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Acacia."] 



siisima, but very different in fruit. Of Proiss's specimens I have only seen u. 941, wliicli 



appears to me to belong to the present species, but cannot be absolutely determined without 

 tlie fruit, 



142. A. suaveolens, TFilld. Spec. PL iv. 1050. A shrub, attaining 

 about 3 to 6 ft., quite glabrous, often glaucous, with acutely angled branch- 

 lets. Phylloclia linear or almost lanceolate, mostly 3 to 4 in. but sometimes 

 in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, obtuse or mucronulate, narrowed towards the 

 base, rather thick, 1-uerved with nerve-like margins, obscurely veined. 

 Jlovver-heads small, in axillary racemes, at first enclosed in imbricate scaly 

 tracts, which fall off very early, 

 to 10 in the head, mostly 5-merous, Sepals thin, narrow linear-spathulate, 



quite distinct. Petals thin_ nuitp smnnth. Pod oblono- 



Ehachis and peduncles slender. Flowers 6 



Petals thin, quite smooth. Pod oblong, flat, 

 glaucous, very obtuse, 1 to 1^ in. long, 6 to 8 lines broad. 



coriaceous, 

 Seeds obiong, 



transverse; funicle. filiform yearly till maturity, when it is contracted into 

 snort folds more or less thickened under the seed into a small fleshy aril. — ' 



II Mimosa suaveolens, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 253 

 ^1- 87, t, 236 



fleshy 



Labiil. PI. Nov. Holl. 



; M, ohliqna^ Lam, in Journ. Hist. Nat. i. 89, t. 5, according 

 to Wendl. Comm. Acac. 33, but not of Pers. ; M. amjiisti/oUa, Jacq. Hort. 

 Micenhr. iii. 74, t. 391 ; A. suaceolens, DC. Prod. ii. 453; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 ^^30; Reichb, Ic. et Descr. Pi. t. 46 ; HooL f. Fl. Tasm.i. 107 ; F. Muell. 

 1^1- Vict. ii. 14; 4, ang^(^tifolia/^NQl\^^^ Comm. Acac. 34; PC. Prod. ii. 



Qu^nsland. Moreton Bay, litzalan. 



mir' ^*^^*- l*ort Jackson to the Blue Mountaitis, It. Brown, Sieher, n. 462, and 



Z,!^^- «• 5^^5 ; northward to Hastiu^s river, Beckler ; southward to Twofold Bay, F. 

 Mueller. ^ ' ' 



/y^^***"a. Bushy sand ridges, barren scrubby plains, and rocky coast declivities in the 

 r^'° and eastern parts of the colony, F, Mueller. 



7 l^^i^^^^a- Dry soils, N. coast, ^ud islands of Bass's Straits, also on the Dcrwcut, 

 *'• -t^. Hooker. 



^43. A. subcaerulea, Llndl. Bot. Bej. 1. 1075. An erect or spreading 

 Ph n ' ^"'^"^ gl;^l^rou9 and often very glaucous ; branclilets acutely angular. 



¥Iodia oblong-linear, lanceolate or narrow-linear, obtuse or raucronate, 1^ 

 ^o.-i 111. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, straight, thick and coriaceous, 1-nerved and 

 •^'nless, or, when broad, rather thinner, slightly falcate, and faintly penni- 

 ^w ^^^ n*^i've-like margin mnch less prominent than in A. obtusnta and 



« allies, and sometimes altogether disappearing. Eacemes often as long as 

 fe phyUodia, enclosed when young in very deciduous bracts or scales, the 

 "achis and peduncles slender. Flower-heads globular, with above 30 flowers, 

 an 1 1- ^ ■'"'^'■ous- Sepals very thin, narrow and distinct or sometimes broader 

 sm J^'^^^y cohering, about; half as long as the corolla or shorter. Petals 

 in !! ' ^* ^^"^o*-^^ separating. Pod 1 to 1^ or rarely 2 in. lojig, \ to near i 

 SeM °^'^' ""^^^^ obtuse, flat, coriaceous and glaucous, as in A. suaveolens. 

 folH °^|°f^^. transverse, the funicle thickened into a hvf short closely packed 



as under the seed.— ^. kemiteles, Beuth. in Linnsea, xxvi. 619 ; A. apcu- 



'«. Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 17. 



wow 'd^.''**'"*^^*^- Sandy and stony places, Kiug George's Sound to Cape Riche, :Drum- 

 MatLn ^''"- »■ 10. Freiss, n. 919. Oldjield, and eastward towards the Great Bight, 

 '^f i Point Possession, Collie. 

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