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Phyllodia usually several times or many times longer 

 than broad ... ... ... ... ... ... 941 



941. Flowers crowded in the spikes. 



Tall highland-shrub, finally arborescent ; phyllodia very 

 firm, elongate -lanceolar, somewhat curved ; primary 

 venules two to four ; secondary venules closely reticular- 

 joined ; spikes rather long, solitary or two together ; 

 calyx and corolla generally four-lobed ; fruit long, very 

 narrow, constricted between the seeds ; arillar appendage 

 pale, short, supporting only the base of the seed. 



A. Dallachiana. 



Flowers at a distance from each other in the spikes 942 



942. Phyllodia elliptic -lanceolar, generally with several 



prominent longitudinal venules. 



Shrubby or arborescent, on the coast producing copiously 

 suckers ; branchlets very angular ; phyllodia firm, almost 

 straight ; two or three of the primary venules more 

 prominent ; secondary venules distantly reticular-joined ; 

 calyx and corolla generally four-lobed ; fruit linear-cylin 

 drical ; arillar appendage pale, short. A. longifolia. 



Phyllodia broad-linear, generally with only one pro- 

 minent longitudinal venule. 



Shrub, often tall ; branchlets angular ; phyllodia very long, 

 rather flaccid ; secondary venules almost obliterated ; 

 calyx and corolla generally four-lobed ; fruit almost 

 straight, linear-cylindrical ; arillar appendage pale, short. 



A. liuearis. 



943. Phyllodia straight 944 



Phyllodia curved ... ... ... 945 



944. Phyllodia from broad-linear to compressed-cylindrical. 



Shrubby or finally somewhat arborescent ; phyllodia rigid, 

 greyish from appressed minute hairlets, subtle-streaked 

 from faint longitudinal venules ; flower-spikes rather 

 dense and short ; fruit quite flat, from oblique-ovate to 

 almost elliptical, its valves thin ; seeds placed oblique- 

 transversely, much shorter than the width of the pericarp ; 

 arillar appendage short, pointed, pale. " Mulga." 



A. aneura. 



