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The Queensland Naturalist. 
Sept., 1923 
and D^Agxiilar Eange during a visit of memhers there in 
the earlier part of the year. Mr. lllidge also exhibited a 
case of silver-spotted Pritallaries, and the large web 
formed by a species of processionary caterpillar. Mr. L. 
Pranzon exhibited a case of butterflies from the Book- 
hampton district, and itoted on what plants the cater 
]>illars of some species fed. Mr. W. M. Tanner exhibited 
a slide of radium, showing emanations. Mr. T. C. Smith 
exhibited, on behalf of Mr. 1). Purlis, two almost perfect 
casts of snake skins. Mr. (\ T. White (President) ex- 
hibited a series of nuts of the gonna Macadamia, inch'd- 
ing a number of distinct forms of the common Queens- 
land nut (Macadamia ternifolia), these latter including 
a particularly thin-shelled variety raised by Mr. J. P. 
Waldron, of the Fpper Tweed Eiver. 
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PRESENTATION. 
At the special meeting held on the 27th July, to 
make arrangements in connection with the wild flower 
show and Natural History Exhibition, the opportunity 
was taken of presenti)ig to Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Stevenson, 
on behalf of the members, a set of stainless cutlery. The 
President briefly reftuTcd to Mr. Stevenson’s services as 
Honorary Secretary, first of the Gould League of Bird 
Lovers, and latterly of the Nature Lovers’ Leagxie. Mr. 
J. C. Smith supported the President’s remarks in praise 
of Mr. Stevenson, and the latter snitably responded. 
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BURNY VINE. 
Recently, when in the sernb (rain-forest) at Upper 
Enngolla. Tweed River. N.S.Wales, Mr. J, B. Waldron 
drew my attention to a vine locally known as "Burny 
Vine”; the long wiry stems of this plant, if they become 
nibbed across the bare skin when one is travelling 
through the send). Ituivcs a mark like a burn across the 
skin, the skin first turns rer! and then hrown. and finally 
oeels off. The A’ine proved to be Malaisia tortuosa. (family 
Moraceae). fairly ('ommon in the coastal ‘^scrubs” of 
Queensland, from tlie Tweed River in the South, to the 
New South Wales l)order in the extreme north. I tested 
the truth of Mr. Waldron’s statement about the plant by 
rubbing a young growing stem lightly across ray wrist, 
and noticed soon afterwards the charaeteristic whip-like 
band of red across the skin, a. T. WHTTK. 
