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a young twig he sends from Koreelah Peak bears a sharp supra- 
axillary spine just above each ‘oe axil (see fig.). 
Thanks to the kindness of Mr. ig White, Acting poh 
ment Botanist, Brisbane, in dee a specimen of M. 
Bailey’s Strychnos ‘ psilosperma’ from Eumundi, it is now 
poses to clear up the difficulties about this plant. It proves 
e S. arborea, A. W. and not S. psilosperma. It 
was ge specimen, no doubt, hic caused Baile to say 
in The sears Flora that S. psilosperma in the Brisbane 
district is “‘an erect tree 60 or more feet high armed with 
slender spines 1 in. long.’ 
e following particulars taken from Bailey’s catalogue of 
Queensland Woods* refer to S. arborea, though the opening 
sentence as to the Tropical. Giscacladd shrub raters to S. psilo- 
sperma. 
*€286.—S. pilosper ee, F, v:; M., Fragm., 44; Flora 
Austr., iv., 369. In Tropical Pea oth, a ditiae shrub; 
but on Taylor’s pet near Brisbane, a fine erect small tree of 
60 or more feet and armed with slender spines 1 in. long. 
Leaves broadly ovata, 3- to 5-nerved, 1 to 2 in. long; berry 
globular.’ 
‘‘ Wood light-yellow with numerous white longitudinal 
oe at pas, centre black or dark, the grain close; very h 
an 
The “habitat of this new species is therefore the country 
around Brisbane to the New South Wales border. The exact 
northern boundaries are somewhat uncertain, but to the south 
it does not appear to extend beyond the Macpherson Range. 
48. §, trichocalyx, A. W. Hiil; species S. Dalzellii, C. B- 
Clarke, calyce intus hirsuto affinis, sed foliis rhomboideis basi 
euneatis floribus minoribus praecipue differt. 
nervyorum sae ius hirsuta, 5-nervia, iptner nervis inter- 
pate ‘a wegen pape barbatae. Ovarium cum s 
glabrum, 1-75-2 mm. longum. Bacca globoso-ovoidea, citellet 
15 em. longa, 1-2-sperma; pericarpium crustaceum. S. mt 
* Catalogue of the Indigenous Woods contained in the Queensland Court, 
— snd Indian Exhibition of 1886. By Fredk. Manson Bailey, F.L.S., 
