256 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Iieptospermum abnorme, F. v. Mueller. 



East-Australia, towards the coast. A tree, gaining finally a height 

 of 60 feet, with a stem-diameter to two feet. Wood very hard and 

 heavy. A variety produces fragrant foliage. 



Zieptospermum laevigratum, F. v. Mueller.* (Fabricia loevigata, 

 Gaertner.) 



The " Sandstay." Sea-shores and sand-deserts of extra-tropical 

 Australia, but not extending to Western Australia. This shrub or 

 small tree is the most effectual of all for arresting the progress of 

 drift-sand in a warm clime. It is most easily raised by simply 

 scattering the seeds on the sand in autumn and covering them 

 loosely with boughs, or better still by spreading lopped-off branches 

 of the shrub itself, bearing ripe seeds, on the sand. 



Iieptospermum lanig-erum. Smith. 



South-Eastern Australia. This tall shrub or small tree can be 

 grown in wet semi-saline soil. It exercises aiitimalarian influences 

 on such places like Melaleuca ericifolia. The somewhat aromatic 

 leaves of L. scoparium (Forster) were already in Captain Cook's 

 expedition used for an antiscorbutic tea ; hence the name " Tea- 

 tree " for this and some allied plants. 



Ziespedeza striata, Hooker and Arnott. 



China and Japan. Sometimes called " Japan- Clover." An 

 annual herb, which in North-America has proved of great use. 

 Professor Meehan states it to be identical with the " Hoop-Koop " 

 plant, and that it has taken possession of much waste land in the 

 Southern States. It grows there wonderfully 011 the hot dry soil, 

 and the cattle like it amazingly. Mr. Jackson observes, that it 

 spreads on spaces between forest-trees, covering the soil with a 

 dense permanent herbage. Dr. Carl Mohr says, that it stands 

 drought well, and thrives on sandy clay, but luxuriates on light 

 calcareous soil. Carried far about through the egesta of pasture- 

 animals. Forms a turf, hardly suffering from any traffic. It seizes 

 on all sorts of soil with equal facility ; subdues weeds. Rich in 

 albuminous contents [Prof. Phares]. Easily dried for hay. Has 

 kept up well also in the sub-tropic regions of Eastern Australia 

 during the summer heat ; likes best to grow on moist ground among 

 grasses [J. S. Edgar]. Apt to die down in summer-heat, when 

 most wanted [J. M. Wood]. It is impatient of frost [W. Elliott]. 



Zieucadendron arg-enteum, Brown. 



The Silver-tree of South-Africa is included on this occasion, 

 because it would add to the splendour of our woods, and thrive far 

 better there than in gardens within the warm temperate zone. 

 Moreover, with this tree, many others, equally glorious, might be 

 established in any mild forest-glens as a source of horticultural 

 wealth, were it only to obtain in future years a copious supply of 



