BY R. T. BAKER. 383 



Hab. — Coonabarabran, (S. Lyndon), Muclgee and Rjdstone (R. 

 T. B.); Cobar (Rev. J. M. Curran); Blue Mountains, Lachlan 

 River and to Southward (A. Cunningham, Eraser, Huegel, 

 Mitchell and others, teste Bentham). 



I feel privileged in being able to complete the description, and 

 to give a satisfactory figure of this s]3ecies, and I hope now that 

 these notes will remove any difficulties that may have existed in 

 connection Avith its determination. 



I have not seen A. Cunningham's description in Field's Geo- 

 graphical Memoirs on New South Wales, but I take it that Don's 

 transcription of it is a correct one, judging from the numerous 

 specimens that have come under my observation, and the very 

 brief description of the pod is correct as far as it goes. 



In the Bot. Mag. t. 2922, published in 1829, no pods are 

 figured or described; and the illustration itself is of very little 

 help in identifying the species. 



Bentham's description of the pod in the Flora Australiensis 

 (Yol. ii. p. 325) is referred to by Baron von Mueller in Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, 2nd Series, Vol v. p. 19, in these words: — " . 

 Bentham placed the pods of Acacia Oswaldi with A. laniyera " 

 so that this error has perhaps been the cause of the recent 

 confusion surrounding this species, and a debt is due to Baron 

 von Mueller for so important a note. 



But to me it appears that Bentham must have had some 

 pod other than A. Oswaldi before him, as the description under 

 A. laniyera. does not agree with the pod of A. Oswaldi in Baron 

 von Mueller's Iconography of Australian Acacias, 6th Decade, 

 and which figure agrees in every detail with all sj^ecimens of the 

 fruit of A. Oswahli that have come under my notice. 



In Baron von Mueller's note above quoted he gives A. venulosa 

 and A. Whanii as synonyms of this species. 



This latter species I have not seen, but from the imperfect 

 specimens of A. venulosa collected by me, I am inclined to think 

 that A. vemdosa of Bentham is a good species. 



