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the tropical scrubs, and not again, so far as I am aware, until we find 
it near the Logan River. This has never thus far received more than 
the one specific name ; yet the difference between the northern and 
southern tree is quite as much marked as in the Davidsonias. The 
foliage and fruit of the tropical tree are much larger ; the fruit also is 
of very irregular form. The southern fruit has a much more agreeable 
acid flavour, and is of an even, globular shape ; the leaves also are of 
a brighter green. This form was first discovered by the late Rev. B* 
Scortechini, and might safely bear his name as a variety of A. ctcidula . 
HI* — DISTANT HABITATS WITHIN THE COLONY. 
I will now refer to one or two of our plants which are at present 
only known from iar distant localities, but in which no change of 
character has been observed. Being probably a very rare tree, I notice 
Erylhroxiflon ellipticum , R. Br., first. That excellent botanist, Dr. 
Robert Brown, was the discoverer of the plant, which he found, at 
the beginning of the present century, on the mainland opposite Groote 
Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria No other specimens seem to have 
been obtained, either there or elsewhere, until I received some from 
the Walsh Range, a distance probably of 500 or GOO miles from 
Dr. Brown s habitat. This botanist describes the plant as a shrub 
of about 5 feet high, but probably he could not spare time to look 
about, or he might have met with some plants of a larger growth; for 
my correspondent at the Walsh Range describes the tree as attaining 
a height of 3o ieet, with a stem diameter of 12 inches. I have received 
logs from the locality exceeding this dimension. 
A Pomaderris, which 1 take for an apetalous form of _P. philly- 
reoides, Sieb., is met with around Stanthorpe, on the Glasshouse Moun- 
tains, about ITerberton, and on Walsh’s Pyramid, a mountain at the 
Mulgrave. 
The wiry grass, Rottboellia rari flora, Bail., has yet only been met 
with at the Batavia River and about the Musgrave Station, Cape York 
Peninsula; this latter locality is also the only Queensland habitat of 
M&ocarpus arnhemicus , F. v. M., although the tree has been met with 
m several parts of the Northern Territory, South Australia, as well 
as in New Guinea. From the above station on Cape York Peninsula 
I have also received specimens of Owenia vernicosa, F. v. M., the 
only other places where this tree has been met with being Cambridge 
Gulf, W e stern Australia, and the Northern Territorv of South 
Australia. 
Orap iophy Hum spinigerum , F. v. M., so far has only been met with 
m two localities — the Endeavour River and the Eumundi scrubs, which 
are about 1,000 miles apart. 
One of the most remarkable instances of the wide distance 
between the habitats of some of the Queensland plants is the meeting 
with trees of the “ Stringy-bark Pine,” Ca Hi Iris Parlaiorel , E. v. M., 
on the Bellenden-Ker Range in 1889, for prior to this the tree was 
thought confined to New South Wales and the ranges of the Southern 
Queensland border. 
That beautiful variety of the leafless terrestrial Orchid Dipodium, 
D. pun datum, var. Hamiltonianum, is so far only known from three 
very distantly separated localities— viz., the islands of Moreton Bay 
Stanthorpe, and in one part of New South Wales. 
