3 84 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Named in honour of Edwin Haviland (1823-1908), for 

 notes and portrait see this Journ. xlii, p. 106, Plate 11; and 

 of his son Archdeacon Francis Ernest Haviland, now of 

 Ooonamble, formerly of Cobar,N.S.W. Both have specialised 

 in the fertilisation of Australian plants and have also 

 worked at taxonomy and other branches of botany, and 

 their contributions are mostly to be found in Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.W. I was for long, in the early eighties, a weekly 

 companion of the father in botanical excursions chiefly in 

 the Port Jackson district, while the son has been a gener- 

 ous contributor to the National Herbarium of New South 

 Wales, and specially brought this species under my notice. 



Range. 

 It has been found over a rather extensive range in the 

 drier parts of New South Wales from the Lachlan to the 

 Pilliga and Angledool (close to the Queensland border). It 

 also extends to the Mallee country of Victoria to the 

 vicinity of Spencer's Gulf in South Australia. 



Lachlan district (J. Duff, 1882) (as A. junci folia). Oud- 

 gellico via Condobolin (G. Horan per E. Oheel). Upper 

 Lachlan River (Rev. J. Milne Ourran in Herb. Melb.) 



Harvey Range, near Peak Hill (J.H.M., 1898). 



Small tree (shrub), 5 or 6 feet high. Leaves fairly brittle. 

 Bark rather rough. Nymagee (R. H. Oambage, 6th June, 

 1900). So far as I know, Mr. Oambage was the first to draw 

 attention to the brittleness of the phyllodes. 



Mount Hope (J. L. Boorman). Height four feet, very 

 bushy; Shuttleton (P. E. Lewis, No. 6). Flowers 4-merous. 

 On Devonian quartzite ridge. Shuttleton (Archdeacon 

 Haviland No. 5), 



"I have never seen an Acacia like this before." Wong 

 Suey's garden, Oobar (L. Abraham, Nos. 47 and 141, 1911). 

 Wong Suey's Paddock, Cobar (Archdeacon Haviland, 1917). 



