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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
[Vol. io, 
Queensland is a second species, L. gigas, which is a tree of large size. Among 
the trees which may be called truly Australian were species of Grevillea 
and Casuarina growing mostly in the more open districts. A Pandanus 
was also common, and a true Cycas, C. media. This genus is found in 
Australia only in tropical Queensland, and the same is true of the exclusively 
Australian genus Bowenia. The latter, with its bipinnate leaf, suggests 
a fern like Pteridium, rather than a cycad. B. spectabilis is not uncom¬ 
mon about Babinda. 
Ferns are rather more in evidence than in the lower country. Two 
species of tree ferns were noted, Alsophila australis and A. Rebeccae. A few 
filmy ferns were seen, but these were not common. Other ferns noted were 
Marattia fraxinea and several species of Adiantum; Lygodium scandens was 
very common, and Gleichenia linearis , Asplenium Nidus , and other epiphytic 
species were frequent. 
Through the kindness of Mr. A. H. Belson, of Jungaburra, I had an 
opportunity of visiting a tract of untouched timber, which gave an excellent 
idea of the character of the forest of the higher table-land. Jungaburra 
lies at about 2500 feet elevation, and although it is in latitude 17 0 or there¬ 
abouts, its winter climate is far from tropical. Evidences of severe frost, 
sufficient to cut back bananas and other tender plants, were to be seen in 
many places, while at Herberton, at a somewhat higher elevation, fourteen 
degrees of frost were reported. 
The forest near Jungaburra was more open than that at Kuranda, and 
the lianas and epiphytes were rather less in evidence. Many of the trees 
are of great size, with tall, straight trunks, often supported by buttresses, 
so common in the tropical rain forest. Among the trees of this forest, 
probably the majority were species of Flindersia, a genus usually placed in 
the Meliaceae but referred by Engler to the Rutaceae. Some of these are 
known locally as “ash,” “beech,” “maple,” “hickory,” from some supposed 
resemblance of the wood to that of these very different trees. 
Formerly abundant, but now becoming very scarce, is the “red cedar,” 
Cedrela toona , which reaches a gigantic size, sometimes ten feet or more in 
diameter. Other abundant species noted were Xanthostemon pubescens, of 
the Myrtaceae, Cryptocarya Palmerstoni , “black walnut,” and Tarrietia 
Argyrodendron, “crow’s-foot elm.” A few fine specimens of Agathis Palmer¬ 
stoni and Podocarpus elata were seen, but these species evidently were 
not abundant. 
In the Queensland “scrubs,” the local name for the rain forest, there 
are several Proteaceae which attain the size of large trees and yield valuable 
timber known in the trade as oak. The most familiar of these is the “silky 
oak,” Grevillea robusta, often grown in California as an ornamental tree; 
but several other genera occur, viz., Embothrium, Stenocarpus, Carnarvonia, 
and Darlingia. The two latter are monotypic. 
As in most tropical rain forests, the genus Ficus is conspicuous, and in 
