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when present setaceous or almost capillary, 1-2 lines (2-4 mm.) 
long. Racemes terminal, 2-3 in. (5-7-7 cm.) long, males in the 
upper, females in the lower portion. Bracts subtending the 
pedicels, setaceous, about j-line (1 mm.) long.  Pedicels 
4-1 line (1-2 mm.) long. Calyx hirsute inside, divided nearly to 
the base into 5 lanceolate lobes, about 3-line (1-5 mm.) long. 
Petals (in male flowers) 5, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, ciliate 
on the margins, #-line (1-5 mm.) long. Stamens 10-12, slightly 
shorter than the petals; anthers ovate. Capsule stellate 
pubescent, tridymous, 3-4 lines (6-8 mm.) broad; styles 
divided into 2 branches about 1 line (2 mm.) long. Seeds 
subglobose, pale brown, mottled or streaked with dark brown, 
about 2 lines (4 mm.) in diameter. (Text-figure 9.) 
Hab.: Harvey’s Creek, F. M. Bailey (Bellenden-Ker Expedition 
of 1889); (type); lowland rain forests, Bellenden-Ker, C. T. White, 
March 1922 (fruiting specimens). 
Among the Queensland species this one is apparently allied to C. 
arnhemica Muell. Arg. var. urenwfolius Bail. (to which it was referred 
by Bailey in Report of Bellenden-Ker Expedition) and to C. acrony- 
chioides F.v.M. From the latter it is distinguished by its dense 
indumentum and long acuminate leaves, and from the former by its 
narrower almost non-reticulate leaves and smaller flowers and fruit. 
OrDER CONIFERA (TAXACEAS). 
Podocarpus spinulosa R. Br. This New South Wales 
undershrub, which was not previously recorded for the State, 
has been collected and noticed to be very abundant by C. T 
White on Stradbroke Island, in the sandy forest land between 
Dunwich and Point Lookout. The specimens (collected in 
March and July) bore leaves only. 
P. Ladei Bail. This species was described from specimens 
bearing leaves and immature fruit. A. L. Merrotsy has recently 
collected mature fruiting specimens from the same locality, 
Mt. Spurgeon, North Queensland, in which the type material 
was collected. He described the trees as not exceeding 3 ft. in 
barrel diameter, and collected the fruiting specimens in Feb- 
ruary 1923. The mature fruit are bluish black, ellipsoid, fleshy, 
14 in. (4 em.) long, 1 in. (2.5 cm.) broad ; seed 1-14 in. (2-5-3 
em.) long, 8 lines (1-7 cm.) wide, the apex with a short, sharp, 
apiculate point. Bailey’s description and illustration are in the 
“ Queensland Agricultural Journal,” vol. xv. (1905), p. 899 
pl. 22. 
