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In barren localities among granite, quartzite and sandstone 



country. Occurs in the Northern Territory (M. Holtze). 

 Affinity to S. ramiflora Benth. 



418. S. tuberculata W.V.F., n. sp. 



A small deciduous tree ; branchlets rather stout, and along 

 with the leaves, inflorescence, flowers and fruits closely 

 beset with a greyish stellate pubescence ; leaves petiolate 

 reniform-cordate, entire or obscurely trilobed, chartaceous, 

 flowers dull pink, sessile or almost so, forming dense 

 clusters on the previous year's wood ; calyx broadly 

 campanulate, chartaceous, the inner base of the tube 

 bearing a ring of 5 conspicuous incurved broad trifld 

 white woolly scales ; lobes induplicate, much shorter 

 than the tube, spreading, rounded, trinerved ; staminal 

 column fusiform densely hirsute ; ovary pubescent, the 

 styles linear and somewhat recurved ; follicles sessile 

 or very shortly stipitate, ovoid to obliquely oblong, ter- 

 minating in a short straight stout beak, and thickly 

 covered with prominent conical protuberances, villous 

 within ; seeds numerous, greyish-yellow, smooth. 



Valentine Creek, near Ord River (W.V.F.). 



Height 15-20ft. ; trunk to 8 ft. ; diameter 6-9in. Bark 

 dark-grey, and somewhat rough. Timber pale pink, soft 

 and flbrous. Leaves 4— 5in. long by 5— 7in. across ; 

 petioles 1|— 25in. long. Calyx lin. long. Follicles 2J— 3Jin. 

 long. Among quartzite rocks. 



Affinities to S. ramiflora Benth., and S. viscidula W.V.F. 



419. S. ramiflora Benth. 



From a shrub to a tree of 35ft. in height ; trunk to 10ft. ; 

 diameter 1ft. ; bark thick, rough, greyish, inner fibre 

 tough ; timber pale, soft and flbrous ; leaves often 

 glabrous above, frequently absent when the plant is in 

 flower ; flowers scarlet ; stam.inal c oilman sometimes 

 pubescent to the apex ; follicles to 5in. long, on a stipes 

 of |— lin. long. 



420. S. viridiflora W.V.F., n. sp. 



A deciduous shrub or oftener a tree ; leaves on slender petioles, 

 broadly cordate-ovate or orbicular, very obtuse or 

 rounded at the apex, entire or obscurely trilobed, thin, 

 closely invested on both pages with a short greyish stellate 

 pubescence ; flowers green, with occasionally pinldsh 

 margins to the lobes ; few almost or quite sessile on the 

 previous year's wood ; calyx broadly campanulate, 

 stellate tomentose without and within lobed to almost 

 the middle, the lobes broad obtuse, with narrow induplicate 

 margins, trinerved ; within the base of the tube is a 

 thickened plate which terminates in a ring of densely 



