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the usual form, growing as a small tree on the open plain, where a 

 heavy clay soil is sometimes seen forming a bare surface but is 

 usually covered with sand. Its phyllodia are thick, undulate, rigid, 

 and primose, and the inflorescence is of a very dark purplish colour. 

 The other grew near the river, as a shrub, amongst others, and some- 

 what protected from the severity of the heat. In form the phyllodia 

 were exactly the same, but this grew with more prominent veins, 

 while the pods were of a paler colour. The funicle of the seed, how- 

 ever, is much shorter, not passing completely round the seed, while 

 in the other form it makes a complete revolution before being folded 

 twice and somewhat thickened to form an aril. 



Acacia microbotrya, Benth. — As Bentham had doubts about 

 the fruit of this species, the following may be added to his notes on 

 the subject : — 'Pod (not yet mature) on a stalk of about o'6 cm., 

 straight, flat, valves coriaceous with thickened sutures, finely reticu- 

 late over the seeds and much contracted between them, seeds convex 

 alternately on either surface of the pod, which is found to reach 

 15 cm. in length and about 0*7 cm. in breadth over the seeds. 

 Seeds sometimes as many as ten in the pod, longitudinal, oblong, 

 flat, 5 mm. in length ; funicle long and slender, two or three times 

 folded and expanded below the seed into a large club-shaped fleshy 

 aril. (Hannan's Lake, Boulder. W. D. Campbell.) 



Acacia Lindleyi, Meissn.- — Meissner, describing A. Lindleyi diS 

 a new species, speaks of it as being distinct from all others, but he 

 cannot have seen A. siibcceruka, published by Lindley in the 

 " Botanical Register " in 1827, for the description of the latter applies 

 remarkably well to the former, as seen in specimens from Coolgardie 

 and Kellerberrin districts. To this similarity may also be ascribed 

 the origin of E. Pritzel's A. subccerulea, Lindl., var. subsessilis ("Bot. 

 Jahrb.," xxxv. p. 303). Spencer Moore also records A. subccerulea 

 from near Coolgardie, but in the " Fl. Australiensis " the only localities 

 given for this species are on the south coast. The only ready 

 distinction is found in the longer racemose and more slender branches 

 of the A. subccvrulea. 



The fruit of A. Lindleyi, however — up to the present unknown — is 

 very different from that of A. subccerulea. The pod measures up to 

 7*5 cm. in length by o'6 cm. in breadth, it is stipitate, flat, obtuse, 

 and is coiled more or less into circles ; the valves are coriaceous, with 

 the sutures somewhat thickened, depressed between the seeds, and 

 showing transverse veins reticulating on their surface. The seeds are 

 longitudinal, ovate, smooth, black, with a short and slender funicle, 

 not thickened nor folded, about half the length of the seed. 

 (Kununoppin. F. E. Victor.) 



Acacia dictyophleba, F. v. M. "Pod unknown," Bentham, 

 " Fl. Aus.," ii. 388. — Pod very shortly stalked, flat but undulating over 

 the seeds, resinous and glistening, oblong, rounded at both ends, 

 valves coriaceous, margins straight and nerve-like, with numerous 

 transverse veins reticulating over the surface, maximum dimensions 

 5*5 cm. long, i'4 cm. broad. Seeds transverse, oblong, 0*5 cm.- 



