504 J. H. MAIDEN. 



A shrub many feet high. Phyllodes thinly coriaceous, 1 — 2" 

 long, 1J - 2£'" broad, somewhat sessile. The common peduncle 

 very short or none, individual peduncles 2 — 3'" long. Bracteoles 

 somewhat glabrous, corolla 5 fid, and shorter. Pods glabrous, at 

 the most 1 — 1 J" long, 1 - T' broad, compressed, very undulate, 

 brownish. Seeds about 1J'" long. I have found no species in our 

 large collection of Eastern Australian Acacias which I could con" 

 sider to be the same. I much doubt, however, that it is that 

 species concerning which the illustrious Bentham in (Linnsea xxvi, 

 p. 625) notes a likeness to A. ixiophylla. (Fragm., iv, 6.) 



(0) A. fuliginea R. T. Baker is described in English in 

 Proe. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxi, 712 (1906), and he gives 

 figures of A. fuliginea and of what he deems to be A. 

 ixiophylla. 



At page 507 I will consider, seriatim, all the points to 

 which Mr. Baker draws attention (at p. 713) in con- 

 trasting A. fuliginea and A. ixiophylla. 

 (D) Acacia montana Benth. in Lond. Journ. of Bot , I, 360 (1842). 



Very viscid, branchlets subangular and with pubescent peduncles, 

 phyllodes oblong or oblong-lanceolate, very obtuse, scarcely with a 

 callous apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, two-nerved, peduncles 

 short, brownish, very short, bracts at the base, capitula small, 

 multinowered. 



Affinity to A. exsudans (A. verniciflua A. Cunn. var. latifolia 

 Benth.) 



Phyllodia more obtuse, shorter (1-1J inches), veins more 

 obscure. Peduncles thinner than the bracts at the base. Capitula 

 much smaller. Highlands near the Liverpool Plains, New South 

 Wales, Fraser. 



A. IXIOPHYLLA Benth. and A. MONTANA Benth, 



Mueller figured A. montana in his "Iconography of Aus- 

 tralian Acacias" but did not figure A. ixiophylla. 



The most obvious points of A. montana Benth. are: — 



