FLORA Or TASMANIA. \Leguminos<B . 
is, deciduous bracts. Pedum t s erect, shorter than the phyll Lcelled, six- to ten-flowered. 
Sepals minute, free, linear, ciliate at their blunt apices. Petals membranous. Pods pedicelled, 1-2 inches long, 
f inch broad, with a slender thickened margin, rather tortuous, blunt at both ends, glaucous, transversely septate ; 
valves torulose, coriaceous. Seeds \ inch long, small for the size of the pod, compressed, linear-oblong, at right 
angles to the valve; funiculus much thickened; testa red-brown. — This is the earliest-flowering species of the 
11. Acacia crassiuscula (Wendl. Diss. 31. t. 8) ; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis gracilibus acute 
angulatis, phyllodiis longe linearibus sublanceolatisve mucronatis basi longe angustatis crassiusculis mar- 
ginatis uninerviis, racemis phyllodio brevioribus, capitulis sub-20-floris, sepalis late obcuneatis apice trun- 
catis puberulis connatis v. demum solutis corolla paullo brevioribus, legumine lineari. — Benth. in Lond. 
Journ. Bot. i. 356. {Gunn, 1957.) 
Hab. Flinders' Island, Bass' Straits, MiUigan.— (El. Feb., March.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. 
Very similar indeed in foliage, habit, and general appearance to A. suaveolens, but a very different species ; the 
branchlets being much more slender, acutely angled, and hardly compressed; the scales of the raceme, if ever 
present, are much more deciduous ; the sepals are very broad, obcuneate and connate, till the flower is very old, 
when they only partially separate ; and the pod is long, slender, and linear. 
12. Acacia verniciflua (A. Cunn. in Field. N. S. Wales, 344) j frutex v. arbuscula glaberrima, 
ramulis sulcatis angulatis, phyllodiis viscosis lineari- v. oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque angustatis acutis cal- 
loso-mucronatis rectis falcatisve binerviis (rarius uninerviis) venis obscuris, pedunculis brevibus monocepha- 
iis, capitulis multinoris, legumine anguste lineari elongato planiusculo glabra marginato, valvis coriaceis, 
seminibus lineari-oblongis compressis. — Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 361 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3266. A. 
graveolens, A. Cunn. in Bon Gard. Diet. ii. 404 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1460 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3279. A. virgata, 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1246. {Gunn, 479.) 
Hab. Common in many parts of the Island, especially about Hobarton; also at St. Patrick's River, 
Launceston, and near Yorktown, Gunn. — (PL Sept.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A large shrub or small tree 10-20 feet high, forming thickets in many places, remarkable for the abundance 
of viscid matter exuded by the leaves and young branches. Everywhere quite glabrous.— Branchlets slender, angled. 
PliyUodia narrow, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 inches long, \ inch broad, acute, narrowed at both ends, 
two-nerved, one of them oblique, rarely one-nerved. Capitula solitary, on short axillary peduncles, many-flowered. 
Calyx broadly campanulate, pubescent, five-toothed; teeth blunt. Petals twice as long as the calyx. Ovary 
pubescent. Pods linear, as long as the phyllodia, but much narrower, somewhat undulate ; valves coriaceous. Seeds 
with a dark brown shining testa, linear-oblong, parallel to the pod. 
13. Acacia stricta (Willd. Sp. PL iv. 1052) j frutex glaberrimus subresinosus, ramulis angulatis, 
phyllodiis longe et late linearibus lineari-oblongis lanceoiatisve basi longe angustatis apice obtusis glanduli- 
feris v. obscure mucronatis retusisve uninerviis (rarius nervo altero laterali) penniveniis, pedunculis brevi- 
bus axillaribus monocephalis, capitulis multifloris, legumine anguste lineari marginato, valvis subtorulosis, 
seminibus lineari-oblongis compressis.— Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 362; Andr. Bot. Hep. *. 53; Hook. 
Bot. Mag. t. 1121 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 99. A. emarginata, Wendl. Diss. 27. (Gunn, 205, 478, 801.) 
Hab. Common throughout the Colony in dry soil, Gunn, etc.— (El Sept. Oct.) [v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A shrub 2-3 feet high, with creeping roots, forming large patches, variable in habit and foliage ; quite 
