152 I'KOCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 



Contributions to the Queensland Flora. 



By C. T. White, F.L.S., Government Botanist, 



and 

 W. D. Francis, Assistant Government Botanist. 



[Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 26th Sept., 1921.) 



Since the publication of the " Queensland Flora" b}^ the 

 late F. M. Bailey, that author published various papers entitled 

 " Contributions to the Queensland Flora," in the pages of the 

 " Queensland Agricultural Journal " and as Botany Bulletins 

 of the. Department of Agriculture and Stock. Since his death 

 in 1915, contributions to the flora of the State from the pens 

 of J. F. Bailey and the present authors have appeared in the 

 form of Botany Bulletins of the Queensland Department of 

 Agriculture and Stock. Circumstances at present make it 

 unlikely that any further Botany Bulletins will be issued for 

 some time to come, and the present paper is the first of a 

 series which we hoj)e to publish in these Proceedings. It 

 contains descriptions of new species, records of plants not ' 

 previously found or recognised in the State, and critical notes 

 on other species. Much of the material has come to hand 

 through collections received for identification from corres- 

 pondents in different parts of the State. 



Order STERCULIACE^. 



Steiculia quadiifida R. Br. The under side of leaves often 

 pubescent with stellate hairs', or velvety tomentose with 

 stellate and simple hairs intermixed. 



In the description in the " Queensland Flora," i, 136, and in previous 

 publications, the leaves are described as glabrous on both sides, but we 

 recently received from the Rev. N. Michael some specimens collected at 

 Mount Julian, Proserpine district, with the leaves decidedly velvety 

 pubescent underneath, and on looking through the material in the 

 Queensland Herbarium several specimens were noticed with the leaves 

 bearing numerous and fairly crowded hairs approaching those of the 

 Mount Julian specimens. 



