ACACIA SEEDLINGS. 



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the following are now added: — A. accola, A. complanata, 

 A. decora, A. flexifolia, A. hakeoides, A. penninervis, A+ 

 podalijricefolia, A, rubida, A. subulata, A, trinervata, and 

 A. vomeriformis. 



Description of Seedlings. 



Pungentes — (Uninerves). 



Acacia asparagoides A. Ounn. Seeds from Medlow and 

 Mount Victoria. (Plate II, Numbers 1 to 3). 



Seeds dull black, often mottled, oval to oblong-oval, 3 to 

 3*5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, 1*5 mm. thick. 



Hypocotyl terete, brownish-green to pale pink above 

 soil, thickening into flange at root, 9 mm. to 1*5 cm. long, 

 '8 to 1 mm. thick at base, about *5 mm. at apex, glabrous. 



Cotyledons sessile, auricled, oblong-oval, 4 mm. long, 2 

 to 2*5 mm. broad, upperside green, underside pale green 

 to pinkish, with one or two raised lines. 



Stem terete, brownish-grey, slightly tomentose. First 

 internode *5 mm.; second 1 mm.; third 1 to 3 mm.; fourth 

 1 to 5 mm.; fifth and sixth 2 to 6 mm. 



Leaves — No. 1. Abruptly pinnate, petiole 3 to 5 mm., 

 channelled above, green, glabrous; leaflets two pairs, 

 oblong-acuminate to obovate, about 4 mm. long, 1 to 2 mm. 

 broad, upperside green, underside paler; rachis 2 mm, t 

 glabrous, with terminal seta; stipules reduced to scales. 



No. 2. Abruptly bipinuate, petiole 5 mm. to 1 cm., chan- 

 nelled above, glabrous, with terminal seta; leaflets one to 

 two pairs, the basal pair oblong-acuminate, the apical pair 

 obovate, mucronate, 1 to 5 mm. long, *5 to 2 mm. broad, 

 upperside green, underside paler; rachis 4 to 5 mm., with 

 terminal seta. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole 7 mm. to 1*1 

 cm., channelled above, glabrous; leaflets two pairs, similar 



