1% Wtt.ua, ftortoof \'ktor*a fl«e/ SWi AnttraJia Pv&uia* 1 



/(, ^f&Kl^fttt, a familiar Mallee fc-attle, and the phy Nodes are remarkably 

 simitar to those of A. mur$carf>a var Imtnris J. M. Black (trorn MonarUi 

 South and Mannum, S. Aust.) ; but striking deiNutiires from that specie* are 

 Obvious in the fonVy peduncle* oi flower-heads, ilie much broader pods, larger 

 seeds and, especially, in the long twice-folded tuuicle ot the seed. A.* an 

 appropriate epithet, 1 have bestowed the surname of Alfred J. day (formerly 

 Superintendent of the Wimmcfa ToroU Nursery at Wait) who discovered 

 the type tree and brought it to my notice-; during the past decade Mr. Cray 

 lias rendered meritorious- service in prorogating, popularizing and dtsiiibuiing 

 Australian plants for ornamental and reclamation purposes in dry, inland 

 areas prone to wind-erosion. 



ACACIA MONTANA fifalftt, var PSTLOCARPA /- h. mjtis: 



v»uct*s nova oh ln*ctutn (jtaOrwa a forma lypica lei ussiataj specie) 

 Jafli di>ltuguenda, ceterum vix separabilis, 



t.OCt-'S: VICTORIA foccWenteltH)— 'Shire of Dimboola"" (ff&bO* 

 tyPVS in Herb. MKL— F. M. /few/*', Dec. t{W0 ! WfcttWlA River 

 fMEL — & Walter. Mar. 1857") : "In railway reserve at Diapur between 

 Khill and Kauiva, at 2(t2\ miles iroui Melbourne" (MEL- -F,, Muii. 

 Sept, 1946), 

 This shrub nf the Western Wimmera has no parallel among any n\ the 

 Eynns or Acacia mtmtmxa Renin, known at present. It is remarkable in hearing 

 Vjlabroub-viscid (or at inosl slightly graoularl imds. whereas the fruits of 

 thii species are normally so densely Manketcd teith coarse white hair thai 

 trfeiT surlaces are invisible. The new variety does not A£pe&l to UilYcf signifi- 

 eantty in any other feature (of foliage, Rowers or seeds) from typical 

 A, montana, otherwise there would be good icason to accord it full specific 

 • auk. The 189^ collection, chosen *■> tyjte. 15 in. flttfld fruit and zriymtyHOtrA 

 by the label "Acucta tttontatta Be tub., var. d'AItcnii Walter" in Readers 

 handwriting; but no evidence can tic found that C Walter ever published a 

 description under llu* vaiietnl epithet. There is a fragment, of the same 

 entity from Wimmera River in MellKmrne Herbarium ; it was collected by 

 C. Walter himself in IIS<7 and is annotated in his- own wri\trtff. but the only 

 name appearing on this label is "Acacia". The third, and fairly recent, 

 collection from Diapur ui m liowet ; it shows- comparatively shorter broader 

 phyl lodes, but pods gathered from the same boshes nine month* later are 

 4uitc identical with those of type var. f>sii(Karj>n ('"Shire ot Dirnboola"* ) . 

 Or. Isabel Cookson reported {6/3/I95.J) tfitir. the pQ)lCn>gf&ifl number of <hc 

 Diapur material.. \u. 8 (\\\o tetrads)) was. identical with that uf t)pical 

 A. Montana. 



ACACIA HAKEOLDfcS A, Cfctfir. *.v B<m(h. in fftfa; 



var. ANGU5TIFOLIA (A. f. Ihvarr) J. J! Willis, combiiiatio nova. 

 A tivitata A, Ctinn. kk llrnttt. >« HnoW., var. Ettijbrttifeftfl A J &tai1 



LLCTOTVPVS: VICTORIA— "Wlnpstick Scrub N.N.W. ot Bendi K o" 

 aierb. i\ttiL-t', /, hiton* M Sept. IV^'J). 

 In the Victorian Naturalist 40; W> ("Feb. 1924). the collector of rhi* type 

 material, m flavvei and in fruit, wrote as follows; 



A hoW'O'dci '5 the rVptK^fl 6t tlw Wlup^tiftV. tr occtivs in t^-> t)i9rmct foTr.i«, 

 \)Mt WWHtiieWpr f cd which these rvmarlcs :i|jply) haviuK very nnrtow ]fhylU«te». 

 whilst the rarer form hi* brpQitfal phi HoOo rthO l-lrsct HQwcf beAtls icsriiililiuc 

 ih^ narroiA'-ieai.^a form oi" A- pyrnantJui. A bu»»h oi this aperies in SuM bJeiHii 

 •A mwund t»f j»ttre gold — is- a sAQ4^fFlU ^'glit. 



Paton was correct The udrrvw-lcaved, virgatr and bm;hy plant (3-6 I'l- 

 UigtV\, which h ^uda a magnificent and Cipparently endemie floral feature over 



