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Fruit .—Brown had not seen a fruit at the time of description of the species, 
nor was it seen by Bentham. Bailey ( Queensland Flora, p. 1346) appears to have 
been the first to describe it, which he does as follows :—“ Fruit 1J inch long, ovate, 
somewhat flattened, and about finch broad the flat way.” 
Timber.—This interior tree is rather rare, but the timber is much prized for 
bullock yokes, being very strong and durable. 
Range.—It is found in the drier parts of all the mainland States except 
Victoria. 
Following are the localities given in the Flora Australiensis (v, 496) :— 
N. Australia. —Attack Creek, McDouall Stuart’s Expedition. 
Queensland. —Shoal>vater Bay, R. Brown ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Tliozet; Cape 
River and Nerkool Creek, Bowman ; Dyngie, Miss Boss ; also in Leichhardt’s collection. 
Bentham, however, adds “ Several of the above quoted specimens are not in 
flower, and are therefore in some measure doubtful.” 
The type locality is “ within the tropics ” as defined by Brown at p. vii of 
Preface to his Frodromus, referring to Queensland and Northern Queensland. 
Blown gives Shoalwater Bay as one locality for Grevillea (afterwards Hakea) lorea. 
{Trans. Linn. Soc , x, p. 177). Shoalwater Bay is, of course, near the modern 
Bowen. 
Queensland. 
I have a specimen collected by Robert Brown in Northern Queensland. 
The leaves are about 26 inches long (see Plate). 
I am indebted to Mr. F. M. Bailey for specimens from the following 
localities :— 
Springsure. This is a little south of Emerald, on the Central Railway (? Col¬ 
lector) ; Bouldercombe, a few miles south of Rockhampton (G. Smith); Beaufort, 
near the Belyando and in the Mitchell country, to he referred to presently (C. W. 
de Burgh Birch). 
In the scrubs near this camp [Mount Mudge, 2,247 feet, near the sources of the Belyando, near 
24° S. lat., and 147° E. long., a few miles south-east of Ashinhurst, Central Railway, Queensland.—J.H.M.], 
Mr. Stephenson discovered a very remarkable tree, apparently a Casuarina , having long drooping hair 
from its upper boughs. (Mitchell’s Tropical Australia, p. 241.) 
At p. 285 of Mitchell’s work is a rough sketch of this tree, with a note that 
the same tree was found at the camp of 24th August, viz., about 50 miles due 
west of the modern Emerald. 
Mueller ( Fragm . vi, 190) suggests that the above passages refer to Hakea 
lorea, and I have no doubt correctly. 
New Soutu Wales. 
Robert Brown (App. Sturt’s “ Central Australia,” ii, 87) says: “ A single 
specimen also occurs of Grevillea (or Hakea ) lorea, but without fructification.” 
This probably came from the north-west angle of New South Wales. 
Mr. W. Baeuerlen collected it at Olive Downs, Grey Range, which is in the 
Sturt country. 
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