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Pod moniliform, usually G-12 cm. long (exceptionally to 20 cm., according to 
Mr. Newbold) by mm. broad, glabrous, almost shiny. The seeds hang pendulous 
when ripe from a thin funicle of about 5 mm., bent once or twice, and terminating 
in a small, cap-shaped white aril at the top of the seed. Seeds ovoid and not shining 
black. 
Affinities. 1. With A. cyperopliylla F.v.lT. This species has been confused 
with A. cyperophylla F.v.M. for a long time. Mueller confused them himself, and 
probably the greater part of the material in herbaria labelled A. cyperopliylla~.v3<L, 
is really A. Burkitlii. "What A. cyperophylla really is will be better understood 
when Part LX of this work (with a Plate) is available ; in the meantime, I may say 
that A. cyperophylla has coarser phyllodes, and the following other important 
differences : 
Flower 5-merous, glabrous ; calyx semi-truncate ; pistil hoary. 
2. With A. ephedroidcs Benth. This spc.cies comes very near to A. Burkittii, 
but the phyllodes are terete, not sub-terete, with a slightly curved point, hairy at 
the tip but not fringed on either side of the phyllocle before reaching the tip, as 
in A. Jlurkittii. The phyllodes of A. Burkittii arc distinctly sub-terete, sometimes 
becoming quite flat at the tips. 
The young growth in A. ephedroides is remarkable in being covered with 
a close mat of silver hairs. I have not seen this in A. Burkitlii. 
The flower comes very near to A. Burkittii, being in short sessile spikes, 
4-i^erous, the calyx more cup-shaped and slightly lobed, but this also is subject to 
variation. The pistil hairy or hoary. 
3. With A. microneura Meissn. 
Bentham says A. Btu'kittii is "very near A. microneura, but the phyllodia 
scarcely broader than thick, and the calyx different" (B.F1. ii, 400). 
The phyllodes of A. microneura ai*e flat, with a central nerve, and a slightly- 
curved point. The flower details arc near those of A. Burkittii and A. ephedroides. 
Botanical NaillC. Acacia, already explained (see Part XV, p. 10 i) ; 
Burkittii, in honour of Samuel (?) Burkitt, who first sent the plant to Baron von 
Mueller from Lake Gillies, South Australia. 
Vernacular Names. There are many (sec below) but none distinctive, so 
far as I am aware. 
Aboriginal Name." Culbroo " of the natives around Lake Gillies (W. C. 
Newbold). 
