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No. 137. 
Acacia cl ora foxy Ion, a. Cunn. 
The Currawang. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^l: M 1MOSEAE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. —Species, A. doratoxylon, A. Cunn., in Barron Field’s 
New South Wales , 345, where it is described in the following words :— 
55. Acacia doratoxylon .—Foliis lanceolato-linearibus falcatis striatis basi attenuates, spicis 
cylindraceis axillaribus geminatis subsessilibus. 
The spear-wood of certain tribes of natives in the interior. A tree twenty feet high. Observed 
first during Mr. Oxley’s expedition in 1817. Pine ridges on the Macquarie River. 
See also— 
A. doratoxylon, A. Cunn, in Field, N. S. Wales, 345. A tall shrub or small tree, glabrous, witli 
an ashy hue ; branchlets at first acutely angular, but soon terete. 
Phyllodia. —Elongated, slightly falcate, shortly acuminate, and often with oblique or recurved 
points, 4 to 8 inches long, 2, 3, or rarely 4 lines broad, narrowed towards the base, rather 
thick, with numerous fine parallel nerves, the central one more prominent. 
Spikes .—Shortly pedunculate, solitary or clustered, rarely 1 inch long, rather dense. 
Flowers .—Mostly 5-merous. 
Calyx. —Sinuate-toothed, not half as long as the corolla. 
Petofs.^-With slightly prominent midribs. 
Pod .— Unknown. (B.F1. ii, 403.) The pods have since been discovered and are clearly depicted 
on the Plate. 
Following is an interesting variety:— 
Var . ovata (Maiden and Betche, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1905, p. 362). 
Found at Stanthorpe, Southern Q. (J. L. Boorman) ; Howell, N.S.W. (J.H.M. 
and J. L. Boorman). 
A low, spreading shrub, not exceeding 2 feet in height, with densely intricate 
branches. Flowers in short ovate heads, often almost globular, rarely in short but 
distinctly cylindrical spikes. Seeds shorter than in the typical A. doratoxylon, 
and with a more compact arillus. All other characters are those of the type. 
This well-marked variety seems to be confined to the granite rocks capping 
the tops of many hills in the northern New England district. It grows in dense 
masses along the fissures of the rocks, forming in many places almost the only 
vegetation of the hare rocks. 
