10 Contributions to the Queensland Flora, 
In general appearance S. subargentea resembles closely S. lepto- 
peltala, F. v. M., but is easily distinguished by the smaller, narrower 
leaves, argentate beneath, and by the shorter peduncles to the flower- 
heads ; the variety /atifolia resembles S. leptopetala still more closely 
in general appearance, but both can be at once distinguished from 
that species by the connate calyx lobes. 
Maiden (Forest Flora N.S.W., vol. i., p. 17) has suggested that the 
genus Syncarpia so far as known be confined to the two species S. 
laurifolia, Ten., and S. Hiili, Bail., and proposed that S. leptopetala 
should be placed under Metrosideros. Now we have found another plant 
so closely allied in general appearance to S. leptopetala that the keeping 
of them apart in separate genera could perhaps hardly be allowed. The 
most natural system would probably be to follow Mueller and do away 
with the genus Syncarpia, placing all the species under Metrosideros. In 
the present case, however, for the sake of convenience, I have retained 
Syncarpia as containing several closely allied plants with the flowers 
in globular heads whether the calyx-tubes are united at the base or 
not, so that we have four species in Queensland—viz., S. laurifolia, 
S. Hillti, S. subargentea, and S. leptopetala. 
Order ASCLEPIADE. 
TYLOPHORA, R. Br. 
T. paniculata, R.Br. To the description i in we: * Queensland 
Flora,”’ i 1006, add :—Follicles gradually t g inat 
apex, 24-3 in. long, 2-3 lines broad ; seeds 4 lines aa 1 line broad, 
coma hairs, white, long. 
Order FICOIDEZ. 
TRIANTHEMA, Linn. 
T. compacta, sp. nov. 
: abe pars glabra ; foliis mupere petiolatis oppositis inaequalibus ; 
pedicellatis ; calyce profunde 5-fido (ca. 2. mm. longo) ; 
S capsula oblonga, Senstdiue nitidis nigris levibus. 
ral 
staminibus 5-7 
A small glabrous plant, stems prostrate or ascending, much 
branched. Leaves crowded, opposite, the opposite ones very unequal, 
the larger ones petiolate, petiole dilated at the base, with scarious 
margins, oblong, ovate-oblong, or nearly orbicular, 2-3 lines (4-7 mm.) 
long with a cluster of smaller ones in the axil. Flowers pedicellate, 
pedicels 1 line (2 mm.) long ; calyx about 1 line (2 mm.) long, 5-lobed 
lobes longer than the tube. Stamens 5-7. Capsule oblong, circumsciss 
below the middle, seeds black, smooth and shining. 
b. : ge Island, J. F. Bailey (type); between the Gilbert and 
Hab. : 
Norman Rivers, T. Gulliver; Escott Station (vid Burketown), J. oo who 
states—‘‘ Grows in the poeinne in this locality and is not very commo 
