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being fully matured as shown in Gaertner's drawing. There are also specimens 

 of the broad-leaved form, which have the flowers fuUy developed of a reddish or 

 crimson colour, collected by Banks and Solander, and labelled M. Leucadendron, 

 L. {M. viridiflora, Sol.), which are figured in Britten's Illust. Bot. Cook's 

 Voyage, p. 38, t. 113. These specimens are identical with another sheet of 

 specimens labelled in Dr. Solander's handwriting, " M. sanguin." 



It is interesting to note that neither of the two latter mentioned sheets of 

 specimens collected by Banks and Solander have any matured fruits, so that 

 it seems hardly possible that Gaertner's drawing was made from these speci- 

 mens. It is also of particular interest to note that on the sheet labelled M. 

 Leucadendron, L. (M. viridiflora, Soland) reproduced in Illust. Bot. Capt. 

 Cook's Voyage on tab. 113, there is also a label apparently in Dr. Solander's 

 handwriting marked " Calyx glabr., M. viridif." Now the specimens in the 

 sheet on which the label is pasted, have terminal spikes of flowers, with the 

 calyx-tubes densely woolly or villous, not " glabrous," so that it would appear 

 that the label has been affixed to the wrong sheet of specimens. There seems 

 to be no doubt that the specimens labelled M. Leucadendron, L., fig. in 

 Illust. Bot. Cook's Voyage on t. 112, are really the ones intended for M. viridi- 

 flora, by Solander, and as these are identical with specimens collected by R. 

 Brown, labelled M. Leumdendron, L., var. East Coast ex Herb., R. Brown, 

 Iter Australiense, 1802-5 (Presented by direction of J. J. Bennett, 1876), ex. 

 Herb. Bot. Reg. Edin., we may conclude that those referred to by Bentham 

 (B. Fl. iii., 142) from the Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria collected by Brown as 

 well as the Banks and Solander specimens, were seen by Smith, WUldenow and 

 other earlier botanists. 



I have carefully compared the Banks and Solander specimens together 

 with those of R. Brown mentioned above, with specimens from New Caledonia, 

 labelled M. viridiflora, ex. Herb., Plantse Schlechterianae, No. 15016 (vide 

 Schlechter in Jahrbucher, Vol. 39, p. 208 (1907). [See also Dr. A. GuiUaumin's 

 Contribution a la Flore de Bourail (Nouvelle Caledonie) Annales du Musee 

 colonial de Marseille, Tome xix., p. 12 (1911), and R. Schlechter's Pflanzen- 

 geographische gliederning der Insel Neu Caledon, p. 9 (1904)] ; also with 

 specimens labelled M. Leucadendron, var. lancifolia, ex. Herb. F. M. Bailey, 

 Brisbane, and M. Maideni, R. T. Baker (type specimen) and find that they can- 

 not be separated by any morphological characters in either flowers, fruits, or 

 foliage. To the above we may also add specimens from the following localities : 

 Wyralla, Richmond River, W. Bauerlen, April, 1891 ; Breakfast Creek, Leich- 

 hardt (No. 142) ; Casino, D. J. McAuhffe, June, 1912 ; Newcastle, R. H. 

 Cambage, July 1901 ; Port Macquarie, J. H. Maiden and J. L. Boorman, Julj^ 

 1895, and June, 1915 ; Bellinger River district, March, 1910 ; Woolgoola, 

 E. H. F. Swain ; Sandgate, near Brisbane, J. H. Simmonds, July, 1910. There 

 are also specimens from New Caledonia, collected by J. Rossitterin 1903, said 

 to yield Niaouli oil, Bai du Sud, New Caledonia, collected by Le Boucher (No. 

 1539), 1903 ; and S. S. Islands (probably New Caledonia), C. Moore, 1850, 

 which are identical with the New South Wales specimens. 



(9) M. Leucadendron, var. albida. 



Syn. M. Sieberi, Schauer, Mss. in Walp. Rep. ii., p. 928 (1843) ; M. Leuca- 

 dendron, Maiden Forest Fl., of N.S.W., Vol. i., p. 90, 1903, pi. 15. Hall, Unin 

 Calif., Pub., Bot., p. 31, pi. 4, fig. 3 (1910) ; M. Smithii, T. R. Baker, Proc, 

 Linn. Soc, N.S.W., Vol. xxxviii., p. 597 (1913), and Baker and Smith, Jour. 

 Roy. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. xlvii., p. 201 (1913) ; Metrosideros albida, Sieb. in D.C. 



