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Pliyllodia aromatic, covered with short white hairs, 

 linear, straight or slightly curved, with an oblique or hooked 

 point, 10 - 20 cm., 3-4 mm. broad, flat, but thick and rigid, 

 with seven or more nerves, the central one usually more 

 prominent, a gland sometimes seen near the base, often 

 concealed by the indument. 



Spikes mostly in pairs, with hairy peduncles of 5 or 6 mm., 

 dense, short, about 1*5 cm. long, and under 1 cm. broad. 

 Flowers mostly 5-merous. Bracts spathulate, ciliate on 

 a long slightly curved slender stipes quite as long as the 

 calyx. 



Oalyx cylindroid, irregularly lobed, the upper portion 

 covered with long hairs, more than half as long as the 

 corolla. 



Petals sparingly besprinkled with hairs, particularly in 

 the upper portion ; united to the lobes. Ovary enveloped 

 in long white hair. 



Pod stipitate, linear, straight or very slightly curved, 

 about 1 dm. long and 5 mm. broad, densely villous with 

 silvery hairs. 



Seeds ovate, with an areole of the same outline, obliquely 

 arranged in the pod, with a long suspensory funicle, ter- 

 minating in a fleshy arillus. 



"Grows on the granite in cracks to a fair size, has a 

 pretty way of shredding its bark. I have not seen it off 

 the granite rocks." (C. A. Fauntleroy, Uberin Hill, 

 Dowerin, W.A., in a letter to Mr. W. O. Grasby, "Western 

 Mail," Perth.) 



A tree forming a dense thicket. Yarrigin. Flowers 

 only. (Dr. F. Stoward, No. 155). 



Affinity. 

 With A. oncinophylla Lindl. (typical form). 



