BY HENRY TRYON. 3 
Father Scortechini arrived in this colony about 1871, having 
been selected as a priest for the diocese of Brisbane. Subsequently 
and in the same capacity he resided in Stanthorpe, Gympie, and 
Roma. He was next located in the Logan district. Occupied 
from day to day with the duties connected with his sacred calling 
he found occasion, both whilst residing in a particular spot or 
whilst engaged in his numerous missionary journeyings, to devote 
time with considerable success to the study of Botany, in which 
pursuit he was largely helped on by Mr. F. M. Bailey, and latterly 
by Baron von Mueller. Whilst at Roma, amongst other in- 
teresting plants, he discovered a new Dodonza, which was 
described in the “ Melbourne Chemist and Druggist” for 1882 
(January) by Father Scortechini, conjointly with Baron Mueller, 
as Dodonea Macrossani. 
It was whilst resident at the Logan Village that he gave the 
most assiduous attention to botanical investigations. Mr. F. M. 
Bailey in the 4th volume of the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales had given some detailed account of 
the Flora of the district included within a 25 mile radius of 
Brisbane, and Father Scortechini hoped to do for the country 
intervening between this area and the southern boundary of 
Queensland and that portion of the colony lying to the south- 
west of it what Mr. Bailey, had accomplished for this; Brisbane 
district. 
He accordingly collected largely on ‘every “opportunity, and 
thus amassed a considerable herbarium. 
The district which his special*missionary labours embraced was 
a very large one, and so his observations ‘comprehended a rather 
wide territory. 
One of hismost noteworthy journeyings, as far as scientific investi- 
gation was concerned, was his visit to Stradbroke Island in/1880 
in company with Mr. F. M. Bailey. On this occasion many new 
and interesting plants were discovered. One of these, described 
in a paper ‘On the Flora of Stradbroke Island,” read before the 
Linnean Society of New South Wales, on 27th January, 1881, 
was the beautiful orchid Dipodium hamiltonianum. 
In 1882 he visited Stanthorpe, accompanied by the writer. 
On this occasion, besides the plants previous known to occur in 
this district, a number of interesting species were obtained. The 
most noteworthy of these, as given by Father Scortechini himself, 
were :—Pomaderris prunifolia, 4. Cuan; Mirbelia speciosa, Szed. ; 
