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Habitat. —In brushes, and often growing near salt water. The late Mr. 
Critchett Walker was fond of pointing out the association of this tree with the Port 
Jackson Pig (Ficus rubiginosa). Certainly a pair of trees of the two species were 
often found together, Avitli no other trees quite near. 
It occurs from the neighbourhood of Sydney north all round the continent, 
at least as far as Port Essington, North Australia. It is found in the National Park, 
a few miles south of Sydney ; I do not know its precise southern range. I have 
collected it on the Brushy Mountain, between Gloucester and Krambach ; this is 
the most westerly locality known to me. 
It is stated hy Mueller {Fragrn., ix, 91) that the species occurs on Lord 
Howe Island; but in Froc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 1898, 126, I have shown that the 
statement was made under a misapprehension. 
. Size. —It attains a height of 70 or 80 feet in good situations, and 18 inches 
to 2 feet in diameter. 
Propagation. —Prom seed. It is a very handsome tree for park-planting 
or for large gardens. It is shapely and very umbrageous, and visitors to the Botanic 
Gardens can form an opinion as to its merits in this respect. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 20. 
A. Flower bud. 
B. Expanded flower— 
(а) Sepal. 
(б) Petal, with two obovate hirsute scales at base. 
c. Flowers, with petals and stamens removed— 
(c) Disk. 
(d) Ovary. 
c 1 . Side view of c. 
d. Three-celled ovary (transverse section). 
E. Stamens. 
F. Part of the style, showing stigma. 
g. Fruit. 
h. The same — a divaricately three-lobed capsule, dehisced. 
i. Seed, showing aril. 
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