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flowers nearly sessile ; unguis of the petals longer tlian 

 their lamina ; style tripartite. 



On the rocky and sandy shores of Wilson's Promontory, 

 of Rivoli Bay and Lake Alcxandrina. 



LEaUMIXOSiE. 



12. Acacia tenuifolia. 



Procumbent or rarely erect, twigs soon terete, hispldulous; 

 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 ; 

 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 incur- 

 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. 



Allied to Acacia Hookeri. 



14. Oxylobium procumhens. 



Podolobium procumbens, Ferd. Mueller, first gen. rep. 

 p. 12. 



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, 

 aflSxed to the base of the calyx, long persistent; calyces 



