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fruit rather long, comparatively narrow, flexuous, bi- 

 convex, beset with short hairlets ; seeds small, turgid ; 

 arillar appendage short, pale, thick. 



A. lanigera. 



933. Phyllodia with three longitudinal venules. 



Shrub, finally tall ; phyllodia grey-green, rigid, straight, 

 often narrowly cuneate-elliptical ; primary venules very 

 prominent ; secondary venules thin, spreading ; flower - 

 headlets somewhat sticky, in very short racemes ; fruit 

 small, broadly linear-cylindrical, pointed ; arillar append- 

 age extending only around the lowest portion of the seed. 



A. trineura. 



Phyllodia with more than three longitudinal venules 934 



934. Primary venules of the phyllodia extremely thin. 



Finally arboreous ; phyllodia rather long, rigid, from linear- to 

 narrow-lanceolar, often somewhat curved, short-pointed, 

 generally greyish from almost imperceptible hairlets ; 

 racemes very short, sometimes reduced to two or solitary 

 headlets ; stalks of the latter short ; fruit narrow, gently 

 curved, somewhat constricted between the seeds ; funicle 

 replicated below the short pale arillar appendage. 



A. homalophylla. 



Primary venules of the phyllodia prominent ... ... 935 



935. Phyllodia very long, but comparatively narrow. 



Tall- arboreous ; phyllodia rigid, straight or slightly curved, 

 closely and almost equally streaked by longitudinal 

 venules; racemes short, seldom reduced to two or soli- 

 tary flower-headlets ; stalks of the latter rather long, beset 

 with appressed hairlets; fruit hard, often much elongated, 

 rather broad, constricted between the seeds, very tardily 

 dehiscent ; funicle slightly or hardly dilated into an 

 arillar appendage. A- steiiophylla. 



Phyllodia rather broad, mostly curved- and elliptic- 

 or elongate-lanceolar ... ... ... ... 936 



936. Funicle bright-red, doubly surrounding the seed. 



Arboreous, occasionally very tall ; branchlets somewhat 

 angular; phyllodia sometimes narrow-lanceolar and almost 

 straight, without any lustre, their copious secondary 



k venules reticular - connected ; racemes short, seldom 



reduced to two or solitary flower-headlets; the latter pale- 

 yellow, their stalks rather short; fruit compressed, 

 arched-curved or tortuous, rather narrow. " Blackwood- 

 tree." A. Melanoxylon. 



