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6. Callitris arcnosa, 



A. Cunn., Herb et Ms. 



A "CYPRESS PINE." 



(Syn. : — Frenela robiista, A. Cunn., var. micyocarpa, Bentham, B. Fl. VI, 237, 

 F. Moorei, Parlat. in DC. Prod. XVI, ii, 449; F. arenosa, A. Cunn.; F. 

 microcarpa, A. Cunn., Herb, (vide Historical, infra); F. columellaris, F.v. M., 

 Frag. V, 198; Parlat. in DC. Prod. XVI, ii, 451.) 



Habitat. 



This is the Richmond and Clarence Rivers Pine of New South Wales, ana 

 of the Southern Coast of Queensland. 



I. HISTORICAL. 



Like most of the species of this genus, this Conifer has been very much 

 synonymised. It was first collected by A. Cunningham at Moreton Bav, 1825, and 

 labelled by him C. arenosa — specimens with his autograph being extant to-day 

 at the British Museum. It was also collected in the same neighbourhood — 

 Stradbroke Island — by Eraser, in 1829. In the Lindley Herbarium at Cambridge 

 University there is a specimen labelled " C. arcnosa, Moreton Bay, New Holland, 

 Hooker, 1835" ; Parlatore later named it F. Moorei in De CandoUe's Prodromus 

 (I.e.), and Mueller in 1865-6 called it F. columellaris. 



Bentham in his " Flora Australiensis," Vol. VI, p. 237, places A. Cunning- 

 ham's F . microcarpa with this species, but from our examination of this specimen 

 (no fruits) we think this particular variety requires further investigation, especiahy 

 as it comes from York Sound on the N.W. Coast, and it would be exceptional to 

 find a species extending half round the coast, in view of the fact that the Port 

 Darwin Callitris is now shown to be distinct from the Richmond River under the 

 name of C. intratropica, F.v.M. 



Herbaria Material Examined : — 

 Kew^ — 



Eraser's material from Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, 1829. 



British Museum, — 



A. Cunningham's specimen from Moreton Bay, 1825. 



Cambridge University, — 



Hooker's specimens from Moreton Bay, 1835 (Lind. Herb.). 



Melbourne, — 



Mueller's and other specimens from the Richmond River. 



