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Habitat, and some Botanical Notes. —It is confined to the southern and 
eastern half of New South Wales and to north-eastern Victoria, so far as we know 
at present. 
Turning to the localities given by Bentham (B.F1. ii, 306) for A. amcena, I 
am of opinion that the Blue Mountains locality is probably that of A. rubida, where 
it is very common, while A. amcena has not been found on the Blue Mountains vet. 
The Iliawarra as a locality is somewhat vague ; A. rubida certainly occurs 
there, while A. amcena may. 
I have already stated my doubts as to the Lachlan and Macquarie Livers as 
localities for A. amcena . 
As regards the Victorian locality, Macalister Liver (Mueller), I have seen 
the specimen, which is in pod only, and believe it to be A. rubida. 
I have been on the quest for A. amcena for many years, but failed to get 
specimens sufficiently near to Wendland’s figure until Mr. Cambage sent me his 
Burragorang specimens in August, 1905. A specimen is figured in Plate 188, and 
comparison with Wendland’s figure (Tab. IV) leaves no doubt in my mind that we 
have got Wendland’s plant. 
The Burragorang locality, or country similar to it nearer Sydney, was visited 
by botanists and collectors in ample time before the publication of Wendland’s 
work (1820). 
Then came the search for the pods. It was not convenient for Mr. Cambage 
to re-visit the locality again in pod-time until December, 1911, and his specimens 
enable me now to figure and describe the pods for the first time. 
The phyllodes are scimitar-shaped, with (as regards Wendland’s figure) usually 
two especially prominent glands. 
The sepals are nearly half the length of the petals, bluntly-pointed spathulate, 
the upper portion and the angle (sometimes the angle is not very evident) densely 
covered with short hairs ; the sepals usually separating when the flower is fully 
out. The ovarium is densely pubescent. 
The pods of A. amcena are about 5-6 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, constricted 
between the seeds, the valves shiny, the seeds longitudinally disposed, the funicle 
imperfectly and interruptedly encircling the seed two or three times ana terminatin 
in a club-shaped aril under the seed. 
Mueller’s description of A. amcena, Wendl., is in the following words :— 
Flowers rather few in each headlet. Shrubby ; phyllodia narrow or elongate-lanceolar, slightly 
curved, provided at the upper edge and distant front the base with one or two, or rarely three, prominent 
glandules; flower-heads small, in short racemes ; fruit elliptic, or broad linear, flat ; valves thin ; seeds 
almost completely surrounded in a double line by the dark-brown funicle. (Key System Viet. Plants, i, 191.) 
