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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
Leptospermum minutifolium sp. nov. 
L. flavescens Sm. var. minutifolium F. Muell. ex Benth, FI. Austr. 
iii, 105 (1866). 
Frutex glaber vel partibus novellis sericeis. Folia elliptica vel fere 
spathulata, crassiuscula, patentia vel deinde leviter recurva, supra leviter 
concava subtus convexiuscula, utrinque punctata vel subtus fere tuber- 
culata, 2-3 mm. longa, 1-2 mm. lata. Flores brevissime pedicellati ; calyx 
glaber, late campanulatus 4 mm. diam., lobis 5 oblongis albis fere 
membranaceis tubum aequantibus mox deciduis; petala alba suborbi- 
cularia 2 mm. diam., basi in unguem latum brevem angustata. Stamina 
petala aequantia. Ovarium 5-loculare apice planum. Capsula semi- 
supera ca. 7 cm. diam. 
N.S. Wales/ — N ew England District: New England, C. Stuart ; 
Guyra, Rev. E. Norman McKie 44 (a, b, & c), 45, 46 & 47 (all in Nat. 
Herb. Sydney) ; Moredun Creek, N.W. of Guyra, on the western slopes, 
Rev. E. Norman McKie W. 27 (Herb. Brisbane) ; Tungston via Deep- 
water, T. D. Lynch ; Hanging Rock, via Nundle, E. Julius 5; Wilson’s 
Downfall, R. H. Cambage 2825; Tenterfield, J. H. Maiden (all in Nat. 
Herb. Sydney). 
Queensland. — Darling Downs District: Base of Mt. Norman, via 
Wallangarra, Mrs. M. S. Clemens (type: fls.) Nov. 1944; Eukey via 
Stanthorpe, Mrs. E. Goebel per M. S. Clemens (fts.), Nov. 1944; 
Ballandean, J. E. Young. 
Mr. E. Cheel, the well known authority on Leptospermum and allied 
genera, informed me in a letter that he had sorted this variety out as a 
distinct species in the folders at the National Herbarium, Sydney, but 
had not published anything on it. I am indebted to him for most of the 
New South Wales localities. The present species has a very limited 
geographical distribution so far as known, being confined to the New 
England Tableland of New South Wales and the “granite belt” of 
south-east Queensland. 
It comes close to L. flavescens Sm. var. microphyllum Benth. and 
L. Liversidgei Bak. & Sm., but the three can be distinguished as 
follows : — 
Only the very young parts sericeous, leaves without any citron 
odour, spreading shrubs of sandy forest lands. 
Leaves flat, 5-7 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, midrib clearly 
visible (almost prominent) on the lower surface, 
smooth, epunctate and faintly 3-nerved above, black 
punctate beneath. Coastal sandy lands of N.S. Wales 
and Queensland . . . . . . . . . . L. flavescens var. 
microphyllum. 
Leaves sightly concave above and convex beneath, 2-3 mm. 
long, 1-2 mm. broad, midrib not visible on either 
surface, punctate above, almost tuberculate-punctate 
beneath. New England Tableland extending to 
Queensland granite belt . . . . . . L. minutifolium . 
Branchlets pubescent even in the older stages, leaves strongly 
citron-scented, upright shrub of peat swamps. 
Leaves flat or slightly concave above, about 5 mm. long, 
2 mm. broad, midrib not visible but leaves sometimes 
indistinctly 3-nerved, oil glands not always very 
distinct and leaves frequently almost epunctate. 
Coastal N.S. Wales from Port Macquarie to Wide 
Bay District (Bundaberg), Queensland . . . . L. LiversUlgeu 
