April, 1945 
The Queensland Naturalist 85 
PLANTS IN THE LAMINGTON NATIONAL PARK 
NOT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED FROM 
QUEENSLAND 
By S. T. BLAKE. M.Sc., Queensland Herbarium, Botanies 
Gardens, Brisbane. 
(Plates IV. and V.) 
In this paper some plants growing m the Lamington 
National Park on the McPherson Range and its offshoots 
are here recorded for the first time as occurring in 
Queensland. Besides these there is a number of 
undescribed species belonging to the families Apocynaceae, 
Asclepiadaceae, Cyperaceae and Gramineae which are to 
be discussed in special papers dealing with these families. 
Names of places outside the borders of the Lamington 
National Park are marked with an asterisk. 
Family CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 
Stellaria flaccida Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 27- > 
(1835). 
Mt. Merino, along side of track at edge of beech 
(Nothofagm) forest, 3650 ft., Oct. 4th, 1942, Blake 14658 
(green trailer with white flowers). 
Known from N.S. "Wales, Victoria and lasmrnia. In 
Queensland known from a single small patch which has 
been re-examined in 1943 and 1944. 
Family RHAMNACEAE. 
Pomaderris not at a sp. nov. (Plate IV.). 
Frutex; partes novellae appresse sericeo-pubescentes 
admodum fulvae; ramuli tandem glabri plus minusve pruinosi, 
cicatricibus foliorum delapsorum conspicue notati. Foliorum 
laminae ellipticae utrinque aeque acutae vel apice admodum 
acuminatae interdum mucronulatae, marginibus integrae 
saepissime planae, supra juventute puberulae mox glabrae 
virides, subtus dense albo-pubescentes costa et venis primanis 
valde conspicuis, plerumque 1.8-3. 5 cm. longae et 0.9-1.2 cm. 
latae; petioli pubescentes pro more 4-8 mm. longi. Flores 
cremei in paniculis terminalibus plus minusve pyramidalibus 
pro gen ere laxiusculis dispositi; alabastri subglobosi circa 1.5 
mm. lati; thalamus brevis late turbinatus, pilosus; sepala 
ovato-oblonga, acuta, 1.4-1.5 mm. longa, extra dense 
appresseque pubescentia apicem versus plus minusve pilosa. 
p'etala 0. Styli pilosi usque -ad medium uniti. Ovarium 
inferius, pilosum. 
