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No. 3. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole 1*2 to 1*8 cm. long, 

 green, sometimes brownish-green, pilose to hoary, excur- 

 rent; leaflets six to ten pairs, sometimes mucronate; rachis 

 1*4 to 2 cm. long, green, pilose, excurrent; stipules some- 

 times showing as minute scales. 



Nos. 4 and 5. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole up to 2 cm. 

 long in No. 4, and 2*5 cm. in No. 5, pilose to hoary, excur- 

 rent ; leaflets seven to twelve pairs in No. 4, and up to 

 thirteen in No. 5, which, with No. 6 may sometimes have 

 two pairs of pinnae; 1 rachis green, pilose, excurrent. 



Nos. 6 and 7. Sometimes phyllodes or they may be 

 abruptly bipinnate, petiole up to 3*1 cm. long, pilose to 

 hoary; leaflets up to fourteen pairs. 



No. 8 and upwards. Phyllodes, varying in length from 

 about 1 to 3 cm., *4 to *6 mm. broad, on plants up to 1 foot 

 or 18 inches high. 



In some cases the phyllodes are slender and weak, while 

 on other plants they are fairly stiff, with the midrib show- 

 ing under a pocket lens, and they taper into a straight or 

 a bent point, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs towards 

 the bases of the first dozen or so. 



Uninerves — Racemosse. 



Acacia buxifolia, A. Ounn. Seeds from Grattai near 

 Mudgee, (J. H. Maiden), and foot of Victoria Pass, 

 Mount Victoria, N. S. Wales. (Plate XVII, Numbers 

 4 to 6). 



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

 mm. broad, 1*5 mm. thick. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, pale red, 1*7 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 

 2*5 mm. thick at base, *6 to *9 mm. at apex, glabrous. 



1 Several examples, on natural seedlings, were handed to me by Mr. 

 J. J. Fletcher, collected at Hunter's Hill, near Sydney. 



Z— November 7, 1917. 



