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ACACIA RUSCIFOLIA. Butcner’s-Broom- 
LEAVED ACACIA. 
ea eee Ge oe 
Class and Order. 
Potyeamia Monaecia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lxeuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Pet, A—5, nune 
libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. numero 
varia, 1O—200. Legumen continuum, exsuccum, bivalve. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Acacta ruscifolia ; stipulis spinosis deciduis, phyllodiis ver- 
ticillatis sparsisve ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve acutis 
mucronatis obscure 2—3-nerviis, mucrone recto pun- 
gente, spicis (cylindraceis) solitariis axillaribus pedi- 
cellatis, pedicello phyllodii dimidium aquante, ramulis 
marginibusque superioribus phyllodiorum cinereo- 
hispidis, floribus quadrifidis. unningh. 
Acacia ruscifolia, Allan Cunningh. MSS. 
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Descr. A shrub, much branched in a straggling man- 
ner, the old branches terete, clothed with a brown, naked 
bark; the younger ones downy, with green prominent 
angles. Leaves (Phyllodia) horizontally patent, rarely 
: solitary or in pairs, almost constantly verticillate, five or 
_ six in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, very harsh and rigid, ter- 
_ Minated with a rigid spine, dark-green, entire, slightly pu- 
descent, especially at the margin, which is thickened, 
- furnished with a pale, on both sides prominent, midrib, 
and beneath besides with two obscure longitudinal nerves, — 
| Scarcely observable but in the dried state. Flowers ar- 
ranged in dense, solitary, axillary, oblyngo-cylingaa 
