NOTES ON ACACIA.. 83 



Mr. Fitzgerald's pbyllodes are a little narrower than those 

 of the type. 



A tree, the branchlets terete, or scarcely angular and along 

 with the foliage and rhachises finely pubescent and slightly viscid; 

 phyllodia linear to linear-lanceolate, straight or slightly falcate, 

 narrowed at both ends and terminating in obtuse or acute curved 

 or straight points, thinly coriaceous, striate with numerous fine 

 parallel nerves, the central one always and usually two lateral 

 ones very evident; spikes solitary or two together, very slender, 

 not dense, pedunculate ; flowers small, mostly pentamerous ; calyx 

 membranous, silky-pubescent, divided to below the middle, more 

 than half as long as the corolla, the lobes comparatively broad; 

 petals obtuse, not ribbed or striate, connate to the middle, glabrous 

 or scantily pubescent; pod linear, much attenuated and stipes-like 

 at the base, resinous, hard and of a woody texture, the valves with 

 prominent raised longitudinal angles on each side of the sutures, 

 and contracted laterally between the seeds; seeds longitudinal, 

 ovate, dark brown ; f unicle with few folds and gradually thickened 

 into a pale-coloured turbinate basilar arillus. 



Isdell River; eastern base of Mount Rason; Sunday Island 

 (W.V.F.). In stony spots overlying sandstone and quartzite. 



Height 25 - 40 feet; trunk to 15 feet; diam. 9-12 inches. Bark 

 reddish, rough and curly. Timber dark brown, hard, rather 

 heavy and tough. Phyllodia 2-6 inches long, 2-4 inches broad. 

 Spikes 1 inch or less. Pod 3-4 inches long, \ inch broad. 



Affinity to A. delibrata A. Cunn. (End of Mr. Fitzgerald's 

 description). 



Following are my notes: — Flowers pentamerous, in spikes, 

 recurving as they get old. Calyx irregularly lobed, a few 

 hairs at the apex, very thin and frail. Petals glabrous, 

 divided partly down. Ovarium hoary. 



Affinities. 

 1. With A, gonocarpa F.v.M. The pods of A. gonocarpa 

 are six-angled, woody, obliquely divided inside; the seed 



