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PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES ILLUSTRATED. 
No. viii. — Acacia lanigera, A. Cuim.; B.F1. ii. 324. 
By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator, Technological 
Museum, Sydney. 
(Plate xxvii.) 
A rigid shrub of several feet, the branches terete, branchlets 
often angled and mostly woolly. 
Phyllodia lanceolate, falcate, rigid, thick, dark green, tapering 
to a pungent point, U to rarely 2 J inches long, mostly 2 to 3 
lines rarely 4 lines broad, in some specimens woolly but in others 
glabrous ; nerves very prominent, occasionally anastomosing, 
marginal gland rarely found, except in southern specimens. 
Stipules subulate, about 1J lines long, often persistent, woolly. 
Peduncles axillary, short, weak, solitary, clustered, bearing a 
globular or elongated head of about 25 flowers, mostly 5-merous. 
Bracts at the base of the peduncles ovate, acuminate, ciliate, 
woolly. 
Calyx campanulate, with obtuse, thickened, ciliate lobes, not 
half as long as the corolla. 
Petals smooth, united to the middle. 
Pod about 3 inches long, 3 to 4 lines broad, very woolly, much 
twisted, margins not thickened, slightly contracted between the seeds. 
Seeds longitudinal, oblong in the centre of the pod, the funicle 
short, with 3 folds, the last fold short, but not thickened tinder the 
seed. 
