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This is a Queensland species, not figured in the " Iconography." The notes 
here given by Mueller on' the flowers and pcds of various species are valuable in that 
they express the results of experience collected since the publication of Bentham's 
notes in the second volume of the Flora Australiensis. 
The pod of A. julifera is twisted like a small ringlet, the convolutions less in 
diameter than those of the next species. 
6. With A. cincinnata F.v.M. 
"A. cincinnata almost agrees, as regards carpologic characteristics, with A. Maidenii, but the 
phyllodes arc somewhat dimidiate, more protracted upwards and more distinctly callous-glandular at the 
apex, reminding thus far of A. julifera ; their two or three primary venules are more prominent, the rachis 
is less tometose, the flowers arc more distant in the spikes, the calyces are deeper lobed, the corollas 
generally 5-cleft, the fruits narrower and more closely coiled, the funiclc is nearer the base of the seed 
more folded. 
" AH the species mentioned may differ from each other besides in habit, predilection of places of 
growth, bark, wood, odour of blossoms, time of flowering, as also fruiting, and perhaps in some other 
respects not observable on mere dried branchlcts." (Mueller, op. cit.). 
This is a Queensland species, not figured in the " Iconography." The pods are 
totally different, those of A, cincinnata being very twisted with the convolutions of the 
pods pressed close on each other, almost like a concertina, and they do not resemble 
those of A. Maidenii as Mueller imagined. 
7. With A. longifolia Willd. ; and 
8. W T ith A.floribunda Sieb. 
Mueller has already made a brief reference to A. longifolia. The 4-merous flower 
of Acacia Maidenii closely resembles that of A. longifolia and floribunda. 
A. longifolia has a white bract at the base of each flower, not seen in the other 
species. The pod shows an inclination to curve in var. Sophorce, resembling A. Maidenii 
to some extent, but the pod of A. Sophorce is coarser and more fleshy and the funicle 
more embraces the seed. 
The funicles are almost identical in A. Maidenii and A. floribunda, but in A. 
longifolia the funicle nearly covers the seed. (See Plate 213, Part LVI, and Plate 216 } 
Part LVII, of the present work.) A. longifolia is a sparse-foliaged, slender small shrub 
with intensely yellow inflorescence. A.floribunda has smaller leaves, and, with flowers 
intermediate in depth of colour between those of A. longifolia and A. Maidenii. The 
pods of b,oth species are straighter than those of A. Maidenii, those of A. floribunda are 
sparsely hairy, while those of A. Maidenii are glabrous. 
It would appear that the affinity of A. Maidenii is closer to A. longifolia 
than to A. glaucescens to which Baron von Mueller thought it was most closely related. 
9 and 10. With A. implexa Benth. and A. melanoxylon R.Br. In foliage it 
resembles^, implexa Benth. and A. melanoxylon R.Br., but when in flower is at once 
distinguished from these by the inflorescence, which in A. Maidenii is in spikes. 
