46 I'ROCEF.nJNGS OP THE ROYAL SOCIETY OP QUEENSLAND. 



Ethel River (very abundant). 



I have little doubt in referring my specimens to S. lanceolata Bl. 

 (Mus. Lugd. Bot., i, 337). He describes the flower as 6-petaled : the 

 only flower available to me is apetalous, but this is not sufficient ground 

 for separation. The only description of the plant I have at my command 

 is Blume's original one. In the field at a cureory glance the tree might 

 easily be mistaken for the widely distributed Avicennia officinalis ; it is 

 verj' different in appearance from the much commoner congener S. alba. 



Family LECYTHIDACE^. 



Barringtonia calyptrata 0. Ktze. C. T. White, Proe. 

 Linn. Soc. N.8.W., xliv, 823. Yule Island. 



Family RHIZaPHORACE^. 



Rhizophora mucronata Lam. Red Mangrove. Port 

 Moresb}'. The principal tanning mangrove. 



Ceriops Candolleana Am . Small Mangrove. Port Moresby. 



Bruguiera gymnorhiza Lam. {B. Bheedii Bl., F. Muell. 

 Pap. PL, viii, 44.) Port Moresby. Hooker (Flora British 

 India, ii, p. 437) iniites B. Bheedii with B. gymnorhiza. 



B. eriopetala W. & A. Port Moresby. 



Family COMBRETACE^. 



Termiiialia Catappa Linn. Fiji Almond. Bail. Rep. Visit 

 B.N.G., 27 : Foxworthy Ann. Rep. Papua 1909-10, p. 114. 

 Yule Island. 



Planted in the streets of Port Moresby as a shade tree. 



T. Okari sp. nov. 



Arbor magnis ; ramulis novellis ferruginoso-pubeseenti- 

 bus ; foliis breviter petiolatis obovatis (20-275 cm. longis, 

 10-12"5 cm. latis), supra glabrescentibus subtus prominente 

 nervosis, nervis dense pubeseentibus ; floribus ignotis ; drupis 

 obovoideis, magnis (ca. 175 cm. longis et 75 cm. latis) ; peri- 

 carpio fibroso, endocarpio osseo, semine ellipsoideo (ca. 75 cm. 

 longo et 2 cm. lato). 



A tall tree, young shoots densely ferruginous-pubescent. 

 Leaves obovate, tapering at the base into a short petiole, 

 8-11 in. (20-275 cm.) long, 4-5 in. (10-12'5 cm.) wide, glabrous 

 above with the exception of a few scattered hairs on the midrib 

 and main lateral nerves ; under surface prominently veined. 



