34 TROPICAL ACACIAS OF QfEENSLAXD. 



Austraiia. C'ambage. pp. 42S, 432. has Normanton to 

 Cloncurry. I have seen it from Stannarj'^ Hills (Dr. T. L. 

 Bancroft). 



30. hrevi folia Ben h. B. Fl., ii. 39o= A. aulacocarpa 

 A. Cunn. var. hrevifolia in Journ. Linn. Soc, iii, 143 (not 

 144)= A. leptophleha F.v.M. var. hrevifolia (as corrected 

 in B. Fl., ii, 305). 



Type from '" Suttor Desert." or " Desert of the 

 Suttor " (Mueller). I do not know the precise locality of 

 the " Desert." (Under A. salicina Mueller in Journ. Linn- 

 Soc, iii, 126, speaks of '' In eremo ad flumen Suttor "). 

 A. hrevifolia does not appear to have been found since, 

 which is unsatisfactory. Pods are unknown, and as it has 

 never been figured. I illustrate the type at Plate i. 



31. A. curvinervia, n. sp. 



Frutex erectus 6-10', non ramosus. Raniulorum apicibu.'; angulatis. 

 ramulis inferioribus teretibus et cum aliquis phyllodiarum pubescente 

 albo tectis. Phj-^llodiis obliquo-crescentibus mucrone deciduo, basin 

 versus angustatis in petiolum brevem rugosum terminantibu.s, crescentis 

 diametro 4 cm. maxima latitudine 2 cm., coriaciis venis numerosis curvatis, 



3 V. pluribus prominentioribus. Floribus in spicis, plerumque geminis, 

 5-meris. Calyce irregulariter lobato, pilosissimo. Fetalis laevibus, 

 calycem duplo superantibus, dinudio longitudinis cohaorcntibus. 

 Legumine non viso. 



An erect grooving shrub of 6-10 feet, with marked 

 absence of the usual branching habit. The ends of the 

 branchlets angular and brown scurfy, with a sprinkling of 

 short white hairs, the lower branchlets terete and covered 

 with a soft white pubescence, which extends to the lower 

 part or whole of the phjdlodes, the majority of the branchlets 

 and phy lodes glabrous. Phyllodia oblique-crescentic, with 

 a brown, deciduous point, narrowed at the base, terminating 

 in a short, wrinkled petiole ; diameter of the crescent about 



4 cm, greatest Avidth up to 2 cm., very coriaceous with 

 numerous curved veins three or more prominent than the 

 others. 



Flowers in spikes, usually in pairs, o-merous. Calyx 

 sinuate-toothed or irregularly lobed, very hairy, about 

 half the length of the corolla. Petals smooth, slightly 

 united about half-way up. 



