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eulent part when fresh having a sharp acid fla 
the endocarp, substance of the thick cotyledons thickly studded with 
large cells full of a bright-yellow resin having a strong disagreeable 
odour. 
» Hab.: Tringilburra Creek, Bellenden-Ker Expedition, 1889; Johnstone River, 
Dr. T. L. Bancroft. 
Specimens of the above Lauraceous trees were obtained by members of the 
provisionally in Cryptocarya, the 
material to hand not allowing a full diagnosis to be given. The specimens were 
ostly imperfect, and probably in some cases the foliage may not have been 
obtained from the tree bearing the fruit. The writer hopes that, this Bulletin 
coming into the hands of settlers in the district where the trees grow, they may be 
induced to forward to him fuller specimens by which a more accurate dese iption 
ean be given, 
Order PROTEACEA, 
Trine PROTEERA. 
PETROPHILA, R. Br. 
Section PETROPHYLE. 
P. Shirleyz (n. sp) (After the wife of J. F. Shirley, BSc., 
E.LS, &e., botanical lecturer to the Pharmaceutical Students, Bris- 
bane.) A shrub of about 5 or 6 ft., branches with a much wrinkled 
or sulcate purplish-red bark, often glossy. Leaves pinnate with 2-3- 
chotomous pinney, the segments rather slender, terete and grooved — 
above, and the points more or less pungent, the petioles nearly of 
equal length with the divided portion, whole leaf from 4 to 6} in. long. 
Cones termina » Solitary or with 1 or 2 axillary ones close below 
It conical-oblong, 1} to 8 in. long, 4 to 1 in. diameter at the base ; 
“ving an apiculate point to the scale. Perianth silky, yellowish, 
about 5 lines lon 8; Segments with glabrous points, falling off “teat . 
Style-end continuous, fusiform, shortly hirsute. Nut slightly over 1 
n Uroad, the apex or a little ay down glabrous, the rest clothed 
with Spreading silky white hairs. 
ra ab. : Moreton Island, J. F, Shirley, in flower and fruit; Fraser Island, 
* 47yon, in fruit only, 
This island species in many respects approaches both P. pedunculata, R. Br., 
cm P. pulchella, R. By. It differs from the first in the terminal inflorescence, silky 
Perianth, more hirsute style-end, larger cones, and in the faces of the nuts being 
distorted by hairs, while from the latter its pedunculate cones are a sufficient 
Order EUPHORBIACEA. 
Tre EUPHORBIEZ. 
i the petiole, very blunt, entire, smooth. Inflorescence 
fhetatomous, the primary Sichtiches forming an umbel of about 3 rays, 
sh ae pposite without stipules; involucral glands pr 
seeds Fite eott petal-like appendages. Capsule glabrous, smooth ; 
t * . 
— Queensia meget European weed is now common in most bush-houses of —_ 
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