220. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Aua., 1901. 
a large silky oak which grows at what used to be known as Pettigrew’s Saw- 
mills, in William street, there is a splendid specimen of Millettia megaspermum, 
sometimes called the native Wéstaia. This climber has made its way to within a 
short distance of the top of the silky oak, and in the spring time it is loaded with 
masses of beautiful bloom. Amongst the native climbers, Bignonia jasmenoides, 
the Moreton Bay Bignonia, which is common on our river banks and is grown in 
some gardens, deserves a first place ; it may be cultivated without trouble, and 
gives aample return for whatever attention it receives. Almost, if not altogether, 
unknown in Brisbane is the beautiful Passflora aurantia, which is abundant in 
the Burnett and other coast scrubs; its flowers, when they open, are cream 
coloured, but they gradually change to a bright red before they fade, so that 
on one vine there may be flowers of every shade from cream to bright red at 
the same time. This climber grows also in New Caledonia, and was formerly 
described under the name Disemma. I have seen this plant blooming freely in 
my brother's garden at Sydney, where it was raised from seeds collected by 
myself in the Burnett district. Barklya grows and blooms in the same garden, 
having been raised from seed collected by myself in the Port Curtis district ; 
but more striking than any other is a lovely bush of Cassia Brewsteri, the seed 
of which I obtained on the Dawson River. This specimen is better grown and 
in every respect finer than any I have seen growing wild. Another climber of 
great beauty I cannot pass without notice, although it may be found in many 
Brisbane bush-houses. Ivxefer to the Hoya australis, which grows uot less freely 
in a bush-house than in the scrubs where it is commonly found. In my 
experience it will grow wildly if left to itself and watered often enough to keep 
the soil moist, and a specimen in my bush-house is loaded in the early summer 
with hundreds of trusses of bloom. I might mention scores of other blooming 
plants, such, for instance, as the Jpomeas, which are well worthy of recognition 
as garden plants, but I have no desire to become tedious. 1 will only refer to 
two or three others which I have obtained from the wilderness, and which 
have thrived admirably as pot plants. T'wo of these I brought in from a place 
near Gympie which I rented a few years ago. Kurycles Cunninghami is found 
in abundance growing along the edge of vine scrubs ; at one time many of these 
bulbs grew besides the creeks near Enoggera. Their bright green leaves and pure 
white bunches of flowers are very suitable for the bush-house, or for house 
decoration. Not less beautiful is Calanthe veratrifolia, of which I have found 
hundreds of specimens growing under the shelter of vine scrubs. I have seen 
over a hundred flower stems in bloom within quite a small patch of ground, and 
the effect of their pure white flowers is then most striking. They grow yery 
readily as pot plants, or in protected places in the borders... The bulbs of 
Hurycles amboinensis 1 obtained from North Queensland, where they are called 
Christmas lily. They grow very readily in shady places, and when flowering 
are not unlike the its agapanthus. One only other specimen I will refer to : 
This was given to me by our highly respected Colonial Botanist, My. I. M. 
Bailey, who brought it from the far North. The plant I refer to is Curewma 
oustralasica, and in my garden it grows and flowers freely in the open borders, 
It is closely related to the gingers, and throws up a flower stem from the centre 
of the leaves with a large number of pink and yellow flowers, each sheltered by 
a green sheath, the whole forming a handsome cone as large as a medium-sized 
pmeapple. This plant is most suitable, if grown in a pot, for household 
ornamentation. 
My object in naming so many of our native plants is to remind non- 
professional gardeners how readily plants from all parts of the State succeed in 
cultivation. In the Sydney Botanical Gardens, plots are reserved for the 
cultivation of native plants, and they are there botanically arranged for the 
instruction of students of botany. I do not wish, however, to advocate in this 
paper their cultivation scientifically so much as to point out that large 
numbers of our own choicest plants are worthy of an honoured place in 
any good garden, and that the objects of our Horticultural Society 
would be more largely promoted by encouraging their cultivation than 
