270 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 



5. limbata, Ach. Figured in Dill. Hist. Muse, xxvi, 100 

 A.C., and in Eng. Bot., t. 1104. 



Victoria : Tandarook, Lake Wat Wat, and Mount Macedon 

 (Wilson, No. 232). 



New Zealand : Mount Ngongotaha, near Rotorua (Cheel), 

 Waiwera, near Auckland (Flockton). This species is 

 also recorded from Queensland by Shirley. 



S. macrophylla (Bory), Del. Syn. Stictina sithorhiciilaris 

 (Miill-Arg.). S. siihtonientella (Kn.). S. fiUcina {y\!\\son; 

 not of Ach.), 5. latijrons (Watts ; not of A. Rich.). 



New South Wales : Richmond River (Moore), (Watts), Mount 

 Warning (Forsyth), Mount Wilson and Mount Irvine, 

 (A. G. Hamilton) (Gregson), Waterfall (Wilson) (Cheel), 

 Guy Fawkes (Staer). 



Queensland : Brisbane and Mount Mistake (Bailey), Darling 

 Downs (Lau). 



THE FLORA OF THE BASALTIC TABLELANDS OF SOUTH-EAST 



QUEENSLAND. 



By JOHN SHIRLEY , B.Sc, Senior Inspector of Schools, Queensland. 

 (Illustrated by 24 lantern slides.) 



1. Geography. — ^In the East Moreton district of Queensland 

 are three mountain tablelands, forming part of the coast range, 

 the watershed between the upper waters of the Bremer and the 

 small rivers flowing into Moreton Bay at its southern end. These 

 tablelands are Tambourine Mountain to the N., Beech Mountain 

 in the centre, and Springbrook, the southern one, which backs up 

 to the Macpherson Range. Tambourine Mountain is separated 

 from Beech Mountain by the valley of the Coomera River, and the 

 valley of Nerang Creek separates Beech Mountain from Springbrook. 

 Both these streams flow into Moreton Bay. 



The three mountains have their long axes in a N. and S. direc- 

 tion, and the waters of Moreton Bay and the sands of Stradbroke 

 Island may be seen from their summits. In height they range from 

 1800-2000 feet, and their tops are remarkably level. 



2. Geology.- — ^The base of each mountain is usually of sand- 

 stone or conglomerate of Trias-Jura age, and the summit of basalt. 

 The junction of these two formations — the sedimentary and volcanic 

 — varies in height very much. At the northern end of Tambourine 

 it is nearly at the base of the mountain, but alters constantly, and 

 in places reaches 1000 feet above sea level. In the central portion 

 of Tambourine, on the eastern side, the basalt rests on schist of 

 Carboniferous (?) age. 



