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under the Beed and forming a white and membranous cup- 

 shaped aril. ( Kununoppin. F. E. Victor, > 



Ac bra, Benth. — This species differs from A. 



Meiss eri in the nerve -like margins of the phyllodia, 

 longer peduncles, pod (immature) curved and narrow, not 

 over 1A lines broad, and funicle short with a large aril. 



Bentharn separated A. Meiss Lehm.. and its var. 



, aa described by Meissner ("PL Preiss." i. 13) 

 under the one specific name, making the variety a distinct 

 species, namely. A. triquetra. With the exception of the 

 linear phyllodia, our plant answers to the description of 

 this s] iea bnt its phyllodia have the obliquely obovate 

 form of those of A. Meis&ueri, with the upper margin more 

 arched than the lower, and bearing a gland below its 

 middle, though differing in having nerve -like margins. 

 The chief distinction between the two species, however, is 

 found in the pod. which in the Kununoppin specimen is 

 near". 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. (Kununoppin. F. E. Vict 



A >',./'./. DC., n. var. — At the Ashburton river 



two form- of A. | DC., were met with: one. which 



appears to be the usual form, growing as a small tree on 

 the open plain, where a heavy clay soil is sometime- 

 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 

 somewhat 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 th< - however, 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. 



robotrya, Benth. — As Bentharn had doubts 

 about the fruit of this - 3, the following may be added 



to his notes on the subject : — Pod (not yet mature I on a 

 stalk of about <>6 cm., straight, flat, valve- coriaceous with 



