16 Contributions to the Queensland Flora. 
Order MELASTOMACEZ, 
MENDINILLA, Gaud. 
M. Balls-Headleyi, F.v. M. To the description in the Queensland 
Flora, p, 967, add :—Calyx and petals of a “ bluish pink.” Petals 
5, 5-6 lines long. Stamens 10, filaments slender, anthers subulate, 
curved, connective bigibbous at the base, spur prominent rather long. 
Hab.: Johnstone River, H. G. Ladbrook, Rev. N. Michael. TI have recently 
received a number of specimens of this interesting plant. Those forwarded by Mr, 
Michael were in fruit only. Those forwarded by Mr, Ladbrook were in flower, 
and enable me to complete the description. He writes—‘*Th petals are of a beauti- 
ful bluish pink ; the calyx also is so coloured ; the whole flower seems to be of a 
translucent wax hard to describe.” 
Order STYRACACEZ. 
SYMPLOCOS, Linn. 
S. paucistamineus, F. v. M. and Bail. To the description in Queens- 
land Flora, p. 967, add :—Fruit small, urceolate, 3 lines long, much 
contracted at the top. 
Hah.: Johnstone River, Rev. N. Michael. 
Order SOLANACEZ:. 
SOLANUM, Linn. 
S. largiflorum, C. 7. White, Queensl. Agric. Jl, vol. 8, n.s. p. 170, 
pl. 22. 
Fruticosum armatum tomentosum ; foliis petiolatis ovatis supra tenuiter 
stellato-pubescentibus subtus dense stellato-tomentosis margini si 
integris ; inflorescentiis cymosis, pedunculis axillaribus stellato-pubescentibus 
lati extus tenuiter 
stellato-pubescentibus ; corolla alba sub-5-partita laciniis extus costa stellato- 
tomentosa ; bacca glabra globosa, 
A scrambling shrub, the branchlets and foliage densely 
villous with stellate hairs. Prickles not very numerous on the branches, 
very rare on the petioles and under surface of the leaves, and none on 
the inflorescence, Leaves petiolate, usually irregularly sinuate, rarely 
entire, oblique at the base, thinly covered on the upper surface with a 
stellate pubescence, densely stellate-tomentose on the under 
and petioles, broadly ovate, acuminate, length 3-5} in. (7-5-14 cm.), 
breadth 2-3? in. (5-9-5 cm.). Peduncles axillary, once or twice forked, 
bearing numerous flowers on slender pedicels, Calyx thinly stellate- 
pubescent, at the time of flowering 14 lines long, with acuminate teeth 
or lobes, somewhat enlarged in fruit and divided into ovate-lanceolate 
lobes. Corolla white, deeply lobed about 4 in. (1-2 em.) diam., lobes 
densely tomentose on the central portion outside. Fruit globular, 
glabrous, $-? in, (1-2-2 em.) diam. 
Hab.: Kin Kin, Francis and White (type); Bundaberg, J. Keys ; Childers, 
Dr. F. H. Kenny. 
