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8. neglectum, 78, Peebles. "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist," 101, 

 1910. 



8. o.mic . 85, Fife, G. West, 



fine, 109, Caithness, Dr. Davidson sp. 



Since Mr. Beeby's remarks, S. neglectum has been found 

 in West Lancashire by Messrs. Salmon, Thompson, and 

 Wheldon. 



New ob Imperfectly Described Species of Acacia 

 from Western Australia. By Alex. Morrison. 



Acacia >l nsiflora, n. sp. — Phyllodia subulate, terete, 

 striate : flowers in globular sessile heads, 5-merous, with 

 a short turbinate-lobed calyx. 



A rigid shrub with terete, closely woolly-pubescent 

 branches, phyllodia subulate, somewhat spreading, terete 

 but slightly flattened, rigid, mucronate but scarcely pungent, 

 slightly narrowed at base, with 15-20 rather prominent 

 striae and minutely pubescent, 0'8-2 - 5 cm. long and about 

 1 mm. thick. 



Inflorescence in globular sessile flower-heads crowded in 

 pairs in the upper axils : flowers about 20 or fewer in the 

 head, 5-merous. calyx turbinate with short lobes, woolly, 

 less than half as long as the petals, which are subacute, 

 smooth, with the midrib somewhat prominent near the 

 top. Pod not seen. (Kellerberrin, E. Avon district. 

 R. B. Leake.) 



Meissner describes a barren specimen from the interior 

 (Preiss. N( . 976, "PI. Preiss," i. 12) as a possible variety of 

 A. leptoneura, but Bentham in "Fl. Austral" has placed 

 this under A. aciphyUa, without, however, having seen 

 Preiss s specimen. Our plant, if it should be the same as 

 that collected by Preiss, differs in aspect from A. aciphyUa, 

 being a scrubby, rigid shrub, with the flower-heads dis- 

 tinctly globular, so that Meissner seems to have been 

 nearly right in placing it under A. lepUmev/ra. Moreover, 

 although the calyx is that of A. aciphyUa, the globular 

 flower-heads and the phyllodia approach those of A. 

 leptoneura, so that this plant may be set down as a distinct 

 species. 



