BY J. H. MAIDEN. 35 



Pistil covered in such a thick coat of hair as to conceal 

 its outline. Rhachis hairy. Pod not seen. 



Collected in flower by J. L. Boorman at Beta, a railway 

 station on the Central Railway, Queensland, 291 miles 

 west of Rockhampton. Elevation about 1,300 feet, 3rd 

 July, 1913. The type. 



Also obtained in flower by the same collector at The 

 Virgin, Springsuro. Springsure is 40 miles from the railway 

 junction at Emerald, which is itself 166 miles west of Rock- 

 hampton. June, 1913. These localities are a little south 

 of the tropic. 



Affinities. 



1. With A. brevifolia Benth. It differs in the shape 

 and indument of the phyllodia. The calyx of A. brevi- 

 folia is of a different shape, is glabrous, and is much smaller 

 proportionately to the j)etals, while its pistil is smooth and 

 that of A. curvinervia is hairy. At the same time, it would 

 appear that, in the present state of our knowledge, A. 

 brevifolia is closest to the new species. 



2. With A. difficilis Maiden in Ewart's " Flora of 

 the Northern Territory." The relations are more distant. 

 Some of the shorter, more crescentic-phyllode forms of this 

 species have a somewhat distant affinity to A. curvinervia, 

 but the indument is different, the spikes of the former are 

 more slender, while the calyx of .4. difficilis is divided 

 into sepals. 



32. gonoclada F.v.M. in Journ. Linn. Soc, iii, 140. 

 A Northern Territory species. Cambage has it, p. 437, 

 from Hughenden to Prairie. This is the first record for 

 Queensland. 



JuLiFLOK-^ (Tetramerae). 



33. A. Whitei, n. sp. 



Frutex parvu.s glaber, ranuilis aiigiilati.'^. Pliyn<)dii.'< rcoti.s vol paullo 

 falcatis, plerumque lineari-laucfolatis apice basique angustali.s, 5-12 cm 

 longis, 4-5 mm latis, rigidis mcdioci-itcr craN.^is, 7 ncrvis prominentibus 

 parallelibus longitudinalibus, unifoniuhiis turn jiiarginalibu^, covta m<dia 

 prominentiuscula. Spici.s solitaries vcl g; luinis in axillis, brevibus, ca. 

 1.5 cm longis, sessilibus vcl breviter pcndunculati.s, nongraciiibu.'^, clinsaus- 

 culis, rhache laeve. Floribus 4 v. 5-mci-is. Calycc truncal o vcl paullo 

 lobato, petalis calyccm ca. triplo supcrantibus. Fetalis lac\ibus vcl 

 paullo pruino.sis, costatis, dimidio longitudini.s cohacrciitibus. Pistillo 



