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Size. —A rather large tree. Trees 60 to 80 feet in height, with p, diameter 
of 2 to nearly 3 feet, are not uncommon. 
Sir William Macarthur gave the height of trees at Brisbane Water as 70 to 
80 feet, and a diameter of 2 feet. 
Propagation. —’Like most of the Lit see as, a beautiful shade tree for the 
warmer, moister parts of this State; it requires shelter and good soil. 
Habitat. —This is a coastal brush tree, occurring from Bock Ingham Bay, 
Queensland, to the Hawkesbury Biver, New South Wales. Further search will 
doubtless extend the recorded range. 
In the Flora Australiensis (B.F1. v, 306), we have the following:— 
Queensland .—Rockingham Bay (Dallachy); Sydney woods (probably from Brisbane River), Paris 
Exhibition, 1855 (Macarthur, n. 24, 192). 
The reference to the Sydney woods shows that Macarthur’s specimens were 
incorrectly referred by Bentham to the Brisbane River, which is, of course, in 
Queensland, instead of to Brisbane Water, an arm of tlie Hawkesbury Biver, not 
much north of Sydney, 
I have explained the matter at some length in the N.S.W. Agric. Gazette 
for November, 1894, p. 826, but only obtained specimens from the vicinity of 
Brisbane Water in 1900 (from Wyong), when Mr. Betche and I recorded it in the 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., xxvii, p. 63 (1902). 
I have it also in the Herbarium from the following intermediate localities 
going north. 
Tuggerah Lakes (F. Gordon) ; near Tinonee, height 60 feet, diameter 
20 inches (Augustus Budder); Port Macquarie, “ Scaly or Yellow Beech ” (G. B. 
Brown); Woolgoolga Creek (E. H. F. Swain). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 170. 
a. Flowering twig. 
b The flower-head with 4 bracts—the 2 outer ones (aa) are glabrous or nearly so, the 
2 inner ones ( bb ) are villous. 
c. Male flower. 
d. Male flower opened out showing— 
(а) Calyx (6 perianth-segments). 
(б) 6 stamens of the outer series. 
(c) 3 stamens of the inner series, each with a gland ou each side near the base, 
e. Rudimentary pistil. 
f. Female flower opened out, showing— 
(а) Calyx (6 perianth-segments). 
(б) 6 staminodia of the outer series. 
(c) 3 staminodia of the inner series, with glands, 
a. Pistil. 
H. Portion of fruiting twig showing the persistent calyx. 
