NOTES ON ACACIA. 485 



that examination of the glands in Acacia should be given 

 more attention in future. 



Floivers in dense racemes, scarcely exceeding the 

 phyllodes; in globular heads, flowers five-merous, about 

 ten in the head. Rhachis glabrous. 



Calyx broadly conoid; slightly lobed, the length of the 

 calyx-lobes about equal to that of the petals. Somewhat 

 angular, besprinkled with a few scattered hairs. 



Petals glabrous, free, slightly incurved. 



Pistil smooth and shiny. 



Pod flat, glaucous, more or less netted, veined, when ripe 

 the edges of the valves with a narrow raised rim, the seeds 

 disposed longitudinally or obliquely and occasionally trans- 

 versely. 1 



Seed with a rather short filiform f unicle terminating in a 

 cushion-shaped white arillus at the top of the seed. 



The type is from St. Bernard's Hospice to Harrietville» 

 Victoria, (R. H. Cambage's No. 3714, 18th January, 1913). 

 It is in fruit only and the flowers have been described from 

 Buffalo Mountain, Victoria (Charles Walter, October 1902). 

 I have it also in fruit from Buckland River, Buffalo Moun- 

 tains (O. Walter, January 1899); I should have made this 

 the type, but the specimen is so sparse that I cannot divide 

 it. Also in fruit from Mrs. T. McCann, Snowy Creek, New 

 South Wales, via Tallangatta, Victoria. 



I have it in the youngest stage of bud, or in phyllodes 

 only, from Thredbo River, Jindabyne, New South Wales (W. 

 Baeuerlen, February 1890); Mount Kosciusko, N. S. Wales 

 up to 5,500 feet (J. H. M., January 1898); Jindabyne (J. H. 

 M. and W. Forsyth, January 1899); Mount St. Bernard, the 

 type locality (J. H. M., January 1900); Back Creek, Tum- 

 barumba (R. H. Cambage, No. 861, March 1903). 



1 I emphasise this as showing that the position of the seed in the pod 

 in Acacia varies like every other character. 



