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Acacia.'] • XL. leguminos^. 335 



Var. ovoidea. Phyllodia slender. Sjiikes very Bhoi't, sometimes reduceil to small ovoid- 

 globular heads. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes narrow. — A. ovoidea, Beiith. in Hook. Loud. 

 Journ. i. 339 ; Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. i. 105, t. 20 ; Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Scr. t. 8. 



Victoria. Grampians, Gipps' Laud, and other parts of the colony, but less frequent than 

 tk cyliudiical-spiked variety, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Amongst grass, etc., in dry places, Woolnorth, Circular Head, etc., /. D. 

 Hooker. 



S. Australia. Not unfreqnent in the colony, extending northward to Mount Remark- 

 able, F. Mueller. 



Distinct as are the Tasmanian specimens from the common variety, the Continental ones 



appear to pass into the more slender forms of the true J. verticillata. 



44. A. Riceana, Kenslo^c, in Maund, Botanist, iii.t. 135. A handsome 

 dark-green, tall shrub or small tree, glabrous with angular branchlets. Ph}l- 

 lodia scattered or almost whorled, linear or subulate, sometimes all rather 

 broad and \ to fin. long, sometimes very narrow, and 1 to 1^ in. long, tapering 

 into pungent points, 1 -nerved. Stipules minute. Spikes slender and loose, 

 often above 1 in. long, the flowers often distant, 3-mcrous or rarely 4-merous, 

 ovoid and obtuse or acute in the bud. Calvx short, with broad obtuse cdiate 

 lobes. Petals smooth, readily separating.' Pod usually curved, acuminate, 

 often 2 to 3 in. long and scarcely l\ lines broad, slightly pubescent when 

 young, but soon glabrous ; valves very convex, coriaceous, contracted between 

 tfie seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle much folded and thickened 

 nearly from the base.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 106 ; J. setigera. Hook Ic. PI. 

 t; 316; A. eryth-opus. Ten. Cat. Hort. Neap. Annot. 77 (from the descrip- 

 tion given) ; A. taxifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1225 ? (from the figure). 



, Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown ; moist shady places in the southern paits of the 

 island, J. D. Hooker. 



, 45. A, axiUaris, Benth. in Book. Lond. Journ. i. 341. Very near the 

 ong-leaved forms of A. Riceana, and perhaps a variety as suggested by 

 !• crueller, but the phyllodia are often still longer, showing faint lateral nerves, 

 and the inflorescence i's different ; the spikes are sessile or nearly so and con- 

 taui but very few flowers, rarely more than 4, otherwise like those ot A. 

 Riceana. I have not as yet seen any intermediate specimens.— Hook. t. ri. 



Tasmania, Ounn ; Brook's Head, St. Paul's River, C. Stuart. 



Series IV. C.^LAMiFORMES.-Phyllodia rarely ^f^'f'^'^J'"'^'^'^^^ 

 narrow-linear or subulate, terete, tetragonous or very slightly flattened, aiti- 

 culate on the stem, obtuse or with short innocuous or recurved points I- or 

 «^veral-neryed. j'lowers in globular heads, on simple axillaiy peduncles or 

 >^/el)' several heads in a short raceme, or irregularly racemose by the abortion 

 « the floral phyllodia. ,. . * . 



,, Although the long slender phyllodia, not broader than thick, .g^-^^^y^^/r^iXt^ith 

 J« .majority of the fpecies included iu this series, a few by the.r more r g>d P ll-^dm ^^^ 

 «™ghler points, pass into the Pungentes, the shorter-leaved ones 'T^'^l'^^J.^'^'il,^. 

 "''^rowest among the KuV...... «;v.ir«//^. some almost Ff 'f ° ^JfJ^JiXTrical not 



S^r''''^ a few of the Julijlorc, only differ in their flower-heads oblong or cylmdr.cal not 



A. Sn^. _ T.i...ii„,i- » ^. ^prvffiw and slender, resembling 



