I 



Acacia] XL. LEGUMiXOSiE. 375 



bular heads, smaller than in J. podalyriafolia, on shorter peduncles. Flowers 

 also smaller, otherwise like those of that species, of which this may prove to 



* 



be a variety. Pod unknown. 



Queensland. Foot of sandstone rocks near Mount Pluto, Mitchell. 



159. A. vestita, Ker, in Bot. Reg. t. 698; A tall bushy shrub, softly 

 pubescent or villous, usually 8 to 10 ft. high, but attaining twice that size. 

 Phvllodia numerous, obliquely ovate-elliptical, more or less recurved -falcate, 

 undulate, mostly about \ in. long, witt a fine but not pungent point, cuneate 

 at the base, 1 -nerved. Racemes much longer than the phyllodia, formmg a 

 terminal leafy panicle, each with several small globular heads of 10 to 20 or 

 sometimes more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbinate, shortly and ob- 

 tusely lobed, nearly half as long as the corolla, rarely separating mto distmct 

 sepals. Petals smooth, glabrous, usually free. Pod very flat, straight gla- 

 brous and glaucous, l\ to 3 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad. Seeds oval-oblong, 

 longitudinal along the centre of the pod ; last fold of the funicle thickened 

 into an oblong-clavate lateral aril nearly as long as the seed, with 2 or 3 

 sbort filifonn folds below it, and transverse at the base.— DC. Prod. u. 4o2. 



N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Sieher, n. 444, A. Cu7iningkam, and others. 



160. A. cultriformis, A. Cunn. in G. Bon, Gen. St/si. ii. 406. A tall 

 Ijtishy shrub, glabrous and often mcalv- glaucous when joung; branchlets an- 

 gular. Phyllodia numerous, obliquely obovate-lanceolate, recur ved-falcate or 

 almost triangular, mucronulate, narrowed at the base, I to * or rarely i_m. 

 long, coriaceous, l-nerved, with thickened margins and usually 1 marginal 

 gland, sometimes on a prominent angle as in the Triangulares Racemes 

 numerous, much longer than the phyllodia, consistmg often of J ^o ^", g^°" 

 tular heads, forming a terminal leafy panicle. Fldwers 10 to 20 in the head. 

 Jnostly 5-raerous. Calyx broad, lobed, scarcely half as long as the corolla. 

 Petals smooth. Pod veiy flat, glabrous, glaucous, 2 or 3 in. long when per- 

 feet, 3 or rarely 4 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, near the suture ; last fcdd 

 of the funicle thickened into a lateral club-shaped aril, with very small io ds 

 Mow it.-Hook Tc. PI. t. 170 ; Paxt. Mag. xi. 113. with a fig. ■,J. sopu^ 

 M>nk, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405 (specimens with rather bioader 

 and shorter phyllodia). 



W 



^^^[ be the short-leaved form of J. e./trifomh. In fl. ^""^'J ^ l /X^^talk but tbi: 

 ;«b Lehmann, is mentioned as believed to have been gathered i. \^ e t Australia, 

 ""»=** be a mistake, at any rate I know of no Western species at aU like It. . 



A. Dravissima. F. Muell 



, -"i. A. pravissima,- F. Mueu. urmjm. i. », - , 



A tall shrub or small tree. 'quite glabrous ; branchlets ''";S^«^', ^sf ;^f^^ i" 

 ^'^^^ numerous, broadly a;d very obliquely falcate obovate or f "«^t ^i^p zoid 



^«^^ved, S to 5 lines or rarel/i in. long, the lower f ^"^^. . \"S^tland Jt 

 J'^ronate, the upper one rounded as in i\. Tnai^nlar,. but the gland not 



P'^^ed at the anile, but much below it. rather thick «»^^ "^Sh?^ flowet 



f^'^emes much longer than the leaves, with 10 to 20 small S^^^^^^ 



^- s ti ^,, ,^ , ,j 1 leafy p^rn . .{covers abcnit 



-oo!h. "S fl^Cgir 2. '-^L^^^^ the centre of the pod , 



