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Vernacular Name, "Umbrella Mulga" is the namo most usually applied 
to this species, so far as I know. With others it shares the name " Narrow-leaved 
Mulga." 
Aboriginal Name. I know of none which has been applied with cerbainty 
to this species. 
Leaves. The narrow phyllodes, sometimes nearly terete, are an important 
character in this species. This is an inedible species, in contradistinction to the 
common Mulga (A. aneura), which is a valuable fodder plant. 
Fruit. The pod was unknown to Bentham; it is figured on Plate 230, and 
more than one specimen of it is incidentally described under " Habitat." 
Size. Usually a medium sized or tall bushy shrub, it may attain the size of 
a tree 20 or 30 feet high. 
Habitat. It is a species of arid areas, the type coming from the Mutanie 
Range, I believe not far from Broken Hill, N.S.W. ; Barrier Range is practically the 
same locality (type of A. aneura var. stenocarpa). Then we have Darling River and 
Barcoo (A. cibaria), the first locality practically the same class of country as that 
quoted for A. brachystachya and A. aneura var. stenocarpa, the Barcoo* extending 
from northern South Australia to Western Queensland. Some specific localities follow- 
New South Wales. 1. Tree 20-30 feet. The particular specimen seen by me 
is without flowers or fruits, though doubtless Mueller, who named the specimen 
A. cibaria, had one or the other. Grey Range, north-west angle of New South Wales 
(W. Baeuerlen, who was collecting for the Technological Museum under my direction 
in 1885). 
2. " Pointed out to me by Mr. A. W. Mullen, L.S., as differing from the common 
Mulga, A. aneura. It grows in especially dry stony places, is more branching from 
the base, never reaching to the tree-like dimensions that Mulga does (he is speaking 
of the Bourke district, J.H.M.). It has narrower leaves and is invariably untouched 
by stock. A. aneura grows in its company normal in appearance and edible." 
Thirty-seven miles from Wanaaring, going north (J. L. Boorman). 
3. Type of A. aneura var. (?) stenocarpa Benth. Pods with valves of fawn- 
grey woolly texture, with brown stripes. 4-6 cm. long, about 5 mm. broad. They 
are flattish and somewhat twisted, evidently affected by some insect, but a portion of 
some pods is terete. Yunyunga (? Yayinga) Mountains, Victorian Relief Expedition. 
4. Long, narrow pods, inclined to be flat, but becoming more terete as ripening 
proceeds. " Umbrella Mulga," North Bourke (A. Murphy). 
5. A tall, upright Mulga. Fort Bourke, near Bourke (A. W. Mullen, L.S.) 
A photo of this, as Acacia aneura " with narrow and unusually long leaves," 
by Mr. C. J. McMaster, will be found in Vol. iii of this work, under that species. 
Muollo; does not state what part of the Barcoo, which is perhaps 500 miles long, but in view of Dr. Beckler being 
the collector, I assume it -was collected on the Victorian Belief Expedition like the Yunyunga (Yungayunga) specimen, ; 
