70 
PARTIAL DECADE OF THE WARWICK ACACIAS. 
quantity y and wiiat does mature is apt to be worked upon bjaii 
insect and galled), the tree is an object of indescribable beauty 
being one graceful feathezy golden mass, the bloom so closely 
coveiiug the entire branches as to preclude all signs of leaf 
foliage. The bark, as noticed on our trees, has a reddish-grey 
tinge, is thin and fibrous, and externally isgenei’ally smooth, not 
flaky. An Enoggera sample analysed in 1891 yielded only 11 
per cent, of tannic acid, with 28 per cent, of extract. In scrubby 
land the plant only attains to a few feet and of such dimensions as 
be of no use unless for extract, should it pay to send to market. 
The phyllodia of the plant are barely two inches long, tapering 
inuchat the base, the tips also are very pointed, oije nerved, 
about three hues wide, margins sometimes ciliate, with a gland 
above the base. The whole inflorescence forms large leafy 
panicles covering the entire ends of the branches for two or 
iree feet, and is formed of short racemes (two or three 
inches) with numerous alternate flower-heads, each con- 
mmg teen or twenty buds though sometimes much 
ess; at the base of each flower-head is a minute 
langular bract, the back and summit of which coii- 
in a tuft of 8 or 4-celled hairs. The staminal 
filaments are very flexuose, each bearing rather large, two-celled 
an heis, thelobes of which are slightly hollowed in the front, and 
lovelv^f ' ^ g'olden pollen grains present truly 
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the seeds are°glossy and^Xced’l'lo^”' turning a red-brown; 
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