106 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Leguminos® : 
monocephalis, spicis ovoideis oblougisve dense rnultifloris, legumine lineari breviusculo. (Gunk, 676.) 
(Tab. XX.) 
Hab. Amongst grass, etc., in dry soil, Woolnorth and Circular Head, Gum.— (EL Sept, Oct.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
A small, low, straggling, prostrate or procumbent bush, with slender, diffuse branches. Stipules subulate, 
deciduous. Phyllodia often whorled six together, linear-subulate, very acuminate, pungent, tetragonous, inserted 
by a broad base. Peduncles solitary or two together. Spikes ovoid or oblong, Ht inch long. Mowers pale. 
Bracts stipitate, concave, spathulate, acuminate, villous at the back. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, united at the very 
base ; margin coarsely ciliate. Stamens very numerous. Ovary villous. Pods about 1 inch long, dark brown, 
w r ith a pale thickened margin, blunt or acute, compressed ; valves rather membranous. Seeds few, distant, narrow 
oblong, red-brown, with a very long, much-thickened, flexuose funiculus. — Plate XX. Fig. 1, leaves and capi- 
tuluni; 2, bract; 3, flower; 4, anther; 5, pollen; 6, ovary; 7, hair from ovary;, 8, vertical section of ovary; 9, 
pod, with valve removed; 10, 11, 12, seeds; 13, 14, embryo; 15, embryo, with one cotyledon removed:— all 
magnified. 
6. Acacia verticillata (Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1049) j frutex erectus v. arbuscula, glabra pubescens v. 
tomentosa, rami : , phyllodiis divaricatis verticillatis lineari-subulatis lanceolatis oblongisve 
rigidis mucronato-pungentibus 1- (rarius 3-) nerviis, spicis cylindricis densifloris phyllodia superantibus, 
bracteolis acuminatis, legumine lineari subfalcato compresso. — BentL in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 340 j Vent. 
Malm. t. 63; Bot. Mag. 110; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 535. {Gunn, 204, 401.) 
Var. /3. latifolia, DC. Prodr. ii. 454 ; phyllodiis latioribus submembranaceis. — A. ruscifolia, A. Cunn. 
in Don Gard. Diet. ii. 407 ; Bot. Mag. 3174; BentL I. c. A. mo3sta, Lindl. Bot. Beg. 1846. t. 67. 
Hab. Abundant in moist situations throughout the Island. Var. /3. Macquarrie Harbour, A. Cun- 
ningham.— (EL Oct. Dec.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
A large shrub or small tree, 8-15 feet high, with spreading branches, and pubescent or tomentose angled 
and striate branchlets. Phyllodia ^-f inch long, generally whorled in six, linear-subulate, acuminate, pungent, 
sometimes expanded and becoming oblong-subfalcate, one- rarely three-nerved. Peduncles longer or shorter than 
the phyllodia, b -flowered spikes, i-1 inch long, bright yellow. Calyx downy, deeply five- 
cleft. Pod f-3 inches long, generally curved, \-\ inch broad, narrow at both ends, with a pale thickened margin. 
Fakes membranous. Seeds as in A. ovoidea. 
7. Acacia Riceana (Henslow in the Botanist, iii. 135) ; arbuscula glaberrima, ramulis pendulis 
angulatis gracilibus apicibus tomentosis, phyllodiis anguste linearibus lineari-subulatisve sparsis subverticil- 
latisve acuminato-pungentibus uninerviis, pedunculis elongatis gracilibus dissitifloris phyllodia superantibus, 
bracteolis brevibus, calyce brevissimo 3-lobo, floribus majusculis, leguminibus gracilibus linearibus valde 
curvis, petalis persistentibus suffnltis.— Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 340 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard, ii. 42, cum 
ic. xyl. A. setigera, Hook Ic. PL t. 318. {Gunn, 482, 1063.) 
Hab. Southern parts of the Island, in moist shady places on the banks of the Derwent, etc., Gunn. 
(Fl. Oct. Nov.) {v. v.) 
A very handsome dark green small tree, 10-20 feet high, with copious pendulous slender branches, which are 
villous at the apices only. Phyllodia scattered or whorled, appressed, very narrow, 1-2 inches long, linear, acumi- 
nate, pungent, less rigid than in its congeners of this section, one-nerved. Stipules minute, broadly ovate, mem- 
branous. Peduncles slender, divaricating, longer than the phyllodia. Flowers large for the genus, solitary or 
aggregated by two or three together along the peduncle. Bracts small, appressed to the base of the flower, ciliate. 
Calyx very minute, cup-shaped, three-lobed j lobes ciliate. Petals generally three, persistent, glabrous. Pods 2-3 
