ACACIA SEEDLINGS. 153 



ate, up to 7 mm* long, 2 mm. broad, the basal pair the 

 longest, venation not distinct, upperside green, sometimes 

 at first reddish, underside brownish-red to red, glabrous; 

 rachis 3 to 7 mm. loug, glabrous, excurrent. 



No. 2. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole 4 to 7 mm., glabrous 

 or faintly pilose; leaflets two to three pairs, the numbers 

 not always equal on each pinna of the same leaf, oblong- 

 acuminate, the terminal pair often obovate, up to about 

 5 mm. long, 1 to 2*5 mm. broad, underside green to reddish; 

 rachis 6 to 8 mm., excurrent; stipules inconspicuous scales. 



Nos. 3 to 6. Of these, Nos. 4 to 6 may be phyllodes, or 

 with No. 3, abruptly bipinnate, petiole 6 mm. to 1*3 cm., 

 all being more or less vertically flattened, Nos. 3 and 4 

 with a strong nerve along the lower margin, and Nos. 5 

 and 6 with the midrib below the centre of the lamina, 

 glabrous; leaflets three to four pairs, sometimes two pairs 

 on No. 3, similar to those of No. 2, rachis 6 mm. to 1*2 cm.; 

 stipules flat acuminate scales. 



Nos. 7 to 12, Linear-lanceolate phyllodes, up to about 

 2 cm. long, 2 to 4 mm. broad, mucronate, sometimes with a 

 small gland on upper margin, glabrous or slightly glaucous. 



The early phyllodes are more linear than those of A. 

 biLxlfolia, a species with which it has affinities. 1 



Acacia podalyri^folia A. Cunn. "Queensland Wattle." 

 Seeds from Killara and Epping near Sydney. (Culti- 

 vated). (Plate VII, Numbers 4 to 6). 



Seeds black, oblong-oval, 6 to 7 mm. long, 3*5 to 4 mm. 

 broad, 1*5 to 2 mm. thick. 



Hypocotyl terete, reddish-brown above soil, pale below, 

 1 to 2*6 cm. long, 2 to 2*4 mm. thick at base, '7 to 1 mm. at 

 apex, glabrous. 



1 This Journal, li, 401, plate xvii, (1917). 



