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25. A. Farnesiana Willd. 



N.W. Ooast, A. Cunningham. Nickol Bay, F. Gregory's 

 Expedition. 



26. A. suberosa A. Ounn. 



Vansittart Bay and Careening Bay, A. Cunningham. 

 Glenelg Bay, J. Martin. 



"A tree of fir- like aspect, to 40 feet; trunk to 15 feet; 

 diam. 1 foot; bark dark grey, thick, rough and corky; timber 

 pale and rather tough; peduncles thick, bracteate, solitary, 

 axillary, shorter than the leaves; flowers 5-merous, usually 

 about six in a head which is subtended by a prominent 

 lobed cupular bracteole, each flower about 2 lines long, 

 slightly sericeous; calyx infunduliform, lobed to about one- 

 third of its length; corolla exceeding the calyx by \ line, 

 greenish, very shortly lobed, the lobes scarcely acute; 

 stamens pale yellow, 1^-2 lines long; pod to 9 in. long, \ 

 in. broad. On grassy black soil plains, occasionally in sandy 

 loam. 'Mimosa.' A splendid forage plant." (W. V. Fitz- 

 gerald, MSS.). 



9. Mueller. "Plants of North Western Australia," 

 enumerated by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, fcp. Govt. 

 Printer, Perth, 1881. (Presented to the Legislative Council 

 1880). It contains two Parts : — 



(1). "Enumerative notes on the plants collected during 

 Mr. John Forrest's Trigonometrical survey of the Nickol 

 Bay district during the year 1878." (pp. 3 — 13). 



(2). "List of the plants collected during Mr. Alexander 

 Forrest's Exploring Expedition in 1879 between Nickol 

 Bay and King's Sound." (14-19). 



i. In Part I we have: — 

 27. A. sentls F.v.M. Nickol River, A. Forrest. 

 13. A. hemignosta F.v.M. Yule River, J. Forrest. 



