Tas. 4573. 
ACACIA vropHy.ua. 
Pointed-leaved Acacia. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—PotyGamia PoLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4306.) 
Acacta (§ Armate) urophylla; glabra v. hispidula, ramulis angulatis, stipulis 
setaceo-spinescentibus, phyllodiis petiolatis dimidiato-ovatis lanceolatisve 
obliquis subulato-acuminatis undulatis margine superiore sepius crenato 
binerviis v. fureato-3-4-nerviis transversim yenosis reticulatisve, glandula 
prope basin magna, pedunculis simplicibus (v. breviter racemosis), capi- 
tulis paucifloris glabris, Benth. 
Acacia urophylla. Benth. in Bot. Reg. 1841. Misc. .61. et in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. of Bot. v.1. p. 329.  Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v. 1. p. 8. 
Acacia smilacifolia. Fielding, Sertum Plantarum, t. 3. (1848). 
8. glaberrima ; foliis pallidioribus, floribus magis luteis. 
Would that all the species of the vast groupe of phyllodineous 
Acacie were as easily defined as this. The phyllodia are here 
of a very peculiar character, generally broad ovate, subfalcate, 
almost spinescently acuminated, with longitudinal and transverse 
nerves, as in Smilax, whence the appropriate. name of Mr. 
Fielding. The plant was raised from seeds sent in 1843, by 
Mr. Drummond, from the Swan River Colony (Preiss says, about 
Canning’s River and the Darling range of hills). It flowers in 
January and February. 
Descr. A moderate-sized shrub, with angular branches, and, 
the young phyllodia especially, pubescenti-hirsute. Phyllodia 
obliquely ovate, slightly falcate (the edges vertical), acuminated 
into a slender setaceous or spinulose point, hairy in a, glabrous 
in our 8, the upper edge obscurely crenate, the two surfaces 
marked with three nearly equidistant nerves, united by trans- 
verse ones, tapering at the base more or less gradually into a 
rather short footstalk, which bears a conspicuous gland at its sum- 
mit above. Stipules two, minute, subulate, red, spmescent. Pe- 
duncles two to five from one axil, each much shorter than the leaf, 
APRIL Ist, 1851. 
