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Acacia pLuMosA. Feratnery Acacia. 
Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Monczcia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5, 
nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stamina 
numero varia, 1O—200. Legumen continuum, D. C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacia plumosa; aculeolata, aculeis sparsis minutis recur- 
vis, caule late diffuso scandente tereti, ramulis sulcatis. 
petiolis rachibusque subtus aspero-aculeolatis pubes- 
centibus, foliis 2-pinnatis, pinnis sub 18—20-jugis, — 
glandula inter 8—I1 ultima paria cylindrica et altera— 
supra basin petioli oblonga, foliolis sub 45—50-jugis — 
linearibus obtusiusculis minutis imbricatis glabrius- 
culis seu minutissime puberulis, spicis pedunculatis 
pluribus axillaribus in paniculam terminalem basi 
foliatam fulvo-velutino-villosam dispositis, legumin- 
ibus planis latis oblongis. Lowe. : 
Acacia scandens. Willd. Enum. p. 1057? De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 2. p. 465 ? 
Acacia pennata. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.4.p.1090? De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 2. p. AGA ? ; 
Mimosa pennata. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1507.? 
A most elegant climbing shrub, with long weak, diffuse, interweaving 
branches, clinging and supporting themselves’ by means of their very 
short, recurved, weak prickles, which are inconspicuous to the eye, 
though at once perceptible to the touch. The prickles are found ‘on 
every part of the plant, except the peduncles, and secondary rachises of 
the leaves: they are also generally worn off the old branches and 
stems. These, when old, are pale brown or gray, as well as smooth 
_ and round: but the young green ones are strongly sulcated and angular, 
and more or less pubescent with short, woolly, fulvous, glandular hairs, 
Foliage most delicate and lovely ; the leaves resembling gracefully cury- 
ed or drooping plumes of feathers; of a fine, bright, peculiar, yellow- 
green, 
