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obsiti. Stamina 5 mm. longa. Drupa ovoidea vel oblonga, apice 
breviter comuta, purpurea, tenuiter pubescens, exangulata, 2 cm. longa, 
1 em. diam. 
North Queensland. — Cook District: Thursday Island, Torres 
Straits, F. M. Bailey, E. Cowley. 
Hawaii. — Manoa Arboretum (cultivated) E. L. Caum (type: flowers 
and fruits), 13-10-1940, Herbarium Experiment Station, H.S.P.A., No. 
1696. 
Photostats of specimens of the present plant were sent me by Mr. 
Caum some time ago and from these I could not place it satisfactorily. 
When specimens were received later I went through the Terminalia 
material in the Queensland Herbarium and found we had specimens (all 
imperfect) of the same plant in the folders of T. platyphylla F. Muell., 
T. microoarpa Dene, and T. petiolaris A, Cunn. Specimens had been 
seen by Mr. A. E. Exell of the British Museum, who noted it as “aff. 
T. petiolaris A. Cunn.” In Bentham’s key to the Australian species 
in the “Flora Australiensis” it could be placed as follows: — 
Leaves very obtuse, usually broad 
Leaves mostly shortly acuminate: 
Leaves three or four times as long as the petiole: 
Pellucid dots very conspicuous under a lens . . 
Pellucid dots quite microscopic 
Leaves not twice as long as the petiole: 
Pellucid dots quite microscopic 
T. platyphylla. 
T. microcarpa. 
T. insularis. 
T. petiolaris. 
Family Myrtaceae. 
Baeckea frutescens L. Sp. PI, 358 (1753). 
Cook District: Temple Bay, Cape York Peninsula, sandy plain, 
J. E. Young (leaves only), July 1923. 
The above material is in leaf only but is an exact match for much 
Malayan material seen by me. The record will have to be verified later 
with flowering specimens. 
Baeckea linearis sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber ca. 1 m. altus, ramulis subquadrangularibus cortice 
griseo obtectis, internodiis 2-4 mm. longis. Folia linearia, plana, 5-8 
mm. longa, vix 1 mm. lata, ad basin in petiolum perbrevem incrassata. 
Flores solitarii, breviter pedicelLati, pedicello vix 1 mm. longo, ad basin 
2 braeteato, bracteis pedicellum leviter excedentibus. Calyx late 
turbinatus in sicco prominenter 5-angulatus, 2.75 mm. diam., dentibus 
vel lobis latis. Petala alba 1 mm. diam. stamina 5, calycis lobis opposita, 
filamentis basin versus applanatis, antherarum loculis longitudinaliter 
dehiscentibus. Ovarium 3-loculare ; ovula in quoque loculo ca. 10 sed 
saepe 1 loculo abortivo. 
New South Wales. — Tweed River, Jos. Keys. 
Queensland. — Moreton District: Stradbroke Island, C. T. White ; 
Tugun, 66 miles S.E. of Brisbane, in “Wallum” country ( Banksia 
aemula, low shrubs, &c.), grey sandy soil (white sand and humus), C. E. 
Hubbard 3894 (flowers) 5-9-1930, distributed from Herbarium, Kew 
(Eng.) as Baeckea sp. near densifolia Sm. ; Tugun, sandy land edge of 
large peat swamp, not very common, C. T. White 7108 (flowers), 
