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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 Eucalyptus, 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. 



