ACACIA SEEDLINGS. 427 
rarely two; rachis 4 mm. to 1°3 cm. long, glabrous, excur- 
rent; stipules reduced to small scales. 
No. 3. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole 1°2 to 2°5 cm. long, 
vertically flattened to sometimes 1°5 mm. broad, with a 
strong nerve or midrib along lower margin, upper margin 
brownish and somewhat nerve-like, pilose, excurrent; leaf- 
lets four to five pairs, oblong-acuminate, often mucronate, 
the terminal pair often obovate, the basal pair small, mar- 
gins often brownish-red; rachis 6 mm. to 1°3 cm. long, 
glabrous, or with a few scattered hairs. 
No. 4. This may be a linear-lanceolate phyllode 6 to 8 cm. 
long, narrowed towards the base, or it may be abruptly 
bipinnate, petiole 1°8 to 4°7 cm. long, up to 4°5 mm. broad, 
much narrowed towards the base, midrib slightly below 
centre of lamina, pilose; leaflets four to six pairs, the 
number on any of the bipinnate leaves not always constant 
on both pinne of the same leaf; rachis up to 1°4 cm. long; 
stipules flat, acuminate scales, 1 mm. long. 
Nos. 5 to 7. Phyllodes, at first reddish, becoming green, 
_up to 10 cm. long, 7°5 mm. broad in widest portion, some- 
times with a straight or hooked point, faintly pilose, with 
gland below middle. 
ACACIA CRASSIUSCULA Wendl. (A. pycnophylla Benth.). 
Seeds from Mount Melville, Albany, Western Australia 
(Professor W. G. Woolnough). (Plate XXXV, Numbers 
1 to 4). 
Seeds black, oblong, 4 to5 mm. long, 2mm. broad, 1 mm. 
thick. 
Hypocotyl erect, terete, creamy to pale pink, 1 to 1°5 
ecm. long, | mm. thick at base, 1 mm. thick at apex, 
glabrous, except that in one case it was noticed that several 
roots grew from a point about 5 mm. above the base of the 
hypocotyl. 
