WATTLES AND WATTLE-BABES. 
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to the earnest attention ot* tanners in New South Wales, and figure it 
particularly because it has come to my knowledge that in parts of Southern 
New South Wales it does not appear that the bark has ever been stripped 
and tried, because people do not look upon it as a wattle! 
The mature trees which yielded the excellent result to which I have made 
allusion must have each contained half a ton of bark. They grow on a 
mountain side sloping west, on poor soil, and associated with the native 
cherry (Exocarpus cupressiformis ), also of extraordinarily large dimensions. 
The tree is, of course, usually of smaller size, but it is in the highest degree 
improbable that Brown's Camp is the only New South Wales locality for the 
best specimens. 
Pound in New South AVales, Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania. In 
New South Wales and Victoria it is chiefly a highland and mountain species. 
10. Acacia ret inodes, Schlecht., B.P1., ii., 362. 
Said to yield a good tan-bark. 
South Australia and Victoria. 
11. Acacia neriifolia , A. Cunn., B.P1., ii., 363. A “Black Wattle.” 
The following analysis of the bark is given by the Queensland Com¬ 
missioners, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 :—Tannin, 13*91 per cent.; 
extract, 17*87 per cent. 
New South Wales and Queensland* On river banks anti mountains in the 
coast districts from the Clyde River, in Southern Now South Wales, to South 
Queensland. 
12. Acacia saligna , Wendl., B.E1., ii., 361. “ Weeping Wattle.” 
In South-west Australia it is the principal source of tan-bark, and is said 
to contain nearly 30 por cent, of tannic acid. It is a small tree, common in 
most parts of extra-tropical West Australia, at least towards the coast. 
(Mueller.) 
13. Acacia pycnantha, Benth., B.P1. ii., 365. The “ Broad-leaved 
Wattle ” of South Australia; called also “Golden, Black, or Green 
Wattle.” It was known under the name of “Witch ” by the aboriginals 
of Lake Ilindmarsb Station, Victoria. 
One of the richest tanning barks in the world ; a richer may exist, hut I 
do not know of it. A sample of this bark was received by me in 1883 from 
Messrs. P. Pflaum & Co., o£ Blumberg, South Australia, with the note 
“contains 33-5 per cent, of tannin, according to Mr. Thomas, ot Adelaide. ’ 
I analysed the sample in April, 1890, and obtained the following extra¬ 
ordinary result by Lowenthal’s improved process—the process I always 
adopt, viz.: — 
Tannic acid . 46*47 per cent. 
Extract.74* 7 „ 
This has been stored seven years in the Museum, and has doubtless in¬ 
creased in percentage of tannic acid during that period. Nevertheless it is 
the grandest specimen of wattle-bark I have ever examined. I t is smooth, 
a model of compactness, contains a minimum of fibre, and. therefore powders 
splendidly, is of good colour, and an excellent bark in every way. South 
Australia lias practically the monopoly of this bark, and it is a graud lieri- 
tage,—the envy of the eastern colonies. 
