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species. I know no other authentic specimen, and I speak 

 from experience when I say that such pungent shrubs are 

 difficult to collect, and a collector may easily be in a 

 position in which it is practically impossible to secure 

 flowering or fruiting specimens from a porcupiny mass. I 

 am confident that these porcupiny species have a much 

 greater range than is attributed to them. 



Mueller figures it in his Iconography, but the left hand 

 top corner plant (including fig. 1) belongs to A. oxyclada, 

 while the rest is probably A. ulicina; but the general view 

 of the plant and the details are more or less unsatisfactory. 

 In Drummond's specimen the stipules are setaceous 

 throughout, and the buds striate. 



A. ferocior n. sp. 



Frutex patens Ulex similis, ramis brevibus, rigidis, divaricatis 

 in spinas validas terininantibus. Phyllodiis planatis, subulatis, 

 falcatis, ca 1 cm. longis et 1 mm. maxima latitudine, glandula 

 latere dorsale. Pedunculis glabris, 5 mm. longis, capitulis globosis 

 ca 7 floris. Calyce turbinatis, margine ciliato, petalis minus 

 dimidio gequilongo. Petalis glabris. Ovario elongate-, glabro. 

 Legumines ac semines non vidi. 



A UIe#-like spreading shrub with short, stout, rigid, 

 divaricate sulcate-striate branches, terminating in stout 

 pungent thorns. 



Phyllodia flattened club-shaped falcate, terminating in 

 an oblique blunt point, about 1 cm. long and 1 mm. in 

 greatest width, distinctly or obscurely one-nerved, gland 

 on the dorsal side, about one-fourth up from the base. 



Peduncles glabrous, up to 5 mm. long, bearing each a 

 globular head of about 7 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts 

 incurved circular. Stipules very deciduous, membranous, 

 only present in the very young shoots. 



