207 
May 31, 1911. The Queensland Naturalist. 
This youth American plant, which has for some time 
been naturalised in W estern Queensland, has within the 
last few years established itself in several places along the 
Brisbane River. 
8COPAR1A DULCiy, Linn. (Scroph.). 
Brisbane River. F, Nat. Club Excur. 
^ALTERXANTHERA ACHYRANTHA, li. Br., Hw. 
LEIANTHA, Seubert^ (Amarant.). Mart. FI. Brasil, F. 
18.3, LV. ..... 
This troublesome, little weed, first lecorded from the 
Springsure district by Mr. J, H. Maiden (under the name 
of A. echhiata, Sm.), has now established itself about Bris- 
bane, and several other Southern localities. 
ALTERNANTHERA DECIPIEXS, Benth. (Amarant). 
FL Austr., V., 251. 
Rockhampton. J. Cleminson. 
AMARAXTUS MITCHELLTI, Benth. (Amarant). 
AMARAXTUS MACROCARPUS, Beyith. (Amarant). 
KOCHIA BREVIFOLIA, R. Br. (Chenopod). 
DYSPHAXTA MYRIOCEPHALA, Benth. (lllecebra- 
cese.) * 'p .. .. ^ 
The above four inland jilants are now and again met i 
with round about Brisbane. , 
PIPER BANKSIl, (Piperaceae). Benth., FL 
Austr,, F/.,' 205. Bail., Ql. FL, p. 1285. 
Male spikes. Leaf opjiosed, slender, l-lj inches long 
on peduncles of about J inch ; stamens 2, slightly exserte’d ; ' 
bracts orbicular-peltate. The female spikes sometimes 
attain the length of 5 inches; 
EXEIANDIA INSlGNISi Bail. (Laurine^.)/ QL FL, 
P. 1307 . ; , ' . 
Tambourine Mountain, J. H. Simmonds, J. -Shirley. ' 
Scrubs, Xorth Coast Railway, Dr. T. L. Bancroft. 
The leaves in these southern specimens seem, smaller ^ 
than in those from the trojiics. 1 
GREVILLEA LEIOPHYLLA, F. v. M. (Proteace^). 
Benth., FI. Austr., V., 471. Bailey, Ql, FL, p. 1344. 1 
Fruit ; about lin. long, Jin. broad, opening in 2 valves 
of thin texture; very similar to that of G. linearis, R. Br. : 
\TSCUM ORTENT.ALE, Willd. (Loranth). Blume, ^ 
FL Jav. (Loranth), 24 and 25. i . ' 
Stannary Hills (X.Q.). Dr.,T. L. Eancroft. 
EUPHORBIA CARTSSOTDES, Bail., Q. Agric. 
JL XVI. (1906), 449 (Euphorbiacae). ' 
' deptefe^ed-globulaf,’ ^boiit 2^ lines "‘diam. ; 
Cocci fairly smooth; ^styles, undivided, recurved ^^'seeds-, 
1 line long, ' miiiutely pitted, reddish, - bluntly 4-an^ular, 
angles white. • ■ - '■ 
