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PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES ILLUSTRATED. 



No. viii. — Acacia lanigera, A. Cimn.; B.Fl. ii. 324. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator, Technological 

 Museum, Sydney. 



(Plate xxvii.) 



A rigid shrub of several feet, the branches terete, branchlets 

 often angled and mostly woolly. 



Phyllodia lanceolate, falcate, rigid, thick, dark green, tapering 

 to a pungent point, li to rarely 21 inches long, mostly 2 to 3 

 lines rarely 4 lines broad, in some specimens woolly but in others 

 glabrous ; nerves very prominent, occasionally anastomosing, 

 marginal gland rarely found, except in southern specimens. 



Stipules subulate, about IJ lines long, often persistent, woolly. 



Peduncles axillary, short, weak, solitary, clustered, bearing a 

 globular or elongated head of about 25 flowers, mostly 5-merous. 



Bracts at the base of the peduncles ovate, acuminate, ciliate, 

 woolly. 



Calyx campanulate, with obtuse, thickened, ciliate lobes, not 

 half as long as the corolla. 



Petals smooth, united to the middle. 



Pod about 3 i7iches long, 3 ^o 4 lines broad, very woolly, much 

 twisted, margins not thickened, slightly contracted between the seeds. 



Seeds longitudinal, oblong in the centre of the "pod, the funicle 

 short, with 3 folds, the last fold short, but not thickened under the 

 seed. 



