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other Queensland abode nearer than Rockingham Bay recorded for 

 this plant. As on the other hand, records are extant of its being 

 found on the Clarence in New South Wales, its presence at 

 Tallebadgera, where my specimens were gathered, is not to be 

 wondered at. In intermediate stations between South Queensland 

 and Rockingham Bay, it may yet be discovered. 

 Caryophylle^e. 



Stellaria Jlaccida, Hook, Comp. Bot. Mag. i., 275. 



Years ago, specimens of this plant were obtained by me at 

 Lytton, and later still, at Bundaberg on the Burnett. 

 Sapindace^e. 

 Castanospora Alphandi. F. v. M. Frag. II.. 92. 



Like Scolopia Brownii, F. v. M., there is no record of its 

 existence in South Queensland, although it has been noticed at the 

 Tweed River. This beautiful tree with an attractive foliage and 

 large panicles of flowers, grows along the banks of Tallebadgera 

 Creek, and a few miles further north on the Mudgeraba Creek. 

 Several years ago it attracted my notice, and its flowers awakened 

 an interest in it. For want of fruits, it was then impossible to 

 assign to it any genus of the Sapindaceae, to which order evidently 

 it belonged. Only last summer the fruits were seen by me, and 

 their shape, which reminds one of the chestnut, suggested the genus 

 Castanospora, and on further examination it was found to be 

 Castanospora Alphandi. Before the fruits were known, this tree 

 was relegated among the Cupania. It is only within the present 

 decade that that it was raised to generic rank. The name chosen 

 by Baron von Mueller, is a most happy one, as at the first sight of 

 the fruit, no one can mistake it for any other genus. Would that 

 all botanists selected appropriate names for their new genera and 

 species. Much trouble would be thus avoided. 

 Leguminos^e. 

 Goodia latifolia, Salisb. Par. Lond. i., 41. 



Close to dense forests on the upper Nerang Creek. Its height 

 reaches over fifteen feet, and its beautiful obovate leaflets exceed 

 an inch in diameter. A very wide distribution may be claimed for 

 this plant. 



