CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA, NO. 8. 
61 
This plant is moderately common in south-east Queensland. The 
plant recorded by Bailey l.c. as B. rugosa belongs here, so the species 
should be deleted from the Queensland Flora until authentic specimens 
have been collected. 
Rulingia prostrata Maid. & Betche, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales 
xxiii. 18 (1898). 
Moreton District : Top of Mt. French, flat rock country, E. J. Smith 
(capsules), May, 1942. New for Queensland. 
Family Hippocrateaceae. 
Loeseneriella barbata (F. Muell.) comb. nov. 
Hippocratea barbata F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Instit. Yic. iii., 23 
(1859). 
Hippocratea obtn]sifolia Roxb. var barbata Benth. FI. Austr. i. 404 
(1863) ; Bailey Queens. FI. i. 260 (1899). 
Moreton District: Simpson’s Gap near Brisbane, J. H. Simmonds 
(fruits), Nov. 1887; Brisbane River, F. M. Bailey , Amalie Dietrich ; 
Rosewood, F. M. Bailey, J. Shirley ; Mt. French, E. J. Smith (flowers 
and immature fruits), Jan. 1940 (a creeper). Wide Bay District: 
Bundaberg, Jas. Keys ; Imbil, local Forest Officer. Port Curtis District: 
Rosedale, L. G. Dovey 222 (flowers), Nov. 1923 (flowers), Oct. 1930 
(vine in “bastard scrub”; something appears to eat the young shoots). 
Cook District: Innisfail, H. G. Ladhook. 
This species though represented by a number of sheets in the 
Queensland Herbarium cannot be said to be a common plant. It is 
typically found in the drier rain-forests or mixed soft-wood forests of 
the south-eastern parts of the State. The Innisfail plant is somewhat 
different in general appearance largely on account of its drying brown, 
instead of the very pale green of all the other specimens. Innisfail 
is distant from the other localities quoted and the district carries a 
very different vegetation — heavy tropical rain forest. Our specimen is 
rather scrappy and when better known may be found distinct. On 
examination, however, I can find no tangible differences of specific 
importance. Judging from its distribution it is unlikely the Australian 
plant would be the same as the Indian one to which Bentham l.c. referred 
it. Wright’s figure (Ic. t. 963) of Loeseneriella obtusifolia (Roxb.) 
A. C. Smith is quoted by A. C. Smith as typical and shows a very dif- 
ferent plant to the Australian one. The genus Loeseneriella was 
proposed by Smith (Amer. Journ. Bot, 28, 439, 1941) to separate the 
Asiatic and Western Pacific plants from the American Hippocratea 
where they had previously been placed. 
Salacicratea disepala sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens ubique glaber, ramulis subvalidis leviter applanatis 
sed mox teretibus et lenticellatis. Folia opposita vel subopposita; 
petiolus validus, supra canaliculatus, subtus convexus, 5-7 mm. longus ; 
lamina chartacea vel tenuiter coriacea, oblonga, elliptica vel fere lanceo- 
lata 6-15 cm. longa, 3-6 cm. lata, basi subacuta et in petiolum decurrens, 
apice obtusa vel obtuse acuta, margine integra sed undulata ; costa media 
utrinque valde elevata, nervi secundarii utrinsecus 8-10; vernal ae 
plerumque in sicco subtus prominulae. Infloreseentia axillaris, cvmosa, 
pedunculo communi leviter applanalo 1-1.5 cm. longo, ramis secudariis 
perbrevibus ad 5 mm. longis, bracteis triangularibus 1 mm. longis, 
