210 J. H. MAIDEN. 



tenuibus, pilis brevibus tectis, tenuissime striatis, nervis paralleli- 

 bus. Pedunculis dense hirsutis, capitulis densis globosis in racemis, 

 ca 36-floris. Sepalis spathulatis, apice hirsutis, corollse dimidio 

 sequilongis. Petalis laevibus. Ovario dense hirsute Legumine 

 tomento tecto, prominenter moniliforme ca. 8 cm. longo, 4 mm. 

 lato, super semina convexo. Seminibus brunneo-nigrascentibus, 

 ovoideis, funiculo longo, filiforme, pendulo in arillum paullo 

 ampliatum terminante. 



A hoary or glaucous, dense shrubby tree, up to about 

 twenty feet high. Wood deep brown, bark flaky-fibrous, 

 and more or less furrowed, branchlets at first slightly 

 angular. 



Phyllodia linear, with a fine, hooked point, tapering 

 towards the base, about 10 or 11 cm. long, 2 mm* broad, 

 thick, besprinkled with short hairs, very finely striate with 

 parallel nerves only to be seen under a lens, decurrent. A 

 swollen gland at the base. 



Peduncles in pairs or more, densely hairy, bearing dense 

 globular heads of about 36 flowers, mostly 5-merous. In 

 racemes as in A. homalophylla. Bracts fan-shaped at the 

 top. 



Sepals spathulate, free, hairy chiefly at the top, half as 

 long as the corolla. Petals smooth, free. Ovary densely 

 hairy. 



Pod with a fine tomentum, narrow, markedly moniliform, 

 up to 8 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, convex over the seeds and 

 much contracted between them. 



Seeds brownish-black, ovoid, with a distinct areole, with 

 a long, thread-like pendulous funicle encircling the seed 

 for half its length, and terminating in a slightly enlarged 

 arillus at the top of the seed. 



The type is Yancowinnia, Broken Hill district (A. 0. 

 Loder). 



