Miss Dorothy Butler Walsh grand-daughter of Authur S.Ki ng m-' : V ■ J ■ f . DESCEIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, BY BAEON FEED. VON lUELLEE, M. & PH.D, F.E.S. “ GOLD’NE FRUECHTE 8EH ICH GLUBHEN, “WlNKEND ZWISCIIEN BUNK’LEM LAUB ; “ UND DIB BLUMEN, DTE DORT BLUEHEN, “ Werden keines Wintebs Ra.vb'’— S chiller. NATIONAL HERBARIUM LIBRARY ROYAL BOTANIC GARDSNS- I- STH. YARRA, 3141, VIC CvjU, - b SrM379- GEORGE SKINNER, ACTING GOVERNMENT PRINTER, MELBOURNE. M Dcrc LXXV. . -Jicyi f /yUj G ^pt! ^ - \ ^ ^ yi >;. .1/ j;.K,0 # ■ n -*‘ » 13 K 13 X C T 13 13 TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIK GEORGE BOWEN, G.C.3I.G., yi.A.., D.C.L., F.R.G.S., GOVERNOR OF THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. I INTEODUCTION. The great Papuan Island, one of the largest of the globe, and rivalling in extent with Britain, is as yet but very scantily known to us merely along its coast-borders; and even of these litoral tracts we know as yet but very imperfectly the nature of the vegetation, while the plants of the higher regions — amply of alpine elevation — remained hitherto utterly unknown to us. A large island-country, probably rich also in endemic products of 2^1ants, situated on lines of Australian, Indian, Chinese and Polynesian maritime intercourses and stretching moreover into close proximity of the Australian Continent, must be to us here of special importance for commerce and colonisation. Hence any new; contribution, however scanty, towards the knowledge of the nature and resources of New Guinea cannot but prove opportune, particularly at a time when the settlement along the opposite Australian coast is effected, and when by exploration-enterprises it is endeavoured to withdraw the veil, which so long concealed from us much of the features of this grand and wondrous island. With this view it is intended to devote on this occasion a few pages to the elucidation of some Papuan plants, brought from two previously thus far unexamined localities by Mr. McLeay’s enter- prising recent expedition, and gathered there by J. Reedy, a horticultural emissary of Sir Will. Macarthur. The latter, who in the autumn of a long laborious life, spent for the ^^astoral, agricultural and industrial interest of Australia, still preserves A 2 4 INTRODUCTION. a youthful ardour for scientific and especially horticultural re- search^ has generously placed the material for the present essay at my disposal. Connected records of New Guinean plants do not as yet exist in phytographic literature. The field for special work in this direction is therefore mostly untrodden, though the extensive collections of Dr. Beccari, in whose treasures I am to participate, are likely to give us early an ampler insight into the probably very varied vegetation of New Guinea. Its mountain flora particularly will likely carry with it the charm of novelty, the true oaks already discovered being likely only one of the numerous objects of promising interest. The blending also of Australian forms, such as the Eucalypts, which now have come to light, with Sundaic tyjoes of plants, will render to an Australian naturalist the study of the Papuan vegetation one of great significance, while undoubtedly thereby the means will be suggested of transferring many new plants of economic medicinal or industrial value to Australian shores. Melbourne, November 1875, PAPUAN PLANTS. CAPPARIDE^. Capparis quinifloea. Cand. Prodr. i. 247 ; Benth. Plor. Austr, i. 94. Ratau-River and Sue-Island. The New G-ninea plant cannot be distingnished from the Australian typical speciesj which is now known also from Castlereagh’s Bay and Melville’s Bay, If C. subcordata (Spanoghe in Schlecht. Liniijea xv. 166) from Timor should prove conspecific, as may he assumed from the short description, then our plant has probably a wide range through the Indian Archipelagus, Habit climbing. The petioles extend sometimes to the length of I inch. The stipidar spines are rarely present in the upper part of the plant and then very short and recurved ; but the lower branches are often strongly thorny. The pedicels occur from 2 to 7 in a cluster. The fruit assumes sometimes an oval shape. Cleome viscosa (L. Sp, PI. 672, edit, secund, 938), which probably is to be found as commonly in New Gruinea as in North Australia and South Asia, has as' yet not been recorded specially from New Guinea, so far as I am aware, perhaps because this herb is of wide tropical distribution in the eastern hemisphere. In De Candolle’s great leading work and in most ’other phytographic publications only the second edition of Linne’s Species Plantarum, published 1762-1763, Is quoted for this and all other earlier Linnean plants, whereas the first edition of this ever memorable foundation-work of universal phytography was issued already in l7o3 with pagings very different to those of the second edition or of the third edition, which latter was published at Vienne in 1764 and is indeed merely a reprint of the second Stockholm issue. 6 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants^ MELIACE^. AgLAIA ELiEAGNOIDEA. Benth. Flor. Austral, i. 383. Eatau-Rivei*. Miquel (Annal. Miis. Bot. Lugd, Batav. vol. i. part ii.) adduces the subsequent Meliacese from New Guinea : Dysoxjlon caulostachyum, Miq. 1. c. 12. Dysoxylon lasiocarpum^ Miq. 1. c. 13. Dysoxylon Kunthianum, Miq. 1. c. 13. Dysoxylon amooroides, Miq. 1. c. 16, Dysoxylon mollej Miq. 1. c. Aglaiopsis glaucescens, Miq. 1. c. 58. Carapa Moluccensis, Lam. Diet. i. 621 ; Miq. 1. c. 62, Besides four species of Aglaia requiring comparison with A. elceagnoidea. Heritiera litoralis. Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 546. Eatau-Kiver and coast opposite Yule-Island. TILIACE.^. ELAiOCARPUS Arnhemicus. F. M, Report for the Intercol. Exhib. of 1867, p. 24 ; E. obovatus var. foveolata, Benth. Flor. Austr. i. 281. Yule-Island. Eeedy’s only flowering specimen is referred here with doubt ; the leafstalks are conspicuously longer, and the fruit when obtained would need comparison. The typical E. obovatus has the petioles extremely short, the leaves smaller, particulaidy narrower and attenuated gradually into a cuneate base, their denticulations are rather less acute and' numerous, the fringes of the»petals seem fewer and therefore broader, the anthers are slightly downy not smooth, the ovary is glabrous not somewhat silky. The fruits of all three plants may be different ; that of E. Arnhemicus is twice or thrice as large as that of E. obovatus. To the latter species belongs unquestionably E. parviflorus (A, Eich. Voy. d’Astrolabe, Botaniq. pp, 67-69, t, 24), although Delile’s drawing 7 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. exhibits the anthers miicronate, such as are not normal in the genuine plant. I have not recognised the Papuan species among Indian and Polynesian plants known to me, but the nearest allied are Elseocarpus amcenus (Thwait. Enum. of Zeil. Plants, 38), E. longifolius (Blum, Bijdr. p. 120), E. rotundifolius (Brogn, et Gris in Annal. des Scienc. Nat. 1864, p, 356), and E. laurifolius (A. Gray Bot, of Wilk. Exped. 203). EUPHORBIACEAil. Mappa tanaria. J. Muell. in Cand. Prodr. xv. sect. ii. 997. Mainland opposite Darnley-Island and Yule-Island. In Miquel’s Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. the two following Euphor- hiaceous plants are mentioned from New Guinea : Mallotus tili^folius, J. Muell. in Schlechtend. Linnsea xxxiv. 190, Alchornea Javensis, J. Muell. 1. c. 170. In the extensive and elaborate disquisition of this great order of plants in De Candolle’s Prodromus vol. xv. sect. ii. no special record of any Euphorbiaceous plants from New Guinea seems to occur, though nume- rous genera and species may be expected to exist there. RHAMNACE^. Colubrina Asiatica. Ii. C. Eichard. et Brogniart in Annal. des Scienc. Natur. x, 368, t. 15, f. 3. Ratau-River and Sue-Island. LEGUMINOS^. Tephrosia purpurea. Persoon Synops. Plant, ii. 329. Mainland opposite Darnley-Island and Yule-Island, Miquel (Flor. Ind. Batav. vol. i.) enumerates the following plants of this order from New Guinea : Desmodium dependens, Blume in Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. 248. To this in all probability belongs D. pendulum, Tyesm. sec, F. M. in Campb. New. Hebrid. p. 9. 