CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA 



BY 



F . M . BAILEY, F . L . S . , 



GoYernnient Botanist of Queensland. 



The subject of the present paper is an enumeration of the 

 plants which have been found since, or that were overlooked in 

 compiling the ''Synopsis of the Queensland Flora," to which 

 work this may be taken as a first supplement. 



Thus it will be seen that from specimens received from the 

 Endeavour River, Baron Von Mueller has founded the new 

 genus Husemannia, an addition to the Order Menispermacese. 

 He has also added to Rhamne^ two new plants — a Ventilago 

 from Rockingham Bay, and a Stenanthemum found at Stan- 

 thorpe, also to the Order Thymelseacete one to the already large 

 genus Pimelea. 



It will be also seen that while at Helidon a few months ago I 

 was fortunate enough to meet with a new species of Rubus, the 

 well-known genus of Rosacese. The favourite Order Orchideoe 

 has been mcrea sed by six new Dendrobiums, four of which have 

 been received from Northern and two from Southern Queens- 

 land. The Ophiopogon mentioned as having been found at 

 Enoggera Creek is interesting, being the first plant of the tribe 

 Ophiopogoneas as yet met with in Australia, but I think it 

 might be well before claiming this as indigenous that further 

 specimens should be met with, 



Lycopodiacese has been increased by the addition of a pretty 

 species of Selaginella from the Johnstone River, whilst a 

 Trichomanes and an Asplenium from the Johnstone River, and a 

 Polypodium from Helidon have been added to our Fern Flora. 

 It is an interesting feature also to find that out of the 80 species 

 of Fungi recorded, about one-third aie new, and ha\^e been des- 

 cribed and several figured in the last year's trnnsactions of the 

 London Linnean Society by the celebrated mycologists, Messrs. 

 Berkeley and Broome. 



ORDER MENISPERMACE.®. 



Husemannia, F.vJI, South. Set. Rec. May, 188S. 

 H. protensa, F.v.M. 



Hab. Daintree River, Pentzke ; Endeavour River, Persieh, 



OEDER PORTULACEiE. 



Portulaca napiformis, F.^.M. 

 Hab. Emerald P. A. O'Shanesy, 



