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flowers nearly sessile; unguis of the petals longer than 
their lamina; style tripartite. 
On the rocky and sandy shores of Wilson’s Promontory, 
of Rivoli Bay and Lake Alexandrina. 
LEGUMINOS&. 
12. Acacia tenuifolia. 
Procumbent or rarely erect, twigs soon terete, hispidulous ; 
leaves scattered, opposite or sometimes fasciculate, spreading, 
often retroflexed, linear-subulate, rigid, pungent, nearly 
tetragonal from the prominent nerve, hardly tapering into 
the base, glandless, scabrous; stipules setaceous, persistent 3, 
peduncles solitary or twin, smooth, about as long as the 
leaves; heads globose, many flowered ; sepals ciliolate, nearly 
three times shorter than the four-parted corolla; pods glabrous, 
linear falcate, hardly between the seeds contracted; seeds 
shining, supported by a conduplicate thick brownish 
strophiole. 
In dry stony ranges near Ballarat, towards the Goulburn 
and Broken River. It stands in relation to A. Brownii, 
and varies like many other species with downy leaves. 
13. Acacia Wilhelmiana. 
Viscidulous; stems angular, puberulous; phyllodia ineur-- 
ved, upright, short linear-filiform, compressed, ending in a 
broader blunt recurved apex, above or on both sides furrowed 
and furnished with two thin veins; stipules ovate, acuminate, 
very glutinous, deciduous or at length spinescent; peduncles 
axillary, solitary, shorter than the flower-heads; pods viscid, 
narrow, arcuate, between the seeds slightly contracted. 
In the Mallee Scrub on the Murray, where it was first 
discovered by Mr. Wilhelmi. E 
Allied to Acacia Hookeri. 
14. Oxylobium procumbens. 
Podolobium procumbens, Ferd. Mueller, first gen. rep. 
tL. 
"i Fruticulose, procumbent; leaves opposite or rarely ternate, 
lanceolate or round-ovate, flat, entire, prickly pointed, soon 
glabrous; stipules setaceous, reflexed; umbels terminal, pe- 
dunculate, few-flowered, sometimes compound; _bracteoles, 
affixed to the base of the calyx, long persistent; calyces 