8 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Abrus precatorius, L. Sjst. Veg. ed. xii. 472. Pongamia volubilis, ZolL et Mor. Yerzeichn. p. 3. Derris iiliginosa, Bentli. in Plant. Jimglinlm. i. 252. Derris Timorensis, Blume in Miq. Flor. lud. Batav. i. 138. Dalbergia monosperma, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Miscell. ii. 36. Dalbergia densa, Benth. in Ilook. Loud. Journ. of Bot. ii. 237. Guilandina Bonduc, L. Sp. PL 381, Cassia mimosoides, L. Sp. PI. 379. Cassia So^^bera, L. Sp. PI. 379. Afzelia Ainboinensis, Benth. et J. Hook. Gener. Plant, i. 580. Bauhinia ferniginea, Roxb. Flor. Indie, ii. 331. Albizzia rotundata, Blume in Miq. Flor. Ind. Batav. i. 20. Albizzia saponaria, Blume in Miq. Flor. Ind. Batav. i, 19. Plants of almost universal range through the intratropical I'egions of the eastern hemisphere, such as species of Crotalaria, Indigofera, JEschy- nomene, Zoriiia, Desmodium, LTraria, Flemingia, Lespedeza, Sesbania, Canavallia, Phaseolus, Rhynchosia, Sophora, are not specially mentioned in Miquel’s work from New Guinea, as their wide distribution would not call for annotations of localities. MYRTACE^E. Eucalyptus Papuana. (Sect. Leiophloice.) Brancblets towards the summit slightly angular; leaves scattered, short-petioled, chartaceous, obloug-lanceolar, dull green, hardly oblique ; their lateral veins fine, numerous, very patent; their longitudinal vein close to the margin; the oildots exceedingly minute, almost obliterated; peduncles axillary, short, slendei’, bearing an umbel or a cymous corymb of but few flowers; calyx rather small, pearshaped, without angules, borne on a slender pedicel of nearly the same length; the lid patellar, several times shorter than the tube, almost membranous, not pointed; anthers narrow-oblong, their parallel cells opening longitudinally tlnoughout ; fruit hemiellipsoid, its margin thin, long surpassing the valves; style only by its summit exserted; stigma not dilated; vertex of the capsule flat ; seeds wingless. On the mainland of New Guinea opposite to Yule-Island, about twelve miles distant from the shores. 9 Descrijitive Notes on Papuan Plants, Branchlets thin. Petioles long. Leaves 3-5" long, not shining. Umbels deflexed. Whole calyx 3-4'" long. Fruit nearly long, about A" wide. The species seems distinct from E. clavigera in longer and narrower leaves with less prominent veins, in thinner petioles, in less numerous flowers on shorter pedicels, and perhaps in the form of the fruit. The discrimination of the likewise closely allied E. tesselaris is less difficult. The occasion is afforded of alluding here to the characteristics of the very few congeners properly known from beyond Australia. E. alba has the leaves nearly equilateral, the almost hemispherical calyx-lid protracted into an umbonate apex, the capsules 3-4 celled, the valves barely semiexserted and the seeds wingless. The identity ot E. tectifica with E. alba is not yet established beyond doubt. E. Decaisneana, aecordiiig to Timor specimens kindly sent by Dr. Scheffer, the Director of the Botanic Garden of Java, belongs to the series Normales, not to the Eenanthera3 ; its leaves are more or less conspicuously inEequilateral ; the margin of the calyx-tube is somewhat protruding beyond the vertex of the capsule at least in a young state. The collection transmitted by Sir Will. Macarthur contains the leaves of another Papuan species found along with E. Papuana, to all appear- ance belonging to this genus, and in foliage similar to E. platyphylla. This would indicate another extra-australian Eucalypt irrespective of E. raoluccana and E. multiflora, if these should really prove congeners. BaRRINGTONIA 8PECIOSA. R. and G. Forster Char. Genr. 76, t. 38. Ratau-River. Of this the fruit only occurs in the collection, but doubtless it belongs to this species. Among Myrtacese the following are specially recorded from New Guinea : Melaleuca Leucadendron, L. Mantissa Plant. 105, Eugenia Blumei (Jambosa ovalifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. 98), Eugenia lancifolia, Miq. Annal, Ind. i. 17, (Jambosa auriculata, Bl. 1. c. 104). Eugenia Benthami (Syzygium nitidum, Beuth. in Hook. Loud, Journ. of Bot. ii. 221). 10 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Eugenia litoralis, Bentli. et J. Hook. Gen, Plant. 719. (Jossinia lito- ralis, Bl. Mus. Bot. Engd. i. 124). Mjrtus laxiflora (Nelitris laxiflora, Bl. 1. c. 74). Myrtus Coriandri (Nelitris Coriandri, Bl. 1. c. 74). Ehodamnia glauca, Bl. 1. c. 79. Yast additions to the plants of this order may be expected from the forest-mountains of New Guinea. SANTALACEiE. Exocaepus latifolia. R. Br. Prodr. Flor. Not. Holl. 356. Ratau-River and Yule-Island. RUBIACE^. SCYPHIPHORA HTDROPHYLACEA. Gaertn. de Pruct. iii. 91, t. 196. Ratau-River. The collection contains also the leaves of a Morinda, probably M. citrifolia, of Myrmecodia echinata, Plydnophytum formicarum and several other rubiaceous plants. Miquel (Flora Ind. Batav. vol. ii. et Annal. vol. iv.) noticed from Papua : Saprosma arborea, Bl, Bijdr. 957. Uncaria appendiculata, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot, ii. 222. Morinda gemella, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 247. Morinda glomerata, Miq. 1. c. 247. Coelospermum scandens, Bl. Bijdr. 994. Pavetta Rothiana, Cand. Prodr. iv. 491. Pavetta Zippeliana, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd, iv. 201. Coffea Novo-Guineensis, Miq. 1. c. iv. 259. COMPOSITE. Pluchea Indica. Lessing in Schleclitend. Linnsea, 1831, p. 150, Ratau-River, A new Australian locality for this plant is Port Darwin. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 11 PEDALINEiE. JOSBPHINIA GKANDIFLORA. R, Br. Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. p. 520. Ratau-Eiverj Yule-Island and other islands close to New Guinea. ASPERIFOLIiE. Tournefortia argentea. Linn. Pil. Suppl. Plant. 133, Ratau-River, Yule-Island and on some of the Straits-Islands. Tournefortia sarmentosa. Lam. Illustr. 1877. Mainland opposite Yule-Island and Darnley-Island. OLEACE.^, Jasminum didymum. G. Porst. Ploml. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 3. Mainland abreast of Yule-Island. J, rupestre, Blume Mus, Bot. Lugd. i. 280, from New Guinea may- be perhaps a form of Forster’s plant, as far as from description can be judged, the var. contracta mediating the transit. Visiania undulata, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 548, I’ccorded from New Guinea, may be referable to Olea; its fruit seems unknown. VERBENACE^. Clerodendron inerhe, R. Br. Prodr, 511, et in W. T. Ait. Hort. Kew, sec. edit. vol. iv, 65. Ratau-River. VlTEX TRIFOLTA. L. fil. Suppl. Pl. 293. Ratau-River; the unifoliolate variety; also on various of the smaller islands. 12 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Premxa integrifolia. Liniie Mantiss. i’lant. 252. Ratau-River and Straits-Islands. The leaves of a Callicarpa are also contained in the collection. ASCLEPIADE^. Dischidia nummularia, R. Br. Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. 461. The specimens from New Guinea are flowerless, but appear to pertain to this species. Dischidia Timorensis. Decaisne in Nouv. Annal du Mus. 377, t. 17. To this seems to belong a species with ascidia from New Guinea and which extends to North-East Australia, but of which the flowers have on neither place as yet been obtained, Asclepiadese specially mentioned already from New Guinea are: Dischidia ovata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1843, p. 226. Dischidia peltata, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 148. Gymnema recurvifoiium, Bl. 1, c, 150. Pterostelma albiflorum, Bl. in Rumphia, iv. 33, t. 188. Iloya purpurea, Bl. in Rumph. iv. 30, t. 182. Iloya globulifera, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 44. Iloya pruinosa, Miq. El. Ind. Bat, ii. 525. ACANTHACEiE. Acanthus ilicifolius. L. Sp. PI. 639. Ratau-River. CASUARINEiE. Casuarina equisetifolia. R. et G. Porst. Charact. Gen 103, t. 52. Cocoa-nut Island. Jh scrrplive Xotes on Papuan Plants, 13 SClTAMlNEil]. Tapetnocheilos pungens. Miq. Annal. Mus. Lngd. iv. 101-102, t. 4. Rataii-River. The Rev. Mr. Macfjirlaiie oliBerved it on the Baxter’s River, lately explored in the Ellen Gowan, Mi\ Fitzalan found recently this magniticent plant on the Daintree-River, and furthermore it has now also become known from the vicinity of Cape York. It was first for Australia identified in the Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. viii. 26, where also a short note on the fruit was given. Reedy’s collection contains also plants of the genera Cupania, Calo- phylliim, Seinecarpus, Dysoxylon, Pittosporum, Acacia (phyllodineous), Panax, Clardenia, Sctevola, Achras, Ficus, Cycas, Licuala, but not in a state to determine their precise specific position. To facilitate a jire- liminary insight into tlie vegetation of New Griiinea, as far as hitherto known, it may he added, chiefly from Blame’s and Miqnel’s writings, that there the following genera have representatives : Wormia, Nymphtea, Anamirta, Chlainandra, Stephania, Pyrnarrhena, Myristica, Polyaltliia, Popowia, Orophea, Gouiotbalamus, Artabotrys, Opilla, Cardiopteris, Lasiantbera, Triphasia, Mclanococca, Ancistrocla- dus, Anisoptera, Sapiudns, Nephelinm, Jn^gera, Ilarpnllia, Allophylus, Dodonasa, Odina, Mangifera, Cjinarium, Gahopliylliim, Polygala, Sau- rauja, Tristellateia, Loea, Vitis, Ivieinhovia, Melocliia, Sponia, Celtis, Gironniera, Fleurya, Procris, Bochmeria., Cypliolopluis, Eriocnide, Strel>- lus. Nepenthes, Cbavica, Polygonum, Cyathula, Gompbrena, Liquidam- bar, Rhizophora, Kandelia, Ceriops, Lumnitzera, Osbeckia, Medinilla, Memecylon, Cinnamomum, Tetrautbera, Litsa?a,, Salacia, TTip2-)ocratea, Casearia,Trevesia, Ilejitaplourum, Tetraplasamira, Gastonia, Osmoxylon, Lonicera, Viseum, Geniostoma, Fagraui, Clicetosus, Neuburgia, Kopsia, Pseudochrosia, Tccoma, -ZEgicoras, Clirysophyllum, Maba, Gnetuin, Podocarpns, Areca, Kcntia, Orania, Ptychospenna, Caryota, Licuala, Cocos, Korthalsia, Calamus, Dtemouorojjs, Metroxylon, Nipa, Musa, Freycenetia, Forrostia, Disocorea, AI}>iuia, Cadetia, Sarcojmdium, Podo- chilus, Appeiulicula, Cbeirostylis, lleta?ria (Blinne Bijdi\ p. 410, but not Iletairia, Endl. Gen. Plant, p. 133, winch I Imvo changed to Pritzeiia), Apostasia, Xenojihya, Rhaphidophora, Pothos, Cryptocoryue, Amorj>ho- jihalliis, Centhotheca, Oleandra, Grammitis, Vittaria. 14 Descripfim Notes on Papimn Plants, ORCIIIDEiE. Dendrobium antennatum. Lindley in Hooker’s London Journal of Botany 1843, p. 236 ; Bentham Botany of the voyage of H.M. Ship Sulphur, 1844, t. 59. Glabrous ; leaves alternate, coriaceons, lanceolate, not keeled ; flowers several in tlio raceme, greenisb yellow; inner sepals tidce as long as the outer ones narrow lanceolate-linear; lateral sepals broadly falcate- seinilanceolar, several times longer than the conical-cylindric spur; lahellum as long as the outer sepals; its terminal lobe roundish-rhom- boid short-acuminate or simply acute, about half as long as the rest of the lahellum ; the lateral lobes blunt or rather acute, the whole greenish- yellow and streaked with ptxrple veins, the thickened axis towards the base and towards the junction of the upper lobe raised into two thin plates; the two outer of the three streaks of the upper lobe laminar towards the base ; column several times shorter than the labellura ; capsule fusiform-ovate, large, the three outer valves forming broad longitudinal bauds free and overlapping at their margins. New Gxxinea; Hinds. This orchid, though not contained in Sir Will. Macarthur’s sending, is here inserted, as the writer had an opportunity of examining a living plant brought from the Duke of York’s Island (between New Ireland and New Britain) by Mr. C. Walter, who while under engagements of tlie young ornithologist, Baron A. von Ilucgel, accompanied the Rev. Mr. Brown, of the Wesleyan missions, in his recent voyage, and obtained also on York’s Island the rare Ba?a Commersoni (R. Br. in Horsf. Plant. Jav. Rar. p. 120) and Coccoloba platyclada (F, M. in Hook. Bot. Magaz. 5382). The leaves and particularly the flowers of our specimen are rather smaller than those of D. Tokai ; the sepals are much more unequal, not of a pure yellow ; the labellurn is not white and the spur much thinner, while the upper not the lower portion of the lahellum is the shortest. D. macranthum from Vanicoro is still more distant. The extension of the inner bcyon<l the outer sepals occurs however in D, Mirbelianum, (Gaudichaud Botuni(pie, Freyccnet Voyage an tour du Monde, pi. 38), which together with D. veratrifolium, D. bilobum, Saccolabium fascicu- latum and Vanda Iliiidsii was noticed by Lindley from Hinds’s New Guinea collection. Dendrobium tridentiferum and D. bifalce and Sacco- Desc7iptive Notes on Pajman Plants. 15 labium quinquefiduiii ( Lindl. in Hook. Lend. Journ. ii. 236 and 237) recorded also from Hinds’s gatherings but -without locality, may also have come from New Guinea. Miquel (FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 644 et 645) after Blume mentions from thence D. atropurpureum and D. spectabile. Neither Australian nor Papuan specimens of D. Johannis (G. Reichenb, in the Gardn. Chronicle I860, p. 890; Xenia Orch. ii. 165; Hook. Bot. Mag. 5540 ; Benth. Flor. Austr, vi. 279) have been seen by the writer, but Sir Will. Macarthur transmits now this plant from Hammond’s Island of the Solomon-Group. FILICES. POLYPOmUM PUNCTATUM. Tliunberg Elor. Japon. 337. Mainland of New Guinea. P. ferrugineum (Baker in Hooker’s Synops. Filic, 318) occurs in Zipx^elius’s Collection of New Guinea Plants. P. stigmosum (Swartz Synops. Filic. 29 et 226) is likewise mentioned specially as a Papuan fern by Baker. Aspidium molle. S"vrartz Synops. Eilic. 49. Mainland of New Guinea. A. Menyanthidis (Presl. Reliquiae Elfenk. i. 28; A. pachyphyllum, Kunze in der Bot. Zeitung vi. 259) is recorded from New Guinea by Sir Will. Hooker (Spec, Filic. iv. 56). AdIANTUM iEXHIOPICUM. L. Sp. Plant, edit, seennd. 1560. Mainland of New Guinea, This species was not distinguished by Liime when he wrote the first edition of his famous foundation-work for species. AsPLENIUM LASERPITirOLIUM. Lam. Encycl. Methodiq. i. 310 (1783). Ratau-River and coast opposite Yule-Island. Dr. Hinds brought from New Guinea A. scandens (J. Sm. in Hook. Spec, Filic. iii, 216). 16 Descriptive Notes on Papnan Plants, AsrLENlUM FALCAXUM. Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. 306. Eatau-River. Pteris longifolia. L. Sp. PI. 1074 (edit. prim, anno 1753). Yule-Island. Pteris tripartita. Swartz Synops. Pilic. 100 et 293. Darnley-Island. In the damp jungles of New Guinea numerous species of this and other large genera of ferns must occur, the commoner species of which would not always be recorded in general works from any particular regions such as those of Papua. DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, BY BARON FERD. VON MUELLER, C.M.G, M. & PILD., F.R.S. The main material for this second publication on New Guinean plants was placed disinterestedly at my disposal by the Reverend S. Macfarlane, who some months ago explored the Baxter- and Fly-River, with a view of carrying the blessings of Christianity gradually to the heathens in the recesses of the great Papuan Island. While these pages were under preparation I received also from Dr. Scheffer of Java the first portion of the yet unpublished ^^Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg,” a periodical thoughtfully commenced this year, and such one as each great phytologic institution for the records of its reasearches ought to possess. Dr. Scheffer’s first essay in these promising annals dwells on Mr. Teysmann’s plants gathered on the north- west coast of New Guinea, from which part also some records — though hitherto much overlooked — are extant already in the volume published by Achille Richard, from 1832 to 1834, on the botanic collections secured during the discovery-voyages of Admiral Jules Dumont d’Urville, in the corvette Astrolabe, So far as cursorily the opportunity was afforded me in the B 18 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. present pages, I have alluded to this scattered material with a desire, to facilitate therehy reference to the literature concerning New Guinea plants. As far as yet can he judged from the rather limited collections, which hitherto could be formed by collateral unaided exertions of the missionaries, the vegetation in the south-eastern part of the great island assumes a very different aspect to that of the north-west, a,s there revealed by (he Frencli and particularly by the Dutch naturalist. Sundaic forms seem to prodominiite in the regions facing the Moluccas ;uk1 r]iilip])ine-lslamls almost to the exclusion of others, tliougli rlie very recent discovery of an Araucaria on Mount Arfak by the illustrious Dr. Beccari introduces also there already a partly Australian type into the almost Moluccan vegetation. The case in the south-east of New Guinea appears to be decidedly different; there pure Australian forms arc at least to a small degree mixed into the Malayan vegetation, which latter flourishes also exten- sively in Northern and in tropical Eastern Australia. The occurrence of a Banksia and phyllodinous Acacia, together with Eucalypts, establishes clearly a close alliance of one 2 >ortion of the jdants of the south-eastern regions with tliat of Australian j)hy8iognomy. How far this somewhat enigmatic distribution of genera and even of species — thouglit to be endemically Australian — can be explained perha])s by geologic considerations, we have as yet no moans of ascertaining. Of still higher interest than this question remains the investigation of the sub-alpine and glacier- flora throughout the wide chains of the