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Ta. 7oe9, 
TRISTANTA LAURINA. 
Native of Eastern Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Myrtacez.—Tribe LzprosPeRMEx, 
Genus Tristanta, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 708.) 
Tristanta (Eutristania) Jauwrina; ramulis foliisque novellis sericeis, foliis 
alternis breviter petiolatis lanceolatis obovatis- v. oblongo-lanceolatis 
obtusis acutis acuminatisve subcoriaceis penninerviis basi angustatis, 
supra laete viridibus, subtus pallidis primum sericeis demum glabris 
costa valida, nervis perplurimis, cymis axillaribus breviter valide pedun- 
culatis, pedicellis calyce paullo longioribus, bracteis parvis deciduis, 
calycis semisuperi campanulati pubescentis lobis triangularibus, petalis 
parvis ellipticis aurantiacis, staminum phalangibus brevibus polyandris, 
ovarii vertice hemispherico hirsuto, capsula parva subglobosa infra 
medium hemispherica, vertice in valvulas 3 obtusas hiantes dehiscente, 
seminibus oblongis. 
T. laurina, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. II. vol. iv. p.417. DO. Prodr. vol. ili. 
p- 211. F. Mueil. Fragment. vol.i.p. 81. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. in. 
p. 264. Bailey, Synop. Queensland Flor. p. 182, Maiden, Useful Nat. 
Pl. Austral. p. 609. 
Melaleuca laurina, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. (1797) p. 275. 
Tristania lawrina is remarkable both for its great 
variability in habit, and for its wide range in distribution. 
In form it passes from that of a scrubby bush in dry 
places, to a stately tree seventy feet high with a trunk one 
to two ft. diam. in moist forests; whilst in geographical 
distribution it ranges from the temperate regions of Gipps’ 
Land in latitude 38°8., to the subtropical in Moreton 
Bay, lat. 27° S. The wood is described by Maiden 1. c. as 
hard, close-grained, dark colrd., and difficult to season, 
and is used for tool-handles, cog-wheels, &c. It has 
various colonial names, ‘ Bastard Box,” ‘‘ Swamp Maho- 
gany,” “ Water Gum,” and “ Beech.” 
The genus Tristania is confined to Tenasserim, the 
Malayan Peninsula Islands, Eastern Australia, and New 
Caledonia. It contains about twenty species, of which 
i’, laurina is the most southern. Only one has been pre- 
viously figured in this magazine, J’. neriifolia, of New 
ApRiL Ist, 1897, 
