Dr Graham's List of Hare Plants. 427 



Description. — Stem erect, round, green and pilose, but becoming brown 

 and naked; branches diffused, round, green, pretty closely covered with 

 rather harsh spreading colourless hairs. Phyllodia (1 inch long, 10 lines 

 broad) on short petioles, crowded, ascending obliquely, bearing one edge 

 up, glaucous, obovato-subrotund, undulate, coriaceous, marginate and ci- 

 liated, having a small sessile gland on the upper edge near the base, 

 slightly hairy on both surfaces, somewhat unequally divided by the mid- 

 rib, which is prolonged into an ascending subulate mucro ; veins oblique 

 and slightly reticulated, as well as the rib prominent on both sides. Pe- 

 duncles (three-fourths of an inch long) generally single-headed, occasion- 

 ally supporting several heads in a racemose manner, axillary and collected 

 towards the branches, the phyllodia at their bases becoming gradually 

 smaller, and at length, near the apex, being altogether awanting. Capi- 

 tida about the size of large peas, dense, yellow, all, or nearly all, her- 

 maphrodite. Calyx very small, brown, adpressed, 5-cleft, segments blunt. 

 Corolla small, about five times as long as the calyx, 5-cleft, segments 

 erect, elliptical. Stamens numerous, nearly three times as long as the 

 corolla; filaments undulate ; anthers of two small rounded lobes. Pistil 

 longer than the stamens ; germen green, elliptical, glabrous ; style rather 

 6touter than the filaments, placed obliquely upon the apex of the ger- 

 men ; stigma blunt and inconspicuous. 



We received the seeds cf tlds shrub, gathered on the banks of the Goul- 

 bourn River, from Dr Maclagan in 1838. It flowered in the greenhouse 

 of the Botanic Garden in December last, and continued in blossom 

 during January and February. I cannot doubt that it is the plant fi- 

 gured by Hooker, as quoted above ; and I believe it is identical with a 

 specimen in my herbarium from the late Mr Fraser, marked a tall pen- 

 dulous shrub, observed in Oxley's second expedition in flower in August 

 on all the barren lands north of the Arbuthnot range. Hooker's spe- 

 cimen is from sandstone ridges on the western branches of Hunter's 

 River. In general, De Candolle's division of the leafless Acacias into 

 three sections, according to their inflorescence, is found useful and easy 

 of application. There are a few exceptions, which, like the present 

 species, stand across one of the boundary lines. In general, the flowers 

 are placed in solitary capitula ; but, both in the cultivated plant and in 

 my native specimen, there are also capitula arranged in a racemose man- 

 ner along a common peduncle. This circumstance is not exhibited in 

 Hooker's figure, nor noticed in his description. Sir William Hooker 

 inadvertently published another species under the same name, Icones 

 PI. 316. This last is Acacia Riceana, Henslow, Botanist, t. 135. 



Gardoquia betonicoides, Lindl. 



G. betonicoides ; radice repente, caule erecto, corollis calyce subglabro 

 triplo longioribus, foliis ovato-cordatis grosse crcnatis utrinque sub- 

 glabris subtus purpurascentibus, cymis pedunculatis erectis, floribus 

 congestis. 

 Gardoquia betonicoides, Lindl. Bot. Reg. in Misc. n. 159. — Bot. Mag. 

 3800. 

 Description. — Root creeping. Stem (in the specimen described) nearly 

 3 feet high. Leaves (l£ to 1\ inches long, \\ to If broad) ovato -cor- 

 date, blunt, deeply crenate, glandular and subglabrous on both sides, at 

 first green on both sides, soon becoming purplish below ; middle rib and 

 distantly reticulated veins prominent below, channelled above ; petiole 

 nearly as long as the leaf, channelled above. Bracts resembling much 

 diminished, subsessile, subentiro leaves ; bracteoles linear, subulate. 

 Cymes erect, distant at the lower part of the terminal pseudo-spikes, ap- 

 proaching higher up, with many crowded erect jfow rt. Calya s densely 

 adpressed, subglabrous, subequal. Corolla (1 inch long) agreeably per- 

 fumed, somewhat spreading, thrice as long as the calyx ; tube clavate, 

 compressed laterally, grooved and veined, shortly glandulo6o-pubes(.ent, 



