ACACIA SEEDLINGS. 429: 
margin, glabrous, excurrent; leaflets three to four pairs; 
rachis up to 2°5 cm. long on No. 7. 
Nos. 8and 9. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole up to 3°5 cm. 
long on No. 8, and 4'8 em. long, 2 mm. broad, on No. 9, 
midrib below centre of lamina; leaflets five pairs; rachis. 
up to 2°4 cm. long. 
No. 10, Abruptly bipinnate, petiole linear, up to 7°8 cm. 
long, 3 mm. broad, with definite midrib; leaflets five pairs. 
Nos. 11 and 12. Linear, erect, phyllodes, up to about. 
10 cm. long, with gland near base. 
Although the phyllodes are markedly erect, the leaves. 
below them are disposed horizontally, and give to the little 
plants a prostrate appearance, especially prior to the 
advent of the phyllodes. 
PLURINERVES—(Oligoneure). 
Acacia HowiTtit F.v.M.! Seeds from Melbourne, (EK. EH. 
Pescott. Oultivated). (Plate XXXIV, Numbers 7 
to 9). 
Seeds brown to black, oblong to oblong-oval, 3 to 4mm. 
long, 1°5 to 2 mm. broad, 1 mm. thick. 
Hypocotyl erect, terete, reddish-brown, 7mm. to 1°5 cm. 
long, up to 1°8 mm. thick at base, °8 mm. thick at apex, 
glabrous, except that in one case six roots grew at about 
5 mm. from the base. 
Cotyledons sessile, auricled, oblong, apex rounded, about 
2mm. long, 2 mm. broad, soon becoming revolute, remain- 
ing until the phyllodes appear, outer or underside brown, 
upperside green, glabrous. 
Stem terete, the decurrent stems of the phyllodes often 
giving it a striated appearance which partly disappears. 
with age, green, somewhat viscid, pilose to hirsute. First 
1 Vict. Nat. x, 16, (May, 1893). 
