86 
The Queensland Naturalist April, 1945 
A shrub about 2-3 metres high with whitish bark on 
the main branches; young shoots closely silky-pubescent 
and slightly tawny, the older branchlets glabrous, more or 
less pruinose, somewhat angular and rather closely marked 
with prominent leaf -scars; branchlets usually short with 
the leaves close together, sometimes elongated, slender and 
with few distant leaves. Leaves petiolate; blades elliptic, 
about equally acute at each end or the tip somewhat 
acuminate and at times minutely mucronate, entire, usually 
flat, 2 to 3 times as long as broad, mostly from L8 cm 
long and 0.9 cm. wide to 3.5 cm. long and 1.2 cm. wide, 
the upper surface green at first puberulous but soon 
glabrous, the lower surface densely and shortly white- 
pubescent; midrib and primary veins indistinct and 
impressed ' above, brownish and prominently elevated on 
lower surface; petioles pubescent, mostly 4-8 mm. long. 
Inflorescence a rather dense (but for the genus relatively 
loose), terminal, more or less pyramidal, closely pubescent 
panicle up to 6 cm. long and wide; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; 
mature buds subglobular, about 1.5 mm. wide. Flowers 
scented, about 3 mm. wide. Calyx-tube shortly and broadly 
turbinate, 0.5 mm. high and 1 mm. wide, pilose. Sepals 
ovate-oblong, acute, 1.4-1. 5 mm. long, spreading, glabrous 
within, densely pubescent outside and there more or less 
pilose towards the tip. Petals 0. Anthers 0.8 mm. long, 
oblong. Styles pilose, about 0.9 mm. long, united to the 
middle. Ovary hairy on top, inferior. 
Roberts Plateau, in rocky and sub-scrubby forest 
country, May 28th, 1929, C. T. White 6034 (large shrub, 
leaves paler beneath — young buds) ; Dress Circle, McPher- 
son Range, common in shrubbery on rock slopes, ca. 
2,900ft., December 12th, 1943, Blake 15379 (shrub 6-10 ft. ; 
leaves dull green above, whitish beneath; flowers cream, 
scented) and November 13tli, 1944, Blake 15445 (type) 
(shrub 2-3 m. with whitish bark; leaves dull green above, 
whitish beneath; flowers cream, scented). 
This species, of which the fruit is not \< 1 known, is 
most closely allied to P. cine-re a Benth. to which it is very 
similar in leaf-shape, form of inflorescence and structure 
of the flower, but in P. (‘inert a the whole plant is hoary, 
the leaves are shortly white-pubescent on the upper sur- 
face even when old and they are more obtuse and with 
fewer primary veins, the leaf-scars on the branches are 
much less prominent, the buds are hoary and more densely 
though shortly pubescent, and the sepals are -somewhat 
