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Endiandra M uelleri, Meissn. 
(Family LAURACE^E.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Endiandra. (See Part XXXV, p. 79.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. Muelleri, Meissn. in DC. Prod, xv, i, 509 
(1864). 
A moderate-sized tree, glabrous except a minute ferruginous tomentum on the inflorescence and 
sometimes on the young shoots. 
Leaves ovate elliptical or broadly oblong, acuminate, cuneate at the base, green on both sides, the 
primary veins more prominent, and the reticulations less so than in E. Sieberi, mostly 
3 to 5 inches long. 
Panicles axillary, loose, much shorter than the leaves. 
Pedicels longer than the flowers. 
Perianth-tube thick and fleshy, broadly turbinate, 1| lines diameter, the lobes small and connivent. 
Stamens 3, with broad flattened glands; staminodia of the outer series deficient, of the inner 
series small or obsolete. 
Fruit not seen. 
The species is near E. virens, but with broader, less reticulate leaves, and the flowers twice as 
large. The glands in the flower of this and some other species described sometimes as staminodia appear to 
me to be precisely the same as the glands of the inner stamens of so many other Laurinese. (B.F1. v, 302.). 
Botanical Name.— Endiandra , already explained (see Part XXXV, p. 
79); Muelleri , after the late Baron von Mueller. 
Vernacular Name. —I know of none. So far as I know, the tree is not 
known to anybody but botanists. 
Timber. —The tact that I know nothing about the timber of this species 
reminds me to say that, as regards the dendrology of Australian forests, the 
“ harvest truly is plenteous, hut the labourers are few.” In not one of the States 
of the Australian Commonwealth have we a proper forest survey—stock-sheets of 
the contents of the national forests—and yet we talk glibly enough of their wealth 
and variety. 
A Forest Survey Wanted for New South Wales. 
Following are some extracts from my address as President of the Royal 
Society of New South Wales on 5th May, 1897, touching upon the subject in the 
preceding paragraph. Since then I have emphasised the matter over and over 
again. 
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