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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37134 to 37144. 



From Brisbane, Australia. Presented by Mr. J. F. Bailey, Botanic Gar- 

 dens, through Dr. E. C. Joss, Portland, Oreg. Received February 4, 

 1914. 



37134. Babklya syringifolia Mueller. Gold-blossoni tree. 



This is the only species of a genus belonging to the section of the pea 

 family bearing regular flowers. It is a large tree, with alternate simple 

 coriaceous leaves, which have long stalks, and are in form like those of 

 the lilac (Syringa), but have seven radiating nerves. The flowers are 

 golden yellow, very numerous, and disposed in axillary or terminal 

 racemes. The pods are stalked, about Iwlf an inch long, thin, contain- 

 ing few seeds. The plant is a native of eastern Australia, and is found 

 near the Brisbane River. It is commonly known as the Queensland gold- 

 blossom tree. The wood is hard, close grained, of a blackish gray color, 

 and might be suitable for tool handles. The tree is, however, of greater 

 value to the horticulturist than to the timber merchant, its pleasant 

 foliage and luxuriant yellow flowers rendering it a pretty object in the 

 gardens. Diameter. 12 to 15 inches; height, 40 to 50 feet. (Adapted 

 from Lindlcij, Treasury of Botany; Maiden, Useful Native Plants of Aus- 

 tralia, p. 3S^; and Guilfoyle, Australian Plants, p. 70.) 



37135. Bauhixia hookeri Mueller. 



*' This is a large tree, with a spreading head, usually quite glabroiis. 

 Leaflets quite distinct, very obliquely and broadly ovate or obovate, very 

 obtuse, three-fourths of an inch to 1^ inches long, finely 5 to 7 nerved, 

 with a small thick point terminating the petiole between them. Flowers 

 white, edged with crimson, few, in short terminal racemes, the pedicels 

 very short. Calyx glabrous, or nearly so, 1 inch long or even more, the 

 disk-bearing base narrow cylindrical, tlie free part about as long, 

 divided nearly to the base into five narrow lobes. Petals clawed, ovate, 

 nearly equal, the lamina nearly 11 inches long, slightly villous outside 

 near the base. Stamens ten, rather longer than the petals. Ovary on a 

 long stipe; stigma large. Pod stipitate. flat. 1 to li inches broad. 

 Northern Australia : Arnhem Bay, Port Essington. Queensland : Broad 

 Sound, Gilbert River, Sutton River, Rockhampton, and islands of Torres 

 Strait." (Bentham, Flora Australiensis, vol. 2, p. 296, 1864.) 



37136. Brachychitox acerifolittm Mueller. Lacebark tree. 

 {Sterculia aceri folia Cunn.) 



This is a semideciduous tree of New South Wales and is commonly 

 called the Illaicarra flame tree, or Lacebark tree. The flowers are of a 

 bright-red color, which make the trees a conspicuous object at a distance. 

 It attains a height of 60 to 120 feet and a diameter of 2 to 3 feet. The 

 bark is used by the aborigines for making fishing nets. The wood is soft 

 and spongy. (Adapted from Lindley, Treasury of Botany; and Von 

 Mueller, Select Extra-Tropical Plants, p. 81.) 



37137. Cassia bbewstebi tomentella ^lueller. 



A tree attaining to a height of 30 to 40 feet, with the branches, under 

 side of leaflets, and inflorescence minutely hoary tomentose. The leaflets 

 are small and short and the flowers rather small. The seeds of this 



