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Mr. Fitzgerald described A. ramulosa from Lennonville (6 miles north of Mount 
Magnet), W.A. He did not collect flowers, but described the pod as " linear-cylindrical, 
mostly 4-6 inches long, hardly or not contracted between the seeds, the valves striate, 
finely tomentose." It is one of the local Mulgas. I collected pods and flower-spikes 
from near Cue, in the Murchison district. 
The description may be completed as follows : 
Flower 5-merous; calyx very irregular, but sepals bluntly lobed and almost 
spathulate with the tips ciliate, a third as long as the corolla; petals glabrous and 
recurved, united two-fchirds up ; pistil with a close tomentum. 
The synonymy of this species appears to be as follows : 
1. A. cibaria F.v.M. in Mett). Chem. and Drugg., July, 1882 (in part). See 
above, p. 10. 
2. A. stereophylla Diels and Pritzel (non Meissn.) in Engler's Bot. Jahrb., xxxv, 
307 (1905). 
See also Ewart and White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Viet., xxii, 92 (1909). 
Diels and Pritzel quote what they call A. stereophylla Meissn. and add A. ciharia 
as a synonym. Following is a translation of their remarks, and although I have not 
seen the specimen described in the first paragraph, it is evident to me that it is A. 
ramulosa W.V.F. 
" To the description is added : Up to 3 m. high, phyllodes glaucous-cinereous, legumes afterwards 
pendulous, thick, more or less smooth, coriaceous but scarcely woody, distinctly longitudinally striate 
(the younger ones sometimes shortly cinereous-pubescent), narrowed slightly between the seeds, seeds 
longitudinal, thick but hardly twice as long as broad, concave in the middle of both sides. 
" In the Austin district, near Menzies, in open shrubby places in sandy-muddy soil, in fruit 
(m. Oct. D. 5,123) near Carnarvon, at the mouth of the Gascoyne River, in sandy soil, in fruit (m. Aug. 
D. 3,724). Also in the Berlin Herbarium there is an undetermined specimen collected at Shark's Bay 
in 1830 by Gaudichaud, which agrees entirely in fruit and flowers with preceding specimens. 
" With these specimens collected by us and with the originals of A. cibaria F.v.M., in the Melbourne 
Herbarium, agreeing entirely with every description of A. stereophylla Meissn., we think A. cibaria ought 
to be suppressed. 
" This species (A. stereophylla), with the fruit up till now unknown, was placed by Bentham with 
doubt close to A. acuminatum Benth. Now by the structure of the pod, our specimen appears to belong 
close to A. xylocarpum A. Cunn." (It is evident that the authors have got a wrong impression as to what 
A. sterevphytta Meissn. is. J.H.M.) 
Habitat. This species occurs in a number of places in the Eastern and 
Murchison Gold-fields of Western Australia, and it has recently been found at Tanami 
in the Northern Territory. It will probably prove to have a very wide range in arid 
country. Following are some specific localities : 
Western Australia. (a) " An erect, much branched shrub of 6-10 feet." 
Lennonville (Murchison River district). Type. (W. V. Fitzgerald.) 
(6) A spreading shrub of 8-10 feet. Laverton, 211 miles north of Kalgoorh'e. 
(J.H.M.) 
