M. FAGG 
Lomatia myricoides: rounded shrub or 
small tree to 4 m high with dark green 
leaves and short sprays of cream flowers 
in summer. The fruits are an added 
attraction. 
Lomandra longifolia: plant forming 
clumps to 0.7 m high with arching, narrow, 
strap-like leaves and spikes of crowded 
cream flowers which are perfumed. 
Melaleuca capitata: rounded shrub to 
2.5 m high and 2 m across with dark green 
leaves and rounded heads of fluffy cream 
flowers in spring. 
Prostanthera lasianthos (Victorian Christ¬ 
mas bush): quick growing shrub varying 
in height from 2-8 m with strongly aro¬ 
matic leaves and large loose sprays of 
white fragrant flowers tinged with pink, 
purple or mauve produced in summer. 
Tasmannia lanceolata (syn. Drimys lan- 
ceolata) (mountain pepper): rounded 
shrub to 2 m high with long shiny leaves 
and red stems. The creamy flowers are 
followed by globular, purple-black berries. 
Correa baeuerlenii 
Name derivations 
Acacia becklerr. Acacia — from the Greek 
name for Acacia arabica (a spiny species), 
akakia, from akis, a sharp point; beckleri — 
after Dr Herman Beckler (1828-1914), bota¬ 
nist and medical officer, who collected the 
type specimen near the Barrier Range in 1861. 
Acacia drummondii: drummondii — after 
James Drummond (71784-1863), first 
Government Botanist of Western Australia, 
1829-34, settled at Toodyay, collected in 
Western Australia from the Murchison River 
to the south coast. 
Allocasuarina torulosa : Allocasuarina — from 
the Greek alios, strange or different, and the 
genus Casuarina, i.e. different from Casua- 
rina; torulosa — from the Latin torus, any 
round swelling or protruberance, meaning 
cylindrical with bulges or contractions at 
intervals, referring to the stems. 
Astartea fascicularis: Astartea — after Astarte, 
a Phoenician goddess, later identified with 
Aphrodite/Venus, to whom myrtles were 
sacred; tascicularis — from the Latin fasci¬ 
culus, a little bundle, referring to the appar¬ 
ently bunched arrangement of the leaves of 
new shoots. 
Asterolasia hexapetala: Asterolasia — from 
the Greek aster, star, and lasios, shaggy, 
referring to the stellate hairs covering the 
plant; hexapetala — from the Greek hex, six, 
and petalon, leaf, or, in botany, petal. 
Australina muellerr. Australina — from the 
Latin australis, southern, i.e. from the South 
Land, Australia; muelleri— after Sir Ferdinand 
J.H. Mueller (1825-96), Government Botanist 
R. HOTCHKISS 
