NOTES ON ACACIA. 1 OO 



4 cm. longis, tenuissime striatis, 8 nerviis vix prominentibus, apice 

 obliquo pungente. Pedunculis tenuissimis, 5 cm, longis, capitulis 

 globosis 25 - 30 floris pallide flavis plerumque 4-meris. Sepalis 

 angustis, fere spathulatis. calyce irregulariter lobato, apice hirsuto, 

 sepalis dimidio aequilongo. Petalis laevibus. Ovario densissime 

 piloso. Legumine lineare, recto vel falcato, ad 7 cm. longo, 2 mm. 

 lato, inter semina valde constricto. Seminibus nigris, longitudin- 

 alibus. Funiculo longo pilo simile, in arillum obliquum carinosum 

 dilato. 



A glabrous shrub of a few feet high with somewhat 

 brittle foliage, edible by stock; the branchlets scarcely 

 angular. The thin bark roughish. 



Phyllodia linear-subulate, rather rigid, nearly terete, 

 straight or nearly so, about 4 cm. long, and very finely 

 striate with up to eight scarcely prominent nerves, with a 

 pungent, oblique point, and a very small gland often 1*5 cm. 

 below it or near the middle of the phyllode. 



Peduncles thread-like. 5cm. long, bearing each a globular 

 head of about 25 — 30 pale-yellowish flowers, mostly 4- 

 merous, but occasionally 5-merous. Bracts variable, 

 boomerang-shaped to quadrangular. 



Sepals narrow, nearly spathulate, the calyx irregularly 

 lobed, united to a varying height, hairy at the apex and 

 edges about half as long as the petals. Petals smooth. 

 Ovary densely hairy. 



Pod linear, straight or in one curve, up to 7 cm. long, 

 2 mm. broad, much contracted between the seeds, the 

 valves embossed. 



Seeds black, ovate, longitudinally arranged, with a long 

 hair-like funicle, the last fold of which is dilated into an 

 oblique, fleshy aril. 



Type, Wong Suey's Paddock, Cobar, N. S. Wales (Rev. 

 Archdeacon Haviland, 19 L7). Flowers September, fruit 

 November. 



