HV JULIAN GWYTHER. 
69 
pitted. LeguiiiG singly, or in twos or threes, 4in long by five or 
six lines broad and as much as three thick, sometimes con- 
stricted between the seeds and usually inflated or thickened over 
them, there being five or six or more to each pod, which, 
when green, is brittle, very thick and fleshy, and well sup- 
plied with a sticky extremely bitter juice, probably containing 
saponin. The dry pods are brown and woody, with a rough 
outer membrane ; the bean, when full grown, but still unripe, is 
a glossy white, ovate, placed longitudinally in the pod, and is 
attached to, at first, a filiform colourless funicle, somewhat 
flexuose, but becoming finally a dark orange-red folded two or 
three times and clasping the entire base of the seed. 
In length it is four or live lines long by three wide and 
thick. This species is known under the various local names o 
“Native Willow,” “C'ooba” or “Koubah” of N.S.W., Baku 
of Rockhampton ; and Motberuuiba. Its full dimensions m 
N.S.W. are from 20 to iO feet high and 18in. diameter ; m a 
mature tree the bark is usually flaky, hard, and very rugge u 
not fibrous ; from f to lin. thick and compact, it is altogether a 
very promising dry country bark with an acid percentage o . 
to 15 and 33 of extract, and as a secondary bark would be well 
worth conserving. The blacks understand the value of its hart 
as they preserve wallaby and other skins by its agency, 
only specimen seen in the district grew in loose, loamy scrub 
soil; flowering in March, with full grown green 
October. Bailey says of the seeds that they are o upue 
funicle extending up one side. 
8. /unVb//., Willd., or the Flax-leaved Acacia, is one of 
the commonest species of the Downs, though more^ specially 
observable on the hilly and scrubby country. i ^^^+T^-nnali 
beautifully shrubby tree 25 feet high and 8 or 
.s«v.ih soil inaboutfive years, me 
immense qonntity of foilnge S,””,;,,.! to 
weighted down by a shower of , 
the tree, causing it to spin, apart. It rs very 
a full-srzed tree has not been damaged m ars way 
When in full bloom in .July or always flo^s^w^^^^^ 
a year, though tire midwinter crop does not mature y 
