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CONTRIBUTIOXS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLOEA. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND 



FLORA. 

 I^AI^T III. 



BY 



F. M. BAILEY, F.L.S., Government Botanist. 

 (Plate xviii.) 



(Bead on the 12th September, 1884.) 



OEDEE EUTACE^. 



Boronia anemonifolia var. anetliifolia. 

 Hab. Stanthorpe (J. Davidson.) 



OEDEE COMPOSITE. 



Senecio velleioides, ^4. Cunv. 



Hab. Main Range (C. H. Hartmann.) 



OEDEE SAPINDACE^. 

 Diploglottis diph^dlostegia, F.v.M. 



Following Bai'on Mueller's first description of this tree in 

 Fragm. Vol. V., it will be found in " The Synopsis of the Queens- 

 land Flora" under Plmnier's genus Cupania. In Fragm. Vol. IX. 

 p. 90, the learned Botanist of Victoria abandons the idea of 

 giving to the tree the rank of a species and leaves it as a mere 

 variety of the well known native Tamarind, Diploglottis 

 Cunninghamii HooTx.f. That it is a tree of very different habit 

 and much more valuable as a shade giving tree than the native 

 Tamarind anj'one would at once admit upon seeing the trees 

 of each species growing at Bo wen Park, irrespective of the 

 botanical difference in the inflorescence. The trees now flower 

 ing at Bowen Park wei-e collected by the writer about twelve 

 years ago in the dense scrub of the upper part of the Herbert 

 River where it forms one of the largest scrub trees. The leaves 



