414 R. H. CAMBAGE. 
No. 5 and upwards. Falcate, pungent-pointed phyllodes, 
bifacial and decurrent, each one extending down to the 
next on the same side of the stem, the whole phyllode 
having a remarkable flange-like appearance, midrib approxi- 
mately at right angles to the stem, the decurrent portion 
of the lamina being marked by reticulating veins, margins 
hirsute; stipules spinescent, 1 to 3 mm. long, gland not 
conspicuous on first few phyllodes. 
This is the second seedling described in this series where 
the No. 3 leaf has been reduced to a phyllode, the previous 
one being A. excelsa.+ In some examples of the latter 
Species, however, the third to fifth leaves were bipinnate, 
but in about a dozen seedlings examined of A. alata, no 
instance of a bipinnate leaf was found. In one example 
the second and subsequent leaves were reduced to phyl- 
lodes. 
CONTINUA. 
ACACIA CONTINUA Benth. Seeds from Broken Hill, N.S. 
Wales (Archdeacon F. E. Haviland and H. C. Andrews). 
(Plate XXXI, Numbers 4 to 6). 
Seeds dark brown with paler centre, obliquely obovate, 
3 to 3°5 mm. long, 2 to 2°5 mm. broad, 1 mm. thick. 
Hypocotyl erect, terete, green to pale pink, 1°3 to 1°6 cm. 
long, 2 mm. thick at base, 1 mm. thick at apex, glabrous. 
Cotyledons sessile, slightly auricled, obovate to oval, 
4mm. long, 3 mm. broad, underside creamy to brown or 
reddish-purple, sometimes with raised centre line, inner or 
upperside pinkish-brown, remaining erect and soon falling. 
Stem terete, except where affected by the slightly 
decurrent leafstalks, brown at base, green above, striated 
with several nerves. First internode °5 mm.; second 1 mm.; 
third 1 mm.; fourth 2 mm.; fifth 2 to 3 mm.,; sixth 3 to5 
mm.; seventh 4 to 6 mm.; eight 5 to 8 mm. 
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