1 Dec., 1897.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 451 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.1.5S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order PITTOSPOREA, 
PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 
P. setigerum, Bail. (n. sp.) A small glabrous tree. Branchlets furrowed, 
with the bark often reddish. Leaves coriaceous, the reticulate veins close and 
raised, 24 to 4 in. long, # to 1 in. wide, tapering from above the middle to a 
rather long slender petiole, the apex terminating in a prominent bristle. The 
flowers judging from the dried specimens light-yellow, in broad spreading 
terminal panicles longer than the leaves. Pedicels slender. Sepals broadly- 
ovate, minute. Petals free, patent, about 24 lines long, obtuse, veins obscure. 
Stamens shortly exceeding the petals. Ovary on a short glabrous stipes, 
densely covered with a white tomentum, Capsule globose, 4 lines diameter, 
exuding an amber-coloured resin or gum. Seeds black, angular, from 2 to 6 in 
each capsule. 
Hab: Walsh River, 7. Barclay-Millar. 
CASTANOSPERMUM, A. Cunn. 
C. australe, 4.. Cunn. Moreton Bay Chestnut or Bean-tree. Mr. 
Soutter recently drew my attention to a remarkable form of this tree 
growing in the grounds of the late Mr. John Petrie, on Gregory terrace; and 
with a view of bringing the matter more prominently under notice, I here give 
a description and figure of the normal as well as the new form. Mr. Soutter 
states that, although he has noticed the tree to bloom before, he does not 
remember to have seen any pods. It does not follow that plants raised from 
seed of this variety would produce fluwers similar to the parent, but persons 
desirous of having plants could do so by grafting upon seedlings. 
Normal Form.—Racemes 2 or 3 in. long, nearly or quite sessile. Pedicels 
1 to 1$in. long. Calyx coriaceous, campanulate, $-in. to 4-in. long, lobes 5, 
short and broad, the 2 upper ones more widely separated and shorter than the 
others, all incurved. Standard obovate, prominently emarginate or 2-lobed, 
tapering to a rather broad claw, 1 to 1} in. long, and when fully expanded 
1 in. broad, wings and keel petals imbricate, erect, {-in. longer than the calyx- 
tube, oblong, all the petals thick-coriaceous, changing from a greenish-yellow 
to a deep-orange. Stamens 10, all free, incurved, the longer ones 14 in. 
Anthers linear, versatile, 2 lines long. Ovary on a long stipes, with several 
ovules, tapering into an incurved style. Stigma minute. (See Plate.) 
C. a., var. brevivexillum. This variety differs from the normal form, 
in that its flowers are smaller and of a canary yellow, and the standard being 
shorter than the wings and keel-petals, and of nearly the form of these, and 
but slightly recurved. Stamens nearly straight. (See Plate.) 
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