98 The Queensland Tlaturalist March 1948 
there also occur small patches of closed forest dotted 
about the hillsides, commonly on rocky places. The trees 
and shrubs are usually species found in the pine scrubs, 
except that Ara ucaria, llarpullia. FI indcrski, Sgncarpicu 
llernandia , and some others rarely, if ever, occur. Lianas 
arc relatively numerous, but epiphytes are restricted to 
mosses and lichens. The more or less shrubby grass 
Ancislrachuc uitciuidula is a characteristic species, as are 
Stipa ramosissima and the slender Lcplochloa debilis. 
When closed forest is destroyed, the area is soon 
occupied by a dense growth of lantana (Lantana camara) ; 
associated are Tugctcs ininutci (stinking roger) and 
Verbatim cncelioidn (wild sunflower) ; through this often 
almost impenetrable tangle may appear some pioneer 
species of the closed forest, such asCodonocarpus australis 
(bell-fruit tree), Pipturus argenteus, Capparis nobilis 
(native pomegranate), and Alijxia r unci folia (cliain- 
fruit ) . 
Clitoris virgata (feather-top) wa.s a very abundant 
roadside weed. 
NEW RECORDS. 
The following species, not listed in 1939, were recorded in 
1947, and the same notation is used as in the earlier paper. An 
explanation of the abbreviations is as follows: MM (mega- and 
mesophanerophytes), woody plants more than 8 metres high; M 
(microphanerophytes), woody plants 2-8 metres high; N (nano- 
phanerophytes). woody plants 25 centimetres to 2 metres high; 
Ch (chamaephytes), chiefly under-shrubs up to 25 centimetres 
high; H (hemicryptophytes), plants with perennating buds buried 
in the surface layers of the soil; G (geophytes), plants with 
perennating buds buried deep in the soil, such as bulbous 
and rhizomatous plants; HH (helophytes), plants growing in 
water, Th (therophytes), annual plants, E (epiphytes), plants 
growing on other plants or on rocks; S, succulents; CF, closed 
forest; F, fringing forest; 1, mixed open forest; 2, blue gum-apple 
forest; 7, stringybark-grey gum forest; 9, very rocky places 
on hillsides in Eucalyptus forest. 
Species 
Life-form 
Occurrence 
Pteridophyta 
Marsilea Brownii A. Br. 
G 
2 
Lauraceae 
Cryptocarya triplinervis R.Br. 
Cassytha filiformis L. 
MM 
F 
Leafless twiner 
parasitic on 
Lantana and 
Cudrania 
