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Concerning New South Wales, Mr. District Forester Pope, of Casino, 

 reports : 



It grows in most of the brush forests in this district, but appears to be 

 favourable to red soil. There is a considerable quantity of it along the Tenter- 

 field-road on Forest Reserves 2,425 and 1,120. It is fairly abundant in all the 

 brushes of the Tweed and Richmond Rivers evenly distributed. Does not 

 attain such a size on Forest Reserves 2,42o and 1,120 as in other localities. 



Mr. Forest Guard W. Dunn, of Acacia Creek, Macplierson Range, 

 reports : 



This is the scarcest Flindcrsia here. It is very careful in selecting its habi- 

 tation. My opinion is, it favours brush mountain regions with plenty of 

 shelter. 



Turning to Queensland, Hooker wrote in 1830, on C. Eraser's notes of his 

 trip in 1828 : 



The south side of the Brisbane, as far as Canoe Creek, is covered with forests 

 of pine, or Araiicaria, to a considerable extent. The north bank, as far as 

 Glenmorlston'a Range, is principally OJKMI forest, not reaching far, beyond 

 which it is clothed with pine brushes as on the south. These forests contain- 

 immense quantities of Yellow-wood (Oxlci/a aKtntho j.-iil<i) (lintunlnil .l/7.srr7- 

 linuj, Vol i, p. 24G). 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 73. 



A. Flowering branch. 



n. Flower. 



c. Expanded flower, showing () Petals, (&) Stamens. (>> Stamin- 



odia, (d) Disc, (r) Ovary. (/) Stigma. 

 . Part of flower () Stamens, (b) Staminodia. O) Disc, (<1') Ovary, 



(e) Stigma. 

 K. Stamens. 



r. Transverse section of ovary, 

 a. Calyx. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 74. 



A. Part of stem, showing leaflets and articulation of petiole, 



n. Capsule opening septicidally. 



c. Deciduous placenta, 



i). Winged seeds. 



Flindersia Schottiana, E.v.M. 



THE CUDGERIE. 



Botanical Name. SclioiUana, in honour of Heinrich Scliott, Director of 

 the Imperial Zoological and Botanical Garden of Vienna. 



Vernacular Names, The aboriginal name " Cudgerie " has become its- 

 common, vernacidar name. The late Mr. Augustus Rudder sent it under 

 the names of "Ash" and "Stave-wood." "Mountain Ash" is not an 

 uncommon name. I may say that a great many pale-coloured 'timbers, 

 more or less fissile, go by the names of "Ash" and "Stave-wood" in. 

 Australia. 



I believe is to be one of the trees which has passed under the name of 

 " Flindosa." The origin of this name I have been unable to trace, and 

 would suggest that it is a timber-man's rendering of Flindersia. We have 

 the same word in " Flindosy Beech," sometimes applied to the tree. 