lofty Papuan mountains. e are utterly unacquainted yet with any plants from the Snowy Mountains there, though their comi^arison with the alpine forms of vegetable life occurring in the icy highlands of Australia ex])lored by myself, of Tasmania and New Zealand mainly described by Dr. Hooker, as well as their collation on the other hand with the largely peculiar vegetation of the higher zones of the Himalaian ranges and of any al^jine mountains of the large islands in the Indian Archij)elagus, will likely lead to manifold 19 Descfiptive Notes on Papuan P lants, philosophic contemplationSj far more important for a comprehen- sive history of our glohe, than the absolute specific elucidation of the vegetative forms themselves. In my concluding these introductory words it is but just to express my. gratitude to the Hon. Sir Jam. McCulloch, the Premier of the Victorian Ministry, and to the Hon. J. A. MacPherson, the Chief Secretary, for per- mitting the issue of these records on the Papuan plants as official documents in connection with our phytographic museum. It is also gratifying to add, that the reverend gentleman, who generously contributed the material for this second treatise, has declared his intention, to secure likewise during his future mis- sionary voyages and travels, with the aid of his reverend brethren, new material for the progressive elucidation of the Papuan Plora ; while the distinguished zoologist. Signor d’ Albertis, through the friendly mediation of the learned physician and naturalist, Dr. G. Bennett, has expressed his willingness, to devote during his most promising new traversings in the east of Papua also some of his precious time there to the formation of phytologic collec- tions with a view of rendering such accessible to myself ; and thus we may trust, that Australia may share in the honor of shedding extensively light on the vegetable products — some perhaps of undreamed value — which emanate solely from the secluded main- haunts of the Birds of Paradise. Melbourne, 7th April 1876, 20 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, DILLENIACEiE. WORMIA ALATA. R. Br. in Cand. Regn. Veget. Syst, Nat, i. 434. Baxter’s Eiver; Kev. S. Macfarlane. In Australia this noble tree extends southward at least as far as liockingham’s Bay. Height up to 60 feet. The bark is outside thinly lamellar, inside red ; the wood rather soft. The leaves attain a length over 1 foot. The petals are yellow. The only other Dilleniaceous plant as yet on record from New Guinea is Wormia castaneifolia, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. iv. 78. NEPENTHACE^. Nepenthes Kennedyi. F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. v. 154. Baxter’s River j Rev. S. Macfarlane. The identification of the Papuan with the Australian plant remains uncertain, as of neither flowers or fruit are as yet known. The Papuan specimens, like some gathered by Mr. C. Moore at Cape Sidmouth, are slightly downy. The fact however that also in New Guinea this pitcher-plant is associated with Tapeinocheilos pungens, seems to speak for the correctness of the identification. N. phyllamphora, Willd. Sp. PL iv. ii. 874, to which our plant seems allied, has been gathered by Mr. Teysmann in New Guinea, according to Blume ; it is thus quoted by Dr, Hooker in his masterly review of the Nepenthacece for De Candolle’s Prodr. vol. xvii. 90-105. Most likely the Papuan Mountains will furnish yet many kinds of pitcher-plants. STERCULIACE^. Helicteres angustifolia. Linne Spec. Plant. 963. Baxter’s River ^ Rev. S. Macfarlane. The section Methorium, to which this species belongs, might well again be raised to generic rank. H. semiglabra, from tropical East Australia, seems merely a variety with shorter and woolly fruits. 21 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Other Sterculiacese known from New Guinea are : Commersonia echinata, R. et G. Forst. Charact. Gener. 43^ t. 22. Abroma fastuosa, Gsertn. de Fructib. t. 64. Kleinhovia hospita, Linn, Spec. Plant, edit. sec. 1365. Melochia Indica^ A. Gray in Wilk. Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped. 93 (Visenia Indica, Houtt. Syst. 287, t. 46). SAPINDACE^. Dodon^a viscosa. Linne Mantissa Plantarum 238. Baxter^s River * Rev. S. Macfarlane. The form, specifically distinguished by De Candolle (Prodr. i. 616) as D. Burmanniana. Nephelium ferrugineum. Spanoghea ferruginea, Blume in Rumphia, iii. 173. Fly-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane, The desirability of uniting Spanoghea with Nephelium has been pointed out already in 1859, on the occasion when I described some Australian species, in the transactions of the Phil. Institute of Victoria, iii. 25 and 26. Other Sapindaceae, already recorded from New Guinea, are : Sapindus cuspidatus, Bl. Rumphia, iii, 97. Nephelium Diplocardia (Irina Diplocardia, Bl. Rumphia, iii, 115). Jsegera speciosa, BL Rumphia, iii. 155. Cupania Zippeliana, BL Rumphia, iii, 160. Cupania obtusa, Miq, FL Ind. Batav, i. part ii. 567. Harpulia rupestris, BL Rumphia, iii. 175. Harpulia cupanoides, Roxb. Hort. Bengal, 86. Allophylus Sundanus, Miq, FL Ind. Bat. i. part ii. 575. Allophylus Cobbe, BL Rumph. iii. 131. EUPHORBIACEiE. Macaranga aleuritoides. Stipules very long, connate into a cylinder, gradually pointed, as well as the branchlets tomentellous and besides covered with soft appressed 22 Descriptive Notes 07i Papuan Plants. hair ] leaves large, ^fixed at the basal extremity, co^^date-orbieulate, cleft to one-third or less into three lobes, above almost g-labroixs, beneath short-pubescent and conspersed with very minute glands, the three primary nerves arising from the base of the leaves ; capsules three-celled, glandular-pulverulent and beset with rather long hardly rigid echinular excrescences. On the Fly-River ; Rev, S. Macfarlane. Branchlets thick, distantly marked by the annular scars left by the stipules. The latter nearly 3 inches long, reminding of those of many Ficua-species, consisting of a single piece, membranous in texture. Leaves on rather long cylindrical strong petioles, so far as seen from a span to a foot long and nearly as broad, irrespective of the two anterior incisions only minutely denticulate, above shining, beneath opaque ; their primary as well as the pinnately disj)osed secondary nerves very prominent beneath ; their primary veins parallel, transverse and beneath also prominulous ; the secondary veins parallel-longitudinal, connected by reticulating veinlets, thus the main-venation rendered almost can- cellate. Flowers unknown. Fruits with turgid cells, nearly half an inch high j the endocarp seceding. Seeds roundish, somewhat verru- cular, without any arillus ; testa crustaceous ; embryo and albumen not observable in the obtained seeds. The large stipules place this species near M. stipulosa, M. hispida and M. longistipulata. From the first of these three our plant ditfers ah-eady in the basifixed therefore not peltate leaves ; from M. hispida, according to a typic specimen kindly sent by Mr. S. Kurz, M. aleuritoides is easily separated by the closely downy and hairy branchlets petioles and pe- duncles, by the beneath pale and not almost glabrous but lobed leaves, with more prominent veins, yet without any very visible and copious glandular impressions, and with a far less waved margin, also by the more hairy fruit with thicker excrescences. Ag'ain from M. lotigistipulata the new Papuan species recedes on account of its stout branchlets, its long stalked not strictly penni-nerved but rather palmati-nerved leaves, which moreover so far as known are never lobeless, nor ovate-lanceolar, nor beneath densely impressed with glands, and further in capsules much larger than those described of M. longistipulata. The structure of the flowers, when they become known, will likely reveal further diagnostic diflerences yet, to distinguish this from the several allied species. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 23 PhYLLANTHUS BUXIFOLIUS. Reinwardt in Blume’s Catalogus van eenige ge-vvassen in’s Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg, 1823, p. 106, On Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. The specimens from this large stream as well as others, gathered by Mr. Fitzalan in Lieut. Smith’s exploration of the mstuary of the River Burdekin, are not in fruit, but otherwise accord fullv with Javanese specimens, marked as a new species of Scepasma in Zollinger’s collection. Miquel already (Flora Indise Batavje i. p. ii. 379) gives the measurement of the leaves as ranging from J to 1 inch. Dr. Scheffer (Annal. Hort. Bot. Buitenzorg, 1876, p. 48) adds the two following Euphorbiaceae for New Guinea : Alchornea Javensis, J. Miill. in Linnsea xxxiv. 