432 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
Anacardiacee, (Marking-nut Family.) 
Buchanania Muelleri, Engler. 
Tree with widely spreading head, a common tree of all the 
islands. Flowers white, small, in short spreading panicles at the 
ends of the branchlets. Fruit compressed, about } inch long. 
Flowering in June. 
Semecarpus australiensis, Engler. ‘Australian Marking-nut Tree.” 
A tree of considerable size. Leaves somewhat oblong, pale on 
the underside. Fleshy footstalk of fruit, from almost a yellow to 
a bright red colour, often used as a fruit. It is the acrid oily 
juice of the true fruit that is used for marking. 
Leguminose. (Pulse Family.) 
Jacksonia thesioides, A. Cunn. 
A neat little shrub worthy of garden culture; flowers, pale- 
blue; found on hill sides. Flowering in June. 
Crotalaria linifolia, Linn. “ Flax-leaved Rattle-pod.” 
C. calycina, Schranck. ‘Shaggy Rattle-pod.” 
C. trifoliastrum, Willd. 
C. incana, Linn. ‘“ Hoary Rattle-pod.” 
The above four rattle-pods are plants of a weedy growth, having 
yellow flowers. 
Indigofera linifolia, Retz. ‘“ Flax-leaved Indigo.” 
A procumbent plant, easily known by its minute white round 
pods. 
I. hirsuta, Linn. ‘“ Hairy Indigo.” 
An annual plant, 1 or 2 feet high with red flowers; pods 
nearly 1 inch long, quadrangular. 
Lephrosria polyzyga, F. v. M. 
A slender undershrub of several feet, the leaves with numerous 
leaflets. Flowers in June. 
Smnithia conferta, Lam, 
A small procumbent plant, the leaves of 7-15 leaflets; the 
flowers in clusters ; a weedy plant. 
Zornia diphylla, Pers. 
A decumbent weedy plant with leaves of 2—leaflets. 
Desmodium umbellatum, DC. 
A weak shrub, attaining with the support of other shrubs the 
height of 6 or more feet. Pods of three or four thickish articles. 
Abrus precatorius, Linn. ‘ Crabs’-eyes, or Wild Liquorice.” 
_A climber, well-known by its seeds, which are red with a black 
spot, 
