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it IS with some hesitation that I have followed F. Mueller in considering it a variety only 

 of A. salicina. 



139. A. rostellifera, Benth. in Hook. Lond, Journ.^ L 356. A tall . 



shrub or small tree, nearly allied to A. salicina^ with which it is united by F. J 

 Mueller, but the aspect is different, the nerve of the phyllodia is much more ^ 

 prominent, and the pod is unknown. Branclilets angular, flexuous, quite 

 glabrous. Phylloclia linear-lanceolate, 2 to 5 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, 

 straii^ht or falcate, with an oblique or recurved usually callous point, rather 

 ' thick, l-ner\'ed, very obscurely veined. Flower-heads few, in short raceme3, 



•as in A, salicina, with numerous 5-merous flowers. Calyx short, truncate. 

 Petals quite smooth, without the prominent midribs of A. cyaywpJii/lla, which 



.the lonj?-leaved specimens sometimes resemble. — A. subbinervia, Meissn. m 

 PL Preiss. i. 16. 



■ "W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1 st Coll. n. 285, 27id Coll. k. 103 ; Murchlson 

 river, Oldfield; Rottenest Island, Preiss, n. 924. The second nerve of the phyllodia, from 

 whence Meissner derived his name, very seldom occurs, and was therefore in some measure 

 exceptional in the specimen described hy him. The species requires further investigation. 



140. A. pycnophylla^ Bentk. A glabrous, erect shrub of several ft., 

 the branches slightly angular. Phyllodia usually numerous, erect, linear, ob- 

 tuse or with a small straight point, 1| to 3 in. long, thick and nerveless 

 besides the midrib, narrowed at the base, without marginal glands. Flower- 

 heads generally 2 or 3, in short axillary racemes on short thick peduncle?, 

 globular, with 10 to 15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. CalyS: half as long as the 

 corolla, shortly and broadly lobed. Petals smooth, but angular in the bud. 

 Pod linear, flat with thickened margius, not contracted between the seeds, 1 to 

 1^ lines broad; valves thinly coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal, the last 2 or ^ 

 short folds of the funicle thickened into a small fleshy aril under the seed. 



A. c?'assiHscida, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 16, not of Sieber. 



W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Drummond, Zrd Coll 

 :. 98, Preiss, n. 929, Oldfield. . p^j 



y?x, angmtifolia, Phyllodia narrower ; pednncles rather longer; petals thinner. 

 the same. — Cape Paisly and Cape Legraiid, Maxwell. ,.«. . 



The folia-e is nearly that of ^. ramoshmna and A. Ilarveyi, but the pod is very dilterei . 

 The lobed calyx as weU as the pod readily distinguish it from the narrowest-leaved torms 



A. salicina. 



141. A. Harveyi, Bmth. Quite glabrous, with erect slender ^''^'^^^.J^^ 

 sliijhtly angular when younsj. Phyllodia narrow-linear, obtuse ^^ ^"^ 

 short hooked point, 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 1^ lines broad, narrowed at the Das , 

 rather thick, the midrib scarcely prominent and the veinlets very ^"^^" ^ 

 Plower-heads small, globular, several in short slender racemes, the pai 

 peduncles 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers sniall, 20 to 30 in the head, mostly - 

 merous. Calyx thin, shortly lobed, more than half as long as the coio • 

 Petals smooth. Pod very flat, with scarcely thickened margins, "?^^^^^^j 

 tracted between the seeds, 3 in. long or more, above \ in. broad, ^^^^'^'^^^^ ^ 

 and transversely reticulate. Young seeds along the centre of the pod, wi ^^^ 

 long funicle folded and thickened under the seed, but not seen ripe.— 

 mosissit7ia, Benth. ; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 16, partly. . a t rl 



V7. Australia. Between King Georze's Sonud and Cape Riche, ffarvey C\r\ o^e^^^ 

 Drummond^ ifh Coll. n. 130 (in fruit). .Allied in foliage to A. pt/cnoi^h^la aaa ^' 



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