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13. A. HEMIGNOSTA P.V.M. 



Cambridge Gulf, A. Cunningham. 



"Tree of 25-30 feet; trunk to 10 feet, diam. 1 foot; 

 bark dark-coloured, rough, longitudinally Assured and often 

 corky; timber brownish, hard and tough." (W. V. Fitz- 

 gerald MSS.). As regards North Queensland trees, see 

 R. H. Cambage, this Journal, xlix, 389 (1915). 



14. A. sertcata A. Cunn. 



Montagu and York Sounds, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 



"A tall glaucous shrub to a tree of 30 feet; trunk to 10 

 feet; diam. 9 inches; bark dark-grey, somewhat rough; 

 timber pale and tough ; flowers pale-yellow, through leaf- 

 suppression terminally racemose; peduncles 2 — 3 together, 

 mostly i in. long, each bearing a globular head of 20—30 

 mostly five-merous flowers; sepals free nearly to the base, 

 broadly spathulate, half as long as the petals, finely hirsute; 

 petals free nearly to the base, slightly silky." (W. V. 

 Fitzgerald, MSS.). 



15. A. Wickhami Benth. 

 Swan Bay, N.W. Coast, Voyage of the Beagle. 

 "Sunday Island; May, Lennard and Oalder Rivers; 



Mounts House, Clifton and Brennan. Rigid, diffuse, 3 — 4 

 feet high, and often as much across. Among sandstone 

 and quartzite rocks." (W. V. Fitzgerald, MSS.). 



16. A. stigmatophylla A. Cunn. 

 Brunswick Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 



" Lennard and Isdell Rivers. A spreading shrub of 5 - 8 

 feet high to a tree of 15 - 20 feet; trunk to 5 feet; diam. 

 6 in.; bark roughish, reddish-grey, sometimes curly; timber 

 dark brown, and moderately hard ; the branchlets and 

 phyllodia slightly viscid ; pod erect, linear, slightly falcate, 

 2 — 3 in. long, 3 lines broad, compressed but thick with 

 obliquely transverse septse between the seeds; valves rolling 



