72 
PARTIAL DECADE OF THE WARWICK ACACIAS. 
gave double the amount of acid and 38-ol of extract, and that 
only from a tree din. in diameter. It also affects Victoria. 
In seedlings the first true leaves are bi-pinnate— as in most of 
the phyllodmous species— with winged petioles and numerous 
pimiffi up to thirty; pinme oblong, mucron ate, and 1 -nerved; 
young phyllodia often reddish tipped, linear lanceolate and afoot 
long. The bark is from a quarter to half an inch thick, fibrous; 
w en joung, led and smooth ; red brown, deeply and irregularly 
turrowed, when mature; the sap is very free in October, and the 
inner aik sticky and bitter owing to the iiresence of saponin. 
Ihe phyllodia are mostly falcate, (Jin. long by iin. broad, 
apering at both ends, prominently 8-nerved, with numerous 
parallel and reticulating veinlets. Tlie flower heads are pale 
yellow, globular, about 3 or 4 lines across, few, in loose leafy 
panic es (nn. broad and long ; legumes two, four, or six in a 
cluster on a common pedicel lin. long, each 4 to 6 in. long by 
3 lines broad, ending in a spur, and contracted, between the 
eds, which are from seven to twelve in number ; seeds oval, 
wliitc, ultimately coloured funicle, 
Mded four times at the end of the seed, not passing beneath 
0 enclosing the seed m any way, and five lines long. In seed 
January at Killarney and Spring Creek. 
acaci!'nf'tr‘^^"”''''f''"’ literally, the “black wooded” 
kroTn I T f ™ Australia, has extended its 
It Iht of Q'^eensland to 
at the it e f! T omitted 
several local 
fanief hi U'anslation of its specific 
mttle •’ f “ Hickory “ and “Silver 
VVattle. In Bentham-s “ Flora Aiistraliensis,” ii., 888 it is 
TT” - Ta^nani’a whem it 
holrv thi fiaTf’ ? 7'’ ^ •^'^tiots minutely 
noaiy, the smaller branches antnilar i -n 
sh.p.,, ‘4 " 
common varieties, 4 to 1 in broad • 
narrowed towards the base, coriaceous^ 
nerves, with numerous anastomosing veiL '’^Sdunde°'f 4 
