442 A NEW SPECIES OF ACACIA, 



Spikes in pairs or threes, sometimes paniculate, the rhachis 

 glaucous and glabrous, pedunculate, dense, 4 to 5 cm. long. 

 Flowers 5 merous or occasionally 4-6-merous. Calyx very short, 

 golden- pubescent or nearly glabrous, the lobes minute. Corolla 

 glabrous, rather long: petals acute, united to the middle. Style 

 long, glabrous; ovary hairy. 



Pods shortly stipitate, glabrous, narrow-linear, straight or 

 nearly so, tlat, coriaceous, with thickened margins, 12-1 5 cm. long, 

 5 mm. broad, slightly contracted between the seeds. Seeds 

 oblong, black, 4-6 mm. long, funicle white, dilated from the base, 

 forming an aril of 1-2, rarely 3, folds over the end of the seed. 

 Areola visible on both sides of the seed, oblong, and nearly as 

 long as it. 



TyiJe-locality. — Manilla, New South Wales (L. H. Preston and 

 H. Stoddart; flowers, September: and fruits, December, 1916). 



Systematic positiovi. - The new species belongs to the Julillorse- 

 Falcat^e Section. Its nearest atfinit\' is A. ylaucescens Willd., 

 from which it differs in the longer, uniformly narrow and more 

 falcate and glabrous phyllodia; in the larger and yellower flower- 

 spikes: the glabrous corolla: also in the longer and thicker pod, 

 and larger seeds. It is readily separated from A. (jlaucescens 

 Willd., by the glabrous and glaucous phyl lodes, and the ferru- 

 ginous young tips. The phyllodes of A. ylaucescens Willd., are 

 minutely silvery-pubescent, or, in the very young stage, golden- 

 pubescent. 



It would appear that this new species is often associated with 

 A. Cnnninghamii Hk., and has been confused with it in many 

 instances; but the free nerves and the shape of the phyllodia 

 enable one to separate it at a glance from that species. In car- 

 pological characters, it is also different. 



Z.WA:.— The bark is brownish, and flaky, inclined to be ribbony, 

 hence the name " Stringybark-Wattle " applied to it by bushmen. 

 The bark of A. glaucescens Willd., and A, Cunniityhamii Hk., is 

 hard and rugged. 



Size. -It is a much smaller tree than A. glaucescens Willd., 

 attaining a height of about 35 feet, though usually only 15 to 



