472 ; QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Junn, 1898. 
-and usually containing a single round seed. The flesh of this fruit is white, 
delicately flavoured, and abundant, and used by the settlers for jam-making. 
The fruit now figured (see Plate XX XVII.) is offa tree in Mr. Hockings’s garden, 
South Brisbane. Besides the present there are amongst the indigenous species 
of this genus 9 or 10 others which are equally suitable for the purpose of jam- 
making, and from one if not more a fair wine has been made, but, like the 
roseapple and the Brazilian cherry, cannot be recommended for planting on a 
large scale by the fruit-grower. 
EXPLANATION oF PLATEs. , 
1. Foliage and Fruit of Endeavour River Pear (Zugenia cucalyptoides). 
1a. Section of Pear. 
2. Foliage and Fruit of Davidsonian Plum (Davidsonia pruriens). 
2a. Section of Plum. 
2n. Seed. 
