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1 Ocr., 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 281 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 
By ¥, MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order RUTACER. 
ASTEROLASIA, F. vy. M. 
A. woombye (n.sp.) A tall shrub, clothed in most parts with an eleeagnoid 
indumentum, Leaves membranous, upper face glabrous, deep-green, the 
underside grey, with close, silvery, stellate scales, and scattered brown ones, 
linear, almost linear-lanceolate, 14 to 22 in. long, 8 or 4 lines broad, apex 
obtuse; petioles 2 or 3 lines, margins slightly repand, alternate, the two last 
ones close under the flower-head nearly opposite. Flowers 6 to 10 or more in 
heads or clusters at the ends of the branchlets. Primary peduncle very short 
or wanting, sometimes is seen a secondary peduncle bearing three flowers. 
Pedicels 3 or 4 lines long. Calyx-teeth triangular, the points sometimes 
elongated and recurved, % to ? line long. Petals much jimbricate in the lower 
part, valvate at the top, white with brown stellate scales on the back, the face 
glabrous, about 2 lines long. Stamens 10, filaments white, longer than the 
petals, filiform, glabrous or roughened by a few minute glands. Anthers oblong, 
yellow, ¢-line long. Style thicker and shorter than the filaments, glabrous. 
Stigma scarcely lobed. Ovary very scaly, showing 5 cocci in the flowers 
examined. 
Hab. ; Woombye, North Coast Railway, W. French. 
ACRONYCHIA, Forst. 
A, Scortechinii (n. sp.) A small tree, the branchlets often of a reddish colour. 
Leaves obtuse-lanceolate, or obovate, subcoriaceous, 2 to 8 in. long; petioles 
about 4-in. long. Cymes axillary, few-flowered. Pedunele slender, about as 
long as the petioles; the three branches usually bearing 2 flowers at their 
extremities. Pedicels about 24 lines. Sepals very short, broad, glabrous. 
Petals 43 lines long, ciliate. Filaments dilated at the base, tapering upwards, 
margins densely ciliate except towards the top. Fruit globular, reddish, 
exceeding 4-in. diameter, 4-celled, with a juicy epicarp. Seeds oval, testa 
brown, slightly rugose. 
Hab. : Borders of serubs, Logan River, Rev. B. Scortechini; Fraser’s Island, Miss Lovell. 
The fruit of this tree, which is ofa sharp, pieasant acid taste and red colour, is useful for jam- 
making. The Logan River specimens I have referred to at timesasaform of A. acidula, F. vy. M., 
and the Fraser’s [sland ones as a form of 4. imperforata, but now consider these two forms 
identical, and, although agreeing often somewhat in foliage and flowers, distinct from all others 
of the genus in fruit. 
Order STACKHOUSIER. 
STACK EHOUSIA, Sm. 
§. intermedia (n. sp.) An erect annual. Stem striate or sulcate, only a few 
inches high; branches few, terminating in rather long slender spikes of 
minute flowers. Leaves very narrow, ? to 1+ in. long, margins revolute ; apex 
shortly subulate, pointed. Flowers solitary or in twos ox threes. Calyx-lobes 
about }-line with acute points. Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the calyx- 
lobes ; lobes spreading, narrow, long as the tube. Cocci tuberculose. 
Hab. : On damp rocks, Lizard Island. The position of this species is between S. muricata, 
Lindl., and S. viminea, Sm. It was found in company with Drosera indica, Linn. ; Buchnera 
lincaris, R. By. ; and that curious ruck-loving grass, Divlachne loliiformis, F. vy. M. 
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