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PARTIAL DECADE OE THE WARWICK ACACIAS. 
2. A. salicina, Lindl., or the Willow-like Acacia. 
The variety represented, only one tree of which I have 
observed round here, is “ variaini,^* This was about 
lolt. high, pendulous in its manner of growth and 3iu. 
through the butt. The bark, wdiich is green and smooth 
on the young stems, is, when old, dark brown, brittle, rough 
with longitudinal striations and is transversely furrowed as to 
appear tessellated ; the wood when young is white and brittle in 
the heart, but tougher just beneath the bark, showing fibrous 
structure. The young stems are angular, somewhat helicoid, the 
young shoots light green ; phyllodia alternate, from 5 to 8 or 9 
inches long J to Ain. wide, linear, lanceolate, tapering at both 
ends ; the petiole short, thickened and twisted so as to bring the 
upper leaf margin against the stem, one central nerve rather 
promment with hidden oblique secondary ones towards the nerved 
margins, bearing from two to as many as five glands on the upper 
one ; glands sometimes circular, sometimes horse-shoe shaped 
and sessile ; the margin raised somewhat and almost toothed to 
support the gland. 
In consistency the phyllode is thick, green, fleshy, brittle, 
and glandularly dotted. Panicles from 2in. to a foot in length. 
ower leads large A to fin. across, light yellow, solitary, lateral 
aiicl axillary in terminal, somewhat pendulous, leafy panicles. 
Flowers usually about 20-merous ; sessile, a minute membranous 
bract between each ; calyx, enclosing the base of the corolla, of 
about 0 minute, almost invisible, green teeth at summit, tlie 
length ; corolla tube of 5 minute green teeth, 
ot hall a line each, connected at the base into a tube two lines 
ono, receptacle ovate, pitted and marked with black, 
stamens connected in a bundle round the ovary, composed of 
whitish capil ary filaments 4 to G lines long and often 
fhv^l iiT and muc-h contracted 
nelt! e , “i-e small, yellow, two-celled, 
mentous X ’ lila- 
fillmei ts rn T i ‘he staminal 
f r immh f'n ^^ells, placed rather laterally 
at the summit of the ovary which in its turn is one line long 
