154 Wnus, tfam of Victoriu a»4 ftuS Austria [ v^f^ 



inter -generic hybrid between some Dqsvq species, o?. B. umHora, and 

 tfahl'iiyit) acroMi'r* tot even Thu-lkcltiw s<ttstt<jittt/su) : lull, whatever its 

 origin, tlie occurrence of spines oft I We friMiing-periautW demands classification 

 for the present tinder fiassitu 



Mlmriiftfnli 



ACACIA NANO-DEALRATA J. //. HVtfix; 



species nova .--T dailimtom Link maxime accedil, ^ed ^laiur'a umiocc\ 

 foliis miuoribus, folioWt; brevioi ir>u& approxi maris fermr glahris, 

 (ructu C0'*>»fftraie muko latiore (cius longitude* Miiam lat initio win-its 

 ittyni sexics longior) tlistuigwitur. 



('AC/triO: VICTORIA tiu monlmus)— "Foley Hill In Metb. & Metrop. 

 Board o» Wtalcs O'Shsnnassy Reserve, about ID miles north-east ot 

 War burton, in forest of Eucalyptus McMalfftfsu at 4.200 ft. f :£ 1300 nt. 

 ah.J M iHQLOTYPUS cum "fruttibu* in Hern. MEL. ISOTYPf hi 

 KSW. K— /. //", &?#&, 18 Feb. WW) J Mt. St. Leonard (PARA- 

 TYPUS cum flonrws in Herb. Mtj.l.— Keith Wntstnt, 31 Aug. 19$4) ; 

 "Rowallan Scout Camp at foot of Mt. Charlie, Maeedo-n Ranges near 

 Ktdde-il. growing with typical A, foaibata along a permanent creek*' 

 (MEL—/ H. Willis* 24 Jan. 1954); "Camel'* Hump, Mi MaorioiT 

 (MEL. ttiajn NSW, No 8636 J. H. H'Mis, 1 Sept- IW5); Lome 

 (NSW, Vo, 8637— £ K fcfcflfli, Feb 1922), 



Small montane or subalpine forest tree 2 6 m. (6-20 ft.] Wi^b. *>ftcti ot 

 bushy habit; bark smooth on major limbs and branches, quite glaucous on 

 nuuto uf >ouiig. saplings and tile angular bi^ancUels of older trexs. Dipinnate 

 foliage retained throughout life. Leavts to 10 cm. long- (usually much less) 

 arid 2-4 cm. wide; ptimae clOSe-scL m 10-iO pOKS, 10-20 rtW, Jong, parinmnate, 

 with one Urge prominent hemispherical gland at base o! each pair. Lco^cts 

 13-3*) on each primary pinna, almost touching or even overlapping [if, 

 A fft'alfr.iii*, with sftaee$ between all the leaflets], each 1-2.5 x 5-L mm.. 

 obtuse; the surfaces obscurely and minutely toberculate, with a tew very short 

 minute hairs, hut appearing green and glabrous [cf~ iorwardly-appressed 

 white hairs on leaflets of A dtafbata]. hi ft orescent** consisting of short 

 axillary or large terminal panicles of bright yellow heads. Ffourt*- bends 

 globoid, wtih 20-30 flowers (as in A. deolbvto) on very short, almost glabrous 

 peduncles. Individual flowers 5-|Kixtite, 1.5 mm. long at expansion : Mib- 

 lenrting bracteole with sknder hairy claiv and lateral or alntnAt peltate- fringed 

 lamina, Cn/v.r with tube talf as long as corolla, obeornc, broadly- and 

 shallow ly-'lobcd above; sepal points acute, ciliaie and somewhat recuivcd. 

 Pvtttls lanceolate, with rattier granular margins. PcticJt polyaJs 411-55 rtiic. 

 diameter, composed of 16 grains (as in A, dtattntta}. Pod oblong, 4-6 x 

 i-l cn>.. at optimum development no more tlian six tio»e* as long as bronH, 

 and then witfi ahout 9 seeds [cf. seven or more timer- as long as broad in 

 A, d/nlfutta where, if only si.\ tinier, then with about S seedsl, striweM. flat, 

 smooth, purplish fle.xihle. Steeds rather DfaHqooW arranged, broadly oulong- 

 elltflllc about 4 mm. long, black and sliining. with conspicuous while aril al 

 l*Lii- 9nd shoet. vtrarghl. slender lunicle l-ill exactly as in A thvltAitu) 



Dlf€ltssi0Jl 



lifts small montane tree Mowers in early etpritfg, aTKl obviously bears a 

 i;lose relationMiip to -Silver Wattle iAcncia (tcalholn Link) — hence the 

 specific epithet. When 1 first observed A. •iviw-di'ailx.ita, at the western Jimil 

 r>i its range ( vi*. South Dullario in the Womlwt Forest nca»* Oaylesford) 

 during 1937. 1 wa» inclined to regard it as a stunted, smaibleaived condition 

 of the well-known A itcwfhoio (which may Ix-come a tall lores! tree, to 



