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globose, tapering into a subulate style. Fruit ellipsoid, about 8 lines 
(17 mm.) long. 
Hab. : Yarrabah, Rev. N. Michael. 
In floral structure this species approaches E. acuminata, but the 
leaves are very different in the two species. 
E. Palmerstoni, n. comb. To the description in the “‘ Queensland 
Flora,” p. 1302, add :—Inflorescence ferruginous-pubescent, paniculate, 
in the upper axils, often two panicles p: ag from the same axil, 
the panicles shorter than the leaves anc with, spreading branches. 
Pedicels 3 to nearly 1 line (1-2 mm.) long, pubescent. Flowers 1- 1} line 
(2-3 mm.) in diameter. Perianth densely pubescent on the exterior 
and interior surfaces, the united part subhemispherical ; lobes : 
thick in texture, ovate-lanceolate, slightly longer than the united 
Glands of the outer series 6, minute, alternating with the pa 
segments. Stamens 3, clavate, with a few short bain on their apices. 
Staminodia 3, minute, alternating with the stamens. Ovary shortly 
pubescent at the base, ovoid, tapering into a short, pointed stigma. 
Cryptocarya Palmerstonii, Bail., Botany Bull. ii., 16; Q’land Flora iv., 
1302, plate liv., fig. 1 ; Comp. Catal. Q’land Plants, 430 - J. F. Bailey 
Q’land Agr. Journ. “hii v., 401, plate cxli.; N. W. Sole Monti 
Bull. No. 1, p. 13, whi v. fig. 40 (description and photomicrograph of 
vood); Forestry Bull. No. 2, p. 19; R. T. Baker, Hardwoods of ~ 
Rastalas p. 339, pl. iii. (deseription kad coloured plate of wood). 
Hab. : Russell River, Bellenden-Ker Expedition (1889) ; tit ¥.2, 8 at 
Bailey ; mtbavicialy H. W. Mocatta (flowering specimens). 
This species was provisionally placed under Cryptocarya by PF. oe , 
Bailey pending the receipt of flowering specimens. Rec cently Mr. gf — 
Mocatta forwarded flowers and fruits of the tree, and an examination ~~ 
of the former showed that the species should be placed under Endiandra. 
Order EUPHORBIACE®. 
MACARANGA, Thou. 
M. subdentata, Benth. To the description in the “ Queensland 
Flora,” p. 1451, add :—Male spikes in the upper axils or towards the 
ends of the braikighleta, solitary or 2 together, slender, rather densely 
clothed with ferruginous, discoid, substellate scales, almost glabrous 
with age, 2-4 in. (5-10 em.) long ; bracts adnate to the rhachis at their 
sides and forming small cupular receptacles enclosing the lower part 
of a cluster of 2 or 3 flowers, one or two of which are mostly sessile with a 
terminal flower on a very short pedicel ; flowers 14 line (3 mm.) or less 
in diameter; perianth 3- or 4-lobed ; anthers 4- -lobed, on filaments 
shorter than ‘ths perianth segments 
Hab. : Kamerunga, E. Cowley ; arma, ge N. Michael; Johnstone 
River, Rev. N. Michael ; Tonuiienia Co. Tf. w 
Rev. N. Michael’s specimens ie the Johnstone River bear 
male al female inflorescences on the same shoot. 
By Authority: AnrHony James Cummine, Government Printer, Brisbane. 
