432 R. H. CAMBAGE. 
nine in No. 4, often mucronate; gland on petiole and often 
at base of terminal pair of pinnee; rachis 1°2 to 2°4 cm. 
No. 4 may be an apparent tripinnate leaf.* 
Nos. 5 and 6. Abruptly bipinnate, No. 5 with three and ° 
four pairs of pinnee, and No. 6 with five pairs; the common 
petiole up to 3° cm. long in No. 5, and 5°7 cm. in No. 6, 
hirsute, excurrent; leaflets on the terminal pair of pinnee 
nine to ten pairs; gland on petiole and often at base of 
terminal pair of pinnee; rachis on the terminal pair of pinnz 
up to 3 cm. long. 
A plant a little over one foot high may have nine pairs 
of pinnee on one leaf. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
Puate XXXI., 
Acacia alata R. Br. 
Le a 
1, Cotyledons and opposite pair of pinnate leaves. From Western 
Australia, cultivated in Botanic Gardens, Sydney, (J. H. 
Maiden). 
2. Opposite pair of pinnate leaves and phyllodes. 
3. Pod. 
Acacia continua Benth. 
4, Cotyledons, with tips of opposite pair of pinnate leaves showing. 
Broken Hill (E. C. Andrews). 
5, Opposite pair of pinnate leaves, bipinnate leaves and phyllodes. 
6. Pod and seeds. 
Acacia oxycedrus Sieb. 
7. Cotyledons and pinnate leaf. Hornsby. 
8. Pinnate leaf, bipinnate leaves and pungent pointed phyllodes. 
Nodule on root. 
9. Pod and seeds. 
+ This Journal, Vol. ui, 394, (1917). 