170. Mallotus tiliifolius, J, Mull. 1. c. 190. Ach. Richard records : Euphorbia pilulifera, L. amoen. acad. iii, 114. LEGUMINOSJ5. Cassia Javanica. Linue Spec. Plant. 379. On the Fly-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. For the identification of this Papuan Cassia I have relied on Wight’s drawing, published in the leones Plant. Indise, t. 252, in the absence of original specimens. The plant, brought by the zealous missionary, was not in fi'uit ; leaves and flowers however agree with the illustration quoted, but the more decidedly renate stipules point towards C. mega- lantha (Decaisn. Annal. du Mus. 136). The range of variability of these Cassias, known to be very wide in some Australian species, is as yet not sufficiently ascertained. Bentham, in his full monography of this large genus (Transact, of the Linnean Society of London xxvii. 517), lays stress on veinless petals for the diagnosis of C. Javanica in contrast to some species from tropical Africa j but in the delineation quoted above, and seemingly emanating from Roxburgh, the petals are strongly veined, and so they are also in our Papuan plant. The color of the flowers distinguish this magnificent Cassia from all hitherto-known Australian species; still perhaps this, like so many other Malayan and Papuan plants, may also stretch across to the little explored jungles of North- East Australia. 24 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Dr. Scheffer enumerates additionally the following plants of this order as inhabitants of New Guinea : Phylacium bracteosum^ Bennett in Horsfield’s Plant. Javan. Rarior. p. 159, t. 23. Mucuna Novo-Guineensis, Scheff. Annal. Hort. Buitenzorg, 1876, p. 9. Remarkable for brilliantly orange-colored flowers, Derris scandens, Benth. Synops, Dalberg, p. 103. Csesaljnnia (Guilandina) Bonducella, Fleming in Asiat. Res. 11, 159. Bauhinia Teysmanniana, Scheff. 1. c. p. 10. This may be the species recorded by Bentham as B. ferruginea. Afzelia bijuga, A. Gray, Bot. of Wilk. Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped. 467, t. 51, Identified by Dr. Scheffer with Intsia Amboinensis, thus widely a representative of the tropic maritime vegetation in the eastern hemisphere and as such extending also, as now for the first time shown, to the northern parts of Queensland. Maniltoa grandiflora, Scheff. 1. c. 20, Regarded as closely allied to Cynometra grandiflora, A. Gr. 1. c. 470, t, 52. Albizzia sessilis (Pithecolobium sessile, Scheff. 1. c. p. 22). Albizzia Papuana (Pithecolobium Papuanum, Scheff. 1. c, p. 22). Acacia pseudo-arabica, Blume in Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 8 . The dis- tinctive characters, by which this can be separated from A, Arabica or perhaps A. Seyal, need yet to be pointed out more clearly. Acacia Simsii. All. Cunningham in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. i. 368. On the Baxter’s River 5 Rev. S. Macfaidane. No differences could be discerned between specimens in young fruit, brought from New Guinea, and the Australian plant. Among known extra- Australian congeners it bears some resemblance to A, Richii (A. Gr. in Wilk. Exped. Bot. i. 482, t. 53) ; the phyllodia of the latter however are broader and often falcate, with more nerves and somewhat reticular veins, the peduncles of the flower-heads are not placed solitary, the fruit is much broader and the seeds are placed transversely, not as in A. Simsii longitudinally. The foliage of A. spirorbis (Labill. Sert, Austro- Caled. t, 69) is not dissimilar, but the arrangement of the flowers and the form of the fruits are very different. • A. Richard noted from Doreh already ; Ccesalpinia pulcherrima, Swartz Observ. 165. Clitoria ternatea, L. Sp. PL 753. 25 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Inocarpus edulis, R. and G. Forster Charact. Gener. 65^ t. 33^ was among the plants found by Lesson at Port Doreh. Seemann (Flor. Vitiens. p. 70) was inclined to refer this, the Tahitian Chesnut-tree^ rather to Chrysobalanese than to Leguminosee. Canavalia obtusifolia, Cand. Prodr, ii. 404, was found according fco Prof. Oliver at Geelvink’s Bay by Dr. Meyer. MYRTACEJ3. Leptospermum Amboinense, Reinwardt in Blume’s Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie, p. 1100. On the Baster-River ^ Rev. S. Macfarlane. The plant from this locality is here drawn to Reinwardt’s not without doubt, as flowers and fruits have not been seen ^ the branchlets more- over are less angular, while the leaves are smaller and of thicker consistence; but in these respects the Australian species vary much. L. Amboinense extends to Borneo according to Korthals's collections, and has therefore a comparatively wide geographic range. RUBIACE^. Randia densiflora. Bentham, Flora Hongkongens, 155. Katau-River; J, Reedy, The great watercourse, just mentioned, was incorrectly written in the first portion of this enumeration. This plant, with those enumerated in the first part of the present publication, I owe as a Papuan one to the generous liberality of Sir Will. Macarthur, whose collector gathered it in Mr. W. McLeay’s pioneer-expedition for science-research in South Eastern Papua. Additional species of Papuan Rubiaceae, recorded from Mr. Teysmann’s collections by Dr. Scheffer in the first volume of the Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg,” 1876, pp. 28-32, are: Ophiorrhiza Mungos, Linn. Amoen. Acad, ii. 127. Mussasnda frondosa, Linn. Sp, PI. 177. Randia Zippeliana (Gynopachys Zippeliana, Scheff, 1, c. p, 28). This seems to differ from R. densiflora according to Dr. Scheffer’s description in always extra-axillary inflorescence and more numerous nerves of the leaves. 26 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Timonius rigidus (Polyphragmon rigidum, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. iv. 243). Timonius pseudo-capitatus (Polyphragmon pseudo-capitatum^ Scheff. I. c. p. 2D). Plectronia Moluccana, J. Hook, in Benth. and Hook. Gen. ii. 110, (Canthium Moluccanum, Boxh. FI. Ind. ed. Wall. ii. 172). Pavetta Doreensis, Scheff. 1. c. 31. Hydnophytum lanceolatum, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. iv. 257. Hydnophytum montanum, Bl. Bijdr. 956, Hedyotis carnosa. Korthals in Ncderl. Kruidk. Archief. ii. 161. On the Baxter-Rivei *3 Rev. S. Macfarlane. Our plant seems quite identical with the Sumatra plant, of which I possess specimens distributed by Dr. Korthals. The cilia on the calyx lobes are however not developed. The corolla is only 1^2'" long and imbearded; the seeds are angular and black. II. prostrata (Koitli. 1. c. 160) seems conspecific. Khasyan specimens of II. cephalaphora, dis- tributed in Kfiw from Dr. Hooker’s collection, have the leaves stronger ribbed and calyx-lobes as well as the corolla considerably longer. Bentham (Flor. Hongkong, 149), in uniting H. cephalophora with H. uncinetla (Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. 192) and with H. borreroides (Champ, in Kew Miscell. iv. 171) describes the corolla only two lines long; this discrepancy may perhaps be explainable by dimorphism. The numerous allied species need all careful and extensive study yet on places of their natural growth, before tlie diagnosis of any can be safely defined. H. Laperousii (Cand. Prodr. iv. 420), from near the ominous death-place of the unfortunate Admiral Count Laperouse and his poor companions, according to the illustration in the Atlas of the Voyage de I’Astrolabe, PI. 23., differs mainly in longer fiowers and more strongly nerved leaves from our plant. H. membranacea (Thwait. Enum. Plant. Ceylon. 143), H. macrophylla (Wall, in Wight et Arn. Prodr. Flor. Pmnins. Ind. 408), H. inamoena (Thw'ait. 1. c, 143), H. nodulosa (Arnott. Pugill. 22), H. hispida (Retz. Observ. iv. 23), H. jodoneura (Miq. Flor. Ind. Batav. ii. 181) and other allied species I have compared on this occasion, all appearing clearly distinct from H. carnosa. