ACACIA.f 
(Necker, Wield.) 
Natural Order , Leguminos^. Linncean Classification , 
PoLYGAMIA, MoNCECIA. 
Flowers polygamous, perfect and staminiferous.— Calyx 4 to 5- 
toothed. Petals 4 to 5, distinct or united into a monopetalous 
4 to 5-cleft corolla. Stamens from 8 or 10 to 200. Legume 
without interruptions between the seeds, dry, (without pulp,) 
and 1-valved. 
These are trees and shrubs principally of warm or mild cli- 
mates, with or without stipular or scattered spines. The leaves 
are usually small and variously pinnated, sometimes (particularly 
in the New Holland species) the true leaves in the adult are 
abortive, and the simple leafy petioles, called phyllodes, alone 
supply their place. Flowers often yellow, more rarely white or 
red, disposed in spherical heads or in spikes. 
BROAD-PODDED ACACIA. 
ACACIA latisiliqua, inermis glabra, pinnis 5-jugis,foliolis 
10-1 5-jugis ellipticis obtusis,stipulis bracteiformibus dimi - 
diato-cordatis, capitulis pedunculatis aggregatis in pani - 
culam terminalem subdispositis , legumine longe stipitata , 
plana , utrinque acuta . — Decand. Prod., vol. 2. p. 467. 
Acacia latisiliqua, inermis , foliis bipinnatis partialibus 
quinquejugis , ramis flexuosis , gemmis globosis. Linn. Sp. 
t An ancient Greek name, from ***£», to point , or sharpen , 
many of the species being thorny. 
