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three nerved, and either smooth or .silky white. The flowery are of 

 medium size, all or nearly all ocour singly at the ends of short leafy 

 branche.s, and are stalkless. The wood is dark in colour, tough and 

 close grained. The Myrtle Tea Tree is found in the (ir;nii|iians, and 

 flowers in I^ovember. 



The Slender Tea Tree {Lejitospfrmtim aitenuatum). 



A leafy shrub, favouring moist situations, chiefly in the East and 

 North-East. The branches arc usually .slender. The leaves are mostly 

 narrow oblong, \ inch broad, and \x\> to about 1 inch long. Generally the 

 flowers are small, with calyx and stalklet, somewhat clothed with shining 

 grey bairlets. The flowers occur either singly, or two together, on leafy 

 branchlets on short stalklets. 



The Slender Tea Tree grows on the Avon, Mitta Mitta, Ovens^ and 

 other eastsrn rivers. 



(To be continued.') 



VICTORIAN WIIKAT HARVKST. 



Kbturn Comtiled by the Government Statist showing Actual Area and Yield 

 FOR THE Seasons 191.">-10 and 1916-17. 



NOTE.- 



bushcls. 



-The requirements for seed and consumption in 1917 arc estimated at about 10,000,000 



