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GENERAL BOTANY 



FIG. 20 

 AN ACACIA MELANOXYLON 



Showing how the smaller branches run outwards at right 

 angles to the general surface, i.e. towards the light. 



This tree had another one growing in front of it, and too 

 close to allow of branching in this direction, and by its removal 

 the arrangement of the branches has been well exposed. 



