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Jristania conferta^ R.Br. 
THE BRUSH BOX. 
(Family Myrtace^e.) 
Size. —See vol. i, p. 111. 
A tree was measured with a girth of 29 feet at 3 feet from the ground. 
It was growing 1,800 to 2,000 feet above sea level on Bulga Mountain, head of Elh-nhorough River. 
— (George S. Hill, Bungay, Wingham, 27th November, 1906.) 
No. 32. Part IX. 
Ventilago viminalis, Hook. 
THE SUPPLE JACK. 
(Family Rhamnace.r.) 
Vernacular Name, etc.— See vol. i, p. 191. 
“Supplejack”; called "also “ Vine-tree” ; other name variously spelt “ Cunnianna” or “ Cunn- 
yunny,” one of our most valuable fodder trees. All stock are very fond of it. It stands plenty of 
lopping. When young the stems twist round each other like a vine ; hence the name, “Vine-tree.” It 
appears to start as a vine at the base of some other shrub, which it eventually displaces. It then grows 
into an upright tree 20 or 30 feet high. (A. W. Mullen, L.S., of Bourke, through the Chairman of the 
Western Lands Board.) 
“ Supple Jack or Australian Willow.” Good firewood, bullock-yokes, and shafts, but hard to get 
straight; also good fodder for stock. Resists white ants.—(R. J. Dalton, Wanaaring.) 
ILLUSTR ATIONS. • 
Photographs of Supple Jack from Fort Bourke, near Bourke.—(C. J. McMaster.) 
Mr. C. J. McMaster furnishes the following information :— 
Plate (1) indicates the habit of growth in an intermediate stage. Tt will be seen that the plant 
made use of the tree, immediately behind it, to climb upon, and, having grown sufficiently stable to no 
longer require its assistance, it took possession of the situation, and probably destroyed its host. The two 
are so close together that they look like one on the plate, but a careful examination will reveal the 
difference. Taken near Brewarrina. Plate (2) shows a fine specimen of Supple Jack. Indications of its 
early habit of growth are distinguishable in the younger stems—on the left—which have not yet outgrown 
the spiral climbing peculiarity. 
