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AcACIA QUADRANGULARIS. SQUARE-STALKED 
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23 Speirs 
Class and Order. 
PotyeamiA Monaecia. 
Generic Character. 
Hermarur. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida vel 5-petala. 
Stam. A—200. Pist.1. Legumen 2-valve. " 
Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida seu 5-petala. Stam. 
4—200. 
Specific. Character and Synonyms. : 
Acacia guadrangularis ; foliis quinquejugis: foliolis mul- 
tijugis linearibus acutis ciliatis, rachi foliorum pubes- 
cente, capitulis axillaribus longe pedunculatis. Link. 
‘a Enum. 2. p. 445. i : 
CACIA quadrangularis ; inermis, ramis tetragonis, pinnis 
quinguejugis, foliolis linearibus iiiin ‘ciate Pinte 
rioribus et extimis subbrevioribus, petiolo pubescente 
eglanduloso, capitulis subternis pedunculatis axillari- 
bus. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. * 
This plant has been communicated from the Paris gar- 
den, to several collections, both in England and elsewhere, 
under the name which we have adopted. Upon comparing 
it with Jacquin’s figure of portoricensis we did not at first 
doubt but that our plant was the same species; but in his 
description he expressly notices, that the branches and pe- 
duncles are rounded, which are here remarkably square. 
In both plants the branches and petioles are said to be 
pubescent, but in our’s, these parts, if at all, were very 
minutely so. Acacia quadrangularis, portoricensis, and 
: caracasana, 
