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Acacia. They are quite obtuse and show no points, at least 

 at this advanced stage; in this respect they agree with the 

 description of A. parvifolia, but the peduncles of the unripe, 

 spirally-twisted pods are almost as long as the leaf, which 

 scarcely conforms to Mueller's "capitulis subsessilibus vel 

 breviter pedunculatis." As the only distinction between the 

 two descriptions lies in the shape of the bracteoles, the length 

 of ttm peduncles, and the density of the indumentum, it 

 appears safer, at least until we have further material, to follow 

 Bentham in treating them as forms of one species. This 

 plant, which was found growing with .4. calamifoha, seems 

 rare or localized. The types of A. sublunata and parvifolia 

 both came from South Australia. 



A. pycnantha, Benth. Scrub south of Lameroo (Dist. 

 M). 



A. microcarpa, F. v. M. Scrub near Lameroo, Pin- 

 naroo, and Jabuk. A low shrub with several stems rising 

 from the ground-level or even below it; branches diffuse. 

 The tallest plants were not more than 1 m. high, and some 

 were only half that height. The phyllodial gland is usually 

 present at a considerable distance from the base. 



.4. brachybotrya, Benth. Pinnaroo>. A low shrub; 

 branchlets, phyllodes, and peduncles beset with spreading but 

 not silvery hairs, those on the phyllodes falling off with age; 

 calyx obtusely lobed, half as long as the petals, which are 

 pubescent in the upper part, especially along the midnerve, 

 and separate readily. 



A. rivalis, J. M. Black. Willigin Water, near Moolooloo 

 (E. H. Ising). Towards the summit of the branchlets the 

 inflorescence is often racemose, each peduncle having only 2 

 minute stipular bracts at its base. 



A. Oswaldii, F. v. M. Mount Patawurta (Dist. S; E. H. 

 Ising). 



Templetonia Battii, F. v. M. Fowler Bay, summer, 1879 

 (Tate Herbarium). Originally described by Mueller in the 

 Melb. Chemist, n.s., ii., 31 (1887), and quoted for Western 

 Australia and South Australia in the 2nd Census (1889). The 

 specimen in the Tate Herbarium is labelled "Bossiaea Battii" : 

 this has been struck out and "Templetonia Battii" substi- 

 tuted. In his Flora of Extra-tropical South Australia, 65 

 (1890), Professor Tate described the plant very shortly as 

 Bossiaea Battii, Tate. The specimen in the Tate Herbarium, 

 which is presumably a co-type, is certainly a Templetonia, the 

 anthers being alternately long and short, the lon^ anthers 

 basifixed and the short ones dorsifixed. The plant has the 

 habit of T. aculeata, Benth., but appears to be quite leafless. 

 In the small flowers, the almost orbicular bracteoles, the 

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