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CHANGfeS IN THE NOMtNCLATURE OF SOME VICTORIAN 

 DICOTYLEDONS 



By A. li. Couut* 



Mimosoccs 



AC All A (.LfCtFOU/t (,SWij/>) CftHtf, eoipbmatio imkr- 



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An examination of Salisbury'.'; original description of Mimosa ntictjohu 

 and his manuscript notes [5u/i,s6nry Unnvwys and Manuscripts Vol. 2. 

 jL 1431 kindly transcribed by the British Museum of Natural History sup- 

 ports the contention by Beniham and other* that Mimosa ulicifofm and Acaaa 

 JHidpflfVia are conspeeific. Since the former of the two names U the older 

 and store it was validly described by Salisbury the new combination, as indi- 

 cated, must" or- made under Art. 65 of the International Code of Botanical 

 Nomenclature (Stockholm, 1950) Unfortmiarely. no Salisbury specimen of 

 Mimasa utiei faint has been located,, but he gave as the type locality and 

 collector * Spontc naseeutim juxta Port Jackson^ solo arcnosa regit. Hav. 

 Burton. 1 * 



ACACIA BROWN IT Stead. r.t DC- Prodr. 2; 449 (J825). 



fctenlhani [Ftor. Aush 2: 332 (1864)1 reduced A, brownii Steud. c* DC. 

 [Prodr, *?: 449 (1825)] to a variety of A, miiperhia and cited the following 

 as synouvms : A. l\cu uteris R.Br, ill Ait. f. [Hurt. Kew. ed. 2 5: 460 ( LfiJJJi 

 non Willd . A. frujiomjorma H Wendl - [in flora 1819: 139 (1819], nou 

 A. pftijiuuifnrmis H. Wendh [L'tnttm^til- .4n/r. 38 t. 9 (1820)] : /f. brmwin 

 Steud. ex DC I Pnulr. 2 449 (1825)1 : A. arcattlun Spretig. I'm/. IVo, J: 

 134 0826)]. 



DcCandoHc cues Sieber n. 463 as the type of .-4. brozvHti, and a duplicate ot 

 this type is in the Melbourne Herbarium. The differences belrveen A. uHvifolia 

 and .4. JHMperuui var. bnnvnn are sufficient to regard them as different species 

 and, accordingly, A. hroxiwri will he restored as distinct specifically from A 



uiiiifvf'ia; 



H A fwyumifw tuts H, W**ndl. FW lSl0 ; ftp (1819) proves to be con- 

 specific '.vitJi A. broivmi Steud. ex DC, then the former name, beimj the older 

 of the two. must he resurrected; but, i'or the time being, A. brewtui will he 

 the name used for the low sprawling plant \vhkh hitherto has been called a 

 variety of A. jtinifierhia. 



Psrief notes on these two species follow: 



A. broxemi Stead- ex DC. — how swrawtmg shrub, nimly more than 18 Ihrlips high; 

 branches fila!rroit=; jihyilodes quadrangular- terete, distaiit, spw:adinj?, sdipules small ami 

 deC4dViQlts', fav>ci'-!icAda solitaiy, decj) df4il£c-velluw, Locating S*pR'nib*r-Novcml>cr. 



A , ufirifolia (Sal tab.) Court -HigM shruh 3-(i nmt b:gh; <t ranches pttbe scent \?i 

 fnaat towards their extremities); jihyliodes distinctl;- flaMesied vei"ticAH>, often rrowdttl; 

 mpOlei; s-mpill and jtertistent i'lftai'i' heud'; sulii.*r;' F trfrani> jelli>w ii\>i>e;ir:ii(r ab early a» 

 March and pcriiStir.^ as late a* ScplemlKT. 



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EUTAXfA MICRQPUYILA (R.Br.) 7, M Blnck, var. DIFFUSA {F, 

 MufH.) C.xMirt, rUatu.5 noviis et comhiuatio nova. 



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