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we were glad also to see at the foot of some of the Avicennias just 

 so as to be washed by the high tide, the pretty little Primulaceous 

 creeper Samolus repens, Pers. Epiphytal orchids do not seem to 

 be plentiful on the trees, and at the time of our visit, there were 

 but few fungi to be seen, except at one spot where we found a 

 large quantity of the poisonous agaric Russula cmetica, Fr., found 

 also in Europe. On some old logs we also gathered specimens 

 of one of the cup lichens Cladonia pyxidata, Hoffm. Our stay 

 was so short that we could do no more than glance about us, but 

 no doubt an immense harvest awaits a patient and industrious 

 collector on this island. Our visit was made at the end of 

 October. 



As next to the discovery of new species, fresh habitat is of 

 importance to the botanist, I will bring under your notice that 

 Erythrina indica, Lam., a tree hitherto thought to be exclusively 

 tropical has been lately met witli at Tallegalla the high land of 

 the Eosewood scrubs situated some thirty or forty miles from 

 Brisbane. Mrs. Marquis from whom I received the specimens, 

 tells me that there are several of these trees, and that they are 

 from sixty to one hundred feet high, thus equalling those of our 

 tropical coast. 



I will conclude these few remarks with the description of a 

 new species of Angophora and Daviesia which I found some time 

 bach at a locality called " the Eight Mile Plain" about ten or 

 twelve miles from Brisbane on the Logan Eoad. 



Ordo MYRTACEjE.—Trib. LEPTOSPERIIE.E. 



Angophora Woodsiana, F. M. B., fsp. nor. J 



Arbor alia, cortiee persistente, ct rimoso, capite expanso. Hamuli 

 scape tetragoni. Folia crassiuscula 4 — 7" longa, lanceolata-acuminata, 

 bast obliquo euneata, copiosis aesubtilibus vents pinnatis in venamjuxta 

 marginem desinentibus, et venulis reticulatis inter primarias percursa, 



in petiolum h — f" longum angustata. Paniculce terminates, maxime 



