584 NE\V SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES, 



late distinct sepals. Petals glabrous, often with red markings. 

 Stamens long and very numerous, filaments white, anthers green. 



Pod straight, 3J to 4 lines long, 3 to 4 lines broad, pubescent, 

 the margins thickened, white and nerve-like. 



Seeds oblong, longitudinal, funicle folded 3 or 5 times on itself, 

 and not thickened under the seed. 



ffab.—^ew Italy, N.S.W. (W. Baeuerlen). 



Analysis showing affinities to and differences from cognate 

 species : — 



Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, 3- or more nerved. Petals smooth 

 or with prominent midribs. 



Sepals united. Seeds longitudinal. Ped- 

 uncles short. Phyllodia under 3 lines. 

 Pod curved A. lanigera. 



Peduncles long. Seed oblique and longi- 

 tudinal. Phyllodia 5 to 6 ". Pod 

 straight, funicle 4 fold, not thickened 

 under the seed , A. BaeuerJeni. 



Peduncles short. Seed oblong, oblique, 

 transverse. Phyllodia 1-H" long, 

 funicle 4 to 5 folds, not thickened A. iMebocarpa. 



Peduncles short (3"'). Seeds compressed 

 globular, longitudinal, funicle 1 fold, 

 thickened under the seed A. Simsii. 



We have placed this Acacia in the Pufigentes series of Bentham, 

 and, if rightly so classified, it stands alone in the length and size 

 of its phyllodes, which far exceed in length and breadth that of 

 any other species of the group. 



The pungent point of the phyllodes is not always straight, but 

 generally so, and as the phyllodes are certainly rigid, these two 

 points decided us in preferring to place it in the Pu7igentes to the 

 Phtrinei'ves. 



It bears a general resemblance to A. Simsii (Fig. Muell. Ic. 

 Aust. Acacias) and perha23s also to A. lanigera, except for the 

 larger phyllodes. 



