SPECIMENS OF BLACKALL EANGE PLANTS. 



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



COLONIAL, BOTANIST OF QUEENSLAND.; 



[Read before the Royal Soviet;/ of Queensland, June 11th, 1892,.'] 



I HAVE brought for an exhibit at this evening's meeting 

 a few mounted specimens from a collection made at the 

 beginning of May on the Blackall Kanges in the vicinity of 

 Eumundi, by my son and Mr. J. H. Simmonds. Of several 

 plants belonging to this locality the fruit was wanting to 

 complete the description, and I hoped that they might be 

 fortunate enough to meet with some after a summer so favour- 

 able to the development of plant life. This proved the case 

 in several instances : one, the Macadamia Yinimiiana, F. v. M. 

 The fruit of this shrub it was most important to obtain, as 

 it has been considered to possess highly poisonous properties. 

 Some of these fruits I have handed to Mr. Mar for analysis, 

 and we may hope soon to hear if they are as dangerous as 

 suspected. The collection also contained two undescribed 

 plants — the one a fern (a species of Asjiidiuui, now A. FAunundi), 

 the other a small tree (a species of Bursera, since named 

 B. Austrctlasica) not previously described, and of more than 

 ordinary interest, as the genus had not before been met with 

 in Australia. Trees of this genus are usually of a resinous 

 character; the present species, however, is not particularly so. 



