NATIVE FLORA OF TROPICAL QUEENSLAND. 389 



NOTES ON THE NATIVE FLORA OB 1 TROPICAL 

 QUEENSLAND. 



By R. H. Oambage, f.l.s. 



With Plates LVII-LXI and Map. 



[Bead before the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, December 1, 1915.'] 



The notes for this paper were obtained during a visit to 

 Queensland in August 1913, and the references are practi- 

 cally confined to the conspicuous members of the flora as 

 seen from the train and coaches, and as examined and 

 discussed with bushmen during stoppages of a few hours in 

 various localities. The route followed was from Cairns to 

 Alma-den, Forsayth, Georgetown, Croydon and Normanton 

 on the Gulf of Carpentaria. From Normanton the journey 

 was continued to Cloncurry, Hughenden, Prairie, Winton, 

 Longreach and Rockhampton. 



By far the greater portion of the area traversed is west 

 of the Great Dividing Range, and consequently the vege- 

 tation for the most part consists of open forest. The same 

 conditions prevail in Queensland as in New South Wales in 

 regard to the eastern and western floras being responsive 

 to the moist and dry climates respectively. 1 



Cairns is situated a few feet above sea-level, at the base 

 of steep mountains whose eastern sides are clothed with 

 luxuriant brush (the term scrub is used in Queensland) or 

 jungle to their summits. To the westward of Cairns the 

 Main Divide is crossed by the railway at about 1,700 feet 

 above sea-level, while about thirty miles southwards from 

 Cairns the great mountain masses of Bellenden Ker and 



1 Mountains of Eastern Australia and their effect on the Native 

 Vegetation. By R. H. Cambage. This Journal, xlviii, (1914), p. 267. 



