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2. Isdell River, 10 miles below Grace Knob, July, 1905. 

 In flower (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 1235; received as A. toru- 

 losa Benth.). 



3. Barker River, Kimberley, W. A., September, 1905. 

 In fruit (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 1535; received as A. toru- 

 losa Benth.). 



4. In flower, April, 1916. Wandi, Northern Territory 

 (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 395). Not quite normal. 



5. "Queensland Gulf Country." In fruit. (Dr. T. L. 

 Bancroft). Dr. Bancroft recently informed me that the 

 locality is a scrub on the Gregory Downs, Gregory River, 

 near Burketown. Labelled by the late F. M. Bailey, 

 * 8 Nearly allied to A. delibrata." He sent precisely similar 

 specimens to Mueller, with the following result. He wrote 

 to Mueller, " Seed of Acacia near A. delibrata A. Ounn., 

 Gulf Country, Queensland. From this shrub Dr. Thomas 

 L. Bancroft has obtained if not a valuable still a curious 

 property, an account of which is being prepared by the 

 doctor. 1 The specimen somewhat agrees with Bentham's 

 description of A. delibrata A. Ounn., of which I have never 

 seen specimens." 



Mueller endorsed these specimens (bark, phyllodes, ripe 

 pods and ah old flower), "Acacia allied to A. sp. (from 

 Einasleigh). The bark seems not to peel off in shreds. 

 Bentham (in Hook. Journ.) calls the legumes nearly four 

 lines broad. Stipules present as in A. conspersa; funicle 

 different from that species, so absence of toment on the 

 branchlets and absence of strong midnerve." 



6. Dugald River, Granada, on bank of river, 10 feet high. 

 50 miles north of Cloncurry, Northern Queensland. 30th 

 August, 1913. In early fruit and just past flowering. (R. H. 

 Oambage, No. 4165). 



1 Dr. T. L. Bancroft found saponin in the pods, being led to enquire 

 into their disagreeable, acrid taste. Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., iv, 10, (1887). 



