Acacia.] 
ILIII. LEGUMINOS/E. 
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97. A- glaucescens (bluish-grey), Willrl. Spec. PI. iv. 1052, and Hurt. Berol. 
t. 101 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 406. One of the so-called Rosewoods. An erect tree 
attaining 60ft. or more, bark probably the thinnest in the genus, sometimes not over 
2 lines thick ; foliage generally ashy or hoary with a very minute close pubescence 
or the young shoots yellowish ; branchlets more slender and much less angular 
than in A. Cunningharnii. Phyllodia oblong-falcate or lanceolate, narrowed at 
both ends, mostly 4 to 6in. long, J to near lin. broad in the middle, coriaceous, 
striate with numerous very fine nerves, 3 to 5 rather more prominent, the smaller 
ones occasionally anastomosing, and all free from the lower margin from the 
base. Spikes nearly sessile or shortly pedunculate, often clustered in the upper 
axils, 1 to 2in. long. Flowers distinct or distant, mostly 5-merous but occasionally 
4-merous. Calyx short, truncate or sinuate-toothed, pubescent or woolly. Pod 
(if correctly matched) linear, much twisted or irregularly coiled ; valves hard, 
convex, about 2 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal. — DC. Prod. ii. 454 ; Mimosa 
binervis, Wendl. Bot. Beob. 56, quoted in Comm. Acac. 53 ; A. homomalla, Wendl. 
Comm. Acac. 49, t. 13 (from the figure and description); DC. Prod. ii. 454 ; A. 
cinerascens, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 454 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3174 ; A. leucadendron, A. 
Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 374. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller, and others ; between the 
Severn and Condamine Rivers, Leichhardt. 
Wood with a very narrow quantity of sapwood, which is of a light-yellow colour, the rest of 
the wood being dark, resembling English Walnut and Rosewood. A valuable wood for veneer ; 
more or less fragrant; useful in turnery and cabinet-work. — Bailey’* Cat. Ql. Woods No. 139a. 
98. Ac Maideni (after J. H. Maiden), F. v. M. Viet. Nat. 1892. Arbores- 
cent ; branchlets somewhat angular towards the summit ; phyllodia large, of 
chartaceous texture, lanceolate-falcate, gradually narrowed into the petiole, very 
closely striolated by fine longitudinal venules with some few of these more pro- 
minent, almost glabrous or slightly greyish from hardly visible hairlets ; marginal 
gland near the anterior base of the phyllodia inconspicuous ; spikes almost 
sessile, solitary or 2 or 3 together, their rhachis tomentellous ; calyx broader than 
long, much shorter than the corolla, short-lobed, slightly pubescent ; corolla almost 
glabrous, deeply cleft into usually 4 lobes, not streaked. Pod narrow, consider- 
ably compressed, much twisted, outside beset with minute hairlets ; seed placed 
longitudinally, ovate-ellipsoid, shining-black, their areole on each side large ; 
funiele pale-reddish, completely or extensively encircling the seed, suddenly 
doubled back from the summit, folded at the lower side. 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
99. A. Cunninghamii (after A. Cunningham), Hook. lc. PI. t. 165, not of 
Bon, and FI. Austr. ii. 407. “Tchilgar,” Bundaberg, Keys; “ Kowarkull,” 
Stradbroke Island, Watkins. A shrub or small tree of 10 to 20ft., glabrous or 
hoary-pubescent ; branchlets acutely 3-angled. Phyllodia falcate-oblong or 
lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, mostly 5 to 6in. long and 1 to Hin. broad, or 
larger on barren shoots, with numerous parallel veins, 3 to 5 more prominent 
than the others, and 1 or 2 confluent with the lower margin near the very oblique 
base. Spikes 1J to 3in. long. Flowers mostly 5-merous, often distinct or 
distant. Calyx short, truncate or sinuate-toothed, usually glabrous. Petals 
smooth. Pod long, linear, very flexuose or twisted, 1 to 2 lines broad ; valves 
coriaceous, convex. Seeds longitudinal. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller, and others; sandy forests 
near Mount Owen, Mitchell. 
Drs. T. E. Bancroft and Lauterer have found the unripe pods to contain saponin 
Gum contains 10% of arabin and 72 5% of motnrabin. — I.anterer. 
The bark yields 9-13% of tannin. Staiger. 
Wood of a dark colour, close-grained, hard and heavy, prettily marked. Bailey's Cat. (,)!. 
I Foods No. 140. 
