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. Queensland. Uacler sandstone hills near Mount Pluto, MdchelL On a hasty survey, 

 l,had formerly put this aside as a variety of A. viscidiilaj from which however on examina- 

 tioa I find it to differ essentially in the venation of the phyllodia as well as in the flowers. 

 The ncnrest affinity appears to be with A. dodonmfolia , from which our specimeus chiefly 

 differ in the very narrow phyllodia. 



.119. A. ramosissima, Bentli. in Hook. Lond, Journ, i. 356 {partly). 

 Apparently shrubby, with slender, pubescent, slightly angular branches. Phyl- 

 lodia numerous, narrow-linear, obtuse with a minute hooked point, 1 to 1 j 

 in. long, about 1 line broad, narrowed at the base, rather thick, obscurely 1- 

 nervcd. Stipules minute but often persistent. Flowers not seen. Friiiting 

 peduncles about \ in. long, with the scars of a globular head. Pod linear, 



straight, flat but thickly coriaceous, scarcely contracted but transversely de- 



{)ressed between the seeds, without thickened margins, 1 to 1^ in. long, 2 

 ines broad. Seeds nearly orbicular; funicle thickened from near the base 

 into a scarcely fleshy linear aril, and scarcely folded below it. 



- W. Australia^ Drum?nond, 3rd (or 4tk .^J Call n. 79. Under the name of A, ramo- 

 sis3ima, I had coufounded several species, closely resembling each other in foliage, hut which 

 prove to have very different tlowers and fruits. The oue for which T now retain the name 

 differs from all the thick narrow 1-nerved western ones in the pod and iu the pubesceat 

 brauchlets, but our specimens are veiy indifferent. 



120. A, sentis, F. MuelL in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 128, and PL Vict. ii. 

 18. A divaricately-branched rigid shrub or small tree, branchlets nearly 

 terete, glabrous or pubescent when young. Phyllodia lanceolate-oblong or 

 linear, mostly oblique falcate or curved, 1-nerved and more or less penni veined, 

 ill some specimens | in. long and 2 or 3 lines broad, in others more than 2 



iu. \o\vr aud about 1 line broad, usually glabrous, the marginal gland near the 



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to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear-spathulate, free. 

 smooth. Pod thin, flat, \ to | in. broad. Seeds broadly ovate, longitudinal, 

 along the centre of the pod; funicle transverse, gradually thickened from the 

 base upwards, straight or shortly folded under the seed.— ^. Victoria. Benth. 

 in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 333. 



W. Australia. Victoria river and Plains of Promise, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. 3heller^ 

 Queensland, Bargoo river, MUcheiL . ,, r. 



W. S. "Wales. From the DarUng river to the Barrier range, Victorian and otm x- 



fnditioyis, 



Victoria, Low sandhills and arid salt-hush plains towards the junction of the M^r 

 and Darling, F. Mueller. . v 



S. AustraUa. Base of FHnders range, towards Spencer's Gulf and in the interior, 



Mueller, 



121. A. dentifera, Benth. in Maund, Botanist, Iv. t. 179- A t^[! ?'^' 

 brous shrub, branchlets striate or slightly angular. PhyUodia "''^»'^'^^^^'^f-j|g^ 

 acute or obtuse with a small recurved point, 3 to 8 in, long, and 1 to / n^^^^ 

 brond, with a prominent midrib and obscurely veined. Stipules small ^ ^^ 

 tooth-hke or none. Peduncles slender, mostly above i in. long, solitar^^^^ 

 in pairs, the upper ones often forming a raceme by the abortion of the p^.^^ 

 lodia, each bearing a globular or -opioid. head of densely- packed floW€rs, mo* 

 6-merous. Sepals very narrow/ free! Petals smooth, united aoo\e 



