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FICUS, Linn. 
P. COlOSSea, F. v.lL; PL Austr. vi. 163. 7. A large deciduous 
tree with smooth light-coloured bark, remarkable for its branches 
being chosen by the bird Oalornis metalica, or starlet, to build its 
nest upon. . 
r. Cunningliamii, Miq^. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bot. iii. 386 ; PL 
Austr. vi. 165. 7. 
P. eugenioides, F. v. M. Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bot. iii. 283 ; 
M. Austr. vi. 166. 7. 
F. ehretioides, F. v. M. ; Pi. Austr. vi. 17L 1, 7. 
P. mollior, F. v. M. ; Pi. Austr. vi. 173. 1. 
P. Finkiana, F. v. M. ; Sjn. Queensl. PI. 489. 5, 7. 
P. Mspida, ; Suppl. 442; PI. Austr. vi. 176. 1. 
r. fasciClllata, F. v. M. ; Pi. Austr. vi. 177. 1. 
P. casearia, F. v. M. ; Pi. Austr. vi. 177. 1, 2. 
p. glomerata, Willd.; Spec. Pi. iv. 1148; PI. Austr. vi. 178. 
Cluster Pig. 1, 7. 
P. Crassipes, n. s^o. (So named from the thick stalk of fruit.) A 
large tree with a somewhat smooth light-coloured bark, very milky, 
ends of the branches very thick, marked with rings showing where the 
stipules were attached. Leaves alternate, very close on the ends of 
the branches, the internodes not being more than i in. long ; petioles 
somewhat flattened, about 3 in. long and 3 lines broad, glabrous or 
slightly hoary ; lamina ovate or obtuse- ovate, with or without a short 
blunt point, usually rounded at the base, 5 to 8 in. long, 4 to 5^ in. 
broad, thick, coriaceous, and deep green, the margins entire, the 
primary lateral veins parallel, except the basal pair, which starting 
irom the top of the petiole meet the other at about \ up the leaf where, 
anastomosing with them, form intramarginal ones. Stipules about 2 in. 
long with very fine point. Eet>eptacles crowded at the ends of the 
branches, obtusely 3-angular, some showing a fourth angle, about 2 in. 
long and 1 in. diameter, marked with oval purple spots, the apex 
beaked ; peduncles 3-angular, often broader than long. 
Hab. : Scrubs, Harvey's Creek, E-ussell Elver. 
This fine tree resembles somewhat, in its long angular fruit, F. pleurocar]pa of 
the Johnstone Eiver. 
CUI)RANIA,Trec. 
C. javanensie, Trecul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 123 ; Pi. Austr. 
vi. 179. Cockspur Thorn. 1, 7. 
On the plants of tliis slirub growing along the Mulgrave Eiver I found the 
leaves to be much affected by the parasitic fungus Rhytisma hypoxantlmm, 
LAPOETEA, aaudich. 
li. pllOtinipliylla, Wedd. ; Mongr. Urt. 138, in DC. Prod. xvi. i. 
83 ; PI. Austr. vi. 192. Shining-leaved Nettle-tree. 
L. moroides, Wedd. Mongr. Urt. 142, and in DC. Prod. vii. i. 88 ; 
PI. Austr. vi. 192. G-ympie Nettle-tree. 1, 7. 
On tlie Mulgrave Eiver the leaves of tliis Nettle were unusually large ; some 
measured 19 in. by ]9 in. on petioles of 15 in. long. 
