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improved by selection and cultivation. I have also tasted excellent 
jam which was made at Eraser Island from the fruit of another 
species of this genus, Acronyelda imp erf or at a, F, v. M. The fruit of 
this is not quite so large as the last mentioned, is of a reddish colour, 
and imparts its colour to the preserve. 
Of the Euphorbiaeeous genus Antidesma , live of the Queensland 
species furnish the settlers with fruits from which excellent jam and 
jelly is made, viz.: — 
A. Bunins , Sprang., the fruit of which is also largely used in 
Java, especially by the Europeans, for preserving. In tropical 
Queensland it is also put to a like use. 
A. Dallachynnum, Baill., the “ Herbert River Cherry.” — This 
forms a good-sized tree, and produces abundant crops of fruit, which 
ripen about July. On different trees the size and colouring of the 
fruit vary a good deal, the largest being about 1 inch in diameter ; 
they are nearly round, very juicy, and of a very sharply acid flavour. 
The jelly made from this fruit is quite equal to that made from the 
European red currant. 
A. erosive , F. v. M., bears a much smaller fruit, which is used for 
jam and jelly making at the Barron River. 
A. Ghcesembilla , Ga?rtn. The fruit of this species is in use at the 
Walsh River for jam and jelly making by the settlers. 
A. parvi folium, F. v. M., is called “Currant Bush” at the 
Gilbert River, and is used, like all the others mentioned, for preserving, 
and is considered a most wholesome and agreeable fruit for the 
purpose. 
Under careful cultivation these fruits would probably greatly 
improve, and become favourites with the public; but, although thev 
will all grow and produce fruit in the Brisbane district, they are more 
fitted for the tropical parts of the colony. 
Atalaniia glauca, J. D. Hook. The Kumquat or Lime of our 
Downs country. Order Rutaceae, and closely allied to the orange; 
often attains the size of a small tree, but while only the size of a small 
shrub yields a great abundance of fruit, which is gathered and con- 
verted into jam by the settlers. By careful selection and cross- 
fertilisation from this might be obtained varieties worthy of cultivation 
for the sake of their fruit. 
Species of the closely allied Citrus family are — C. australis , 
Planch.— the round-fruited Native Orange or Lime, which in some of 
our mountaineer ubs forms quite a large tree, with fruit 2 or 3 inches 
in diameter; and C. austral astccr, F. v. M., the Finger Lime, whose 
fruit is frequently as much as I inches in length, with a diameter of 
i or 1 inch. I he variety of this species — sanguine^ Bail. — only so far 
as at present known to be met with on Tambourine Mountain, differs 
from the normal form in the colour of its fruit, which is blood-red 
throughout. These long fruits differ from the round in having a 
thinner rind, and the acid being of a more delicate flavour. 
C. inodor a , Bail., “ the North Queensland Lime,” which so far has 
only been met with in the scrubs about the Russell River, differs in 
its foliage, which has a greater resemblance to the cultivated species ; 
its fruit is over 2 inches long, and li inches in diameter; the rind is 
thin, pulp juicy and of a sharply acid flavour. Even in the wild state it 
is a desirable fruit, and takes the place of the cultivated lemon. 
