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Victoria.- —In the N.W. desert, F. Mueller. 
South Australia. —From the Murray to St. Vincent’s and Spencer’s Gulfs, and northward to the 
desert interior, F. Mueller ; Memory Cove, II. Brown. 
West Australia. —Dirk Hartog’s Island, A. Cunningham; Shark’s Bay, Milne-, Murchison River, 
Oldfield ; also a specimen from Baudin’s Expedition, in Herb. R. Brown. 
To which may he added the following notes from specimens in the National 
Herbarium, Sydney :— 
New South IVales. —On red soil only, Bourke district. Grows about 8 feet 
high, with branches touching the ground and spread out like an umbrella 
(A. W. Mullen) ; Paroo River (E. Betclie). 
Queensland. —Bulloo River (through F. M. Bailey). 
Victoria. —Malice district (C. Walter). 
South Australia. —“Umbrella Bush” 8-10 feet high, spreading; grows in 
sandy country ; has yellow flowers ; is non-pendulous, and grows in a dense head 
(Walter Gill). 
East Wellington, No. 10, and Talowie Gorge and plains west of Flinders 
Range, No. 11. “ The big globular e Umbrella Bush ’ of the somewhat dry North, 
a rather tall, much branched shrub up to 4^ feet high. Pod exceeds in length 
anything described in the hooks, sometimes 2C cm. long.” (J. M. Black.) 
Bushy, 10 feet high. Port Augusta (J.H.M.) ; Murray Bridge (R. II. Camhage 
and J.H.M.). 
Killalpanina, Cooper’s Creek, near Lake Eyre (Ur. A. IV. Howitt) ; Lake 
Eyre (Prof. W. Baldwin Spencer). 
“ Resembles in some respects No. 42 (see var. variuns), the pods are similar, 
also the seeds have a red funicle folded, hut still in other respects it is very dissimilar. 
The branches are rigid, not pendulous. It is a large shrub, not a tree. It is more 
or less distributed in the North ; in some creeks this shrub grows almost exclusively. 
Mount Lyndhurst, No. 9 ” (Max Koch). 
West Australia. —Fraser Range, Elder Exploring Expedition, 31st October, 
1891 (R. Helms). 
(h) Variety varians, Bcntli. 
This is a tree, and the only form which yields timber. The original description 
is as follows :— 
A. varians (Benth. MS.) glabra, pallida v. glauca, ramulis subangulatis, phyllodiis oblongo- 
lanceolatis v. inferioribus late obovatis summisve linearibus, omnibus basi longe angustatis apice obtusis v. 
oblique mucronatis subimmargii.atis vix obscure glanduliferis uninervibus tin niter reticulato-penniveniis, 
capitulis sub 20- floris solitariis subracemosis v. in racemos foliatos dispositis, calycibus truncatis, iegumine 
glabro crasso sublignoso. Very near A. salicina, and possibly a mere variety, but the phyllodia are 
generally considerably broader, and the inhorescence different. (Mitchell’s I'rop. Aust., 132 [1848]). 
