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XLIII. LEGUMINOS^E. 
[Acacia . 
lines long, on a common petiole of } to £in. ending in a -recurved point ; leaflets 
6 to 10 pairs, oblong, coriaceous, i to 1| line long; glands several, usually 
small. Flower-heads small, hispid, with long bristly hairs proceeding from the 
bracts and sepals, in racemes longer than the leaves. Flowers numerous, 
closely packed, the corolla not protruding in the bud, apparently ready to open, 
but not seen fully out. Sepals distinct, linear-spathulate with concave tips. 
Petals also free in the bud. Pod unknown. 
Hab.: E. coast, It. Brown. 
121. A. farnesiana (the Farnesian Acacia), Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1083 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 419. “ Bunkerman,” Cloncurry, Palmer. A much-branched shrub, 
attaining considerable size, quite glabrous or slightly pubescent on the petioles 
and peduncles. Pinna 1 4 to 6 or rarely more pairs ; leaflets usually 10 to 20 
pairs, linear, about 2 lines long or on luxuriant shoots often much longer. 
Stipules converted into slender straight thorns, very variable in length, 
occasionally fin. long, and sometimes all very minute or almost none, the plant 
otherwise unarmed. Peduncles usually 2 or 8 together in the older axils, each 
bearing a globular head of numerous 5-merous flowers. Bracts small, close 
under the flower-head. Calyx above half as long as the corolla. Pod thick, 
irregularly cylindrical or spindle-shaped, 2 to Bin. long, indehiscent, filled with a 
pithy substance in the midst of which lie the seeds. Seeds obliquely transverse, 
with short funicles. — DC. Prod. ii. 461 ; Vacliellia farnesiana, W. and Arn. Prod. 
272, with the synonymy adduced; Wight, Ic. t. 300; A. lenticellata , F. v. M. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 147. 
Hab.: Darling Downs ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; in the interior, Mitchell. 
The species is very common in tropical countries in the New and the Old World, much planted 
for ornament or for the perfume extracted from its flowers, and readily spreading. Believed by 
some to be of American origin, by others to be truly indigenous also in Africa and Asia, and has 
every appearance of being so in Australia. — Bentli. 
Boasted pods eaten, Cloncurry. — Palmer. 
The Queensland plant seems of a more slender growth than that cultivated in gardens. I find 
no other difference. 
122. A. Bidwilli (after J. C. Bidwill), Benth. in Linn am, xxvi. 629, and FI. 
Austr. ii. 420; F. v. M. Ic. Dec. xii. 4. “ Yadthor,” Cloncurry, Palmer; 
“ Waneu,” Rockhampton, Thozet. Glabrous ; branches mostly terete. Pinnae 
15 to 20 pairs, the common petiole 2 to Sin., the partial rhachis A to lin. long ; 
leaflets 15 to 25 pairs, oblong, obtuse, rigid, scarcely 1 line long. Stipules 
spinescent and sometimes 2 to 3 lines long, usually very small or quite obsolete. 
Peduncles solitary, with an annular deciduous 4-lobed bract about the middle, 
bearing a globular head of about 20 or rather more 4-merous flowers and some- 
times 1 or 2 lower down the peduncle, each flower often 2 lines long. Calyx 
shortly toothed. Petals smooth, united above the middle. Pod straight, 3 to 
6in. long, about Ain. broad, narrowed at the base ; valves coriaceous, somewhat 
convex, reticulate lengthwise. Seeds large, ovate, longitudinal ; funicle slightly 
thickened from the base upwards, very shortly inflexed or folded under the seed. 
Hab.: Wide Bay, Bidwill; Bockhampton, Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. 
Var. (?) major. Leaflets sometimes 2 lines long. Seeds broader. Flowers unknown. — Bidges of 
the Victoria Biver, F. v. Mueller. To this belong the fruiting specimens referred to A. pallida, 
F. v. M. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 147. 
The flowers of this species have at first sight some resemblance to those of some Albizzias, but 
the stamens are quite free, although inserted on a small prominent disk under the ovary, not 
united in a tube round the ovary, as in all the Inga-flowered genera.— Benth. 
Wood light-yellow near the outside, the inner wood dark, close-grained, light, and easily 
worked. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 145. 
Boots of young trees roasted for food after peeling. — Palmer and Thozet. l.c. 
