228 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 SxEpr., 1897, 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.1.8., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order LEGUMINOSAE. 
ERYTHRINA, Linn. 
E. insularis, Bail. (n. sp.) <A spreading-headed tree about 15 to 20 ft. 
high, bark light-coloured, smooth, the trunk and branches unevenly round, 
giving the idea of a hard wooded tree; the ends of the branches or branchlets 
slightly velvety as well as the foliage, but being late in the season most of the 
leaves had fallen at the time these specimens were obtained ; could not find 
a single prickle upon the tree from which the seeds were obtained, but upon _ 
another tree upon which some few leaves still remained were a few pairs of 
minute mahogany-coloured ones. Leaves smaller, but very similar to 2. indica, 
or between that species and H. vespertilio, Benth. No flowers seen. Fruiting 
raceme 3 or 4 in. long upon a peduncle of about 6 in., pods crowded, pedicels 
I in. long, solitary or 2 or 3 together. Pods seldom exceeding 5 or 6 in., 
abruptly terminating in a prominent recurved point, at the base a more or less 
portion is seedless and much narrowed, the rest of the pod almost moniliform 
the contractions between the seeds very irregular, often long and narrow. Seeds 
red, subovate, about 5 lines long, persistent after the opening of the pods. 
Hab.: Turtle Island, June, 1897. : 
Order PASSIFLOREZ, 
MODECCA, Lam. 
M. populifolia, Blume, Rumphia i.168,t. 50. A glabrous climber, extend- 
ing some distance over adjoining shrubs and trees; stems striate, scarcely 
sulcate. Leaves cordate, ovate-acute, membranous, 4 to 5 in. long, 2 to 
3 in. broad near the base; petiole about 1 in., with two apical glands. 
Peduncles rather long and slender, terminating, as in IZ. australis, in arather 
strong tendril, at the base of which are a pair of small opposite pedunculate 
cymes. (No flowers on the specimens examined.) Fruit stipitate, 84 in. 
long, tapering to both ends, of a rich crimson. Seeds lenticular, 3} lines 
diameter, dark-brown and deeply pitted. 
Hab.: Ranges about Trinity Bay, Z. Cowley, L. J. Nugent, and Mrs. A. Taylor. Also 
indigenous in Tropical Asia. 
Order CAMPANULACE. 
LOBELIA, Linn. 
L. Douglasiana, Bail. (n. sp.) Stem mostly erect, about 6 in. high, 
angular. Leaves 6 to 9 lines long, distant, sessile, linear, with distant sharp 
marginal teeth. Flowers violet, on filiform peduncles of about 2 in. Calyx-tuba 
10-ribbed, each alternate or intermediate rib ending in a gland-like tooth 
between the proper lobes. Corolla-tube slender, lobes narrow, the 3 lower 
ones white marked with 2 green lines, inside of tube glandular at the base. 
Anthers bearing bristles near the top. 
Hab,: On.damp land, Thursday and Hammond Islands, Torres Straits. 
