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Barklya syriiigifolia, F.v.M. 
(Natural Order LEGUMINOSvE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Barklya, F. Muell. 
Calyx-teeth. —Very short and obtuse. 
Petals. —All free, obovate, erect, similar, and nearly equal, on long claws, the upper outer one, 
or standard, rather broader than the others. 
Stamens. —Ten, all free, longer than the petals; anthers sagittate. 
Ovary. — Stipitate, with several ovules, tapering into a short style with a minute terminal stigma. 
Pod. —Stipitate, flat, the valves thin and scarcely separating. 
Seeds. —Flat, albuminous ; cotyledons obovate, flat; radicle inflexed. 
Tree. 
Leaves. —Simple (unifoliolate), petiolate. 
Flowers. —Small, yellow, in dense racemes. 
Bracts. —Very small; bracteoles,-none. (B.F1. ii, 275.) 
Botanical description. —Species, B. syringifolia, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Ill, 158, and Fragm. i, 109, t. 3. 
A handsome tree, attaining from 20 to 60 ft., glabrous or the young shoots, and inflorescence 
rusty-tomentose. 
Leaves. —Very broadly cordate, shortly acuminate, 2, 3, or even 4 in. long, and often as broad as 
long, entire, 5 to 7 nerved, on a petiole of 1 to 2 in., slightly thickened at the base and the 
top. Stipules small, ovate, deciduous. 
Flowers. —Of a bright golden yellow, in dense racemes of 6 to 9 in., forming handsome terminal 
panicles. 
Pedicels. —Short. 
Calyx.— About 2 lines long. 
Petal-claws. —Rather longer than the calyx, the lamina about as long. 
Ovary. —Glabrous, with 3 or 4 ovules. 
Pod. —Oblong-lanceolate, oblique or slightly falcate, 1| in. to 2 in. long, and about ^ in. broad, 
narrowed at the base, with 1 or 2 seeds. (B.F1. ii, 275.) 
Mr. F. M. Bailey mentions a cultivated form with a tortuous habit of growth 
to which he gives the name var. tortuosa :— 
A stunted form with zigzag branches, reminding of Robinia Pseud-acacia, var. tortuosa. It was 
raised from seed by Mr. A. J. Hocking. (The Queensland Flora, p. 449.) 
Botanical Name. — Barklya —in honour of the late Sir Henry Barkly, 
Governor of Victoria at the time of recognition of the plant— syringifolia, from 
Syringa, the botanical name of the common Lilac, and folium a leaf, the leaves of 
the two trees being somewhat similar. 
