ACACIA Oxycedrus.
Sharp-pointed Acacia.
Linnean Class and Order. POLYGAMIA MONCECIA.
Natural Order. LEGUMIN OS Ai. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93.
Subordo III. seu Ordinis—Tribus VIII. MIMOSEJE. Embryo rectus nempe ra-
dicula super lobos minime prona. Flores strictiore sensu, reguläres, saepe polygami,
rarö omnes hennaphroditi. Sepala 4-5 aequalia, per sestivationem valvata, saepiüs basi
coalita in ealyeem 4-5 dentatum. Petala 4-5 aequalia, per aestivationem valvata, saepis-
sime hypogyna, rariüs imo calyei inserta, nunc libera, nunc plus minus omnia inter se
coalita. Stamina cum petalis inserta, libera aut monadelpha, petalorum numero aequalia
aut multiplicia. Embryonic recti gemmula nulla conspicua. Funiculus umbilicalis
saepiüs tortuosus. Folia abrupte pinnata aut bipinnata. Cotyledones omnium, exceptis
Entada et forsan Ingae speciebus nonnullis, foliaceae exsertae. 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 valdi varia. Spinae stipulares,
sparsa aut nulla. Flores flavi, albi aut rariüs 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. I. Foliis deformatis, nempe: foliolis saepiüs praesertim in plantet adulta
abortivis, petiolis dilatatis filiformibus in Phyllodia nempe mutatis. P hyllodine^ .
DC. loc. cit.
§. 3. Spicatae, floribus nempi in spicas cylindricas dispositis.—Stipula in omnibus
nulla aut minima inermes.
A. Oxycedrus, stipulis spinosis, phyllodiis sparsis aut subverticillatis lanceolato-linea-
ribns acuminato-pungentibus trinerviis glabris, marginibus eglandulosis nervifor-
mibus,spicis axillaribus solitariis elongatis, floribus quadrifidis. DC.prodr. 2. p.453.
Acacia Oxycedrus. Sieb. pi. exs, nov. holl. n. 457. Spreng, syst. veg. 3. p. 136. Swt.hort.
brit. add. p. 483.
A handsome bushy evergreen Shrub : branches spreading,
with cernuous points, thickly clothed with a dense woolly pubescence.
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 innumerable
minute dots, the margins c 2 thickened, but without