BY R. T. BAKER. 
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Bab. — Coonabarabran, (S. Lyndon), Mudgee and Rylstone (R. 
T. B.); Cobar (Rev. J. M. Cumin); Blue Mountains, Lachlan 
River and to Southward (A. Cunningham, Fraser, Huegel, 
Mitchell and others, teste Bentham). 
I feel privileged in being able to complete the description, and 
to give a satisfactory figure of this species, and I hope now that 
these notes will remove any difficulties that may have existed in 
connection with its determination. 
I have not seen A. Cunningham's description in Field's Geo- 
graphical Memoirs on New South Wales, but I take it that Don's 
transcription of it is a correct one, judging from the numerous 
specimens that have come under my observation, and the very 
brief description of the pod is correct as far as it goes. 
In the Bot. Mag. t. 2922, published in 1829, no pods are 
figured or described; and the illustration itself is of very little 
help in identifying the species. 
Bentham's description of the pod in the Flora Australiensis 
(Vol. ii. p. 325) is referred to by Baron von Mueller in Proc. 
Linn. Soc, 2nd Series, Vol v. p. 19, in these words: — " . . . 
Bentham placed the pods of Acacia Oswaldi with A. laniyera " 
so that this error has perhaps been the cause of the recent 
confusion surrounding this species, and a debt is due to Baron 
von Mueller for so important a note. 
But to me it appears that Bentham must have had some 
pod other than A. Oswaldi before him, as the description under 
A. laniyera. does not agree with the pod of A. Oswaldi in Baron 
von Mueller's Iconography of Australian Acacias, 6th Decade, 
and which figure agrees in every detail with all specimens of the 
fruit of A. Oswaldi that have come under my notice. 
In Baron von Mueller's note above quoted he gives A. venulosa 
and A. Whanii as synonyms of this species. 
This latter species I have not seen, but from the imperfect 
specimens of A. venulosa collected by me, I am inclined to think 
that A. venulosa of Bentham is a good species. 
