68 Bailey: Contributions of the Flora of Queensland an British New Guinea.VI. 
XII. Species novae ex: F. M. Bailey, Contributions of the 
Flora of Queensland and British New Guinea. VI. 
(Ex: The Queensland Agric. Journ., XXIV 1910.) 
18. Evodia microsperma Bail. |. c., p. 20. -- Papuan name, ,Nebara*. 
Tree about 20 ft. high. Branches prominently 4 or approaching 3-an- 
gular, except the very young growth quite glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, 
petioles slender, 3 to 4 in. long; leaflets membraneous, broadly-lanceo- 
late, 3 to 5 in. long, 1!/, to 2 in. broad near the middle, base cuneate, 
tapering to a rather elongated blunt apex, margins thin recurved, the 
horizontal lateral nerves slender and reticulate veins very faint; petio- 
lules about !/, in. long the upper part slightly winged by the decurrant 
lamina. Inflorescence in axillary or lateral racemose-panicles about 2 
in. long, on slender peduncles of about !/, in. No flowers seen. Cocci 
4 or less by abortion, slightly brownish-tomentose outside, and lined 
with short white silky hairs inside, about 1'/, line long and nearly as 
broad. Seeds globose, scarcely 1 line diam., glossy black. — British 
New Guinea, Boku, Mrs. H. P. Sehlencker. There is a rather close 
affinity between this plant and E. accedens Blume. They differ, however, 
considerably in foliage and inflorescence, the first being much more 
membranous, and the latter in its slender less spreading form and mi- 
nute seeds. In one of the panicles of the New Guinea specimens I found 
the fragments of a flower which lead me to think that they are pro- 
bably pink, like Æ. accedens 
19. Ophiorrhiza Schlenckerae Bail, 1. c., p. 21. — A straggling shrub 
of a few feet in height, more or less clothed with short woolly red hairs 
thickest on the branchlets and inflorescence. Branchlets flattened or 
angular. Leaves membranous ovate to linear-lanceolate 3 to 6 in. long, 
1 to 1!/, in. broad, tapering to a petiole about !/, in. long, the apex al- 
most thread-like, upper surface almost hispid, under surface, especially 
the midrib and lateral nerves, clothed with a purplish or reddish tomen- 
tum. Stipules tomentose like the leaves, with thread-like points. Cyme 
on a slender peduncle, 2 or 3 in. long on the rhachis of about 1 in., 
are 5 or 6 spreading branches, the upper half of which being -occupied 
by the flowers. No flowers on specimen. Fruit about 4 lines broad, 
2 lines long. — British New Guinea, Boku, Mrs. H. P. Schlencker. 
20. Peperomia affinis Domin, l. c.. p. 222. — Plant like but more 
robust than P. reflexa, colour a deep-green, or somewhat glaucous. 
Leaves in whorls of 4, shortly petiolate, flat, ovate, lanceolate, 6 lines 
long, 5 lines broad, coriaceous, scarcely fleshy, almost membranous when 
dry, 3-nerved.  Spikes terminal, solitary. Bracts small peltate. This 
new species principally differs in the form of its leaves and nerves 
from P. reflexa, — Queensland: Atherton, J. F. Bailey; Tambourine 
Mountain, Dr. Karl Domin. 
