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to those recorded in 1864 in the second volume of the Flora Australiensis : G-wydir and Wide Bay 
(Leichhardt), Walloon (Bowman), Darling Downs (Lau), Richmond River (Fawcett), Leichhardt Downs 
(Wuth), Barcoo (Schneider). Confirmatory fruit specimens are wanting also from all these localities, so 
that still some doubts may be entertained about the identifications, especially for the plants from the far 
inland places." (Mueller, op. at.). 
There is a figure and description at Plate 137, Part XXXVI of the present work. 
As compared with A. Maidenii its pod is smaller and curved, but not twisted, and the 
seed is pendent with a slender funicle. A. Cunninghamii is found in drier areas, and is 
less umbrageous than A. Maidenii. 
3. With A. holcocarpa Benth. 
" A.fwlcocarpa, which has the ventilation of A. glaucescens is easily distinguished from A. Maidenii 
in various^respects, particularly in its rigid, almost cylindric, somewhat furrowed, fruit, dark-brown turgid 
seeds, and long straight funicle, ending in a very small, nearly cupular aril, as shown in the eleventh decade 
of the 'Iconography of Australian Acacias.' Mr. Dallachy noted this species as dwarf, the fresh flowers as 
fragrant and strange to say as white ; so they must at all events be very pale ; but Solander likewise 
indicated the flowers of A. calyculata as white, and thus the question arises whether perhaps the two species 
are identical. 
" Specimens, but in flower only, from Fitzroy Island (Walter) seem referable to A. holcocarpa, but 
they accord so far also fully with the description of Cunningham's plant from there ; the fruit, sent with 
his flowering specimens, may really belong to the rather widely distributed A. aulacocarpa. Visitors to 
Fitzroy Island could easily solve this enigma. A. holcocarpa has become further known from Cape Sidmouth 
(C. Moore), Trinity Bay (W. Hill), Rockingham Bay and Hinchinbrook Island, where it is common 
(J. Dallachy). It seems to be essentially a plant of coastal regions." (Mueller, op. tit.). 
This species, being confined to Queensland, will not be figured in the present work. 
It is, however, figured in Mueller's " Iconography " as he points out, and it will be seen 
that the pod is nearer to that of A. Maidenii than Mueller imagined it to be. 
4. With A. leptocarpa A. Cunn. 
" A. leptocarpa is distinguished from A. Maidenirtn the phyllodes showing hardly any conspicuous 
anastomosing venulation, the interstices between the venules being also wider, in flowers less crowded along 
the rachis, the glabrous calyces, in generally 5-parted corollas, and in numerous almost consolidated 
folds of the funicle, these forming downward an appendicular mass of a length as great as the seed itself, 
or even greater, though basal only; I find, however, the fruit-valves to a considerable extent flexuous. 
The phyllodes arc without lustre." (Mueller, op. tit.). 
A Queensland species not figured in Mueller's " Iconography." As compared 
with A. Maidenii, its pods are more curly, and its valves thinner. 
5. With A. julifera Benth. 
" A. julifera resembles in close venulation of the phyllodes A. glaucescens, from which it differs 
in phyllodes of a more falcate form, terminated by a callous glandule, which reminds of that of A. stigmato- 
phi/lla and A. leptocarpa, by smaller spikes and deeper cleft calyces; but the fruit-specimens from 
Edgecumbe Bay, alluded to by Bentham, may not perhaps belong to the same species, as they- are nearer 
to A. Cunninghamf also as regards foliage. 
" Mr. Bowman gives the height of A. julifera as only up to 10 feet at Nerkool Creek and the Upper 
Flinders River, and says it is early flowering in the season. It is contained in Madame Dietrich's collection 
from Port Denison under 2812, mixed with A. Solandri. That species agrees in venulation of the phyllodes 
certainly with A. julifera, but the phyllodes are narrower and straighter, the spikes longer, with remarkably 
dissite flowers like in A. aulacocarpa and A. tintinnata; the calyces are short-lobed and glabrous, the fruit 
curled-flexuous, compressed, about J inch broad, the seeds ellipsoid, the funicle forms folds, but 
reaches the lowest parts of the seeds only." (Mueller, op. tit.). 
