■ 469. E. oonfluens (W. V. Fitzgerald) Maiden, op. cit. XLIX., 

 317 (1915). 



470. E. Houseana (W. V. Fitzgerald) Maiden, loc. cit. p. 318. 

 (A complete list of species of Eucalypts from North-West 



Australia will be compiled later.) 



471. Xanthostemon paradoxus F. v. M. 



A bushy-topped tree of 30-40ft. ; trunk to 15ft. ; diameter 

 1-1 Jft. ; bark dark-grey, rugged but rather thin ; timber 

 brownish, tough, and hard ; leaves to 5in. long ; stamens 

 lin. long, yellow ; fruits ovoid-globose, 4-5 lines diameter ; 

 3-celled. 



472. Fenzlia phebalioides W.V.F. n. sp. 



An erect shrub with numerous hardwood branches and, ex- 

 cepting the older branches and upper sm'face of the adult 

 leaves, more or less invested with a close white tomentum ; 

 leaves petiolate, oblong to narrow- oblanceolate, rounded 

 at the apex, shortly tapering to the base, the margins 

 fiat or slightly revolute, thinly coriaceous, the venation 

 congested, upper portion dull-green, and scarcely shining, 

 glandular dots numerous and conspicuous, especially 

 on the whitish under page ; flowers on slender pedicels, 

 with two opposite subulate bracteoles a short distance 

 between the calyx ; calyx-tube very shortly and broadly 

 produced above the ovary, lobes subulate, acute, almost 

 as long as the tube ; petals orbicular, wooUy-tomentose, 

 5-nerved ; filaments as long as the petals ; anthers small ; 

 ovary 1-celled, two ovulate ; style comparatively stout, 

 the lower half tomentose, as long as the filaments ; fruit 

 globular, hard, glabrous, one occasionally two-ceUed and 

 surrounded by the closely reflexed calyx-lobes. 



Slopes of Table-top Mountain, near Synnot Range (W.V.F. ). 



Height 4-6ft. ; leaves mostly J-lin. long, rarely more ; petioles 

 i-l line long. Pedicels ^lin. or less. Calyx 1| lines 

 long. Petals IJ lines diameter, red. Filaments red ; 

 anthers yellow. Style red. Fruit under 2 lines diameter, 

 dark-purple. In sandy loam. 



Affinity to F. obtusa Endl. 



473. Eugenia grandis Wight. 



Edkins Range, Sunday Island (W.V.F. ). 



A shady tree, 30-40ft. ; trunk 15ft. ; diameter 1ft. or more ; 



bark light-greyish or whitish, smooth to somewhat rugose ; 



timber reddish or brownish ; flowers white or pinkish ; 



ripe fruits white, globular to ovate, often above 2in. 



diameter ; of an agreeable acid flavour, eaten by aborigines 



and termed by those on Sunday Island " Illarrie." In 



sandy loams. 



