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Leaves. —Note the two welhmarked veins on the phyllodes (leaves) of this 
species. 
Fruit. —The dimensions of the pods of this species vary somewhat. 
Bark. —It yields a valuable bark ; specimens from Cambewarra, N.S.W., 
yielded me up to 5S 03 per cent, of extract, and 30*1 per cent, of tannic acid. The 
colour of this sample was dark brown; the inner bark warm red-brown; the outer 
bark deeply-fissured or flaky, which makes it more or less pulverulent; the inner 
bark contains abundance of strong fibre; diameter, 12 inches; height, 20 to 25 feet; 
locally called “ Black Wattle.” (Proc. R.S., N.S. TF, 18S7, p. 90.) 
A second sample from the same locality gave 28*2 per cent, of tannic acid, 
and yielded 5T5 per cent, of extract. 
I have examined a specimen from Tomerong, near Jervis Bay, N.S.W. 
(between Nowra and Milton), which was collected February, 1SSS, and analysed the 
following September. (Proc. R.S., N.S. JF., 188S, p. 273.) As received, it had had 
its first crushing in the mill; nevertheless it was possible to pick samples showing 
a fair proportion of inner and outer bark. The outer bark is somewhat scaly, and 
the inner bark is light reddish-brown and very fibrous. It cannot be mistaken for 
A. decurrens bark owing to its fibrous nature. It gave tannic acid 19 3 per cent.; 
extract, 37'8 per cent. 
This sample was taken from hulk actually used by a tanner, and it will be 
found, in general, that barks containing 20 per cent, of tannic acid are commonly 
used by country tanners; in fact, if hark of a species gives as high as 15 per cent, 
of tannic acid, it is worthy of inquiry whether richer specimens are available. 
The above are southern localities ; following are from northern :— 
Bark from Booral, county of Gloucester, stripped in July, and analysed in 
August, gave 28 per cent, of tannic acid, and 51*55 per cent, of extract. It was 
from a tree 30 feet high, and 8 inches in diameter. 
A further sample from Stroud (in the same neighbourhood) collected in 
January, gave 27 75 per cent, of tannic acid, and 18 9 per cent, of extract. 
This tree is frequently a large tree, and yields much bark. 
Timber.^— The wood is close-grained, tough, and light, and much prized for 
axe-helves and bullock-yokes. As regirds colour, it varies between a dirty white 
and pinkish and a uniform dirty colour, similar, but more intense, than California 
Bed Pine. The specimens seen by the author have no figure. Three slabs of this 
wood in the Technological Museum, which have been seasoned over twenty-five 
years (having been exhibited at the London International Exhibition of 18G2, under 
