140 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY OF ACACIAS, BASED ON THE FOLIAGE 



* Leaves usually simple and alternate (in one species whorled). (A). 

 A. Flowers in globular and nearly solitary axillary heads. (B.) 

 B. Leaves very slightly flattened and thus nearly cylindric. (C.) 

 C. Leaves less than 2 inches long and J inch wide ; branches 



angular. NEEDLE-LEAVED ACACIA (170) Acacia diffusu. 

 C. Leaves 3-4 inches long with short recurved or oblique point. 

 BROOM WATTLE (171) Acacia calamifolia. 



C. Leaves 3-8 inches long, slender and 4-sided ; branches 

 angular or winged. LONG-LEAVED ACACIA (172) Acacia 

 exte'nsa. 



B. Leaves decidedly flattened and 1- or few-veined, 4 inches or less 

 long. (D.) 



D. Stipules forming slender spines ; leaves 1 inch long. KANGA- 

 ROO THORN (173) Acacia armata. 



D. Stipules not forming spines, or no stipules. (E.) 

 E. Leaves \-l inch long. (F.) 



F. Branches round and hairy ; leaves linear with hooked 

 point. SMALL-LEAVED ACACIA (174) -- Acacia lineata. 

 F. Branches angular and free from hairs. (G. ) 



G. Flower-stems about as long as the leaves. BLUNT- 

 LEAVED ACACIA (175) Acacia acinacea. 

 G. Flower-stem shorter than the leaves. MEISSNER'S 



ACACIA (170) Acacia Meissneri. 

 E. Leaves often an inch long (to 1^ inches) and blunt. Acacia 



brachybotrya argyrophylla. 

 E. Leaves l|-4 inches long and blunt. SHINING ACACIA 



(177) Acacia dodonseif61ia. 

 A. Flowers usually in numerous globular heads in axillary clusters ; 



leaves 2 inches or less long, 1-few-veined. (H.) 

 H. ( 'lusters of heads decidedly longer than the leaves ; leaves less 



than 1 inch long. (I.) 

 I. Leaves obliquely lanceolate with minute pojnt. SMALL-LEAVED 



ACACIA (174) Acacia lineata. 

 I. Leaves triangular with thickened edges, !-;{ inch long. 



KNIFE-LEAVED ACACIA (178) Acacia cultrif6rmis. 

 I. Leaves curved, obovate, less than inch long. TRAPKZOID- 



LKAVED ACACIA (179) Acacia pravfssima. 

 H. flusters of heads only about as long as the leaves. (J.) 



J. Leaves linear, straight and thin, 1-1 \ inches long. NAKROW- 

 I.I.AVKD ACACIA (180) Acacia linifolia. 



