HO FLORA OF TASMANIA. [LeguminoscB . 
cejous, blunt, retuse, or acute, with one prominent nerve and lateral slender ones. Spikes 1-3 inches long. Sepals 
minute, broadly ovate, coriaceous, concave. Petals coriaceous, recurved, connate at the base. Pod narrow linear 
in Austraban specimens. 
16. Acacia mucronata (Willd. Enum. Suppl. 68) ; frutex v. arbuscula glaberrima, ramulis suban- 
gulatis junioribus puberulis, phyllodiis anguste et longe linearibus lineari-spathulatis oblongisve 3-multi- 
nerviis obtusis v. mucronulatis basi longe angustatis, spicis interruptis pbyllodio brevioribus, legumine 
anguste lineari subtereti. 
Var. a; phyllodiis anguste lineari-spathulatis obtusis sub-3-nerviis. — A. mucronata, Wendl. Diss, 
t. 12 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2747 ; Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 372. {Gunn, 130.) 
Var. p. dependent; phyllodiis ut in a, sed latioribus et multinerviis.— A. dependens, A. Cunn. MS.; 
Benth. 1. c. {Gunn, 202, 480, 678.) 
Yar. y. dissitiflora; phyllodiis longe lineari-lanceolatis basi 3-5-nerviis.— A. dissitiflora, Benth. I.e. 
{Gunn, 130 in part, et 802.) 
Hab. Common in various places throughout the Island, ascending to 2-3000 feet, Cunningham Gunn 
etc.— (11 Nov.) {v. v.). 
Disteib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A stout ramous shrub, 5-15 feet high; everywhere, except on the youngest parts, glabrous. Branchlets 
angled, but less so than in most species. Phyllodia 2-7 inches long, narrow linear, oblong-lanceolate, or spathu- 
late, narrowed from below the middle to the base, coriaceous, three- to many-nerved, with obscure transverse veins. 
Spikes interrupted, shorter than the phyllodia, simple ; flowers sobtary, or few together and distant. Calyx broadly 
cup-shaped, very broad, obscurely lobed, pubescent. Corolla rather coriaceous ; petals recurved, united at the base. 
Ovary villous. Pod very long, narrow linear, straight, subterete, pointed at both ends, 3-6 inches long, edges 
rather waved, margins thickened; valves hardly coriaceous. Seeds distant, narrow linear-oblong, parallel with the 
pod, and occupying its whole breadth, pale brown : (shorter pods appear to have shorter and broader seeds.) Ca- 
runcula very much thickened.— Mr. Bentham has united the above varieties under mucronata; they are connected 
by many intermediate forms. 
17. Acacia Sophorae (Br. Hort, Kew. ed. 3. v. 462); frutex v. arbuscula, ramis robustis decum- 
bentibus apice ramulisque erectis angulatis, phyllodiis obovato-oblongis obtusis calloso-mucronatis basi an- 
guste cuneahs coriaceis 3-5-nerviis reticulatim venosis, spicis interruptis phyllodiis brevioribus, legumine 
anguste lineari subtereti toruloso arcuato.— Benth. in Loud. Jour,,. Bot. i. 372; Lab. Nov. Roll. t. 237 ■ 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1351. {Gunn, 675.) 
Hab. Abundant generally on sand-hills by the sea, Labillardiere, etc.— (FL Sept., Oct.) {v. v.) 
Distiub. New South Wales? and South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A glabrous, stout, branching small shrub or tree, with decumbent or prostrate trunk and main branches from 
which the branches ascend and are sometimes 10 feet high. Phyllodia l*-4 inches long, J inch broad coriaceous 
oblong-lanceolate or narrow ovate-oblong, blunt with an obtuse mucro, five- or many-nerved and reticulated, often 
ng, with many small anastomosing veins and veinlets. Spikes shorter than the phyllodia, stout, simple, cylin- 
Pods 3-6 inches lone:, narrow, linear terete, much 
ed, with long points; valves concave, tornlose. Seeds broadly bnear-oblong, with a pale-brown shining testa 
__- large swollen caruncula.-This appears to be also a New South Wales plant, and may be identical with tin- 
d. ,.j;. 4 Wffld.; but most states of that from the Blue Mountains have very long phyllodia, whilst others, 
supposed to be the same species, from Moreton Bay, have much more slender pods than A. Sophom. There are 
however in Herb. Hook, some specimens from the southward of Port Jackson that agree so closelv in foHage and 
flower with the Tasmanian one, that it is probable they are the same. 
