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Flowering Seedlings. 

 The following examples are given of Acacia seedlings, 

 which were raised and remained in 5 or 6-inch pots, having 

 flowered: — A. aspera, A. cardiophylla, A. crassiuscida, 

 A. diffusa, A. Flocktonice, A. lanigera, A, linearis, A. mon- 

 tana, A. polybotrya, A. spectabilis, and A. stricta. Most of 

 of the plants were about three years old, but the seedling of 

 A. diffusa, which flowered sparsely, was only one year and 

 seven months, and of A. cardiophylla, one year and eight 

 months. One seedling of A. montana, which grew in a 

 5-inch pot, was three years old, four feet high, and bore 

 3000 flowers. The plants which were left in the sun 

 throughout the year flowered best. On a plant of A. 

 crassiuscida five feet six inches high, growing in a 6-inch 

 pot, pods ripened at two years and ten months. 



Descriptions of Seedlings. 



Pungentes — (Aphyllee). 



Acacia colletioides A. Ounn. Seeds from Oobar, (Arch- 

 deacon F. E. Haviland). (Plate V, Numbers 1 to 3). 



Seeds black, oval, 3 mm. long, 2 to 2*5 mm. broad, 1 mm. 

 thick. 



Hypocotyl terete, reddish-brown, 1*2 to 2*4 cm. long, 1 

 to 2 mm. thick at base, '4 to 1 mm. at apex, glabrous, 



Cotyledons sessile, sagittate, oblong, apex rounded, 4 to 

 5 mm. long, 2*2 to 2'5 mm. broad, underside pale yellowish- 

 green, reddish-green to reel, with one or two raised longi- 

 tudinal lines, upperside dark green, glabrous; becoming 

 horizontal in a few days. 



Stem terete, greenish-brown, pilose when very young, 

 becoming glabrous. First internode *5 mm.; second to 

 sixth about 1 mm. each. 



Leaves — No. 1, Abruptly pinnate, petiole 4 to 7 mm., 

 brownish-green, glabrous; leaflets two to three pairs, up to 



