1 Noy., 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 483 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order SAPINDACEZ. 
CUPANTA, Linn. 
C. curvidentata, S777. (n. sp.) A small tree, not, so far as known, attaining a. 
height of more than 20 ft. Leaves about 13 ft. long, pinnate, with alternate 
eicts. Petiole stout, almost terete, about 3 in. long, petiolules 1 to 14 in. 
long, slender; leaflets about 20, oblong-lanceolate to 6 in. long and 2 in. 
road, coriaceous, bordered by rather large, blunt, incurved teeth, acuminate at 
the apex, cuneate and more or less unequal-sided at the base, upperside smooth, 
the veins showing but slightly, the numerous parallel nerves and reticulate 
transverse veins very prominent on the underside; the petiole and rhachis 
dark-coloured and closely dotted with small light-coloured lenticella.’ Panicles 
uberulous, erect, narrow, about 11 in. long, with a few racemose branches 
elow the middle. lowers in small clusters, nearly or quite sessile; sepals 
5, dark-purple, the colour concealed on the outer side by the hairy surface, 
nearly orbicular, about 2 lines long. Petals yellowish, wavy, about half as long 
as the sepals. The scales at their base very wavy and hairy. Stamens 8, 
the short filaments hairy at the base. Ovary ferruginous, hairy, 3-lobed; stigma 
coloured. No fruit to hand. 
Hab.: Stony Creek, near Cairns, Z. J. Nugent. 
Order MYRTACEZ. 
EUGENTA, Linn. 
E. Hislopii, Bail. (After R. Hislop.) Aboriginal name, “Walkaran.” A tree of 
about 30 ft. in height, and a trunk diameter at base of 15 in.; branchlets rather 
crowded, slender. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, about 23 in. long, and # to 1 in. 
broad ; the apex more or less elongated, but blunt, tapering considerably to a 
petiole of about } in. long, upperside glossy, underside somewhat brownish ; 
Primary nerves rather distant, looping far within the margin, transverse 
Teticulate veins prominent, oil dots copious. Flowers in short, stout, dichoto- 
mously branched panicles 1} in. long, on the trunk of the tree from near the base 
to the height of about 10 ft.; the flowers usually in pairs at the ends of the 
branches of the panicle, closely sessile, or by the elongation of the branch 
appearing pedicellate. Calyx-tube white, campanulate, about 5 lines long, 
Ongitudinally corrugated ; lobes short, broad, rounded. Petals whité, twice or 
more as long as the calyx-lobes, rotundate and much imbricate. Stamens 6 to 
8 lines long, the inner ones smaller. Anthers oblong, about 1 line long. Fruit 
ovoid, 33 im. long, 23 in. broad, white with a pink blush, very soft, and very 
succulent. Pou) 
Hab.: The tree does not grow, so far as at present known, at a lower altitude than 1,500 ft. 
—R. Hislop (Roth). 
