584 NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES, 
late distinct sepals. Petals glabrous, often with red markings. 
Stamens long and very numerous, filaments white, anthers green. 
Pod straight, 3| to 4 lines long, 3 to 4 lines broad, pubescent, 
the margins thickened, white and nerve-like. 
Seeds oblong, longitudinal, funicle folded 3 or 5 times on itself, 
and not thickened under the seed. 
Hob.— New Italy, KS.W. (W. Baeuerlen). 
Analysis showing affinities to and differences from cognate 
species : — 
Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, 3- or more nerved. Petals smooth 
or with prominent midribs. 
Sepals united. Seeds longitudinal. Ped- 
uncles short. Phyllodia under 3 lines. 
Pod curved A. lanigera. 
Peduncles long. Seed oblique and longi- 
tudinal. Phyllodia 5 to 6 ". Pod 
straight, funicle 4 fold, not thickened 
under the seed A. Baeuerleni. 
Peduncles short. Seed oblong, oblique, 
transverse. Phyllodia 1-1 J" long, 
funicle 4 to 5 folds, not thickened A. phlebocarpa* 
Peduncles short (3'"). Seeds compressed 
globular, longitudinal, funicle 1 fold, 
thickened under the seed A. Simsii. 
We have placed this Acacia in the Pungentes series of Bentham, 
and, if rightly so classified, it stands alone in the length and size 
of its phyllodes, which far exceed in length and breadth that of 
any other species of the group. 
The pungent point of the phyllodes is not always straight, but 
generally so, and as the phyllodes are certainly rigid, these two 
points decided us in preferring to place it in the Pungentes to the 
Plurinerves. 
It bears a general resemblance to A. Simsii (Fig. Muell. Ic. 
Aust. Acacias) and perhaps also to A. lanigera, except for the 
larger phyllodes. 
