10 
wings oblong, very diverging, not extending to the base of the carpels. 7 
Dissepiments remaining attached to the axis, or occasionally deciduous. _ 
Hab. : Mitchell’s Pinch, Leichhardt District. 
Order LEGUMINOSAE. 
' Trrrzs PODALYRIEZ. 
PULTEN AA, Sm. 
Section EvpuLTen za. 
P. paleacea, Wiild.,Sp. Pl. ii. 506; Fl. Austr. ii.115. A shrub, 
with slender diffuse or divaricate branches, silky-pubescent when young. 
aves linear, with fine straight or recurved points and revolute 
margins, } to over 1 in. long, glabrous above, pale and usually silky _ 
hairy underneath. Stipules appressed, often 2 lines long, or more. 
Flowers in dense but not large terminal heads, sessile within the last 
leaves. Bracts imbricate, glabrous, scarcely ciliate, completely covering 
the calyxes, the inner ones 8 or 4 lines long. Bracteoles inserted on 
the calyx-tube, concave, carinate. Calyx silky-hairy, about 3 lines 
Hab.: Maroochie, Wellington Point, and other places along the coast. 
Order MYRTACEZ. 
Trrpe LEPTOSPERM &. 
MELALEUCA, Linn. 
_ Serres Sprcrrrora. a 
M. lasiandra, F. v. ‘If, Fragm. iii. 115; Benth., Fi. Austr. 1. 
143. <A small tree, 40 to 45 St. high, with a stem diameter eo 
bf 
exceedingly numerous covering a peltate pl t tyle pubesce a 
: ’ placenta; style p 4 
the base; stigma sm Vruiting-calyx not much enlarged, cto™ 
‘ean 
Hab.: Musgrave, Cape York Peninsula, Geo. Jacobson—who speaks of it wg 
real good useful timber, durable either in or out of the ground.” I think there) Fs 
be no doubt as to this being identical with the tree found by Baron Mueller oe 
