Zeyuminosa.] FLOEA OF TASMANIA. LOS 
Var. ft. microphylla ; leguniinile | rugosis v. l.rvihus. — L 
microphallus, Benth. L c. 
Hab. Common in the northern parts of the Island, climbing aim : 
feet, Gunn.— (El. Nov. Dec.) 
Disteib. New South "Wales and South-east Australia. 
Root thick, fusiform, elongated. Stems very slender, twining, filiform, co\ered. 
peduncles, with reflexed hispid hairs. Petioles i-f inch long. Leaflets very variable in sha]>.- on all parts of the 
plant: on the lower leaves broad, ovate, or oblong, lanceolate on those higher up, on the terminal Leave* linear. 
f-H inch long, glabrous, or more or less covered with appressed hairs on both surfaces, acute or acuminate, the 
lateral ones often oblique. Peduncles axillary, slender, very variable in length, 2-S inches long. / 
to eighteen-flowered. Flowers \ inch long. Bracts subulate. Pedicels as long as the calyx or shorter, sometimes 
the flowers are almost sessile. Calyx covered with appressed hairs. Pod extremely variable in length, breadth, 
and number of seeds, £-2 inches long, compressed or terete, glabrous or bain, generally eight- to tcii-smlcd. 
Seeds extremely variable ; those in the longest pods generally the most oblong, and covered with large granulations; 
those in the shorter pods more orbicular and smoother; but all forms occur iudi-crimiuatcly. 
I am quite unable to distinguish L. ekmdt ttmm M remarkably 
different, every intermediate form occurs, and I find both fariei 
considers them distinct. There an certainly no constant differences in tie , length of the 
pedicels, and calyx, these characters van in- abundantly in both, and also i . 
Gen. XIX. ACACIA, WUU1. 
Flores ssepius polygami. Sepala 3-5, coalita v. libera, valvata. Petal* mqualia, ronlita, rarissnne 
libera v. 0, valvata. Stamina numerosa, libera v. basi in cola I© ▼« s-tiintai inn. 
Arbores v. frutices (rarissime herbre) ; foliis pru Thyllodineis 
ad petiolum foliiformem reductis v. in X^^ **&•> *W&* < n Tasmanicis minuiu r. **Uit; lloribus 
paucis, capitat w * — ^cnth. m 
Bond. Journ. Bot. i. 318. 
This vast and important genus, one of the largest in the veg. table kingdom, was thoroughly well elucidated 
by Mr. Bentham in 1842, and the result published in the work quoted under the generic character; H tl,. n con- 
tained about 340 species, of which more than half were native* of A.ustra] 
continued his investigation of the genus, and (chiefly owing to the diseovi 
lian species now number upwards of 260, of which a revision is published 
these, only one is found in any other part of the globe, and is appan otrj the d. Wmm I 
the tropics of both the Old and New World. < >f : 
sections only two or three speci 
with the exception of one, saic 
suggest doubts of its being truly wild in Bourbon. 
The foliage and habit have afforded Mr. Bentham the only practical characters for dividing 
into sections ; °and these, with his specific detenninations, are adopted in the Mowing descriptions of the T; 
