botanist considered it a C. Fistula, and therefore named it C. 

 Fistula, car. syhestris. As it is rather a form of C. Brexvateri, it is 

 given in my third bulletin as ('. Brewsteri, var sijlvestris, Bail. 

 The wood of this tree is very beautiful, and when better known 

 will doubtless be in request for cabinet work ; probably it might 

 serve also for tonic cups, as it is quite as bitter as quassia. 



For many years I have been anxious for some one to take up 

 the collecting of plant-specimens in that little known region, the 

 Cape York Peninsula, and wrote to the Postmaster-General, the 

 Hon. Theodore Unmack, asking him to urge the officers stationed 

 along the telegraph line in that district to collect specimens of 

 plants and forward by post to the Botanist's office, Brisbane. 

 The request, meeting with the Minister's approval, is now being 

 carried out by Geo. Jacobson, the officer at the Musgrave station, 

 who has already forwarded several small packets, each of which 

 contained novelties. This collector's name is given to a Rubia- 

 ceous plant, Speniuicoce Jacohsani, Bail. 



It may, probably, be in the remembrance of members of 

 this Society, that some few years back Christie Palmerston, a 

 gold prospector, brought from the scrubs of the Russell and 

 Johnstone rivers, the fruits and other portions of native trees. 

 The material, however, in many cases, was not complete enough 

 to allow of correct determination. Two of these trees, of which 

 better specimens have since been obtained, have been named after 

 this collector — the one, a Lauraceous tree, Cryptocarya Paliners- 

 tonil, Bail., having obtained specimens when on the Bellenden- 

 Ker Expedition ; the other, a kauri pine, Ayathis (Davunara) 

 Palmerstonii, by Baron Mueller, who has lately received more 

 complete specimens from a collector. 



In 1887 Messrs. Davidson and Sayer collected for Baron 

 von Mueller in tropic Queensland, and were most successful in 

 obtaining new species of great beauty. Notable amongst these 

 were the Dracuphyllum Saycri, F.v.M., and Spiruanthemum 

 Davidsonii, F.v.M. 



W. Persieh was for some years a collector of plant specimens 

 for Baron von Mueller, at the Endeavour River. Hakea 

 Persuhana, F.v.M., is named after him. 



