THE STINGING-TEEE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 55, 27 December 1882, Page 3

THE STINGING- TEEE.

— o The v stinging- tree" of Queensland ie Australia, is a luxurious shrub, pleasd ing to the eye but. dangerous to th( c touch, ft grows from two or three i- inches to ten or fifteen feet in height. I- and emits a disngro^ab c odour. Says n a traveller : " Sometimes while shoot- , ing turkeys in the shrubs, I have enr tireh' forgotten the stinging-tree till , I was warneu of its close proximity by :1 its smell, and have otten found myseft - in a little forest of them. I was only » once s r ung, and that very lightly. Its effects are curious — it leaves no ) mark, but the pnin is madricninir ; and < for months afterwards the part wh.-n i touched is t^ndor in rimy weather, or ) when it gets w -t in warning, &v. I i have ?n"n a m>n who t'-eat^ ordinary i- pain lightly roll on the jrround in ; agony ai'er being stung, and I hnvo l-nown a horse so comjiler ; Iy mai nfter r geting into a grov •' of the trees that rushed open-mouthed uf every <>ne who • approaclipcl him. arid had to bf shot. ; Dogs, when stung, will rush aljout i whiijjn pir ousiy. biting [>iece-i from the effected part."