70 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
3 to 5 conspicuous on each side of the midrib, 14-24 in. (3-2-6-4 
em.) long, 2 to 3 times as long as broad. No flowers available. 
Fruit solitary in the upper axils on slender pedicels attaining 
8 lines or rarely reduced to | line in length, young fruit finely 
pubescent with minute appressed hairs, mature fruit attaining 
about 3 in. (1-3 cm.) in diameter (when fresh), red, the pulp 
sweet and very pleasant to the taste. Persistent calyx-lobes 
4, narrowly ovate or narrowly triangular, obtuse, 2-24 lines 
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Text-figure 5. 
Eugenia macrohila sp. noy. A fruiting branchlet. B, mature fruit. 
C, seed. D, leaf showing veining. All half natural size. 
(4-5 mm.) long. Endecarp thin, readily broken with the 
fingers. Seed solitary, globular or slightly ovoid, }-} in. 
(6-8 mm.) in diameter ; hilum broad and nearly as long as the 
seed. (Text figure 3.) 
Hab. : Marmor, 26 miles south-east of Rockhampton, W. D. Francis, 
March, 1920. 
This species is allied to EL. carissoides F.v.M., from which it is dis- 
tinguished by its narrow leaves, slender pedicels, and the elongated 
calyx-lobes crowning the fruit. 
