This is 11 live which attains a height of .'50 or 40 feet or more. A 

 trunk diameter of 2 feet is by no means uncommon. , 



llti/>ilat. The following localities are quoted in the Flora Aus- 

 traliensis : 



X. Australia. Victoria River (F. Mueller*); Islands of the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria (11. Hrown). 



Queensland. Wide Uay (Hidiril.l); Port Denison. (Fitzalan) ; Kennedy 

 district (l)ai-nfn < ) ; Flinders and Dawson Rivers (Sutherland); in the 

 interior (Mitchell). 



New South Wales. Darling- Desert (Victorian Expedition') ; Bogan River 

 StvariJ. 



S. Australia. Cooper's Creek (Hewitt's Expedition). 



It is an interior speeies as far as New South Wales is concerned. Wo 

 have it from such localities as Ivanhoe, via Hay, Nyngan, and Coolabah, 

 White Cliffs, 'Xarrabri. It extends over enormous areas, but has been much 

 cut down during the last twenty-five years for fodder and other purposes. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE inn. 



A. Branch with flowering spikes (Coolabah, N.S.W.). 



B. T'nopened Hower. 



<. Expanded (lower, showing () Four-lolied corolla with stamens, 



(6) Pistil. 



I). Corolla-lobe, with stamen. 

 K. Part of corolla-lobe larger, showing stamen (sessile anther) on the 



concave lamina 1 . 



i\ Showing t) Pedicel, (ft) Disc, (c) Stipitate ovary, (d) Stigma. 

 <;. Stisrma. 



11. Follicles 'oolab:ih, N.S.W.). 

 K. S( (>(!. winded all round, 

 i,. Portion of leaf enlarged, showing nine veins. 



The specimen figured is the common New South Wales tree, but it is 

 not typical (/. sfriata; it is that form described by Brown as G. lineata. 



Stcnocarpus scdignus, li.Br. 

 A BEEFWOOD. 



Botanical Name. Stetnocarpus, from! two Greek words stenos (narrow) 

 and Tcarpos (a fruit), in reference to the narrowness of the fruit (follicle); 

 salignus (Latin), Willow-like, but hardly an appropriate name, as a general 

 rule, yet descriptive of some specimens. 



Vernacular Names. This is often called " Silky Oak," and this term is 

 very widely in use. In some districts in which Grevillea robusta and Orites 

 excelsa also occur, our tree goes by the name of " Red Silky Oak " in order 

 to distinguish it. Further allusion to the redness of its timber is in the 

 name of " Beefwood," which is in very frequent use, the appearance of the 

 fresh wood being remarkably like raw beef in colour. 



Flowers. White or greenish-white, small and inconspicuous in com- 

 parison with those of 8. sinuatus. They are somewhat fragrant. 



