256 MYRTACEAE. 
TRISTANIA. Brisbane Box, 
(Family Myrtaceae). 
Large trees: evergreen. Twigs 
rather slender, terete: pith small, 
round, pale, spongy. Buds soli- 
tary, sessile, subglobose, the lateral 
small with 2 exposed scales. Leaf- 
scars alternate and narrow but the 
uppermost subverticillately crowd- 
ed and half-round or _ broadly 
crescent-shaped, slightly raised: 
bundle-trace 1, transverse: stipule- 
scars lacking. Leaves _ pellucid- 
punctate, rather lanceolate, peti- 
oled. 
Like Hucalyptus, Tristania is a 
tree which produces good timber 
and becomes very large. It is 
said to be a favorite avenue tree 
in Australia, where it is at home, 
and it is rather unusually toler- 
ant of cold for a member of its 
family. 
Glabrate: twigs and buds green. ' 'T. conferta. 
