28 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 



alabastris cylindraceis 25 mm. longis ; petalis liberis 5-6 apice 

 barbatis ; antheris linearibus adnatis 4 mm. longLs, fructus 

 non vidimis. 



Glabrous shnibs, branches rather stout, nodes somewhat 

 prominent or swollen ; leaves opposite, broad spathulate to 

 broadly elliptical, undulate, tapering into a short stout petiole, 

 6-9 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, somewhat coriaceous, 5-7-nerved, 

 the second pair confluent Avith the median nerve 1-3 cm. from 

 the base, the upper portion branched, spreading, flexuose or 

 looped. Cymes intemodous, single or in pairs, shorter than 

 the leaves ; common peduncle slender, 15 mm. long, 3-6- 

 branched ; flowers arranged in triads, the middle one of each 

 triad sessile, the two lateral on short pedicels. Bracts broad 

 lanceolate, concave acute, 2 mm. long, minutely cUiate at the 

 apex, shorter than the calyx. Calyx broadly cupular, irregularly 

 denticulate. Buds slender, cylindrical, 25 mm. long ; petals 

 5-6, free, narrow -lanceolate, bearded on the inside with a tuft 

 of red-brown semi-deciduous hairs. Filaments narrow, 4-5 mm. 

 long; anthers adnate, linear, 4 mm. long. Style angular^ 

 broader towards the base, 27 mm. long ; stigma small, capitate. 

 Disc prominent. Fruit not seen. 



Astrolabe Range, on Eucalyptus (No. 231). 



As far as I am aware this species does not appear to answer the 

 description of any previously described species, and I therefore propose 

 the name L. harhellatus on account of the petals being bearded inside at 

 the apex. Its nearest affinity is L. queenslandicus Blakely MSS., from 

 which it differs in the more strongly marked venation and undulate leaves,- 

 different shaped calyx, bracts, and relatively smaller and finer pedicels,- 

 also in the domed disc. The filaments of L. queenslandicus are twice 

 the length of the anthers, those of L. harhellatus are about the same 

 length. The inflorescence, the only one I saw in situ, is intemodous. 

 "WTiether this is a constant character remains to be proved, as I have 

 not seen it in any of the Australian species investigated by me. This 

 species resembles somewhat L. novce-guinoe Bail, in the foliage, but 

 the inflorescence is not the same. 



Subgenus II. — Dendrophthce Mart. 

 L. odontocalsrx F. v. M., var propria Blakely var nov. 



Vestimentum surculorum juvenUium atque inflores- 

 centiae minute rufro-cinereum. Folia macro plerumque late 

 lanceolata, 5-10 cm. longa, 2-5 cm. lata, petiolata ; petiolae 

 1-2 cm. longse. 



Vestiture of the young shoot and the inflorescence minutely 



