in its native country, Van Diemen’s Ifland, 
grows into a confiderable tree; the one from which our 
drawing was made reached to feveral feet in height before it 
fhewed any bloffoms. The bark of the extreme branches is 
covered with a fine ferrugineous pubefcence ;_ that of the larger 
is rough, and of a dark brown colour, approaching to black. 
When cut through, the wood of the latter is compact and white ; 
but, from its name, we fuppofe that the wood itfelf in older 
trees, or perhaps of the trunk only, .is of a black colour. 
Raifed from feeds received from New-Holland, by Joun 
Watxer, Efq. of Arno’s-Grove, Southgate, under the name 
of Brack-woop, about fix years ago, 
