66 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
7-9-1930 (slender shrub 0.7-1 m. high, flowers greenish white, very 
small); Tugun, G. H. Barker (type, flowers), Sept. 1940. Wide Bay 
District: TraVeston, month of Burrum River, common in sandy soil in 
the “Wallum” country, C. T. White 6333 (old flowers), 6-10-1929 
(upright shrub about 1 m. high, flowers white or greenish white) ; Noosa, 
H. A. Longman ; Lake Cootharaba, Jos. Keys 66 (slender shrub, on lake 
beach) ; Fraser Island, in fine sand, C. E. Hubbard 4525 (capsules) 
15-10-1930; Fraser Island, C. T. White sine no. (flowers), Oct. 1921 
(mixed in the herbarium folder with B. stenophylla F. Muell.). 
The present species is undoubtedly very close to B. stenophylla 
F. Muell. but I found no difficulty in separating it at sight from the 
abundant material of that species in the Queensland Herbarium. It 
has also in the past been distributed from the Herbarium, Kew (Eng.) 
and Herbarium, Brisbane (Aus.) as B. densifolia Sm. vel aff. It is a 
spring flowering shrub, B. stenophylla F. Muell. a summer one, though 
I have seen a few flowers out in August. 
The two species can be distinguished as follows : — 
Leaves narrow, straight or curved, mostly concave, at least some and 
frequently nearly all clustered on short lateral branches; oil 
pustules always visible under a lens. Main flowering period 
Nov.-Jan. Stamens 8-13 . . . . . . . . . < . . B. stenophylla. 
Leaves straight, flat, rather distantly placed along the stem ( inter - 
nodes 2-4 mm. long) ; oil pustules not visible. Flowers in Sept. 
Stamens 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. linearis. 
Baeckea stenophylla F. Muell. Fragm. Phytogr. Aust. i. 12 (1858). 
Bentham (FI. Austr. iii. 80) described the stamens of this species 
as 5-6 and this was copied by Bailey (Queens. FI. ii. 585). When 
examining the large series of specimens of this plant in the Queensland 
Herbarium I found the stamens to vary from 8-13, 11 being a very 
common number. Mueller in his original description says “Staminibus 
10. ” The species is very common in the “Wallum” country, south- 
eastern Queensland (Moreton and Wide Bay Districts). 
Callistemon linearis DC. Prodr. iii. 223 (1828). 
North Kennedy District: Milray, south of Pentland, on sandy 
sloping banks of Crooked Creek, among low shrubs, S. T. Blake 9979 
(flowers and fruits), 21-10-1935 (small irregular shrub up to 8 ft., calyx 
and corolla greenish, stamens crimson). 
New for Queensland. 
I had at first drawn up a description of the present specimens as a 
new species and later as a variety of C. rigidus R. Br., but on further 
examination of material in the Queensland Herbarium cannot separate 
the plant satisfactorily from C. linearis DC. This extends the range of 
the species very considerably as it was only previously known from the 
Iiawkesbury sandstone in New South Wales. It is strange the plant has 
not been found in any connecting localities, though C. idgickus R. Br. 
comes into Queensland and C. Chisholmi Cheel from Central Queensland 
is apparently very closely allied. 
Callistemon pachyphyllus Cheel var. viridis Cheel Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S. Wales 1. 261 (1925). 
Moreton District: Caloundra, Miss E. Taylor (type). Wide Bay 
District: Ringtail Creek, near Tewantin, C. T. White (flowers), March 
