290 
AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 
BOTANICAL NAME. 
Pittosporum 
pMllyrseoi&es 
De Candolle 
„ revolutum 
Aiton 
„ rhombifolium 
A. Cunningham 
„ rubiginosum 
A. Cunningham 
COMMON NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
“Butter-bush,” “West Australian Willow,” “Willow 
Tree of York Peninsula,” or “Macla”* (evergreen 
shrub or small tree, 8 to SO ft.), f. yellow—Vic. r 
N.S.W., QTand, S. and W. Aust. 
“Yellow-flowered. Brisbane Laurel” (evergreen shrubs 
8ft.), f. yellow—Vic., N.S.W., and Q’land. 
“Rhombus-leaved Queensland Laurel,” or “Burra- 
wingee”* (evergreen tree, 40 to 90 ft.), f. white— 
N.S.W. and Q’land. 
“Rusly Pittosporum” (evergreen shrub), f. yellow— 
Q’land. 
„ undulatum 
Ventenat 
undulatum 
Ventenat 
variega'tum 
“Victorian Laurel,” “New South Wales Mock: 
Orange,” “Engraver’s Wood,” or “Cheesewood ,r 
(evergreen tree, 20 to 90 ft.), f. white—Vic. r 
N.S.W., Q’land, and Tas. 
“Variegated Victorian Laurel” (evergreen tree, 20 ft.) r 
f. white. 
Plagianthus ‘Cluster-flowered Twine-bark” (herbaceous perennial ) r 
glomeratus f. pale yellowish—F. Malvaceae —Vic., N.S.W. 
Bentham Q’land, S. and W. Aust. 
„ microphyllus 
F. v. Mueller 
“Small-leaved Twine-bark” (evergreen shrub), f. pale 
yellowish—Vic., N.S.W., S. and W. Aust. 
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pulchellus “Victorian Hemp Bush,” or “Victorian Ribbon Tree” - 
A. Gray (evergreen shrub, 8 to 15 ft.), f. white—Vic. r 
N.S.W., and Tas. 
pulchellus “Woolly Victorian Hemp Bush” (evergreen shrub, 8 to> 
A. Gray 15 ft.), f. white—Vic. and Tas. 
var. tomentosus 
„ spicatus “Australian Poison Herb,” or “String Plant” (her- 
Bentham baceous perennial), f. pale yellow—Vic., N.S.W.,. 
S. and W. Aust., and Tas. 
(Reputed poisonous and injurious to stock.) 
Plant ago B r o w n i i 
Rafinesque 
“Brown’s Plantain” (herbaceous perennial)—F. 
Pluntugineae —Vic.., N.S.W., Tas., and N.Z. 
debilis 
R. Brown 
Gunnii 
Hooker fiL 
“Weak Plantain” (herbaceous perennial), f. greenish 
—Vic., N.S.W., and Q’land. 
“Gunn’s Plantain” (herbaceous perennial)—Vic. r 
N.S.W., and Tas. 
varia 
R. Brown 
“Changing Plantain,’ or “Australian Rib Grass” (her¬ 
baceous perennial), f. greenish—Vic., N.S.W. r 
Q’land, S. and W. Aust., and Tas. 
Platycerium 
alcicorne 
Desvaux 
„ grande 
J. Smith 
Platylobi um 
alternifolium 
F. v. Mueller 
“Elk-horn Fern” (epiphyte)—F. Filiccs —N.S.W. r 
Q’land, and Asia. 
“Staghorn Fern” (epiphyte)—N.S.W., Q’land, and 
Asia. 
“Alternate-leaved Flat Pea” (evergreen shrub, 1 to 2. 
ft.)—F. Leguminosae —Vic. 
