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ing names which are useful to trace synonymy (a) Flindersia 
Greavesii, ‘‘Bulboro”’ or *‘Teak,”’ (b) Hugenia Jambolana, 
‘*Durobbi.’’ In the ‘‘Gardeners’ Chronicle ’’ of 27th Jan., 
1872, Dr. George Bennett wrote that Carron had gone to 
Lord Howe Island in H.M.S. “‘Rosario.’’ Mrs. Pryce (Mr. 
Carron’s daughter) mentions to me that her father arranged 
the flowers (named after Cunningham), for the litho-portrait 
in the ‘“‘Sydney Mail’ (Portrait Series No. 7) of Allan 
Cunningham which is so well known. She also states that 
her father selected the New South Wales timbers prepared 
at the Botanic Gardens for the Philadelphia Exhibition. 
He left the Botanic Gardens to take up the post of Forester 
on the Clarence River, but died shortly after taking up his 
duties. [For portrait, see Plate 12.| 
‘well known for his extensive and accurate acquaint- 
ance with the flora of Australia, as also for his readiness to impart 
to others his valuable stores of information.” (Prof. W. J. 
Stephens, President, Proc. Linn. Soc. V.S.W., ili., 442). 
Mueller named the genus Carronia (Bauhinia) after him. 
He is also commemorated by the following :-— 
Bauhinia Carroni, F.v.M.; Fagus Carronii, C. Moore = fF. 
Moore, Benth.; Phaius Carroni, F.v.M.= P. grandifolius, Lour. 
Carron also collected the following plants in the ill-fated 
Kennedy Expedition :— 
Nepenthes Kennedyi, F.v.M.; Goniopteris Kennedyi, F.v.M. = 
Meniscium Kennedyi, F.v.M.; Polypodium Kennedyi, F.v.M.; 
P. urophyllum, Wall. 
‘Amongst the survivors (of Kennedy’s Expedition) was Mr. 
Carron, the botanist, whose narrative is full of excellent observa- 
tions on the vegetation of the swampy and almost impracticable 
country traversed. It includes the notice of a Mepenthes, which 
with the rest of the collection, was lost.” See (8). 
Clowes, G. (———_—-—_). ‘‘Mr. G. Clowes, a gentleman 
who visited New South Wales for his health, and trans- 
G—July 1, 1908. 
