Acacia.] XL. leguminos^. 339 



56, A. juncifolia, Beufh, in. Hook. Loud. Journ. i. 341. A tall gla- 

 brous shrub, with slender branches, quite terete, Phyllodia linear-subulate, 

 fcrect or spreading, slightly flattened with a scarcely prominent nerve on each 

 side, 3 to 6 in. long or even more, with a very short erect or curved point or 

 obtuse. Stipules minute. Peduncles solitary or 2 together, rarely J in. long, 

 bearing each a small globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. 

 Sepals spathulate, at length free, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, 

 witiiout the prominent midrib of A. pngimiformis. Pod straight, flat or 

 nexuous, often 3 or 4 in. long, 1^ to 2 lines wide. Seeds obovate-oblong, 

 longitudinal; funicle not folded, slightly thickened towards the end.— ^. 

 pinifoUa, Benth. in Mitch. Trop, Austr. 342. 



, ^* Australia. Islaucls of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; barren stony places on 

 the Macarthur, Gulf of Carpeutaria, F. Mueller. 



Queensland, E, coast, R, Brown; Port Boweu, A. Cunriing^ham ; near Mount 

 nuto, Mitchell; also in LeichhardCs collection. 



N. S. Wales. Barren lauds, N.VV. interior, Mlichell, A, Cunninghavny Eraser. 



Var. pfanifolla. Phyllodia flatter, nearly a line broad, with a more prominent miJrib, 

 «imost like those of J. suhulata, but the peduncles all simple.— In MitchelVs collection. 



57. A. calamifolia. Sweet, in LindL BoL Reg. L 839. A tall shrub, 

 glabrous and often glaucous or slightly menly, the branches rather slender 

 and terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate, in the northern specimens very slender 

 ""^ mostly 3 to 4 in. long, in the more southern ones usually about 2 in. 



from that \c\ R in rov/iKr olirt-+or an/^l flipn offpTi sli'ditlv flattened and 



and 



ana from that to 3 in., rarely shorter, and then often slightly flattened i 

 nearly 1 line broad but thick,' scmetimes slender as in the long ones, alwi 



|apering into a fine recurved point which only wears away with age, 



Jess or with one fine nerve on each side. Flower-heads globular, small 



always 



V 



nerve- 

 siiiallcr than 



pugiotM 



^lowers numerous, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin and transparent, with 

 snort, broad, ciliate lobes, often splitting into spathulate sepals. Petals 

 smooth, distinct. Pod often 5 or 6 in. long, usuaUy curved, 2 to 2^ hues 

 "'■oad but much contracted between the distant seeds, the valves hard and 

 convex over the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle long, often al- 

 f'^f encircling the seed, then bent back and returning within the previous 

 iWd, thickened at the end into a long clavate or shortly turbinate fleshy aril, 

 -^odd. Bot. Cab. t. 909 • F. Muell. PI. Vict. ii. 12 ; A. pulvendenla, A. 

 °?-i Benth. in Hook. Loud. Journ. i. 342 (the shorter-leaved southern 



Cu 

 "Fcimens) . 



r^- S- Wales. la the interior, on the Macquarrie, Lachlan, etc., A. Cunmngham, 



f^'"' ^^tehell; Liverpool plaius, C. Moore; also in Leichhardes collection. 



Victoria. N„j unfremient in the N.W. desert, T. Mueller. ^ „ , ^ ^ , , 



e,t, \^'»stralia. Desert land from the Murray to Speiicer's Gulf and Kangaroo Island, 



ending northward to Lake Torrens, F. Mueller and others. . 



. J*^. V^lheUndana. Phyllodia sh;rter, peduncles longer.-f WMelmuana, F. Muell. 



rr!^^'''- ^.^"- I"«t. Vict. i. 37.-S. Australia, R Brown, F.Mueller. . 



Jer the name of A. neLtopkylla, F. Muell.. I had, m Linn.-ca xivi. 612 (o.ing 



Eh^th" ' ^™"S »«^<^1 °"gi"all3- ^ent with F. Mueller's specimens). <^»?f°"f ,f /J^' .l'"^' *^ 

 *«J« the northern A . Bynoeana, which is at once known by the venalioa of the phyllodia. 



.58. A. scirpifolia, Meum. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 10. Quite glabrous or 

 ^•^e young shoots veiy sparingly pubescent ; branchlets angular. Phyllodia 



