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long; grey, with silky hairs on the back, the face deep-purple and 
bearing a sgmicircular wing-like callosity just above the very short 
ab: Port Macquarie, communicated by Mr. J. H. Maiden. th the above 
was also a pod gathered at Murwillumbah, evidently belonging to the same species ; 
i i rly te 
this pod, however, .was 7 in. lo , tapering at each end; nearly tere 
i once received loose seed of th 
sega a up in the serubs of our Souther 
Ve given the plant in the Queensland Flora. 
Trizs— ACACIEA, 
_ ACACIA, Willd. * | 
A.melanoxylon, 2. Br.; Benti., in Vi. Austr. ii. 888. (Black 
wood or light wood of the southern colonies.) A small tree, except 
in Tasmania, where it attains a large si 
is new species from persons who had 
n border towards the Tweed River, so 
head of 30 to 50 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous, and often so closely 
cked in the head that -the calyxes adhere. Calyx more than half as 
ured from the base, very flexnose, 
More or less encircling the seed in double folds —Benth. Lc. 
Hab. : Gladfield, C. 7. Gwyther. 
: A pubescent form of this species, so far as can be determined from the speci- 
‘Meng Sent me. 
— psy he Sot et eee 
Order SAXIFRAGEZ. 
Trinz ESCALLONIEZ. 
Pp POLYOSMA, Blume. 
95 reducta, F. v. M., Viet. Nat. June 1892. A small tree of about 
Lect height, with appressed hairs on the branchlets and petioles. 
in, k mostly lanceolate, entire, gradually acuminate from 1; to 29 
~* fong, almost suddenly passing into the slender petiole, almost 
