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glutinosis inter seminibus vioc angustatis margine incrassatis, 

 seminibus nondum invent)*. 



Belongs to the section Calamiformes, but differs from 

 other species in its rather short and erect cylindrical phyllodes, 

 rounded at the summit, and without visible nerves, although 

 the resinous fillings of the narrow, longitudinal furrows have 

 the appearance of nerves. Collected in flower by the late 

 Mr. O. E. Menzel, on August 8, 1897, at Monarto. The 

 specimens were preserved in his herbarium, which was after- 

 wards purchased by the South Australian Government. They 

 were submitted to the inspection of Mr. J. IT. Maiden, who, 

 recognizing that they were a new South Australian species, 

 was good enough to transmit them to me for description. 

 The only other specimens I have seen were found by Mr. 

 H. H. D. Griffith, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Murray 

 Bridge, at Christmas, 1909. These contained two pods, of 

 which only one valve remained in each case, and the seeds 

 had fallen. Since the above was written, Miss A. McMahon, 

 public school teacher at Monarto South, has re-discovered this 

 plant in flower. She writes (August 17, 1917): — "The shrub 

 is 3 feet in height, of loose growth, and growing on a hillside 

 about a mile from this school on the road between Monarto 

 and Mobilong. Only two bushes have been seen by us." 



Acacia Bynoeana, Benth. (pi. xi.). Bowhill (V. R. 

 Murphy). Flowering September, 1916; fruiting February, 

 1917. The flowerheads are very numerous and bright yellow. 

 Mr. Murphy writes: — "'The bush is about 6 feet high, with 

 branches spreading about 5 feet each way. The stems are 

 about the thickness of a man's thumb." This species, origin- 

 ally described from specimens collected on the North-western 

 Coast of Australia and in the Gulf of Carpentaria, has already 

 been recorded for South Australia, Victoria, and New South 

 Wales by Mr. J. H. Maiden, in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 xlix., 501 (1915). He quotes the following note supplied by 

 Mr. W. Gill, our Conservator of Forests : — "It is very com- 

 mon in the Parilla Forest, and all about the mallee scrub over 

 a wide extent of the Pinnaroo district, which lies between 

 Tailem Bend on the w T est and the Victorian border on the 

 east." I have received from Mr. H. B. Williamson, of 

 Ballarat, Victorian specimens collected at Murrayville and 

 Ngallo. The existence of this species at the western end of Lake 

 Amadeus, Central Australia, is also recorded by Mueller and 

 Tate in their list of plants collected by Tietkens in 1889 (these 

 Trans., xiii., 100). This handsome shrub is distinguished 

 from its near allies (of which .4 . Mcnzelii is one) by its 

 golden-pubescent peduncles, which, are really racemose, for, 

 although only twin, or solitary by abortion, they spring from 



