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No. 215. 
Acacia Maidenii F.v.M. 
11 Maiden's Wattle." 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOSvE.) 
Botanical description. - Genus, Acacia (see Part XV, p. 103). 
Botanical description. Species, A. Maidenii F.v.M. in N.S.W . Linn. Soc. Macleay 
Memorial Vol. (1893), with plate xxviii. A mistake in the pod and seed has 
been corrected by R. T. Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. , xxii, 232 (1897). 
The original description is as follows : 
Arborescent ; branchlcts somewhat angular towards the summit. 
Phyllodes large, of chartaceous texture, lanccolar-falcate, gradually narrowed into the petiole, 
very closely striolatcd by fine longitudinal venules with some few of these more prominent, 
almost glabrous or slightly greyish from hardly visible hairlets ; marginal glandule near the 
anterior base of the phyllode, inconspicuous. 
Spikes almoct sessile, solitary, or two or three together, their rachis tomentellous ; bracts 
inconspicuous. 
Calyces broader than long, much shorter than their corolla, short-lobcd, subtle-pubescent. 
Corolla almost glabrous, deeply cleft into usually 4 lobes, not streaked. 
Fruit narrow [considerably compressed] much twisted, outside beset with minute hairlets. 
Seeds placed longitudinally, ovate-ellipsoid, shining-black, their aureole on each side large. 
[Funicle pelc reddish, completely or extensively encircling the seeds, suddenly doubled back 
from the cunimit, folded at the lower side ] (In this description, and in the original plate, 
Mueller had the pod and seed of A. melanoxylon R.Br. before him, and Mr. Baker corrected 
this. Figures E and r of the present plate will make the matter quite clear. The fruit is 
not " considerably compressed," and the funicle docs not encircle the seeds at all, but its 
folds arc confined to the top of the seed. J.H.M.) 
Near the Richmond River (Mrs. Hodgkinson, W. Bacucrlcn) ; Mooloolah River (Eaves). 
A tree to 50 feet h ; gh, with a otom-diamctcr of U feet. (Op. cit.). 
Affinities. (In reading Mueller's comparisons with various species, the fact that 
he considered A. Maidenii to have a flat twisted pod with a seed-encircling funicle must 
be borne in mind). His notes are valuable, nevertheless. 
1. With A. glamescens Willd. 
" To the sagacity and circumspectncss of Mr. J. H. Maiden it io due, that this Acacia became 
recognised as a species distinct from A. glance/wens, for which previously it had been passed. It is 
however, clearly different in carpic characteristics particularly, inasmuch as the fruit of the genuine A. 
gkucescenR in atrn'ght and still more compressed, the seeds are longer, but proportionately narrower, the 
