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ovoideis, longitudinaliter dispositis, funiculo in arillum irregularem 

 expansum terminante 



A spreading shrub growing in Assures of granite rock, 

 but it may assume an erect habit and become 10 feet high. 

 Glabrous, branchlets at first acutely angular, but soon 

 terete. Phyllodia linear, slightly falcate, shortly acumin- 

 ate, up to 2 dm. long, 3 mm. broad, slightly narrowed 

 towards the base, a small gland at tlie base; rather thick, 

 witli numerous line parallel nerves, three being most 

 prominent. Spikes sessile or very shortly pedunculate, in 

 pairs, ovate or sub-cylindrical, 15 mm. long, 7 mm. broad. 

 Flowers mostly 5-merous. Oalyx hemispherical, sinuate- 

 toothed, not half as long as the corolla, well-besprinkled 

 with short hairs. Petals besprinkled with hairs over the 

 upper third. Ovarium densely hairy. Pods up to 1 dm. 

 long, 5 mm. broad, slightly moniliform. Seeds elongate- 

 ovoid, longitudinally arranged, brownish-black, shiny, with 

 a well defined areola; funicle at first thread-like and after 

 several folds terminating in an irregular expanded arillus. 



Synonym. 



Acacia doratoxylon A. Cunn., var. ovata Maiden and 

 Betche in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxx, p. 362 (1905). 



Range. 

 On the New England table-land, both in New South 

 Wales and Queensland. Also on the Darling Downs, 

 Queensland. Apparently always on granite. 



New South Wales. — Howell, near Tingha, on granite 

 rocks, capping the tops of many hills, growing in dense 

 masses along the fissures of the rocks, forming in many 

 places almost the only vegetation of the bare rocks. (J.H.M. 

 and J. L. Boorman, 1904). Mr. Boorman, visiting Howell 

 in 1914, said " Usually low spreading on exposed granite 

 rocks, but some are more upright, up to 6 — 10 feet high in 



