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8 Contributions to the Queensland Flora. 
Order RUTACEZ, 
MELICOPE, Forst, 
M. melanophloia, sp. no 
parva vel mediocris, ramulis glabris ; foliis petiolatis glabris ; unifolio- 
latis ; foliolo ovato -lanceolato revi iter petiolulato sub-coriaceo ; paniculis flori- 
A small or medium-sized tree with a dark-coloured (almost black) 
bark; glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves unifoliate, on a 
petiole of 5-7 lines (1-1-1-5 em.) ; leaflet subcoriaceous, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, average size 4 in, (10 em.) long and 14 in, (3-8 em.) 
wide, tapering at the base into a short petiolule, apex bluntish. 
Panicles terminal or occasionally in the upper axils, nearly as long as 
the leaves, bearing numerous white or cream-coloured flowers. Sepals 
4, small, tomentose. Petals 4, with a prominent midrib; woolly 
tomentose especially on the outer surface, ovate-lanceolate, 3} lines 
(8 mm.) long. Stamens 8, shorter than the petals, filaments flattened, 
ciliate along the margins with long silky hairs, Disk glabrous. Ovary 
densely hairy. Cocci 4, but often only | ripening, tomentose, the 
valves more or less prominently transversely wrinkled (not seen 
quite ripe). 
Hab. : Kin Kin and Walvi, Francis and White. 
The only previously described Melicope from Queensland with 
constantly unifoliolate leaves is M, Fareana (F. v. M.) Engl. This is a 
tropical species and differs markedly from the plant now described 
: reana,—Flowers in axillary clusters on short a cae 
sepals and ak glabrous. 
M,. melanophloia.—Flowers in terminal or subterminal many- 
flowered panicles ; sepals and petals woolly tomentose. 
ACRONYCHIA, Forst. 
A. melicopoides, 7. v. M., Fragm. v. 3 (1865). 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Herberton, J. F. Bailey ; Johnstone 
River, Rev. N. Michael, H. G. Ladbrook. 
Var. lasiantha, F. ». M., Fragm. vii. 145 (1871). Leaves pubescent 
beneath, branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence densely tomentose, 
petals woolly tomentose outside, leaves sometimes 1-foliolate, fruit 
white, 14 in. diam. :— A. melicopotdes, Scort., ers N.S.W. vol. 7, p. 218. 
Melicope pubescens, Bail., Bot. Bull. iii. p. 9; Queens]. Fl. p. 199; 
Queens. Agric, Jl. vol. 26, p. 126; Comprehens, ‘Cat. Queens], Pi. fig. 59. 
Hab. : oe om Blackall Range, J. H. Simmonds ; Eumundi, Bailey and 
Sim W. D. Francis ; OIE J. Wedd ; Tambourine Mountain, 
Scortechini, prmnaiely Longman, and Wh 
