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Ae the base, velvety outside. Ma e flows s few, intermixed with t 
| fema Perianth trimerous ; anthers ee exceeding the feria 
] Style very slender, long as the ovary. Stigm 
Hab. : Scrubs of tropical Queensland, Walter "pat 
f From the above description it will be seen that the e present new species a 
_ proaches very close to F. os See ae In general habit, however, it differs so much 
that the one cannot be mistaken for the other. From seeds or plants brought. from 
_ the North by Mr. Hill feveral years ago fine specimen plants are to be seen in our 
amiss : peatee ee eta 
parks and private groun ve never 1 h rue i" benjaminea in a 
state in tropical Queensland, neither have specimens eee to me there ; 
: hink it probable th was specimens of F. Hill i that were received from 
aed. Dallachy by Baron Mueller, and recorded by him in Pragan:-i i. 195, and again by 
> Bentham in Flora Austr. vi. 167, a benjaminea ily make this 
mstak m d sp s. Besides the differences which will be observed in 
the above diagnoses 4. am unformed by Mr. Robt. McDowall, who has trees of this 
_ Rew species growin 1am Terrace Reserve, that while Few benjami 
‘Most difficult to root Feu sig F. Hillii takes root very fre 
Order CONIFERZ, 
AGATHIS, Salisb. 
amar ra) Palmerstoni, F. v. 7, Fourth Suppl. to the 
fi Nae of Austral. Plants 4 (1889), " Agathis Palmerstoni, 
ect. 
co enace tals i. 
Finally very tall ; branchlets angular; leaves comparatively small, 
ie ow-elliptie, “pat gradually narrowed into the very short peti tiole. 
wae Somewhat t oblique, slightly or hardly paler beneath; staminal 
spikes ellipsoid -cylindrie, solitary ; strobiles egg-shaped, t their racheoles 
erene Y numerous, broader than long, narrowly thickened at the 
By hs: Mr. Johnson calls this the largest and noblest jungle tree, ascend- 
is from the river to high mountain altitudes. So faras can be judged 
$5 igus the material before me this northern Kauri Pine of Queensland 
% ae specifically distinct from the southern, which occurs on the a clad 
cs Que de Bay and on Fraser’s Island, but may also exist in North 
 ueensiand. “The leaves are never lanceolar, much smaller, and par- 
‘ a marly narrower, scp always obtuse, as compared to those of. trees 
ro 
nson eo ount Bartle-Frere, Christie emia Mulgrave River, ‘Stephen 
¥. M., Victorian Nat turalist, Jun 
