Jcacia,] • XL, legumjnos.e, 349 



or less hirsute with rather long spreading hairs. Pli)llodia oblique, obovate 

 or broadly oblong, shortly acute or mucronate, much narrowed at the base, 

 much undulate, 1-nerved, mostly ^ to 1 in. long. Stipules setaceous, almost 

 spinescent. Peduncles about as long as the phyllodia, slender, bearing each 

 a small globular head of about 13 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx- 

 lobes ciliate, fully half as long as the corolla. Petals hirsute, cohering to the 

 middle. Pod obloug, flat, very coriaceous, obtuse, hispid, few-seeded, but 

 not seen ripe. 



W. Australia, Drummond, Snppl to 2rd ColL n, 35, Wi Coll. n, 12; Gordon and 

 Kti^a rivers, Oldjield ; Phillips Ranges, Maxwell. 



m 



83. A. crispula, JBei/tli. in Linncea, xxvi. 607, Very near J. pilosa in 

 habit and essential characters, but the phyllodia are much narrower, falcate- 

 oblong, rarely exceeding: | in. in length, 1 to 1^ lines broad, obtuse, shortly 

 acute or mucronate, narrowed at the base, undulate, rather thick and 1-nerved. 

 Stipules setaceous or spinescent. Peduncles slender, bearing a head smaller 

 tban in A. pilosa, though often with more flowers, 5-merous and hirsute as 

 in that species. Pod luiknown. 



W 



Possibly 



Apparently 



»'J. A. crassistipula, Benlh. in Hook. Lotid. Journ. i. 62U. 

 a small shrub, more or less hirsute with soft spreading hairs; branches angu- 

 lar. Phyllodia oblong-linear, falcate, undulate, with a short incurved or 

 hooked point, |- to f in. long, 1-nerved with nerve-like margins. Stipules 

 lite the phyllodia and about half their size, persistant. Peduncles rather 

 shorter than the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of about 3(1 to 

 40 flowers^ mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbyiale, shortly lobed, nioj-e than half 

 ««.long as the corolla. Petals pubescent or hirsute, smooth, but with a pro- 

 minent midi-ib, cohering to the middle, Pod unknown. 



W. Australia, Biummond, n. 295. Allied to. the last 3 species, but distiDgvishc4 

 from the wiiole genus by the phyllodineous stiimles. 



C. Triangulares.— Shrubs usually rigid and occasionally spinescent. 

 %llodia small, rigid, the nerve either near the lower margin or rarely cen- 

 ™, the upper side more or less dilated, the margin rounded or angular, with 

 usually a gland at the angle. Stipules spinescent or setaceous or minute. 

 I'eduncles 1-headed. 



The,e are generally characterized by the small phyllodia vrith the lower =>argin neariy 

 J^.?ht, the upper one forming a very proniiuent obtuse or acute angle. They P=>^» '"t° «j^ 

 rnalUle^ved pLyentes through some varieties of A. vomeriformu, where the ff^'^^l^t 

 ;^ost disappears, and into the subserics ^;-m/.//<^, through ,on^e iovm, oi A. hdeniata 

 »b.ch come very near to A. obliqna. As in the case of the Armala, ^^^.^'g^'-^y f/,^- 

 W'^ted the Triavyulares as a distinct series, but it now appears more nature to ^epa^ale he 

 """■yneryed from the one-nerved species, and consider them as subscries only of the Plun- 

 "ATM and Uninerves. 



A shmb of 2 or 3 

 terete, pubescent 



Rees 



;r at length glabrous. Phyllodia numerous, haatate-lanceolate or a most cor- 

 J.^te tapering into pungent points, 2 to 3 lines long, with 1 centra nerve 

 ^y o,wer margin rounded near the base, the upper one more angular and 

 ^«>ially bearing a gland. Stipules setaceous, persistent. Peduncles very 



