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The fruit resembles that of C. propinqua a good deal, but is, 

 apparently, never tuberculate. That this species runs into C. propinqua I 

 have no doubt. 



Timber. A figured Cypress Pine timber of no special character. It is 

 not veiy abundant, and since it comes into competition with excellent 

 hardwoods it is not often used. 



8i ze . Usually a small tree, but I have seen it up to, perhaps, 40 feet in 

 height, with a trunk of 12 inches. 



Habitat Port Jackson, also South Head (Port Jackson). I look upon 

 this species as confined to New South Wales (Central and South Coast and 

 the Dividing Eange). It is usually found in rocky (sandstone) situations. 



Going north, I have it from Brisbane Water (not to be confused with 

 Brisbane River) at " Woy Woy, on the tops of the high table-land, some 

 of them grow to a fair-sized tree very handsome." (A. Murphy.) South, 

 I have collected it near Eden, on the Victorian border. Berrima (Woolls). 



On the Blue Mountains it is not rare, and the most westerly locality 

 known to me is Rylstone. 



Callitris propinqua, E,.Br. 



This is a species which of late years has been confused with C. Muelleri 

 on the one hand, and C. verrucosa on the other. One must keep to the 

 type, especially as I have prominently drawn attention to the somewhat 

 arbitrary boundaries of most of the species. From C. Muelleri, 0. propinqua 

 may be separated by the perfectly smooth cones and coarse angular branchlets 

 of the former. It has the, smooth branchlets often seen in C. verrucosa, and 

 it has often a few warts on the valves; its affinity to C. verrucosa, a species 

 name which has by Mueller been used somewhat as a drag-net, is evident. 

 The stout peduncles, and the way in which the cones remain on the old 

 wood for years, separate this species and verrucosa from robusta. 



Range. The type came from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. The 

 species extends to the mainland, being found in South Australia. Going 

 west we find it in Western Australia, and eastward it occurs in Victoria 

 and New South Wales. 



XK\V SOUTH WALES. 



I am of opinion that the Cypress Pine of Quiedong, Bombala, belongs to 

 this species. This is limestone country, and the trees, which have been 

 carefully examined by me, have branohlets very close to those of C. verrucosa 

 (as, indeed, other specimens of propinqua have). 



Specimens from Acting Forester J. Bear, of Wentworth, "growing on 

 Bandy ridges, and the only Pine in the district," connect with the South 

 Australian specimens, and appear to be also referable to propinqua. The 

 Quiedong and Wentworth specimens have cones larger than those of 

 propinqua usually are. 



