343 



XL. LEGUMlNOSiE. [Acacia. 



smooth margins. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle folded and thickened 

 at the end into a turbinate aril, but not seen perfect. 



MV. Australia. Soutlern districts, Brummond, Mh Coll. n. 4 ; among roclss, Fitz- . 

 gerald Range, Mount Bland, etc., Maxwell. 



65. A. lycopodifolia, A. Cunfi. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 172. A much- 

 branched diffuse or divaricate shrub, clothed with very short spreading hairs 

 and more or less viseid. Phyllodia verticillate, about 8 to 10 in the whorl, 

 subulate, rarely above 3 lines long and often only 1 to 2 lines, sulcale with a 

 prominent vein on each side, erect at the base, recurved at the end with a fine 



g,labrous viscid point, sometimes very short, sometimes nearly as long as the 

 phyllodium. Stipules setaceous. Peduncles longer than the phyjlodia, 

 bearing each a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous, the bracts 

 protruding when young. Calyx very short, with small acute teeth. Petals 

 several times as long, striate, pubescent, united above the middle, loci 

 sessile or very shortly contracted at the base, quite flat, straight or slightly 

 curved, 1 to 1^ in. long, 2^ to 3 lines broad. Seeds nearly orbicular, ob- 

 Hque, the last fold of the funicle thickened into a fleshy aril. 



N. Australia. Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, A. Cunnimjham ; Haramersley Range, 

 Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition; Victoria river, Bynoe, F. Mueller; Arnliem^b. cay. 

 i?. £row«; also in Ze?'e/(^«r</if'i collection. \ nofr 



Var. glahrescens. Pubescence mucli shorter or disappearing. Phyllodia rather lon^c , 

 but sulcata, with recurved points, as in the ordinary form. Calyx rather more proiuiueu. 

 Pod sessile.—^, as^erulacea, P. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 123.— Victoria nve), ■ 



Lond. Journ. i. 344. 



. ...o...., „... ,.......a.., ou...„.., o...... ^..j , as in J, lycopodifolui. 



of which it may possibly prove a variety, but the phyllodia are much longer, 

 attaining 5 or 6 lines, straiglit not recurved at the end, and the calyx, tm^^j 

 membranous, is at least one-third as long as the corolla. Petals stria e 

 pod sessile, as in A. lycopodifolia. . 



K. Australia. Usborne's Harbour, N.W. coast, Voyaye of the Beagle ; At c 



Creek, M^Douall Stuarfs Expedition. , • -j ^^A 



A fragment from M'Douall Stuart's Expedition differs in the phyllodia more ng^^^ ^^_ 



short, but with the same strui^^ht poiuts, the atems more viscid, awnless, P"^^^f ^ Jj j^ the 

 pccially in the extreme tenuily of the calyx, which it is rather difficult to tind, au 

 petals membranous and smooth, as in 4. cedroides^ but broader and glabrous 



Mueller, 



A. hiDDuroides. Seward 



A 



Pubescent or 



tomcntose, with verticillate tinely subulate ptiyiioaia, as m A. ^y^^P^.}^^^^ 

 but the phyllodia are more slender, slightly striate only, not s^lcate ^vllu^^^^^ 

 miiient nerves, 2 to 5 lines long, recurved at the end but apparently v^^^ ^^^ 

 viscid points, blowers mostly 5-merons, in globular heads on P^^^"^-^,j as 

 ceeding the leaves, as in that species, but the calyx is at 1^^^* /^^^^ o iji^es. 

 long as the corolla, and the pod is always borne on a stipes of 3 to ^ 



W. Australia. Victoria river, F. mielhr ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Brown ; and a variety with rather stouter phyllodia, Sweers Island, Henne, 



68. A. Baueri, Benth in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 344. -*^PP^^^^^^^^^^ 

 undershrub, with erect or ascending stems, under 1 ft. high, the tere ^^r^^ 

 lets minutely pubec,ccnt, otherwise glabrous. Phyllodia in whorls o 



