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ACACIA CINERASCENS. Grey FRAGRANT 
ACACIA. 
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Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Monaccia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
___ Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nunc 
‘libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. numero 
varia 1O—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum bivalve.— 
_ Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde varia. Spine 
_ stipulares, sparse aut nulle. Flores flavi, albi aut rarius 
_ rubri, capitati aut spicati, decandri aut polyandri, eleuthe- 
_ randri aut monadelphi, petalis 4—5 liberis coalitisve con- 
_ stantes—Secr. 1. Puytuopinez. D.C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
_ Acacia cinerascens; phyllodiis oblongo-lanceolatis falcatis 
trinerviis glaucis acutis inferne attenuatis, spicis axil- 
laribus terminalibusque subfasciculatis breviter pedun- 
culatis, floribus 4-fidis, stylo staminibus duplo longiore. 
Acacia cinerascens. Sieber’ Pl. Ex. Sicc. n. 448. De 
Cand. Prod. v. 2. p. 454. 
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_ _Descr. A tree, with long, twiggy, decurved, angular, 
_ glabrous branches, which are of a brown colour but covered 
with a glaucous pruina, compressed upwards. Leaves, or 
rather leaf-stalks (phyllodia) large, scymitar-shaped, acute, 
with a.curved mucro while young, much attenuated at the 
ase, destitute of gland, three nerved, very glaucous. Pe- 
tole extremely short, scarcely any. Spikes long, cylin- 
drical, pendent, arising several from nearly the same point 
towards the extremity of the branches. Flowers bright 
yellow, very fragrant, orgy Calyx short, deep ete 
