1 Junn, 1899. } QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 463. 
REMARKS. 
This variety of table grape has of late years largely come into fashion with 
the French cultivators of table grapes for the Paris market, as it is not only a 
good carrier, but the vine is very productive. It is a late ripener, and comes in 
after the earlier grapes are over, and, if carefully packed, is always a very 
attractive grape. Its great merit, however, is its being able to support long: 
journeys with a minimum amount of damage. This grape is also very resistant 
to attacks of fungoid diseases, but should nevertheless be looked after, especially 
coming to a new climate. The vine can be grown in bush fashion or on trellis, 
and bears equally well whether pruned long or short. 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.5., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order DILLENIACE. 
HIBBERTIA, Andr. 
Section HuUHIBBERTIA. 
H. Bennettii, Batl. (n. sp.) A spreading shrub, from 6 to 18 in. high, quite 
glabrous, branches angular. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 14 to 83 in. long, 2 to 4 
lines broad, slightly expanding, and shortly stem-clasping at the base, underside: 
pale, veins obscure, margins revolute, apex subulate. Peduncles terminal on the 
branchlets, somewhat flattened, 6 to 12 lines long ; bracts at base shortly clasp- 
ing the peduncle, the one close under the flower narrow-lanceolate, 3 to 4: lines: 
long, often spreading. Expanded flower nearly 2 in. diameter. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, 6 to 8 lines long, 3 to 4 lines broad, the inner ones the broadest, with 
more scarious margins. Petals obovate, or broad-cuneate, with a minute mucro 
in the centre, but scarcely showing lobe». Stamens numerous, filaments about 
2 lines long. Anthers oblong, obtuse, opening laterally, about 3-line long, only 
a very few of the outer filaments without anthers. Carpels 3, glabrous, 
3-ovulate. Seeds globose, brown, 14 line diameter. 
Hab.: Irvinebank, F. Bennett, who states that the plant is known locally as the ‘‘ Arsenic: 
Plant,” and that it is exceptionally poisonous to stock. It may here be remarked that several 
years ago another Northern species—viz., H. longifolia, ¥. v. M.—was suspected of poisoning 
stock, d 
Order ‘SSTERCULIACEZ, 
STERCULIA, Linn. 
S. Garrawayz, Bail. (n. sp.) A tree attaining the height of 23 ft., with a rough 
bark. Branchlets and leaves clothed with a thin, hoary, stellate, pubescence. 
Leaves orbicular-cordate, entire or very bluntly 8 or 5 lobed, the middle lobe the: 
smallest when only 3-lobed. The entire ones about 14 in. diameter, others to 4in.. 
long, 5 in. broad, nerves 5 to 7, palmate, prominent, as are the transverse veins. 
Margins entire. Petioles slender, 1 to 3 in. long, strongly striate. Flowers in. 
short few-flowered axillary racemes. Calyx campanulate, about 9 lines long, dull- 
red, cleft for about a quarter down, lobes rounded, the margins induplicate ; inside: 
the tube above the base is a ring of broad, divided, tomentose, reflexed scales. 
Staminal column densely clothed with rather large, stellate hairs for half its. 
length from the base, the filaments thence free, and glabrescent to the head of 
anthers. No abortive ovary. Female flowers in appearance like the male ; 
stipes of ovary with a dense ring of sessile, sterile anthers at the top. Ovary 
consisting of 5 connate carpels, styles almost straight and free to the stigmas, 
densely stellate tomentose throughout. Stigmas recurved. Follicles on stipes. 
