December, 1926. 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
IT 
A PREVIOUSLY UNDESCRIBED DODONAEA FROM! 
SOUTH-EASTERN QUEENSLAND. 
(By C. T. White, Government Botanist, Brisbane). 
Dodonaea rupicola sp. nov. 
Frutex ca. lm. altus, ramulis teretibus molliter pubes- 
centibus. Folia pinnata, usque ad 4-5 cm. longa; rachide 
alata; foliolis 10-12 obovato-cuneatis vel late lanceolatis, 5-7 
mm. longis ca. 2-plo longioribus quam lata, utrinque pilis 
longis albis obsitis, marginibus recurvis. Flores breviter 
pedicellati 3-4 in axillis dispositi, in axillis superioribus saepe 
confertis et racemos terminates simulates; sepalis ovato- 
lanceolatis apicem versus angustatis ca. 4 mm. longis dorso et 
marginibus pilis longis vestitis; staminibus 7-8 falcatis, 2.5 
mm. longis dorso hirsutis filamentis brevissimis; ovario dense 
hirsuto; stylo 1.2 cm. longo. Capsulae hirsutae; alatae. cum 
alis 1 cm. diam., breviter pedicellatae, pedicellis 2 mm. longis; 
alis rotundatis, 2 mm. latis leviter crispatis; seminibu? 
opaquis rotundo-reinformis. 
A shrub about 1 metre high. Branchlets terete, 
softly hirsute as well as the leaves, with rather long’ 
soft hairs. Leaves pinnate, up to 4.5 cm. long, the 
rachis winged, leaflets 10-12 obovate-cuneate to broadly 
lanceolate 5-6 mm. long, twice as long as broad, margins 
recurved, clothed with long white hairs on both faces. 
Flowers shortly pedicellate, 3-4 clustered in the axils : 
those in the upper axils often crowded and simulating 
terminal racemes. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, broad in the 
lower part much narrowed towards the apex, about 4 
mm. long, clothed with long white hairs on the back and 
margins. Stamens 7-8, falcate, 2.5 mm. long, hirsute on 
the back with long white hairs especially towards the 
top, rudimentary ovary in the male flowers, glabrous, 
ovary in the female! flowers densely hirsute : style 1.2 cm. 
long. Capsules on short slender pedicels of 2 mm., hirsute 
with long hairs, about 1 cm. diameter, wings rounded, 
about as broad as the carpels, the edges slightly crisped 
seeds opaque, rotund reniform. 
Queensland: — Growing between rocks. Saddle-back 
Mountain, Elimbah, Glass House Mountains district 
(about 30 miles north of Brisbane), C. T. White, Queens- 
land Naturalists’ Club Excursion, 11/9/1926. 
