Botany: Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L:S. 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order MALVACEA. 
SS : SIDA, Linn. 
S. argentea, Bail. (n. sp.) The stems, petioles, as well as most other parts 
of the plant closely clothed with silvery peltate, ciliate scales. Stems or the 
lower branches from a procumbent stem erect, slender, about 12 in. high. 
Leaves rather distant, erecto-patent, narrow-linear, 1 to 2} in. long, L to 2 
lines broad, slightly tapering towards the point, rounded at the base to 
petiole of a few lines. Stipules subulate, nearly as long as the petioles. Pedunel? 
axillary, solitary, filiform, about 8 or 9 lines, articulate above the middle. Calyx 
under 4 lines diameter, lobes deltoid, silky-hairy on the inside. Petals twice as 
long as the calyx, broadly-cuneate, almost roundly-lobed at the end, veined. 
Stamens under 10. Style-branches recurved. Carpels hairy, probably few, 
but only imperfect specimens to hand. 
beh ‘Hab. : Eulo, Paroo River, J. F. Bailey, Dec. 1896. The thick coating of the silvery scales 
~~. _ gives to the Chin stems the appearance of silver rods. 
Order STERCULIACEZ, 
RULINGIA, R. Br. 
R. rugosa, Steciz, Flora Austr. i. 238. A shrub so closcly resembling 
FR. pannosa in indumentum ‘and foliage that it is difficult to distinguish ib 
without the fruit. Leaves usually narrower, more rugose, and almost bullate. 
Tlowers in cymes, scarcely exceeding 2 lines in diameter when expanded. 
Ligula of the petals marked with 3 dark lines. Ovary tomentose. Capsule about 
‘4 lines diameter without the sete, not so hard asin 2. pannosa, and readily 
dehiscent, beset with soft pubescent setx, which is long in some specimens, 
short in others. 
Hab.: Capalaba, J. Shirley. 
Order AMPELIDEZ. 
VITIS, Linn. 
V. adnata, WWail., Flora Austr. i. 448. The young shoots and under 
side of the leaves more or less covered with a short tomentum, which sometimes 
disappears with age. Leaves petiolate, broadly cordate, almost orbicular, 
acuminate, 8 to 6 in. diameter, bordered with small bristle-like teeth, 
5-nerved, and penniveined, the primary veins connected by transverse vein- 
lets. Flowers scarcely $-line diameter, numerous in corymbose cymes. Petals 
4, cohering by the tips and falling off together. Style shortly subulate, at 
pest in the fertile flower. . Fruit small, globular. Cissus_adnata, Roxb.; Wight, 
c. t. 14.4. 
Hab.: Ranges abcut Cairns, LZ. J. Nugent. 
