26 Contributions to the Queensland Flora. 
base, obtusely trigonous and 3-celled ; style filiform, as long as or 
longer than the stamens, inserted in a central depression of the ovary. 
Hab. : Bloomfield River, Rev. W. Poland. 
RHODOMYRTUS, DC. 
R. trineura, F. v. M. 
ab. : Whelanian Pools and Barnard’s Spur, Ff. M. Bailey (Bellenden-Ker 
Expedition) ; Madina Island and Rockingham Bay, Hill, Dallachy; Kuranda, 
Rev. N. Mic 
In F. ie oe s specimens from Barnard’s Spur, and N. Michael’s 
An seig fk oe the flowers are on pedicels attaining 7 lines in length. 
In s specimens collected at Rockingham Bay by Dallachy and 
labelled “var. pedicellosa”’ by F. v. Mueller, some examples of which 
we received from Professor Ewart, the flowers are similarly pedicellate. 
The varietal name apparently was not published by Mueller; and 
when the species is better known it may be found to vary in the insertion 
of its flowers from subsessile to markedly pedicellate. 
R. canescens, i nov. 
no sppisboennaistisies foliis supra glabris subtus 
Frutex, ramuli ca 
tonyshtora poticlati lanceolatis acute a sim atis s triplinervis nervis lateralibus 
apd 
proxim pinnatis ; inflorescentiis axillari- 
bus veriabilia cymosis et os Miele vel pedunculis unifloris, baccis globosis cano- 
tomentosis polyspermis 3- (falso 6-) locularibus. 
A shrub, the branchlets, underside of leaves, rhachis of the inflores- 
cence, and fruit covered with a fine, dense, hoary tomentum. Branchlets 
terete or flattened at the nodes. Leaves on petioles of 2-4 lines (4-8 mm.), 
triplinerved, the two lateral nerves often diverging from the midrib 
at some distance from each other, secondary parallel nerves and 
reticulate ones visible on the upper surface, the midrib, the two lateral 
nerves, and a few secondary nerves alone prominent on the underside, 
lanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate and often finely mucronate, 
narrowed at the base, the upper surface glabrous, 2-34 in. (5-8 em.) 
long, 8-12 lines (17-25 mm.) wide, Inflorescence axillary, very variable, 
flowers either solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves or in 3- rarely 
5-flowered dichotomous cymes, the central flowers on pedicels much 
shorter than or as long as the lateral ones; peduncles slender and 
somewhat flattened, 6-11 lines (12-23 mm.) long, rarely reduced to 4 
lines (8 mm.) ; pedicels slender, 2-4 lines (4-8 mm.) long. Berry globo 
crowned by the calyx-lobes, 2-3 lines (4-6 mm.) in diameter. Sidi 
numerous, arranged in 6 superposed series, flattened, obtusely trigonous 
or suborbicular, 1 line (2 mm.) or less in breadth. Persistent calyx-lobes 
5, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 1-1} line (2-3 mm.) long. 
Hab. : Atherton, C. T. White. 
Flowers not being available, the description of the inflorescence, 
length of peduncles, &c., has been drawn up from the fruiting 
inflorescence. 
