46 NORTH AUSTRALIAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 



four-parted corolla ; pods glabrous, linear falcate, hardly between the 

 seeds contracted ; seeds shining, supported by a conduplicate thick 

 brownish strophiole. 



Hab. In dry, stony ranges near Ballarat, towards the Goulburn and 

 Broken Eiver. It stands in relation to A, Brownii^ and varies like 

 many other species with dow^ny leaves. 



71. Acacia Wilhehniaiia* F. MuelL ; viscidulous ; stems angular, pu- 

 berulous ; phyllodia incurved, upright, short linear-filiform, compressed, 

 ending in a broader, blunt recurved apex, above or on both sides fur- 

 rowed and furnished with two thin veins ; stipules ovate, acuminate, 

 very glutinous, deciduous or at length spinescent ; peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, shorter than the flower-heads ; pods viscid, narrow, arcuate, 

 slightly contracted between the seeds. 



Hab, In the Mallee Scrub on the Murray, where it was first disco- 

 vered by Mr. Wilhelmi. 



Allied to Acacia Ilookeri.f 



{To he continued^ 



Note on the Voyage of the North Australian Exploring Expedi- 



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TioN,/ro?K Sydney to tie Mouth of the Victoria Eiver; extracted 

 from a Letter of Dr. Mueller (Botanist to the Expedition), dated 



On board the ' Monarch/ Sept. 3, 1855. 



In a very few days we expect to reach our destination at the Victoria 

 River, and as our attention then will be fully required to disembark 

 our horses, sheep, and stores, and to protect them against the natives, 

 I avail myself of a spare evening* to address these lines to you, which 

 will reach you via Singapore. 



We advanced as far as Clarence Strait prosperously, except that we 

 grounded on a shoal, partially composed of coral reefs, near Port Byron, 

 and wx had a particularly agreeable voyage through the inner passage 

 along the Barrier reefs, so that the horses, on Avhich the success of the 

 expedition depends to such a great extent, suffered less from their long 

 prison, than could have been anticipated. The necessity of anchoring for 



* Is a vaiioty of A, nematofhjUa, F. Muell. (Bcnth. in Linuffia). 

 t la A, ericufolia^ Beuth. 



