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Hakea acicularis, E. Brown. 



Au arboreous shrub or small tree. Attains a beigbt o£ 15 

 feet on the basaltic ledges of the Dargo High Plains tableland, 

 at Ma^yford Spur, at an elevation of 5,000 feet. It extends 

 northerly to Port Jackson and Blue Mountains, N.S.W., and 

 southerly to the head of the Macalister Kiver and Tasmania, at 

 elevations of 2,000 to 4,0U0 feet. 



Hakea microcarpa, K. Brown. 



This stout, rigid shrub is common along the banks of the 

 streams forming the head waters of the Mitta Mitta Eiver on 

 Metamorphic rocks up to 5,000 feet elevation. On the Omeo 

 Ranges it attains a height of 8 to 12 feet, but becomes almost 

 prostrate at the higher alpine stations. It extends northerly 

 to the Macquarie and Clarence Eivers in New South AVales, 

 and southerly to Tasmania, at elevations of 3,000 feet. 



Lomatia ilicifolia, R. Brown. 



This is an erect, somewhat arboreous shrub, attaining amid 

 the sub-alpine slopes of our Australian Alps a height of 20 

 feet ; it is most abundant south of the Dividing Eange, in the 

 humid gullies at the sources of the Wentworth and other 

 affluents of the Mitchell Eiver, on Silurian soils, at elevations 

 of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. It extends westerly along the Dividing 

 Eange to the Delatite Mountains and the Dandenong Eanges, 

 and also to Port Phillip, and northerly to the Clarence Eiver 

 and Snowy Mountains at the heads of the Macleay and Bellinger 

 Eivers, X.S.A\^. 



Lomatia longifolia, R. Brown. 



On the Livingstone Creek and ITpper Mitta Mitta sources 

 this erect shrub attains a height of 12 feet, on Metamorphic 

 schist areas ; on the Mitchell Eiver basin, on the Lower 

 Silurian areas, it is equally robust. It extends westerly to the 

 Buffalo Eanges and King Eivers, and northerly to the Blue 

 Mountains, N.S.W. 



Banksia marginata, Cavanilles. 



On the rocky ledges of Metamorphic schist, near Omeo, 

 Livingstone Creek, at 2,000 feet elevation, this species forms a 

 small bushy tree. It extends from the Wonnangulla Eiver, 

 on Palaeozoic rocks, to Port Phillii) ; southerly to Tasmania, at 

 elevations of 3,000 feet ; westerly to Port Lincoln, in South 

 Australia ; and northerly to Port Jackson and Mudgee, in New 

 South Wales. 



