BY JULIAN GWYTHER. 
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brandies, is an insignificant and useless member of the family 
only attaining a few feet, and that on the summits of scrubby 
mountains and in dogwood country. Gladfield, Killariiey^ 
Mount Sturt, and the immediate vicinity of Warwick — where it 
may be seen flowering on the roadside as stunted bushes of 
three or four feet, are the principal habitats of this form. It 
very much resembles a small A. /ini foliar but the phyllodia are 
scant, slightly larger, and abruptly miicronate by the projection 
of the single rib ; the gland is also below the middle. The bark is 
smooth, and often dark coloured on the young branches owing 
to the presence of a scale insect resembling that infesting the 
native aurantiaceous plants of this district. The short closely 
set racemes of dark yellow flower-heads, form dense cylindrical 
panicles from six inches to a foot in length, with the young leaves 
prqjecting beyond ; the flower head is about 4 or 5 lines across 
with sinuous stamens and square anthers, pollen grains rather 
larger than those of /I. more irregularin outline, andsome- 
what quadrangular, the geometric markings clearer andmore trans- 
parent. I do not fancy this species has been tested as a tannm 
producer, nor do I think any value could be attached to it. 
Apart horn the fact that it never attains any size, the bark is 
thin and fibrous; it is doubtful, even when cut and worked 
up with the smaller portions of A. lini/olia, if it would pay, when 
growing naturally on stony waste land. 
5. A. mplc.nu Bentham, is, next to the common -Black 
.^attle,” the species more generally seen at Gladfield, Freestone, 
illarney, Canning Downs, in fact, all round Warwick, and is 
istinguished from A. hmglfolia by its erect and graceful shape, 
)mewhat pendulous and falcate phyllodia and redder ar^. 
oes not seem to have received any separate trivial name, but 
as been incorporated by non-botanists with aU other resembling 
^'pes as the “Black Wattle.^ The tree grows, m the scrub 
)ils of l\rount Dumaresq, very quickly, those six years old being 
Oft. high and 8 in. through, very erect and tough, retaining the 
rincipal trunk to the summit, rarely if ever 
amaged in its young stage. An analysed sample of the bark 
•om New South Wales only yielded 8 per cent, of ^ 
nd 20-54 per cent, of extract, while a Queensland specimen 
