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Acacia Burkittii F.v.M. 
Burkitt's Wattle. 
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(Family LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOS^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Acacia. (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. Species, A. BurUttii, F. Mucll, Herb, in Bentham's 
Flora Australiensis ii, 400 (1864). 
A glabrous shrub, branchlets slender, nearly terete. 
1'hyllodia linear-subulate ; terete or slightly compressed, with a fine usually recurved but not 
pungent point, 2 to 3 inches long, striate with very fine parallel nerves, the central one 
scarcely more prominent. 
Spikes oblong, sessile, solitary or in pairs, 3 to 4 lines long. 
Flowers mostly 4-merous. 
Sepals spathulate, above half as long as the corolla, united in a short cup at the base, 
Petals smooth, rather thick at the tips, but without prominent mid-ribs. 
Pod unknown. 
The following are notes supplementary to the description : 
" Branches are spreading and erect, not drooping. The lowest branches 
spring almost from the ground 6 inches from the ground, perhaps they branch 
out. The bark is a dark brown colour, slightly rough. The bark is a drab colour 
on the branches; smooth bark on the branches " (W. C. Ncwbold). 
I have examined a piece of the type through the courtesy of Professor Ewart. 
The flowers are 4-merous. The calyx is lobed irregularly, divided nearly to 
the base, and hairy. The sepals are narrow, and are described by Bentham as 
spathulate, perhaps as good a word as is available, but not quite correctly 
descriptive. 
Petals broad, smooth, free, except at the extreme part of the base. 
Pistil covered with hair. 
Bracts short, capitate, hairy. 
Phyllodes semi-terete, finely striate, smooth, with long wrinkled base, and 
long hair-like, hooked (curved), fringed on cither side, end to the phyllode. 
The pods (from Iron Knob, practically the type locality) are described now 
for the first time. 
