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ACACIA lunata. 
Lunate-leaved Acacia. 
0 Samim = 
Linnean Class and Order. POLYGAMIA MONCECIA, 
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSA‘. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. 
Subordo III. seu Ordinis.—Tribus VIII. MIMOSEZ. DC. 1.c. 2. p. 424. 
ACACIA. Supra fol. 6. 
Sect. I. Foliis deformatis, nempé: foliolis sepiiis presertim in planta adulta 
abortivis, petiolis dilatatis filiformibus in Phyllodia nempé mutatis. PoyLLODINE#. 
DC. 1. c.2. p. 448. 
§. 2. Capitato-racemose, floribus nempé in capitula globosa collectis, capitulis sects 
pedunculum axillarem racemosis.— Stipule omnium subnulle aut inermes. 
A. lunata, phyllodiis dimidiato-oblongis subfalcatis basi angustatis mucrone calloso 
oblique terminatis infra medium ad latum convexius glandula minuta instructis, 
ramisque glabris, capitulorum racemis phyllodiolongioribus. DC. prodr. 2. p. 452- 
453. 
Acacia lunata. Lodd. bot. cab. 384, Swt. hort. brit. p.101. Spreng. syst. veg.3. p. 135. 
Sieb. pl. exs. nov. holl. n. 461. 
Acacia brevifolia, Lodd. bot. cab. 1235. 

Stem shrubby, with long slender branches, scarcely strong 
enough to support their weight when loaded with flowers : 
branches slightly angular, smooth, punctate. Leaves glaucous, 
varying on different plants, from half an inch to an inch in 
length, more or less falcate, sometimes quite lunate, others very 
slightly so, narrowing to the base, and broader towards the 
point, one-nerved, terminating obliquely with a callous mucro, 
on the upper edge near the base is a small brown gland, below 
which it is fringed with short glandular hairs, Petzoles short 
and thick. Flowers golden yellow, almond-scented, fertile and 
barren intermixed. ARacemes longer than the leaves, each pro- 
ducing several heads of flowers. Peduncles rigid, smooth, punc- 
tate. Pedicles smooth, with a short brown bracte at the base 
of each. Heads generally 4 or 5-flowered. Calyx shallowly 
5-toothed. Petals 5, ovate, erect or slightly spreading. Sta- 
mens numerous: filaments and anthers bright yellow. Ova- 
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