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Acacia.] XL, leguminos^, . 343 



linear-subulate, terete, ^vitliout prominent nerves, but often a slight furrow 

 Tiiiderneath, recurved at the end and obtuse or with a minute point, about 4 

 to 6 lines long. Stipules minute or none. Peduncles rather longer than the 

 phyilodia, bearing a veiy small head of 10 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merou3 

 and scarcely | line long. Calyx fully half as long as the corolla, with acu- ' 

 niinate teeth. Petals with a prominent midrib, but not striate. Pod falcate, 

 narrowed at eacli end, 1^ to 2 lines broad, hard, longitudinally striate. Seeds 

 not seen. 



N. Australia. N. coast, H. Brown^ without the precise station. The aspect of the 

 plant is that of A . suhteryiata^ but the phyllodia are verticillate as in the preceding species, 

 although fewer in the whorl. 



69. A, subternata, F, Mvell. in Journ. Linn, Soc, iii. 124. A gla- 

 brous shrub of 3 to 5 ft. ; branchlets angular, sulcate, slightly viscid when 

 young. Phyllodia mostly in clusters of 2, 3 or 4, linear-terete or veiy slightly 

 compressed, with short recurved or hooked points, 3 to 6 lines long, without 

 prominent nerves and scarcely furrowed. Stipules minute or none. Pedun- 

 cles scarcely longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of nume- 

 rous flowers, mostly 5-merous. ' Sepals rather rigid, linear-spathulate, fully 

 half as long as the corolla, united in a. 5 -nerved cup at the base.' Petals 

 slightly striate, united to the middle. Pod flat, rigidly coriaceous, much 

 narro\yed into a long stipes, about 2 lines liroad in the upper part, somevyhat 

 viscid, very obliquely striate, with thickened margins and oblique paiiitions 

 between the seeds. Seeds oblong, obliquely transverse ; funicle straight, 

 gradually thickened from the base to the end. 



H. Australia. Table land, Upper Victoria river, F. Muelkr. Some young specimens 

 or Leichhardfs aBnear to hfi rpfprnhlfi to the same snecies. 



'^ appear to be referable to the same species. 



70. A. brcmiades 



A heath- 

 tely pubescent. Phyllodia 



crowded, but scattered or irregularly verticillate, linear-terete, 2 to 4 Imes 

 ^ong, with short straight points, without prominent nerves or furrows. Sti- 

 pules minute or none. Peduncles longer than the phyllodia, beanng each a 

 globular head of rather small flowers, mostly 5-ffierous. Calyx turbmate, 

 ^^gular, half as long as the corolla, with short obtuse minutely cdiate lobes, 

 mals free, smooth with rather prominent midribs. Pod not seen. 



Q^eensla,id. Brisbane river, A, Cunninghim ; Mounts Hooker and Lindsay, Fraser. 



71; A. conferta*. A. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Land. Journ, i. 315. A 

 *aU heath.Jike shrub, witli terete slightly pubescent brandies. Phyllodia 

 ^'■o^yded, scattered or irregularly verticillate, linear, compressed, 3 to 4 or 

 f^^e y 5 lines long, ri-id, mostly obtuse, without nerves or with slightly 

 thickened nerve-like margins, i to 1 line broad. Stipides minute or none. 

 J'^^cluncles longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of nume- 

 ?."^ small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear-spathulate, dislinct or 

 *J'f?htly united at the base. Petals distinct, smooth, but with slightly promi. 

 ^ent midribs. Pod very flat, stipitate, obtuse, 1 to U "^-J^"S' font 5 lines 

 'rf^a, glaucous. Seeds nearly ttansverse, ovate, the last fold of the funicle 



«'^^ted into a cup-shaped ai'il. . . . 



Vtieeasland, Shoalwater Bay, i?. Brown ; Dawson river, F. Mueller ; tnbutaries of 



