BY R. T. BAKER. 661 



Australia. The local name would imply that it occurs in Queens- 

 land, but it has never yet been recorded for that colony. 



The pods, seeds and funicles are identical with Muellers 

 figure of the species in his Iconography of Acacias, so that if his 

 material is correctly matched the identity of Bauerlen's material 

 cannot be doubted. 



A. lunata, Sieb. — Bentham (B.Fl. ii. 373), when describing 

 this species, states that the seeds are close to the upper suture of 

 the pod. Specimens having this feature have been obtained on 

 Forest Reserve, No. 1, Mulwala, N.S.W., by Mr. Wyburd. This 

 is the first time I have ever found pods corresponding to Bentham's 

 description. The Acacia generally passing under the name of A. 

 lunata is A. neglecta, Maiden & Baker, 



A. Camb\gei, sp.nov. ("Gidgee" or " Gidgea "). 

 (Plate xlii.) 



A medium-sized tree, with pendulous branchlets, the foliage of a 

 pale or glaucous hue ; branchlets angular. Phyllodia falcate, 

 lanceolate, obtuse or slightly acuminate, up to 5 inches long, and 

 from 5 to 9 lines broad, with numerous fine parallel veins, two or 

 three more prominent than the rest; thin or membranous. 

 Peduncles about three lines long, slender, in axillary clusters of 

 about 6, each bearing a globular head of about 12 flowers. Sepals 

 broad, spathulate, ciliate on the upper edge, free and less than 

 half as long as the petals. 



Petals glabrous. Pod flat, straight, about 3 lines long and 4 

 lines broad, veined, valves thin, not contracted between the seeds. 

 Seeds ovate, longitudinal, or slightly oblique; funicle short, fili- 

 form, not folded nor dilated. 



Hah. — Bourke, N.S.W., and northward to Queensland (R. H. 

 Cambage). 



It differs in herbarium material from '• Yarran," A. homalophylla, 

 in its larger and glaucous phyllodes, and the distinct venation, 

 and also in the shape of its pods, and in the shape of the funicle. 

 The phyllodes are somewhat similar to those .of A. excel sa, Benth. 



