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4. A. lycopodifolia A. Ounn. 



Cambridge Gulf, N. W. Ooast, A. Cunningham; Ham- 

 mersley Range, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition. 

 Cunningham's MS. Journal, Vol. n, p. 75, shows that he 

 collected it on 19th September, 1819. He speaks of it as 

 "a rare shrub of divaricate growth" and gives a Latin 

 description of it. 



[Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald thus describes a specimen col- 

 lected in the Nor- West. "Diffuse, to 3 feet high, and often 

 as much across; phyllodia frequently in whorls of 12, the 

 tips glabrous, usually viscid, otherwise the whole plant 

 slightly to densely hoary with spreading white hairs; corolla 

 lobes short, with incurved callous tips; pod viscid; seeds 

 transverse, shining-black." MSS.] 



5. A. hippuroides He ward. 



Usborne's Harbour, N.W. Coast, "Voyage of the Beagle." 



See also a note "Diffuse, to 4 feet high; phyllodia with 

 yellow setaceous glabrous viscid points which are often as 

 long as the balance of the phyllodia; flower-heads larger 

 than those of A. lycopodifolia; calyx at least two-thirds 

 the length of the corolla, the lobes short and broad ; corolla 

 lobed to above the middle, the lobes with callous incurved 

 tips; pod viscid, flattened, straight or slightly falcate, to 

 two and a-half inches long by three lines broad; seeds black, 

 shining, oblique." (W. V. Fitzgerald MSS.). 



6. A. Gregorii F.v.M. 

 Nickol Bay, N.W. Ooast, F. Gregory's Expedition. 



7. A. SPATHULATA F.V.M. 



Bay of Rest, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 



8. A. pyrifolia DC. 

 Dampier's Archipelago, A. Cunningham. Nickol Bay, 

 F. Gregory's Expedition. 



