MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 101 
in ship-building and for wood bricks for street paving. The 
flowers yield much honey for bees. 
Eucalyptus melliodora. Myrtaceae. Honey-scented gum. 
—A. spreading tree of Australia, reaching a height of 120 
feet. The bark is brownish gray without, yellowish within. 
The timber is used by wheelwrights and ship-builders, and 
it also makes excellent fuel. The flowers are particularly 
rich in nectar, and much sought by bees. 
Ficus repens. Urticaceae. Creeping fig—A prostrate or 
climbing shrub of Japan, China, and Australia. The vine 
is used extensively in conservatories where it clings close to 
the walls. The leaves are oval, heart-shaped at base, and 
borne on very short petioles. 
Hakea varia. Proteaceae.—An Australian shrub, attain- 
ing a height of 8 feet. The flowers are pink in long racemes, 
and the leaves are flat, with many nerves. It is slightly cul- 
tivated outdoors in California. 
Jacquinia pungens. Myrsinaceae. — An evergreen shrub 
of tropical America, with narrow leaves crowded at the tops 
of the branches. It is an attractive conservatory plant. 
Macrozamia Moorei. Cycadaceae. — An Australian cycad 
growing to 20 feet in height, while the diameter of the trunk 
Teaches 2 feet. The trunk is surmounted by a crown of 
leaves numbering as many as 100. The cones are striking 
on account of their size and large number, 100 having been 
recorded on a single plant. 
Macrozamia Paulo-Guilielmt. Cycadaceae.— An Aus- 
tralian plant closely resembling the cycad, except that the 
leaflets have no midrib. The trunk is short with leaves 1-3 
feet long. The plant is useful as a single specimen, but 
combines poorly in any scheme of decoration. 
Macrozamia spiralis. Cycadaceae——A very handsome 
Australian plant with shining green, pinnate leaves 1-3 feet 
long. The bases of the leaflets are white, forming a broad 
central stripe. 
Marchantia polymorpha. Marchantiaceae. Liverwort.— 
A liverwort of North America which grows in moist loca- 
tions, spreading its leaf-like forking thallus over soil or 
masonry. The thallus is often 4—5 inches long and 1 inch 
or more in width, and from it arise the reproductive bodies 
upon slender peduncles. 
