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Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSiE. , SSI 



W. Australia. Swan River, Baudin's Kvpedition, Brummond, \st Coll. n. 283, 

 heiss, «. 928; Sharks Bay, Milne; Dirk Hartog's Island, A. Cunningham. 



There are two forms, one {A. elliptica, A. Cunn.) more glaiy^ous with short obovnte ob- 

 long phyllodia faintly 2-Tierved, the other {A.xanthina, Beuth.) with longer phyllodia more 

 prominently nerved and often of a golden colour. Both are in the Paris herbarium, from 

 Baudin's Collection, and we have both from the N.W. coast, as well as from the west, the 

 yellow one chiefly from Swan River ; and, different as they look, some specimens are (iuite 

 intermediate or combine the two. 



175. A. trineura, F. Muell. PL Vici. ii. 25, and Fragm. iv. 5. A 

 strongly scented busliy shrub, glabrous and glavicous ; braiichlets slightly an- 

 gular. Phyllodia narrow, cuneate-oblong, straight or slightly curved, very 

 obtuse, mostly li to 2 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, narrowed at the base, 

 with 3 prominent nerves and a few oblique veins. Flower-heads small, glo- 

 bular, in very short racemes of 3 to 6. Flowers above 20 in the head, very 

 closely packed, glutinous and mostly 5-raerous. Sepals linear-spathulate. 

 Petals smooth, usually free. Pod unknown. 



Victoria. Sandy banks of the Wimmera, Lallachj ; N.W. desert, lockhart Morton. 



176. A. nitidula, Benlh. A low and diffuse or erect and bushy glabrous 

 shrub, occasionally slightly glutinous ; branchlels terete or nearly so. Phyl- 

 lodia linear-cuneate, obtuse or with a minute callous point, mostly | to l^in. 

 long, rather thick, rigid and prominently 2- or 3-nerved. Peduncles slender, 

 mostly in pairs, 2 to 4 lines long, bearing each a small globular head of 12 to 

 20 flowers, mostly 5-mei-ous. Sepals free, narrow, linear-spathulate, cihate. 

 Petals smooth, distinct from the base or nearly so. Pod not seen. 



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.. „.„,„, .^...sn. in PI. Prem. i. 318. An erect shriib of 



3 or 4 ft., glabrous or the young shoots minutely silky-pubescent ; branchlets 

 more or less angular. Phyllodia from liuear-lanccolnte, often oblique and it 

 to 2 in. long, to linear and exceeding 3 in., ratlier rigid, tapering mto a 

 straight or recurved point, but scarcely pimgent, narrowed at the base wnn 

 f fiue hut prominent nearly equal nerVes, and veinless or nearly so between 



hem. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, bearing each a globuhir head of above 

 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow, Imear-spathu ate _ Petals 

 '"'ooth, cohering to the middle. Pod narrow- linear, flat, with hickened 

 f^rve-like margins, usually straight. 2 to 3 in. long, H lines broad. S eds 



o;'§itudinal ; funide with the last fold dilated into a short fle.hy oblique 

 lateral aril and short filiform folds below it.— ^. trissoneura, F. Muell. l*iagm. 

 IV. 6. 



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V in narrow phyllodia), n. 11 (witi broad phyllodia) ; J^^'^J'^^''^^^' 288 The latter 

 ^l^hOldJield (phyllodia short and broad),' D/«.»«^«^ ^^^^ ^"^\\'';S un o some 

 • £'™.ens, interr^lediate between the narrow and broad f'>™^ »'^^:i''f VrelhvHodia kss 

 S;'th specimens of J. cochleam, from which this ^P^'^f , ^'f ^^ "J,*'' S 'poin 

 '^"^' >*ith wore prominent nerves and more abruptly contracted mto a less pungent point. 



„ 178. A. elongata, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 451. A ^^^V '^^^ilf.ror 

 '' the young shoots silky-pubescent. " Phyllodia narrow-Imear, obtuse or 



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