712 FLORA OF AUSTRALIA, V., 



going up from Wentworth to Fort Bourke), there was a deep 

 creek leading from the river into the interior (or ' back country') 

 called, as far as I can remember, 'Pamraamara Creek,' which in 

 time of flood overflowed the low-lying lands and formed a large 

 lake of nearly 27 miles circumference. When we visited this so- 

 called lake, after a protracted drought, it had almost dried up, 

 but we distinctly saw the flood-marks on the stems of the trees 

 as high as 11 feet from the ground. A plentiful growth of grass 

 existed all over the immense dry bed of the ' lake,' an excellent 

 grass for fodder, as we saw it being carted in by the squatters and 

 made into stacks to feed the starving stock. It was in this 

 locality I found the one specimen growing of Kennedy a alba, 

 which, as [ told you, had a few seed pods on, and also some very 

 poor spikelets of flowers, which I forwarded to Dr. Woolls, but 

 the seeds I retained, and they afterwards germinated in my 

 father's garden near Double Ba} r , Sydney. ' Pammamara ' 

 Creek was a very interesting spot to us, as close by our camp was 

 the tree marked by A. W. Howitt when he came out to search for 

 poor Burke in 1861 (I think), and I copied his mark in my day 

 book." 



Petalostylks labicheoides R.Br. — Occurs at Shuttleton, now 

 its most eastern record, where it was collected by W. Bauerlen. 



Acacia fuliginea, sp.nov. (Plate lxv.). 



A close, compact shrub from 12 to 16 feet high, occasionally 

 attaining 20 feet, with divaricate, pubescent branchlets, generally 

 affected with a black fungus, probably a species of Meliola. 

 Phyllodia viscid, ovate or obliquely ovate, oblong or falcate-oblong, 

 obtuse, gland wanting, 2 to 3 or even 4 cm. long, and varying up 

 to 1 cm. wide, rigid but scarcely coriaceous, with several nerves, 

 and intermediate reticulations. Peduncles hoary, solitary or in 

 pairs on the end of the newly-formed branchlets, bearing a globular 

 head of about Jf.0 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals very narrow, 

 spathulate, ciliate; bracts numerous, clustered round the base of 

 the buds. Petals glabrous, adnate for the lower half of their 

 length. Pod very slender and narrow, glabrous, straight or 



