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These remarks are of general application. If people would attend more to 
the soil, drainage, and general conditions which promote the health of plants, they 
would have far less need for spraying operations and such special treatment as the 
introduction of parasites to cope with animal pests. In the same way people who 
live in healthy surroundings have but diminished need for the services of the doctor. 
Timber. —This is not a timber tree, rarely exceeding 10 inches in diameter. 
When quite fresh the wood is white, becoming pink towards the centre. 
Size. —Rarely as much as 40 feet in height, with a stem diameter of under 
1 foot. 
Habitat. —The type comes from Ash Island, Hunter River, and from the 
Clarence River. It is confined to good brush-land of the coastal districts, occurring 
as far south as the Illawarra, and north as far as Cape York in Queensland—the 
most northerly point of Australia. 
Propagation. —The fruits, or rather the seeds, readily germinate. I desire 
to bring this tree under notice as a most desirable addition to the arboretum or 
shrubbery. It can be pruned to any shape, while its dense, shining, drooping 
foliage renders it a pleasing object. Its one drawback is the tendency to sooty- 
mould to which I have alluded. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 44. 
A. Flowering twig. 
b. Flower in vertical section. 
(a) Sepal. 
(b) Petal. 
(r) Torus or disc. Note the glands which are characteristic of the species. 
(cl) Stamen. 
(e) Stigma. 
(/) Ovary. 
c. Flower, with stamens removed. 
(a) Sepal. 
(b) Petal. 
(c) Torus. 
(d) Ovary. 
(e) Stigma. 
D. Stamen, back and front view. 
e. Flower, looked at from above. 
(a) Sepal. 
(b) Petal. 
(c) Torus. 
f. Fruit-bearing twig, 
a. Fruit. 
h. Transverse section of the same. 
K. Seeds. 
Svdney : William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer — 1904 . 
