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17. A (?) Hopwoodii , F. Mu^ll. Fragm. ii. 138. A glabrous tree 
or shrub. Leaves narrow-linear, acutely acuminate, with the point 
often recurved, entire, rather thick, narrow into a short petiole, 2 to 4 
in. long. Flowers in short terminal cymes or leafy pyramidal panicles. 
Bracts minute. Calyx small, broadly campanulate, with obtuse teeth. 
Corolla-tube campanulate, 2 to 3 \ lines long ; lobes broad, very obtuse, 
shorter than the tube. Anthers 1-celled. Fruit unknown. N. S. 
Wales. Darling Rjver, very rare, ’Victorian Expedition. W. Aus- 
tralia, Drummond twith rather smaller flowers than in the N. S. Wales 
specimens). 
11. A (?) Leichhardtii, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 142. A glabrous 
shrub (or tree?), with the foliage and inflorescence of Duboisia my- 
oporoides. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse, entire, narrow into 
a petiole, quite flat, 2 to 4 in. long. Panicles terminal, somewhat leafy 
at the base, broadly pyramidal or corymbose. Bracts very small. 
Pedicels short. Calyx small, broadly campanulate, with short broad 
teeth. Corolla-tube nearly 2 lines long, ovate-campanulate ; lobes 
narrow, acuminate rather longer than the tube. Anthers 1-celled. 
Fruit unknown. Queensland, Leichhardt, the precise locality unknown. 
The specimens might be mistaken for those of Duboisia myoporoides, 
were it not for the narrow acute corolla-lobes ; and, as in the case of 
A. Hopwoodii, until the fruit shall have been observed it is in some 
measure uncertain whether it should be referred to Anthocercis or to 
Duboisia. 
To return to the history of pituri. My first experiments 
were described in a short paper read before the Queensland 
Philosophical Society in March, 1872, and republished in the 
Australian Medical Journal , of November, 1876. As the article 
is short, and to render this paper as complete as possible, it may 
be allowed to reproduce it here : — 
A (Paper read by Dr. Bancroft , before the Queensland Philosophical 
Society , on the Pituri poison, on Thursday , 28 th March, 1872. 
A meeting of the Queensland Philosophical Society was held on 
Thursday, March 28, 1872, at which Dr. Bancroft read a paper on the 
“ pituri” poison, brought by Mr. Sub- Inspector Gilmour from near 
Cooper’s Creek. Some interesting experiments were made, demon- 
strating the deadliness of the poison to small animals. 
Dr. Bancroft said : 
On February 9th of this year, 1872, I obtained from Mr. Gilmour 
a quantity of dried leaves, and the particulars here narrated, of a plant 
used by the natives as a stimulating narcotic. These leaves, called 
“ pituri,” were obtained in the neighbourhood of the water-hole 
Kulloo, eight miles beyond Eyre’s Creek. 
The use of the pituri is confined to the old men of a tribe called 
Malutha, all the males of which tribe are circumcised. 
The pituri is carried in neatly-made oval pointed bags, specimens 
of which Mr. Gilwoqr has brought. 
