480 J. H. MAIDEN. 



about 3 mm. broad, the apex forming a sharp point, which 

 is rarely hooked. Texture thin, the principal vein usually 

 not situated along the middle of the phyllode, but a little 

 from the median line: lateral veins few and inconspicuous. 

 No stipules observed. Very small gland near the base of 

 the phyllode. 



Flowers bright yellow, often borne at the ends of the 

 branchlets, in racemes, exceeding the leaves. Rhachis 

 glabrous. The individual flowers are very frail and trans- 

 parent in texture. They are 25 — 30 in the head. 



Calyx turbinate, slightly lobed, angled, the sutures of the 

 sepals well marked, glabrous except on the angles and at 

 the top, sepals about two-thirds the length of the petals. 



Corolla. The petals are glabrous, half the length of the 

 sepals. 



Pistil glabrous. 



Pod stipitate, margin of the valves slightly thickened, 

 flat, usually straight, sometimes curved, 6 — 11 cm. long, 

 and 6 mm. broad. Valves constricted between the seeds, 

 but not moniliform. 



Seeds arranged longitudinally in the pod. The funicle 

 encircling the seed twice or more, and terminating in a 

 white slightly swollen club-shaped aril towards the top of 

 the seed. 



Habitat. I have specimens from— 



1. Banks of the Nepean River, N.S.W., (Robert Brown, 



1802-4). In flower. 



2. Mount Victoria (J. H. M., December, 1896). In flower. 



3. Six to eight feet high, Byrnes' Gap, Yerranderie on 



Permo-Oarboniferous formation, (R. H. Oambage, No. 

 2188, 7th June 1909). In flower. 



4. Same locality and collector, No. 2189. A narrow leaved 



form of No. 2188. 



