512 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Calyx-lobes divided half way down or more, nerved, hairy 

 at the top. 



Petals free or united near the base, glabrous. 



Pistil hoary at the top. 



Pod much twisted (convolute), smooth, with transverse 

 veins. 



Seed placed longitudinally in the pod, with short funicle. 



2. Kellerberrin specimen. — Phyllode entirely glabrous, 

 with oblique sharp-pointed tip, two maiu nerves. 



Flower-heads in pairs on a short peduncle about twenty- 

 three in the head. A narrow bract at the base of each 

 head of flowers. Each bracteole capitate or with a slight 

 point, and having a few hairs. Flowers five merous. 



Calyx cup-shaped, lobed, extremely thin and transparent, 

 thickened at the tip, a few hairs at the apex, no central 

 nerve. 



Petals thickened at the top, with a central nerve, glabrous. 



Pistil smooth, sometimes hoary at the top. 



As regards the pods of A. ixiophylla, Bentham never saw 

 them, but assuming that the Western 'Australian specimens 

 are that species, he described the pod as "very flexuose, 

 hispid (A. montana Benth., J.H.M.) or glabrous, (A. gluti- 

 nosa F.v.M., J.H.M.) two lines broad." He is thus combin- 

 ing the pod of Drummond's fifth Coll. No. 13 1 which is A. 

 montana and which is hispid (see Mr. Baker's figure of A. 

 ixiophylla), and Maxwell's specimen of A. glutinosa which 

 Mueller tells us has "Legumina glabra." (Fragm. iv, 7.) 



1 Drummond's specimens were unaccompanied by localities as every 

 botanist knows, and as regards Maxwell's, Mueller often labelled them 

 "South West Australia" as in the present case, and often " "West Aus- 

 tralia." Maxwell collected chiefly in the King George's Sound and 

 Stirling Eange district and accompanied Drummond to the Stirling Kange. 

 See Proc. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc, 1909. 



As regards Drummond, some of his fifth collection undoubtedly came 

 from the King George's Sound- Stirling Eange district. 



