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Range. 

 I only know the type specimen, which came from Eids- 

 vold, a district west of Maryborough. It is there a sturdy 

 tree, and I have no doubt that it will be found in many 

 other parts of Queensland. There has been a good deal of 

 confusion in regard to the Acacias in the series to which 

 the present species belongs, and it is more than likely 

 that it has been recorded under one or more names. 



Affinities. 



1. With A. Solandri Benth. The two species have a good 

 many similarities, e.g., in phyllodes, interrupted spikes, 

 ovary and recurved petals. The trees appear to differ in 

 size, though this is uncertain, but they do differ in the 

 hirsute calyx in A. sparsiflora, in the remarkable ciliate 

 margins of the petals, in the straight pods, and also in the 

 seed and funicle. 



2. With A. julifera Benth. The resemblances to this 

 species are far less close. The phyllodes are very much 

 alike, but in A. julifera the spike is dense, the calyx-lobes 

 are spathulate and the pod is coiled. 



3. With A, leptostachya Benth. This species has very 

 angular branchlets, is "hoary or silvery- white with a very 

 minute pubescence or nearly glabrous." The phyllodes are 

 shorter and straighter, the spikes shorter, the pod moni- 

 form, covered with a fine tomentum, but not seen ripe. 

 The two species have, however, certain similarities in the 

 details of the flowers. 



4. With A, linearis Sims. This is a slender shrub with 

 pale-coloured flowers, whose affinities to the proposed new 

 species are more distant. 



A. RHODOXYLON n. sp. 



Arbor mediocriter alta, ligno pretioso, cortice nigricante lamellis 

 crispatis. Phvllodiis cineraceis sed glabris, oblongo-falcatis, apice 