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 27 Spermacoce Papuana. Leaves linear, acute, as well as the stems almost glabrous ; stipules divided into a few setaceous segments; flowers in the axillary and terminal somewhat verticillar clusters rather numerous ; lobes of the calyx four, linear-setaceous, longer than the tube ; loies of the corolla exceeded three or four times by the length of the tube, semilanceolar, not auriculate ; faux unbearded ; stamens hardly longer than the limb of the corolla; both valves of the capsule separating from the mem- branous septum. On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Root not obtained. Leaves 1-2 inches long and as many lines broad, slightly revolute, but not much thickened at the margin. Stipular setae about 2 lines long ; nearly of their size and form also the lobes of the calyx. Tube of the corolla about of 3 lines length, gradually narrowed downwards ; the lobes outside beset with minute hair. Filaments adnate up to the summit of the tube ; the free part not much longer than the narrow anthers. Style smooth, 3-4 lines long. Valves of the capsule about lines long. Seeds narrow-oblong, black. This species stands in near relationship to S. leevigata (F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. iv. 41) ; the leaves are however not strongly nerved nor mucronulate, the stipular setse are shorter, the flowers mostly axillary, the limb of the corolla rather shorter in proportion to the tube. The examination of ampler material may reveal hereafter further differences. A plant very similar to the Papuan species was obtained by Mr. Dmmel at Cape York, but its stipules are generally undivided and the corolla is shorter and outside glabrous, COMPOSITE, Vernonia CINEREA- Lessing in Linn89a 1829, p. 291. Baxter’s River; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Wedelia biflora, Cand. in Wight’s Contribut. p. 18, was gathered at Geelvink’s Bay by Dr. Meyer. Adenostemma viscosum, R. et G. Forst. Charact. Gen. t. 45, was found at the same place by Mr. Teysmann according to Dr. Scheffer. Emilia purpurea, Cassini Diction, xxxiv. 393, was noted by Lesson at Port Doreh. 28 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, APOCYNEiE. Alyxia ruscifolia. R. Brown, Prodrom. Plor. Nov. Holland. 470. Baxter’s River ; Rev. S, Macfarlane. The plant was not obtained in flower or fruit, but otherwise it accords with the East- Australian species, Chcetosus volubilis, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot ii. 226, is known from New Guinea among- plants of this order, as also the fol- lowing : Neuburgia musculiformis, Miq. Flor. Tnd. Batav. ii. 403. Kopsia flavida, Blume Rumphia, p. 28, t. 181. Pseudochrosia glomerate, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 158. Cerbera Odoliam, Gsertn. de Fructib. ii. 193, t. 124. The last men- tioned plant was recently recorded by Prof. Oliver from Dr. A. B. Meyer’s small collection formed at Geelvink’s Bay, in the Journ. of the Linnean Society, 1875, p. 29. Dr. Mej^er found there also Penta- phragma macrophylla (Oliv.), Sctevola Kcenigi, recorded previously by A. Richard, and a species of Hedychium allied to H. angustifolium. Dr. Scheffer in his “ Enumeration des Plantes de la Nouvelle Guinee” in the new periodical mentioned adds the following- apocynaceous plants : Tabernsemontana pentasticta, Schefi*. Obs. Phyt. i. 22. Tabernsemontana Novo-Guineensis, Schefi*. Annul, i. 30. Plumiera Papuana, Schefi". Annul, i. 30. Among the plants, transmitted by the Rev. S. Baxter, occurs also a Carissa, but without flowers and fruits. PROTEACE/E. Banksia dentata. Linn. fil. Suppl. Plant. 127. Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. The flowers and fruits do not occur in the collection, but the leaves agree with the plant described by the younger Linne from Sir Joseph Banks’s specimens secured at Endeavour-River. As this one is the only species known to extend along the coast-tracts of North Australia, it may fairly be assumed, that the Papuan plant will prove identical with 29 Descriptive Notes on Pap'mn Plants, ours. The isolation of a Banksia beyond Australia, while plants of this genus reach neither New Caledonia nor New Zealand, remains remarkable. ORCHIDEZE. Dendrobium Macfarlanei. (Sect. Aporum.) Glabrous; stems strongly compressed; leaves distichous^ broad- or lanceolate-linear y straight, acute, with an egxiitant base, their edge directed towards the stem; peduncles none or exceedingly short; pedicels solitary or two together; flowers small, pale; outer sepals about half as long as the pouch and the lip, semilanceolar, broader and longer than the inner sepals ; labellum with short lateral lobes and a larger papillous-thickened end-lobe. On the Baxter-River ; Rev, S. Macfarlane. Stems, so far as known, about one foot high, leafy to the summit, attenuated at the base, and probably not from pseudo-bulbs, each portion between the dark-brownish joints about an inch long and two lines vride, shining, smooth, yellowish, almost concealed by the vaginal persistent portion of a leaf; blade of the leaves when well developed inches long and as many lines broad, acute, thickly ohartaceous, finely streaked, by basal diagonal fracture deciduous. Bracts short, crowded around the base of the pedicel; their rigid nerves resisting decay. Pedicels almost capillary, J of an inch or less long. Flowers in a dry state pale yellow, in a fresh state probably white. Outer sepals about 2"' long ; the upper one slightly narrower than the lower ones ; the inner sepals much narrower ; spurlike portion of the flowers nearly A" long; labellum seen only in a shrivelled state; its lower portion seemingly not very bi*oad. Pollinia 4, cuneate-ovate, longitudinal, coherent in two pairs. Fruit unknown. The leaves are longer than those of D. micranthum (Lindl. Contrib. Orchid. 3) and the inner sepals not several times shorter than the outer ones. Unlike D, Serra (Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 629; Aporum Serra, Lindl. in Wall. Catalog. 2021), the stems are towards the summit not hare of leaves. Again, in D.sinuatum (G. Reichenb. in Walp. Annal. Bot. Syst. vi. 280) the leaves are broader, more approximate, and their persistent basal part leaves tooth-like prominences; the same distinctive notes hold good for D. anceps (Roxb. Flor. Indie, iii. 487), besides the shortness of the leaves of the latter species. 30 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, The worthy missionary’s collection contains another Dendrobium of the section Aporum ; in this the leaves are about as long as those of D. incrassatum (Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. iii. 631 ; Aporum incrassatum, BI, Bijdr. 334 ; Brogn. Bot. Voy. Coquill, t. 42), but only about half their width, still in the same manner closely approximate and rendering the stem by their lapse serrate. In one specimen occurs the remnant of a solitary axillary naked peduncle, which is about long and beset with very short glandular hair. Whether the Papuan plant actually belongs to D. incrassatum or to D. anceps or to some other allied species, future researches must decide. Be^mnd the orchideous plants, already alluded to cursorily in the first fascicle of this publication, we know from New Guinea: Dendrobium macrophyllum, A. Rich. Bot. Voy. de I’Astrolabe 22, t. 9. Dendrobium hispidum, A. Rich. 1. c. 13, t. 6 (D. umbellatum, G. Reichenb. in Walp. Annal. vi. 303 j Cadetia umbellata, Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Freycen. t. 33; C. similis, Blume. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 29). Dendrobium funiforme, Blume Rumphia iv. 40j t. 193 et 198. Dendrobium heteroideum, Blume Rumphia iv. 40, t. 193. Dendrobium trichostomura, G. Reichenb. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1875, p. 30. Dendrobium insigne, G. Reichenb. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot. ii, 237. Bolbophyllum grandiflorum, Blume Rumphia iv. 42. Podochilus densifiorus, Bl. Rumpb. iv. 44, t. 192. Podochilus scalpelliformis, Bl. Rumph. iv. 45, t. 194. Appendicula penicillata, Bl. Rumph. iv. 40, t. 195 et 200. Cheirostylis grandiflora, Bl. FI. Javae, 45, t. 13 et 17. Hetseria obscura, Miq. FL Ind, Bat. iii. 726. Iletceria elongata, Miq. 1. c. Apostasia Wallichii, R. Br. in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rarior, i, 75, t. 84. LILIACE^. CORDYLINE TERMINALIS, Kuiith. in Act. Acad. Berol. 1820, p. 30. Fly-River; Rev, S. Macfarlane. Scheffer records Dracaena Draco from Humboldt’s Bay; but if it really was the Linnean plant, which Mr, Teysmann saw, then it must have found its way, like into India, so into New Guinea, by cultural introduction. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 31 GRAMINEiE. Coix Lacryma Jobi. Linne Spec. Plant. 