54 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sb'ss. lxxvi. 



thickened sutures, finely reticulate 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 07 cm. in breadth over the seeds. Seeds some- 

 times 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. Lind- 

 leyi as a new species, speaks of it as being distinct from all 

 others, but he cannot have seen A. subcosrulea, 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 Keller- 

 berrin districts. To this similarity may also be ascribed 

 the origin of E. Pritzel's A. subcosrulea, Lindl., var subses- 

 silis (" Bot. Jahrb.," xxxv. p. 303). Spencer Moore also 

 records A. subccemdea 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. subcoerulea. 



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

 unknown — is very different from that of A. subcoerulea. 

 The pod measures up to 7 - 5 cm. in length by 06 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," Ben- 

 tham, "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, 1'4 cm. broad. Seeds transverse, oblong, 05 cm.- 

 3 cm., blackish brown ; funicle flattened, thrown into 



