No. 80. 
Flindersia collina, F. M. Bailey. 
The Hill Flindersia. • 
(Natural Order MELIACEvE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Flindersia. (See Part X, p. 209.) 
Botanical description. —Species, F. collina , Bailey, in Queensland Agric. Journ., 
Ill, p. 354 (Nov. 1898). 
A large* forest tree, the hark falling off in rather larger patches than in 
allied species, hut leaving the same pale-coloured patches upon the stem; branchlets 
corrugated, and, when young, more or less covered with short ferruginous hairs. 
Leaves.— Opposite, impari-pinnate, petioles about 1 inch long, flattened, the edges thin, but 
scarcely winged. 
Leaflets. —Three to five, obovate-cuneate, sessile, the terminal one sometimes 3 inches long and 
| inch broad, the lateral ones smaller, equilateral; apex obtuse, truncate, often emarginate, 
parallel lateral nerves erecto-patent, numerous, often very prominent on the upper side, which 
is very glossy, underside thinly hoary or pale-coloured. 
Phachis. —Slightly winged. 
Panicles. —Terminal, about 2( inches long and nearly as broad, densely branched, usually on very 
short peduncles, more or less covered with a close stellate pubescence. 
Flower-buds. —Globose, slightly five-angled, calyx small. 
Petals. —Imbricate, ovate-oblong, thick in the centre, hairy on both sides. 
Filaments. —Shorter than the petals, glabrous, rather thick and angular. 
Anthers. —Ovate-cordate. 
Fruit. —Echinate, oblong, to 2 inches long, dividing into five separate valves. 
Habitat. —Ranges of southern parts of Queensland.! Wood hard, close-grained, yellow, strong, 
and durable. In Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 73c, given as F. StrzelecJciana, var. latifolia. 
Botanical Name. — Flindersia , already explained, Part X, p. 210; collina , 
Latin, “situated on a hill” or “growing on a hill,” the tree being often found on 
hill-sides. 
Vernacular Names. —This tree bears a number of local names, more or less 
loosely used. It is sometimes called “ Stave- wood,” and also “ Yellow-w'ood,” but 
the first is already applied to a large number of trees, and the second is already 
firmly attached to F. Oxley ana. (See Part XIX of this work.) 
Because of its long trunk in certain situations, the name “ Long Jack ” is 
also applied to it, but this name has been already given to F. Oxleyana and 
other trees. 
• The original description says : “ A small tree.” If this be really correct, as regards Queensland, it may be stated 
that it attains a far larger size in New South Wales, 
t Since found in New South Wales. 
