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of about 8 lines besides the 2-lines original stipes of the ovary ; 25 in. long, 
2-in. broad in the centre, rostrate at the end, sparsely stellate tomentose out- 
side, densely villous inside as well as the loose integument of the seeds. Seeds 
yellow, closely packed, about 12 or 13 in each follicle. 
Hab.: Palmer River, Mrs. R. W. Garraway and Dr. W. E. Roth. The former also forwarded 
some excellent sketches of the present and several other Palmer River plants. Flowering about 
March. In many respects the present species approaches S. ramiflora, Benth. The leaves, how- 
ever, are never angular or acuminate, and the flowers are pedicellate, not nearly sessile, as given 
in the Fl. Austr. I. 227, for S. ramiflora. 
8. vitifolia, Bail. (n. sp.) A small tree; the branchlets, foliage, and inflorescence 
densely clothed with a loose, short, stellate, light-brown pubescence ; branchlets 
rather slender, reddish-brown beneath the pubescence, somewhat terete, inter- 
nodes often long. Leaves orbicular-cordate, 3 to 6 in. diameter, entire or more 
or less 3-lobed ; the lobes short and very obtuse, very rugose on the upper, 
prominently and closely reticulate on the underside, both surfaces clothed with 
a short, close, stellate pubescence; petioles rather slender, from 2 to nearly 5 
in. long. Flowers few, in pedunculate cymes at the ends of the branchlets; bud 
cylindrical-conic, about 8 lines long, 8 lines broad, lobes induplicate ; expanded 
flower 8 to 9 lines diameter, seems to be a purplish-red inside, densely stellate- 
hairy outside; inside of the tube and lobes nearly glabrous. Staminal column 
glabrous under the head of anthers, hairy towards the base.  Follicles rostrate 
cymbiform without the stipites, 24 in. long, densely villous. Stipites rather long. 
Seeds about 6, villous. 
Hab. : Fairview E.T. Station, Laura, 7. Barclay-Millar ; Palmer River, Mrs. R. W. Garra 
way. 
~ Order ACANTHACER, 
JUSTICIA, Linn. 
J. notha, C. B. Clarke. (Hook. in Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 537.) Stems simple or 
with a few erect branches from the base, about 1 ft. high, glabrous, almost 
terete, more or less marked with 4 or more lines or angles, often much contracted 
at the nodes below the leaves in the dried specimens. Leaves about 14 in. long, 
-sessile, oblong, obtuse or acuminate at the apex, sub-obtuse and sometimes more 
‘or less auriculate at the base, coriaceous, irregularly transversely lineolate, 
glabrate above, when young bearing white set on the nerves beneath. Spikes 
about 2 in. long, terminal, solitary, anddense. Bracts about 8 lines long, lanceo- 
late (elliptic, Clarke), usually erect, with a few sete onthe margins and midrib, 
especially towards the end, otherwise glabrous. Flowers hairy, corolla white 
with purplish lines inside. Capsule (4-in., Olarke), none on the Queensland to 
‘hand.  Rostellularia simplex, Wight Ic. t. 1542 (not of D. Don)—Clarke, Lc. 
_ Hab.: Herberton, &. C. Burton. Irvinebank, F. Bennett. Evidently indigenous in Queens- 
land ; other habitats according to Hooker l.c. doubtful. 
Order GRAMINEZ. 
PASPALUM, Linn. 
P. conjugatum, Berg. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 11; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 102. 
Stems stoloniferous, branching, somewhat flattened, the erect stems 2 or more 
ft. high, slender. Leaves 4 to 6 in. long and about 3 lines broad, tapering 
to fine points ; sheaths loose with often a few hairs along the margin and a 
ring of hairs at the top, those at the back of the leaf being much shorter than 
those bordering the narrow ligula. Peduncle very slender. Spikes most 
frequently 2, divergent, 8 or more in. long, rhachis glabrous. Spikelets 
imbricate, very pale, plano-convex ; glumes with marginal, villous nerves, and 
obsolete median ; 2nd glume hyaline, margins ciliate; 3rd glume coriaceous, 
apiculate, white. 
Hab. : A grass of tropical regions. Lately received from Mr. W. C. Harding, Johnstone 
River. This grass is of too weak and straggling a habit to recommend for pasture or growing for 
fodder. Some years ago I noticed it in the hothouse at Bowen Park, and thought it an introduc- 
tion ; it seems, however, to be indigenous on the Johnstone River. 
