BY J. H. MAIDEN. 41 



There are some notes on A. julifera and A. Solandri 

 (together with other species) in Macleay Mem. Vol., .p. 

 225. 



■■^4. julifera. . . . from which it differs .... 

 and A. hptocarpa, by smaller spikes and different cleft 

 calyces ; but the fruit specimens from Edgecombe Bay, 

 alluded to by Bentham, maj' not perhaps belong to tlie same 

 species, as they are nearer to A. Cunmnghamii also as 

 regards foliage. 



'■ Ml". Bowman gives the height of A. julifera as only 

 up to 10 feet at Nercool Creek (near Rockhampton, J.H.M.) 

 and the Upper Flinders River, and says it is early flower- 

 ing in the season. It is contained in Madame (Frau) 

 Dietrich's collection from Port Denison under 2,812, mixed 

 with A. Solandri. That species agrees in venulation of 

 the phyllodes certainly with A. julifera, but the phyllodes 

 are narrower and straighter, the spikes longer, with remark- 

 ably dissite flowers like A. aulacocarpa and A. cincinnata ; 

 the calyces are short-lobed and glabrous, the fruit (of A. 

 Solandri, J.H.M.) curled-flexuous. compressed, about ^ 

 inch broad, the seeds ellipsoid, the funicle forms folds, 

 but reaches the lowest part of the seeds only." 



This is the first time the pods and .seeds have beeu 

 described. 



41. leptostachya Benth. in B. Fi.. ii, 40(), with a mark of 

 interrogation. He quotes it from Newcastle Range, 

 Mueller \ Port Denison, Dallachy and Fitzalan : Broad Sound 

 Herb. Mueller. 



The pod was unknown to Bentham, ))ut Mueller sub- 

 sequenth' figured it in the Iconography. 



I have it from Xormanton (E. Macdonell. through C. 

 T. White) and Yeppoon, near Rockhampton (J. L. Boor- 

 man), wood dark brown, hard and heavy. 



Cambage, p. 401, quotes it from Almaden, 10 feet, 

 (No. 3,893), with doubt, but this turns out to be a new 

 species, .4. argentea. 



42. A. argentea, n. sp. 



Frutex 10' altus, argyro-pubescens, ramulis angulatis delude fere 

 teretibus. Phyllodiis lanceolatis vix falcatis, basi apiceque angustatis, 

 obtusis, 5-6.5 cm longis, 1-1.5 cm latis. rectis vel basin versus paullo 



