Acacia.'] 



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Branchlets slender slightly angular, silky-pubescent when young. Phvllodia 

 kea -Innceolate falcate, narrowed at both ends, 4 to 6 in loiv. 2 to 5 li,u^8 



roa ja the noddle rather thin sprinkled with loose silky hair's, u'Vab 

 3 fine but prominent^ nerves, and fiuer less conspicuous and not very „ume- 



ot ipn° "^ "•; ^'^'"^'^^^"'^.^f t'^-e'" occasionally auaston^osing. Flowers 



S 'tf '"''''f^ ™''"'S'"^' '-'•^^^t 3 lines b,oad, the cori^fceous 



r. .nlf' f°"'''' 'i^'V^'' '''^''' ""'■'^°^'^^ ^"^t"'^^" t'^'^'"- S^'^Js »oi seen, 

 Dut probably longitudinal. 



York Sound and Port Warrender, N.W. coast. J. Cunningham. The 



W. Australia, 



E''.7!i' T T""-' '"'P'-'-f'^'-'t' l^"' 'lo not match with un^ othei- we have." The fmit is' nearly 

 of the nM C^T' "' ^"'^ ""''■'' ^^'."•^'' "'"^ ♦^'^ l'h3 liodia much thinner, etc. Tiie bark 



oitne old branches appears to peel ottin shreds. 



GlaI)roug 



in angular branchlets. Phyllodia narrow-lanceolate, falcate, narrowed at 



uotn ends, 4 to_6 in. long, | to f in. broad, with about 3 prominent nerves, 



y lew longituduial less conspicuous ones, and the smaller veins more or 



reticulate. Spikes pedunculate, in pairs clusters or short raceme?, slea- 



uut rather dense, about | in. long. Flowers very small, mostly 5-merou3. 



^aljx short, sinuate-toothed. Pod not seen. 



« ^' ddihcO^^^^' ^'^'^^'^^'^ "^^^ ^^^ Macadam Range, F. MueUer. Possibly the same 



A. torulosa 



A tall siirub 



fabTe •?!? ' S^''^^'*^."^' "'i^^ angular branchlets. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, 

 in lon'r M ^" ?'''^^"^ glandular point, narrowed towards the base, 4 to 8 

 tteronf' \^ ^"^*^^ ^^^^^' coriaceous, with 3 to 5 prominent nerves and nu- 

 threes ^^^'^ u ^ parallel ones between thera. Spikes solitary or in pairs or 

 Rower^"'^ 1i ^"^^■^' P^^""C"l'ite, a to f in. long, slender but rather den^e. 

 freenr*v^7 1 ^''^''y 5-merous. Sepals narrow-linear, sp ithulate. ciliate, 

 remark. U^ ™jt.'^(l at the base. Petals united to the middle. Pod long, 

 aWa r'^ raoniliferous, the valves thickly coriaceous, convex, oblong, and 

 oblonn- I "^^ °'*^*^^ °^''^'' *^^ seeds, much contracted between them. Seeds 

 litii,pl°' ^^o'^'"'in=>l ; funicle short, the last fold expanded into a small ob- 

 N a1"^ «''fPed aril under the seed. 



^tteller ^ ^ ^^' Sandy bauks of Roper and NicholsoD rivers, Gulf of Carpentaria, P. 



ScaS^^*?**" ■ ^^'^'"^'^"'^ ^^'^"^' Endeavour Straits, r. HilL 

 ^^ fruit ^i^^tiuguished ivom A, juiifera, A. plectocarpa, and some others, except by 



tree, 



i»henT^^''^^ 1^''*'^''^"^ except the iiiHorescer 

 alhntk '**^? "'^*^ ^^on terete. Plivllorlia nar 



julifera, Benth. in Hook, Loud. JournA. 374. A tall shrub or 



orescence ; branclilets slender, angular 

 ,, -._._ row-lanceolate, falcate, narrowed 



^^rv^es a^"l i' ^ ^^ ^ ^'^- ^"^"o) i to ^ in. broad, coriaceous, with 1 to 3 fine 

 fine^ j . '''*^ ttfirve-like margins rather more prominent than the numerous 

 ^^litarv"* l^^tween them. Spikes dense, shortly pedunculate, 1 to 1^ in. long, 

 merous ^ r i^** ^ together on a short common pednncle. Flowers mostly 5- 

 glabroyg p^^ short, more or less lobed, pubescent, woolly or rarely almost 



"od lontr. \\ to 2 lines broad, spirally twisted into numerous 



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