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2. With A. juncifdia Benth. In this species the phyllodes are up to 17 cm. in 
length, with a midrib, and with a bend about half an inch from the base, and subtended 
by a gland. The lobes of the calyx are divided to the base, and their edges are ragged. 
Ovary smooth and shiny. Very small arillus. There are other differences between 
this and A. Havilandi. 
3. With A. Menzelii J. M. Black. Its affinities are less close. 
Botanical Name. Acacia, already explained (see Part XV, p. 104); Havilandi, 
in honour of Edwin Haviland (1823-1908), for notes and portrait see Journ. Roy. Soc. 
N.S.W., xlii, p. 106, Plate 11; and of his son, Archdeacon Francis Ernest Haviland, 
now of Goonamble, formerly of Cobar, New South Wales. Both have specialised in 
the fertilisation of Australian plants, and have also worked at taxonomy and other 
branches of botany, and their contributions are mostly to be found in Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W. I was for long, in the early eighties, a weekly companion of the father in 
botanical excursions, chiefly in the Port Jackson district, while the son has been a 
generous contributor to the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and specially 
brought this species under my notice. 
Vernacular Name. I know of no name certainly applied to this species, 
and therefore have proposed one. 
Leaves. They are comparatively brittle, and offeisa rough-and-ready test for 
the species. 
Size. A small shrub, under 10 feet high, so far as I know at present. 
Habitat. It has been found over a rather extensive range in the drier parts of 
New South Wales from the Lachlan to the Pilliga and Angledool (close to the Queensland 
border). It also extends to the Mallee country of Victoria, to the vicinity of Spencer's 
Gulf in South Australia. 
Neiv South Wales. Lachlan district (J. Duff, 1882) (as A. juncifdia). 
Cudgellico, via Condobolin (G. Horan per E. Cheel). Upper Lachlan River (Rev. J. 
Milne Curran, in Herb. Melb.)'. 
Harvey Range, near Peak Hill (J.H.M., 1898). 
Small tree (shrub), 6 or 6 feet high. Leaves fairly brittle. Bark rather rough. 
Nymagee (R. H. Cambage, 6th June, 1900). So far as I know, Mr. Cambage was the 
first to draw attention to the brittleness of the phyllodes. 
Mount Hope (J. L. Boorman). Height 4 feet, very bushy. Shuttleton (P. E. 
Lewis, No. 6). Flowers 4-merous. On Devonian quartzite ridge. Shuttleton (Arch- 
deacon Haviland, No. 5). 
" I have never seen an Acacia like this before." Wong Suey's garden, Cobar 
(L. Abraham, Nos. 47 and 141, 1911). Wong Suey's Paddock, Cobar (Archdeacon 
Haviland, 1917). Noted \nideiA.juncifdia in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. , my error. 
