3J8 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



jNIr. Baker contributed the following Note on a new variety of 

 Afw.ia Jecurrens, Willd., a flowering specimen of which was 

 exhibited: — A. decurreni^, var. Deanei, a shrub, from 3 to 5 ft., 

 hoary, pubescent, the extremities of the branches silvery white; 

 branches and branchlets terete, occasionally slightly ribbed by 

 faint decurrent lines from the base of the branchlets. Pinnse 6 

 to 12 pairs, leaflets 15 to 25 pairs, olilong, obtuse, 1 to 2 lines 

 long, 1-nerved, minutely pubescent. Glands regularly occurring 

 along the rachis, one under each pair of pinnae. Flower-heads 

 small, few, in axillary racemes or forming a loose terminal panicle. 

 Flowers not numerous, about 20 in a head, small, 5-merous. 

 Calyx turbinate, broadly lobed. Petals minutely pubescent. 

 Pod about 4 inches long and 3 lines broad, much contracted 

 between the seeds. Seeds oblong, arillus club-shaped, gradually 

 tapering off into a short, straight funicle. 



//(t^._Gilgandra, N.S.W. (Mr. Henry Deane). 



This variety differs from the A. decurrens var. normalis, of 

 Bentham, (1) in not having the strongly decurrent lines of 

 that variety, in fact, the branches and branchlets are all 

 but terete, and in that respect resemble A. decurrens var. 

 mollis: {2) in having shorter and broader leaflets; and (3) in 

 the narrower pod. It resembles this variety in having only one 

 gland between the individual pairs of pinnae. Its greatest 

 affinity is with A. decurrens var. mollis, of Bentham, resembling 

 that variety in the terete branches, shape of pinnules and leaflets, 

 but instead of the young shoots being golden yellow in colour 

 they are silvery white, as in A. dealhata (from which species it 

 differs in the size and shape of pod as well as the seed). The 

 glands are also fewer in number than in A. decurrens var. mollis, 

 tliere being only 1 to each pair of leaflets, and also the pods are 

 longer and broader and more varicose than in that variety. A. 

 decurrens var. mollis flowers in December and this variety 

 flowers in June. In regard to A. decurrens y&r. paicciglanduhsa, 

 var. Leichhardtii, and vars. a and /3 of Maiden (Ag. Gaz. JST.S.W. 

 v., G07\ its varietal differences are too well marked to need 

 enumeration. 



