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ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF CASUARIXA. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Curator, Technological Museum, 



Sydney. 



(Plates xlvi.-xlvii.) 



Casuarina Cambagei, sp.nov. — "Belah." 



(Plate xlvi.) 



A tree attaining a height of from 70 to 100 feet, dioecious, 

 glabrous; branchlets glaucous or dark green in the slender form, 

 ascending, internodes varying in length up to half an inch; not 

 prominently angled. 



Whorls 9-10-merous, the sheath- teeth acute. 



Male spikes at the ends of the branchlets, in the slender variety 

 from 1 to 2 inches long, in the glaucous variety usually 1 inch 

 long; sheathing teeth erect. 



Cones cylindrical, about 12 to 14 lines lung and 10-12 broad, 

 truncate; valves obtuse, very prominent, glabrous or minutely 

 hoary pubescent on the exposed dorsal half, with a dorsal pro- 

 minence or thickening. Nuts pale-coloured, 3 lines long including 

 samara. 



Hah. — Mount Hope, Forbes, Bogan River Country, Condobolin, 

 Nymagee (^. H. Cambage); Bourke to Barringun (E. Riclye). In 

 fact it occurs from the Queensland to the Victorian borders 

 between the Darling River and the main Dividing Range. 



" Belah" has a very wide range in the interior of this Colony, 

 and has possibly in the past been confounded with C. glauca, 

 Sieb.; and there can be little doubt but that Bentham has included 

 it under his description of that species. 



