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ACACIA Oxycedrus. 
Sharp-pointed Acacia. 
Linnean Class and Order. POLYGAMIA MONCCIA. 
Natural Order, LEGUMINOSZE, DC, prodr. 2. p, 93. 
Subordo IIT. seu Ordinis—Tribus VIII. MIMOSEA:. Embryo rectus nempe ra- 
dicula super lobos minimé prona. Flores strietiore sensu, regulares, sepe polygami, 
raro omnes hermaphroditi. Sepala 4-5 wqualia, per estivationem valvata, szpiis basi 
coalita in calycem 4-5 dentatum. Petula 4-5 wqualia, per wzstivationem valvata, sepis- 
simé hypogyna, rarits imo calyci inserta, nunc libera, nunc plus minus omnia inter se 
coalita. Stamina cum petalis inserta, libera aut monadelpha, petalorum numero wqua- 
lia aut multiplicia. Embryonis recti gemmula nulla conspicua, Funiculus umbilicalis 
sepiis tortuosus. Folia abrupté pinnata aut bipinnata. Cotyledones omnium, exceptis 
Entada et forsan Inge speciebus nonnullis, foliacem exserte. DC. prodr. 2, p. 424, 
ACACIA. Flores polygami. Calyx 4-5-dentatus. Petala 4-5, nunc libera, nunc in 
corollam 4-5-fidam coalita. Stamina numero varia 10-200. Legumen continuum exsuc- 
cum bivalve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valdé varia. Spine stipulares, 
sparse aut nulle, Flores flavi, albi aut rariis rubri, capitati aut spicati, decandri aut poly- 
andri, eleutherandri aut monadelphi, petalis 4-5 liberis coalitisve constantes. Genus poly- 
morphum in posterum dividendum? DC, prodr, 2. p, 448. 
Sect.1. Foliis deformatis, nempé: foliolis sepits prasertim in planta adulta 
abortivis, petiolis dilatatis filiformibus in Phyllodia nempé mutatis. PHYLLODINEA, 
DC. loc. cit. 
§. 3. Spicate, floribus nempé in spicas cylindricas dispositis.—Stipule in omnibus 
nulla aut minime imermes, 

A. Oxycedrus, stipulis spinosis, phyllodiis sparsis aut subverticillatis lanceolato-linea- 
ribus acuminato-pungentibus trinerviis glabris, marginibus eglandulosis nervifor- 
mibus, spicis axillaribus solitariis elongatis, floribus quadrifidis. DC, prodr. 2. p.453. 
Acacia Oxycedrus. Sieb. pl. exs. nov, holl,n. 457, Spreng. syst. veg. 3. p. 136. Swt, hort. 
brit, add, p. 483. 
nee EEE EERE 
A handsome bushy evergreen Shrub: branches spreading, 
with cernuous points, thickly clothed with a dense woolly pu- 
bescence. Leaves rigid, horizontally spreading, alternate or in 
whorls, linearly-lanceolate, sessile, broadest towards the base, 
but gradually terminated to a sharp point, which ends in a stiff 
sharp spine, three-nerved from the base, and covered with in- 
numerable minute dots, the margins thickened, but without 
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