No. 187. 
Acacia kakeoides A. Cunn. 
Western Black Wattle. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^: MIMOSEvE.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. Species, Acacia hakeoides A. Cunn. 
It was described by Bentham from Cunningham's MSS. (the descriptions of 
which were usually prepared by Cunningham with the utmost care) in the London 
Journal of Botany, i, 354 (1842). 
Following is a translation of the original description : 
Glabrous, with somewhat angular branches and linear-spathulate, obtuse and often truncate 
phyllodia; much narrowed at the base, rather thick, with hardly a prominent margin and a gland about 
the middle, one-nerved and indistinctly reticulate-veined, with racemes shorter than the phyllodia and 
about 20 flowers in the head, with spathulate nearly free sepals and a glabrous ovarium. 
Phyllodia 2-5 inches long and 2-6 lines broad, more obtuse than in A. crassiiiscula, thinner, more 
narrow at the base and less m u^inatr than in A. obtusata, less incurved than in A. gfadiiformis and the 
gland always solitary, thicker than in A. penninervis and always obtuse. Young sepals connate, easily 
separating during flowering time. 
Laehlan and Dumaresq Rivers, N.8.W., Cunningham. 
Bentham subsequently published the following description in English : 
A tall shrub, glabrous or nearly so, the branches scarcely angular. Phyllodia linear-spathulate or 
narrow oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, much narrowed at the base, 2-5 inches 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 phyllodi.-i, illi ;i few globular heads of about 20 flowers, 
mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathulate, cohering at first but readily separating, half as long as the corolla. 
Petal- -in h, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Pod flat, usually curved, 2-3 lines liroad, 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. 
(R.F1. ii, 367.) 
Affinities. Bentham (B.F1. ii, 367) says, "Allied in flowers to A. obtusata 
and A. crassiuscnla and in foliage to A. salicina, but differing in several points 
from each of these species." This is based on the words of the original description 
which has just been translated. 
Taking these comparisons in detail, we have : 
(a) A. crassiuacula . There would appear to be no advantage in pursuing 
tins comparison. See p. 113 (Part XLVI) and p. 153 (Part XLVIII) of the 
present work showing the uncertainty which has gathered around A. crassiuscula. 
(b) A. obtusata Sieb. Compare Plate 177. The pods as well as the phyllodes 
are very different. 
B 
