884 



XL. LEGUMINOS.5;. [Acacia. 



mostlv 5-merous mucli smaller tlian in J. homalophjUa. Calyx turbinae and. 

 iTed^ur eadaV separating into distinct sepals. Petals smooth. Pod linear, 

 but very flat, and fully 5 lines broad, thinly coriaceous, transversely reticnlat 



£ suSves bordered b'y a very narrow .ing. ff^^fl^^^^^^^:^^ 

 thickened into a narrow clavate arH, and scarcely tolded below it. but not seen 

 pe,fect.— ^. leucophjlla, Lindl. in Mitch. Ihree Exped. 11. 13. 



Queensland. On the Maranoa, Mitchell. , ,. , . ;„ 



N. S. Wales. Morasses of the Lachlan, A. Cunningham ^ the only timbei -tree 



these immense morasses, Fraser. , r j ^^^^. 



Without the fruit the specimens are very difficult to distinguish f'^'^^ X^' jf j^''",^ 

 loph>,l/a. In Loth species, but especially iii this one, 3 of the nerves of the phyiloJia 



sometimes slightly proinineut. 



18i. A. Oswaldi, F. Mnell. PL Vict ii. 27, and ^>'"3^,}'J^J^ 



rigid bushy shrub, attaining 8 to 10 ft., ^^'•^}^'^^^^' ^^^P'^'^'^ t'^,,^^^^ 

 'silky-pubescent J branchlets slightly angular. Phyllodm ^^1^"^.- ar^eoMe 



varying to linear or oblong-lauceolate, mostly ^ to 3 m long, "S^. J^ J 

 a short nsuallv incurved innocuous or scarcely pungent pom , "^^^\"^ ° ^'^'^ 

 at the base, with numerous slightly prominent nerves, parallel «'-^"«^l^ " 

 sing when the phyllodium is broad. Tlower-heads small, globular sessile or 

 nearly so, solitary or in pairs or clusters, containu.g about 10 to 1 tlo - 



mostly 5-merous, 



Sepals linear-cuncate or spathulate, free Petals si ota, 

 usually pubescent. Pod long and much curved or twisted, 3 to 4 me^ j^ • 

 hard or almost woody ; valves convex over the seeds slightly Jo "^^^^^^^ 

 tween them. Seeds large, ovate, longitudinal ; last fold of the f "^f ^ J'^j 

 into a broad, obliquely cup-shaped, fleshy aril, the lower folds shoit 



filiform or slightly dilated. _ . n , f Mueller, .vithout 



Queensland ? Towards Broad Sound, a small specimen in Herb. Jf. Mueim, 



collector's name. ,-,^ ,• i ii.„ -Rnrripr range and 



N. S. Wales. Interior desert, from the Lachlan and Parhng to the barrier fa 



Coobct's Creek, Victorian Erj)e(fition, anA others. »u„ w frontier, 7. 



Victoria. Desert on the Murray, from the Murrnmbidgee to tne w- 



Mueller. + .„ Of Vincent's Gulf, i'- 



S. Australia. S. coast, E. Brown; from the Murray desert to b%. vincti 



Mueller. , , ... .!„,„ „f J lanit/era.— 



Var. ahhreviata. Pliyllodia rigid, about 1 in. long, almost like those or ^. * J 



S. coast, R. Brown. 



185. A. liueolata, BenlL in Linn^a, xxvi. 626. Toung shoot. sil^T 

 pubescent, but soon glabrous. Phyllodia numerous, ^n«'7«f ^'^'V striate 

 mucronulate, mostly H to 2 in. long, 1 to 2 lines broad, ['^i^' ^Jj,'^^^^^^ 

 with numerous parallel nerves, scarcely visible without a lens, ^^^^-^ 



rather more prominent. Peduncles usually in pairs, recurvea, . ^ . 

 bearing each a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous.^ ^^ r ^^^ 

 naiTow-spathulate, free or shortly united at the base, halt as 10 o 

 corolla. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. . Eastern 



W. Australia, Drummond, Mh Coll. n. 12 and 13. Verj- nearly allied to ^.^^^^^^^fl 

 A. homalopkylla, as well as to A. leplorieura among the Culamiformes, aua ^. 



among the Julijlora. ,. , r ^gj. andliirg** 



A specimen from Murchisou river, Oldfeld, has bro ider phyllodia ana tew ^^ ^ ^^^^^ 

 flower-heads, with the sepals connate, but is insufD<ient to determine wnemei 

 or variety. 



