great variety of soils some on sand, as at Tin-can Ray; on the Brisbane 

 slate, as at the upper parr of the North and South Pine Uivers. Ithaca Creek. 

 and Knoggera Creek; on the Devonian slate, as at Moggill Creek; and on 

 hasall covering coal-shale, as al the Rosewood Scruh to the west of Ipswich. 

 When this Pine grows on anything like level ground, fanners know they can 

 grow inai/.e, sugar-cane. &c., and. therefore, many pine-scnihs are cleared for 

 cultivation, to the injury of the country from the timber-merchant's point of 

 view. 



Tin- Catalog-no of the Quenslaiid Forestry Museum ( I'.MJ-i) says: 



Abundant in many of our coastal scrubs from the Macpherson Range in the 

 south to Gladstone ; also in the Ipswich, Toowooomha, Warwick, Xanango. 

 .Mackay, and P.owen districts. 



It has been found to occur in Papua, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. 



Propagation. From seed, which, however, soon loses its germinating 



power, and in order 'that it may travel long distances safely, it is safest to 

 either sow it iu YVardian cases, or to pack it in charcoal. It is cultivated 

 for ornamental purposes, and Mr. Walter Hill thus enthusiastically speaks 

 <:t it: " This majestic tree is, without exception, 'the most ornamental and 

 i;t-eful tree in Queensland. Its beautiful regular pyramidical form, and the 

 sombre preen of its awl-shaped foliage, command general admiration." 



It is, indeed, in my view, handsomer than the Norfolk Island Pine (A. 

 r./rc/.s'a), which is much more cultivated, but it does not appear to be so 

 hardy under cultivation as that species, and is much more liable to suffer 

 by the wind. 



See p. 903 of my article on Conifers in the Agricultural Gazette of 

 .YXir. for December, 1907. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 131. 



A. Twig. young growth. 



is. Twin bearing staminiferous Howers (male amenta or catkins). 



i . i>. Stamens, with 4 or ."> anther-cells. 



< N.P,. A stamen can only have one anther; the anther has in 



Phanerogams generally '2 cells, but in Couifene from few to 



numerous cells.) 

 K. Unfertilized fruiting cone. 



F, . Vertical sections of two different unfertilized fruiting cones. 

 ii. Seed, adnate to the scale. 

 i. Mature cone. 



Tin; CviMM'Ss PINKS OK Xr.w SOUTH WALES. 

 Genus Callitris. 



I/alntat. As a very general rule the trees are of a neat pyramidal shape, 

 e.g., C. roljusta. Sometimes they are of a more or less pendent habit at the 

 top, c.y., C. cupressiformis. C. rcrrucosa is also without a main stem, 

 forming a congeries of thin steins from a woody stock, somewhat after the 

 fashion of a mallee. 



Fruits. They vary much in -size; those of C. cupressiformis are the 

 smallest, while those of C. verrucosa and C. propinqua are the largest. 

 They usually persist on the branches for many years. C. robusta and C. 

 mpressiformis, for example, appear to be an exception in this respect. In 

 these species one can always find large numbers under the trees and on the 

 young wood, but in some other species, e.g., verrucosa and propinqua,, they 

 are always on old wood. 



