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PLANTS OBSERVED ON STRADBROKE ISLAND, 
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NOTES ON SOME INSECTS WHOSE FOOD-PLANT IS 
THE MOEETON BAY FIG {FICUS 2IACROPHYLLA), 
BY 
E. Illidge. 
(Read on 11th June, 1892). , 
[Owing to an emergency the manuscript of this paper was lost from the possession of 
its author and cannot therefore be repi’oduced.] 
PLANTS OBSEEVED DUEING A VISIT TO STEAD- 
BEOKE ISLAND. 
BY 
•c. J. Wild, F.L.S. 
(Head on 11th June, 1892). 
A SINGLE afternoon’s work in midwinter (May) does not, it 
would seem, promise much worthy of remark ; however, speci- 
mens of 160 flowering plants were secured. Fortunately in 
examining these I have had the co-operation of our president, Mr. 
H. Tryon, who, as some of you are aware, examined the flora of 
the locality during a visit in August, 1882. The large swamp 
immediately to the south of the settlement in the first instance 
engaged my attention. On the borders of this was found the pink- 
flowered rutaceous, Boronia ledifolia, and more or less included 
within its borders the leguminous shrub Aotus lanigera, with its 
branches densely covered with linear leaves and with sub-terminal 
large axillary yellow flowers. Also two shrubs belonging to the 
same natural order, Leguminosa;— namely, Pultemea myrtoides, 
with itsorangeflowersindenseterminalheads, and Bossiaiahetero- 
phylla— a flat-stemmed plant with few leaves, sohtary yeUow 
flowers and large flattened stipitate seed pod. Myrtaceous plants 
were represented here by the paper-bark tea-tree, Melaleuca leu- 
codendron, which was in full flower, much to the joy of numerous 
parrots, leather-heads, and other honey-eating birds ; the crimson 
bottle-brush Calhstemon lanceolatus ; Myrtus tenuifolia ; Agonis 
scortechimana ; the purple-flowered Melastoma malabathricum ; 
