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the Barron River one of the genus Pygeum, a new species described 
in my Botany Bulletin VIII. as Pygeum Turnerianum . In this 
locality has also lately been met with that curious Olacineous 
climber, Cardiopteris lobata , the Queensland plant being the variety 
moluccana , which so closely resembles a yam (. Dioscorea ) as to have 
been labelled in an European herbarium as Dioscorea saliva. 
V -WITH REGARD TO PECULIAR HABIT. 
Some of our small trees or tree-like shrubs have such a peculiar 
mode of growth that it may not be out of place to refer in this paper 
to an example or so, some of which, however, when better studied may 
prove well-marked varieties or even distinct species. I would first 
refer to the Queensland nut, Macadam! a ter ni folia, E. v. M. In the 
southern parts of the colony this forms a fine, handsome, erect tree, 
fruiting pretty regularly year after year; whereas at Maroochie, say, 
about 70 miles north of Brisbane, what appears to be the same species 
has a very different habit of growth. Here the plant sends up several 
stems from a hard, broad, irregular, rhizome- like base; and as these 
stems attain the height of from 15 to 20 feet and bear a crop of 
fruit, they are said to die away somewhat similar to herbaceous plants, 
the next stems in age and size taking their place. I have seen this 
growth myself, and was told by an old resident of the district that it 
was the usual mode of the nut-tree in that district. The only other 
instance of this habit of growth of which I have heard is recorded bv 
Miss Lovell, of Sandy Cape, Eraser Island, who says that Pitheco - 
lobium Lovelies , Bail., after attaining the height of from 20 to 30 feet, 
dies off in a somewhat similar manner, other stems from the same 
rootstock taking their place. I have noticed at Eumundi that some- 
thing like this occurs with the closely allied species, P. Tozerii , 
E. v. M., but at the time I attributed this to the effect of a borer 
insect, which destroyed so many of the stems. 
VI.— INDIGENOUS FRUITS RECOMMENDED FOR CULTIVATION. 
Under this heading I purpose offering a few remarks upon some 
of the indigenous fruits. We are fully aware that to a large number 
of Queensland residents these native fruits are unknown, while to 
others they are known, used, and appreciated ; and we may fairly hope 
that as time rolls on, and vulgar prejudice dies out, that our fruits will 
be allotted a place in the fruit garden, and the produce known iu 
commerce. Useful, however, as they undoubtedly are to the settler 
in their wild state, we must not be content to remove these wild plants 
into our cultivation plots without a thought as to climate, situation, 
careful selection, and cultivation. Even in the bush it may be noticed 
that one tree produces fruit superior to another, although the trees are 
of exactly the same kind, and it is from such that we should obtain 
our plants intended for experimental cultivation purposes. 
The thirty-one kinds which I bring under notice are selected from 
fifteen genera, and for convenience are given alphabetically according 
to the botanic name — viz., Acronychia acidula , E. v. M., Logan 
Apple, Order Rutacese. This forms a round-headed tree 20 or more feet 
in height, and produces an abundant crop of a sharply acid fruit of a 
whitish colour, nearly round, and 1 inch in diameter, which may be 
