82 J. H. MAIDEN. 



A shrub, six to twelve feet high. Phyllodes six inches long or 

 shorter, seldom only an inch and a half long, 1 \ — 3 lines broad. 

 Spikes 1 in. long or shorter, pods 1-3 inches long, about 4 lines 

 broad, shining, not undulate at the sutures. Seeds a line and a 

 half long, arillus ("strophiole") with one fold. 



It will be observed that flowers were not available when 

 the type was described, while the specimens available to 

 Mueller were from the Northern Territory and Queensland, 

 and his description has been drawn up from mixed material. 



The localities quoted by Mueller are "Arnhem's Land, 

 No. 28; Head of Seven Emu River, No. 40; Upper Roper, 

 No. 25; 1 Moreton Bay, Moore; Fitzmaurice River, No. 91; 

 Sturt's Greek, No. 92; Victoria River, No. 93." x Some of 

 these numbers are referred to by Bentham in his footnote 

 to A. oligoneura (see p. 110). Mueller's specimens do not 

 appear to be in Australia, at all events under their numbers, 

 while the specimen "Moreton Bay," which often meant 

 Queensland, is not available. 



When Bentham re-described the species in English in B. 

 Fl. ii, 404, he ignored Mueller's description of the flowers, 

 presumably because he had some doubt about the matching. 

 I do not know of any evidence that Mueller ever saw A. 

 delibrata. 



At length A. delibrata has been rediscovered. Mr. 

 Fitzgerald collected it in North West Australia and wrote 

 out a description of it as a new species. I gave this the 

 most careful scrutiny and concurred, when the portion of 

 the type of A. delibrata arrived from Kew, and it was at 

 once seen that here we had the long lost species. Mr. 

 Fitzgerald's description, which follows, is valuable as an 

 up to date account of A. delibrata, including the flowers, 

 which neither Cunningham nor Bentham saw. Some of 



1 Nos. 25 and 93 are not A. delibrata at all, but A. Hammondi n. sp., 

 see p. 95. 



