164 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 



ENDIANDRA R. Br. 



E. crassiflora sp. nov. 



Arbor rainulis novellis dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus : 

 foliis petiolatis, ellipticis, supra glabris minute reticulatis, 

 subtus glaucesoentibus, nervis saepe pubescentibus ; paniculis 

 axillaribus quam folia brevioribus ; floribus pedicellatis, 

 glabris ; perianthii tube turbinate, segmentis ovatis vel 

 suborbicularibus crassiusculis ; staminibus juerfectis 3, glandulis 

 minutis, sessilibus ; ovario ovoideo. 



A tree. Young shoots, young branchlets, and rhachis of 

 inflorescence ferruginous pubescent. Leaves petiolate, petiole 

 3-5 lines (6-10 mm.) long ; lamina elliptical, apex rounded or 

 obtuse or rarely obtusely acuminate, upper surface finely 

 reticulate, under surface mostly glaucous with the midrib and 

 principal lateral nerves prominent, raised, brown and often 

 pubescent, 2-3 in. (5-7-6 cm.) long, twice to 2| times as long 

 as broad. Panicles very slender or almost raceme-Hke, in the 

 axils of and much shorter than the leaves. Flowers shortly 

 pedicellate, glabrous. Perianth turbinate, the tube obconical 

 and as long as or longer than the lobes ; lobes ovate or nearly 

 orbicular, obtuse, thick in texture, the three outer ones broader 

 than the three inner ones, over 1 line (2 mm.) long. Stamens 

 3, filHng the throat of the perianth, subsessile, suborbicular or 

 broader than long, about ^V-in. in diameter. On the outside 

 of and at the base of each of the stamens are 2 minute broadly 

 sessile glands .sometimes scarcely visible. Ovary enclosed in 

 the perianth-tube, ovoid, tapering into a short style. Fruit 

 not available. 



Hab. : Macpherson Range, So vith -Eastern Queensland, C. T. While, 

 Feb. 1912. 



This species appears to be allied to the Northern Endiandra hypole- 

 phra F.V.M., from which it is distinguished by its obtuse, rarely acuminate 

 leaves and the absence of a prominent ring surrounding the stamens. 



Order URTICACE^. 



Ficus Watkinsiana Bail., Bull. No. 7 (1891) Dept. Agric, 

 Brisbane (Botany No. 2), p. 18 ; " Queensland Flora," part v, 

 p. 1472. F. BeUingeri C. Moore, " Handbook Flora of N.S.W." 

 (1893), p. 81. 



Hab. : Common in the " scrubs" (rain-forests) of the coastal area of 

 Southern Queensland, at such places as Macpherson Range (National 



