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sent to us, is different from any we have yet seen. (See 

 excerpt of article by Mr. W. S. Campbell, supra.) 



M. Maideni, R. T. B., Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1913. 



This is commonly known as the " Broad-leaved Tea Tree" 

 throughout its geographical distribution, although at Port 

 Macquarie it is known as the "Bell Bowery Tea-tree." It 

 grows to a large size and produces an excellent pale, hard 

 close-grained timber suitable for boat-building, carriage 

 and general cabinet work, and is also very durable in the 

 ground. 



M. Smithii, R. T. B., Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1913. 



This is commonly known as the "Broad-leaved Tea Tree " 

 throughout its geographical distribution. It also, like M. 

 Maideni grows to a large size and produces an excellent 

 pale, hard close-grained timber, suitable for boat-building, 

 carriage and general cabinet work, and is also durable in 

 the ground, but has a well marked or pronounced sapwood. 



From amongst the material collected at this Institution 

 in connection with the species of Linnaeus, we have sepa- 

 rated these two forms, which we cannot place with any of 

 the species here enumerated (infra), and these have been 

 systematically described by one of us in the Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, N.S.W., September, 1913, under the name of M. 

 Maideni and M. Smithii. 



M. virxdiflora, Soland. 



This name first appears in Gaertn. Fruct. i, 173, (1788), 

 under M. angustifolia, Gaertn., to which Bentham, Flora 

 Australiensis, Vol. in, p. 142, gives specific rank. Index 

 Kewensis synonymises the name under M. angustifolia, 

 Gaertn., but this is without doubt an error, for in Britten's 

 Botany of Cook's Voyages, published by the British Museum 

 in 1901, an original drawing of M. viridiftora, Sol. is repro- 

 duced. This and the accompanying text prove conclusively 

 it is not M. angustifolia, Gaertn., which is also figured in 



