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Fruit. Nearly straight, smooth, about 1 inches long and ahout 5 lines 
broad. 
As the fruit of this apparently very local handsome shrub has not been 
hitherto known, we have given the above description from a few old capsules 
(without seeds) collected by Mr. Forsyth. (Maiden and Betche, in Proc. Linn. 
Soc., N.S. W., xxvi, 88, 1901.) The fruits are figured on the plate. 
Timber. Of a reddish-brown colour, and with the usual character of 
Hakea timbers. At present it is so rare that it seems unnecessary to discuss its 
possible economic value. 
Size. A shrub or small tree. Mr. S. W. Jackson says that a few miles 
from Collarenebri it is a tree of 20 feet. The Tia Falls plants are about 10 feet 
high. 
Habitat. This species is confined to New South Wales. 
The Flora Australiensis has 
"Hastings Elver, Fraser, and probably from the same neighbourhood, 
Herb. F. Mueller, apparently from Leichhardt." 
The type is stated by Brown to have come from the Hastings River ; it was 
collected by C. Fraser, doubtless on Oxley's Expedition to Mount Seaview and 
the coast in the year 1818 (see " Journal of Two Expeditions into the Interior of 
New South Wales," by John Oxley, 1820.) 
The late Mr. W. Forsyth collected this species at the Tia Falls on the 
New England Table- land, between the Upper Hastings River and Walcha. This 
gives us a clue, I think, as to where Fraser got it originally. Oxley went near the 
Tia Falls country on his way to Mount Seaview (p. 309, op. cit.} and the coast, and 
it is very easy for a specimen, so collected, to be labelled "Hastings River." The 
Upper Hastings arises in exceedingly rough country, and it is quite possible Hakea 
Fraseri may occur literally on or near the Hastings, but I think it is unlikely that 
it occurs on the Lower Hastings, which debouches at Port Macquarie. If this surmise 
be correct, the species must be removed from the coastal to the table-land flora. 
At all events, it is a very rare species in collections, and this note will invite 
re-examination of its range. 
The only other locality that I know of for this species is between 40 and 
50 miles of Collarenebri in north-western New South Wales. The township is 
a (at present) terminal station on the Narrabri-Burren Junction railway line. It is 
at the junction of the Gwydir and the Barwon and about 450 miles north-west of 
Sydney. 
These two localities are about 300 miles apart, and it is obvious that 
intermediate ones will be found. 
