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pods, the western New South Wales specimens have gone 

 under the name of A. Kempeana. 



4. With A. homalophylla A. Ounn. This species is figured 

 at Plate 133, Part xxxv, of my "Forest Flora of New South 

 Wales." (The pod is wrong, but is corrected at Plate 189, 

 Part l). A. homalophylla is the true Yarran, (a name 

 under which A. Burrowi sometimes passes); it will be seen 

 that A. homalophylla belongs to the Plurinerves, while 

 A. Burroivi belongs to the Juliflorse. The two species 

 differ in every important particular. 



A. oncinocarpa Benth. 



In Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i, 378(1842). 



(A. oligoneura F.v.M. is a synonym). 



Following is a translation of the original description of 

 A. oncinocarpa : — 



"Glabrous, branchlets terete, phyllodes falcate-oblong or lanceo- 

 late, rather obtuse, narrowed at the base, striate many-nerved, 

 spikes elongate, later interrupted, the loose membranous calyx 

 half as long again as the corolla, pod broad-linear, rather straight r 

 uncinate at the apex,^ narrowed at the base, thick, smooth, 

 glabrous, somewhat woody, obliquely septate inside. Phyllodes 

 like A. loxocarpa or a little longer. The rachis of the fruit-bearing 

 spike about 3 inches long, that of the flower-bearing 1-J- ~ 2 inches 

 long Flowers small, 4-5 merous finally distinct. Pod 4 lines 

 broad. North Coast, Melville Island, Fraser, Sims's Island, 

 Cunningham." 



Bentham (B.F1. ii, 409) subsequently gave an amplified 

 description of the species which has an enhanced value 

 because he originally described the species. At the same 

 time, he does not appear to have seen any additional 

 material. 



1 A Wickhami Benth. has a somewhat similar pod. See Mueller's 

 " Iconography." 



