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XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
[Acacia. 
81. A. suaveolens (sweet-scented), Willd. Spec. PI. iv. 1050; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 869. A shrub, attaining about 8 to 6ft., quite glabrous, often glaucous, 
with acutely angled branchlets. Phyllodia linear or almost lanceolate, mostly 3 
to 4in. but sometimes Gin. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, obtuse or mucronulate, 
narrowed towards the base, rather thick, 1 -nerved with nerve-like margins, 
obscurely veined. Flower-heads small, in axillary racemes, at first enclosed in 
imbricate scaly bract’s, which fall off very early. Rhachis and peduncles slender. 
Flowers 6 to 10 in the head, mostly 5-merous. Sepals thin, narrow linear- 
spathulate, quite distinct. Petals thin, quite smooth. Pod oblong, flat, coria- 
ceous, glaucous, very obtuse, 1 to llin. long, 6 to 8 lines broad. Seeds oblong, 
transverse ; funicle filiform nearly till maturity, when it is contracted into short 
folds more or less thickened under the seed into a small fleshy aril. — Mimosa 
suaveolens, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 253 ; Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 87, t. 236 ; 
M. obliqua , Lam. in Journ. Hist. Nat. i. 89, t. 5, according to Wendl. Comm. 
Acac. 38, but not of Pers.; M. anyustifolia , -Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 74, t. 
391; A. suaveolens, DC. Prod. ii. 453 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 730; Reichb. Ic. et 
Descr. PI. t. 46; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 107; F. v. M. PI. Viet. ii. 14 ; A. angusti- 
folia, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 34; DC. Prod. ii. 453. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, Fitzalan. Usually a coast species. 
32. A. Dietrichiana (after Mrs. Amalia Dietrich), F. v. M. Sou. Sci. llcc. 
ii. 149, and Ic. Dec. vi. 8. Branchlets viscid, dark-colored, slender, not angular. 
Phyllodia much elongated, linear, 1 -nerved, almost straight, short-pointed, 
bearing a gland close above their base. Heads of flowers solitary, small, globular, 
somewhat viscid, on stalks of twice or thrice their length. Sepals 5, spathulate- 
linear, soon free, not fringed, above half as long as the nerveless petals, not much 
longer than the rhomboid, laminated, but otherwise very thin bracts. Ovary 
glabrous, blunt. Pod stipitate, 2Jin. long, narrow, acute at the point, margins 
nerve-like and constricted between the seeds. Seeds oval with an oblique point 
at the base ; funicle not thickened under the seed, straight with a slight bend at 
the seed. 
Hab.: Given as a Queensland plant in Mueller’s 2nd Syst. Cens. Austr. PI. 77. 
33. A. IVturrayana (after — Murray), F. v. M.; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 370. 
Glabrous, branchlets slightly angular. Phyllodia linear, straight or nearly so, 
obtuse or with a callous hooked point, 5 to Gin. long, 1 to 1J line wide, thick, 
with a slightly prominent nerve and very obscurely veined. Peduncles about Jin. 
long, 2 or 3 together in a short raceme, bearing each a globular head of numerous 
(above 50) flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals very thin, narrow, linear-spathulate, 
fully half as long as the corolla. Petals free or nearly so, narrow, very thin. 
Pod linear, 2 to 3in. long, about 4 lines broad, flat, obtuse ; valves membranous. 
Seeds transverse, ovate ; funicle filiform or slightly thickened from the base, 
forming 2 or 3 short folds under the seed. 
Hab.: Found principally inland in open forest, on the Balonne, &c. 
34. A. linifolia (flax-leaved), Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1051 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
371. A tall shrub, glabrous or minutely pubescent, sometimes glaucous when 
young ; branchlets angular. Phyllodia linear or linear-lanceolate, narrowed at 
each end, 1 to ljin. long, 1J to 2 or rarely 2J lines broad, rather thin, 1-nerved, 
slightly veined, the slender nerve-like margins and midrib often minutely ciliate, 
with a small gland above the base. Racemes scarcely exceeding the phyllodia or 
shorter, comprising several small globular heads of about 8 to 12 flowers, mostly 
5-merous. Calyx short, broadly lobed. Petals smooth, separating nearly to the 
base. Pod linear, very flat, 2 to 4in. long, 4 to 6 lines broad and not contracted 
between the seeds ; valves thinly coriaceous, with nerve-like margins. Seeds 
longitudinal, along the centre of the pod, the last fold of the funicle thickened 
