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Varieties. Bentham recognised (then) but one variety, viz., var. grandijlora. 
Calyx 4 lines diameter. Stigmas short and broad. Port Denison, Queensland. 
Fitzalan). (B.F1. i, 231.) But Bailey, in his "Queensland Flora," p. 140 (1899) 
recognised no less than four additional ones, viz. : 
2. angustifolia, " Cat. Queensland Woods," and No. 1 " Occasional Papers on the 
Queensland Flora," 1886. From Endeavour River. 
3. macrophylla, Botany Bulletin, ix, 5. (See also Queensland Agric. Journ., Oct., 
1899, p. 393). 
4. trifoliolata (see below). 
5. peralata, Occ. Papers on Queensland Plants, No. 1. The " Red Beech " of the 
Johnstone River. 
None of these forms appear to be found in New South Wales, except the typical 
form and var. trifoliolata. This has leaves with three leaflets, and it is T. trifoliolata 
F.v.M. of Fragm., ix, 43. 
Botanical Name. Besides the Australian species of Tarrietia, there is one 
other, viz., T. javanica, a Javanese tree, as its name denotes, and the one on which the 
genus was founded. The word Tarrietia has a French look about it, but it is not 
deirved from such an origin, but from the Javanese word " Tarritie," the local name 
for the tree in question. Argyrodendron consists of two Greek words, meaning silver- 
tree, and has reference to the silvery appearance of the under-side of the foliage. 
Vernacular Name. The name Ironwood has also been given to this tree, 
but the appellation is neither distinctive nor is it specially appropriate. Its timber 
is hard, but many of our native trees have harder timber still. A number of trees 
belonging to the Family Myrtacese (which includes what are popularly known as Gum- 
trees, Myrtles, &c.) go by the name of Ironwood in different parts of Australia, e.g., 
Eugenia Ventenatii, sometimes also known in this colony as Drooping Myrtle, and other 
Eugenias. Closely related are some species of Myrtus or Myrtle, Melaleuca or Tea-tree, 
and Syncarpia leptopetala, a tree very closely allied to our common Turpentine. A 
few western Wattles yield such hard timber that they occasionally also go by the name 
of Ironwood. Allied to these is the so-called leguminous ironbark of Leichhardt, 
Erythropfdaeum Laboucherii, which goes by the name of Ironwood on the Flinders River, 
Queensland. A third Family, i.e., the Jasmine or Olive Family, contains a number of 
small trees whose wood is so hard that they go by the names of Axe-breaker, Ironwood, 
&c. ; such are Notelcea ligustrina, one of our native Olives ; Olea paniculata, better 
known as Marble wood. 
It also goes by the name of Silver-tree, owing to the silvery whiteness of the 
underside of the leaves. Black Stavewood is another name applied to it. Indeed, it 
often goes under the name of Stavewood, which is testimony to its fissile character. 
Because of the general resemblance of its wood to that of Elm, it has obtained the local 
