46 TROPICAL ACACIAS OF QUEENSLAND. 



does not seem to be unfortunate (mfausto), aulax, aulacis, 

 in reference to the grooving of the sutixres of the pods. In 

 his Second Census, p. 80, Mueller, however, adopts aula- 

 cocarpa, and omits crassicarjM, which is technically correct, 

 because, although they were described at the same time, 

 aulacocarpa was described in an earlier page of the work to 

 crassicarpa. 



I have independently examined the evidence, and agree 

 that A. crassicarpa A. Cunn. is a synonym. 



As regards A. aulacocarpa, Mueller in Macleay Memorial 

 Vol., p. 224, suggests that a specimen from Fitzroy Island 

 attributed to that species may = A. holcocarpa. 



For an account of A. aulacocarpa see my Forest Flora 

 of N.S.W., Vol. 3, p. 123, with plate 103. 



Under A. crassicarj^a, Roth {Bull. N. Qld. Ethno- 

 graphy, No. 3) says the roots are roasted, hinterland and coast 

 of Princess Charlotte Bay, Butcher's Hill, Cooktown. It is 

 not figured in the Iconography, but A. aulacocarpia is. 



Herewith is a figure of the type of A. crassicarjm (Plate 

 vii). The pod '" under 2 inches long and 7-8 lines broad "^ 

 is an accident. 



51. calyculata A. Cunn., Benth. in Hook. Loud. Journ. 

 Bot., i, 379. The type of A. calyculata comes from Fitzroy 

 Island. (Syn. ^. y^oZcocarj^a Benth., B. Fl.,ii. 408). Type of 

 A. holcocarpa from "" Port Bo wen and Thirsty Sound, R. 

 Brown." 



After careful examination of available material, 1 am 

 of opinion that A. holcocarpa fi\vo\x\A be suppressed, confirm- 

 ing a surmise of Mueller in 1893, ^vhich seems to have been 

 forgotten. The description of A. holcocarpa would apply 

 to A. calyculata with the exception of the reference to the 

 branches as terete ; they are, however, almost flat in the 

 young stage in our specimens, as in A. calyculata. 



The original description of A. calyculata states that it 

 is allied to A. aulacocarpa. but Bentham (who edited the 

 description) had not then seen the pod. In B. Fl., ii, 410, he 

 contrasts the two species, for he had in the meantime got 

 authentically matched pods. The type of A. calyculata 

 came from Fitzroy Island. It was collected by Allan 



