90 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Affinities. 



1. With A. delibrata A. Cunn. Both Bailey and Mueller 

 remark on the affinity of this species to A. delibrata, though 

 Mueller did not endorse the resemblance. As we now know 

 what A. delibrata is, we are in a position to make a com- 

 parison denied to these two botanists. 



The phyllodes of the two species are sharply different, 

 those of A. delibrata being much narrower, less numerously 

 veined, and with a fine silky tomentum. The flowers are 

 different, though not markedly so, but the pods are different, 

 those of A. Hemsleyi being longer and narrower, les& 

 moniliform, and with thicker longitudinal angles at the 

 sutures. 



2. With A. torulosa F.v.M. It would appear that A. 

 Hemsleyi is closely allied to this species, but it is sharply 

 separated from A. torulosa by the strongly moniliform pods 

 of the latter (the seeds also are different), and less em- 

 phatically by the more spathulate sepals and more coriace- 

 ous and longer phyllodes of the same species. 



3. With A.plectocarpa A. Cunn. In flowers and phyllodes 

 A. Hemsleyi closely resembles A. plectocarpa, but it is 

 quite distinct in the pod. 



4. With A. julifera Benth. This species has usually a 

 more falcate phyllode, and it is sharply separated from A. 

 Hemsleyi by its elongated, narrow, spirally twisted pod. 



5. With A. leptocarpa A. Ounn. The two species are 

 much alike in the shape and venation of the phyllodes, but 

 they are quite different in the attachment; those of A. 

 Hemsleyi are almost sessile. 



20. A. plectocarpa A. Cunn. 

 It is described from Cunningham's MSS. by Bentham in 

 London Journ. of Bot., I, 375 (1842), in words which may 

 be translated as follows: — 



