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

 reports : — 



It grows in most of the brnsli forests in this district, but appears to \h\ 

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

 fleld-road on Forest Reserves 2,42.5 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 2,425 and 1,120 as in other localities. 



Mr. Forest Guard W. Dunn, of Acacia Creek, Hacpherson Eange, 

 reports : — 



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

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

 shelter. 



Turning to Queensland, Hooker wrote in 1830, on C. Eraser's no^es of Ms 

 trip in 1828 :— 



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

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

 <'.!enmoriston's Range, is principally open forest, not reaching far, beyond 

 which it is clothed with pine bru.shes as on the south. These forests contain 

 immense (luautities of Yellow-wood (O.iicija xiaiUhoxiihi) (Botanical Uiaccl- 

 hnnj, Vol i, p. 246). 



EXPLAXATIOX, OF PLATE 7.3. 



A. Flowering branch. 



B. Flower. 



c. Expanded flower, showing — (a) Petals, (h) Stamens, (c) Stamin- 



odia, (d) Disc, (c) Ovary, (/) Stigma, 

 n. Part of flower — («) Stamens, (h) Staminodia, (e) Disc, ((7) Ovary, 



((') Stigma. 

 E. Stamens. 



V. Transverse section of ovary, 

 c. Calyx. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 74. 



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

 B. Cn])sule opening septicidally. 

 c. 1 >efiduous placenta. 

 ]). Winged seeds. 



Flinclersia Schottiana, P.v.M. 



The Cudgeme. 



Botanical Xamc. — Schottiana, in honour of Heinrich Scliott, Director of 

 the Imperial Zoological and Botanical ({arden of Vienna. 



Tern-acidav Names. — The aboriginal name " Cudgeric "' has become it& 

 common vernacular name. The late Air. Augustus Rudder sent it under 

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

 uncommon name. 1 may say that a great many pale-coloured 'timbers, 

 more or less ti-isile, go by the names of "Ash'" and "Stave-wood"" in 

 Australia. 



I believe is to be one of the tri'cs which has passed under the name of 

 ■' Flindosa." The (irij^in of this name 1 lui\'e been unable to trace, and 

 would suggest that it is a timber-ni:iu's rendering of Flindernia. We have 

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



