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a geographical coast range of nearly 300 miles, extending from 
Port Macquarie to very near the borders of Victoria, but so far as 
and massed together. In many places, as in some parts of the 
Shoalhaven district, and further south, as at Bodalla, it almost 
exclusively occupies large areas, and indicates a poor, stiff, iron- 
stonetlay soil. In some of its southern habitats it is found with 
perfectly cylindrical stems, at least 6 or 7 feet high, and from 
2 to 24 feet in diameter, but about Sydney and northwards the 
doubt referred to in Brown’s Pro as a possible second 
species. As has already been observed, the specific designation 
spalis is an unfortunate one, as, h there 1s a Sp 
became know : 
district hy a Dr. Stephenson, then in practice there, who described 
1861 I found this plant in many places on the higher 
grounds bordering on the Richmond River where, not far from 
d, and as far north as Rockingham Bay. It is described as 
zamia Perowskiana, by Von Regel; in Miquel’s Cycadacew 
kiana, and by Baron 
of . 
an. Macrozamia Per 
von Mueller as Hucephalartos Denisonii, in Journal of Phar- 
cal Victoria ; but the name Macrozama Deni- 
wan 28 It had priority, and its specific designation, D i 
ct in compliment to the late Sir William Denison, Governor © 
“ew South Wales, will always afford some — cette 
1858, journey m 
aye I collected leaf specimens only of what I then considered to be 
