Shrub 4 m. branching from base, fruit pilose, perianth reddish with green tips, anthers red, connective, produced into a curious white stalked gland. Filaments white, leafless at time of flowering, very slight smell [More information given] Pale alluvial soil with Caesalpinia ellangin, Acacia seyal, A. mellifera and A. orfota Gillett 13438 is a good match for Paoli 578, one of the two syntypes of Acacia paoli Chiov., which is in flower. It was lent to Kew by the Florence Herbarium. The [illegible] on the young branchlets of Paoli 578 are much [illegible] c. 1mm long, in all some to 2 mm 30.4.57 J.P. M. Brenan [illustration given] [More information given]