EXHIBIT OF A BUNYA NODULE : BY F. M. BAILEY, F.L.S. 53 



Good fruit-bearing specimens were also obtained of Sider- 

 oxylon mijrsinoides, Macadaniia Youngiana, Poh/ostna (unnimi- 

 hamil, and Schizomerla ovata. Tbe last is well wortby of the 

 settler's attention as a preserving fruit. It is about the size of 

 a large cherry, the stone small and the flesh having a sharp 

 acid flavour. I will not take up time to speak of the many other 

 plants observed. 



Hoping that this short notice will show that the Field 

 Naturalists' section of your Society are fally alive to the 

 importance of working up the natural history of the colony 

 and whenever holidays occur and the weather is suitable, are 

 found ready for a day or so in the bush. 



EXHIBIT OF A BUNYA NODTILE : WITH EXPLANA- 

 TORY PiEMAPtKS. 



By F. M. bailey, F.L.S. 



[Read hefore the Roijal Societif] of QueemJond, list Ajm'L 1894.] 



The curious specimen of wood exhibited this evening is one 

 of those eccentric growths found m the bark of trees, and known 

 botanically as " nodules." The present one was taken from the 

 bark of a Bunya tree. I have not observed them in any other 

 of our native trees, but the Hon. A. C. Gregory tells me that in 

 Western Australia they are found in the bark of a Eucalypt. 

 In other parts of the world they are found in the bark of the 

 Beech, Cedar and Olive. My object in bringing the present 

 exhibit under your notice this evening is the belief that these 

 wood formations have a value, and would if better known find a 

 ready market, in Europe for cutting into veneers. It could not 

 be recommended that these magnificent trees should be cut 

 down for the sake of the nodules, but when these woody forma- 

 tions are contained in the bark of fallen trees, they might be 

 collected for the purpose above stated. 



