80 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
foliis brevioribus ; bracteis concavis, ovatis vel triangularibus ; 
floribus pedicellatis, corolla superne recurva; staminibus 
corolla fere equantibus ; folliculis subglobosis obliquis, pluris- 
permis, seminibus ca. 20 uniseriatis, compressissimis late 
alatis. 
A tall tree, all parts glabrous. Branchlets thick, marked 
by the broad cicatrices of fallen leaves. Leaves spathulate or 
oblanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, margins entire and minutely 
recurved, tapering into a petiole }-? in. (1-3-1-9 cm.) long ; 
midrib, lateral nerves and a few reticulate ones visible on both 
surfaces ; measurement of leaf-blade 4-7 in. (10-7-17-8 em.) long 
3-5 times as long as broad. Panicles shorter than the leaves. 
Bracts subtending the pedicels concave, ovate or triangular, 
over | line (2 mm.) long. Pedicels about $-in. (1-3 cm.) long. 
Perianth about 4-in. (1:3 cm.) long. Stamens nearly as long 
as the perianth segments, the filaments of the fertle ones about 
1 line (2 mm.) long. Hypogynous scales about 2 lines (4 mm.) 
long. Ovary terete, about 4 lines (8 mm.) long including the 
continuous style. Follicles subglobose, oblique, about 1% in. 
(3-8 cm.) in diameter. Seeds about 20 in each follicle, arranged 
in a single row and filling the follicle, flat and strongly com- 
pressed, broader than long, #-1} in. (1-9:3-2 cm.) broad including 
the broad wing. (Text-figure 8.) 
Hab.: Mount Alexander, near Daintree, North Queensland, ex 
Queensland Herbarium, without collector’s name (flowering specimens, 
type); Reserve 418 Danbulla, Atherton district, Forest Ranger D. Fraser 
(fruiting specimens). 
To Mr. B. F. Kruger, Wood Technologist, Queensland Forest Service, 
we are indebted for the loan of a sample of the wood of the species. The 
sample is a cylindrical piece about 2} in. in diameter, either a section 
from the barrel of a young tree,or from a branch. Examined in cross- 
section with a lens it shows no “‘ soft tissue” (wood parenchyma), a some- 
what unusual feature for a Proteaceous wood but which is also a charac- 
teristic of the wood of Embothrium Wickhami F.v.M. The vessels 
(*« pores’) are numerous, isolated, or in groups of two or four. The rays 
‘are fine and number from about 28-36 to the cm. in tranverse section ; in 
a tangential section they are seen to be from -5-1 mm. in height. The 
wood is light brown in colour. 
OrpER EUPHORBIACEA. 
Croton densivestitum sp. nov. Arbor ramulis dense 
stellato-pubescentibus ; foliis petiolatis, petiolis dense pubes- 
centibus ; foliis alternis raro suboppositis vel subverticillatis, 
ellipticis lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis acuminatis supra 
