Acacia. ] 
XLTTI. LEGUMINOS^L 
485 
with slightly prominent midribs. Pod very flat, stipitate, obtuse, 1 to l^in. long, 
about 5 lines broad, glaucous. Seeds nearly transverse, ovate, the last fold of the 
funicle dilated into a cup-shaped aril. 
Hab.: Shoalwater Bay, Ft. Brown ; Dawson River. F. r. Mueller : Maranoa, Mitchell. 
16. A,, armata (armed), R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Keiv ed. 3, v. 463 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. ii. 347. A tall bushy shrub, attaining sometimes 10ft. or more ; branches 
angular-striate, hirsute-pubescent or rarely glabrous. Phyllodia semiovate, 
obliquely oblong or incurved-lanceolate, undulate, obtuse or with a very short 
oblique point, with a nearly central midrib and pinnate veins, varying from 
4 lines to above lin. in length, and in breadth from one-fifth to nearly half their 
length. Stipules straight, divaricate and spinescent, often 4 to 5 lines long. 
Peduncles usually about as long as the phyllodia, bearing a globular head of 
rather numerous 5-merous flowers. Calyx thin, lobed, but not usually separating 
into sepals, about half as long as the corolla. Petals narrow, glabrous, smooth. 
Pod straight or curved, li to 2in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, not contracted between 
the seeds, softly villous or rarely glabrous or hispid. Seeds oblong, longitudinal, 
the funicle slightly dilated nearly from the base, forming 3 or 4 folds, scarcely 
more thickened under the seed. — Bonpl. Jard. Malm. t. 55 ; DC. Prod. ii. 449 ; 
Bot. Mag. t. 1653 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 49 ; F. v. M. PI. Viet. ii. 3 ; A. furcifera, 
Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 267, 
Hab.: Gladfield, C. J. Gwyther. 
Var. angustifolia. Phyllodia narrower. — A. paradoxa, DC. Prod. ii. 449 ; A. undulata, Wild. 
Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 68 ; Wendl. Comm. Acac. t. 3 ; Bot. Reg. t. 843 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
753 ; Reichb. Ie. et Descr. PL t. 89. 
This species is now an old inmate of our gardens, where it varies much, and is said to have 
been frequently hybridized. Some of these forms have a second nerve to some or all the 
phyllodia, or have the stipules very small or none. These garden forms include A. ornithophora , 
Sweet, FI. Austral, t. 24; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1469; A. hybrida, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1342; A. 
micracantha, Dietr. in Allgem. Gart. Zeit. i. 83 : A. tristis, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3420. It is 
possible that a few of the Western or out-of-the-way stations given for the species may have 
been erroneously founded on cultivated specimens sent as wild. — Bentli. 
17. A. lineata (linear leaves), A. Cunn. in G. Bon, Gen. Syst. ii. 403 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 353. A bushy shrub of several feet ; branches nearly 
terete, usually pubescent or villous and sometimes slightly resinous. Phyllodia 
linear, with a small hooked point, about ^-in. long or rarely fin. or rather more, 
the nerve very near the lower margin and usually without any gland. Stipules 
minute. Peduncles slender, rarely exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a small 
globular head of 10 to 15 or rarely more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals 
distinct, linear-spathulate Petals smooth. Pod linear, curved or twisted, 
coriaceous, 1£ to 2 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, the funicle thickened into a 
clavate fleshy aril scarcely so long as the seed. — Bot. Mag. t. 3346 ; A . runci- 
formis, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404 ; F. v. M. PL Viet. ii. 21 ; 
A. dasyphylla, A. Cunn.; Benth in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 359 (a more pubescent 
form) ; A. imbricata, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 5, ii. 177. 
Hab.: Eumundi. 
I have not followed F. v. Mueller in taking up the name of mneiformis, because that of 
lineata, of the same date, is universally adopted by gardeners as well as botanists, and does 
not appear to me to be in itself objectionable. — Benth. 
18. A. hispidula (hairy), Willd. Spec. PI. iv. 1054 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 
355. A rigid spreading shrub, scabrous all over with very short stiff hairs or 
tubercles. Phyllodia numerous, broadly falcate, with a minute point, cuneate at 
the base, mostly £ to fin. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, with a central nerve and 
thickened nerve-like margins more or less tuberculate or almost denticulate. 
