-icncia.] XL. LKGUminos.E, 



367 



,ip?>, rrl ""i^ ''^f"r''l'"-" ^^' '"'^•^ "" ^^'"^ time does not occur in any other spe- 

 cies which I have Leen able to observe, and is in all the seeds I have examined of ^. amJa ■ 



It remains, however, to be ascertained whether it is really so constant a character as it ap-' 



pears to be. 



A 



A . n u - *^^^®«>^des, J. Ctimu; Benth. in HooL Lond, Journ, i. 354. 

 A tall shrub, glabrous or nearly so, the branches scarcely angular. Phylloclia 

 linear-spathulale or narrow oblong-hinceolate, obtuse, much narrowed at the 

 base 2 to 5 m. long, rather thick, 1-nerved, obscurely marked with longitu- 

 (linni reticulations, the margins scarcely prominent, nsually with a gland 

 tovvards the middle. Racemes shorter than the phvllodia, with a few glo- 

 bular heads of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathulate, coher- 

 ing at first but readily separating, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent. Pod flat, usually curved, 2 to 3 lines broad, 

 much contrcxcted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle 

 iialt as long as the seed, the last fold thickened into a clavate, keeled, fleshy 

 am nlmost from the base, with 2 or 3 very minute folds below it.— F. MueU, 

 PI. Vict, ii, 16. 



«. S. Whales. lachlan and Dumaresq rivers, A. Cunningham. 

 Victoria. Murray desert, Prince Paul William of Wirtemherg. Ballachg. 

 Allied m flowers to A, oblusafa and A. crassiuscula, and ia foliage to A. salicifia, but 

 oiflering m several points from each of these species. 



13S. A. salicina, Lindl in Mitch, Three Exped. ii. 20. A tall shrub 

 or small tree, with branches often pendulous, the foliage of a pale or glaucous 

 *»ue and quite glabrous; branchlets scarcely angular. Phyllodia mostly 

 straight or nearly so, oblong-linear or lanceolate, obtuse or slightly acuminate, 

 Kiuch narrowed at the base, 2 to 5 in. long and not above \ in. broad, but in 

 some varieties occasionally broader or falcate, always rather thick, the midrib 

 fV*f^ Pi'^'^i^ent, the lateral veins obscurely reticulate, the margins scarcely 



lekened, the gland very rare. Eacemes short, irregularly bearing 2 or 3 



ense globular heads or reduced to a single head. Flowers 20 or more, 



loostly 5.merous. Calyx short, truncate, entire or minutely toothed. Petals 



^"Jte smooth. Pod straight, 1 to 3 in. long, in the ordinary form not above 



hnes broad; valves soraewliat convex, hard and thick. Seeds orbicular, 



ongitudinal; funicle thickened and usually scarlet almost from the base, forming 



several folds under the seed.— F. Muell. PI Vict. ii. 12 ; Dietr. Fl. Univers. 



^' !^er. t. 83 ; ^. Ugulata, A, Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Loud. Journ. i. 362. 



?• ■'^^stralia. Banks of creeks, Arnhem's Land, F, Mueller; Curtis Island, Henne. 



^^^^land. Open forest lands on the Balonne, Mitchell; Suttor river, /: Mueller. 

 juy 'y'^ales. On the Lachlan and thence to the Barrier Range, A. Cunningham^ 



iWieU^ Victorian Expedition^ etc. ; Liverpool plains, Leichhardt. . 



Victoria. In the N.W. desert, F. Mueller. 

 to JK J ***'^lia. Prom the Murray to St. Vincent's and Spencer's Gulfs, and northward 



"je desert interior. F. Mueller- Memory Cove, R. Brown. 



chisA ' . ^^*^^^ia- Dirk Hartog's Island, A. Cunningham ; 



«u nver, Oldjield; also a specimen from Bavdins ETj^edition, in Herb. R. Brown. 

 Xiix\^\'^^^^^^^^' Branches more spreading, rhjllodia more veined, the lower ones often 

 toarff* ^"^^^^^ ^^d almost penniveined, as in A, penninervis, but withont the thickened 

 h\iAu T ^. "^- ^^^ ^'^o^t 4 lines broad, the seeds often oblique and the folds of the fu- 



Sharks Bay, Milne; Mar- 



lonj ^\\7v^^^ "P °"^ side— ^. vartans, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 132. To this be- 

 6 au the tropical and subtropical specimens. It is generally a very distinct form, and 



