250 ON PLANTS NEW TO SOUTH QUEENSLAND, 



Eugenia oleosa. F. v. M. Frag. Y. 15. 

 Either a low undershrub in the open sand banks at Nerang 

 Creek, or a slender tree in the forests both at Nerang Creek and at 

 the southern end of Stradbroke Island. The berries somewhat 

 resemble those of E. mystifolia, yet they are more globular, of a 

 deep red colour tending to purple with a tinge of blue. In taste 

 they are quite different. The acid principle which renders the 

 berries of E. mystifolia palateable is absent in those of E. oleosa. 



Onagrarie^e. 

 Epilobium tetragonum. Linn. Sp. PL, 348. 

 Very scanty in few localities of the Logan district. Six species 

 of Australian Epilobium were kept distinct, and enumerated by 

 Bentham in his Flora Australiensis. The gradual passages of one 

 form into another have persuaded Baron von Mueller not to 

 acknowledge but one good species, the Linnean E. tetragonum. 

 Many species which now are deemed good ones, will undergo the 

 same fate, when inspections of more abundant material show the 

 imperceptible transitions of one form into another. 



Ficoide^e. 

 Macarthuria neocambrica, F. v. M. Frag. II, 11. 

 Both at Stradbroke Island and near Burleigh Head, it grows 

 rather abundantly on sandy soil. 



Mollugo spergula, Linn. Sp. PI. 131, Sec. ed. 

 At Wilson's Peak. I believe it grows near Brisbane. 



Umbellifer^e. 

 Hydrocotyle laxiflora, Dc. Prod. IV., 61. 

 At Dugundan on the Teviot. 



Hydrocotyle tripartita, B. Br. Ann. des sc. phys. VI., 46. 

 Throughout the Logan. 



Hydrocotyle pedicellosa, F. v. M. Frag. IV., 182. 

 Most plentifnl on Tambourine Mountain at Tallebadgera, close 

 to edges of the jungles on damp ground. 



