BY J. H. MAIDEX. 43 



In that species the pods are linear, as in A. argent ea, but the 

 pods are densely tomentose, while they are glabrous in 

 the new species. 



43. leptocarpa A. Cunn., Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jouni. 

 Bot., i. 376. The type comes from "" Endeavour River 

 and Cape Flinders." Bentham, p. 407, quotes some North 

 Queensland localities. 



'■ A. leptocarpa is distinguished from A. Maidenii 

 in the phyllodes showing hardly any anastomosing venu- 

 lation. the interstices between the venules being also wider, 

 in flowers less crowded along the rhachis, in glabrous 

 calyces, in generally 5-parted corollas, and in numerous 

 almost consolidated folds of the funicle, these forming 

 downward, an appendicular mass of a length as great as the 

 seed itself, or even greater, though basal only : I find, 

 however, the fruit-valves to a considerable extent flexuous. 

 The phyllodes are without lustre." (Mueller in Macleay 

 Memorial Volume, p. 224). 



Fibre is made by the aborigines of the Palmer River 

 from the inner bark (Roth in North Qld. Ethnography, 

 Bull. No. 1). 



Cambage, p. 437, records it from Hughenden to Prairie. 

 It is a shrub of 10 feet at Normanton. (R. H. Cambage, 

 No. 4.109). 



44. polystachya A. Cunn., Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot., i, 376. The type comes from " Port Bowen, Port 

 Essington, Haggerstone's Island, East Coast." 



Haggerstone's Island is near Cape Gren\'ille, 12° S. 

 Lat. I figure a specimen of the type. The broad, netted- 

 veined pod is an important character in this species. 



Bentham. p. 407, gives North Queensland localities. 



45. Hemsleyi Maiden in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 

 li, 87, 1917, with a plate. This is the species formerly 

 recorded for Queensland under the name of A. delibrata 

 A. Cunn.. see p. 21. 



It extends from North Western Australia to Northern 

 Queensland, the Queensland localities recorded being 

 Gregory Downs, Gregory River, near Burketown (Dr. T. L. 



