68 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
A seedling of Viminaria denudata was collected near 
Narrabeen on our last excursion. It shows reversion to 
the ancestral type. The mature plant is leafless, the long 
terete leaf-stalks doing the work ordinarily done by the 
leaf blade. 
The leaflets present in the specimen are mostly sim- 
ple, but in two instances there are trifoliate leaves. They 
vary in width greatly, some elliptical and others narrow— 
lanceolate. 
The roots were plentifully supplied with root-nodules, 
a fact which I believe has not been previously recorded. 
A. G@ HAMILTON. 
