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obtusely 6-angled; seeds slightly oblique, narrow-oblong, 

 shining, greenish -black; f unicle short, much thickened from 

 the base, shortly folded and terminating in a lobed cupular 

 pale coloured basilar arillus. 



Pack horse Range, Kimberley district. Amongst sand- 

 stone. (W.V.F.) 



Height 3-5 feet. Phyllodia 3-5 in. long, f line broad. 

 Spikes 1 in. or less. Pod 3 — 4 in. long, nearly 2 lines across. 

 Seeds 3 lines long. 



Affinities to A. oncinophylla Lindl. and A, gonocarpa 

 F.v.M. 



Mr. Fitzgerald has written thus far ; following are my 

 observations. 



A graceful species. The young stems flattened and 

 strongly nerved on each side from the place of the inser- 

 tion of the phyllode, giving them the appearance, under a 

 lens, of phyllodes, especially when very young. Sometimes 

 they have three nerves, making them 3-sided (triquetrous). 



Phyllodes up to 16 cm. (6£ inches) long, with one main 

 nerve, two less strongly marked, and others less distinct 

 still giving the whole a deeply grooved appearance. The 

 attachment of the phyllodes short. 



Flowers in spikes, usually in pairs. Flower 5-merous, 

 quite glabrous. Oalyx very narrow (linear), about half the 

 length of the corolla, united at the extreme base. (Mr. 

 Fitzgerald speaks of the sepals nearly or quite as long as 

 the corolla, but this is not the case in any specimen of this 

 species I have examined, nor have I seen this in any other 

 Acacia). 



Petals divided about half way down and spreading. 



Seed with an arillus as broad as the seed, and tapering 

 to the attachment to the funicle, thus forming a wrinkled, 



H— June 6, 1917 



