CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA, NO. 8. 
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Queensland. — Moreton District : Springbrook, only one plant seen 
as secondary growth, C. T. White 6275 (leaves only), 21-9-1929 (shrub 
8 ft.) ; Lamington National Park, H. Gresty (flower-buds), Jan. 1941; 
Lamington National Park, alt. about 3,000 ft., in rain-forest, only a few 
trees seen, C. T. White 11874 (leaves only), 26-11-1942 (tree 30 ft. high, 
spreading top, conspicuous on account of the large leaves, brown hairy 
beneath). 
This new species is closely allied to II. ferruginea F. Muell. and was 
labelled as such in the herbarium of the Technological Museum, Sydney, 
and Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. The two species are closely allied 
but can readily be told at a glance by a number of small though constant 
distinctions. In geographical range they are nearly 1,000 miles apart. 
They can be distinguished as follows: — 
Leaves 7-16 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, 2 rarely up to 3| times longer 
than broad, mainly drying a dark green, sometimes in parts with 
a slightly yellowish tinge, scarcely reticulate above, secondary 
and tertiary veins depressed or very slightly raised on the upper 
surface. Flower-buds slender, 1 mm. diam. in the upper part. 
Tropical species . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. ferruginea. 
Leaves 12-26 cm. long, 3-7.5 cm. broad, 3^-5 times longer than broad, 
drying a bright yellow, with a faint tinge of green, prominently 
reticulate above, secondary and tertiary nerves prominently 
raised. Flower-buds stout, 2 mm. diam. in the upper part. 
Extra-tropical (temperate or at most subtropical) species . . 3. Bauerlenii. 
Helicia glabrescens sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, partibus novellis ferrugineo-pubescentibus, ramulis 
robustis mox glabris. Folia utrinque glabra vel subtus costa media pilis 
rufis paucis obsita, late lanceolata, 10-16 cm. longa, 4-7 cm. lata, apice 
obtuse acuminata, basi in petiolum brevem incrassatum gradatim 
angustata, margine dentata plerumque plus vel minus undulata raro fere 
integra, nervis praecipuis ca. 8 in utroque latere, nervis venulisque subtus 
prominentibus sflpra in sicco prominulis. Racemi axillares 7-12 cm. 
longi, rhachi glabra vel pilis ferrugineis tenuiter vel subdense obsita, 
pedicellis 1.5 mm. longis, unifloris binatim dispositis, tenuiter vel raro 
subdense ferrugineo-pubescentibus. Perianthium 1-1.2 cm. longum, 
segmentis glabris. Disci squamae 4 liberae, ovarium aequantes. Ovarium 
dense hirsutum, stylo glabro, stigmate cylindrico, 2 mm. longo. Fruetus 
ellipsoideus, 1.3 cm. longus, 0.7 cm. diam. 
Cook District: Barron River, E. Cowley 74B (type: flowers), Sept. 
1892 (large shrub) ; near Cairns, in rain-forest on banksi of Pine Creek, 
S. T. BlaJze 12415 (flowers), 2-8-1936 (tree 30 ft. with a dense crown 
of rich light green leaves which are paler beneath ; buds reddish towards 
the base, cream in upper part, perianth white inside) ; Freshwater Creek, 
near Cairns, F. M. Bailey ; Mount Spurgeon, in rain-forest, C . T. White 
10643 (old flowers), Sept. 1936 (small tree. Distributed as Helicia 
ferruginea (a form with glabrous leaves and larger flowers)) ; Julatten, 
T. Carr (young fruits), Oct. 1936; Malanda, R. F. Martin (fruits), 
30-1-1923 ; Atherton Tableland, rain-forest on rich alluvial soil, R. F. 
Martin 26 (tree up to 4 ft. girth, very tough and sound). 
The present species is very closely allied to H. ferruginea F. Muell. 
and several of the sheets quoted above were labelled in the Queensland 
Herbarium as a glabrescent form of that species. If is probably the 
plant referred to by F. Mueller (Vic. Nat. Vol. 2, p. 75) as a form of 
H. ferruginea with almost sessile leaves and glabrous flowers. Several 
