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with quite glabrous ovarium and petals, and in its larger and 

 different pod with a conspicuous waxy lustre. 



Acacia leptoclada A. Cunn. 



Howell, N. S.W.(J. L. Boorman; January, 1906). 



The pods and seeds of this handsome Acacia were unknown at 

 the time Bentham published the second volume of the " Flora 

 Australiensis," in 1864; and were apparently still unknown 

 when Mr. Bailey published his "Queensland Flora" in 1900. 

 We are now able to complete the description of the species. A 

 tall weak shrub, 6 to 12 feet high, with pendulous branches.* 

 Pods broad-linear more or less curved, 2 to 2| inches long and 

 rather above \ inch broad, with nerve-like margins, the valves 

 densely covered with grey hairs. Seeds ovate-oblong, thick and 

 black, the funicle thickened under the seed into an almost cup- 

 shaped mass. 



UMBELLIFER^. 



Actinotus Forsythii Maiden and Betche. 



Katoomba, Blue Mountains (W. Forsyth; February, 1906, in 

 flower; April, 1906, in fruit). 



This rare Actinotus was described in these Proceedings for 

 1902(p.60). We give some additional notes from the flowers 

 examined in a fresh state. Involucral bracts alternately 3-veined 

 and 1-veined, all densely covered with silky hairs inside, outside 

 less densely hairy, the 3-veined ones reddish-brown in the upper 

 half, shading into white towards the base, the 1-veined ones 

 reddish-brown only along the midvein. 



COMPOSITE. 

 Brachycome pachyptera Turcz. 



Paroo River district, about 20 miles south of Wanaaring (E. 

 Betche; September, 1900). 



A much-branched annual with ascending leafy stems 6 to 9 

 inchrs high. Leaves all, even the uppermost ones, divided into 



,See also antea, p. 67. 



