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rison in the "Scottish Botanical Review" for April 1912, 

 p. 99, under the Dame of A. aciphylla Benth, (Kunonoppin, 

 P. B. Victor) belong to A. Coolgardiensis. 



Range. 

 It is confined to Western Australia, and, so far as has 

 been ascertained at present, only from the Watheroo Rab- 

 bit Fence to the vicinity of Kalgoorlie. The species with 

 filiform, more or less terete, rigid leaves have been con- 

 fused with each other more or less, and casual travellers 

 and explorers (usually with little botanical knowledge), 

 naturally look upon them as more or less alike, and hence 

 do not frequently collect them. Botanists desire to invite 

 the attention of collectors not so much to bizarre or 

 "obviously different" plants, but rather to plants of a 

 somewhat similar facies. The problem of the botanist is 

 to discriminate those which superficially appear to be alike. 



I have it from the following localities: — 132 miles and 

 upwards, Watheroo Rabbit Fence (Max Koch, 1338a, Sept. 

 1905). Kunonoppin (Dr. F. Stoward No. 75). 



A tall shrub. Oowcowing (Max Koch No. 1025, Sept. 

 1904). Received as A. leptoneura. 



Bruce Rock-Merriden district (Dr. F. Stoward Nos. 8 

 and 14). 



Ooolgardie (L. Q. Webster) received as A. aciphylla, 

 Kurrawang (Dr. J. B. Cleland). 



Affinities. 

 1. With A. aciphylla Benth. The type of A. aciphylla 

 is Drummond's 4th Coll. No. 14, which I have seen; Mueller 

 has not figured the species in his "Iconography." The 

 outstanding differences between the two species are the 

 thicker, more rigid and decurrent phyllodia, with a different 

 striation, the very shortly lobed turbinate calyx and the 

 "about 1 in. long" (2*5 cm.) pod of A. aciphylla. The 



