BY JULIAN (iWYTIIE'R. 
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bearing each a dense j'lobiilar head of thirty to tifty or moie flowers, 
mostly 5-inerous, and often so closely packed in this head that 
the calyces adhere ; calyx more than hall as long as the coiolla, 
thin and shortly toothed. Petals connate above the middle. 
Pod elong*dted, flat, often curved into a circle, 8 or 4 lines bioa , 
with thickened nerve-like margins. Seeds nearly oibicular, 
funicle very long, dilated and coloured from the base, very 
fiexuose, more or less encircling the seed, in double folds. The 
timber of this tree is highly valuable and should not by any 
means be sacrifleed for tlie bark, as this can only be classed 
amongst those of secondary value for tannin extraction. A 
sample of the bark of this tree from the vicinity of Braidwood, 
N.S.W., yielded J. H. Maiden 11*12 per cent of tannic acid mid 
20-63 of extract. This, apparently from an old tree, was of a 
dirty brown colour, with wliite patches, giving the w lo e ■ 
silvery appearance. It has irregular vertical fissures, and this 
circumstance, with the small longitudinal cracks, causes 
outer bark to be rapidly detached in small flakes. The inner 
bark or bast is strong and would form an excellent coarse tying 
material for local use. (*!• H. Maiden in pait.) 
Ean 
I found several trees of this species on the top of the 
- • • and Cunningham’s Crap on 
i"e. 
between Spicer’s Peal 
Jt5J. O * W 
laiiuary 1st., 1892.‘ The plant from winch the specimens were 
lathered was situate by the old Ipswich road-side, on t m range, 
md was a tree between 20 and SO feet high, sprea m^, ^ 
laving a diameter of IB in* at 8 feet from the groun . 
.ark In every way corresponds with Mr. Maiden’s sample as 
.efore described. Sot supposing the tree to be any other than 
.ueof the many - black wattles” so common on the range, 
lid not gather abundant specimens. 
7. J. lonni/oli,,, Wilkl. The typical 
nhabit the Warwick district, but is represente y ^ 
%nb,mda. It is by far the commonest wattle of tl^e Mcmiiy, 
. 1 4 -iiinlv and sin^lv growing to laige 
remg scattered 18 to 24 in. 
trees with a branch spread of thi Y - « . ^ 
ihrough the butt. More Greek watersheds, in 
noticeable on the Killarney ant i o where burnt 
to»brig.lo«palol.» o.. ,on,l> tod, 
