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SOME NEW SOUTH WALES PLANTS ILLUSTRATED. 



By R. T. Bakee, Assistant Curator, Technological Museum, 

 Sydney. 



(Plate XIII.) 



No. iv. Acacia pruinosa, A. Cunn. B.Fl. ii. 413. 



The description of this species given in the Flora Australiensis 

 (Vol. ii. p. 413), which concludes with the statement "Pod not 

 seen," may be supplemented as follows : — 



Pod flat, straight, 4-6 inches long, varying from ^-J inch 

 wide. Seeds longitudinal, funicle dilated into a fleshy oblique 

 lateral aril, short, filiform below the seed. 



Hah. — Near Sydney and Liverpool Plains (Fl. Austr.); Gosford. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 

 (Plate XIII.) 

 Acacia 2y>'uinosa, A. Cunn. 

 Fig. 1.— Pod (nat. size). 

 Fig. 2.— Seed with arillus ( x 2). 

 Fig. 3. — Bracts (enlarged). 

 Fig. 4. — Expanded flower (enlarged). 

 Fig. 5. — Unexpanded flower (enlarged). 

 Fig. 6.— Pistil (enlarged). 



Fig. 7.— Back and front views of a stamen (enlarged). 

 Fig. 8. — Pollen grain (enlarged). 

 Fig. 9.— Portion of a phyllode (enlarged). 



