/icfwia,] XL. LEGUMINOS.E. 347 



bular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow, linear-spa- 

 thulate, free or shortly united at the base. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. 



W. Australia. Murcliison river, Oldfield. The specimens are small, but the smooth 

 thick phjllodia distinguish them from all the Armata, except some varieties of J. nervosa, 

 from which it is easily known by the broader nhyllodia, less pungent stipules, and much more 

 numerous 5-merous flowers. 



82. A. aspera, Lindl. in MitcJi. Three Exped. ii. 139. A spreading 

 shrub, attcfiiiing several ft., very resinous and rough with a glandular viscid 

 pubescence ; branches rigid, nearly terete, striate. Phyllodia oblong-linear, 

 oblique and more or less undulate, obtuse or with an incurved innocuous 

 point, i to 1 in. or rarely 1^ in. long, with a central nerve and sh'ghtly 

 tbickened nerve-like margins. Stipules small, setaceous. Peduncles solitary 

 or in pairs, not above ^ in. long, rather thick, bearing each a dense globular 

 bead of 30 to 50 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts usually acuminate 

 and protruding beyond the buds. Sepals spathulate, glandular-pubescent at 

 tlie end, more or less united to the middle. Petals smooth, glabrous, united 

 to the middle. Pod linear, curved, gland ular-hispid, 1 to 2 in. long, about 3 

 lines broad, contracted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal, oval-oblong ; 

 fnnicle with short folds, the last 2 thickened into an almost cup-shaped ard 

 at the base of the seed.— F. Muell. PI. Vict. ii. 21 ; J- erythrocephala, A. 

 Cnnn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jouru. i. 362 (a narrow-leaved form), 



N. S. 'Wales. Lachlan river, J. (7«»»«w^/^^'«- , /• j i j „^ 



Victoria. Junction of the Loddon and Murray, SUtckell ; open barren forest-lauds and 



«rabby ridges, Serra and Victoria ranges. Gramnians, Forest Creek, Black Forest, Goulbuiu 



Va 

 ^miuate. 



Jrok-en nvers, F. Mueller. ., t, . ^ Tn« 



^.densifolia. Phvllodia smaller." Flower-heads almost sessile. Bracts mucti less 



iuate.-J. drigosa,Uy^^. in Mitch. Three Esped. ii. 185, not of Lmk; A. densijoha, 

 *nth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 360.— Near Mount Zero, ^htchell. ,., 



This species has been sometimes confounded with A. /nspldula v>h^A is however re.adiy 

 Juown by the tubereulatc almost denticulate margins of the phyllodia, the smaller heads «itli 

 fewer flowers and especially by its short broad thick straight 1- or 2-seeded pod. 



S3. A. armata, B. Br. in Ait. Ilort. Ketc.ed. 3. v. 463 A ^all bushy 

 sfrub, attaining sometimes 10 ft. or more ; branches angular-stnate, hirsu^- 

 Pubescent or rarely glabrous. Phyllodia semiovate, obliquely oblong or n- 

 curved-lanceolate, Undulate, obtuse or with a very short obhque point « th a 

 I'^arly central midrib and pinnate veins, varying from 4 hues to above 1 m^ 

 ^ length, and in breadth from one-fifth to nearly half tl'^^'-i^'^^^ •*•. .^r'' 

 Jf «ight, divaricate and spincscent, often 4 to 5 lines long ^f ^^^^^If^^^^^^^^ 

 ^"^out as long as the phyllodia, bearing a globular head of rathei «ro"« f " 

 70US flowers. Calyx thin, lobed, but not usually separatmg into sepals 

 Jout half as long as the cm-olla. Petals narrow ghibrous ^^^^-^J^^ 

 K-ht or curved, H to 2 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, not ^^"^r-ted^be. 

 f^^eu the seeds, softly villous or rarely glabrous or hispid. See^ oblon 



^ptudinal, the funicle slightly dilated nearly f^'O'^ /b^^'^^^' /"S t 55 

 foMs, scarcely more thickened under the seed.-Bonpl. Jard- Malm, t 5 5 

 J,V^od. ii. 449; Bot. Mag.t. 1653; Lodd. Bot^ Cab t. 49 F. Muell. 

 ^*- Vict. ii. 3 ; ^./«r«7.ra, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. u. 267. 



no?I- ^- ^^^-- Blue Mountains and in the interior to Peel's Kaage, A. Cunmngham ; 

 "orthward to New England, C. Stuart. 



