17. ROSACE^E. 



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40-.5.'5 nmi. (1^-2^ in.) long, silky- 

 villous, the upper edge wavy ; 

 seeds 3-4, large, finely tubercu- 

 late, tawny, with brown sti-eaks 

 and dots. 



Sandhills, Grange Road ; AVest 

 AVellington. — Aug. - Oct. — Medi- 

 terranean region. A valuable 

 plant for binding sand. 



Casalpinia scpiaria, Roxbui'gh, 

 A downy, climbing, prickly shrub, 

 with bipinnate leaves of about 

 10 primary divisions, each of 

 which bears about 10 oblong 

 leaflets; flowers yellow, in long 

 axillary racemes ; pods large, 

 pointed. Planted for hedges in 

 Waterfall Gully. — Nov. — Queens- 

 land and India. 



9. Albizzia, Durazzini. 



(After an Italian naturalist 



named Albizzi.) 

 1. Albizzia iopha.ntha, 



Henth. 



Lupinus hirsutus. 



Crested Waffle. Small 

 tree with downy branches; leaves 

 bipinnate with 6-10 pairs of pri- 

 mary divisions (pinncc). each of 

 which cari'ies 20-40 linear-oblong 

 leaflets, with the principal nerve 

 near the upper edge ; flowers 

 greenish, in dense cylindrical 

 axillary racemes, much shorter 

 tlian the leaf ; peduncles 2-3 in 

 each axil ; calyx campanujat*, 

 downy, o-toothed ; corolla o-lobed, 

 3 times as long as the calyx ; 

 stamens long, protruding, united 

 in a tube near the base ; pod 

 about 10 cm. (4 in.) long, flat, 

 linear-oblong, beaded, with 8-11 

 transverse, ovoid - compressed, 

 blackish seeds, on a slender red 

 funicle. 



Waterfall Gully ; National 

 Park : Willunga. Planted as an 

 ornamental tree and spontaneous in places. — Mar. - Aug. — 

 Western Australia. 



Family 17.— ROSACEi^. 

 Calyx 4-o-lt)l)ed ; petals 4-0, rarely more; stamens numer- 

 ous, inserted with the petals in the throat of the calyx; 



Albizzia lophantha. 



