Leguminosa.] flora of Tasmania 111 
Series II. BOTJiYOCEFHAl.K. Benfhv— Lent fijifiniff fa * / , M eapifcfc. 
18. Acacia discolor (Willd. 8p. PL iv. L068) ; frutex. ranmlis angulatis tetragouis sub-4-alatisve 
petiolisque pubesccntibus glaberrimisve, pinnis 2-ti-ju-is, glandula petiolari ICTtfaJkfonni magna, folidis 
L0-15-jugis oblongis lineari-oblongis oblongo-huiceuhitUc obtusis mucronatisvc uninerviis subtus pallidis, 
capitulorum racemis folio brevioribus, floribus puberulis, calyce brevi ciliato petalia nm': 
ovario glaberrimo, legumine lato lineari compressissimo recto glabm, aeminiboa Lata obkmgH valda nun- 
pressis. 
Var. £. maritima (Benth.) ; glaberrima, pinnis 2-4-jugis. — A. maritima, BentL M /-■ 
i. 384. (G«»w, 373.) 
Hab. Var. /3. Common near the sea-coast in various toctfitiM, I 
July.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. 
A shrub 3-o (\u-t high, with ralli.T spreading branches, alnbrous in every part. /tranc/i--* imii rally sharpK 
four-angled or with tour thickened win--, /'w/wllinr tn live pairs, angled, 2-t indies lon<: ; petiole* with a larp 
oblong depressed gland ; pinnules ten to fifteen pairs, linear or oblong-linear, aemuinale, coriaceous, pale helow. ', ; 
inch long. Capilnin in -preadini: panicles. /VA 2.1 :).l inehe- Imiu. \ inch hn.ad. -tipitate. linear, Miint, miieli com- 
pressed, red-brown, margined; valoea flat, coriaoaoaa. dbufa broadrj ovoid-oMmig. much mmpr. - 
branches and petiole-; and panicle-; the pod- are rather shorter, and the val\e- rather thicker, and ; 
19. Acacia dealbata (Link, Kn. Hort BeroL 155); arboiea, tola albido-cinerei 
ramulis angulatis foliisque junioribus argenteis petiolisque v«-lutiuo-]>ul)i->r-i-ritil)iis, pinn 
glandulis verrucasformibus ad omnia piria pinn gia confertia parria linearibna obtaaia 
pubescentibus, capitulorum racemis paniculatis, floribus glabriusculis, calyce corolla dimidio brcvion . 
legumine lato-lineari compressissimo marginibus vix undulatis rabincraaaatis, ralvia membra 
—Benth. in Bond, Joum. Bot. i. 3S5. {Gunn, 176.) 
Hab. Abundant in all parts of the I 
DlSTRIB 
A most beautiful plant, very variable in >!ature and habit. - 
the base, at others a lofty tree (100 fa I high in d- 
Bark exported for tannin-- purposes, under the m 
petioles, panicles , and pinnules, glaucous, and covered more or h-s with a silvery-white pulx 
fourth the breadth of the pod. oblong, mucb compressed, with a rath, r A< mkr long funiculus. 
20. Acacia mollissima fWilld. Knum. L053); nmatia mgol 
velutino-pubescentibus cano-cinereisve junioribua aureis, foliis ct inllorescentia ut in A. d 
puberulo lineari toruloso marginibus incrassatis inter aetnina constrictis. 
385; Sweet, Fl. Austral t. 12. A. decurrens, var. mollissirna, LhulL / 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Islands.— (Fl. Nov., Dec.) {v. v.) (Colonial name, 
Wattle.") 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
