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Wingecarribee. Prom this short review of the Cunoniads, it 

 appears that many of them merit a place in our shrubberies, as 

 being elegant trees, both as regards the character of their 

 inflorescence, and the richness of their foliage. Some of them I 

 have occasionally noticed in gardens, but unless care be taken to 

 select for them a soil resembling that from which they have been 

 taken, and a degree of moisture similar to that to which they are 

 accustomed on the banks of creeks, or in the shade of the moun- 

 tain forests, our Cunoniads do not improve by cultivation. 

 However, they have received much less attention, than they 

 deserve. The species of Pittosporum, near Parramatta, are not 

 so interesting as some from other parts of Australia, but they are 

 nevertheless worthy of a place in our shrubberies, and when 

 the capsules open and display their red seeds, they remind 

 the observer of the pomegranate, by which name one of the 

 species is popularly designated. Glieir anther a linearis of the 

 same order, is a shrub with showy blue flowers. It is abundant 

 near Mudgee, and at first sight, resembles some species of Solamtm. 

 The species of Billardiera have a twining habit, with pale 

 yellow flowers, and small edible fruits. bollya JieretopJiylla with 

 its cymes of pretty blue flowers, though frequently cultivated in 

 Eastern Australia, belongs to Swan River and King George's 

 Sound. Of the Rutaceae, Evodia micrococca, and Acronycliia Icevis, 

 are often trees of considerable size in other districts, but here 

 they are diminutive, though still retaining the same character as 

 the larger trees of the same species in more favoured places. The 

 flowers of the first are small, but the leaves which are trifoliate 

 on long petioles, give the tree a marked appearance. This species 

 could scarcely have escaped the notice of Cunningham, and was 

 probably referred by him to Zieria, but it was first described by 

 Dr. E. Mueller, in his Fmgmenta (Yol. 1, 144). Acronychia, in 

 this part of the colony, is only a small tree, but in Queensland it 

 attains the height of 60 feet. The diminutive specimens of it, 

 seen on the Toongabbie Creek, and also near Smithfield, have 

 very much the character of the lemon, but the leaves are some- 

 times trifoliate. It seems to me that A. Icevis is almost out of its 

 proper place in this district, for none of the specimens that I 

 have noticed, grow to any size, and several that have been removed 

 to cultivated ground, soon perished. On the creeks to the north 



