NOTES. Palit 
scaly fruits to the tree in question. If, therefore, the crop 
matures properly, the whole of our coast-line can be supplied 
with this beautiful and useful Palm. The species is African, 
but its exact natural habitat does not appear to be known, It 
is a cultivated plant in Madagascar and neighbouring islands, 
and favours low swampy land; although the specimen in 
question is growing under conditions quite the reverse. 
This species, with the only two others known, viz., R. toedigera 
(the Jupati Palm), a native of Amazon, and R. vinifera, found 
on the Niger, have stout, unarmed, short, ringed trunks, with 
large and spiny leaves, sometimes fifty feet in length, and erect, the 
entire tree attaining a height of 60 to 70 feet. The leaves of all 
these species are put to many uses. The women in Madagascar 
use them with wonderful skill. They divide the outside skin of 
the leaf into fine threads; these they dry, and then weave them 
into a soft and very pretty fabric. The fibre is also largely 
manufactured into a kind of matting, used both for wrapping 
and for floors. Of this matting the shipments to Mauritius from 
Madagascar in one year, reached nearly 100,000 rolls, together 
with two tons of the fibre; for the fibre, the outer skin of the 
leaves, is used, and it is peeled off in strips while the leaves are 
young. 
III].—On tHe Curative Properties OF THE CUNJEVOI CoLocasia 
MACRORRHIZA, Schott, By Hon. W. PETTIGREW, M.L.C. 
Ir is a well ascertained fact amongst residents in the Parishes 
of Mooloolah and Maroochi, tothe north of Brisbane, that if a 
person is stung by contact with the leaf of the “stinging tree ”’ 
(Laportea gigas, Wedd.), and the affected part afterwards rubbed 
at intervals during an hour or so, with the leaf of the Cunjevoi, 
the pain will cease and not return again; whereas, should no 
such application be made, the pain will return for a considerable 
time after, whenever the injured part is made wet ; and a case has 
been mentioned to me of a man who experienced pain, under 
