DESCKIITION (IK A NEW SPMCIKS OF 



XANTHOSTEMON (NAT. OKI). MYKTAOEAE) 



FROM MOKTII gJlKKXSLANI). 



By C. T. White, 

 Acting Government Botanist, Brisbane. 



(With One Text Figure). 



{Bead before the Royal Society of Queensland, 25th June, 



1917). 



XANTHOSTEMON, F.v.M. 



X. PUBESCENS, sp. nov. (Figure 13). A large tree, 

 branchlets, inflorescence and under surface of the leaves 

 pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, average size 4|in. (11 '5 cm.) 

 long, liin. (3"8 cm.) wide, apex bluntish, base tapering 

 into a petiole of about fin. (2 cm.), under surface thinly- 

 pubescent, denser on the petioles and main nerves, upper 

 surface glabrous or glabrescent with the exception of the 

 midril), which is more or less densely pubescent in the 

 lower half. Floicer-s in terminal or subterminal pedun- 

 culate, crowded cymes, peduncles up to lines (1*4 cm.), 

 peduncles, pedicels and calyces densely beset with light- 

 brown hairs. Galyx-tube broadly campanulate, 3 lines 

 (7 mm.) diam., lobes triangular- ovate 2 lines (4 mm.) long. 

 Petals glandular-dotted. densely tomentose, shortly 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens numerous (apparently 

 shorter than in X. chrysanthus. but not seen in a perfect 

 condition). Ovary glabrescent. Capsule nearly globular, 

 6 lines (1-4 cm.) diam., 3-ceIIed, seated on the flattened 

 and enlarged calyx-tube. — X. chrysanthus J. F. Bailey, 

 Queens. Agric. Jl., v., 31)S (uon F.v.M.). 



