108 R. H. CAMBAGE. 



to those of No. 2; rachis 4 to 7 mm.; stipules tapering to 

 linear, 1 mm, long. 



Nos. 5 and 6. These may be linear phyllodes or they 

 may be abruptly bipinnate similar to No. 4. 



Nos. 7 to 12. Linear, tapering, rigid, pungent-pointed 

 phyllodes, 7 to 8 mm. long, about 1 mm. broad, with a 

 prominent vein on each side and usually with a very slight 

 angle near the base on the upper margin which is channelled 

 below the angle in the early phyllodes. 



Many seeds of this species produce twin plants which in 

 most cases soon become separated. 



Uninerves — (Racemosse). 

 Acacia bancrofti Maiden. 1 Seeds from Eidsvold, Queens- 

 land (Dr. T. L. Bancroft, per J. H. Maiden). Plate II, 

 Numbers 4 to 6. 



Seeds black, oblong, 9 mm. to 1 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, 



2 mm. thick. The water in which the seeds with funicles 

 were immersed turned pale brown. 



Hypocotifl terete, red, 1*3 to 3*5 cm. long, about 2 mm. 

 thick at base, 1 mm. at apex. 



Cotyledons sessile, auricled, oblong, 1*3 to 1*4 cm. long, 

 4*2 to 5 mm. broad, upperside green, underside reddish- 

 brown to red. 



Stern terete, reddish-brown, becoming brownish-green, 

 glabrous. First internode *5 to 1 mm.; second 1 to 3 mm.; 

 third 2 to 3 mm.; fourth 3 to 6 mm.; fifth 3 to 8 mm.; sixth 



3 mm. to 2*7 cm. 



Leaves — No.l. Abruptly pinnate, petiole 6 mm, to 1*2 cm., 

 with gland near basal pair of leaflets, brownish-green, 

 glabrous; leaflets four to five pairs, oblong-acuminate, the 

 apical pair slightly obovate, mucronate, 5 mm. to 1*2 cm. 



1 Proc. Roy. Soc, Queensland, Vol. xxx, 26, (1918). 



