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AfITNITIESj 



The new species belongs to the Series Juhflorae, Section Stenophyllae, 

 with sub-section " Spikes pedunculate." 



Of this sub-section, Bentham notes four species which are more or less 

 viscid or resinous, viz., xylocarpa, gonocarpa, oncinophylla and drepanocarpa. 



1. With A. xylocarpa, A. Cunn. This has much longer phyllodes, which 

 are thin, and a different calyx. 



2. With A. gonocarpa, F. v. M. In this species we have much longer 

 phyllodes with very different nervation. 



3. With A. oncinophylla, Lindl., a viscid pubescent species from the 

 Swan River. It has longer, ribbed phyllodes, with a lobed calyx. 



4. With A. drepanocarpa, F. v. M. This has wider phyllodes and a 

 different calyx. 



5. With A. cyperophylla, F. v. M. With reference to what has already 

 been said, I venture to suggest reference to Part LX. of my " Forest Flora 

 of New South Wales," in which this imperfectly-known species is dealt with. 

 It will be seen that in phyllodes and structure of flower it is very different to 

 A. Hilliana. 



6. With A. aneura, F. v. M. The sepals of A. aneura are in shape not 

 very dissimilar to those of A. Hilliana, but are more hirsute, as is also the 

 pistil. The phyllodes are, as a rule, very much broader, and longer, of a very 

 different texture, and not viscid. A. aneura is also a much larger shrub. 



A. aneura has some, though not close, resemblance to A. Hilliana, in that 

 narrow-phyUoded form which is related to A. brachystachya. 



But the phyllodes of both species are very different to those of A. Hilliana, 

 which, in the present state of our knowledge, has no very close congener. 

 Until pods and seeds can be procured we must be content with saying that it is 

 alHed to A. aneura. 



31. A. ramulosa, W. V. Fitzgerald, Jowrw. W. A. Nat. Hist. Sac, 15 (May, 

 1904). See also Ewart and White, Proc. Roy. Soc, Vict., xxii., 92 (1909). 



"213. (C. E. F. Allen). Tree 25 feet high." Tanami, coUected by Dr. H. 

 I. Jensen, without flowers and fruits, appears to be A. ramulosa. 



Fitzgerald described A. ramulosa from Lennonville (6 miles north of Mt. 

 Magnet), W.A. He did not coUect flowers, but described the pod as " Unear- 

 cyhndrical, mostly 4-6 inches long, hardly or not contracted between the seeds, 

 the valves striate, finely tomentose." It is one of the local Mulgas. I col- 

 lected pods and flower-spikes from near Cue, in the Murchison district. 



The description may be completed as follows ; — 



Flower 5-merous ; calyx very irregular, but sepals bluntly lobed and almost 

 spathulate with the tips ciliate, a third as long as the corolla ; petals glabrous 

 and recurved, united two-thirds up ; pistil with a close tomentum. 



The synonymy of this species appears to be as follows : — 



1. A. cibaria, F. v. M., in Melh. Chem. and Drugg., July, 1882 (in part). 



2. A. stereophylla, Diels and Pritzel (non Meissn.), in Engler's Hot 



Jahrb., xxxv., 307 (1905). 



1. A. cibaria, F. v. if.— Mueller and Forrest (" Plants indigenous around 

 Shark's Bay, W.A.," 1883), speaking of the then recently described^, cibaria, 

 F. V. M., say that the native name is " Wonuy," and that the aborigines use 

 the seeds for food. Some Shark's Bay seeds that I received from Mueller at 

 the time I described as " two or three times as large as most Acacia seeds 



