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Queensland has been a favourite hunting-ground for the botanist 
‘since Banks and Solander collected along the banks of the Endeavour; 
yet, although much has been done, to collect specimens of our p 
on 
from’ the Northern districts. These reach the botanist for determm® | 
tion, the people being generally fully aware of the folly of trusting to | 
local names alone. ° | 
With these few remarks upon our Flora generally, I will now pass | 
on to point out, under separate headings, something of the peculiarities | 
of the plants. Besides the many new species which are ecoming | 
a few instances where the character, habit, or stature © 2 
been found to differ widely in what appears to be the same species | 
though gathered in far distant localities. ) ae 
IL—CHANGE OF CHARACTER, HABIT, OR STATURE PROBABLY 
DUE TO CLIMATIC IN FLUENCES. ae 
208 The remarkable difference in character, habit, oF. stature 
one meets with in the same species, when found in far distan 
is worthy of remark. Indeed, so distinct do these plants 
one need not be surprised at botanists having at times 81 
afterwards al mes 
Strychnos psilosperma, ¥. v. M. Until recent years t 
considered to be confined to the tropics, and there 
must, therefore, be conceded that this southern plant 
form, and that met with in the tropics only a depauper® 
form, for I find no botanic distinction. ‘The only Tease” w 
given for this tree having esca detection so long 
to its resemblance to Carissa ovata, the leaf being 8 
tree and the fruit seldom met with on small specimens: 
glauca, Beauv., and 8. maerostachya, B. and 
examples where the tropical representatives are of a mut. 
growth, and which sight well be known as nam 
