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Exudations.— There exudes a substance from the bark very similar in 
outward appearance to that which occurs in the Port Jackson Pig (F. rubiginosa), 
see Part I, p. 11. 
Size. —Bentliam describes it (B.P1., vi, 165), as a “shrub or small tree.” 
The largest of the few trees growing near “ Wentworth’s Hut,” in the National 
Park, Sydney, attains a trunk diameter of about 5 feet, with gnarled spreading 
branches, and is probably considerably over 100 years old. This large tree can 
readily be seen from a boat; it is on a rocky point on the right bank of the Port 
Hacking River, about a mile from Audley. 
Habitat.— 
National Park, Port Hacking (M. Bell, February, 1900; J. L. Boorman, January, 1902). New 
for New South Wales. It seems very strange that a Ficus described from specimens collected on the 
barren Booby Island, in Torres’ Strait (about 10° S. lat.), and not recorded further south than Rockingham 
Bay, Queensland, should recur again in Port Hacking, near Sydney ; but we have no doubt about the 
correctness of the identification. The Port Hacking specimens differ only from the small specimen of 
Henne’s type from Booby Island in the somewhat smaller size of the leaves.—(Maiden and Betche, Proc. 
Linnean Soc. JV.S.W., 1902, p. 64.) 
The Hon. J. H. Carruthers, M.P., the Premier, has informed me that this 
tree has been seen about Shellharbour and other places in the district, e.g., the Pox- 
ground, near Gerringong; hut as I have not received specimens I wish to see these 
records confirmed, and to place twigs in the National Herbarium. It is found as 
such a large handsome specimen at the National Park that one cannot believe that 
it has died out in New South Wales except at that spot. It should be looked for 
both north and south. 
Propagation. —Prom seed. This is one of the handsomest of the Pigs for 
cultivation in New South Wales. We have specimens growing in the Botanic 
Gardens, where it is entirely at home. The origin of these trees has always been a 
puzzle. It may be that one of them is indigenous in its present situation ; it may, 
however, have been raised from seed obtained from the South Coast. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 56. 
a. Fruiting branch. 
b. Staminate flower. 
c. Anther. 
d. Pistillate flower. 
e. Gall flower. 
f. Fruit (Receptacle). 
Sydney : William Applegate CJullick, Government Printer.- 1904. 
