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Acacia Craspedocarpa. 
11 . B , r . an 1 clllets cylindrical, slightly downy; phyllodia small, from narrow- 
elhptical to obovate, on very short stalks, of rather thick texture, blunt or 
mmutely apiculated, without any prominent Nerves, but subtly and 
immersedly 3-5-nerved and faintly reticulate-veined, almost imperceptibly 
downy ; spikes very short, axillary, solitary; fruit hard, straight, obli- 
que-elliptical or when shortened of an almost ovate form, blunt, scar- 
cely süpitate, strongly compressed, broadly bordered by a flat margin 
tardily dehiscent; seeds placed nearly or quite transversely; funicle 
short, under the very small and pale strophiole simply folded or 
somewhat twisted. 
In the vieinity of Lake Austin, H. S. King, Esq.; between Yuin 
and the Murchison-River Chev. Ernest G i 1 e s. 
A shrub, attaining a height of about a dozen feet. Stipules obli- 
terated. Phyllodia stiff, greyish-green, not shining, but slightly gluti- 
nous, sometimes a little flexuous, from about a half to an inch long 
without any well developed lateral or basal gland, but the apex 
somewhat eallous or glandular; the venous reticulations minutely mesh- 
r L n °^ ers on ^ seen on ^is occas i° n in a very young state, then 
slightly downy. Peduncles solitary, finally about half-an-inch long. 
bpike-raehis hardly longer. Fruit light-colored, somewhat glutescent, 
. " mches long, generally about 3 / 4 inch broad, almost flat, not septate, 
irregulary reticular-wrinkled outside, the rather sharp-edged margin 
one sixth to one-tenth inch broad, Splitting, but marked off from the 
cavity by a very distinct sutural line. Seeds several, black, ovate or 
r ?r / verging mto a roundish form, about V 4 inch long; lateral areole 
elliptical, small; strophiole approaching a navicular form, several times 
shorter than the seed. 
A plant with smaller phyllodia, obtained near Stuart’s Range by 
Mr. Wmnecke, may belong toA. craspedocarpa also; the specimens 
however are m a young flowering state only. 
The phyllodia of our new species are not dissimilar to those of A 
translucens, though generally broader: but there is a wide difference 
m flowers and fruit; of real affinity is A. lysiphloia, from which how¬ 
ever as well as from nearly all other species lt is easily distinguished 
by its remarkably broad - margined fruit, reminding in that of A 
sencata. 
How far this Acacia mav be of importance for yields of gum or 
tan-bark or perhaps scented wood, remains to be ascertained. 
In elaborating illustrated decades of such Acacias, as have not yet 
+ en V™™ ual y depictured, the writer has ascertained the value of 
wo additional characteristics for diagnosis, not drawn into use before : 
Ist, the erect Position of the seeds of some secies, resulting from a 
torsion of the funicle, the seeds in the majority of the species being 
pendent and in a considerable number placed transversely. 2nd, the 
number of corpuscles which constitute the compound pollen grains.] 
^io^ a ^r Z 2 r ^^ 0ra von (Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften. 
.tSd. V. 1öö 7. Heft 5.) 
Radlkofer, L., Ergänzungen zur Monographie der Sapindaceen- Gattung 
oerjama. (bep.-Abdr. aus Abhandlungen der k. bayerischen Akademie der 
Wissenschaften in München. II. Classe. Bd. XVI. 1887. Abth. 1) 40 X 
195 pp. und 9 Tfln. München (Franz) 1887. M 6 — 
Regd, E., Iris lineata Förster und Iris vaga Förster. Mit 1 Tfl. (Garten- 
nora. 1887. p. 201.) 
Reichenbach, H. G. fll., Galeandra flaveola n. sp. (The Gardeners’ Chro- 
nicle. Ser. III. Vol. I. 1887. No. 16. p. 512.) 
Rolfe, R. A., Pleurothalli8 insignis n. sp. (1. c. p. 477.) 
Paläontologie: 
Windisch, Paul, Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Tertiärflora von Island. 8°. 
50 pp. [Inaug.-Diss.] Leipzig 1887. 
