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for this purpose. These distributions comprised very many of the rarest Pines and other select 
plantvS, often not otherwise available, many requiring two years' attention in the nurseries here, thus 
involving the necessity of maintaining, during some years, approximately, 40,000 plants alone under 
pot culture. Bearing in mind the increasing extent of trading establishments, exceedingly well 
conducted, it is worthy of the consideration of the Government whether these distributions from a 
public establishment should not be materially decreased, or abolished altogether. Numerous planta- 
tions, by the impetus given, are now established on public grounds throughout the colony, from 
whence, moreover, seeds and cuttings might be locally obtained. Eminently useful plants of many 
kinds have, for local experiments, been widely scattered over the coimtry. The Treasury Reserve 
received last year 245 to some extent already upgrown coniferous trees. 
Turning to the special phytographic department, it may be observed, that the Museum 
now contains about 850,000 prepared and arranged plants ; the Australian portion being richer than 
that of any kindred institution in existence. 
The sixth volume of the Fragnienta Phytographi(e Australicej a work devoted to original 
discoveries, and written in a language common to science of all nations, is almost completed. The 
fourth volume of the universal work on the plants of Australia is, through my <aid, under the rare 
advantages attainable in the great national institution of Kew, just completed by the President of 
the Linnean Society, and comprises the orders of Corolliflorse, Extensive preliminary researches have 
been carried on already for the fifth, sixth, and seventh volumes ; to which, finally, a supplement is to 
be added. To promote, by farther field researches, the objects of this large work, on which all 
subsequent medical technological and rural observations in reference to the native Australian vegetation 
must rest, I visited, during the past spring, one of the most important tracts of West Australia. 
Finally, also, the great task yet remains to be performed of tracing out more completely the relation of 
geology to the distribution of the plants existing as well as passed away — a line of researches for which 
excellent geographical and geological maps are annually affording more facilities. Mr. Dallachy 
continues sedulously to collect, both for the Garden and the Phytographic Museum, in the north-east 
part of Queensland. 
The following are the genera which, since the issue of my last Report, by local independent 
researches, have been added to the system of Australian plants: — Dillenia, Cakile, Aldrovanda, 
Gomphandra, Connarus, Strongylodon, Salacia, Caryospermum, Casearia, Cucurbita, (Enanthe, 
Antirrhoea, Lasianthus, Ophiorrluza, Geophila, Aniseia, Erycibe, Ichnocarpus, Ceropegia, Bassia, 
Chrysophyllum, Thunbergia, Graptophyllum, Dischisma, Cylicodaphne, Cinnamomum, Plecospermum, 
Taxotrophis, Hyrtanandra, Nepenthes, Apostasia, Cirropetalum, Pogonia, Spathoglottis, Dracjena, 
Bambusa, Centotheca, Angiopteris, Marattia, Deparia, Isoetes ; and the following genera, new to 
phytography:— Fitzgeraldia, Pagetia, Davidsonia, Thespidium, Eleutheranthes, Thozetia, Carnarvonia, 
Darlingia, Helmholtzia, Corynotheca ; by which means representatives of Connarece, Samydese, 
SelagineiB, Nepentheje, and Apostasiace^e are added to the Australian flora. Tlie following are 
additions to the list of Australian trees published in the volume of the Intercolonial Exhibition: — 
Melodorum Maccreai, Pittosporum rubiginosum, P. venulosum, Eriostemon squameus, Sterculia lauri- 
folia, Sloanea Woollsii, S. Macbridei, Gomphandra Australiana, Leucocarpon celastroides, Taxitrophis 
rectinervis, Ficus Benjaminea, Croton triacros, Beyera viscosa, Mallotus polyadenos, M. Dallachyi, 
M. repandus, M. Chinensis, M. pycnostacliys, Macaranga involucrata, Oxylobium Callistachys, 
Pithecolobium Sutherlandi, Archidendron Lucyi, Quintinia Fawkneri, Cuttsia viburnea, Hakea 
macrocarpa, Carnarvonia aralifolia, Dryandra floribunda, Myrsine achradifolia, Bassia galactodendron, 
Chrysophyllum pruniferum, C. myrsinodendron, Alstonia verticillosa, A. villosa, A. excelsa, Cerbera 
Odollam, Casuarina Fraseriana. 
In the event of its proving inadvisable to devote the New Exhibition-building to the intended 
collections of a general industrial museum, it might be desirable to enlarge the Phytological Museum- 
building in the Garden, in order that a full display of vegetable objects of industrial interest may be 
formed. The absolute want both of space and accommodation frustrated every attempt to render 
my establishment also useful in this direction. 
During the Intercolonial Exhibition an apt opportunity arose to represent more fully the 
technological value of many native vegetable products, and for this purpose, from the ordinary 
resources of the establishment, a laboratory was constructed. I need not detail the experiments 
conducted in reference to the value and percentage of many kinds of paper material, essential oils, 
