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long and narrow, suspended by a conoid funicle-arillus. Id 

 A. delibrata there are two folds in the funicle and it and 

 the arillus are not conoid. 



2. With A. Kimberleyensis n. sp. A narrow phylloded 

 form of A. delibrata is strikingly similar in general appear- 

 ance to A. Kimberleyensis, 



The stems of A. delibrata are terete nearly the whole 

 way up, and are covered with fine silky hair when young. 

 The phyllodes of A. delibrata are generally shorter and 

 broader, more finely striate and clothed in fine white silky 

 hair, especially when young. They have one gland at the 

 base; tips sharply acuminate but not rigid. The phyllodes 

 thin. The calyx is deeply and irregularly lobed sometimes 

 half way down, or nearly to the base; tips hairy. The pod 

 is six-sided, viscid. The seed a short oblong. The funicle 

 twisted, small arillus, while the funicle and arillus of A+ 

 Kimberleyensis together form a conoid mass. 



A. Armitii F.v.M. (ined.) 



(Syn. A. delibrata F.v.M., "Iconography of Acacias" non 



A. Ounn.). 

 "Shrubby, branchlets glabrous, prominently angular; phyllodes 

 almost straight, narrow-lanceolar, elongated, sessile, blunt or 

 slightly acute at the upper end, without any lustre; their primary 

 venules usually three, the middle one the strongest, secondary 

 venules numerous, all straight and closely approximated ; glandule 

 anteriorly basal ; spikes axillary, solitary, short-stalked, consider- 

 ably surpassed in length by the phyllodes; rhachis closely invested 

 with very short spreading hairlets; sepals narrow, disconnected, 

 fully half as long as the corolla, or even longer, as well as the 

 latter beset with a very short somewhat viscid vestiture ; tube of 

 the corolla about as long as the semilanceolar-deltoid lobes; fruits 

 broad-linear, much compressed, somewhat flexuous, quite viscid, 

 prominently margined ; ovules ellipsoid, on a straight gradually 

 upwards thickened funicle. 



