1#0 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY OF ACACIAS, BASED ON THE EOLIAGE 



* 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 | inch wide ; branches 



angular. Neeple-leaved Acacia (170) — Acacia difitisa. 

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

 Broom Wattle (171) — Acacia calamifblia. 



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

 angular or winged. Long-leaved Acacia (172) — Acacia 

 ext^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- 

 Koo Thorn (173) — Acacia armJita. 



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

 B. Leaves J-l inch long. (F.) 

 F. Branches round and hairy ; leaves linear with hooked 

 point. Small-leaved Acacia (174) — Acacia lineita. 

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

 G. riower-stems about as long as the leaves. Blunt- 

 leaved Acacia (175) — Acacia acinJicea. 

 G. Flower-stem shorter than the leaves. Meissnek's 

 Acacia (176) — Acacia Meissneri. 

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



brachybbtrya argyrophylla. 

 E. Leaves 1^-4 inches long and blunt. Shining Acacia 

 (177) — Acacia dodonEeifblia. 

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

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

 H. Clusters of heads decidedly longer than the leaves ; leaves less 

 than 1 inch long. (I.) 

 I. Leaves obliquely lanceolate with minute point. Small-leaved 



Acacia (174) — Acacia lineita. 

 I. Leaves triangular with thickened edges, J-| inch long. 



Knife-leaved Acacia (178) — Acacia cultrifdrmis. 

 I. Leaves curved, obovate, less than J inch long. Trapezoid- 

 LEAVED Acacia (179) — Acacia pravissima. 

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

 J. Leaves linear, straight and thin, l-lj inches long. Narrow- 

 leaved Acacia (180) — Acacia linif61ia. 



