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It is, however, with A. rigens and A. Loderi that it has been oftenest confused, 
and therefore the following table will be useful : 
Phyllodia 
Peduncles 
Numbsr in heal 
Bract 
Sepals 
Petals ... 
Ovary . . . 
Pod 
Seed . 
Funick 
1 
A. rigens. 
2 
A. coma. 
A Needle-bush, up to 10 or 
15 feet. Green. 
Filiform, compressed, 
nearly terete, rigid. 
" About 3-nerved." 
Finely striate. 3-4 
inches (7-5-10 cm.) 
long, or 2 2 (5-6-5 cm.) 
(Benth.) 
Verv short 
Erect shrub up to 15 feet. 
Very silvery. 
Straight, lanceolate. Rigid, 
very finely striate. 5-7 
cm. long, 4 mm. broad. 
A. Loderi. 
A hoary, or glaucous 
dense shrubby tree, up 
to 20 feet. Wood deep 
brown, bark flaky- 
fibrous. 
Linear, finely striate, 
with parallel nerves, 
besprinkled with short 
hairs. 10 or 11 cm. long, 
2 mm. broad. 
Twenty. More or less Thirty 
viscid. 
Conoid-capitate 
Spathulate, hairy, but 
chiefly upper half. 
In pairs, covered with In pairs, densely hairy, 
golden hairs .5 mm. 
long. 
About half as long as 
corolla. 
Glabrous ... 
Hoary-pubescent 
Narrow linear, hristed, 7-5 
cm. long, 3 mm. broad. 
Slightly contracted be-, 
tween seeds. Puberu- 
lous. 
Ovate, black, longitudinal 
Several folds, turbinate.j 
almost cup-shaped aril. 
Conoid-capitate ... 
Spathulate, hairy, but 
chiefly upper half. More 
hairy than others. 
Scarcely half as long as 
corolla. 
Hairy all over 
Hirsute 
Medium width, twisted 
into a double curve. Grey 
tomentum. Reliculately 
veined, 1 dm. long, 6 mm . 
broad. 
Longitudinally arranged 
(Not seen.) 
Thirty-six. 
Fan-shaped at top. 
Spathulate, hairy, chiefly 
at top. 
Half as long as corolla. 
Smooth. 
Densely hairy. 
Markedly moniliform, 8 
cm. long, 4 mm. broad. 
Glaucous. Much con- 
tracted between seeds. 
Brownish-black, ovoid. 
Pendulous, with small aril- 
Ins encircling seed for 
half its length. 
Illustrations. A. cana is figured at Part XXX, Plate 114 of this work (F-N) 
as A. rigens A.. Cunn., but that is a mistake. 
Botanical Name. Acacia, already explained (see Part XV, p. 104); cana, 
the Latin for hoary, grey, white with frost, wo:ds which convey the idea of the appearance 
of the foliage. 
Vernacular NaillC. See Part XVI, p. 130 of this work, where the question is 
asked, " The Nealie, Nelia, Nilyah. What is it ? " As a matter of fact there are at 
least three Nealies, and the present one may be called the " Broad-leaved Nealie." 
. Size. It is a tall bush or small tree, not attaining sufficient size to be used as 
timber, except for purely local purposes. 
