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Diels and Pritzel (op. cit., p. 305) give the affinity as A* 

 aneura F.v.M., based on the pods, and I independently 

 arrived at the same conclusion. Their figure of the pod 

 might be better, particularly as regards reticulation, but 

 the yellow coloured, varnished, reticulated pod is strikingly 

 like that of A. aneura, particularly of Western Australian 

 plants of the species. 



Juliflorse (Stenophyllae). 

 XIII. A. Grasbyi n. sp. 

 Frutex divaricatus ad 10' altus. Phyllodiis teretibus 4-5 cm. 

 longis, minute striatis, tomento breve tectis. Floribus 5-meris,. 

 spicis ca. 2 cm. longis, pedunculis subaequilongis. Calyce truncato, 

 magno, basi hirsuto. Petalis glabris, dimidio longitudinis con- 

 junctis. Pistillo pruinoso. Legumine 8-11 cm. longo, 1 cm. 

 lato, applanato, inter semina incincto, valvarum marginibus 

 incrassatis. Semine applanato, fere oblongato, fusco, funiculo 

 longo, applanato, rugoso, in arillum parvum, rotundatum, rugosum 

 terminante. 



A divaricate shrub up to about 10 feet high, and usually 

 nearly as broad as high. Phyllodes terete, 4 — 5 cm. long r 

 minutely striate when seen under a good lens, covered with 

 a fine, short tomentum. Flowers 5-merous, in spikes, about 

 2 cm. long, on peduncles nearly as long. Bract long, 

 capitate or spathulate, stipe hairy. Calyx large, truncate, 

 hairy at the base. Petals glabrous, united about half way 

 up. Pistil hoary. 



Pod straight or curved, 8 to 11 cm. long, up to 1 cm* 

 wide, flattish, constricted between the seeds, the valves 

 with thickened edges, with dull or waxy lustre, with almost 

 transverse markings or fissures on the outside of the valves,, 

 and very oblique ones on the inside through the contraction 

 of the membrane. 



Seed flattish, oblong, nearly 9 mm. long, colour brown,, 

 with a long white thin, flattish, wrinkled funicle, termin- 

 ating without folds in a small rounded wrinkled arillus. 



