172 Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Acacia nigricans — Porongerup (F. v. M.) 

 Acacia strigosa — Pinjarrah (Rev. J. S. Price), Shannon 

 (F. V. M.) 



Acacia Drummondi — Stiriing's Range (F. v. M.), Black- 

 wood River (Mrs. M'Hard), Greenough River (C. Grey) ; 

 Drummond 315. 



A cacia Farnesiana — Shark Bay (Mrs. Gribble.) 



Acacia Bidwilli — Mitchell River (E. Palmer). 



GitEVILLEA KeNNEDYANA. 



Branchlets and leaves beset with short appressed grepsh 

 hairlets ; leaves scattered or somewhat fasciculated, rigid, 

 linear, entire, pungent ly pointed, re volute along the margin ; 

 flowers comparatively large, in axillary and terminal umbels ; 

 bracts fugacious ; petals bright-red, about twice as long as 

 the glabrous stalklets, only from much above the middle or 

 near the summit reflexed, outside glabrous, inside extensively 

 beset with tender •whitish hairlets ; torus elongated, almost 

 in a straight line continuing the stalklet ; hypogynous 

 glandule semi-annular and also upwards protracted ; pistil 

 glabrous ; ovulary conspicuously stipilate ; style nearly half 

 exserted ; stigma lateral ; fruit oblique-ellipsoid, pointed at 

 the upper end, slightly granular-rough outside; seeds linear- 

 or narrow-ellipsoid, channelled, greyish outside, with a short 

 pale terminal appendage. 



Between rocks on Grey's Ranges (W. Baeuerlen). 



An ample shrub, attaining a height of about ^yq feet, 

 flowering downward even to near the base of the stem. Leaves 

 mostly from f to 1 inch long, with a single groove under- 

 neath, many of the leaves spreading. Umbels sessile, the 

 flowers exuding a mellaginous fluid. Total length of petals 

 nearly an inch, but apparently less through the terminal 

 curvature. Fruit turgid, about f inch long. 



This beautiful plant is as yet only known from a single 

 locality ; it is dedicated to Mrs. M. B. Kennedy, of Wonna- 

 minta, who not only contributed since some years to the 

 writers collections, but also from her and her consort's 

 hospitable home promoted the searches of the discoverer 

 of this plant. In its afiinity the newly found species 

 approaches G. acuaria, but the leaves are much thicker 

 and deeply grooved beneath, the flowers are much larger, 

 the torus is proportionately far more extended, and the 

 ovulary is not unilaterally and suddenly protruding as that 



