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oblongis obtusis, in unguem gracillimum extenuatis; utrinque glabris; 

 staminibus fertilibus quinque, antheris glandula apice coronatis, sta- 

 minodiis infra lineari-lanceolatis pilosis, apicem versus glabris valde 

 angustatis, apice glandula minima coronatis; disco cupuliformi, stylo 

 filiforrai glabro, carpellis inferne glandulosis, apicibus rostratis recurvis, 

 pilis longis coronatis; seminibus nigris nitidis. — In regione occidentali, 

 Africae Australis, S. R. Webb, legit Dr. Proembling. 1911. 

 Syn.: Agathosma, nov; spec, R. Schlechter, in planitie summi Mont 

 Piquetberg, 530 m, 9. IX. 1894, no. 6240, Schlechter, „P1. Afric. Austr.", 

 The present species resembles A. alpim Schlechter („Journ. Bot.", 1898, 

 p. 25), in the hairy tips of the carpels, but differs in the angular twigs, 

 the longer pedicels of the flowers, the few-flowered umbels, the thread- 

 like ends of the staminodes, and the glabrous style. 



1050. Acacia densiflora A. Morrison in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, 

 XXVI (1913), p. 51. — Phyllodia subulate, terete, striate; flowers in 

 globular sessile heads, 5-merous, with a short turbinate-lobed calyx. A 

 rigid shrub with terete, closely woolly-pubescent branches, phyllodia 

 subulate, somewhat spreading, terete but slightly flattened, rigid, mucro- 

 nate but scarcely pungent, slightly narrowed at base, with 15—20 rather 

 prominent striae and minutely pubescent, 0,8—2,5 cm long and about 

 1 mm thick. — Inflorescence in globular sessile flower-heads crowded 

 in pairs in the upper axils; flowers about 20 or fewer in the head, 

 5-merous, calyx turbinate with short lobes, woolly, less than half as 

 long as the petals, which are subacute, smooth, with the midrib 

 somewhat prominent near the top. Pod not seen. (Kellerberrin, E. Avon 

 district. R. B. Leake.) — Meissner describes a barren specimen from 

 the interior (Preiss no. 976; „P1. Preiss.", 1, 12) as a possible variety 

 of A. leptoneura, but Bentham in „P1. Austral" has placed this under A 

 aciphylla, without, however, having seen Preiss's specimen. Our plant, 

 if it should be the same as that collected by Preiss, differs in aspect 

 from A. adphylla, being a scrubby, rigid shrub, with the flower-heads 

 distinctly globular, so that Meissner seems to have been nearly right 

 in placing it under A. leptoneura. Moreover, although the calyx is that 

 of A. adphylla, the globular flower-heads and the phyllodia approach 

 those of A. leptoneura, so that this plant may be set down as a distinct 

 species. 



1051. Acacia longispinea A. Morrison, I. c, p. 52. - Phyllodia linear 

 tetragonous, rigid, mucronate; inflorescence in pedunculate globular heads 

 containing numerous 5-merous flowers, with free sepals and petals; pod 

 flat, straight, seeds ovate attached by a short funicle without folds or 

 aril. - A glabrous shrub with terete branches, the phyllodia being in- 

 curved, with very prominent ribs as in A. gonophyUa, narrowed at the 

 base, and tapering to a short point, 5-12,5 cm long by about 1,5 mm 

 broad, stipules minute, deciduous.' Peduncles in pairs in axils, slender, 

 spreading or reflexed 0,7 cm to 2,2 cm long, bearing heads of about 

 6 mm diameter, containing 40 or 50 florets. Sepals very narrow linear 



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