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Synonym. A. Eandchiana TV. V. Fitzgerald, in Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. 
Soc., Vol. ii, No. 1, p. 11 (May, 1904). 
All the material extant of Mr. Fitzgerald's species consists of phyllodes 
and pods, witk nearly ripe seeds. The peculiar pliyllodes of A. Burkittii and 
Mr. Fitzgerald's species are precisely similar ; flowers are not available ; in 
A. Eandelliana the funicle is similar to that of A. Bnrkiltii, but the seeds seem 
more globular. At the same time I think the two species are not really different. 
Leaves (Phyllodes). Linear-subulate, terminating in an extremely fine 
hair-like curved tip. (This hairy curved tip is of considerable diagnostic value.) 
The phyllode is usually glabrous and finely striate, and in the younger 
specimens there is a fine fringe of hairs on either side of the phyllode, which 
continues to the extreme point. 
There is a small gland a little way up from the base, seen under a lens; the 
base is rather long, smooth, and wrinkled. 
Length, anything from 8-15 cm , more or less angular in section. 
The evidence as to its acceptability to stoak is contradictory. It is so woody 
that I do not think its value stands high, and I rarely noticed stock nibble it. At 
the same time I have only been a traveller, and not a resident, in the Western 
districts. 

Fruits. See above, where they are now described. 
The natives of the country around Lako Gillies eat the seeds ; they roast them 
green, and when dry they grind them. The pods are sometimes 8 or 9 inches long. 
The trees are most prolific in pods. They arc now (November, 1915) loaded. A 
tree tliat was loaded with pods t\vo years ago (1913) has none on this year, so, 
perhaps, they do not have pods on every year. (W. C. Newbold.) 
A. Burkittii is very common indeed in western New South Wales, but I 
never saw a pod of it until I received it from South Australia, I know the Wattle 
personally from Nyngan to Bourke, but none of my correspondents could give me 
pods, nor were they certain that they had seen any. The evidence at present points 
to the species fruiting far more abundantly in South Australia than in New South 
Wales. 
Size. The highest, about 10 feet or 12 feet. They run from that down to 
3 or 1 feet. 
Habitat. In the Flora Australicnsis this was only recorded from South 
Australia. 
It is a dry country species, and its range in South Australia is indicated ; it 
is now recorded for the first time from Western Australia. 
