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No. 212. 
Callicoma serrati folia Andr. 
Original Black Wattle. 
(Family CUNONIACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Callicoma Andr. (Calycomis R.Br.), in Bol. 
Rep. t. 566 (1809). 
The original definition of the genus is as follows : 
Flowers in little round heads, upon foot stalks, with an involucre of about 4 leaves. Calyx of 
4 or 5 leaves, the leaflets lanced. Blossom none, stamens from 11 to 19, thrice as long as 
the calyx, growing from the receptacle. Styles 2, thread-shaped. Stigma simple. Germen 
above, 1 celled, and many seeded. 
Then we have Bentham's description : 
Sepals 4 or 5, free, valvate or the margins slightly imbricate. 
Petals none. 
Stamens twice as many as sepals, hypogynous ; anthers ovate, versatile. , 
Ovary 2-celled or rarely 3-celled, with several pendulous ovules in each ; styles distinct, filiform, 
each with a minute terminal stigma. 
Capsule small, separating into distinct carpels opening along the inner edge. 
Seeds small, ovoid-oblong, tuberculate ; embryo very small, in a somewhat fleshy albumen. 
Tree or shrub. 
Leaves opposite, simple. 
Flowers small, in dense globular heads. (B.Fl. ii, 440.) 
Botanical description. Species, C. senatifolia Andr., Bot. Rep. 6, 566 (1809). 
A tall shrub, growing into a tree of 30 to 40 feet, the young shoots often tomentose or villous, 
the branches soon glabrous. 
Leaven from elliptical-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, coarsely serrate, 2 to 4 
inches long, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, either white underneath with a minute 
tomentum, or softly tomentose or villous and more rust-coloured, the parallel pinnate veins 
prominent underneath. 
Stipules ovate, very deciduous. 
Flowers numerous, in dense globular heads on peduncles of \ to 1 inch, of which 2 to 4 are usually 
on a short common peduncle in the upper axils, and several form a terminal cluster or short 
panicle. 
Sepals and capsules not above 1 lines long, tomentose or villous. 
Sttimens more than twice as long. (B.Fl. ii, 440.) 
