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1-5 mm. broad, stipules minute, deciduous. Peduncles in pairs in 

 axils, slender, spreading or reflexed, 07 cm. to 2'2 cm. long, bearing 

 heads of about 6 mm. diameter, containing 40 or 50 florets. Sepals 

 very narrow linear spathulate, ciliate, 5 as long as petals, which 

 are distinct, tapering below, and smooth. Pod stipitate, linear- 

 oblong, straight, slightly contracted and depressed between seeds, 

 flat, 2*5-5 ^^^'^- ^*^"o ^y °'5 ^'^^- t^ro^d, valves coriaceous with margins 

 thickened. Seeds longitudinal but sometimes slightly oblique, ovate, 

 flattened, mottled, 0*25 cm. long; funicle short and slender, dilated 

 at base, but scarcely thickened or folded, about half as long as seed. 

 (Kununoppin, E. Avon district. F. E. Victor.) 



F. V. M. and Tate, in their report on the plants of the Elder 

 Expedition, p. 351, note ''Acacia (aff.) gonopkylla, Benth., with long 

 phyllodes. W. A. near Barrow Range," and probably this is the same 

 species. As compared with A. go/iophyl/a, Benth., besides having 

 longer phyllodia, the peduncles are longer, the flower-heads larger 

 and containing numerous florets, the ladle-like sepals with a very 

 slender claw and broad orbicular lamina, and about f as long 

 as the petals ; the pod is depressed between the seeds but not 

 contracted on the margins ; the seeds are ovate and flattened, and the 

 funicle is different. 



Acacia uncinella, Benth. — As the fruit of this species is im- 

 perfectly known, the following description may be given : — 



Pod (not quite mature) almost sessile, linear, straight, flat, with 

 thickened sutures, slightly contracted between the seeds, obtuse and 

 more or less beaked at the top, maximum length 5*6 cm. by about 

 o'2 cm. in breadth. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, funicle thickened 

 and shortly folded under the seed and forming a white and 

 membranous cup-shaped aril. (Kununoppin. F. E. Victor.) 



Acacia Ariquetra, Benth — This species differs from A. 

 Meiss fieri in the nerve-like margins of the phyllodia, longer peduncles, 

 pod (immature) curved and narrow, not over i| lines broad, and 

 funicle short with a large aril. 



Bentham separated A. Meissneri, Lehm., and its var. angustifolia, 

 as described by Meissner (" PI. Preiss," i. 13) under the one specific 

 name, making the variety a distinct species, namely, A. iriquetra. 

 With the exception of the linear phyllodia, our plant answers to the 

 description of this species, but its phyllodia have the obliquely 

 obovate form of those of A. Meissneri, with the upper margin more 

 arched than the lower, and bearing a gland below its middle, though 

 differing in having nerve-like margms. The chief distinction between 

 the two species, however, is found in the pod, which in the Kunun- 

 0])pin specimen is nearly sessile, much curved and twisted, forming 

 sometimes more than two circles, somewhat turgid and narrower 

 between the seeds, which are longitudinal, oblong, with the funicle 

 very short and bearing a very large yellowish aril broader than the 

 seed. (Kununoppm. F. E. Victor.) 



Acacia pyrifolia. DC, n. var. — At the Ashburton river two 

 forms of ^. pyrifolia, DC, were met with ; one, which appears to be 



