[Pboc. Rot. Soc. Victoria, 22 (N.S.), Pt. I., 1909.] 



Art. IX. — Contributions to tlte Flora of Australia, 



lYa 12} 



ALFRED J. EWART, D.8o., Ph.D., F.L.S. 



(Professor of Botany in Melbourne University 

 and Government Botanist), 



AND 



JEAN WHITE, D.Sc. 



(Victorian Government Research Bursar.) 



(With Plates XXI.-XXVI.). 

 [Read Sth July, 1909.] 



Acacia leucosperma, F. v. M., iued., and E. Pritzel, n. sp. 

 (Leguminosae). Fragm. Phyt. Au.st. Occid., p. 302 ; 

 Engler's Botanische Jahrbiicher, Bd. xxxv., 1905, p. 302. 



Under this head Pritzel has described a West Australian 

 Acacia partly from new material and partly from a specimen 

 from near L. Austin, West Australia, H. S. King, labelled by 

 Mueller '" Acacia leucosperma, F. v. M." This plant was, how- 

 ever,- published as A. ■spodiosj)erma, F. v. M., in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, 1868, vol. 3, 

 13. 161. Pritzel gives broader phyllodes (2.4 mm.) than in the 

 type specimen; but a later one from the Gascoyne River (Mrs. 

 Gribble, 1886) has equally broad single-nerved phyllodes. The 

 name A. leucosperma is tlierefore merely a synonym for A. 

 spodiosiperma. F. v. M. 



1 No. 11 in I'roc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. xxii., pt. i., 1909, p. (>. 



