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Hooker: — Gland of phyllode near base. Flowers twenty- 

 three in the head, 5 or 6-merous. Calyx turbinate, hairy at 

 the apex. Petals glabrous, free, thickened at the top. 

 Pistil hairy. 



I hope that someone will re-colleet the plant from the 

 vicinity of the site indicated in Flinders' Island. My 

 material is not sufficient to say if it is a species hitherto 

 recorded from Tasmania, but it is not A. crassiusculaWendl., 

 which should be removed from the flora of Tasmania. The 

 linear pods should be collected. 



Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald makes a contribution 1 to the 

 "crassiuscula" confusion. He says that to A. crassiuscula 

 Wendl., " should be referred A. subbinervia Meissn., and 

 Bentham's A. crassiuscula and pycnophylla." 



I have a portion of Preiss' No. 924 before me, which is in 

 flower only, and is the type of A. subbinervia Meissn. I 

 do not know what evidence there is to upset Bentham's 

 conclusion (B. Fl. ii, 368) that A. subbinervia is a synonym 

 of A. rostellifera Benth. 



As to A, crassiuscula Benth. being a synonym of A. 

 crassiuscula Wendl. I have abundantly shown the contrary, 

 nor was I the first to do so. 



I will now proceed to describe Robert Brown's "Port 

 Jackson to Blue Mountains " specimen, or to be more pre- 

 cise, the Yerranderie plant with which I have identified it. 



A slender shrub of six to twelve feet high, of weak, 

 pendulous growth, with few branches, and these usually 

 borne towards the ends of the stems. It has something of 

 the habit of A. lint folia Willd. Branchlets rounded, angular 

 towards the tips, glabrous. 



Phyllodes linear-lanceolate, gradually tapering from the 

 middle towards the apex and the base, 6 — 8 cm. long and 



1 Journal W. A. Nat. Hist. Soc, No. 1, Vol. n, p. 49 (May, 1904). 



