Pee ae I A 
108 s CX. CASUARINER, [ Casuarina. 
n DC. Prod. xvi. ii, 889; C. mesta, F. Muell. in Miq. Stirp. Nov. | 
Holl. Muell. 2. | 
Queensland. Percy islands, A. Cunningham, Denham; Brisbane river and More- — 
ton island, P. Mueller ; - Stradbrooke island, £’ powy Ipswich, Nernst; Rockhampton, 
[44 Shanesy; yin Rockingham bay, etang Sisi Cape Y he | 
ort Jackson, R. B dioe, "Woolts Argyle County, 
AC Cunt ham ; Clarence, Hastings, Pi Ma ey rivers, AREE: ; Richmond river, 
Fawcett; evern river, Leichhardt; New England, C. Stuar 
edd Ya and Da ndenong mountai ins, ‘P Mueller, Robertson, 
mson 
Common in the island on stony hills (the specimens rather more roon 1 
thas de reni ones), J. D. Hooker.—Known in some of the colonies as the Oak or | 
Swam p" k. 1 
C. rigida, Miq. Rev. Cas. mt . 7 D, and in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 337, as to Fraser's — 
specimens, m ay be C. suberos the more robust Tasmanian specimens belong to to C. 
istyla. A cA very deal: ‘allied to C. suberosa is found in New Caledonia. 
7. C. Cunninghamiana . Cas. 56, t . 6, and in DO. Prod. 
Xvi. ii. 335. A tree with ae aise scil resembling C. egwi- | 
setifolia and C. suberosa in the aspect of the specimens and number of 
the fruiting-cones are much smaller, scarcely ex g 4 lines 
diameter in any of the p ims globular, ve apn ti s glabrous, — 
with prominent valves. Male s (in Herb. R. Down) slender like - 
those of C. suberosa but more Fe so ] 
pennant Woods of the London Exhibition 1862, Hill, n. 9; Gilbert river, — 
W^ ; 
lgay Hunters river, 2. sea Sydney woods, Paris Exhibition 1855, — 
At y Arthar, n. Glendon, Leichhar Hastings river, Beckler ; Nepean Rd I 
Woolls ; Mess the Darling and the Darter range, Goodwin and Dallachy; Tw dois 3 
bay, F. Mueller. 
8. C. distyla, Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 62. A dicecious shrub, usually 1 
only 2 or 3ft. high, with erect or spreading branches, but in favourable | 
situations attaining the size of a small tree, the branches glabrous or — 
more or less pubescent. Whorls usually 7-merou us, but the parts vary- — 
ing from 6 to 8, the teeth short. Male spikes on deciduous branchlets — 
of 1 to Sin. or almost sessile on the persistent branches, 1 to 1 or] 
from , the b bl 
anainn truncate a dightty, MMC though considera 
ines than the dorsal protuberance, which is broad entire and smoot th.— 
Miq. Rev. Cas. 57, t. 7; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. MOS C. stricta, Mi a 
DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 336, not of Aiton; C. Mue na, Miq. 1n to 
K Arch. iv. 99; O. rigida, Miq. in DC. m. ao ii. E as 
the Tasmanian uid &. 
. Wales. Port rs n to the B P es R. Brown, Sieber, ™ 
n Mist n. 605 -— others ; Lachlan river, T$ Cunningh ' Land, 
rne, Adamson; Wilson’s slob ai Care Howe, Gipps ^^^ 
#2 uci. 
Tasmania. 
Common throughout the island, ascending to 4000 ft., J+ D. Hooker: 
