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332 XL. LEauMiNOs.i:. [Acacia. 



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in. long, about 2 lines broad, usually contracted between the seeds. Seeds 

 longitudinal, the funicle but little folded and filiform to the end. — Mimosa 

 juniperina. Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 64; M. ulicina, Wendl. Coll. ii. 25, t. 6; 

 M. nUcifoUa, Salisb; Prod. 324^?; A, juniperina^ Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 398; 

 DC. Prod. ii. 449 ; Hook, f. Fl. Tasm. i. 105 ; P. Muell. PL Vict. ii. 7 ; A. 

 verticillata, Sieb. PL Exs. not of Willd. ; A. echinula^ DC* Prod. ii. 449; 

 A. pungens^ Spreng. Syst. iii. 134. 



Queensland. Morctou Island and Brisbane river, P. Mueller. 



N. S. "Wales.- Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, i2. Brown^ Sieber, n. 447, 449, 

 and Fl. Mijrt.n, 602, and others; northward to New England, <7. Stuart^ and Clarence 

 river, Beckler ; southward to Twofold Bayi F, Mueller. 



Victoria. R ^cky' especially granitic hills, IVIoutit Hunter, Corner Inlet, Mount Liger, 

 Genoa river, Muddy Creek, Grampians, etc., F, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown'; light sandy soil near George Town and "West 

 lead, /. B. Hooker. 



Var. Brownei. Branches glabrous ; peduncles slender. — A. acicularis^ R. Br^ in Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 460, not' of Willd. ; altered to A. pugiomforwls by Weudl. in Flora 

 1819, 139, but ^oi J. pugionlformis, Wendl. Comm. ; A. Browniiy Steud. ; DC. Prod. ii. 

 449 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1333 ; A, arceutkos, Spreng. Syst. iii. 134.— Port Jackson, Bleler, 

 «. 463 and others. 



A. genisfifoliu, Link, Eimm. Ilort. Berol. ii. 443 ; DC. Prod. ii. 449, above referred with 

 doubt to A. trinervala, may, from the very incomplete description given, be almost equally 

 referable to some iovm& of A. ju?iiperina: 



37. A. asparagoides, J. Cunn. in Field, N. S. JFales, 343. A gla- 

 brous rigid shrub ; branches nearly terete. Phjllodia spreading, linear-subu- 

 late, thick and rigid, tapering into a pungent point, ^ to | in. long, with a 

 prominent nerve on each side, and a scarcely prominent glandular angle at the 

 base on the upper edge. Stipules minute. Flower-heads almost sessile, soli- 

 tary, globular, with about 20 to 30 small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepa 3 

 liriear, slightly spathulate, cohering at fiist, but readily separating. Petiils 

 distinct, narrowed into a claw at the base, smooth, without any prominent 

 nerve. Pod unknown. 



Iff. Sli' Wales Rare on the rocky verge of Regent's Gleti, Blue Mountaius, A. Curt' 

 mngham. 



__ 38. A. tenuifolia, I. Muell. in Trans. FJtil. Soc. FicL i. 37 ; PI- ^''^J- 

 ii. 8. A diffuse or procumbent shrub; branches terete, glabrous or pubescent. 

 Phyllodia linear-subulate, rigid but slender, tapering into a pungent point, 

 with a strong Yaised nerve on each side, rarely above ^ in. long. Stipules 

 small, deciduous. Peduncles slender, shorter than the leaves, bearing each a 

 globular head of about 20 small flowers, mostly 4.merous. Sepals free or 

 united at the base only, small and narrow. Petals soon separating, smooth, 

 the midrib scarcely prominent. Pod straight or curved, scarcely contrac^ea 

 between the seeds, 1 to 2 in. long and nearly 2 lines broad, the valves convex. 

 Seeds ovate, longitudinal, the last short fold of tlie funicle and sometimes . 

 part of the next thickened into a small aril. 



Victoria. Dry Stringy-bark and Iron-bark Ranges towards the Upper Yar™. /J^^ 

 burr., Broken and Ovens rivers, and near Ballarat, F. AlueUer. Readily distiiiguished tro 

 A.J imiperma, which it resembles, by the 4-meraus flowers, the i)etals not ribbed, ana 

 thickened fuuicles. 



39. A. diffusa. Lindl. Bnl Ti^n / fi?i^ A crlnl^mns divaricately-branched 





