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It now becomes necessary to decide as to the name of the species. Flindersia 
Strzeleckiana, F.v.M., was published in Fragm. i, 65. This was Fasciculus IY, 
and at p. 96 we have the imprint “Fasciculus IV, editus Februario, 1859.” 
F. maculosa , F.v.M., in Jour. Pharm. Soc. Viet, ii, 44, quoted in B.F1. i, 
388, is a mistake. It should be F. maculata, F.v.M., and it was published in the 
Quarterly Journal and Trans, of the Pharm. Soc. Viet. vol. ii, p. 44, on 1st April, 
1859. 
As regards Flindersia maculata , F.v.M., I quote the following “ Notes on 
some rare and medicinal plants of Australia,” by Ferdinand Mueller, from the very 
rare serial publication just referred to, which has been copied for me by the kindness 
of Mr. Harry Shillinglaw, Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, 
Melbourne:— 
Amongst the plants constituting part of the Brigalow scrubs in the depressed interior of New 
Houth Wales occurs a small tree, which, on account of its spotted bark, attracted the attention of Sir 
Thomas Mitchell when tracing the course of the Maranoa River ; and the squatters on the Darling have 
very appropriately applied to it the name of “ Spotted tree.” 
It attains a height of about 20 feet. Its bark is irregularly areolate, the grey epiphlseum separates 
in small pieces, thus uncovering partially the livid or cinnamon-coloured inner stratum of the bark and 
thereby renders it singularly spotted. The wood is pale. Professor Lindley in describing this tree, 
evidently from flowering specimens only, referred it to the genus Elceodendron or spindleworts. 
The Rev. Mr. Goodwin and Mr. Dallachy, on travelling lately over the Darling Plains, towards 
Mount Murchison, noticed the same tree, which is stated to make its appearance first above Moninda, and 
specimens with young fruit collected on those localities being communicated, I ascertained that this 
curious plant belongs to that sub-genus of Flindersia, which I have on account of habitual difference, and 
its hardly woody fruits, separated as Strzeleckia in Sir William Hooker’s Journal of Botany for 1857, pp. 308 
and 309, whilst with a more conservative view I united the only known Sfrzeleckia in the Fragmenta 
Phytographia Australia, i, 4, 65 and 66, to Flindersia. 
Although I have failed in finding any clear distinction in the flowers or in fruits of Strzeleckia 
dissosperma and Elceodendron maculosum, of which I examined original specimens in Sir Thomas 
Mitchell’s collection, I have at present no hesitation in regarding these two plants as distinct on account 
of their foliage. 
The following diagnosis would characterise sufficiently the Darling plant: —Flindersia maculata 
{Strzeleckia) :—Leaves opposite, rather small, simple, oblong, with cuneate base, with blunt or emarginate 
apex, and with short petioles ; without pellucid dots ; branches of the panicle opposite ; lobes of the calyx 
almost orbicular, ciliolate ; sterile stamens, five or less ; stigma peltate, hemispherical, capsule small, 
ellipsoid, echinate by acute tubercles, glabrous; its subcells generally two-seeded, seeds around winged. 
The leaves are minutely dotted, but the dots rather concealed and not transparent. The capsules 
deserve notice for the strong aromatic scent by which they are pervaded. 
Let us leave consideration of the genus Flindersia for a moment 
The tree was first discovered by Mitchell at the St. George’s Bridge, on the 
Balonne River (depicted in his Journey of an Expedition into the Interior of 
Tropical Australia). At p. 384 of that work he speaks of— 
A new Elceodendron with small panicles of white flowers, formed a forest tree 20 feet high, remark¬ 
able for its spotted bark. 
