482 PHANEROGAMIA. 



18. Acacia laurifolia, Willd. 



Acacia laurifolia, Willd. Spec. PI. 4, p. 1053 j Labill. Sert. Austro-Cal. p. 68, t. 68 ; 



Benth. Mimos. 1. c. p. 369. 

 Mimosa Mangium, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 75, non Linn. 

 M. simplicifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 436. 



Hab. Friendly, Navigators' or Samoan, and Feejee Islands : along 

 the shores. 



The phyllodia vary from 2 to 5 inches in length, and from H to 3 

 inches in width. There is likewise a form from Vanua-levu, Feejee 

 Islands, with narrower and mostly pointed phyllodia. The pods are 

 sharply margined, as described by Mr. Bentham; leaving no doubt 

 that the species is distinct from the foregoing, to which Hooker and 

 Arnott united it. 



19. Acacia Richii, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 53.) 



A. glaberrima; ramulis angulatis ; phyllodiw lanceolatis acuminatis 

 subfalcatis chartaceo-coriaceis midtinerviis, apice scepius hamato; 

 pedunculis fasciculatis capitulo parvo midtlfloro longioribus ; calyce 

 dentato; legumine obhngo piano glabro, marginibus acutis angustis- 

 simis. 



Hab. Feejee Islands; common in barrens, at Sandalwood Bay. 

 Vanua-levu, and Naloa. 



" Tree 20 or 30 feet high, with the habit of a Willow," entirely gla- 

 brous; the brancldets angled, slender. Leaves {phyllodia) lanceolate, 

 from H to 3 inches long and 2% to 6 lines wide, tapering to an acute 

 apex, which is often hooked or curved, slightly falcate, chartaceo-coria- 

 ceous in texture, sessile, thickened, but not glanduliferous at the base, 

 closely many-nerved, and with minute connecting veinlets. Peduncles 

 fascicled in the axils, from 3 to 8 together, filiform, 3 or 4 lines in 

 length, bearing single small and many-(lQ-20-)flowered capitulo, of 

 only 2 lines in diameter (including the stamens). Calyx glabrous, 



