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pods much smaller, with orbicular seeds, with the funicle 

 not folded and about half as long as the seed. It is figured 

 in the Iconography, with some points scarcely agreeing 

 with Bentham's description, but I agree that the species 

 depicted is as stated. 



3. With .4. falcata Willd. 



The affinity has been suggested by competent botanists. 

 A. falcafa is a single-stemmed species with more angular 

 branchlets, the flowers are pale-coloured, not bright j^ellow, 

 and the racemes shorter, the sepals are free and the petals 

 soon separate. The pods are much shorter and narrower. 

 Some phyllodes present a good deal of resemblance to the 

 non-lobed forms of A. Bancroft i. 



4. With A. latesceiis Benth. 



This species may be mentioned also having a tendency 

 to angled-Iobing, terminating in a gland, but the phyllodes 

 are lanceolate-falcate, usuallj' 2-nerved, the calyx is different, 

 nor is there an encircling funicle. 



8. salicina F.v.M. var. varians Benth., B. Fl., ii, 367. 

 Bentham, at p. 367 quotes Curtis Island ( Henne), which is a 

 Queensland locality, almost in the tropics. Bentham sshjs 

 '' to this belong all the trojDical and sub-tropical specimens." 

 I have seen specimens from the Northern Territory. It is 

 iigured and described in Part 39 of my Foi^st Flora of New- 

 South Wales. 



9. Dietrichiana F.v.M. in " Wing's Southern Science 

 Record," ii, 149 (July, 1882). The type comes from Lake 

 Elphinstone (Lat. 21.30, Long. 148.20). It is figured in the 

 " Iconography." I have it also from Beta (J. L. Boorman). 



10. decora Reichb. Icon. Exot., t. 199. I have not 

 personally seen this species farther north than Rockhampton 

 (see my Forest Flora of N.S.W., Part 45, Plate 169). In 

 view of the confusion which has arisen between this species 

 and A. sentis, it would perhaps be desirable to re-examine 

 all tropical specimens referred to A. decora. 



Bailey, p. 491, says "Gum eaten, Cloncurry," evidently 

 on the authority of Edward Palmer in Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 N.S.W., xvii, 94 (1883), a plant I believe to be referable to 

 A. sentis. 



