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Acacia.] XL. LEGUMiNosj;. 373 



rather thick, with a scarcely prominent nerve and obscure veins, the mai-ginal 

 gland small or none. Eacemes scarcely exceeding the phyllodia, \vith Several 

 small globular heads of 8 to 1 3 or rarely more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx 

 stort, broad. Petals smooth. Pod straight or curved, flat, 3 or 4 lines broad. 

 Seeds longitudinal,' close to the upper suture ; last fold of the funicle thickened 

 intoalateral club-shaped aril, the low^ ones very small. — Hook. Ic. PL 1. 164. 



N. S. "Wales. Hunter's and Macquarrie rivers, A. Cunnin^^am, Prater; New 

 Eogland, C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Beckler,' 



Nearly allied to A, lunata, and perhaps a variety with narrower straighter phyllodia, and 

 some specimeas appear almost to pass iuto A\ decora, 



154'. A. liihata, Sieh. in DO. Frod. ii. 452. A glabrous shrub of several 

 feet, with angular braiichlets, often glaucous. Phyllodia oblong-falcate or 

 almost ovate/ but very oblique, oljtuse or with a minute oblique or recurved 

 point, rarely 1 in. long, 3 to 6 lines broad, coriaceous, 1-nerved, obscurely 

 veined, the margins scarcely thickened, the gland minute or none. Eacemes 

 longer" than the phyllodia, with several small heads of 4 to 10 comparatively 

 largfr flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short and broad. Petals smooth. 

 Pod flat, glaucous, straight or curved, 3 to 4 lines broad. Seeds longitudmal, 

 close to the upper suture, the last fold of the funicle thickened into a lateral 

 club-shaped aril, the lower folds very small.— Bot. Keg. 1. 1352 ; Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 384; Sweet, PL Austr. t. 42 ; F. Muell. PI. Vict. ii. 17 (partly) ; 

 ^■falcinella, Tausch. in Plora, 1836, 419; A. bretifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 

 ^235 ?; A. olecpfoUa, A. Cunn, in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405 ; A. dealbaia, 

 A. Cunn. in Pield, N. S. Wales, 345, not of Lindl. ;-^. furfuracea, G. Don, 

 Gen. Syst. ii. 405; 



Queensland. ^lovQion'Rayf A. Cunningham. .e-, j 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieher, n. 461, a>id 



{.'•■Mij-;. «, 600, and olhersi extending to the Macquarrie river, and Argyle County, ^. 



^tmvpfiam. Backhouse. . „ ,, ,; 



Victoria. Barren scrubby ridges between Mayday Hills and Ovens nver, J>. Mueller 

 tsp«Ciraens not in fruit) . ■ i. t, it 



Without the friiit this species may readily be confounded with A. promirtens . ihajH^^io- 

 «'a are however more coriaceous, with the Veins less conspicuous and th6 flo\%'trs in the heads 

 usually rather fewer aud larger. 



ISo. A. bracliybotrya, EentJt. in Bool. Land. Jount. I 347. A hand- 

 some shrub of several feet, glabrous glaucous or silvery- white with a close 

 f'ltj-pubescence ; braiichlets slightly angular, soon terete. Phyllodia ob- 

 "l"ely obovate or oblong, obtuse or Varely mucronulate, \ to 1 m. or in very 

 '«sunant specimens twice as long, narrowed at the base, corraceous, 1-neryed, 



f nniveined, the marginal gland near the middle, small or often wanting 

 ^e<luncles rather short, solitary, or more frequently 2 to 5 on a very short 

 common peduncle, often growing out into a leafy branch, each beanng a 



linea 



tinct of readily 'sep7iviing."""pS'lmeai^,^^^^^^^^ or undulate, 3 to 5 lines 



^ad, flat but the valves often alternately convex and concave over the seeds 

 ;na sometimes much warted: Seeds longitudinal; funicle thickened at the 

 T !"'« a club-shaped lateral aril and once folded below it.— ^. argyrophylla, 

 ^°«k.;P.Muell.Pl.Vict.ii. 18. 



'" i^cuiuicie, ouen growing oui uilu a ^rcuj ".""-", °. 



ar head of numerous (20 to 50) flowers, mostly S^merous. bepals 

 eai--5pathulate, free or connected by a thin membrane. Petals smooth dis- 



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