468 OBSERVATIONS ON PLANTS, 



The first leaves of the seedlings consist of two pubescent pinua?, 

 with the leaflets in few or several pairs and of obliquely lanceolar- 

 ovate somewhat dimidiate form. 



Acacia hemignosta, F.v.M. 

 Prince Regent's River. 



Acacia flavescens, Cunningham. 

 Prince Regent's River. 

 The form formerly distinguished as A. sericata. 



Acacia Kelleri. 



Pubescent, unarmed ; phyllodes small, much crowded, linear or 

 slightly lanceolar, mucronulate, hardly or somewhat spreading, 

 many-streaked by subtle equal venules ; stipules conspicuous, 

 semi lanceolate-linear, scarious, closely overtopping the young 

 foliage ; spikes short-stalked, cylindric, close-flowered ; bracts 

 lanceolar, acuminate, sessile or short-stipitate, as well as the 

 sepals and petals outside puberulous ; sepals almost disconnected, 

 broadened towards their upper end ; petals exceeding by half the 

 length of the calyx, flaccid, blunt, connate towards the base ; 

 fruit rather long, but narrow, straight, irregularly cylindric ; 

 seeds placed longitudinally, not much narrower than the valves, 

 ellipsoid, shining-black, clasped only at their base by the pale 

 brownish somewhat bilobed strophiole. 



Durack River. 



Phyllodes ^-j inch long. Spike attaining about 1£ inches in 

 length. Peduncle and rhachis velvety pubescent. Fruit 3-4 

 inches long, but only J-J inch broad. Seeds about J inch long. 



In the system this species must find its place near A. linaroides, 

 A. stipuligera and A. conspersa ; from the first-mentioned it 

 differs already in copious vestiture, in the venulation of the 

 phyllodes and conspicuity of stipules ; from A. stipuligera chiefly 

 in very much smaller and very numerous phyllodes; from A. 



