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Si/C.—It attains a height of 100 to 120 feet, and a diameter of 3 to 4 feet. 
Habitat. —It is confined to northern New South Wales and to Queensland. 
The type came from near Upper Head, Broad Sound, a little north of Rockhampton. 
It is a brush tree, and is not rare in south coastal Queensland. In New South 
Wales it is “ one of the principal, if not the principal, timbers of the district, being 
unlimited in supply” (Forest Guard W. Dunn, Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range). 
“ It is found on the Tweed ” (Forest Guard S. R. Charles). It grows in the Big 
Scrub near Lismore, and in the scrubs (brushes) all through the Richmond district. 
Enormous numbers of this valuable tree have been destroyed in the process of 
clearing land for cultivation, and it is equally certain that much of this timber has 
been unnecessarily destroyed. In any scheme of forestry this is one of the trees it 
should he the endeavour of the forester to conserve. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 67. (FLOWERS.) 
A. Flowering branch. 
b. Expanded flower. 
a. Petals. 
b. Staminodia. 
c. Stamens. 
d. Disc. 
e. Ovary. 
c. Vertical section of flower showing— 
(«—e as in b). 
d. Back of flower. 
E. Flower more advanced, showing young cone with stigma. 
f. Stamen, 
o. Young cone. 
ii. Vertical section of young cone. 
k. Part of outside of young cone showing hairs. 
L. Part of stem, showing articulation of petiole. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 68. (FRUITS.) 
A. Leaf. 
b. Capsule about to open. 
c. Capsule opening septicidally. 
d. One valve of the capsule. 
e. Deciduous placenta with winged seeds (two on each side of the placenta). 
(All drawn from fresh specimens from Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, W. Dunn.) 
Sydney : William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer.—1905. 
