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CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUEENSLAND. FLORA. 
Order SIMARUBEX, . 
AILANTHUS, Desf. 
A. imberbiflora, var. Macartneyi, Bail. (n. var.) Avery 
large tree, exuding fromthe bark when wounded a copious flow of a 
colourless, transparent, resinous liquid. The young branchlets and 
Inflorescence more or less covered with a yellowish mealy tomentum. 
Leaves slender, 6 to 9 in. long including the rather long petiole, but 
probably much longer on young trees. Leaflets on the leaves near to 
€ inflorescence 3 to 13, narrow-lanceolate, about 3 in. long, mem- 
branous, very oblique, the underside pale, on petiolules of 1 to 8 lines. 
Panicles in the axils near the end of the branchlets (male), slender, 
about 5 in. long and with few short branches. Flowers singly on 
pedicels longer than the flowers. Calyx-lobes minute with ciliate 
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Of fruit to hand it is probable that the female panicles are be longer 
than the male; one bearing nearly ripe samare measured over ¥ 1D. 
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Hab. : Forest Hill, Mackay, W Macartney, January, 1895. 
Althongh stated to be quite glabrous, so far as my observations go A. imberbi- 
va, Fv. M,, is always rusty-tomentose on the very young growth ;, 
+. sowing at Rockhampton and Mount Perry has the leaves much crowded at 
tg of the thick piaditoes ; the flowers aes are more clustered, on shorter 
Is, and the stamens éxserted. 
Order BURSERACEA. 
BURSERA, Linn. 
Bail. Carrot Wood. Inflorescence terminal, 
or vustralasic 
eau the upper axils in pyramidal or elongated anicles ; 
etals 3 or 4 ovate, deep red or purplish, mo 
bi : re than twice 
— ASlong as the calyx-lobes. Stamens 6, anthers yellow, filaments very 
"a ~Proe. Roy. Soe. Ql. xi. 
; ‘Hab, ; Eumundi, ‘ks : 
