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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ACACIA. 

 By J. H. Maiden. 



(Plate i.) 

 AcAciA Dorothea, sp. nov. 



An erect shrub of several feet, with angular branches, more or 

 less covered all over with appressed white hairs, occasionally 

 rubbed oif on the old leaves, very dense on the younc;" shoots. 

 Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, falcate, rather more than 21 inches 

 long and 4 to 5 lines broad, rarely attaining ^ an inch in breadth, 

 obscurely veined, except the prominent mid-vein, with pro- 

 minently thickened margins, and frequently with a small oblique 

 or recurved point, the single large marginal gland about half- 

 way between the point and the base. Flower-heads oblong, 

 about 6 to 8 on short pedicels, in stout axillary or terminal 

 racemes much shorter than the leaves. Flowers about 20 in the 

 heads. Calyx small, shortly n-lobed, very hairy. Petals 5, 

 glabrous or nearly so, more than twice as long as the calyx, 

 united at the base. Ovarium densely hairy. Pods flat, stipitate, 

 generally 1 to 1^ inches long, and about ^ inch broad, somewhat 

 curved, with thickened margins, much constricted between the 

 seeds, densely covered with soft hairs, especiall}^ in the unripe 

 state. Seeds longitudinally arranged, small, ovate, only 2 or 3 

 or solitary in the few ripe pods seen ; funicle folded under the 

 seed, the last fold much thickened. 



Mount Wilson (J. H. Maiden, April, 1896, in bud ; October, 

 1899, in flower) ; Mount Victoria (J. H. Maiden, August and 

 September, 1898, in bud and in flower) ; near Hartley (J. H. 

 Maiden, February, 1899, in bud) ; Clarence Siding (J. H. Maiden, 

 September, 1899, in flov/er, and in April, 1900 ; J. L. Boorman, 

 December, 1900, with unripe pods ; January, 1901, with ripe 

 seeds). 



