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reddish-brown, hard and rather tough ; leaves 2^-3Jm. 



long ; spikes 24-4in. ; calyx nearly 2 lines long ; petals 



under 1| lines long ; filaments Jin. ; fruiting calyx almost 



2 lines long. In sandy fiats. 

 Named in honor of Mr. Charles Crossland, who was in command 



of the 1905 Kimberley Exploring Expedition. 

 Affinity to M. leucadendron L. 



460. M. leucadendron L. 



A tree to 80ft. ; trunk to 40ft. ; diameter to 2ift. ; bark whitish 

 to greyish, rather tough and decorticating in sheets ; 

 timber red, tough, hard and durable ; stamens from white, 

 greenish-yellowish to pink. The bark is used for roofing 

 purposes, also by the aborigines in the manufacture of 

 buckets, etc. The timber is utilised for building purposes. 

 " Cajeput." 



A form known as "Hill Cajeput" along the Lennard River, 

 grown on sandy scrubby rises. It attains a height of 30ft., 

 with very tortuous branches ; leaves very rigid and often 

 more than 7-nerved, filaments greenish-yellow. 



,>461. M. argentea W.V.F. n. sp. 



Shrubby to arborescent, with a bushy crown, the branches 

 often pendulous and, along with the leaves, rachises and 

 calyces closely invested with a, white silvery silky ap- 

 pressed tomentum ; leaves alternate, often vertical, 

 lanceolate, acute, alternated at the base into a short 

 petiole, of soft texture, usually 5-nerved, with anasto- 

 mosing veins ; flowers closely packed in terminal inter- 

 rupted spikes, of which several are sometimes together, 

 the axis growing out into a leaf branchlet before the com- 

 pletion of the flowering ; calyx-tube broadly ovoid, the 

 lobes much shorter, very broad and obtuse ; petals white, 

 obovate glabrous ; staminal claws shorter than the petals, 

 all somewhat connate in a ring at the base, each claw with 

 seven white or pink filaments ; anthers ovate-oblong ; 

 ovary pubescent ; ovules numerous, ascending on a 

 thickened placenta ; style rather long ; fruiting- calyx 

 hemispherical truncate ; seeds ellipsoid. 



Isdell, Charnley, Fitzroy, Ord, Denham Rivers, etc. (W.V.F.). 



Height to 45ft. ; trunk to 10ft. ; diameter 1ft. ; bark whitish, 

 papery, and decorticating in sheets ; timber reddish- 

 brown, ' hard and rough ; leaves 3-4in. long ; flowers 

 emitting a sickly-sweet odour ; spil^es 2|-6in. long ; 

 calyx 1| lines long ; petals 2 lines long ; filaments scar- 

 cely |in ; fruiting calyx IJ lines long. 



Always in stony or sandy spots along or in the beds of water- 

 courses. 



Affinity to M. leucadendron L. 



