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- ACACIA PENNINERVIS. FEATHER-NERVED 
3 ACACIA. 
Class and Order. : 
PotyGamia Moncecia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. ) 
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. D. C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacia penninervis ; glabra petiolis lanceolatis magis mi- 
nusve acutis basi attenuatis subcurvatis marginatis 
uninerviis venis obliquis parallelis margine antice 
prope basi uniglandulosis, capitulis globosis in racemis 
terminalibus axillaribusque, calyci corollaque quin- 
quefidis. ’ 
Acacia penninervis. Sieber Fl. Nov. Holl. n. 458. De 
Cand.-Prod. v. 2. p. 452. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. 
p. 135. i i i eed 
Acacia impressa. Hort. 
Descr. A shrub, attaining in our gardens, the height of 
five or six feet, having numerous regular, brown, twiggy 
branches, which, as well as the whble plant, are quite gla- 
brous. Leafstalks three to four inches long, coriaceous, 
lanceolate, six to seven lines broad, more or less acute-at the 
point, much attenuated at the base, straight or slightly fal- 
cate, having a somewhat thickened margin, and, on the upper 
Margin, near the base, an oblong gland. There is a single 
rtb or nerve not running through the centre, but nearer the 
upper margin, and from this diverge several oblique, not 
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