280 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
The essential oil from this shrub is green, and of disagreeable 
taste. Yield, only 5drs. from roolbs. of material. (Bosisto.) 
South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. 
36. Melaleuca uncinata, 2.2r., (Syn. AL. hamata, F. and G. Sert., 
Pl.; AZ. Drummondii, Schau.; M. semiteres, Schau.); N.O., 
Myrtacee, B.FI. iii., 150. 
_ Common “‘Tea-tree.” . Called “Broom” in South Australia. ‘ Yaang- 
arra”’ of the aboriginals of Illawarra (New South Wales); “ Dyurr” of 
those of Lake Hindmarsh Station (Victoria). 
This essential oil is green, and smells like that of WZ. ericz- 
folta, with an admixture of peppermint. (Wittstein.) 
South and Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, 
and Queensland. 
37. Melaleuca Wilsonii, 7.v.d/. ; N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI. iii., 134. 
This essential oil somewhat resembles cajeput oil, and is of 
0.925 specific gravity. The yield is 40zs. from 1oolbs, of green 
’ material; the oil is of a pale-yellow colour; in odour, slightly 
resembling that from J. erzczfolia, but devoid of its sweetness. 
(Bosisto.) 
Victoria and South Australia. 
38. Mentha australis, &.2r., (Syn. Wicromeria australis, Benth.) ; 
N.O., Labiate, B.FI. v. 83. 
‘Native Peppermint.” ‘‘ Panaryle”’ of the natives at the Coranderrk 
Station (Victoria). (Query: Is this an aboriginal attempt to pronounce the 
word “‘ Pennyroyal ?”) 
In taste and smell, this oil hardly differs from ordinary oil of 
peppermint, but it may be described as somewhat coarser than the 
best samples of that substance. (Report of Dublin Exh., 1865.) 
Mr. Bosisto obtained 3 ozs. of oil from 10olbs. of this plant. 
All the colonies except Western Australia. 
39. Mentha gracilis, &.2r., (Syn. Micromeria gracilis, Benth.) ; 
N.O., Labiate, B.FI., v., 83. 
The herb from which this oil is obtained contains a portion of 
its volatile oil in the stems, the total yield from t1oolbs. of the 
green plant being 30zs. Its smell is like oil of peppermint, with a 
