"P-koc. Roy. -Sec. Victoria, 28 (N.Si), Pr. II., l&ltr 



Art. XVIII. — Contributions to the Flora of Australia, Nv. %J h 



ALFRED J. EWART, D.Sc. 



(Government Botanist and Professor of Botany and Plant 

 Physiology in Melbourne University), 



PERCY J. SHAMAN. 



(With Plates XXVI., XXVII. and XXVIII.) 



[Read 11th November, 1915]. 



Acacia Beauverdiana, n. sp. 



Phyllodia rigid, erect, long linear, flattened, falcate, slightly nar- 

 rowed Towards base and apex, not so long as in A. coriaeea, reaching 

 some !<• cm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, thickly coriaceous, with 

 numerous fine longitudinal nerves, finely perceptible with naked 

 eye. Peduncles in pairs, each bearing globular heads very slightly 

 cylindrical. Flowers. ."> merous. Calyx tubular, slightly pubescent 

 lobes. Petals rather longer, divided about the middle, but quite 

 glabrous. Pod not seen. 



By Bentham's classification, this Acacia is very closely related to- 

 A. coriaeea, from which it is separated by having much shorter 

 phyllodes, and in the very marked difference of its corolla, which is 

 quite glabrous in A. Beauverdiana, and very pubescent in A. 

 coriaeea {ride Mueller's Iconography of Australian Acacias). 



Its calyx ami corolla are somewhat similar to A. aciphylla, and 

 it may possibly be an intermediate link between this species and A. 

 coriaeea. 



Locality. — CowcoAving, \Y. Australia. Max. Koch, 1!><>4, No. 

 1289. 



Named in honour of Gustave Beauverd, Conservator of Herbarium 

 Boissier, Geneva, Switzerland. 



No. '23 in the Maine isHue of the Society's Proceedings. 



