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Order GODENOVIEZE. 
SCAEVOLA, Linn. 
S. enantophylla, F. v. M, To the description in the “ Queensland 
. Flora,” page 907, add :—** Drupe obovate, 6-7 lines long, 4 lines broad, 
with a succulent exocarp, the endocarp bony, rugose, elongate-obovate, 
5-6 lines long, 14 lines broad.” 
Hab. : Barron River, Dr. T. L. Bancroft; Atherton, C. Hampton ; Mourilyan, 
(Coll. 2). This plant was received several times recently from the Atherton District. 
as suspected of causing deaths among cattle, but examination by Agricultural 
Chemist for poisonous properties gave negative results. 
Order MYRSINACEZ. 
ARDISIA, Linn. 
A. racemosa, Ff. 7’. Baker. Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., Vol. 27 (1912), 
page 380, Pl. 16. A small tree with a smocth grey bark, quite glabrous, 
Leaves measuring up to 5 in. long and 1 in, bread, but usually smaller, 
ovate-elliptical, thin in texture, pale-coloured on the underside, edges 
slightly crenulate or sometimes undulate, Lateral veins fine and oblique. 
Oil glands numerous, fairly distinct. Flowers in short axillary, 
occasionally lateral, racemes. Pedicels about 4 lines long. Sepals 5, 
valvate, } line long, marked with dark purple spots, glabrous, edges 
scarious. Petals 5, 14 lines long, imbricate and contorted in the bud, 
acuminate, glabrous, spotted, the lower half of the inner surface densely 
ferruginous-pubescent, Stamens opposite the petals; fllaments very 
short ; anthers glabrous, cordate-sagittate with recurved points, Style 
subulate. Fruit red, globular, 4 lines diameter. 
Hab Seice ciao (Macpherson Range), C. T. White. Locally known as 
** Short- crak 
R. T, Baker l.c., who did not describe the fruit, and our specimens 
being in fruit only, kindly compared them and found them to agree well 
‘with his type material from Northern New South Wales. 
Calyx deeply divided, Corolla with a broad, open mouth to the 
tube, and an oblique limb, with 5 erect or scarcely spreading, unequal 
teeth or lobes. Stamens protruding from the tube and unequal in 
length. Style 2-cleft. Nuts wrinkled. Coarse biennials or half-shrubby 
perennials with blue or purple flowers. 
A rather numerous genus in the Canary Islands and Western and 
Southern Africa, with a few European and West Asiatic species, 
