™?* ry ] Willis. Plaitt of ^fe««Kd wtJ South AnttmHx 157 



much »>f »bc Beinligo Whip-stick scrub, cannot he separated from Acoch 

 luikraitfcs except in its labit, rather smaller flower-heads and much narrower 

 phyllodc*; more typical and less Auriferous A. hokcttutcs also occurs in lhe 

 ■same area. 



Thai Ewart (.'.<:.) should have described the Whipslitk plant as a vatkiy 

 of Atacin hj/ufoia. with "phyllndes 2 mm. broad* 1 flm complete dtagno&isj, 

 is astonishing There *4 a *fi*y narrow-leaved condition of A. ti'jufotn Hi the 

 far north-west of the Stale (e.g. in the Red ClittVC'ardross area) ; but tins 

 variant, in common with all other forms of ,4. hyithta, differs manifestly 

 iron* .4 t^&kcoVtt var. mtguttifttlia m its irregular icw-headed racemes, 

 lunger -pedunculate head*, niombform pods winch are always hrittte at the 

 constrictions, timber -coloured {uot black) seeds and yellow or reddish ittoi 

 white) sigmoid aril which i* folded £-1 t'aucs beneath the seed 



<?) Hybrid oi ACACIA ASPERA Lintff. 



The plant recorded for the &vudigo Whipst'ck scrub aa "A twin sttcro- 

 phyik l.indl." by O t Patoo \Vict. Not. 40: 202 <Fcb, 1924)], and thus 

 referred by :.ubse<|Ueiu workers, clearly has nothing to do with that low, 

 dense, bright green bush with longer, much thicker and almost flossy 

 phyllodes. On the contrary, the fonner is. a dingy straggling shrnh to 5 ft, 

 tall, with flattened granuLar-resinous phyllodes. It ii suggested that the. 

 Whipslick wattle is of hybrid origin, involving Acacia ».«/»r>r7 as one parent 

 T|Ve foliage and pods are certainly less bristlv than in this species hut the 

 same prominent stipules (to 3 mm. long), and bracteoles in the flower-heads* 

 (giving young head.? a Marvjikc appearance), RW prevmt Only a study of 

 seedlings, supplemented by geuetieal research, can throw definite light upon 

 t)us conjecture 



ACACM KETTLEWKLLMC /, //. Mntfai iu J r oy. So,-. NSW, 4$ 4*4 



A aWrn }. H Maiden $ \v\ F. ninety in /. tew $or, .V.SM' v> ;?* 

 A. arvn+htfa. MiMikii & Hlakfly ( '. r - 185 On?) 



Acacto hrttftf&eHut was described (/.r ) from fruit snjr titateriaJ collected 

 between HarrictiiHe and Mr St Bernard in nonh-ea^tern Victoria, »he 

 description of flo\vvr> being taken Irom a specimen obtained at Mt, Buffalo 

 by C Walter ui 1902 Eleven years later the author collahoiatcd with W- F. 

 tilakcry in describing two other highland Acacia species from "Buffalo 

 Mountains" — both of them also collected by C. Walter in W2. All three arc 

 •closely related, and tt js a^iouislung tha», in »heir later diagnosis (drawn up 

 without any knowledge of the [>0(U), these avuhors should make no mention 

 of obvious affinities with the already*published A. kcttlciwltttr. 



In ibe fOM halfreiMUfy, only mic Ai^eciei ol sUatUx in lhe old jtr&dMtttJ* 

 husifoim group has l>een found in the region of M*. BufTalo. Thivshruh is 

 decidedly vanal^le in length and comparative width ot phyllode, decree of 

 tjlautescenee, nun»bor (1-3) and si/c of marginal gland* and width of pod. 

 In general, hrnad- and obtuse-leaved plant* tend 10 have more glandb (2 or 

 even 3 per phyllode), while longer- and rather narrow-leaved conditions have 

 usually ft single filand and somewhat broader pods. But iberc. is no constant 

 correlation n? thefe cbaraiMer.s, and 1 regard A jt.v//(*coW/t^ a,s a polyjnorplnc 

 species ol which A. xiwftcn ^n<S A. orcophthi are merely two manifestations 

 — lhe former with a second or third gland, lhe latici wuh shorter phyllodes 

 hearing single glands Such slight floral and fruiting differences, as occur, are 

 inconsequential This mountain species extends aJso into south-eastern Nerw 

 South Wales- — from the Kosciusko region to at least as far as Braidwood — 

 with an apparent reduction in si*e oi phyllode* towards the northern limit of 

 it* range. 



