432 R. H. CAMBAGE. 



bad just formed, so that the flowering period for Gidgeain 

 this locality is towards the end of July. 



Acacia sbenophylla, the Eumung of western New South 

 Wales, or River Oooba of the Lachlan, occurs to within 

 eighty miles south of Normanton, and grows along the banks 

 of streams, the long narrow pendulous phyllodes, sometimes 

 bluish in colour, often hanging over the watercourse. It 

 was noticed at various points including Richmond Downs 

 and Winton to Longreach where it is called Native Willow. 

 This species prefers basic to siliceous soils and is not com- 

 mon along creeks in sandy areas. 



Acacia Chisholmi (No. 4111) was first noticed between 

 Boomarra and Donaldson, and afterwards at various points 

 towards Oloncurry, being known locally as Turpentine 

 Bush. It was found at Quamby growing as shrubs six to 

 eight feet high with rough crinkled bark like that of A. 

 rigens A. Ounn. The species flowers in July, and the young 

 pods obtained at the end of August were falcate, flat, 

 exceedingly viscid, up to three and a half inches long, and 

 three to four lines broad. Many of the flowers had been 

 infested with a large, woolly-looking gall, formed by the 

 larvae of a gall gnat, identified by Mr. W. W. Froggatt as 

 Cecidomyia sp. 



Acacia umbellata is growing on a Cretaceous, gravelly, 

 ironstone ridge about fifteen miles north of Donor's Hill, 

 where it is an open spreading shrub of about eight to ten 

 feet high. The only pod obtained is somwhat terete and 

 measures one and a half inches. 



The plant identified as Acacia torulosa (No. 4165) grows 

 close to the Dugald River at Granada, fifty miles north of 

 Oloncurry, and is about ten feet high. Young pods were 

 just forming at the end of August, and these were narrow 

 and viscid. 



