1 Oct, 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 387 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, E.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order GUTTIFERZA, 
CALOPHYLLUM, Linn. 
C. costatum, Bail. A lofty tree, the branchlets not prominently angular, puberu- 
lent, Leaves oblong, tapering much towards the base, 2 to 2? in. long, 1 to 13 
in, broad; sometimes very shortly and broadly acuminate, margins somewhat 
wavy, lateral nerves numerous, oblique, midrib channelled above, prominent and 
more or less hairy on the underside; petioles about 4 in. long, flattened, and 
puberulent. No flower seen. Fruit picked off the ground under the trees, 
roundish-oval, pointed at each end, the largest nearly 14 in. 
diameter ; when dry, the epicarp showing many prominent ribs. 
Hab. : Evelyn, J. F. Builey. 
long and 1 in, 
Order TILIACER, 
TRIUMEFETTA, Linn. 
T. nigricans, Bail. Plant erect, 2 to 8 ft. in height, clothed in most parts with 
short stellate hairs all round the stem and branches, but frequently more dense 
on one side than on the other ; very dense on the back of the leaves. Branches 
nearly terete, stipules rather persistent, narrow, 4 lines long. Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, palmately 3 to 5-nerved, 25 to 84 in. long, 12 to 2h in. broad, coarsely 
serrate. Petioles slender, 1 to 13 in. long. Flowers yellow, solitary, or few ina 
pedunculate umbel. Bracts filiform, 2lineslong. Pedicels about as lone as the 
bracts. Buds narrow-oblong crowned by the spreading sepal appendages. 
Sepals linear, 4: lines long without the thread-like appendages. Petals spathulate, 
shorter than the sepals. Stamens 15 to 20, filaments glabrous. Style sulcate, 
glabrous. Ovary setose 4-celled, 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit about 4 lines 
diameter, dark-coloured, 4-celled, 2 seeds in each cell; outside covered with 
slightly hairy hooked setw about 4 lines long, the sharp hook at the ends often 
of lighter colour, glabrous between the setw except for a few stellate hairs. 
Seeds oval, rough. 
Hab. : Herberton and Tully River, J. /. Bailey. This plant is likely to become a pest, and 
should be included in ‘* Noxious weeds to be destroyed.” The fruit very dark or blackish on the 
specimens received. 
Order MELIACER, 
ELINDERSIA, R. Br. 
F. Chatawaiana, Bail. (After the Hon. J. V. Chataway, M.L.A.) Aboriginal 
names: ‘Narroo,” Herberton district; ‘ Arrago,”’ Tully River. Red Beech or 
Cardwell Maple. A. large tree with a trunk-diameter of from 3 ft. to over 4 ft. 
Leaves opposite, petioles and rhachis more or léss sharply angular; leaflets usually 
7, oblong Faleate, obtuse or with a more or less acuminate obtuse point, sometimes 
very oblique at the base, 8 to 43 in. long, 13 to 23 in. broad, underside somewhat 
pale; primary lateral nerves rather distant, 9 or 10 on each side of rhachis ; 
petiolules slender, § to Zin. long. Panicles rather large and spreading ; no flowers 
available for examination, Fruit 8 or more inches long, oblong, but tapering at 
each end, pentagonal, prominently marked with dark mussel-shaped scars, which 
gives to the fruit somewhat the appearance of afir-cone. Seed winged all round, 
including wing about 24 in. long, 4 in. broad. 
Hab, Cardwell to Herberton, J. F. Bailey, 
