100 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
B. E. P. Q. 476. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 
July 20, 1938. 
This digest of the plant-quarantine import restrictions of the Commonwealth 
of Australia has been prepared for the information of nurserymen, plant- 
quarantine officials, and others interested in the exportation of plants and plant 
products to the Commonwealth. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine inspector in charge 
of foreign information service, Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from 
the proclamations promulgated under the Quarantine Act 1908-24 (plants divi- 
sion), gazetted September 19, 1935, and from subsequent amendments and 
proclamations, and reviewed by the Director-General of Health, Common- 
wealth Department of Health, Canberra. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and com- 
plete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used inde- 
pendently of, nor as a substitute for, the original texts, and it is not to be 
interpreted as legally authoritative. 
Lee A. Stkong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 
Basic Legislation 
[The Quarantine Act 1908-1924 (Plants Division)] 
All Plants Subject to Quarantine 
[Proclamation 1-P, gazetted September 19, 1935] 
This proclamation revokes that published in the Gazette of July 10, 1909, 
insofar as it related to plants and declares that all plants imported into- 
Australia from any place beyond Australia shall be subject to quarantine. 
Peevious Pkoclamations Revoked 
Proclamation 2 P, gazetted September 19, 1935, revokes prior quarantine 
proclamations concerning the importation of plants into Australia. 
Importation into the Commonwealth Prohibited 
[Proclamation 9-P, gazetted September 19, 1935] 
Banana plants, exclusive of the fruit, grown in any country in which boring 
beetles of the genera Sphenophorus, Cosmopolites, or Rhabdocnemis exist. 
Broom millet (Sorghum vulgar -e var. technicum (Koern.) Jav.) broomcorn. 
Cactaceae : Any plant, including root, pad, cutting, or seed, except seed of 
free-flowering or ornamental species and varieties other than of the genera 
Opuntia and Nopalia. 
Chestnut plants (Castanea spp.) or parts thereof, including the fruit or nuts, 
from any part of the world. 
Citrus plants, including the fruits, but exempting the seeds, from any country 
in which citrus canker (Bacterium (Pseudomonas) citri (Hasse) Doidge) 
exists. 
Gooseberry plants (Ribes spp.) or parts thereof in which Sphaerotheca 
mors-uvae (American gooseberry mildew) exists. 
Hop plants (Humulus spp.), except the dried flower cones known in commerce 
as hops, grown in any country in which either downy mildew (Plasmopara 
(Pseudoperonospora) humuli) or mosaic exists. 
Peanut plants (Arachis spp.), exclusive of the fruit (peanuts). 
Plants or parts thereof, including fruits or seeds (other than manufactured 
products thereof) liable to infestation with any species of Hemileia from any 
country in which Hemileia exists. 
Rosaceae: Plants or parts thereof of the suborder or tribe Pomeae of 
the order Rosaceae (including the fruit but exempting the seeds) from any 
