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Acocia steitophylla A. Cunn. 
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The Gurley. ; ^f ; f? 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOSvE.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Acacia. See Part XV, p. 103. 
Botanical description. Species stenophytta, Bentham in Hooker's London Journal 
of Botany, i, 366 (1842). 
A translation of the original is offered herewith. 
A. stenophylla (Cunn. MSS.) glabrous, branchlets angular, phyllodes very long, linear, acuminate 
gradually narrowed at the base, finely coriaceous, striate many nerved, peduncles solitary or very shortly 
racemose, heads many flowered, puberulous. Phyllodes 8-10 inches long, or almost a foot, 2-2 lines 
broad, and hardly striate to the naked eye. Peduncles half an inch long. Lachlan Kiver, New South 
Wales, Cunningham. 
Following is a translation of Mueller's account of the species : 
From the Murray River, near the source of Sturt's Creek, in the north-west of Australia [i.e., from 
the Murray River, which forms a partial boundary of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, to 
the north-west of the Northern Territory. J.H.M.]. A rather small tree. Legumes pale, stipitate 
compressed, woody-coriaceous, very much contracted between the seeds, cells scarcely inch broad, 
seeds longitudinal, rather like an olive, ovate, slightly compressed, 2J lines long, impressed on both sides 
Strophiole minute, deep yellow coloured, funicle straight. I have not seen pods of tropical specimens ; 
they will come, however, with others collected by Sir Thomas Mitchell, in Extra-tropical Eastern Australia. 
(Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 133, 1859.) 
Then we have the same author's description in a regrettably rare work : 
Arboreous ; branchlets hardly or distinctly angular, nearly or entirely glabrous ; stipules obliterated ; 
phyllodia coriaceous, very elongated, broad or narrow linear, finely, closely and almost equally many-nerved, 
falcate or nearly straight, curved-acuminate, on very short petioles ; marginal gland basal or obliterated; 
peduncles forming a short raceme, seldom geminate or solitary, appressed, short-downy, usually longer 
than the many-flowered capitula ; bracteoles narrow or capillary-linear, dilated at the apex ; calyx short- 
toothed, bearded at the summit, about half as long as the silky corolla ; pods almost lomentaceous, lignescent- 
coriaceous, indehiscent (the italics are those of the author), between the seeds often very strongly contracted ; 
funicle nearly as long as the seed, slightly dilated into a very small cymbiform livid strophiole ; seeds large, 
roundish-ovate, squalid-brown, opaque, with conspicuous long lateral areoles. 
On the banks of the Murray River ; thence to the Darling River, the Murrumbidgee and the Lachlan 
River, and distantly and widely dispersed through the interior, having, for instance, been found on Cooper's 
Creek, in sub-central Australia, and on Sturt's Creek, in the interior of N.W. Australia. 
A tree with exquisite dark hard wood. Leaflets of the compound leaves of the young plant oblong- 
lanceolate, 3-5 lines long. Phyllodia not unfrequently more than 1 foot long, seldom reduced to a few 
inches in length, 1-4 lines broad, pendent, sometimes pruinous, flat, occasionally, when very narrow, so 
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