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XL. LEGUMINOSJE. [Jcacia. 



Victoria. Barren ridges from near Port Phillip lo Goulburn and Broken rivers, near 

 lorest Creek and towards the mouth of the Glenelg, F. Mueller. 



S. Australia. From the Murray to Spencer^s and St. Vincent s Gulfs and Mount Kc- 

 markable, T, Mueller; Kangaroo Island, R. Brown, Waterhowse. ,, , . 



MT. Australia. King George's Sound (or to the K^), Baxter; Murchison river, 



Old field. 1 •' 1 Afx J J ? 4 



Var. angusUfoVm. Phyllodia narrower.— J. pamdora, DC. Prod. ii. 449 ; A. undutata 



Wild. Enum. Hort. Berol. Supj)!. 68 ; Weiidl. Comm. Acac. t. 3 ; Bot. Reg. t. 843 ; Lodd. 



Bot. Cab. t. 753 ; Reichb. Ic. et Descr. PI. t. 89. n • • • , . t. 



This species is now an old inmate of our gardens, whefe it vanes much, and is said to nave 

 been frcqnentlv hybridized. Some of these forms have a second nerve to some or all me 

 pbyllodia, or have the stipules very small or none. The.se garden forms include J orwiWs- 

 phora, Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 24; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. ]469 ; A. hMa,UM._ Bot. Ub. t. 

 1312 ; A. wicracaniha, Dietr. in Allgem. Gart. Zeit. i. 83 ; A. tnMis, Grah. in Bot. m^- 

 t. 3420. It is pussible that a few of the Western or out-of-tlie-way stations given for tne 

 species, may have been erroneously founded on cultivated specimens sent as wild; 



84. A. idiomorpha, A. Cunn. ; BentJi. in Hook. Land. Journ.l 329. 



A shrub with veiy rigid divaricate often spinescent branches, softly villous as 



well as the jjliyllodia. Phyllodia broadly and obliquely ovate, undulate, pim- 



gent-pointect, about i in. long, with a strong central nerve and nerye-Uice 

 ° f ri ■ 1 • ^° 1 -PI „„„..„ /^v,w =opn in n sin2-ie do- 



margins. Stipules spinescent, recurved. Flowers (only seen in a sin 

 bular head sent with the specimen but not attached to it) numerous, 5-merous, 



glabrous or nearly so. 



■W. Australia. Dirk Hartog's Island, A. Cunningham. 



85. A. Shuttleworthii, Meissn. in Fl. Preiss. i. 7. Apparently shrubby, 

 hirsute or hispid with short hairS ; branches terete or slightly angular, ov 

 lodia broadly ovate or orbicular, very oblique, mucronate, thick "S^^ . 

 much undulate, 1 to i in. long, obliquely obtuse at the base, sessile, ^■^^^'' 

 the gland, if any, at or below the middle. Stipules minute, cetaceous, som^^ 

 times spinescent. Peduncles very short, bearing each a head of ^"°"' j,^ 

 12 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx lobed, about half as long as the co • 

 Petals free, hispid. Pod flat, but thick and coriaceous, about 3 lines ui _^. 

 either 1-seeded and nearly orbicular, or 2 -seeded and twice as '""o^^.^^', 

 obtuse, scabrous-pubescent, perhaps sometimes longer as there are 



ovules. 



^V. Australia, Branimond, n. 294. 



umbent 



86. A. Gregorii, F. Mudl. Fragm. iii. 47. A diffuse or P'-"^"^^;^^ 

 shrub or undershrub of 1 to 1^ ft., softly pubescent. Phyliodia ouu ^^^^^ ^ 

 oblong with a small usually recurved point, narrowed at the ^'''^^^'^^^j^^gj^ed. 

 to f in. long, undulate, somewhat coriaceous, 1 -nerved and pe ^^^^^^^^ 

 Stipules small, lanceolate, acuminate, dry and persistent. J"Jj:'j^^ ^q pr ^oxi 

 nearly as long as the phyllodia, bearing a globular head of 30 '° j, ^^ ^g^g 

 flowers, mostly 5-mevou3. Bracts acuminate. Calyx i" ore than i^' ^^^^^^1, 

 as the corolla, with naiTOw thin ciliate lobes. Petals shgb y||^^^jj_ 

 smooth with prominent midribs, cohering to the middle. Pod u ^^^ 



N. Australia. Nichol Bay, N.W. coast, F. Gregory's Expedition, ^j^ '^geetl. 

 describes it as a very rigid prickly shrub of 6 to B ft., but has evidently oceu 



87. A. pHosa, Benth. in Linncea, xxvi. G07. A ^eeuuibent branc^^^ 

 dershrub or shrub, often under 1 ft., but probably sometimes 



under 



