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362 XL. LEGUMlNOSiE. [Jcacia, 



13 1. A. macradeaia, Banth. in Milch. Trap, Audr, 360. A shrub of 



10 to 12 ft., glabrous, Avith angular branchlets. Phyllodia lanceolate-falcate, 

 rather acute, much narrowed towards the base, coriaceous, 1-nerved, with 

 thickened margins and often a gland at the base, like those o^ A./alcata^ but 

 usually longer, attaining from 6 in. to 1 ft., and the fine veins more nu- 

 merous, prominent, and transverse. Kacemes short with several small glo- 

 bular heads of flowers mostly 5-m3rous. Calyx turbinate, more than half as 

 long as the corolla, shortly and broadly toothed, ciliat'e. Petals smooth^ 

 pubescent. Pod bug, flat, 5 to 6 lines broad. Seeds orbicular; fimicle 

 slightly thickened from the base, but not enlarged under the seed, not folded, 

 about half as long as the seed. 



Queensland, ^eds of rivers uear Mount Pluto, Mitchell (in flower); Eockhampton 



Thozet (in fruit), 



125. A. penninervis^ Siel. in DC. Prod. ii. 452. A tree attaining 

 sometimes 40 ft. but usually smaller, glabrous in all its parts in the common 

 variety, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia from oblong to lanceolate-falcate, 

 more or less acuminate, usually 3 to 4 in. long^ but sometimes twice that 

 length, much narrowed towards the base, 1-nerved and more or less pronii- 

 neutly and finely penniveined, the margins usually nerve-like, and often but 

 not always a short secondary nerve terminating in a marginal gland much 

 below the middle, llaceraes rather short but loose, with several small glo- 

 bular heads of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx truncate or shortly 

 toothed, not half so long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod flat, straight 

 or curved, with slightly thickened margins, often 4 or 5 in. long, nearly \ m. 

 broad. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle long, dilated and coloured nearly 



from the base, extending round the seed and bent back on the same side, so 

 as to encircle it in a double fold.— Bot. Mag. t. 2754; F. Muell. PI. Vict.u- 

 14 ; A. impressa, Lindl, Bot. Eeg. t. 1115 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1319. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Moretoa Bay, Fraser, F.Mueller; Sandstone ridges 

 near Mount PhitOj Mitchell, 



N. S. MTales. Blue Mountains, Sieher, n. 458, auJ others; and inland to the Wac- 

 quarrie, A. Canninriham, Fraser ; northward to TIahtin:;s river, Beckler ; and southvvajato 

 Tvvofuld Bay, F. Mueller. 



Victoria. Granitic ranges and mountains on the Broken, Ovens, and Snowy rivers, 

 F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Brown's Road, Mount Wellington, Oldfield. 



^^x,fakifo>'mls. Pliyllodia usually longer and more falcate, young shoots and '?"*^J^ ' 

 cence uiiautely lioary or golden-pubesceut. Pod nearly \ in. \iXQ^^.—A,falciforynt^>^* 

 Prod. ii. 452 ; A. mirhigens, A. Cunu. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405.— From IWold iiay 

 F.Mueller, to Moretoii Bay, Leichhardi, and New Enudand, C. Stuart; and from tne 

 Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 616, and others, to the Lachlan river, A. Cunningham, eraser. 

 Called Blackivood by the western colonists, and the bark used for tauuing. 



126. A. retinodes, ScUecht. in Linn^a, xx. 664. A moderate-sizeJ 

 tree usually glabrous, the branchlets at first veiy angular. Phyllodia bnear- 

 lanceolate, more or less falcate, with a small recurved point or obtuse, mucn 

 narrowed towards the base, mostly 3 to 5 in. long, 1-nerved, finely pen|ii- 

 veined, the marginal gland above 'the base rarely wanting, those of barre 

 shoots sometimes short and broad. Eacemes much shorter than the m ' 

 lodia, almost alwnys branched, with several, often 10 to 20, small SJ^'^^^'^ 

 heads of 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, not half so lo^§^ 



