400 



XL. LEGUMINOSiB. 



[Acacia, 



4 



except a very prominent midrib, readily separating, 

 lot seen ripe.— Meissn. iu PI. Preiss. i. 18 ; A,Jili/olia, 



short cup at the base. 



■ 



roUa, Petals smooth 



Pod veiy narrow, but not 



Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 369. 



"W. Australia. Cape Porteraz, Fraser ; Swan River? and towards Cape Ekhe, 

 Dnimmond, n, 302, 2nd Coll n. 149 and 156 ; Uh Coll. n, 2 ; Darling Range, Preiss, n, 

 974. 



230. A. Burkittii, F. Muell. Herb. A ghibrous shrub, branchlets 

 slender, nearly terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate, terete or sli^iitly compressed, 

 with a fine usually recurved but not pungent point, 2 to 3 in. long, striate 

 with veiy fine parallel nerves, the central one scarcely more prominent. Spikes 

 obionj^, sessile, solitary or in pairs, 3 to 4 lines lono;. Flowers mostly 4- 

 merous. Sepals spathulate, above half as long as the corolla, united in a 



^ ^ Petals smooth, rather thick at the lips, but without 



prominent midribs. Pod unknown. 



Lake Gilles in the interior, IBurhtt. Very near A. microneura, but 

 the phyllodia scarcely broader than lliick and the cal)X different. 



231. A. micrpneura, Meism. in PL Preiss. i. 19. Young shoofs mi- 

 nutely ashy-pubescent, becoming glabrous, branchlets slightly angular or 

 nearly terete. Phyllodia narrow-linear, almost subulate, with a recurved 

 point*, 2 to 3 in. lonir, |^ to 1 line broad, rigid, with numerous parallel nerves, 

 the central one usually more prominent. Spikes solitary or in pairs, sessile, 

 3. to i lines long. Flowers mostly. 4-merous. Calyx shortly toothed, not 

 half so long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. 



W. Australia. S. interior, Freiss, n. 942 ; Drnmmond^ hth Coll. n- 10. 

 from A. ephedroides chiefly in the more flattened phyllodia. 



232. A, cyperophyUa, F, Muell, Herb, Tall, with curly bark and 

 dark wood, branchlets terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate with a fine usually 

 curved point, 6 to 10 in. long, terete or very slightly compressed, striate >vitU 



S. Australia. 



Differs 



iiuL jj 111. iu[ig. r lowers mostly o-merous or b-merous. v*!^^ *':..;. ^ 

 about halfas long as the corolla, at first shortly toothed but often dividiDo 

 nearly to the base. Petals smooth, glabrous. Pod unknown. 



Queensland ? Leichhardt, 



S. Australia. Stony ground, Cooper's Creek, A, C, Gregory. 



233. A. mnltispicata, Beulh, Young shoots inin^'tely sdky-pt^^^^^^^^ 



cent, otherwise glabrous; branchlets slender, nearly terete, whitish. P"i> 

 dia linear-subulate, with fine usually recurved but not pungent ])oi: 

 2\ in. long, rather rigid, terete, with few prominent parallel nerves 



and fur- 



in. long. 



• dia linear-subulate, with fine usually recurved but "not pungent points, U 



rows. Spikes sessile, solitarv'or in pairs/ cylindricair not very dense, i tot 



I'lowers mostly 4-merous. Calyx brond, sliort, thin, P'^'^^*^^ ' 

 shortly lobed. Petals smooth, at length separating. Ovary densely tome 

 tose. Pod unknown. 



"W. Australia, J. S. Roe, Dnmmond ; Hill river, Ofdfeld. Differs from A. ej> 

 droides in the prominently few nerved phyllodia longer spikes, unribbed petals, etc. 



Quite ffla- 



234. A. pityoides, F. Mudl. in Journ. Lhm. Soc. iii. 135. 

 brous ; branchlets slender, terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate, rather ng 



id but 



