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ACACIA MUCRONATA. Mucronatrep ACACIA. 
KEE KEKE EEE EEE EK EEKE 
Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Monaccra. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leceuminos«. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5, 
nunc libera, nunc in corollam, 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. 
numero varia, 1O—200. Legumen continuum. De Cand. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacia mucronata; petiolis lineari-spathulatis apice ob- 
tusis oblique mucronatis subtrinerviis integerrimis 
glabris, spicis axillaribus solitariis vel binis, calyce 
brevi corollaque quadrifidis. 
Acacia mucronata. ‘“ Willd. Enum. Suppl. p. 68.” Wend- 
land, Diss. de Ac. Aph. p. 46. t. 12. De Cand. Prodr. 
v. 2. p. 454. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 3. p. 136. 
Descr. A twiggy shrub, which, in our collection, has_ 
reached to the height of four or five feet, with very nume- 
Yous branches, the older ones brown, the rest greenish. 
Leafstalk:s alternate, entirely glabrous, 2—4 inches long, 
linear-spathulate, slightly falcate, much attenuated at the 
base, the extremity obtuse, furnished with a short oblique 
mucro: the margins every where entire, the surface three- 
nerved, the two lateral nerves the most obsolete, all connect- 
ed by lesser oblique nerves or veins. Spikes of flowers an 
meh or more long, one, or frequently two from the axils of 
the leaves. Calyx very short and small, four-toothed, 
yellowish-green, subtended by a minute bractea. Corolla 
deeply four-cleft (or of four equal, ovate petals united at 
the base) yellow. Stamens very numerous, united at the 
base. Filaments very delicate, flexuose, longer than the 
“orolla, pale yellow: Anthers small, roundish, deep yellow. 
