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This Acacia has been naturalised on the Nilgiris (India) since 1840. The 
following is interesting, as showing the facility with which it can be acclimatised in 
Southern India :— 
Ootacamuncl (Madras) was till recently completely overrun with this wattle; but, owing to the 
persistent crusade waged against it both by the municipality and house-owners, its progress has been held 
in check, only a few full-grown trees being left, though much remains still to exterminate it. The myriads 
of suckers which spring from the extensive and encroaching wattles come up with renewed vigour and 
amazing rapidity as fast as they are cut down, and form an inexhaustible fuel reserve. — Madras Mail. 
It is being tried in plantations in the hills of the Punjab, North-West 
Provinces, and Sikkim. A specimen of timber cut from a tree 11 years old, 46 feet 
high, and about 12 inches in diameter, is thus described by Mr. Gamble :— 
Wood moderately hard, light-brown, but warps considerably. Pores small, often in short linear 
groups. Medullary rays short, fine, and moderately broad, well marked on a radial section. 
Colonel Beddome, in his report on the Nilgiri Plantations for 1878, says this 
wattle grows very readily from the stool, but comes up in a dense mass of small, 
twig-like stems, so that it can only he depended upon for very small firewood. 
Exudations. —See Heckel and Schlagdenhauffen* for an exhaustive account 
of this gum. The species is said to yield a soluble gum in Java, on the authority of 
Dr. de Yrij ( Chern . mid Drugg., Aug. 20, 1892, p. 260). Lautererf gives an analysis 
of this gum. 
Size. —It attains the largest size of any of the varieties of A. decurrens. In 
Tasmania it attains the dignity of a large forest tree, but in most of the States it 
is of medium size. 
Fllligi. — TJromyces phyllodiorim, B. and Br.; Uromycladium alpinum, 
McAlp.; U. bisporum , McAlp.; 77. notabile (Ludw.), McAlp. 
Hilbitilt. —The “ Silver Wattle” is found in Tasmania, Victoria, New South 
Wales, and a not strictly typical form occurs in the extreme south of Queensland. 
New South Wales. 
Southern Localities (in National Herbarium, Sydney).—Jindabyne, Snowy 
River; Tumut; McLachlan River, NimitybclletoTantawanglo Mountain; Barber’s 
Creek; Wingello; Bcrrima; 15-16 mile-post, Wombeyan Caves to Taralga; 
Queanbeyan (with a yellowish indumentum, and certainly constricted between the 
seeds. The indumentum in this variety may sometimes be very sparse, and sometimes 
consist of a glaucous covering). 
* “ Sur quelques goinmes d’Acacia (dealbata) et d’Eucalyptus ( leucoxylon and viminaUs).” Le Naturalistc, 2nd Serb 5 , 
No. 80, p. 151 (1st July, 1890). 
+ “ Gums and Resins exuded by Queensland plants chemically and technologically described.” From pages 35-80 
of F. M. Bailey’s Botany Bulletin No. xm (April, 189G). “Contributions to the Queensland Flora.” 
