magazine. Unlike its congeners, which are, as arule, local, 
it extends along the Eastern coast of the continent, from 
the Clarence River in New South Wales (lat. 292°), to 
Rockingham Bay in Queensland (lat. 18° S.) a distance, 
following the coast line, of nearly 900 miles. The speci- 
men here figured was contributed by T. Hanbury, Esq., 
F.L.S., from his garden at the Palazzo Orengo, Vente- - 
miglia, in July of last year. There is a plant of it in the 
Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, eight feet 
in height. 
In Australia it is known as the Silky Oak, and its 
timber is durable, beautifully grained, and useful for 
cabinet work. The name, Silky Oak, is (according to the 
Official Guide to the Timbers in the Kew Museum, 1893) 
also given to G. robusta, Orites eacelsa, and Stenocarpus 
salignus. 
Descr.—A large tree, attaining seventy feet in height, 
branchlets minutely tomentose, pale ‘reddish brown. 
Leaves very variable, all petioled, bright green above, and 
glabrous, with pinnate nervation, silvery silky beneath, 
the lower on the branches up to a foot long, usually 
broadly obovate in outline, tapering below the middle 
into a narrowly cuneate base, above it 3-lobed, or pinna- 
tifid, with about five broadly linear obtuse lobes, three to 
five inches long, by half an inch or more broad, of which 
the terminal is the largest; uppermost leaves undivided, 
four to six inches long, obtuse or subacute. Flowers 
small, in a cylindric, spiciform, erect, slightly curved pale 
green, very dense-flowered raceme, six to eight inches 
long, and one to one and a half inches in diameter ; rachis 
and pedicels pubescent. Perianth appressed silky, about 
one-fourth of an inch long, with a short tube and revolute 
lobes. Anthers small, didymous. Disk semi-annular. 
Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style slender, incurved; stigma 
discoid, sublateral. Capsule one to one and a quarter 
of an inch long, ellipsoid, acute, somewhat compressed 
laterally, quite smooth. Seeds orbicular, narrowly winged 
all round.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, two lobes of perianth ; 3, section of. ovary and disk :—A/l 
enlarged ; 4, fruit of the natural size (from Herbarium specimen). 
