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ost, or have any species of the introduced. ones, after ov 
running a portion of the country, disappeared? The only instane 
this kind of which I can think is that pretty little water-w 
Hydrocharis morsus-rane, Linn. About twenty years ag0 this plant 
was most abundant in the still waters around Brisbane, but for the past 
fifteen or more years I have not met with a single specimen ; and 
although it may ‘still be plentiful in some localities, 1, know of no — 
Queensland habitat of the plant, and this favours my former opiiion 
that the plant was an introduction. . ot 
XIL—DECIDUOUS TREES. 
Evergreen trees predominate, as & rule, in a 
climates, and we find this to be the case in Queensland. 
trees are few in number, and the fall of the leaf, i 
uncertain that thé term “ semi-deciduous”) would be a 
apply'to them, For while one tree of a species may be found an 
bare of leaves, another by its side may be, seen full of leaf, bs 4 
nothing to distingul 
following constitutes the majority of our trees 
small proportion, considering that the Queenslan 
number less than 1,000 small or large trees :-— 
Cochlospermum Gillivrat, Benth.; Order Bixinee. | 
Bombax malabaricum, DC., Silk Cotton Tree ; Order Malvact. 
Stercilia quadrifida, R. Br.; 8. discolor, Fv. M. 5 S- trichost? Me 
Benth: ; 8. acerifolia, A. Cunn. ; Order Sterculiaces. see 
- Melia composita, Willd., White Cedar ; Order Meliace®s ” 
Cedrela Toona, Roxb., Red Cedar; Order Meliaces. — q 
Sesbania grandiflora, Pers. ; Order Leguminose. . ¢ sk | 
Erythrina indica, Lam., Coral Tree; £. vespertilio, Benth., VO” — 
Tree; Order Leguminose. . ot 4 
Castanospermum australe, A. Cunn. ; Moreton Bay Chestnut i. 
pares Order Leguminose. 
Albizzia procera, Benth. ; Order Leguminose. 
Eucalyptus platyphylla, ¥. v. M., Poplar Gum; Order My piace 
Sarcocephalus cordatus, Miq., Leichhardt Tree ; Order, Bute 
Ficus colossea, F.v. M.; F. Cunningham, Miq.; Order Liasini 
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