288 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Apri, 1900. ‘| 
Popular Botany. 
OUR BOTANIC GARDENS.—No. 11. 
By PHILIP MAC MAHON, 
Curator, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. 
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One of the objects of the Botanic Gardens is to introduce, test, and acclimate 
the plants of other countries, and to propagate them for dissemination 10 P sat 
institutions and to such persons as may be willing to assistin the very neces 
work of collecting the native flora, a representative collection of which sho ‘3 
in these Gardens. The want of the collector, always attached to ho phe 
gardens, renders us dependent upon outside courtesy in this directloD. tives 
plants of which a précis follows are mostly timber trees. Some are M4 the 
of the colony, many of other colonies of the Australasian group, ® those 
descriptions are easy of reference, and, though brief, of great interest totes | 
interested in the subject of reafforesting and planting for shade and or | 
All the seeds are now available here on an exchange basis. 
1. Acacia acinacea (a Wattle). 
2. Acacia Baileyana (Bailey's Wattle). A very beautiful ornamental 
3. », _ binervata (Black Wattle, Hickory). Ornamental ; timber 
tool handles, &e. park 
4. Acacia Cunninghamii (Black Wattle). Timber heavy, cabinet-wol™? 
for tanning. vp) per 
5. Acacia Oswaldi (Oswald’s Wattle). Timber, hard, small ; bark, 9 
cent. tannic acid. 3 i 
6. Acacia pendula (Weeping Myall). Stock fond of leaves; timber 
wood,” pipes, boxes, &c. “acid 
7. Acacia penninervis (Blackwood, Hickory). Bark, 17:9 per cent. tan lot 
8. »  podalyrizfolia (Silver Wattle). Bark gives leather ligh 
12°40 per cent. tannin. jn the 
- 9, Acacia pycnantha (Golden Wattle). One of the richest tan Darks aves 
world (Maiden) ; 33°5 per cent. tannin in bark, 15°16 per cent. tannic acid 1? 
timber tough, sp. gr. ‘83 = 514 lb. per cubic foot. i nts od! 
10. Acer platanoides (Norway Maple). Fine tree, dense and tall; W | 
position, deep soil ; wood pale, cabinet-work, &c. 04, 40 
- 11. Albizzia Lebbek (Lebbek Tree, Siris). Very beautiful shade tree; ™ 
to 60 lb. cubic foot. 
12. Albizzia moluccana. Ornamental. 
13. Allamanda neriifolia. Shrub; yellow flowers. aie 
14. Alphitonia excelsa (Red Ash). Wood hard, durable, takes high polis elore? 
15. Andropogon sericeus (Blue Grass). Best of all native grasses (Bailey) 3 
of all herbivorous animals (Maiden). reset 
16. Antidesma Dallachyanum (Herbert River Cherry). Fruit makes P 
like red currants. 
17. Areca sapida. Ornamental palm. 
17. Aristolochia elegans (Dutchman’s Pipe). Beautiful creeper. donis. 
18. Araucaria Rulei (Rule’s Bunya). An ornamental tree of New Cale@r spt 
19. Aralia papyrifera (Chinese pared Plant). Chinese “rice” paper 2 
this plant. 
20. Atalantia buxifolia. A hedge plant. 
21. Barklya syringifolia. Beautiful native tree ; yellow flowers. 
22. Bauhinia alba. Ornamental tree. ae eto 
23. Bauhinia Hookeri (Queensland Ebony). Timber heavy, elastic, @ 
cabinet-work ; flowers, white ; a most graceful and lovely tree. fone 
24. Bignonia Tweediana (‘Trumpet Flower). Handsome chmber; yellow lp d 
25. Bixa Orellana (Anatto shrub). Dye used in colouring cheese, fro 
all tree | 
Der tough | 
light, 
“ violet | 
fruit. 
| 26. Buckinghamia celsissima. Ornamental native tree; white flowers. 
