108 K. H. CAMBAGE. 



underside reddish-green, becoming pale green ; stipules 

 green, oblong, acuminate, 1*5 mm. long, *5 mm. broad at 

 base. 



Nos. 4 and 5. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole similar to that 

 of No. 2, and with prominent gland ; leaflets six to eleven 

 and rarely thirteen pairs. 



Nos. 6, 7 and 8. Either abruptly bipinnate, with petiole 

 vertically flattened to scarcely 1 mm. broad, and with a 

 prominent central nerve ; or reduced to a phyllode, elliptical, 

 mucronate, with central nerve, sometimes running obliquely 

 to the apex with the lower margin nerve-like for about half 

 its length, or with central nerve merging into the lower 

 margin at about half the distance to the apex, the phyllode 

 pilose. 



Uninerves — Racemosse. 



Acacia vestita, Ker. Seeds from Mudgee — (L.F. Harper). 

 (Plate X, Numbers 5 to 8.) 



Seeds black, obovate-oblong to oval-oblong, 5 to 6 mm. 

 long, 3*5 to 4 mm. broad, 1*5 mm. thick. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, reddish to reddish-green, 1*7 to 

 3 cm. long, 2 mm. thick at base, 1 mm. at apex, glabrous, 

 or the upper portion may become sprinkled with a few hairs. 



Cotyledons sessile, very slightly auricled, overlapping 

 the hypocotyl about 1 mm., obovate, 5 to 6 mm. long, 4 mm. 

 broad, at first erect but becoming horizontal and revolute 

 in a few days, cylindrical within a week, and falling in two 

 or three weeks, outer or underside purple, usually with 

 raised portion longitudinally along centre, upperside 

 greyish-green, becoming green, glabrous. 



Stem terete, or angular where leaf-stalks are decurrent 

 on the stem, pubescent. First internode '5 mm.; second 

 1 to 8 mm.; third 1 mm. to 1*4 cm.; fourth about 3 mm.; 

 fifth up to 5 mm.; sixth up to 7 mm., varying in different 

 individuals. 



