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convex as to become compressed-filiform; the apex usually worn away. Peduncles 2-6 lines long, 
smooth in age. Calyx except the margin glabrous. Corolla about 1 line long, perfectly or imperfectly 
pale-silky. Pods 2-4 inches long, 6-9 lines broad, more or less curved or almost straight, sometimes long- 
stipate, sometimes subsessile, grey or pale brown, pruinous or shining, hard, readily breaking at the often 
long and narrow interstices between the seeds, occasionally not contracted into joints, more or less turgid, 
at the margin often rather sharply edged. Funicle with a slight plicature at the summit, or not folded, 
rather narrow. Seeds 3-4 lines long, moderately compressed. (" Plants Indigenous to the Colony 
of Victoria," Vol. ii, p. 26.) 
He also quotes " F.M. Record of Plants of F. Gregory's Expedition into N.W. 
Austr.," in Edinb. New Philos. Journ. 1863, which I have not seen. 
Then we come to Bentham's description, in English, of a species he first brought 
under notice shortly after Allan Cunningham's death. 
A very hard-wooded tree, quite glabrous, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia long-linear, acuminate 
or falcate, much narrowed at the base, 6 inches to 1 foot long, about 2 to 2 lines broad, thinly coriaceous, 
not at all hoary, finely striate, with numerous prominent parallel nerves. Peduncles under inch long, 
usually in short racemes of 3 to 6, but sometimes solitary, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 or more 
flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx half as long as the corolla, with short broad densely ciliate lobes. Petals 
pubescent. Pod long, moniliform; valves coriaceous, 4 to 5 lines broad, and convex over the seeds, but 
not striate, much narrowed between them. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle in short folds, the last 
slightly thickened into a small aril. 
Botanical Name. Acacia, see Part XV, p. 104 ; stenophylla, from two Greek 
words meaning " narrow-leaved," and it is worthy of note that a form has been found 
with leaves (phyllodes) narrower than those of the normal form. 
Vernacular Names. One of the several wattles known as " Willow " or 
" Native Willow," because of the shape of the leaves (phyllodes) and their pendulous 
habit. Mitchell speaks of it as a " long-leaved, grey kind of wattle." 
Said to be called " Ironwood " on account of the hard and heavy timber, and 
" Dalby Myall " on account of its occurrence in the vicinity of that Queensland town. 
Aboriginal Names. " Munumula " of Queensland aborigines, according to 
Mitchell (Trop. Aust. 82). Baldwin Spencer gives me the name " Balkura " as in use 
amongst the Lake Eyre blacks for the narrow-leaved form. Turning to New South 
Wales, I have heard this tree called or written variously " Eumong " or " Umong " or 
' Eumung." It is often called " Gurley " or " Gooralee " (apparently the same word), 
in the Moree district, and presumably the railway station between Narrabri and Moree 
is named after it. Mr. Oambage refers to it as the Eumung of western New South Wales, 
or River Cooba of the Lachlan, besides " Cooba " or " Cuba " or " Yuba." 
If my readers will turn to pp. 149, 150 of Part XXX of this work, they will see 
that A. salicina var. varians shares the names of " Gurley," " Eumung " and " Cooba " 
with the present species. I think that a good deal of the confusion arises from the 
non-botanical proclivities of the white man. 
Not without doubt, I propose to reserve " Cooba " and " Eumung " for 
A. salicina var. varians, and to reserve " Gurley " for A. stenophylla. 
