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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA. 



OEDER RHAMNE^E. 

 Pomaderris elliptica, Lahill. 



Hab. Queensland, in Mueller's Suppt. to Census of Austr. Plants. 



ORDER LEGUMINOS^, 

 Daviesia acicularis, Sm. 



Hab. Queensland, in Mueller's Suppt. to Census of Austr, Plants. 

 Crotalaria crispata, F.v.M. 



Hab. Queensland, in Mueller's Suppt. to Census of Austr. Plants. 

 Indigofera haplophylla, F.v.M. 



Hab. Queensland, in Mueller's Suppt. to Census of Austr. Plants. 



ORDER HALORAGE^. 



Haloragis teucrioides, A. Gray. 



Hab. Logan River (Rev. B. Scortecliini). 



ORDER MYRTACE^. 



Syncarpia Hillii, Sp. Nov. 



A tall tree witb a thick somewhat fibrous deeply-furrowed, 

 reddish bark, and perfectly glabrous foliage. 



Leaves opposite, but the pairs in places often so close together 

 as to appear in whorls of 4, ovate, to ovate-lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, 4 to 6| in. long, 2 to 4 in. broad, 

 deep green on the upper side, paler beneath, costa prominent, 

 the transverse veins anastomosing in an intramarginal one some 

 distance from the margin, both sides finely reticulate ; petioles 

 nearly terete when fresh, much wrinkled when dry, f to 1^ in. 

 long. Flowers united in heads, usually a whorl of six with one 

 in the centre, peduncle terete (angular in the dry state), f to 1-^ 

 in. long, with broad scale-like bracts close under the head. 

 Calyxes connate at the base, the free part campanulate, lobes 

 obtuse often reflexed. Petals orbicular, with undulate thin 

 margins. Stamens in 2-rows inflexed in the bud, 3 to 5 lines 

 long, filaments flattened. Anthers nearly globular. Fruiting 

 heads 1 to 1^ in. diameter, ovary flat-topped glabrous, 3 celled. 

 Seeds linear erect from the thickened axile placenta. Hab. 

 Fraser's Island. 



This noble tree was found by Mr. W. Hill, on Fraser's Island, 

 a few years ago, and on account of the valuable nature of the 

 timber for Railway purposes, the portion of the Island where it 

 grew was proclaimed a reserve. This Island tree differs from 

 its close ally S. laurifolia principally in being larger in all its 

 parts and perfectly glabrous, which distinctive charactei'S are 

 retained in cultivation. 



