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Var. muUmhqua. Phyllodia shorter, rather broader, and nearly straight, with 3 promi- 

 nent nerves and scarcely veined between them. Pod narrow.-On first seeing R. Brown's 

 specimens from the Carpentaria Islands, they looked so different from the ordinary form that 

 1 MS inclined to adopt them as a distinct species under Brown's name of A. multisilinna, 



\ 1 .r ''"i'^'!°'^'"l tJ^''t tlie two forms pass one into the other there as in other localities, 

 ana botH phyllodia may be found even on the same specimen on different branches, depeiid- 

 mg perhaps sometimes on diifereuccs in comparative luxuriance. 



E. MicEONEUR^.— Glabrous or glaucous, not glutinous. Phyllodia thick, 

 apparently vemless or with very fine scarcely prominent parallel veins or 



nerves, often scarcely visible without a lens, narrow or rarely short and 

 obovate. '' 



^J\" ^' leptospermoides, Benth, in Linnaa, xxvi. 626. A low 



mucb-braiiched j^labrous shrub, with slender terete branches. Phyllodia nu- 

 inei'ous, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, mostly \ in. lonj? or rather more, narrowed at 

 the base on a short petiole, thiek, apparently veinless, the few very fine 



^ . . . ^^ ^ , __^ nerves 



ei-y rarely conspicuous except towards the base and under a lens. Peduncles 

 solitary, about 2 lines long, bearing each a small globular head of above 20 

 nowers, mostly S^merdus. Sepals free, narrow-spathulate, ciliate. Petals 

 smooth, free, rather narrow. Pod unknown. 



Om'm^%'^^'^^^' -^''«W2/rt07i^, 4M Coir n. 11; East Mount Barren, Maxwell {Herb, 

 lm]^ll T^^ narrow-leaved specimeus bear some resemblance to J, ericifolia aad the 



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leroaes to A, spaiJiulata, but have a different venation. 



Wn ■'^* ^^^^^^P^yll^^ ^' Cunn.; Bentli. in HooJc. Lond. Journ. i. 

 a (there spelt omalopltylld), A small tree, glabrous or the foliage minutely 

 joa^ry or pale ; branchlets at first slightly angular. Phyllodia hmceolate-fal- 

 5 J^arrow-oblong or linear, obtuse with a small oblique point, narrowed fit 

 ParalTf' ^^^ ^ i»- long, 1 to 4 lines broad, thick, very finely striate with 

 on ^^^^'^s only to be seen under a lens. Peduncles in pairs or clustered 

 flow -^^'^ ^ '^ common peduncle, bearing dense globular heads of numerous 

 Hat ^^^' "^^®^'y 5-raerous. Sepals cuneate or spathulate, free or slightly con- 

 ri^ll^*^? t'^^'^n lialf as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, free. Pod linear, 

 ^^j^jtlly glaucous, sH^^^^ 2 to 3 lines broad, longitudinally veined ; 



ovaM r^^^^^^^^^* convex over the seeds, contracted between them. Seeds 

 thp 'v -^^ longitudinal ; funicle short, much folded and dilated almost from 

 «^t)ase mto a short oblique aril— F. Muell, Pi. Vict. ii. 28. 



theBaj,/ ^*^®®' Abuiulaut on the barren heaths of the interior, from the Lachlan to 



ft/o» ^^*^j . ^^'^ i ^"*^ of the spear-woods of the natives, A. Cunningham, Victorian Expe- 

 ^h and others, 



wood^^^^j^' Salt-bush flats on the Murray, yielding tlic hard dark and fragrant * Myall- 

 ^«f« doubtf T*^^* '' Si)encer*s Gulf, WilhelmL A single specimen in leaf only, and there- 



A handsome 



braiicldets 



tree tii ■^;. P^^^^ula, A. Ciimi, in G.Don, Gen. SysL ii. 404. 1 

 ^sual] 1 ^'^ P^^^ or ash-coloured, with a minute pubescence ; 

 falcate ^^^ .'^"^' slightly angular, soon terete. Phyllodia linear-lanceolale, 

 ceous ' ^^^^^^^^^^ narrowed towards the base, 2 to 3 in. long, rigidly coria- 

 ale ' ^^D" fii^ely striate, with numerous parallel nerves, only to be seen under 

 above V 1. ^^^1*^^ usually clustered on a very short common peduncle, rarely 



hues long, bearing each a small globular head of about 12 to 20 flowersy 



