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et A. buxijolia subsimilia, inflorescentia et flores diversi. Ramuli mine glaberrinii nunc pilis brevibus 
mollibus pubcscentes. Pbyllodia 6-9 lin. v. rare pollicem longa, 3-4 lin. lata mucrone brevissime obliquo 
v. saepius obsolete. Pedunculi 4-5 lin. longi. Capitula parva floribus fere 20 glabris. Bracteolae 
peltatae. Sepala diu cohaerentia, demum saepe soluta, semper inulto latiora quam in A. argyrophylla. 
Corolla calyce duplo longior. Legumen glaucum et glabrum v. pubescens, breviter stipitatum, 1-2 poll, 
longum, 3-3 lin. latum, undulatum marginatum. 
In Murray Scrub et Mallee-Scrub. ( A. glaucophylla F. Mull, non Steud. PI. Abyss.) (Bentham 
in Linnrea, xxvi, 616.) 
This locality is doubtless within the South Australian boundary. I have 
seen a specimen marked dictyocarpa by Bentham. It is pubescent, and I cannot 
see in what way it can be separated from normal brachybotrya, which is pubescent 
or tomentose (see original description), and does not essentially differ in other 
respects. 
The whole of the specimens from the far west of New South Wales, from 
north-west Victoria, and from South Australia (excepting varieties argyrophylla and 
Spilierinna], belong to this form. 
(2.) Var. glabra Benth. 
Quite glabrous, phyllodia small and narrow; flower-heads small. Murray 
desert. (B.F1. ii, 374.) 
This locality is doubtless within the South Australian boundary. No 
specimen is in the Melbourne Herbarium, nor can I certainly refer any specimen in 
the Sydney Herbarium to it. The species is, however, so variable within the limits 
mentioned, that I doubt if this is a useful variety. 
(3.) Var. argyrophylla Bentham. 
Silvery silky, turning sometimes to a golden yellow. Phyllodia mostly f to 
1^ inch long. Flower-heads often solitary, usually with more than 30 flowers. 
(B.F1. ii, 374.) 
Synonyms. 
(a) Acacia argyrophylla Hook, in Sot. Mag. t. 4384 (1848). ' 
Following is the original description : 
Acacia argyrophylla,raxais angulatis, foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis obscure penninerviis pulcherrime 
argenteo-sericeis nine margine medium versus uniglandulosis, capitulis multifloris solitaries v. racemosis, 
calycis laciniis clavatis corollisque ciliatis. . 
This species is one of the many novelties sent by Mr. Drumrnond from the Swan River Settlement, 
and is no less beautiful in the foliage (phyllodia) than in its copious large heads of deep yellow flowers. 
The phyllodia are like the leaves of Podalyria sericea, everywhere clothed with a glossy silky cobweb in 
the young leaves partaking of a yellow tint. Already our shrub is 5 feet high, very much branched, of 
graceful and compact growth, with phyllodia more like leaves than those of almost any other species. 
It flowers in April. 
Descr. A tall shrub, with numerous erecto-patent branches. The latter are angled, the young 
ones silky, yellow-green. Phyllodia from lg-2 inches or more long, obovato-oblong, very obtuse, pointless, 
and opening below into a very short footstalk, clothed on both sides with a compact, glossy, silky, and 
silvery down, the younger leaves richly tinged with yellow, the margin is a little thickened, and, about the 
middle of the upper edge, is a gland. Stipules obsolete. Heads of flowers rather large, globose, deep 
