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VVicris. Vhnv 0} Victoria ffitii South twtrat'M L "VolSp 



ing identity also with A. fongifoh'a, which has rather rhin-tcxturcd and often 

 acute phyl lodes, bright yellow contested flowers (appearing Ul early spridfc). 

 petals united in lower third and only slightly thickened at apices, nodf almost 

 terete ftnd thin-walled A. ohtit&ifolia, hy contract, \* quite, distinct in itr thick, 

 leathery, blunt pnytlodcx, pale .yellow or creamy flowers (produced in Jong 

 interrupted Dpikes during mid-summer ), Petals almost or entirely free and 

 conspicuously bossed at the tips hy a strong thickening, pod? somewhat flat- 

 tened and with leathery walls abuut I nun, thick- The latter us typically a 

 ironiaiic specie* (very common in the I3lu^ Mountains, N.S VV ), extending 

 from south-eastern Queensland to far-eastern Vivtoria, for which State, it 

 has never been rtenrrlcd previously. 



Occurrences in Victoria are known from till Genoa district. \U. Ellery 

 region and across the Snowy River lo Rutcher's Ridpe between Buchan and 

 fielanripy — ap|>arentlv rt$ western limit in the State. Good examples tu 

 flower and unit, at the Melbourne Herbarium, were collected ar about 2,01)0 

 feet qomc 12 miles north of Murrungowar, along the Cores! road toward Mt. 

 tilery (A H. WiUis & J/l A, H-'ah/tcfd, 29 Dee 1951). 



ACACIA PKNDULA A. Ciw>,.. in, (, Do*u 1832 



Henty HiRhwav, 5 miles south of Warracloubcal, on propertv of 

 Gordon Smith Cllerb. MEL— M'. A\ IVovd, 3 Mar. 195J). 



This record establishes the first undoubted occurrence. <)t the 'rue Myal? in 

 Victoria, although silvery A. pcrninla is well known in parts o( the Riveriiia, 

 N.S.W. About hr*=i a dozen very old spreading trees, with Hreasf-hctght 

 diameters of 18", are all that now remain of what must once have been a more 

 extensive community: loral people call them "blackw<»ods". The writer's 

 attention was hrst drawn lo ihe occurrence hy Mr. A. J, Gray (ioriner 

 Superintendent of, the Wimmera Forest Nursery at Wail), and it. is remark- 

 -able that these very isolated trees should have gone undetected by any botamst 

 during almost a century of settlement in this part of the Stare- Several times 

 1 have followed up reports by settlers lltat clumps of "Myall" existed near 

 the. Murray River (chiefly In the Goulliurn Valley district), hot in every 

 instance the surviving tree* turned out to be A. koM\oioph\'iUi ("Varrarj") and 

 not A. pauinia, 



i To ft/ CMU'titdvd) 



TWO HEW SPECIES OF PEfciOONIA 



By i_. A. S. JOHN&OW*' 



1. In montane forests of south-eastern" New South Wales and eastern Vic- 

 toria there grows a specks of Prrsttgnui wh>ch has icuatopd iindcscribecl. It 

 has been confused *Aith /'. confertiftora Renin, and with P. luctdn K.Br. The 

 latter, described from Hie Pvrt Jackjuti district, is quite unrelated and is pro 

 bably a hybrid between l J . Uruis (Cav) Oonhit, (t. tafiima I'ers.) and i'. 

 Hiiftiris Amir. 



This speries w>H be i»Ay discussed in a Tortheommje; revision of the- eastern 

 Australian species of Prrioonio-, where a full list of localities will fee riven. 

 The following diagnosis is here published to validate the name for immediate 

 use in Victorian publications. 



PKRSOONJA SLLVATICA L, Johnson, sp. nov 



TYPUiCAl ION . Brown Mountain, near Littleton, N.S.W*1e3« E, Bclchr. 

 ITJS93. HOT.OTYPE (KSW. No. 20978). fl. 



Arbuscuta. vet inilex } 5-7 m. alius, eorlice cotnpocto laev»qwe. RAmuli 



*irgar> leviter anguUto-striali novelli pubesceutcs rnos. glabrescvvUev. rube- 

 sccntes vel purjturascentes Folia conacta IM00C glabret*:eutia. oppo^ta, suh- 

 * NW'Omp» Herhanum of A>w Nooth Wiks. S'ydnfi- 



