Contributions of the Flora of Queensland and British New Guinea. VII. 15 



near— lanceolate, 1 to l l / 2 in. long, erect. Ligula oblong prominent. In- 

 florescence spike-like, 1 to 1V 2 in. long, Vj 2 to 2 lines diam. Awns about 

 the length of the glumes, very delicate, erect or slightly spreading. — 

 Queensland, Windorah, Walter H. Rose. 



27. Aserde poculiforma Bail., 1. c, p. 165 and fig. — Volva about 

 lVa in. high, l 3 / 4 in. broad, or nearly globose, more or less purplish, 

 bursting at the top into irregular broadish lobes. Mycelium much bran- 

 ched, purplish. Receptacle goblet-shaped, about l 3 / 4 in. diam. at the base 

 and 2 :, / 4 in. at the mouth, the walls hollow, pale pink outside, the mouth 

 bordered by 11 erect bifurcate lobes 1V' 3 in. high, the entire portion 

 usually short, the branches tapering to threadlike curled ends. Inside, 

 at the base of the lobes or top of the goblet, is a thin red horizontal 

 expansion which seems as if it had, in an earlier stage of growth, formed 

 a cover to the goblet; and on a portion of this, and the entire portion 

 of the lobes which bear short tuberculose spines, rests the dark-coloured 

 sporiferous pulp. All the named species of this beautiful genus run the 

 one into another; thus it is scarcely safe to name a fresh species. The 

 present, however, differs in shape of receptacle and direction of the lobes 

 Queensland, Toowong, Miss M. Gregory. 



28. Senebiera integrifolia var. scaber Bail., 1. c, p. 234. — Stems 

 scabrous throughout. Plants of the normal form are said to be glabrous. 

 I find no other distinction. — Queensland, Masthead Island, J. A. Leach. 

 (Aus. Ornith. Union, Oct., 1910, Excur.) 



29. Ficus Simmondsii Bail., 1. c, p. 234, pi. XIX. — A large tree, the 

 branchlets shortly velvety or puberulous and somewhat angular. Leaves 

 lanceolate, glabrous, 3^2 to 5 in. long, l ! / 2 to 2 in. broad, coriaceous, 

 dei-p-green, somewhat paler on the underside, the lateral nerves and 

 intermediates parallel ones rather numerous, almost 3-nerved at the base, 

 the outer pair looping with the others and forming intramarginal ones. 

 Petioles about l'/ 2 inches long, very light-coloured, puberulous. Bud 

 scales or terminal stipules about 2 in. long, tapering to sharp points, 

 velvety with brown hairs. Receptacles axilliary, in pairs or solitary, more 

 or less compressed, nearly globose, about 1 in. diameter of a yellowish 

 green turning to a reddish purple, dotted with small and large deep- 

 green dots, and minutely red-speckled near the base. Peduncles stout, 

 puberulous, somewhat 3-angular, 4 to 5 lines long, expanding into a cupule 

 under the receptacle. — Queensland: Coolangatta, J. H. Simmon ds. 



30. Fugosia pedata Bail., 1. c, p. 286, pi. XXVIII, Pig. 1. — A bush 

 of 3 or 4 ft.; bark a purplish-red, clothed with a stellate tomentum, the 

 stars rather large, and, like most other parts of the plant, the bark marked 

 with large black dots. Leaves simple and ovate-lanceolate or pedately- 

 digitately lobed, 2'/ 2 in. long, marked with large black dots, and clothed 

 with large stellate hairs on both surfaces; petioles about 1 in. long, 

 with the hairs and dots of the lamina. Plowers axillary or nearly ter- 

 minal, on rather short peduncles. Bracteoles 3, linear-lanceolate, about 

 3 lines long, with large black dots. Calyx dotted inside and out, with 

 large black dots,. about Vi in. long, tomentose, the teeth ending in filiform 



