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phyllodes. The ripe fruit now received proves that there are 
two species, one with glabrous leaves and winged pods (A. 
platycarpa, F. Muell.) the other with puberulous leaves and. 
obtuse-edged pods (A. sericea, A. Cunn.). Dunn’s Wattle combines 
characters of both, having glabrous phyllodes and wingless pods. 
It constitutes in fact a distinct and very interesting species. 
A description of the plant is as follows :— 
A. Dunnii, Turrill, sp. nov., affinis A. platycarpae, F. Muell. 
sed phyllodiis multo majoribus glandulis excurrentibus et 
leguminibus exalatis differt. 
Arbor glauca, glaberrima, in ramos plures erectos simplices 
teretes 4-5m. altos basi 2-3 cm. diam. apice florigeros divisa. 
Phyllodia pendula, ovato-falcata, dimidiata, coriacea, lucida, 
20-50 cm. longa, distanter adpresse serrata, apice obtusa, in 
petiolos breves angustata, 4-nervia, crebre reticulato-venosa, 
nervis cum margine confluentibus, glandulis marginalibus dentes 
terminantibus. Capitula flava, circiter 20-flora, paniculas 20-40 
cm. longas caules terminantes formantia, 1-2 cm. diam., pedunculis 
1-4-nis 1-2 cm. longis. Flores flavi, 4mm. longi. Calyx in lobos 
5 divisus, lobis 3 mm. longis ligulatis apice hirsutis incrassatis. 
Corolla calyce paullo longior, in lobos 5 oblanceolatos divisa. 
Stamina «, 4 mm. longa. Legumen oblongum, complanatum , 
faleatum, inter semina paullo contractum, suturis obtusum, 
exalatum, apice basique acutum, 9-11 cm. longum, valvis lignosis 
reticulato-venosis. Semina 12-14, transversa, 1.2 cm. longa, 5mm. 
lata, brunnea, lucida, basi strophiolo breviter tecta, endocarpio 
membranaceo inclusa. Acacia sericata, A. Cunn., var. Dunnii, 
Maiden, in Ewart and Davies, The Flora of the Northern Territory, 
p. 336. 
N.W. Austratia.—From fissures in hard quartzite rock near 
Victoria River, Northern Territory ; flowers May, fruit June, 1922. 
E. J. Dunn. 
XLV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
P ‘ood.—The wood of Pyrus communis, L. and its 
cultivated varieties the garden pears, is rarely seen in quantity 
in merchants’ yards and the reason is easily found, for trees are 
not cut in large numbers except at the clearance of old orchards, 
and even then they are often disposed of as firewood, not as 
useful timber. The trunks of well grown trees however, if 
sound, 8 inches and upwards in diameter and clear of branches 
for at least five feet, are worth offering for sale, while the trunks 
ef some of the large perry pears from the orchards of Hereford- 
shire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire are valuable. The 
wood has very small pores and fine medullary rays, is heavy, 
ained, even in texture, and pinkish or pale reddish- 
brown, with little distinction in colour between sap-wood and 
