Sgncarpia.] 
LI. MYRTACEiE. 
639 
middle. — F. v. M. Fragm. i. 79 ; Metrosideros ylomulifcra, Sm. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. iii. 269 ; DC. Prod. iii. 225 ; Tristania albens, A. Cunn. in Bot. Reg. under 
n. 1889 ; DC. Prod. iii. 210 ; Kamptzia albens, Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 
xviii. Suppl. Prasf. 9 t. 1 ; Metrosideros procera and M. propinqua, Salisb. 
Prod. 351 ? 
Hab.: Shoalwater Bay passage, R. Brown; Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller; Ilei'berton, J. F. 
Bailey. Flowering about October. 
Wood of a light colour near the bark, but all the rest dark-brown ; easy to work, but shrinks 
and warps much in drying. Used for piles and underground work generally, also shipbuilding. — 
Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 207. 
2. S. Hillii (after Walter Hill), Bail. Proc. Roy. Soc. Ql. i. 86. Peebeen. 
A tall tree, producing a durable timber ; bark thick, deeply furrowed, of a reddish 
color. Leaves opposite, the pairs often so close as to appear whorled, ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, rounded at the base, 4 to 6Jin. long, 2 to 4in. 
broad, deep-green on the upper side, paler beneath, the midrib prominent, trans- 
verse veins anastomosing in an intramarginal one some distance from the margin, 
both sides finely reticulate. Petioles nearly terete when fresh, much wrinkled 
when dry, ^ to 1 Jin. long. Flowers united in heads, each head usually formed 
of a whorl of 6 with 1 in the centre. Peduncle terete or angular when dry, to 
ljin. long, with broad scale-like bracts close under the head. Calyxes connate 
at the base, the free part campanulate ; lobes obtuse, often reflexed. Petals 
orbicular, with undulate thin margins. Stamens in 2 rows, inflexed in the bud, 
2 to 5 lines long ; filaments flattened ; anthers nearly globular. Fruiting heads 
1 to ljin. diameter. Ovary flat-topped, glabrous, 3-celled. Seeds linear, erect 
from the thickened axile placenta. 
Hab.: Fraser’s Island (so far as at present known, its only habit). 
Wood of a dark-pink colour, close in the grain, and tough ; a useful building wood. — Bailey’s 
Cat. Ql. Woods No. 209. 
Exudes a soft yellow resin, which may be put to the same use as Strasburg turpentine; also 
has been proved a healing agent on chronic ulcers and sores like the best Hamburg plaster. — 
Lauterer. 
3. S. leptopetala (petals slender), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 79 ; Bcnth. FI. Austr. 
iii. 266. A tree of 50 to 60ft., the young shoots, under side of the leaves, and 
inflorescence minutely and closely tomentose or almost scurfy, or at length 
glabrous, the young branches angular. Leaves ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate, penniveined, glabrous above, 2 to 4in. long, tapering into 
rather short petioles. Flowers small and numerous, in dense globular heads but 
quite free from each other, the common peduncles slender, 1 to ljin. long, in 
terminal clusters or panicles. Bracts very small, linear or lanceolate. Calyx- 
tube pubescent or nearly glabrous, membranous, turbinate-campanulate, 1 to 14- 
line long ; lobes short, rounded. Petals narrow, f line long. Stamens in a 
single row round the margin of the calyx-tube but interrupted between the petals, 
3 to 4 lines long. Ovary convex, pubescent, 2-celled, with 1 erect ovule in 
each cell. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller , C Moore, and others. Flowering in 
September. 
Wood of a light colour, close-grained, and tough. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 209. 
18. LYSICARPUS, F. v. M. 
(Fruits free.) 
Calyx-tube campanulate, adnate to the ovary at the base ; lobes 5, small, 
almost valvate. Petals 5, spreading. Stamens indefinite, free or nearly so, in 
2 or more series interrupted opposite the sepals, the inner ones shorter, a few of 
the outer ones with reniform indehiscent anthers, the others with versatile 
