NOTES ON ACACIA. 



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If Plate 181 (A.Hamiltoniana) and Plate 177 (A.obtusata) 

 of my "Forest Flora of New South Wales" be compared, it 

 will be seen that the funicle is much shorter and the dis- 

 position of the seed more longitudinal in the former species, 

 while the phyllodes of the two species are very different. 

 Those of A. obtusata are usually almost spathulate with a 

 prominent marginal gland about a third of the way up from 

 the base, which has the effect of causing a deflection of the 

 margin on the side opposed to the stem. Those of A. 

 Hamiltoniana are narrow-lanceolate, almost symmetrical, 

 rigidly coriaceous, acuminate, one-nerved, with thickened 

 nerve-like margins, a gland about one-fifth of the way up 

 from the base. 



A. Ohalkeri Maiden, this Journ. xlix, p. 482. 

 Mr. R. H. Cambage gave me flowering specimens (Decem- 

 ber) from the type locality, showing that they are bright 

 yellow in colour and strongly and sweetly scented. The 

 species was then in full bloom. 



A. Kettle wellt^:, this Journ. xlix, p. 484. 



Mr. W. A. W. de Beuzeville, Forest Assessor, Forest 

 Department, gives the following useful notes on a little 

 known species : — 



"A shrub varying from two feet to fifteen feet high, usually 

 about the former height when growing in thick scrubs and attain- 

 ing the latter when growing under more or less isolated conditions. 

 Erect in habit, reminding one rather of Acacia decora in appear- 

 ance but more compact. Blooms very freely, in fact produces a 

 more luxuriant crop of blossoms than any other Acacia that I 

 have seen in this locality; greatest diameter I have seen is about 

 three inches. It favours generally rough granite hillsides, on the 

 higher slopes, often to be seen in the deep rough gullies where it 

 seems to attain its greatest height growth growing in company 

 with Daviesia corymbosa generally at an elevation of more than 



