412 ^T.. LEGUMiNos.-E, [Jcacia, 



m 



between thera. Spikes sessile, often 2 in. long or more. Flowers mostly 5- 

 meroiis. Calyx small, shortly lobed, pubescent. Petals pubescent, united at 

 the base. Pod long-linear, irregularly or spirally twisted, 2 to 2 i lines 

 broad ; valves convex. Seeds ovate, longitudinal ; funicle folded and dilated 

 into a cup-5i;aped or turbinate aril at the base. — A. neurocarpa, A. Cunn. iu 

 Hook. Ic. PI. t. 168. 



W, Australia- Cambridjje Gulf, N.W. coast, A. Cmmhigharn ; Nicbol Bay, P. 

 Grf^gory^s Exper/itwn ;T\c\.om river, F. Mueller; Attack Creek, M'Bomli Siuari ; iskmds 

 of tTie Gulf of Carpentaria, /2. ^T-ow-v/. ' , 



Queensland. Eiideavoiu* river, Banks and Solander ; Rockhanipton and Port Deni- 



soiij Tlioznt, /)a//(^r//y, and others; Edjiccombe Bay, Ballachy. ^ , 



Var. pnbescens, F. Muell. Everywhere softly pubescent, even the pod.— Victoria river, 



F, Mueller, 



V 



270. A. dimidiata, Bma. In Hook. LovuL Jonrn. i. 381. Hoary with 

 a minute pubescence or nearly glabrous; branehlets scarcely angular. 1 nyl- 

 lodia broadly nud obliquely ovate-rhomboid, obliquely truncate at the base, 

 usually 3 to' 4 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad, but on some barren shoots twice or 

 three times that size, with 4 or 5 prominent nerves more or less confluent 

 with the lower margin at the base, and pinnately net-veined between tliem. 

 Spikes sessile or shortly peduucuhite, usually in pairs, 1 to 2 in. long- 

 riowcrs mostly 5-merous. Calvx angular, lobcd, readily separating into 

 distinct sepals. Petals united below the middle. Pod linear, nearly straight, 

 2 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad; valves coriaceous, very convex. ?eecl3 

 longitudinal ovoid-oblong; funicle short, thickened into a turbinate or ob- 

 liquely cup-shaped aril at the base of* the seed.— ^. doladri/ormis, A. Lunii. 

 in Hook. Ic, PI. t. 169, not of Wendl. 



N- Australia. Various parts of the N. coast, .4. Cunning ham ; Victoria ^i^«^ ^°^ 

 M'Adam Range, F.Mueller; Fort Y.?,&\uirion, Armsiron^, and probably the same species, 

 in leaf only, islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Ji. Brown. 



271. A. humifusa, ^. Cnnn,; Beyilh. in HooJc. Loud. /o^/?v^ i. 382. 

 Difl'use or prostrate, softly pubescent or tomentose; branchlets nearly tere . 

 Phyllodia broadly and obliquely ovate-rhomboid or almost orbicular ly ^o 

 in. long and nearly as broad, or in luxuriant shoots nearly twice ^'^'^*'.^^^ ' 

 often undulaU^, with 3 to 5 nerves more or less confluent ^^^^'l. ^ ^^^ ^'^^^^ 

 margin at !he base, and pinnately relicnhite between thera. Spikes '^,^^|^.^ 

 oblong, dense, scarcely exceedin<>: \ in. Flowers tnoslly 5-merous. 



last 1 or 2 folds thickened into an obliquely cup-shape 



the seed. • H 



K.Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller ; ielinds of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Brown-. r I mv^H' 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Cape Cleveland, A, 

 ham; bizard Island, M'QiUiaaij; Albany Ishiud, If. IIUL 



Division IL BIPINNATjE. ^ 



Leaves all bipinuate, most frequently with a depressed or shield-shape „^^ 

 on the common pftiole near the base,' and often smaller glands on the p* 