972. On tlie Upper Fly-River 5 d’ Albertis. Specimens from the above locality were sent me by Dr. G. Bennett, who for nearly half a century has advanced researches in natural sciences among- us, and who has taken a vivid interest in the important exploits of the Italian Naturalist in New Guinea. Ach. Richard noted from Port Doreh : Centotheca lappacea, Beauv. Agrostogr. t. 14, f. 7. Panicum compositum, L. Sp. PL 57. Panicum multinode, Lam. Encycl. iv. 747, which seems referable to P. repens, L. Sp. PI. edit. sec. 87. CYPERACE^. Cyperus diffusus. Vahl Enumerat. Plantar, ii. 321. On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. This stately Galingale must have a wide range through the Papuan Island,, as it has been met also on the north-west coast near Port Doreh, from whence already Lesson brought it in 1827, according to the record by Acliille Richard, who inserted the plant as C. longifolius (Poir. Encycl. Methodique x. 270) into the botanical volume of the voyage de FAstrolabe. Ivunth (Enum. ii, 30) was inclined to unite Poirefs with Vahl’s plant, in which conjecture of their identity he seems to have been fully justified, although more recently Boeckeler (in Linnma 1808, p. 534 et 535) holds yet both distinct. I find that C. diifusus extends to Ceylon (Thwaites 3931). As well shown by Boeckeler and as also seen by myself, C. Lagorensis (Steud. Glumac. ii. 36) and C. pubisquama (Steud. 1. c. 20) are clearly referable to C. diffusus. Of this order of plants are on record as Papuan : Kyllingia monocephala, Rottboell. Plant. Nov, 13, t. iv. Carex cryptostachya, Brogn. Bot. Voy. Duperr. 152, t. 25 (Boott. Illustr. Caric. 103, t. 310); also a species of Scleria and another plant, distinguished generically as Cyclocampe, both requiring identification. 32 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. FILICES. SCHIZiEA DICHOTOMA. Willd. Act. Academ. Erford. 1802, p. 30, t. 3, f. 2. Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. S. Forsteri, Spreng-. Anleitung; iii. 175, is known from Waighion- Island, accord, to Miq. Annal. iv. 299. Adiantum hispidulum. Swartz Syiiops. Filic. 124 et 321. Baxter’s River; Rev. S. Macfarlane. A. caudatum, Linn. Mantiss. 308, is recorded by Mettenius as a Papuan species in Miquel’s Annales Musei Bot. Lugd. Batav. iv. 280. Grammitis pinnata. F. M, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. vi. 124. Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. In justice to Swartz I prefer to maintain his Grammitis as a genus instead of Gymnogramma of Desvaux (in Berlin Magaz. 1811, p. 304), especially as Bernhardi, R. Brown and Willdenow acknowledged Swartz’s genus before the fii-st definition of Gymnogramma by Desvaux did appear, although a portion of Swartz’s original species of Gram- mitis required to be transferred to As[)lenium and mainly Polypodium. Four species however of those, admitted by Swartz, remain thus unaltered in name typical for Grammitis, including the widely diffused G. leptophylla, described already as a doubtful Polypodium by Linne (Sp. PI. edit. sec. 1553). Otherwise almost for the same cause numerous other genera might be abolished, among ferns even Polypo- dium itself, simply because by subsequent closer limitation of the genera it became necessary to transfer of the original species of Poly- podium, described in Linne’s Sp. Plant,, more than half to other chiefly later established genera, not less than 14 belonging to Aspidium and many to Cystopteris, Asplenium, Adiantum, Grammitis, Meniscium, Cheilanthes, Pteris, Davallia, Dicksonia and Cyathea. Descriptive Notes on Fainum Planis. Davallia flaccida. U, 33r. Prodr. 157. On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. M acfarlane. The near relationship of this fern to Dicksonia flavallioides was j>oimetl out already ten years ago in my Fragmenta, v. 118. R. Brown’s name will probably have to give way to the older of D. multifida (Sw. Syn. Fil. 137). Ach. Richard records as occurring at Port Doreh : Vittaria elongata, Sw. Syn. Filic. 19y. Aspidium umitumj Sw. 1. c. 47. Lygodium circinnatum, Sw. 1. c. 153. Acrostichum aureiim, L. Sp. PI. 1069. Besides, Richard mentions several species of Asplenium and Aspidium, some of which were then regarded as new, all requiring yet final identi- fication, being overlooked by the principal writers on ferns. Trichomanes Filicula, Bory in Bot. Voy, Duperr. i. 283. This little and delicate fern was found at Geelvink-Bay by Dr. Meyer. Beyond the plants, alluded to already in this and the previous publi- cation, we are now acquainted mainly through Dr. Scheffer’s important writings also with representatives of the following genera from within the limits of New Guinea : Clematis, Uvaria, PhaBanthus, Flacourtia, Garcinia, Eurya, Gordonia, Rhyssopterys, Gonocaryum, Jodes, Euodia (the Euodia suaveolens, just described by Dr, Scheffer, may perhaps prove to be a form of E. longifolia, A. Rich. Voy. de 1’ Astrolabe 61, t. 22), Soulamea, Hibiscus, Impatiens, Begonia, Celosea, Achyranthes, Smythea, Buchanania, Semecarpus, Sonneratia, Melastoma, Astronia, Rubus, Melothria, Pisonia, Loranthus, Hernandia, Beilschmiedia, Piper, Phaleria, Viburnum, Polyscias, Bidens, Scasvola, Msesa, Myrsine, Payenia, Jasminum, Visiania, Chionanthus, Thylophora, Ipomoea, Lepistemon, Solanum, Ocimum, Cyrtandra, Ruellia, Justicia, Peristrophe, Callicarpa, Clerodendron, Gmelina, Tectona, Faradaya, Avicennia, (Juercus, Araucaria, Cycas, Pandanus, Heliconopsis, Maranta, Hedy- chiuni, Phiynium, Arum, Sagus, Commelyna, Pollia, Flagellaria, Scleria, Carex, Aristida, Rottboeilia, Cenchrus and Saccharum, Dr. Bennett has drawn my attention to some notes on Dr. Odoardo Beccari’s Papuan Plants in Guido Cora’s Cosmos, 1875, p. 94, a copy of which work was obligingly placed at my disposal by tlie Chevalier c M Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Marinuccij Consul General for Italy at Melbourne. These phytologic data have reference to Mount Arfak and occur in a letter^ written by Beccari last year after his ascent of that mountain. He speaks of finding there an Araucaria^ a Gunnera^ an Epilobium and a Balanophora; of which genera no species from any part of Papua were known before. In the same volume of Cora’s journal several passages (at pp, 104^ 105 and 107) are contained from Signor D’Albertis’s letters^ pointing to the occurrence of two Eucalypts at Epa on the Ethrel- or Nicura- River and towards Mount Yule. A representative of the genus Rhododendron seems also to have been found by the Italian sicientific travellers. DESCEIPTIYE YOTES OY PAPUAN PLANTS, BY BAEON FEED. VON lUELLEE, C.I.O., I. & PH.D., E.E.S. III. The collections for this third puhlication on Papuan Plants were mainly obtained by the Eev. S. Macfarlane of the London Mission-Society, and by Mr. Andrew Goldie (an emissary of the great Horticulturist S. B. Williams of London), who had the favor conceded of sharing in the last mission-voyage, which shed so much geographic glory also on the toilsome and perilous enterprises of the devoted divines in the South-East of the Papuan Island. Lastly the celebrated Signor D’Albertis through Dr. G. Bennett’s hind mediation contributed also to the material for these pages. And more — ^it is delightful to add, that from all these investigators of the Paj)ua-land further and grand additions to our knowledge of its plants also may early be expected ; because in the now forthcoming explorations almost certainly the alpine heights will be attained ; these with the middle and perhaps also lower regions of the mountain-tiers must produce large numbers of endemic species among plants also, when the animal creation, while sending many of its forms from the mountains to the coast-lines, exhibited already such a startling display of jjeculiar types. Melbourne, 30th June 1876. 36 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. GUTTIFER/E. Calophyllum inophyllum:. Linne, Species Plautarum, 513. South-East part of New Guinea; D’ Albertis. Fruit not seen. STERCULIACEiE. AbrOMA AUGUSTA. Linne fil. Supplement. Plant. 341. Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Darnley’s Island ; Goldie. Melochia pyramiuata. Linne, Spec. Plant. 774. Port Moresby; Rev. S. Macfarlane. MALYACE^. Thespesia populnea. Solander, according to Correa in Annal. Mus. Paris, ix. 290, t. 8, f. 2. Darnley’s Island ; A. Goldie. MALPIGHIACE^. Ryssopterys Timorensis. Blume in Adr. de Juss. Monographie des Malpighiacees, 133. Port Moresby; Macfarlane and Goldie, Fruits from this localitj^ not yet obtained. The only other coordinal plant on record from New Guinea is Tristellateia Australasica^ A. Rich. Sert. Astrolab. 