LI. MYRTACEjL. 
636 
[Tristania. 
specimens H to 3in., in others 3 to Gin. long. Flowers usually small, in axillary 
cymes, the common peduncle J to £in. long, more or less flattened. Calyx-tube 
campanulate, usually hoary-pubescent, 1 to 1£ line long; lobes very short and 
broad. Petals li line diameter. Staminal bundles about as long as the petals, 
the claws half as long as the petals, rather broad, with numerous inflexed 
filaments. Ovary wholly adnate, flat or concave at the top and glabrous, not 
depressed round the style ; ovules very numerous in each cell, on an oblong 
reflexed placenta. Fruiting-calyx very open, 2 to nearly 4 lines diameter, the 
capsule not exceeding the tube. Seeds linear-cuneate, not winged ; cotyledons 
rather broad and folded. — DC. Prod. iii. 210; Melaleuca tniaveolem, Gaertn. Fruct. 
t. 173 t. 35 ; Tristania depressa, A. Cunn. in Bot. Reg. under n. 1839 ; DC. 
Prod. iii. 210; T. rhytiphloia, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 81. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Cape York, M‘ Gillivray ; Endeavour River, Banks and 
Solander ; Repulse Bay, A. Cunningham ; Rockingham Bay, Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Burnett 
River, F. v. Mueller ; Mount Elliott, Fitzalan : Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, &c., Backhouse, 
If'. Hill, and others. Flowering from November to January. 
Wood of a red colour, resembling Spanish Mahogany, hard and close-grained, but best fitted 
for underground work ; extensively used for piles, as it is found to resist the ravages of the 
teredo longer than any wood as yet tried in this colony. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 204. 
Var. ylabrescens, Syn. Ql. FI. 182. This differs from the normal form only iu the want of the 
hoariness of its foliage, the leaves being a bright shiny-green. Found in low, almost swampy 
localities, in the south. — Wood similar to the last, and used for the same purposes. Bailey’s 
Cat. Ql. Woods No. 205. 
2. T. conferta (leaves crowded), It. Br. in Ait. Hurt. Keir ed. 2, iv. 417 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 263. Brisbane Box. “ Tubbil-pulla,” Stradbroke Island, 
Watkins, and Brisbane, '/’. Petrie. A tall tree, with a smooth brown deciduous 
bark and dense foliage, the young shoots often clothed with spreading hairs, 
otherwise glabrous except the inflorescence, the buds of the succeeding year 
covered with large imbricate coloured scales. Leaves alternate, crowded at the 
ends of the branches so as to appear verticillate, petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, acuminate or rarely almost obtuse, usually 3 to 6in. long, penniveined and 
minutely reticulate underneath. Flowers in cymes of 3 to 7, usually on the 
young wood below the cluster of leaves, the floral leaves mostly abortive, the 
peduncle flattened, \ to ^in. long, or rarely elongated. Calyx-tube more or less 
pubescent or hirsute, turbinate, 1^ to near 3 lines long ; lobes narrow, acute, 
nearly as long as the tube. Petals undulate, often 3 lines diameter. Staminal 
bundles often ^in. long, inflexed, the claws long and linear, with numerous short 
slender filaments nearly along their whole length ; anthers very small. Ovary 
wholly adnate, flat-topped without any central depression ; ovules exceedingly 
numerous in each cell, covering an oblong reflexed placenta. Fruiting-calyx 3 to 
4 lines diameter, hemispherical or cup-shaped, truncate, smooth, the capsule level 
with the orifice or shortly exceeding it. Seeds linear-cuneate, not winged ; coty- 
ledons folded. — DC. Prod. iii. 210 ; F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 57 ; T. subverticillata, 
Wendl. in Ott. Dietr. Allg. Gartenz. i. 186 ; T. macrophylla, A. Cunn. in Bot. 
Reg. t. 1839 ; F. v. M. Fragm. i. 82 ; Lophostemon arborescens, Schott in Wien. 
Zeitschr. iii. (1830) 772. 
Hab.: Sandy Cape and Keppel Bay, R. Brown; mouths of the Burdekin River, F. v. Mueller ; 
Rockhampton, Edgecombe Bay, etc., Dallachy, Henne ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. 
Cunningham and other. Flowering about December. 
Wood of a dark-grey colour ; hard, tough, and close in the grain ; when kept dry very durable : 
shrinks very much in drying; used for joists, knees of vessels, and by the wheelwright. — Bailey's 
Cat. Ql. 1 foods No. 206. 
Leaves on the Brisbane River tree often discoloured by the fungus blight Phoma purpurea, 
C. and M. 
Var .Jibrosa. This variety forms a handsome compact tree, and differs from the usual form in 
its bark being fibrous on both trunk and branches, and in its inflorescence being more slender 
and usually longer, the calyx only slightly hairy, the flowers smaller. Hab.: Pimpama, W. B. 
Bailey. 
