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Size. — This is a tree which attains a height of 30 or 40 feet or more. A 

 trunk diameter of 2 feet is by no means unccAnmon. 



Habitat. — The following localities are quoted in the Flora Aus- 

 traliensis : — 



> N. Australia.— Victoria Eiver (jP. Mueller); Islands of the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria {R. Brown). 



Queensland. — Wide Bay (Bidwill) ; Port Denison (Fitzalan) ; Keniiedy 

 district (Daintree) ; Flinders and Dawson Rivers (Sutherland); in the 

 interior (Mitchell). 



New South Wales. — Darling Desert (Victorian Expedition) ; Began Eiver 

 (C. Stuart). 



S. Australia. — Cooper's Creek (Howitt's Expedition), 



It is an interior species as far as New South Wales is concerned. We 

 have it from such localities as Ivanhoe, via Hay, Nyngan, and Coolabah, 

 iWMte Cliffs, Narrabri. It extends over enormous areas, but has been muchi 

 cut down during the last twenty-five years for fodder and other purposes. 



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EXPLANATION OF PLATE im. 



> A. Branch with flowering spikes (Coolabah, N.S.W.). 



B. Unopened flower. 



c. Expanded flower, showing — (a) Four-lobed corolJa with stamens, 

 (?/) Pistil. 



D. Corolla-lobe, with stamen. 



E. Part of corolla-lobe larger, showing stamen (sessile anther) on the 



concave laminte. 



F. Showing (a) Pedicel, (6) Disc, (c) Stipitate ovary, (d) Stigma. 

 Q. Stigma. 



H. Follicles (Coolabah, N.S.W.). 



K. Seed, winged all round. 



I.. Portion of leaf enlarged, showing nine veins. 



The specimen figured is the common New South Wales tree, but it is 

 not typical G. striata; it is that forrn described by Brown as 0. lineata. 



Stenocarpus salignus, li.Br. 



A Beefwood. 



Botanical Name.- — Stetnocarpus, fromi two Greek words — stenos (narrow) 

 and harpos (a friiit), in reference to the narrowness of the fruit (follicle); 

 salignus (Latin), Willow-like, but hardly an appropriate name, as a general 

 rule, yet descriptive of some specimens. 



Vernacular Names. — This is often called " Silky Oak," and this term is 

 very widely in use. In some districts in which Grevillea roTmsta and Orites 

 excelsa also occur, our tree goes by the name of " Eed Silky Oak " in order 

 •to distinguish it. Further allusion to the redness of its timber is in the 

 name of " Beefwood," which is in very frequent use, the appearance of the 

 fresh wood teing remarkably like raw beef in colour. 



Flowers. — : White or greenish-white, small and inconspicuous in com- 

 parison with those of 8. sinuatus. They are somewhat fragrant. 



