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yet ripe, very flat, many of them 15-18 mm. broad. A 

 form very near G. desolata, F. v. M., but very hairy, and 

 the leaflets usually in 3 pairs. There is a specimen from 

 Murteree, with the leaves .similarly clothed, but narrower 

 and in 3-4 pairs. [Many bushes were met with covered in 

 large, flat green seed-pods, while at other times they were 

 a blaze of yellow blossoms.] C. eremophila, A. Cunn. Mur- 

 teree. [A common shrub, covered at the time in bright, 

 sweet-smelling blossoms ; in some instances grew 6 or 7 feet 



high.] 



Baiihtnia Carronii, F. v. M. "Queensland Bean." 

 Caraweena. [Met with on the Strzelecki Creek at Birkett's 

 Woolshed Waterhole for the first time, after which they 

 were plentiful all the way to the Cooper ; a shapely tree of 

 dark-green foliage, and in some instances covered in bean- 

 pods. We met with it for a considerable way down the 

 Cooper.] 



Acacia brachystachya, Benth. (A. eiba?'ia, F. v. M.). 

 "Mulga." Near Mirra Mitta Creek (fruiting) ; Kanowana (in 

 flower). Phyllodes 4-10 cm. long x 2 mm. broad ; pods com- 

 pressed, 2-6 cm. long x 6-7 mm. broad; valves pubescent 

 and marked with broad, yellowish, branching nerves; seeds 

 longitudinal and 2 to 3 in each pod ; f unicle almost as in 

 A. aneura. [This is the most common species of the genus, 

 but in many places it has been badly punished by stock, 

 being killed off in some localities.] A. Oswaldii, F. v. M. 

 Murteree ; Carraweena ; Cuttapirie Corner ; Lake Perigundi — 

 Phyllodes narrow, young ones silver-pubescent ; Mount 

 Lyndhurst — Phyllodes broader, young ones golden-pubescent. 

 [A low shrub, often found on the banks of dry watercourses : 

 foliage thick and often weeping in habit.] A . iteaphylla, 

 F. v. M. Devils Village, near Mount Lyndhurst. [Shrubs 

 8 to 10 feet high ; were seen along watercourses ; .they were 

 all covered in large seed-pods.] A. salicina y Lindl. (pi. xli., 

 fig. 2). Mount Hopeless; Lake Perigundi. [Growing in 

 sandhill country to the height of 8 feet, umbrella-shaped, 

 drooping over from the top, almost in the form of a mushroom. 

 Those growing on the" tablelands scarcely seem to be the same 

 species. They are shrubs of straggling and open growth, quite 

 different in external appearance from those on the sandhills.] 



Note on Acacia salicina and A. variant. — As stated above 

 by Capt. White, A . salicina varies remarkably, and not only 

 in the compact or diffuse arrangement of the branches, but 

 in several other characters. While, however, its variability 

 is acknowledged, I would here suggest that we confine the 

 name to the shrubby growths, and no longer treat a fine tree 

 like the Native Willow as a variety of the Umbrella Bush. 



