80 J. H. MAIDEN. 



back from the apex on dehiscence, hard, the margins raised 

 and obliquely veined between ; seeds obliquely oblong, dark 

 brown ; funicle straight or slightly folded, gradually 

 thickened, upwards and terminating in a cupular, pale- 

 coloured basilar arillus." (W. V. Fitzgerald MSS.). 

 17. A. xylocarpa A. Ounn. 

 Dampier's Archipelago and Water Island, N.W. Coast, 

 A. Cunningham. Nickol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition. 



Cunningham (MS. Journal, Vol. n, p. 72), collected it at 

 Lacrosse Island on 17th September, 1819, and says, "A 

 depressed bushy plant, and remarkable for the clear stark 

 verdure of the whole shrub ; is also abundant among the 

 rocks, having old pods which are woody and cylindrical." 

 He gives a Latin description. 



" Varies from a diffuse shrub of 3 feet to a tree of 30 feet; 

 trunk to 10 feet, diam. 8 in.; bark grey, somewhat rough; 

 timber dark brown, and very hard. In sandy soil among 

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



"Var. planifolia W. V. F., var. nov. Artesian Range. 

 A diffuse shrub, 3 — 4 feet high, the young shoots viscid; 

 phyllodia compressed, elliptical to linear-oblanceolate, 

 straight or falcate, 1\ to 2J in. long ; pod as in type. In 

 sandy soil." (W. V. Fitzgerald MSS.). 



18. A. arida Benth. 

 Parched desert shores of Cambridge Gulf, N.W. Coast. 

 A. Cunningham. 



19. A. DELIBRATA A. Ounn. 



So much uncertainty surrounds A. delibrata and so much 

 depends on it, that it becomes desirable to examine the 

 evidence. 



Cunningham's original description in Benth., Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. I, 374 (1842) may be translated as follows: — 



Glabrous, viscid, branchlets angular and finally terete, phyllodes 

 narrowly falcate-lanceolate or linear, narrowed on both sides, 



