Acacia.] 
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veins obscurely reticulate, the margins scarcely thickened, the gland very rare. 
Racemes short, irregularly bearing 2 or 3 dense globular heads or reduced to a 
single head. Flowers 20 or more, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, truncate, 
entire or minutely toothed. Petals quite smooth. Pod straight, 1 to Bin. long, 
in the ordinary form not above 3 lines broad ; valves somewhat convex, hard and 
thick. Seeds orbicular, longitudinal ; funicle thickened and usually scarlet 
almost from the base, forming several folds under the seed.— F. v. M. PI. Yict. 
ii. 12 ; Dietr. FI. Univers. N. Ser. t. 83 ; A. lir/ulata, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. i. 362. 
Hab.: Open forest lands on the Balonne, Mitchell ; Suttor River, F. v. Mueller. 
Wood dark-coloured, tough, easily worked ; would be useful for cabinet-work. — Bailey's Cat. 
Ql. Woods No. 131. 
Var . variants. “Dulan,” “Boolbah,” St. George, Wedd. Branches more spreading. Phyllodia 
more veined, the lower ones often much broader and almost penniveined, as in A. penninervis, 
but without the thickened margin or gland. Pod about 4 lines broad, the seeds often oblique and 
the folds of the funicle extending up one side. — A. varians, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 132. 
To this belong all the tropical and subtropical specimens. It is generally a very distinct form, 
and it is with some hesitation that I have followed F. v. Mueller in considering'it a variety only 
of A saliciiia. — Benth. 
29. A. amcena (pleasant), Wendl. Comm. Acac. 10, t. 4 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
ii. 366. A tall shrub, quite glabrous, young branches pubescent. Phyllodia 
obliquely lanceolate or oblanceolate, straight or falcate, obtuse or with a small 
recurved point, much narrowed towards the base, not very thick, 1-nerved with 
nerve-like margins and more or less distinctly veined, with 1, 2, or 3 often 
prominent distant marginal glands, li to 2Jin. long on the flowering shoots, 
longer on the barren branches. Racemes usually shorter than the phyllodia, 
with several small globular heads of about 8 to 12 flowers, mostly 5-merous. 
Sepals short, broad, usually separating when the flower is fully out. Petals 5, 
distinct, smooth with prominent midribs. Pod flat, straight or curved, with 
nerve-like margins, several inches long, 3 to 4 lines broad, not contracted between 
the seeds. Seeds ovate, longitudinal ; funicle dilated and reticulate from near 
the base, very long, extending round the seed, returning on the same side and 
bent back a third time, encircling the seed in a triple fold, and thickened at the 
end into a fleshy aril, two-thirds the length of the seed. — DC. Prod. ii. 452 ; F. 
v. M. PL Viet. ii. 17. 
Hab.: Glasshouse Mountains. 
30. A. hakeoides (Hakea-like), A. Cunn.: Benth. in }Iooh. Lond. Journ. i. 
354, and FI. Austr. ii. 367 ; F. v. M. Ic. Dec. v. 10. A tall shrub, glabrous or 
nearly so, the branches scarcely angular. Phyllodia linear-spathulate or narrow 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, much narrowed at the base, 2 to 5in. long, rather thick, 
1-nerved, obscurely marked with longitudinal reticulations, the margins scarcely 
prominent, usually with a gland towards the middle. Racemes shorter than the 
phyllodia, with a few globular heads of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. 
Sepals spathulate, cohering at first but readily separating, half as long as the 
corolla. Petals smooth, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Pod flat, usually 
curved, 2 to 3 lines broad, much contracted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, 
longitudinal ; funicle half as long as the seed, the last fold thickened into a 
clavate, keeled, fleshy aril almost from the base, with 2 or 3 very minute folds 
below it. — F. v. M. PI. Viet. ii. 16. 
Hab.: On Pituri country, Dr. T. L. Bancroft, who states that the natives use the ashes of the 
burnt green leaves for chewing with the Pituri. 
Allied in flowers to A. crassiuscula, and in foliage to A. salicina, but differing in several 
points from each of these species. — Benth. 
