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Flowers. The flowers are very fragrant, yellowish-green and tubular 
not very conspicuous. 
Fruit. The fruits are fluted, the fluting being the more conspicuous as 
drying proceeds. 
Timber. A pale coloured timber, with a neat, maple-like figure. It is 
fissile. If it were procurable in sufficient quantity, it would be worthy for test for 
bedroom furniture. 
Size. Sir William Macarthur gave the trunk diameter as 8 to 12 inches, 
and the height of the tree as 30 to 4') feet, which is perhaps a fair statement. Some 
specific sizes will be found quoted under " Habitat." 
Habitat. It is a native of coastal New South Wales chiefly. Mr. F. M. 
Bailey gives " Scrubs of the North Coast Railway " as a Queensland locality. 
It was first collected by Allan Cunningham near " Five Islands " 
(Wollongong), "in sylvis umbrosis submontosis," in the year. 1818, and this 
remains almost its most southerly recorded locality. [ found it in a little park at 
Robertson, a few miles further south, and believe that search in the brushes will 
reveal it very much further south still. 
The late Sir William Macarthur gave its locality in 1855 ' from Illawarra, 
only upon the mountain side," and in 1862 " high up the mountain." 
It is also not uncommon at Otford (J. H. Camfield, J. L. Boorman). 
Following are some localities north of Sydney : 
Hogan's Brush, Narara (A. Murphy) ; Fernmount, Bellinger River, slim 
tree, 25 feet, 10-foot bole, 2-3 feet diameter (E. H. F. Swain) ; Dorrigo (W. Heron, 
J. L. Boorman) ; Ballina, 12-15 feet (W. Baeuerlen) ; Burringbar (W. Forsyth) ; 
Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, 20 feet (W. Dunn). 
Leichhardt collected it at "Brush of Piri, January, 1;43." I do not know 
whether this is northern New South Wales or Queensland ; a search in the record 
of his itinerary would show. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 193. 
A. Flowering twig, 
u. Single leaf. 
c. Flower-burl. 
D. Flower with 4 liuear, valvate petals. 
B. Flower, the petals removed. 
F. Vertical section of dower. 
a. Anthers, front and back views. 
H. Fruit, an ovoid berry. 
i. Seed. 
K. Vertical section of seed. 
Drawn from specimens collected in the National Park, a few miles south of Sydney. 
