986 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
being almost wearied with my search through the thick jungle, I saw à 
beautiful straight spar rising before me, covered with a smooth shining 
bark, very different from that of the Moreton Bay Pine, and to my 
great delight, as you may suppose, found under the tree several decayed 
cones, which settled the matter at once. It was too late to think of 
cutting down the tree, and I had no black-fellow with me to climb it. 
I therefore, after searching for seed and finding none, made up my 
mind to return to-day with a native to climb. This morning I found 
four of the trees opposite my house (hut); but the black-fellows said 
there were no cones upon them, and as I could see none I was 
obliged to go to the one first discovered, which was several miles u 
the river, and having a great many dispatches to write I was obliged 
to put off my visit until the afternoon. Meanwhile a black was shot 
by a man whom he had attempted to murder some time previously ; and 
I could not induce any one to go with me, and was therefore obliged to 
eut the tree down. Strange to say, we could find but the single cone I 
now send you. The two fragments had lain under the tree, and 
will serve to figure the scales and seeds by. I do not think that this 
can be the season for fructification, as 1 could not detect a single per- 
fect seed in any of the broken cones. I believe that the tree is com- 
mon further down the river. It grows in rich sand or jungle land, 
with a trunk at the utmost three feet diameter, 150—170 feet high, very 
few branches. Bark smooth, shining, dropping off in seales. Wood, 
when fresh, very tough, yellowish. Native name Tendara, or Ten- 
darandara.- 
Note on a diseased state of the leaves of Pleroma vimineum ; by the 
Rev. M. J. BERKELEY. 
In the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1849, page 683, an account will be 
found of some fungoid bodies, which were observed in great abundance, 
on the pods of peas, by Dr. Dickie, near Aberdeen. They were sup- 
posed to be an hypertrophy of the cellular tissue ; and I am confirmed 
in the view I then took by a very similar appearance presented by 
the leaves of a Melastomaceous plant (Pleroma vimineum, Don.) observed 
