392 lh, LEGUMiNOSiE. [jQacia. 



coriaceous, reticulate, with slightly thickened margins. Seeds transverse ^ 

 fuiiicle forming short slightly thickened folds under the seed, but not seen 

 quite ripe.^ 



Queensland. Sandy Cape, Broad Soiuid, Northumberland Islands, M. Brown; Percy 

 Islands, A, Cannwgham ; sandstone ridges of Kongili, Leichhardt, 



A 



Densely clothed with a 



whitish woolly almost fleecy or velvety tomentum. Phyllodia obliquely 

 obovate or orbicular, very obtuse, \\ to 3 in. long, thick and soft, with about 

 4 prominent nerves and transverse reticulations. Upper phyllodia (in the only 

 2 branchlets seen) very much reduced, with dense globular flower-heads in their 

 axils, on short thick tomentose peduncles. Flowers numerous, 5-merous, the 

 buds shorter than the acute bracts, but not seen full-grown. Calyx thin, shortly 

 lobed and c liate. Pod unknown. 



N. Australia. Short's Kauge, M^Bouall Stuart, 



^ Series YIII. Juliflor^.— Phyllodia vertically flattened or, in a few spe- 

 cies, terete, articulate on the stem, several-nerved or rarely 1 -nerved, obtuse 

 acute or pointed, rarely slightly pungent. Flowers in cylindrical dense or in- 

 ten-upted spikes, rarely, when sessile, shortly oblong 



I have united under this series all 

 which lias decurrent phyllodia contl 



leaved Purjgenies, ^hxth. appeared to have no immediate afiiuity -i.i,» v^«o-- . 



spicate species. Many of these are particularly difficult to distinguish without the Iruit, 

 and although I have 'passed over as doubtful numerous specimens which I had '" "°^*^^ 

 only, there are still several of which \ do not feel quite certain of having correctly matched 

 the flowers and fruits, 



A. RiGiDUL^.— Phyllodia flat, often short, straight oblique or shortly 

 falcate. Spikes dense, except in A, wegalantha. Flowers mostly 5-merou3. 



The species here collected differ generally from the following stibseries in their o- 

 Dierons flowers, and from the Falcate ia their shorter, more coriaceous, obtuse, usually 

 sty-aifiht or undulate phyllodia, but some species' arinost pass into the latter subseries. 



species are alJ tropical, except the last two of the subseries. 



208. A. amentifera, F. Mmll. in Jonm. Linn. Soc. in. 141. Appa- 

 rently diflnse, glabrous and perhaps resinous ; branches angulnr-stn. te. 

 Phyllodia often clustered, ol)li(jue!y oblong, incurved, obtuse or recurved ai 

 the end, 2 to 4 lines lonjj, coriacediis, nerveless or very obscurely 2-uerve . 

 Spikes sessile, oblong-cylindrical rarely as long as the phyllodia, with imitie- 

 rbas closely-packed flowers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts acuminate, exceedijio 

 the flowers. Sepals free, narrow-linear, more than half as long as the corolla- 

 Petals smooth, free or readily separating. Stamens few (about 20). 



uii Known: 



W. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. 



209. A. Wickhami, Bmth. in Hook. Lond. Jonm. i. 879. \f^^°^^ 

 shrub, Often very glaucous or resinous ; branchlets angular-striate. j i'vio 

 numerous, obliquely ovate or falcate-oblong, obtuse with a small obiiqu 

 glandular point, rarely exceeding \ in., coriaceous, undulate, with seve .^ 

 nerves all very faint or 1 or 3 more prominent. Spikes pedunculate, i w 4 

 or rarely 1_ in. long, densely cylindrical. Flowers mostly 5-merojis. ^ai) 



