LEGUMINOS^E 473 



Plant No. 1. 1st internode 3 cm. long; 2nd 2 mm.; 3rd 

 I'D mm. ; 4th 2-25 mm. ; 5th 7'5 mm. ; 6th 3 mm. ; 7th I'l cm. ; 

 8th 5 mm. ; 9th 4 mm. ; 10th 5-5 mm. 



Plant No. 2. 1st internode 1*5 mm. long ; 2nd 1 mm. ; 3rd 

 5 mm. ; 4th I'lo cm. ; 5th 5 mm. 



Leaves compound and abruptly pinnate or reduced to phyllodes, 

 cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, glabrous ; stipules small, 

 slender, subulate, acute. 



Plant No. 1. No. 1. Pinnate, with one pair of pinnae and ex- 

 current at the apex to a filiform point ; leaflets oblong, obtuse, 

 subcuspidate. 



No. 2. Dropped or broken off. 



No. 3. Pinnate with three pairs of leaflets. 



No. 4. With two small, ovate, acute, and one oblong leaflet ; 

 petiole laterally compressed. 



Nos. 5-10. Reduced to lanceolate-oblong, acute phyllodes with 

 their edges placed vertically, equally deep green on both sides, and 

 longitudinally multinervecl. 



Plant No 2. Nos. 1 and 2. With three pairs of oblong subcuspi- 

 date leaflets with subinvolute margins and unequal at the base on 

 the posterior side. 



No. 3. With two pairs of leaflets ; petiole slightly compressed 

 laterally and in a less degree than those of Nos. 1 and 2. 



No. 4. With one pair of leaflets and a strongly projecting rachis ; 

 petiole laterally compressed, linear-lanceolate with its edges vertical. 



No. 5. Reduced to a phyllode. 



Acacia verticillata, Willd. (fig. 309). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, green, soon becoming woody. 



Cotyledons obovate, oblong, obtuse, subfleshy, deep green and 

 shining, 4'5 mm. long ; 3'5 mm. broad. 



Stem woody, erect, terete, ribbed and furrowed or deeply striate, 

 closely and minutely tuberculated, very sparsely pubescent, bright 

 green at least when young ; 1st iuternode undeveloped ; 2nd 3 mm. 

 long ; 3rd 6 mm. ; 4th 6'5 mm. ; 5th 2*5 cm. ; 6th 1-6 cm. ; 7th 

 8'5 mm. ; 8th 7 mm. ; 9th 4'5 mm. ; 10th 3 mm. 



Leaves at first pinnate, then bipinnate, then reduced to 

 phyllodes, cauline, alternate (the phyllodes more or less verti- 

 cillate, sometimes scattered), stipulate, petiolate, deep glaucous- 

 green above, glaucous beneath (phyllodes deep green like the 

 petioles of the leaves), glabrous except the slightly pubescent 

 petioles and midrib ; petioles laterally compressed but less so than 

 the phyllodes, deep green and shining, and projecting beyond the 



