212 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
7. Acacia farnesiana, W2//d., (Syn. A. lenticillata, F.v.M.) ; N.O., 
Leguminosz, B.F1., ii., 419. 
“Dead Finish.” 
This gum is collected in Sind, and forms a part of what is 
known in Bombay as “ Karachi Gum”—a kind of gum arabic. 
(Dymock, Materia Medica of Western India, p. 281.) The author 
has not heard of its collection in Australia. 
South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern 
and Western Australia. 
8. Acacia glaucescens, W7l/d., (Syn. A. homomalla, Wendl.; A. 
cinerascens, Sieb.; A. Jleucadendron, A. Cunn.; Mimosa 
binervis, Wendl.) ; N.O., Leguminose, B.F1., ii., 406. 
“Yarran.” A ‘ Myall.” A ‘“ Rosewood.” A “Brigalow” of Western 
New South Wales; ‘‘ Motherumba,” of North-Western New South 
Wales; ‘‘ Kaareewan,” of the aboriginals of Cumberland and Camden, 
New South Wales. 
The gum from this tree is said to make excellent adhesive 
mucilage. 
Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. 
9. Acacia harpophylla, 7.v.2Z., N.O., Leguminosz, B.FI., ii., 389. 
“ Brigalow.” 
Yields a gum arabic. Some collected by Mons. Thozet was 
exhibited at the Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866, but 
neither of this nor of the gum from A, Bidwilli, Ben/z., exhibited 
on the same occasion, were any particulars given. 
South Queensland. 
10. Acacia homalophylla, 4. Cunn., N.O., Leguminose, B.FI1., 
ii., 363, 
“Curly Yarran.” ‘‘Myall” (Victoria). A ‘‘Spear-wood.” (For 
aboriginal names, see ‘‘ Timbers.”’) 
This tree yields a gum copiously throughout the summer 
season. A specimen in the Technological Museum outwardly 
resembles, in a striking manner, ordinary pine resin or ‘‘rosin.” 
Its fracture is conchoidal, and very lustrous. From its resem- 
blance to “‘rosin’’ its colour is a drawback, but it is a remarkably 
light and clean gum, and as it is so freely soluble, and so adhesive, 
