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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
Pultenaea dentata Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. i, 103, t. 131 (1804). 
Darling Downs District: Eukey via Stanthorpe, Mrs. E. Goebel 
(old pods), Nov. 1944. 
Not previously recorded for Queensland. The specimen is a small 
one and far advanced in pod but agrees well with southern material. 
EUGENIA L. 
(Sect. Syzygium.) 
Though the three following species have the general appearance 
of an Acmena, they would come under Syzygium as outlined by Merrill 
and Perry (Mem. Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences xviii, pt. 3, 135-202: 
1939). These authors restrict Eugenia to the New World and a few 
Old World species. Most of the Australian species come under Syzygium , 
a few under Acmena and one under Cleistocalyx. Dr. H. E. Dadswell, 
the well-known Australian wood technologist of the Council for 
Scientific and Industrial Research, informs me that the woods of these, 
at least as far as Australian species are concerned, are indistinguishable 
generically but are all totally different from the American species of 
Eugenia. The woods of our peculiar E. carissoides F. Muell. and 
E. macrohila White & Francis have so far not been studied. These 
probably belong to Jossinia Comm., if we recognise that genus. It 
seems that Eugenia must eventually be removed from the Australian 
flora, though the name among foresters and horticulturists has become 
just as much a vernacular as Eucalyptus, Dahlia, Cosmos etc. Until a 
critical examination of all the Australian species is made I am retaining 
Eugenia in the present paper. 
Eugenia oleosa F. Muell. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. v, 15 (1865) ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii, 287 (1866) ; Bailey, Queens. FI. ii, 664 (1900) ; 
C. T. White Contr. Arn. Arb. iv, 80 (1933). 
Cook District: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Bellenden Ker, Bailey, 
Gadgarra, common along rain-forest creeks, Kajewski ; Head of Wild 
River, J. F. Badley. 
Eugenia Coolminiana C. Moore , Handbk. FI. N.S. Wales 207 (1893). 
E. cyanocarpa F. Muell. ex Maid. & Betche, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S. Wales xxix, 740 (1905) ; Francis, Austr. Rain For. Trees 8, 293 
(1929) ; Harris, Wild FI. Aus. 50, 110, tab. 48 (1932) ; C. E. Hubbard 
Bot. Mag. tab. 9602 (1940). 
Queensland and N.S. Wales. — This species is very common in 
coastal Eastern Australia from Port Jackson District (N.S. Wales) to 
Keppel Bay (Port Curtis District, Queensland). It is doubtfully distinct 
as a species from E. oleosa F. Muell. and apart from the calyx-tube I 
have failed to find any valid distinctions between E. Coolminiana C. Moore 
and E. cyanocarpa F. Muell., in which case Moore’s name has priority, 
though his description was meagre in the extreme. Specimens named 
by him are in the National Herbarium, Sydney and have been distributed 
by that institution. Maid, and Betche, l.c., regarded E. cyanocarpa 
F. Muell. and E. Coolminiana C. Moore as distinct but evidently changed 
their opinion later, for they omitted the latter name from their Census 
of N.S. Wales Plants, 1916. 
