324 



XL. LEGTJMINOS^. [Acacia. 



broadly toothed, about half as lono^ as the corolla, Petals free, striate. Pod 

 shortly stipitate, linear, curved, flat with slightly thickened margins, about \\ 

 lines broad ; valves convex over the seed and contracted between them. Seeds 

 longitudinal, the funicle expanded into a broadly clavate lateral aril, and 

 scarcely folded below it.— F. Muell.Pl. Vict. ii. 3. 



N. S. 'WT'ales. In the S.W. interior, Fraser. 

 Victoria. Desert tracts of tlie N.W.of ^le colony, F, Mueller. 

 S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown; Encounter Buy, Whiitaker ; Murray 

 desert, Onkaparinga river, Barossa ranges and towards St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller. 



B. Plurinerves.— Phyllodia 2- or more nerved, or terete and nerveless. 

 Heads globular. 



"Where the phyllodia are terete and 2-nerved, the total number of apparent nervea is 6, 2 

 on each side, and the 2 nerve-like edges of the phyllodium nearly equally prominent. 



12. A. latipes, Bcnth. in HooJc. Land. Journ. i. 334. A glabrous rigid 

 shrub, very nearly allied to A. cochlearls, and perhaps a variety, differing 

 chiefly in the thick rigid phyllodia more divaricate, &nd attached by a broad 

 base, rarely 1 in. long, about 1 line broad, with 3 or 4 prominent nerves as 

 in that species. Peduncles about 1 to 2 lines long, bearing a globular head 

 of 30 to 4,0 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-linear.jntli 

 spathulate concave tips. Petals rather firm, smooth, united above the middle. 

 Pod not seen. 



TV. Australia. Swau. River, Drummond ; Darling range, Oldfeld. 



13. A. cochlearis, JFendl. Comm. Acac. 15. A rigid shrub of several 

 ft., glabrous and often somewhat viscid, or the young shoots woQlly-pu»es- 

 cent. Phyllodia linear or linear-lanceolate, rigid, tapering into a pinigeni 

 point, 1 to 11 or rarely 2 in. long, rarely above 2 lines broad, more or les^ 

 narrowed at the base, with 3 or 4 not very prominent nerves on each side. - 

 duncles solitary or 2 together, 2 to 3 lines long or rarely more, bearing 3 g^^' 

 bular head of numerous (above 30) flowers, mostly 5-inci:ou3. Sepals narro , 

 spathulate, free. Petals smooth, free. Pod about 1 to 2 in. 'ong:/ '^ , 

 wide, flat with tfiickened margins. Seeds longitudinal, the fiii'ifr'^ *'^'^p- ^^^ 

 fit the end, but not seen perfect.— DC. Prod. ii. 451 ; Meissn. in n. ^^ ,- 

 i. 11; Mimosa cocJilearis, LabiU. PI. Nov. HoU. ii. 85, t. 234; A.egm 

 losa, DC. Mem. Leg. 445 ; Prod. ii. 450 (from the diagnoses givenj. ^^^^ 



W. Australia. King George's Sound to Vasse and Swan rivers, ^'^f^"''^'^[^' 

 field, Lrammoud, \sl Coll. and 2>id Coll. n. 139, Prehs, n. 933 and ^^^'J""', ° ' with 



A. Benthamii, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 11, ii. 202, is a slight variety, qmte g^''" j,(' iyl- 

 narrower phyllodia ; A. Meroclita, Meissn., is nearly allied, but has much J**^ P^ .'^.^ laced 

 lodia, with the points usually recurved, and 2 or 3 prominent nerves, and is tner 

 amongst Plurinerves oligoneura. , 



14. 4u lanigera, A. Cimn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 345. A rigja ^.^^^^ 

 of several feet, the young shoots usually woolly-p'Aescent. ^1 ")' ^'^. V. 2 in. 

 or lanceolate, rigid,' tapering into a pungent point, 1 to Ii or '"^'^ 'tonio- 

 long, mostly 2 to 3 lines broad, with several nerves, occasionally a^^^^^^^ ^^ 

 si ig or all parallel. Peduncles exceedingly short, solitary, ^J °=^^^]y 5. 

 almost clustered, bearing a globular head of about 30 A^^^^!"^' jgnV as 

 merous. Calyx campanulate, with broad obtuse lobes, not halt gin, 

 the corolla. Petals smooth, united to the middle. Pod attaiuuig 



