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It seems from this that the leaves on the flowering branches of F. australis 
are opposite and with few leaflets, while the full-grown leaves on the tree on non¬ 
flowering branches are alternate and have more numerous leaflets, so that Bentham’s 
description in the Flora Australiensis is quite correct after all. 
Panicles. —Much branched, terminating short branches without any leaves except a few scale-like 
bracts, sprinkled with a stellate tomentum. 
Flowers. —-N umerous. 
Calyx. —Open, tomentose, with 5 short broad obtuse lobes. 
Petals. —About 2 lines long, tomentose outside, except a narrow border, slightly pubescent 
inside. 
Fruit. —Almost woody, 2 or 3 inches long. 
Seeds. —(According to the plate quoted) winged at the upper end only. (B.F1. i, 388.) 
Botanical Name. — Flindersia in honor of Captain Matthew Flinders. 
Brown’s words are as follows :— 
The examination of Broad Sound (where the species was collected) was completed at the same time 
(September, 1802) by Captain Flinders, to commemorate whose merits I have selected this genus from the 
considerable number discovered in the expedition, of which he was the able and active commander. 
Austrulis , Latin, Southern (Australian). 
Vernacular Names. —“Teak” is the common name,—that or “Native Teak.” 
The confusion of this species with F. Bennettiana will be dealt with below. It 
has been sent to me as “Long Jack” (A. Budder, No. 47); hut that name is 
more frequently applied to F. Schottiana. I have also seen it labelled “Flindosa,” 
a name more strictly applied to F. Schottiana; also, Ftintamendosa was a name on 
the Clarence for F. Greavesii (a synonym of the present species). 
“ Crow’s Ash ” in Queensland, according to F. M. Bailey. I have not heard 
such a name applied to F. australis in New South Wales. F. Bennettiana is 
sometimes known by that name. 
Teak and Cudgerie. —The present affords an excellent opportunity of 
drawing attention to the pioneer work which even yet remains to he done in regard 
to some of even the most important of our trees. Flindersia Bennettiana has been 
called Teak for many years, and the statement has long been allowed to go 
unchallenged. On working up the genus, for the purposes of the “ Forest Flora,” 
I found, however, that Teak is really the product of F. australis. Furthermore, 
“ Cudgerie ” has for many years been looked upon as the vernacular for F. australis, 
but inquiry shows that the Cudgerie is properly F. Schottiana. The confusion, 
which is now cleared up, appears to have originated in Exhibition catalogues, and is 
not surprising. The fruits have been wrongly matched, and anyone who has had 
experience of the difficulties of botanising in the rich brush forests of this State 
knows how very easy it is to attribute to a monarch of the forest, with its towering 
leafy top, the wrong flowers or fruits, which arc usually only obtained lying on the 
ground, blown off by the wind or torn off by a parrot or cockatoo. 
