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No. 129. 
Acacia komalophylla, A. Cunn. 
The Yarran. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOSE^E.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description, —Species, A. komalophylla , A. Cunn. : Bentli. in Hooker’s 
London Journal of Botany-, i, 365 (1S4-2). 
The first account of this Wattle I can find is in Cunningham’s MS. Journal 
(when with Oxley’s expedition), under date 3rd May, 1817. He says :— 
Acacia omalophylla : Leaves lanceolate, flat, smooth ; flowers axillary in racemes ; a tree 25 feet 
high (W. of Bathurst). Leaves have a solitary gland on the interior margin. 
In describing the species, op. cit., under the name of A. omalophylla, 
Bentliam, referring to the gland, says : “ The phyllodia have at the base a tubercle 
in the place of a gland.” In his description in B.P1. ii, 382, he ignores both tubercle 
and gland. 
If one’s attention is drawn to it, it is very distinct in some of the phyllodia of 
a specimen from Coonamble; in others it is much less distinct, but one cnn trace it 
in nearly all phyllodia. I looked over many of the specimens in the Herbarium, and 
found the gland more or less distinct in an authentic specimen of A. komalophylla. 
I think Bentliam should not have omitted it in the “Flora Australiensis.” 
In the drawing it is shown in some of the phyllodes of twig B. 
Bentliam described the plant in B.F1. ii, 3S3, as follows :— 
A small tree, glabrous or the foliage minutely hoary or pale; branchlets at first slightly 
angular. 
Phyllodia lanceolate-falcate, narrow-oblong or linear, obtuse with a small oblique point, narrowed 
at the base, 1 to 3 inches long, 1 to 4 lines broad, thick, very finely striate with parallel 
nerves only to be seen under a lens. 
Peduncles in pairs or clustered on a very short common peduncle, bearing dense globular 
heads of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. 
Sepals cuneate or spathulate, free or slightly connate, more than half as long as the corolla. 
Petals smooth, free. 
Pod linear, usually glaucous, slightly curved, 2 to 3 lines broad, longitudinally veined; valves 
coriaceous, convex over the seeds, contracted between them. 
Seeds oval-oblong, longitudinal; funicle short, much folded and dilated almost from the base into 
a short oblique aril, 
