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No. 253. 
Acacia Loderi Maiden. 
Medium-leaved Nealie. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E: MIMOS^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus Acwia. See Part XV, p. 103. 
Botanical description. Species Loderi Maiden in Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W-, LIII, 
209 (1919). 
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Following is the original description : 
A hoary or glaucous, dense shrubby tree, up to about 20 feet high. Wood deep brown, bark flaky 
fibrous, and more or kss furrowed, branchlets at first slightly angular. 
Phyllodia linear, with a fine, hooked point, tapering towards the base, about 10 or 11 cm. long. 
2 mm. broad, thick, besprinkled with short hairs, very finely striate with parallel nerves only to be seen 
under a lens, decurrent. A swollen gland at the base. 
Peduncles in pairs or more, densely hairy, bearing dense globular heads of about thirty-six 
flowers, mostly 5-merous. In racemes as in A. homalophylla. Bracts fan-shaped at the top. 
Sepals spathulate, free, hairy chiefly at the top, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, free. 
Ovary densely hairy. 
Pod with a fine tomentum, narrow, markedly moniliform, up to 8 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, convex 
over the seeds and much contracted between them. 
Seeds brownish-black, ovoid, with a distinct areole, with a long, thread-like pendulous funicle 
encircling the seed for half its length, and terminating in a slightly enlarged arillus at the top of the seed. 
Affinities. It has relations with A . Cambagei R. T. Baker, the common 
" Gidgee," which is figured in Part XXXII of this work. It has odoriferous foliage, 
but the phyllodes are broader and the pods very different. 
At p. 252 I have already drawn attention to its relations with A. rigens, and 
with the Broad-leaved Nealie (A. cana). 
Illustrations.-^. Lodvri is figured at B, C, D, E, Plate 114 (Part XXX), 
under the name of A. rigens. 
Botanical Name. Acacia, already explained (see Part XV, p. 104); Loderi, 
in honour of Andrew C. Loder, Forester in charge of the Broken Hill district, N.S.W., 
for many years, who supplied specimens. 
