358 



XL. LEGUMINOSiE. [JcaCia. 



exceeding the phvllodia, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 or more 

 "flowers, mostly S^xnerous. Calyx very short, toothed. Petals smooth, unitejl 

 above the middle. Pod shortly stipitate, 7 to 9 lines broad, very flat, with 

 nerve-like margins. Seeds flat, ovate, oblique ; funicle with the last fold 

 thickened and not half so long as the seed, and short folds below it —Hot 

 Mag. t. 3391; Lodd Bot. Cab. t. 1544; Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 282; 

 A.uncinaia, Lodd.; Lindl Bot. Eeg. t. 1332; ^./?/%m, A. Cunn. mliot. 

 Mag. under n. 3394 ; Hook. Tc. PL t. 166 {A, seiigera, A. Cunn.). 



Queensland. Near Brisbane, F, MiieUer, Leichhardt, 



W. S. MZ-ales. Blue Mountains, R, Brown; abundant in thickets, barren woods etc., 

 in the N.W. interior, beyond Bathnrst, Cox's River, Liverpool Plains, etc., A. Cumiinyhar., 

 Fraser, Miichell, and others. 



A. 



Var. sertiformis. Moi'e glabrous, wiih larger phvllodia, not contracted at the base. A. 

 ^eyfiformis, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag, under "n. 3394; Hook. Ic, PL t. 159.— Liverpool 

 Plains. , * ■• 



Var. d^jsophjUa. Softly villons. Phylbdia large.— ^. dpsophjUa, Benth. in HooK. Lena. 



Journ. i. 346.— Pine ridge near Croker's Range, A. Cunningham. 



Var. himiiis. Diffuse and low, glabrous. Phyllodia not above 3 or 4 li^es ion?, very 

 oblique and often recurved, nearly as broad as long. — N.W. interior of N. S. Wales, tiose , 

 also the Biusbane specimens from F. Mueller and Leichkardt, , , i 



A. plagiophylla, F. iMuelL in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 131, not of Sieber, belongs prooauij 



to one of the varieties of A. unduUfolia* 



109. A. flexifolia,- ^. Cunn.- Benth. in Boole. Lond. Journ. i. 359. 

 Shrubby, the brandies terete or nearly so, hoary with a minute ^tomentum. 

 Phyllodia numerous, linear, obtuse, scarcely mucronate, \ to 4_in. o o» 

 rigidly coriaceous and glabrous, narrowed at the base, with an impres 

 gland and often bent in at a little distance from the base, with a P^'O'^'J^^^ 

 nerve very near the lower margin, the upper margin thickened and nerve- 1 • 

 Stipules minute. Peduncles very short, solitarj- or in pairs, tomentose, oea - 

 inor each a small globular head of 6 to 10 very small flowers, mostly 5-mero" • 



•Calyx thin, shortly lobed, not half as long as the corolla. Petals sffioocn, 

 united to the middle. • 



W. S. "Wales. Cugeegong river and between Lacblan and ilacquarrie rivers, J- 

 ingham. 



110. A. dura, Bentl. inUnna>a, xxvi. 622. A low rigid gl^^^^ous shrub; 

 branches slightly angular when young, Phyllodia linear or l^^l^^'^'^^l" '^.gj 

 very obtuse, \ to rather more than 1 in. long, thick and very rigid, nan ^^^^ 

 at the base and often bent in with an impressed gland below ^^f ^^^'jying 

 a very prominent nerve, and the upper margin thick and nerve-hke oi ^ » 

 a slightly intramarginal nerve, the smaller phyllodia straight, ^*: g^j^jjH 

 gland. Peduncles not 2 lines long, mostly solitary, bearing eacU a 

 globular head of 6 to 10 flowers, mostly o-meious. Sepals very thm, I' 

 thulate, distinct. Petals narrow, smooth, distinct. ^ ^p 



"W. Australia, Drummond. Allied on the one hand to A, flexifoHa, ^^J''^lJ^i\xt 

 J. nitiduta, differing from the former in the more rigid phyllodia and m the can , 

 latter in the marginal nerve» small flower-heads, etc. 



111. A. spathulata, F. MuelL Herb, A diffuse or bushy ^^^f"^^^^ 

 or 4 ft. ; bratiches usually crowded, nearly terete, glabrous or ^'^S^^|'^ 'gij^ej ■ 

 cent, Phyllodia linear-cuneate or oblong-^pathulate, very obtuse, -t 



