30 Contributions to the Queensland Flora. 
terminalibus vel axillaribus, ramulis puberulis ; perianthii segmentis puberulis, 
ovatis, tubo wquantibus ; staminibus puberulis, antheris 2-locularibus, stamin- 
odiis 3, ovatis, acutis, fructu (immaturo ?) globoso. 
A large tree often exceeding 100 ft. in height, glabrous except the 
inflorescence. Bark dark brown in colour, its surface rough with small 
warts, }-4 in. (6-8 mm.) thick. Sapwood pale or almost white, finely 
grained and tough. Branchlets terete, lenticellate. Leaves elliptical 
or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at the apex, occasionally very shortly 
and obtusely acuminate, or rarely obtuse, contracted at the base into a 
short petiole of 2-4 lines (4-8 mm.), upper surface shining, lateral 
nerves and reticulations prominent on both surfaces and slightly 
raised on the underside, 24-44 in. (6-3-11-5 em.) long, 3-13 in. (2-4-5 cm.) 
wide. Inflorescence puberulous with minute appressed brown hairs, 
terminal or in the upper axils, the panicles generally shorter than the 
leaves. Flowers 1-14 line (2-2-5 mm.) long, on short pedicels of 4-1 line 
(1-2mm.). Perianth puberulous, lobes ovate, as long as or longer than 
the tube. The six stamens of the first series slightly shorter than the 
perianth segments ; anthers 2-celled, filaments flattened and bisulcate 
on the inner surface, puberulous. Stamens of the inner series three, as 
long as or slightly shorter than those of the outer series, anthers broad, 
with lateral pores, filaments puberulous, the two glands at the base of 
each filament minute, ovoid and subsessile; the three staminodia 
ovate, acute, half the length of the inner stamens and on very short 
broad stipites. Ovary ovoid, tapering into a short stigma. Fruit 
ay immature), globose, 3-4 lines (6-8 mm.) in diameter. 
Hab.: Kin Kin (Wide Bay District), White, Francis; Fraser Island 
W. R. Petrie. : 
Previously the genus was represented in Australia by two species 
only—namely, B. obtusifolia (F.v.M.), Benth., and B. Bancroftit 
(Bail.), C. T. White. The new species appears to be more closely allied 
to the latter, from which, however, it differs in the less acuminate leaves 
with somewhat coarser venation and in its stamens lacking the dense 
hairs described as characteristic of that species. From B. obtusifolia 
it is easily distinguished by its more coriaceous leaves with coarser 
venation and its fewer-flowered smaller panicles with less pubescent 
branches. 
It may here be mentioned that in the generic description of Beil- 
schmiedia in Bailey’s *‘ Queensland Flora” (Pt. IV., p. 1302) the phrase 
“lobes 5, subequal” as applied to the perianth is evidently an error, 
no doubt repeated from a similar description in Hooker’s “‘ Flora of 
British India,” a work from which the author of the ‘“ Queensland 
Flora” largely drew. As in allied genera the number of the perianth 
segments is 6. 
