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The twig to the left is probably A. BurkiUii F.v.M. The twig to the right is 
A. Currani Maiden (Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix, 492, 1915). So that the plate 
pourtrays no less than three species of Acacia ! 
Most of the enlarged drawings of Mueller's plate are those of A. BurkiUii. 
The type may be re-described as follows : 
Phyllode, terete or somewhat flattened, finely striate with a hoary tomentum, seen under a lens ; 
the base somewhat constricted and wrinkled for a few mm. with almost annular very shallow 
protuberances, the whole more or less hoary. 
Flowers in nearly sessile spikes, glabrous, 5-merous. 
Calyx turbinatc-truncate, slightly lobed at the apex, with a ragged, irregular edge, hoary on surface. 
About half as long as the corolla. 
Petals glabrous (too young to show recurving), united not quite half-way up. 
Pistil smooth and shiny or hoary (very small). 
Pod absent. 
The following specimens, probably A. cyperophylla, were seen by both Mueller 
and Bentham. They are only inferior in importance to the type. 
A specimen from Flinders River (No. 141) is smaller in all its parts, but appears 
to be structurally similar to the type. If the pods turn out different, the matter can 
be reconsidered. 
There is a second specimen labelled "No. 10," Flinders River, which is 
apparently the same as the above, but I do not know the name of the collector, 
although the handwriting was at one time familiar to me. I suggest it may be Henne. 
The specimen of Leichhardt's simply bears the words " Acacia " and 
" Leichhardt " in Bentham's handwriting in pencil. 
W. V. Fitzgerald writes as follows of this species : 
A. cyperophylla F.v.M. Calyx usually lobed to the middle; lobes ciliate. Petals connate to or above 
the middle. Pod long, linear, slightly constricted between the seeds, 4-6 inches long; valves convex, 
pubescent. Seeds oblique oblong; funicle rather long and much folded from the base, hardly thickened 
into a linear basilar arillus. (Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. 2, Part i, p. 51 [1901]). 
I doubt whether Mr. Fitzgerald saw the pods of A. cyperophylla. The linear 
pod 4-6 inches long, and convex, pubescent valves, constricted between the seeds, 
points to something different to what I recognise as A. cyperophylla. The most careful 
search here and in Perth has failed to find the specimens described. 
The following is a description (see also Fig. G. Plate 227) of a pod in situ, on a 
branchlct whose phyllodes are typical. It was collected by Captain S. A. White as 
stated below. 
Stipitate, pod flat, valves pointed at each extremity, 5 cm. Jong, 5 mm. broad, 
brownish, slightly scaly, thickened margins. 
Seeds thin, compressed, pale brown (evidently not perfectly ripe), of irregular 
quadrangular outline, funicle uniformly thread-like, once folded, arillus or cap very 
*matt. 
This, in my view, is the first time the pods of A. cyperophylla have been described. 
