534 DEVELOPMENT OF THE N.O. MYRTACEjE, 



be considered as the earlier type of Myrtaceas, and the capsular- 

 fruited genera would be considered as a type derived from Myrteae, 

 in harmony with local Australian conditions. 



Bentham, in the concluding preface to his Flora Australiensis, 

 made the accompanying statement, with regard to the Australian 

 Flora: "The predominant portion appears to be strictly indi- 

 genous. Notwithstanding an evident though very remote ordinal 

 tribual or generic connection with Africa, the great mass of purely 

 Australian species and endemic genera, must have originated or 

 been differentiated in Australia, and never have spread far out of 

 it." The present report appears to bear out Bentham's contention 



With the vast amount of information, concerning the Australian 

 Flora, now assembled in the "Flora Australiensis" of George Ben- 

 tham, "The Flora of Australia and of Tasmania" by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, "The Census of Australian Plants" and "The Eucalypto- 

 graphia," by von Mueller, "The Index Kewensis" and its Supple- 

 ments, "The Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus," and "The 

 Forest Flora of Australia" by J. H. Maiden, as well as the exceed- 

 ingly numerous unpublished drawings of Eucalyptus anthers by J. 

 H. Maiden, "The Research on the Eucalypts" and "The Research 

 on the Pines of Australia" by Messrs. Baker and Smith, the 

 Botanical Notes (16 papers in these Proceedings, 1900-1913), and 

 other papers* by R. H. Cambage, various papers \ on distribution 

 by H. Deane, the papers! on Australian Vegetation by Professor 

 R. Tate, the time appears now to be ripe for a statement as to the 

 probable development, in Australia, of Orders such as those of 

 the Myrtaceae, the Composite, the Leguminosae, the Proteaceae, the 

 Casuarinese, or the Coniferse. 



• " Climatic and Geological Influence on the Flora of New South Wales." 

 Rept. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1907, Adelaide, p.476. Presidential Address, 

 Journ. Proa, R. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1913. 



f Presidential Addresses. These Proceedings, 1895 and 1896, also 1900. 



X "On the Influence of Physiographic Changes in the Distribution of 

 Life in Australia." Rept. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science, 1889, Vol. i., p.512. 



See also, "On the Myrtaceae of Australia," by the Rev. W. Woolls. 

 These Proceedings, 1884, pp. 643-648. 



