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Calyx cup-shaped in the lower part, surmounted by Ave 

 triangular lobes; the calyx about one-third the length of 

 the corolla, hairy. Petals rather narrow, hairy externally 

 as far as the blunt lobes. Stamens very numerous. Ovary 

 smooth. 



Pods (but few seen) under 4 cm. long and 5 mm. broad, 

 the valves only slightly raised between the longitudinally 

 arranged seeds, glandular-hispid. 



Seeds ovoid, the filiform funicle after two folds dilated 

 into a fleshy aril of two or more folds. 



Type. Woollybutt Greek, near Phillip's Range, North 

 West Australia (W. V. Fitzgerald No. 981, May 1905). 



Named in honour of Walter Wilson Froggatt, Government 

 Entomologist of New South Wales, in recollection of his 

 collecting tour in this district (Kimberley West). He is 

 President of the New South Wales Branch of the Wattle 

 Day League, and has long taken an interest in the national 

 flower. 



Range. 



Woollybutt Creek near Phillip's Range (W. V. Fitzgerald, 

 May 1905, No. 981). 



Affinities. 



1. With A. deltoidea A. Cunn. The phyllodia of A+ 

 Froggattii are dull green, in contrast with the more shiny 

 yellow phyllodia, with shorter hairs and more prominent 

 marginal veins, of A. deltoidea. The latter species has 

 laciniate calyx-lobes, an ovary covered with short hairs, 

 and a larger pod whose valves are lobed dorsally. 



2. With A. Luehmanni F.v.M. The phyllodia of A. 

 Froggattii are dull green as contrasted with the more shiny 

 yellow of A. Luehmanni. Those of the latter are less hairy, 

 except at the base, broader and more quadrilateral, with 

 the gland in a glandular angle, and with broader stipules. 

 The latter species also has a broader calyx, with shorter 



