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extends from the office entrance (gate F) along the western, 

 southern, and portion of the eastern boundary fence to the 

 reservoir enclosure, numerous specimens are to be seen scat- 

 tered throughout the whole of the grounds. The two largest 

 genera in the Victorian flora — Acacia and Eucalyptus — con- 

 taining respectively about fifty-four and forty species, are repre- 

 sented in the Gardens collection by no less than thirty-four 

 species of the former and thirty-six of the latter. In addition to 

 the good specimens of Eucalyptus botryoides, Mahogany Gum, 

 observable in and close to the Australian plantation, one very 

 fine example is to be found on the Hopetoun Lawn. Some good 

 trees of E. hemiphloia, Common Box, and E. rostrata, Red Gum, 

 are growing in the border along the Anderson-street boundary 

 fence, while close together on the margins of the Central and 

 Eastern Lawns are good examples of E. sideroxylon, Ironbark, 

 and E. pilularis, Great Blackbutt. Although the majority of 

 the species of Eucalyptus and Acacia are to be found in the 

 Australian border, various specimens of Acacia, such as A. 

 jjycnantha, A. dealbata, A. armata, A. implexa, and A. lunata, 

 are to be met with in different parts of the grounds, while a 

 number of them are to be found in the border skirting Govern- 

 ment House grounds, between the Avenue entrance (gate G) and 

 the Temple of the Winds. Of the nineteen species of Melaleuca 

 and Leptospermum genera, both familiarly known as " Tea-trees," 

 thirteen species are growing in the Gardens ; of the Callistemon 

 genus, familiarly known as " Bottle-brushes," five species are in 

 cultivation of the six found in Victoria. In the remarkable order 

 Proteaceae, some good specimens of Banksia and other Victorian 

 genera are to be found in the grouping of that order on the Oak 

 Lawn. Of the interesting Grevillea genus, nine out of the twenty 

 native species are in the Gardens. Of the Victorian eleven — 

 not cricketers, but Hakeas — eleven species are to be found ; and 

 of the Casuarina or " Sheoak " family, consisting of eight Vic- 

 torian representatives, four are observable. The only indigenous 

 member of the order Palmae, Livistona australis, Cabbage Palm, 

 is to be observed scattered about throughout the whole of the 

 Gardens, where the numerous specimens were planted for their 

 distinctive foliage effects. The largest one, over thirty feet in 

 height, is on the south side of the main pathway which crosses 

 the fern-ground. 



Victorian ferns are to be found, if not in great variety yet in 

 large numbers, in and about the fern-gully and adjacent area. 

 Four of the tree-ferns — viz., Dicksonia antarctica, Woolly- 

 stemmed Tree-fern, Alsophila australis, Hill Tree-fern, Gyathea 

 medullaris, Black-stemmed Tree-fern, and C. Cun7iingha?ni, 

 Cunningham's Tree-fern, are there represented. Of the first two 

 named some hundreds of specimens of varying heights were 



