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ANGOPHORA. TRISTANIA. 
KINDRED OF THE EUCALYPTS. 
There are a few genera so near of kin to the eucalypts as to have been 
occasionally confused with them by earlier botanists. Such are Angophora, 
Tristania, Syncarpia , and Melaleuca. The eucalypts have flowers without petals. 
These kindred genera all have flowers with petals. The need for brevity will 
permit description of only one species in each genus. 
ANGOPHORA LANCEOLATA Cavanilles. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
The species is widely distributed in New South Wales from the seaboard over 
the mountains and in south-eastern Queensland. Tree of medium size, often found 
growing among rocks where there is little soil. Dead bark deciduous from branches 
and stem; newly exposed living bark white or grey, much stained with exudations 
of kino. Leaves stalked, lance-shaped, featherveined, Sin. to 5in. long, %\n. wide. 
Flowers in compound clusters, stalks various, stalklets about Min. Each flower 
with 4 or 5 petals and as many sepals; anthers with longitudinal and parallel 
openings. Ripe seed-cup bell-shaped, a little over Min. deep and about the same 
in width, strikingly ribbed or angled with 4 or more of the ribs projecting above 
the rim and thus giving the rim a toothed appearance, 3- or 4-celled, valves small. 
Mature wood pale, rather coarse in grain, but strong and tough, used bv wheel¬ 
wrights, good fuel. 
Other species of Angophora are A. intermedia and A. subvelutina. They 
are distinguished from A. lanceolata by retaining their dead bark on stem and 
branches. In all species of Angophora the leaves are usually opposite in pairs. 
In A. subvelutina and one or two other species they are also sessile. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
A few specimens of Angophora have been noted by the writer near Auckland 
and on the East Coast. They are healthy and vigorous. All the species 
mentioned make very handsome single trees and might be given experimental 
place m our parks and arboreta. A. lanceolata might find a useful place on rocky 
areas where most other trees refuse to grow. 
Angophora is a Greek compound meaning “vessel-bearing”, and was 
suggested by the striking appearance of the seed-cups. 
.TRISTANIA CONFERTA Robert Brown. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
The native home of the species is in northern New South Wales and southern 
Queensland, from the seaboard to the eastern slopes of the ranges The tree grows 
to various heights up to 50ft., 100ft., or even 150ft., with corresponding diameter 
of stem; dead bark sub-fibrous, deciduous. Leaves wavy, and in size and general 
appearance like those of a very large-leaved Pittosporum; often crowded at the 
ends of the twigs. Flowers in umbel-like clusters with stalk and stalklets, the 
clusters being grouped beneath the crowded terminal leaves. Each flower with 5 
petals and above each petal a plume-like spray of stamens; anthers with parallel 
