^f^acia.] XL. LEGUMINOSiE. 



'Si]3 



much 

 broad 



the coro la, with very short broad ciliate lobes. Petals smooth, united to the 

 imddle, but readily separating. Pod shortly stipitate, usually straight, nearly 

 flat, d to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad. Seeds oblong, longitudinal, the 

 fumcle dilated and coloured nearly from the base, extending round the seed 



and bent back ou the same side, encircling it in a double fold.— F. Muell PI 

 Vict. n. 13. 



■m 



„T"^*°"**'r Z*""* ,^^''^'P' ^- ^rownj grassy ridges aud open valleys throughout the 

 gi cater part of the colony, F. Mueller. o i . 6 



r.if ■ ^^^}^^^}^- jVIemory Cove, 11 Brown ; very frequent in rich soils near water in the 



Taiieys, Behr; Kangaroo island, Waierhouse ; and northward to Flinders range, F. Mueller. 

 iiie species differs from A. penninervis chiefly in the narro^v phvllodia, from J. neriifoHa 

 f 'e^^e"" S"'^'^'''' flowers, the sepals more united, and especially in the narrower pod and 



nmetunicle, and usually from both species in the more compact brandied racemes: but 



some Hovvermg specimens are uncertain in this respect. 



127. A. neriifolia, A. Cunn.; Benth. in HooJc. lo7id. Jaurn. i. 357. A 

 tail and handsome shrub or small tree ; branchlets slender, slightly angular, 

 glaucous or raealy-tomeutose when young, but soon glabrous. Phyilodia 

 jmear-lanceolate, more or less falcate, with a small callous point often recurved, 

 narrowed towards the base, mostly 3 to 5 in. long and 2 to 4 lines 

 _ 1-nerved, obscurely penniveined, with 1 or sometimes 2 or 3 distant 

 marginal glands rarely aU'wanting. Eacemes always simple, rather slender, 

 much shorter than the phyilodia, the rhachis and peduncles usually tomentose. 

 ilovv-er-heads globular, small, with 30 to 40 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals 

 spatliulate, more than half as long as the corolla, ciliate,' free or slightlv ad- 

 nate below the middle. I'etals smooth, usually free. Pod flat, straight or 

 nearly so, several inches long, about 4 lines broad, often slightly contracted 



fotr^^" ^^^ ^^'^'^*' ^^^^^ oval-oblong, longitudinal ; funicle with the last 

 I appressed and thickened from the middle upwards into a club-shaped 

 ^^' ^'le lower folds short and filiform. 



N^s'w'*^^' ^'"'" ^'"'^^'^ °" '^^ Balonne river, Mitchell. 

 yp„. ■ ■ '^^les. Detached vvhinstone hills, Liverpool plains, A. Cunningham, Fraser ; 



/ia4< "°" ^^°"^ Tenterlicld, New England, C. Htuart ; Head of the Gvvydir river, Leich- 



to Ih"' '^^*'"*^^*- Some specimens in flower in the Hoolierian herbarium appear to belong 



Sin 6 iT^'^r '""•"'*"'" ^'"*" '" ^- retinodes, and A. iteaphylta, F. Mucll., Benth. in Litu.ica, 



1)5 ■^ , /: '° 'r"'' only, from Aikaba, has the pod and seeds of A. neriifuHa ; but neither can 



'iutilied with certainty until the flowers and fruit shall have been properly matched. 



slir f " ^' "^^*^*'<*^otrya, Bmth. in Jlook. Loud. Journ.i. 353. A tall 

 jjg ^'"'.fjuite glabrous except the inflorescence, branches slightly angular, soon 

 ^it?'"^"? ^'^i'f''«- Phyilodia lanceolate-falcate, acuminate, acute, obtuse or 

 5 in f * i'lcurved" point, much narrowed towar^ls the base, mostly 3 to 

 J "p'^ut very varial)le in size, and when small sometimes scarcely falcate, 

 lorT^ P^""iveined, the nerve-like margin fine or scarcely prominent, with 

 from V"""^^ i^'ir^inal glands often wanting. Kaccmes \ to \\ in. long, with 

 Riostl -^ ^ ^° ''^^"^'^ ^^ ^'""^' globular heads of numerous small flowers, 

 iiieal M °''"^''°"s> tlie rhachis and peduncles when young minutely silky or 

 oft' f^ ""!^"*ose. Calyx very thin, lobes very short or slightly spathnlate, 

 Pube/^'*"^ -^ separating into distinct sepals. Petals glabrous or minutely 

 15 . ?"^' ^l'^ midribs promiuent. Pod doubtfuI.—Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 

 ' ^- rnynoloirya and- A. kiophyUa, var. microcej>Jiula, ^leissn. 1. c. • A, 



