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Calyx-tube .—More or less pubescent or hirsute, turbinate, 1 b to near 3 lines long; lobes narrow, 
acute, nearly as long as the tube. 
Petals. —Undulate, often 3 lines diameter. 
Staminal bundles .—Often l inch long, indexed, the claws long and linear, with numerous short 
slender filaments nearly along their whole length. 
Anthers .-—Very small. 
Ovary .-—"Wholly adnate, dat-topped, without any central depression. 
Ovules .—Exceedingly numerous in each cell, covering an oblong redexed placenta. 
Fruiting-calyx .—Three to 4 lines diameter, hemispherical or cup-shaped, truncate, smooth, the 
capsule level with the oridce or shortly exceeding it. 
Seeds. —Linear-cuneate, not winged. 
Cotyledons. —Folded. (B. FI. iii, 263.) 
Bailey (Queensland Flora, 636) distinguishes a variety fibrosa -.— 
This variety forms a handsome compact tree, and differs from the usual form in its bark being 
fibrous on both trunk and branches, and in its indorescence being more slender and usually longer, the 
calyx only slightly hairy, the dowers smaller. Pimpana, Queensland. 
Botanical Name. — Tristania, after M. Tristan, a French botanist. Don 
(probably following Sir J. E. Smith) has a fanciful derivation from the Greek, treis, 
stao, signifying to stand in threes, in allusion to a supposed disposition of the flowers 
and leaves. 
I may, however, mention, as a warning to etymologists, that Sir James E. Smith* is entirely 
mistaken in his derivation of the name of Tristania from the Greek, and in supposing it to allude to the 
ternate disposition of the dowers and their stalks, a derivation recently adopted by Professor Lindley.f M. 
Jules de Tristan published, in the early part of the present (19th) century, in One Journal de Physique, 
and in the Annales du Museum d' Histoire Naturelle , memoirs on the development of buds, on the genus 
Pinus, and on the affinities of the genus Reseda. (J. J. Bennett in Horstield’s P/antce Javanicce Rariores, 
P . 128.) 
Conferta, from the Latin, denoting “close together,” the leaves being crowded 
together on the twigs. 
Vernacular Names. —Usually known as “Box” of one sort or another— 
“ Brush Box,” “ Scrub Box,” “ White Box,” “ Bastard Box,” “ Brisbane Box,” 
“ Bed Box.” It must not be confused with any of the species of Eucalyptus known 
as “ Box,” owing to the timber being tough and inlocked; “ Brush,” because it is 
essentially a brush (an Australian word for luxuriant vegetation—jungle in fact) 
timber. The name “Brush Box” distinguishes it especially from “ Forest” or “Grey” 
Box {Eucalyptus hemiphloia). The name “ Woollybutt ” is in use in the Port Stephens 
district as well as on the Manning. It must not be confused with the true “ Woolly- 
butt ” ( Eucalyptus longifolia) ; see Part II. In Aiton’s work, where the species 
was described, it was called “ Pittosporum-leaved Tristania .” 
* Encyclopaedia Britannica, in voce Tristania. 
+ Botanical Register, xxii (1839). 
