226, Ic. vi. 29, t. 543; B. uncigera and B. dilleniæfolia, Knight, Prot. 112, 113; B. fagifolia, Hoffmsg.; Roem. and. Schult. Syst. iii. Mant. 379 (Meissn.).
Queensland. Moreton Bay, W. Hill, F. Mueller.
N. S. Wales. Marshes about Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Leichhardt; Hastings river, Beckler.
28. B. serrata, Linn. f. Suppl. 126. A tree, the young shoots tomentose or villous and sometimes densely so with richly coloured ferruginous very deciduous hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or truncate, regularly and deeply serrate, tapering into a petiole, 3 to 6 in. long, ½ to 1 in. wide, coriaceous, flat, hoary or rarely white underneath, with parallel transverse veins. Spikes oblong or rarely globular, 3 to 6 in. long, very thick. Perianths silky, the tube above 1 in. long, the laminæ narrow, acuminate, nearly 3 lines long, the silky hairs longer than those of the tube. Style at length straight, with a cylindrical somewhat furrowed stigmatic end, about ½ line long and thickened at the base. Capsules very prominent, tomentose, thick and hard, obliquely rounded or ovate, above 1 in. broad.— R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 209, Prod. 395; Sm. in White, Voy. 223 t. 18 to 20; Meissn. in. DC. Prod. xiv. 461; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 56; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 82; B. conchifera, Gærtn. Fr. i. 221, t. 48; B. mitis, Knight, Prot. 112; B. dentata, Wendl. Hort. Herrenh. t. 8; B. media, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 329, not of R. Br.
N. S. Wales. Botany Bay, Banks and Solander; Port Jackson, A. Cunningham, also according to Meissner, Sieber n. 2, partly.
Victoria. Port Albert, F. Mueller (I have not seen the specimens).
Tasmania. N. coast on two hills called the Sisters, between Rocky and Table Capes, Bankhouse, Gunn.
The plant figured by Cavanilles as B. serrata appears to be rather B. æmula; Baillon's figure Hist. Pl. ii. 394, f. 230, is most probably taken from B. attenuata.
29. B. æmula, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 210, Prod. 395. A shrub very closely allied to B. serrata and difficult to distinguish from it except by the stigmatic end of the style which is very much shorter and ovoid. The flowers are also said to be of a yellowish green without the bluish grey tinge of B. serrata. The spikes are usually not so thick, the foliage precisely the same. Capsules at least as large as in B. serrata, the tomentum easily wearing off.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 461; Bot. Mag. t. 2671; Bot. Reg. t. 688; B. serrata, Cav. Ic. vi. 27, t. 540, not of Linn. f.; B. serratifolia, Salisb. Prod. 51 or B. serræfolia, Knight, Prot. 112 (R. Br.); B. elatior, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 209, Prod. 395; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv 458; B. undulata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1316.
Queensland. Sandy Cape, R. Brown; Stradbrooke Island, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham. I have not seen Brown's own specimens of B. elatior, which have been mislaid, but there seems no doubt that Cunningham was right in his identification.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 2 (our specimens at least), and others; Hastings river, Beckler, Twofold Bay, L. Morton? (leaves only).
Victoria. Gipps' Land, F. Mueller.
