BY JAMES STIRLING, F.G.S., F.L.S. 1057 



Eriostemon TRYMALIOIDES, P. V. M. 



This rigid dwarfed shrub has also been placed by Bentham in 

 Asterolasia. Its habitat is that already mentioned by Baron Mueller, 

 and it is governed more by climatic conditions than by differences of 

 soil, the species nourishing equally well on the Silurian slates of 

 Mount Hotham, the gneiss of Mount Bogong, the basalt of Bogong 

 High Plains, and the granite of Mount Kosciusko ; 5,000 feet is 

 apparently the lowest altitudinal limit at which it nourishes. 



Eriostemon Crowei, F. v. M. 



Dr. Woolls has directed my attention to this species, and from 

 the sample of C. exalata, which he was good enough to send me — 

 obtained I believe in the Blue Mountains — 1 am inclined to 

 support the view of Baron Mueller, that C. exalata is merely a 

 variety of G. saligna. I have obtained specimens on the granitic 

 (metamorphic) area at the junction of Cobungra and Big Rivers 

 (Mitta Mitta Valley), which are specifically identical with the 

 sample sent from the Blue Mountains. Although Bentham has 

 placed this species in a separate genus, Growea (Sin.), I adhere 

 to Baron Mueller's classification as given in his ' Census.' The 

 differences in general habit, foliage, and inflorescence referred to by 

 Bentham in the ' Flora Australiensis,' are, in my opinion, due to 

 differences of habitat. Altogether this is a most variable species. 

 I have observed very important differences in the foliage and 

 flowers of the same plant. It ascends to elevations of 4,000 feet in 

 the Australian Alps. 



Eriostemon trachyphyllus, F. v. M. 



This tall shrub attains a height of 20 feet, with a trunk 6 inches 

 in diameter, in the Went worth Valley towards Gippsland. In some 

 places it is the principal vegetation, covering the sunny slopes of 

 the steep ridges (Silurian), to the exclusion of other vegetation. 

 The wood is extremely fine-grained and dense, not unlike box- wood. 



