AN ACCOUNT OF THE EASTER EXCURSION OF MEM- 

 BERS OF THE FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION TO 

 EUMUNDI. 



By F. M. BAILEY, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 21st April, 1894.] 



It will be in the recollection of many of the members of this 

 Society, that in former years when the outings of the Field 

 Naturalists' Section were more frequent than they have been 

 of late, it was the custom to read a short account of each 

 excursion at the following monthly meeting. This was espe- 

 cially the case when objects of more than ordinary interest had 

 been observed or new species discovered. It was a good rule, 

 for it gave members who could not accompany the excursion 

 party an opportunity of hearing and seeing some little of what 

 had been accomplished. Thus it has been considered that a 

 few words about the most interesting of the plants met with by 

 the party who took advantage of the Easter holidays this year 

 for a few days' collecting at Euraundi, might be read at this 

 evening's meeting. 



Two new trees were met with ; the first a new Quandong, 

 Elm)carpu,s Eutnundi — so named because, as far as at present 

 known, it would seem confined to that district. It forms a 

 rather handsome tree of medium size. The leaves seem more 

 coriaceous than other Australian species of the genus. In form 

 they are lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, and from 8 to 5 inches 

 long, and 1 to 1| inch broad in the middle ; the stalks (petioles), 

 1^ to 2 inches. The margins are entire, or with a few distant 

 more or less prominent blunt teeth in the upper half of the leaf ; 

 the apex often elongated but obtuse. The young growth, petioles 

 and midrib, niore or less clothed with appvessed short grey hairs ; 

 these sometimes also being found sparsely scattered over the 



