403 XL, LEGUMlNOSiE. [Acacia. 



and coloured, the last 2 folds more than half encircling the seed, the next 2 

 exteiidin"' alonf^r the other side so as nearly to surround it, 



W- Australia. Fort E:^&ingtoiij A. Can7nngham ; and probably the same species, in 

 flower only, islands of the Gulf *'f Carprnlaiia, R. Brown, 



Queensland. Port Bowen, A. Cunningham ; Endeavour river, IF. Hill. 

 Yery like A. leptocarpa, but phyllodia usually larger aud the pod and seed different. 



257. A, holcocarpa, Benth. Glabrons; branchlets slender, terete. 

 Phyllodia broadly falcate, narrowed at both ends and very oblique at tlie 

 base, 4 to 5 or perhaps 6 in. long, ^ to f in. broad, not glaucous, with i or 



3 fine rather prominent nerves and very numerous, very fine, closely parked 

 parallel veins betAveen them. Spikes nearly sessile, about 1 in. long, slender 

 but dense. Flowers moslly 5-meious, but sometimes 4-nierous, small. Ciilyx 

 deeply lobed, pubescent. Pod long aud slender, stniight or slightly curved, 

 nearly terete, longitudinally sulcate-striate, about 2 lines diameter, Se^^J^ 

 oblong, longitudinal, embedded in what appears to be a dried pulp; fuuicle 

 short, scarcely folded, dilated into a short more or less oblique aril. 



Queensland. Port Bowen and Thirsty Sonnd, R. Broicn. PhvUodia precisely tte 

 those q[ A. crassicarpa^ but the pod very diiiereut {Herb. R. Browu). 



258. A. plectocarpa, A. Cfnm.j Benth. in Hook. Lonfl.Jonrn. i. 375. 

 Glabrous and often soniewliat glaucous, with acutely angular branelih^ts. 

 Phyllodia usually falcate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, 4 to 6 in. long, 



4 to 8 lines broad, resembling those of A. jnlifera, but varying from 2 or o ur. 

 lor.g, coiiaceous and nearly straight to above 6 in. long, narrow-linear and 

 -thin, about 3 nerves fine but more or less prominent, and numerous closely 



packed very fine parallel veins between thera. Spikes slender, not very 

 dense, about 1 in. long, the njjper ones often -forming a terminal leafy panicle. 

 Flowers small, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, minutely toothed. Ptitiils 

 'smooth. Pod linear, 'not very long, usually 3 to 4 lines broad, coriaceous, at 

 first flat, with straight slightly thickened margins, but becoming olten very 

 ranch undulate between thetn, and occasionally varying from under H niit:^ 

 broad and quite thin, to alm:>st as broad and thick as in A. fachjc^^^- 

 Seeds ovate, obliquely transverse, the last 2 or 3 folds of the funicle diliitea 

 into an aril under the seed. 



W. Australia. Cambridge Gulf and Regent's River, N.W. coast, A. CunniM^i^^^^ 

 islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Broivn ; Sturt^s Creek, Roper, Seven-Emu, ana 

 maurice rivers, F, Mueller. 



259. A. pachycarpa, F. MnelL in Jonrn. Linn. Soc, iii- 139- ^ Ij, 



or even more, 2 to 4 lines broad, coriaceous, apparently almost nerveless, ^^ 

 with numerous very fine parallel veins seen under a lens, and sometunes ^^^ 

 3 more conspicuous nerves. Spikes solitary or in pairs, pedunnuhite, r^ 

 slender but very dense, about \ in. long. "Flowers small, mostlv 5-»"^'^j,^j 

 Calyx short, sinuate-toothed. Petals rather thick, united at the base. ^^^ ^ 

 straight and undnlate as in A, pltclocarpa, but thinly coriaceous, a ^o 

 lines broad. Seeds orbicular, obliquely transverse; funicle sligntly 

 and dilated into a small narrow-oblong obliquely lateral aril. 



