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SOME NEW SOUTH WALES PLANTS ILLUSTRATED. 



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



Sydney. 



(Plate IX.) 



No. vi. Acacia subulata, BonpL, B.Fl. ii. 370. 



A tall glabrous shrub, attaining 10ft. or more, with erect slender 

 slightly angular branches. Phyllodia narrow-linear, mucronulate, 

 narrowed at the base, 3 to Gin. long, scarcely 1 line broad in some 

 specimens, straight or nearly so, rather thin, 1 -nerved. Flower- 

 heads several, globular, small, in slender axillary racemes, the 

 peduncles almost filiform. Flowers about 12 to 20, very small, 

 mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, turbinate, usually toothed, fully 

 half as long as the corolla, peduncles smooth. 



Pod (previously unrecorded) from 2 to 6 inches long, about 4 

 lines broad, flat, thin, glabrous, and nearly straight. 



Seeds ovate-longitudinal, funicle very long, dilated and coloured 

 almost from the base, very flexuose, more or less encircling the 

 seed in double folds. 



Log. — Forests of the Goulburn River. The specimen figured 

 came from Bylong Cieek, on the upper course of the Goulburn 

 River. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX. 



Fig. 1. — Flowering specimen (nat. size). 

 Fig. 2. — Unexpanded flower. 

 Fig. 3. — Expanded flower. 

 Fig. 4. — Pod (nat. size). 

 Fig. 5.— Seed. 

 Fig. 6.— Pistil. 

 Fig. 7.— Phyllode (enlarged). 

 Fig. 8.— Bracts. 

 All enlarged to various extents except Figs. 1 and 4. 



