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No. 107. 
Acacia Bakeri, Maiden. 
Baker’s Wattle. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^ : MIMOSE^l.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Acacia, (See Part XV, p. 103.) 
Botanical description. —Species. A. Baked, Maiden, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 
xx, 337 (1895). 
Attains the dimensions of a large forest tree, measuring up to 160* feet in height, and from 
2 to 4i feet in diameter; stem sometimes buttressed. It is, as far as at present known, 
exclusively confined to brushes, as distinct from open forest. 
Branchlets at first terete, but at length flattened, glabrous. 
Phyllodia sessile, broadly lanceolate, narrowed at each end, obtuse, mostly 3 to 4 inches long 
and 1 inch broad, but occasionally 6 inches long and 3 inches broad when they are 
acuminate and broad at the base ; 3-nerved, with sometimes a short one terminating in a 
gland a little removed from the base, penniveined between the nerves, margins thickened 
and undulate, thinly coriaceous. 
Peduncles slender, 6 lines long, mostly in clusters of 3 to 10, forming numerous axillary racemes 
mostly exceeding the phyllodes, bearing a small loose head of few, pale-coloured flowers, 
rarely as many as 20 ; mostly 4-merous. 
Calyx short, pubescent or softly villous, eventually separating into spathulate lobes. 
Petals pubescent, softly villous. 
Pod long, straight, flat, usually 8 inches long and 6 lines broad, thin, contracted somewhat 
between the seeds ; shining. 
Seeds flat, ovate, longitudinal; funicle short and filiform, neither folded nor enlarged. 
Its closest affinity is with A. binervata, which it resembles in the penniveined 
reticulations of the phyllodes and in the flowering racemes, but differs from it in 
individual flowers, pod, and seed. 
The two species may be thus compared :— 
A. Bakeri. 
Size .—A large brush tree. 
Branchlets flattened, angular 1 . 
Phyllodes obtuse, broadly lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, 2 to 6 inches long, -t to 3 inches 
broad ; thinly coriaceous, 2- or 3-nerved, pinnately veined, margins thickened between the 
veins. 
Inflorescence. — Loose, elongated 'panicles or racemes, peduncles in clusters. 
Flowers few, never more than 20 ; petals villous, sepals villous, spathulate, 4 -merous. 
Pod nearly six lines broad, thin, straight. 
Seed ovate, longitudinal, funicle short and filiform, neither folded nor enlarged. 
* A road party in 1894 cut down one of these trees on Mullumbimby Creek, and it was found by measurement to 
be 140 feet high and 3 feet 8 inches in diameter. The collector (Mr. W. Baeuerleu) adds, “ On Tengoggin Mountain 
there are plenty of trees 20 or 30 feet higher. ” 
