162 CONTRIBUTION TO A SOUTH QUEENSLAND FLORA, 



Plentiful on the southern side of Tallebudgera Creek, but 

 never seen on the northern side. 



Saxifrages. 



Schizomeria ovata, D. Don, in Edin. Phil. Journ. 1830. 



In scrubs a few miles past Nerang Creek to New South "Wales, 

 generally a low shrub, though about Burleigh Heads, it grows to 

 a good sized tree. It flowers in October. 



Bauer a cwpitata, Ser. in DC. Prod. IV., 13. 



A small erect shrub growing near swamps close to Burleigh 

 Heads along with Calytlirix tetragona, Strangea linearis, and 

 many EricacecB. 



Droseraces. 



Drosera binata, Labill., Plant Nov. HolL, I., 78, t. 105. 



A gigantic variety growing in swamps in Stradbroke Island. 

 Nearly three feet high. Seen in flower in the month of October. 



COMBRETACES. 



Ziimnitzera racemosa, "Willd., DC. Prod. III., 22. 



A tropical plant, which attains the proportion of a tree on the 

 coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, but can scarcely raise its head 

 above the muddy ground near Cleveland, not many miles east of 

 Brisbane. 



Myrtaces. 



Calytlirix tetragona, Labill., Plant. Nov. Holl. II., 8. 



This pretty little plant, which was well known in all Australian 

 Colonies, except Queensland, has been observed by me growing 

 abundantly at Burleigh Heads. It chooses for itself sandy soil 

 bordering swamps. "Were it not for its fugacious corollas, and 

 the brown reddish hues which the calyx with its filamentous 

 lobes takes, rendering thus this little shrub not altogether 



