334 XL, LEGUMiNOs^. [^Acacia, 



6 to 10 flowers, mostly 4-merous. Calyx campaiuilate, with broad short 

 lobes, not half as long as the corolla. Petals quite smooth and readily sepa- 

 rating. Pod unknown.— F. Muell. PL Vict. ii. 9. 



S. Australia. Desert oa the lower Murray, towards Moimt Barker Range, f. 

 3fueHe)\ 



42. A. oxycedrus, Sieb, in DC. Prod, ii. 453. A tall rigid spreading 

 shrub, the branches usually pubescent and nearly terete. . Phyllodia scattered 

 or rarely irregularly verticillate, rigid, tapering into a pungent point, rather 

 broad at the base, ^ to f or rarely above 1 in. long, with 3 or rarely 4 pro- 

 minent nerves on each side. Stipules small, often spinescent. Peduncles 

 short, bearing each a dense cylindrical spike, often above 1 in. long. Flowers 

 mostly 4-merous, ^ Calyx short, the lobes obtuse. Petals sniootli, readily 

 separating. Pod incurved, acuminate and narrowed at the base, about 3 

 lines wide and often above 3 in. long, pubescent or at length glabrous, the 

 valves very convex, striate, thicker and harder than in J. verticUlala, Seeds 

 oblong, longitudinal ; fuuicle much folded, and usually more or less thickened 

 from the base.— Sweet, Fl. Austr. t. 6; Bot. Mag. t. 2928; Eeichb. Icon. 

 Exot. t. 120; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vii. 151, ^vith a fig. ; F. Muell, Ph Vict. 



W. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, JSleder, n. 427, A. Cumiivglmm, Fraser. 

 Victoria. Not uufrequent in heathy tracts throughout the southern part of the colony, 

 ascending also into the mountains, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania, Fltzalan {Herb, F, Mueller, but douhtful). 



S. AustraUa. Between Mount Gambler and RivoU Bav, F, Mueller. 



43. A. yerticiUata, TFllld. Sp. PI. iv. 1049. A shrub, ratlier low 

 and spreading or erect and bushy, sometimes growing into a small tree; 

 branches angular-stiiate, pubescent or rarely glal^-ous. Phyllodia scattered 

 or more often verticillate, linear-subulate, lanceolate or oblong, rigid and ta- 

 pering into a pungent point, about A in. long or shorter, rarely | in. long, 

 with a prominent central nerve and rarely 1 or 2 slender lateral ones. Sti- 

 pnles minute. Peduncles short or slender, bearing each, in the common va- 

 riety, a dense cylindrical spike of ^ to 1 in. long, or rarely longer and loose. 

 J< lowers 4-merous, globular in the bud. Calyx short, broad, irregularly 

 lobed. Petals smooth, united at the base. Pod flat, with slightly thickened 

 margins, straight or curved, acute at each end, 1^ to 2 in. long when perfect, 

 -i lines wide and scarcely contracted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, lon- 

 gitudinal ; funicle much folded, thickened sometimes from the base, but 

 ahvays much more so at the end or about the middle.— J/mosa verticillata, 

 l.Her Sert. Angl. 30; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 63; Bot. Mag. t. 110 ;f 

 verhcillala, DC. Prod. ii. 453; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 535; Hook. f. Fl- 



Westc. Fl. Cab. ii 



Victoria. Port I 

 the colony, F. Mueller 

 Tasmania. 



semiver 



humicl 



Tasmania. Derwent river. Port Dalrymple, and islands of Bass's Straits, i?. Brom: 

 abundant in moist situations throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. 



Q -;'"••• .£'''".• ^''>'""'3'a lanceolate or oblong.-^. rusclfoUa, A. Cnnn. in G. Dou, Gen. 

 Syst. u. 407 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3195 ; A. mcesta, LinJl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. C7. With the com- 

 mon variety, espcciaUy in Tasiuauia. 



