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SOME NEW SOUTH WALES PLANTS ILLUSTRATED. 



By R. T. Baker, Assistant Curator, Technological Museum, 

 Sydney. 



No. iii. Acacia pugioniformis, Wendl. 



(Plate VIII.) 



My object in delineating this species is to record for the first 

 time a description of the pod, hitherto unknown. 



The description of this Acacia in the Flora Australiensis (Vol. 

 ii. p. 338) reads as follows :— 



" A tall glabrous shrub, with slender slightly angular branches. 

 Phyllodia rather numerous, straight or slightly curved, mostly 

 erect, linear-subulate IJ to 2 rarely 3 inches long, abruptly ter- 

 minating in a short straight point, nearly tetragonous by a 

 prominent nerve on each side. Stipules miiaute. Peduncles 

 solitary or 2 together, or 3 lines or rarely ^ inch long, bearing 

 each a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5 merous. 

 Sepals linear-spatulate, ciliate, at length free about ^ as long as 

 the corolla. Petals smooth, with a prominent midrib. Pod 

 unknown." 



To this may be added : — 



Pod varying in length from 1-1| inches, with . a uniform 

 breadth of about 2 lines ; elongated, straight, convex over the 

 seed, and with slightly thickened margins. Seed obovate-oblong, 

 longitudinal, 1^ lines long ; funicle shortly folded and thickened 

 into a small ai'il under the base of the seed. 



Ilab. — Port Jackson to Blue Mountains (Fl. Austr.), La 

 Perouse, Middle Harbour, Woodford, N.S.W. 

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