PARTIAL DECADE OP THE WARWICK ACACIAS. 
BY 
C. Julian Gwyther. 
(Read on December 7th, 1893). 
^ In dealing with the “ Wattles ” of the Warwick district one 
finds few that could be worked commercially as a profitable 
venture, only one out of J. H. Maiden’s seven valuable tan-bark 
producers, namely, Acacia decurrens var. mollis. Wild., growing 
naturally in the locality, and though this occurs in very fair 
quantities in some portions within easy reach of a market, tlie 
available supply is gradually being diminished, and in lieu of further 
plantations, which as yet there are no signaof, must very soon 
a together, especially when we remember that acres 
are felled and burnt off the land, as an encumbering valueless 
quantity in the eyes of selectors. Large natural plantations of 
ns valuable tree are now standing bare and leafless on the 
Mam Range slopes only 20 or 25 miles from Warwick, stripped 
ren W likelihood of these waste lands being 
of stonv hxmdveds of acres 
2 aiX to Warwick of no possible use 
with 0 T ’"i 
in half a 1 ’ 
found 11 thfri T i-emaining varieties 
found 111 the district may be classed as secondary or useless 
from a commercial point of view. The numhpr of o ^ • i 
±n mp io 1-1 Ml 1 ^ numoei of species known 
to me IS nine, which will be mven in i • 
BhiIpv’q ‘‘ • »» 1 t-Re Older observed m 
miiey s hjnopsis and Maiden’s pamphlet on Wot^i i 
Wattle rtioh Ltle, I dXSw e„,. , 
*ion «g.fdi.g .ffetlc, otb.r f„ts ' 
“ Acacia ” of Willdenow belongs to the ^ ^ -^r* 
of tlie leguminous or beaii-beainn<. iLiilv of 
and in it tlie flower beads are grouped [n-5 f 
w.„.« v.riX:s : 
«vception ot No. 9, are supplied with 