38^ t. 15. VINIFERiE. Leea sambucina. Willdenow, Spec. Plant, i. 1177. Darnley’s Island; A. Goldie. VlTIS cordata. Wallich, Numerical List, 6008. South-Eastern parts of New Guinea; D’Albertis. Besides we huow throii^ii Miquel’s writing's the following’ plants of this order from New Guinea : Vitis Papuana, Miq. Annal. i, 74, 37 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Vitis pubiflora, Miq. 1. c. 74, Vitis pisocarpa, Miq. 1, c. 79. Vitis diffusa, Miq. 1. c, 83. Vitis rostrata, Miq. 1. c. 85. Leea Zippeliana, Miq. 1. c. 101. Leea Sundaica, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I. pars. ii. 610. The moist jungles of the Papuan Mountains will likely prove to be teeming with plants of the viniferous order. Since many years I have rejected the term Ampelideae, though nearly universal in recent phyto- graphic works, as quite the same word is in full use by Ornithologists, having been adopted in 1831 already by Prince Bonaparte for that group of the Clamatores, of which Ampelis (Linne Syst. Nat. anno 1748) is the type. Surely in any system of nature ought not to re-occur precisely the same names for genera or orders both in the animal and plant-divi- sions; and for this reasonable principle Reichenbach and a few others have contended, though only with very scanty success. Moi'eover Jaume de Saint Hilaire established his original gi-oup of Viniferm with its also very expressive name in 1805 already (Expos. Famil. ii. 48, t. 79) according to Pfeiffer’s great and really most accurate work ; whereas the term Ampelidem occurs first in Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth, Nova Genera et Species Plantar, v. 222, as late as 1821. The less significant name Sarmentosse, adopted already in 1799 by Ventenat (Tableau du Regne Vegetale, iii. 1G7) in the limitation of Viniferse, was restricted from Linne’s Philosophia Botanica 32 anno 1751, where however it included both Mono- and Dicotyledonous plants, Sprengel in 1817 (Anieitung zur Kenntniss der Gewaechse, zweite Ausgabe, i. 219) restiicts the Sar- mentaceae to some liliaceous groups ; hence the appellation has become utterly ambiguous. ZYGOPHYLLE^. Tribulus terrestris. Linne, Spec. Plant. 387. Darnley’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie. De rObel (Plantarum sen Stirpium leones ii. 84) already in 1581 bestowed precisely the same generic and specific name on tliis well known plant without any further designation. There seems thus really no reason, as Sprengel and others long since have pointed out, why for this and numerous other plants the ancient authorities should not be D 2 88 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. restored. Could the great Linne have foreseen^ how much stress in later times vvifh increasing material would he laid necessarily on the precise chronologic authority for all genera and species as well of plants as of animals, then with his strong sense of justice he would doubtless have maintained also the imnies for species, established by his predecessors, in all those cases certainly when one single speciiic word only was chosen for the designation. The question therefore arises, whether as the merest act of right the oldest species-names, limited to one apt word and ap})Iied correctl}^ to a germs, should be restored. A number of meritorious and toiling men, whose literary labors have sunk gradually into unde- served oblivion, would then share anew in the honor of sponsorship for the specific surnames of plants and animals, originally given by them. At all events wherever Linne himself adopted the very specific appel- lations from writers before him, no difficulty ought to exist to return to the original authorities, as this would not involve any undesirable change whatever of names maintained by the usages of more than a century. I find that already in the first edition of Linne’s Species Plantarum not less than 286 plants are adduced with only one specific name from previous literature, so far as they ai’e correctly }>laced in their genus. Although to hardly any of these the least exception could rightly be taken at the present day, yet it might perhaps be too much to ask to restore them all, inasmuch as in The majority of cases a change of the specific word would become needful. But tliere remain still 114 species to be considered, the ancient names of which both generic and specific were left unchanged by the great Swedish naturalist. A list of these is given below from Linne’s own quotations, although I am aware that not in every instance modern critical research coincides in the views held by Linn^ to what particular species, as now defined, these oldest names slionld be drawn. Linne himself must have been led by De FObel, de I’EcIuse, Gasp, Bauhin and others to recognize the necessity of confining the specific appellations throughout to one word, by which principle he at once gained such glorious clearness for all his specific designations, obtaining thus also brevity for the systematic record of all the organic beings, as well zoological as phytological, known at his time, and this in a manner to call forth the imitation and admiration of all ages, and to stamp Linne’s name for ever on every square mile of the inhabitable portion of the globe tlirough the organic creation. l^ammculus aqnatiiis, Dodon. Stirp. Hist. Pempt. 387 ; R. bulbosus, Lobel. Plant, seu Stiiqi. Icon. 666 ; Anemone trifolia, Dod. Pempt. 436 ; Calllia paiustris, 39 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. C. Baiihin Pinax, 276 ; Thalictrum minus, Dod. Pempt. 58 ; K'ymplifca alba, J. earner, de Plant. Kpitom. Util. 63t ; Lepklium latifolium, C. Bauh. Pin. 97 ; Thlaspi montamim, Clus. Rar. Stirp. Hist. ii. 131 ; Dontaria pentaphyllos, C. Bauh. Pin. 322 ; Chelidonium majus, Puclis de Hist. Stirp. Comment, 805 ; Viola odorata, Rencalm Speeim, Hist. Pi. 141, t. 140 ; V. tricolor, Ron. Speoim. 144, t. 140; Geranium nodosum, C. Bauh. Pin. 318; Malva erispa, Uod. Pempt. 653 ; Vitis Tinifera, C. Bauh. Pin. 229 ; Rhus coriaria. Hod. Pempt. 779 ; Platanus occiden- talis, Catesb. Nat. Hist, of Carolina, i. 56, t. 56 ; Populus alba, Hod. Ikmpt. 835 ; P. treniula, C. Bauh. Pin. 429 ; P. nigra, C. Bauh. Pin. 429 ; Cannabis sativa, C. Bauh. Pin. 320 ; Amarantus tricolor, Lob. Icon. 252 ; Atriplex hortensis, Hod. Pempt. 615 ; Chorispermum hyssopifolium, Ant. de Jussieu in Act. Acad. Paris, 1712, p. 244; Mesembrianthemum calamiforme, Hilleu. Hort. Klthamens. 239, t. 186 ; M. bellidiflorum, Hill. Hort. Elth. 244, t. 189 ; M. loreum, Hill. Hort. Elth. 264, t. 200 ; Reseda lutea, J. Bauhin ct Chei’ler. Histor. Plant. Univ. iii. 467 ; Ebe- nus Cretica, Alpin. de Plant. Exotic. 279, t. 278 ; Astragalus Bceticus, Clus. Hist. ii. 234 ; A. Syriacus, Lob. Icon. 79 ; A. Monspessubmus, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist. iii. 338 ; Cicer arietinum, Hod. Pempt. 525 ; Melilotus Italica, J. Camcrar. Hort. Med. et Phil. 99, t. 29 ; Trifolinm repens, Kivin. Ord. Plant. PI. Tetrapet. 17 ; T. pratense, J. Gamer, dc PI Epit. 582 ; T. stellatuni, C. Bauh. Pin. 329 ; T. fragi- fcnim, Yaillant. Botanic. Paris, 195, t. 22 ; T. agnirium, Hod. Pempt 576 ; Mcdi- cago sativa, Morison PI. Hist. Uuivers. ii. 150, t. 16 ; M. marina, Gins, Hist. ii. 243 ; M. scutellata, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist, iii. 384 ; 'M. Arahica, J. Gamer. Hort. Med. 97, t. 27 ; Pliaseolus vulgaris, Lobel. Icon. 59 ; Lathyrus silvestris, Clus. Hist. ii. 129 ; L. latifolius, C. Bauh. Pin. 344 ; Vicia sepium, Kivin. Ord. PI. FI. Tetrap. 66 ; V. Narbonnensis, Riv. Ord. PI. PI. Tetrap. 56 ; Anagyris foetida, C. Bauh. Pin. 391 ; Kubus odoratus, Cormit. Canad. PI. Hist. 149, t. 150; Rosa cglanteria, Tabern. Eicon. Plant. 1087 ; Alchemilla vulgaris, C. Bauh. Pin. 319 ; Rhamnus catharticus, C. Bauh. Pin. 478 ; Asarum Canadense, Cornnt. Canad. PI. Hist. 24, t. 25 ; Aristolocbia rotunda, Clus. Hist. ii. 70 ; A. longa, Clus, Hist. ii. 70 ; Cucur- bita verrucosa, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist. ii. 222 ; Sium latifolium, C. Bauh. Pin. 154 ; Angelica silvestris, Hod, Pempt. 318 ; Laserpitium Gallicum, C. Bauh. Pin. 156 ; Annni majus, C. Bauh. Pin. 159 ; Eryngium maritimum, Clus. Hist. ii. 169 ; Galium ruhruni, C. Bauh. Pin. 355 ; Santalum album, C. Bauh. Pin. 392 ; Scabiosa arvensis, Tabernaimont. Krieuterbuoh, 442 ; Eupatmlum canuabimrm, C. Bauh. l^in. 320 ; Artemisia vulgaris, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist. iii. 184 ; Helichrysiim orieiitale, C. Bauh. Pin. 264 ; Chrysanthemum segetum, Clus. Hist. ii. 70; Am- brosia maritima, C. B.auh. Pin. 138 ; Carduus nutans, J. Bauh. ct Cherl. Hist. iii. 56 ; C. acanthoides, J. Bauh. ct Cherl. Hist. iii. 59 ; Cicliorium spiuosum, C. Bauh. Pin, 126 ; Chondrilla juncca, Tabernsem. Krajutorb. 487 ; Lactuca sativa, C. Bauh. Pin. 122 ; Pyrola minor, Rivin. Ord. PI. FI. Pentapet. 149 ; Gcntiana cruciata, Bauh. Pin. 188 ; Glaux maritima, Bauh. Pin. 215 ; Soldanella alpina, J. Gamer, de PI. Epitom. 254 ; Glohularia spinosa, Tournefort Instit. rei herhar. 476 ; Plantago major, J. Camer. de PI. Epitom. 261 ; Cuscuta majoi*, C. Bauh. Pin. 219; Higitalis purpurea, Hod. I*empt. 168; Orobanche ramosa, C, Bauh, Pin. 491; Fraxinus excelsior, C. Bauh. Pin. 416 ; Idiillyrca angustifolia, C. Bauh. Pin. 476 ; Echium Creticum, Clus. Hist. ii. 143 ; Cerinthe minor, C. Bauh. Pin. 258 ; Satureja 40 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. montana, C. Bauh. Pin. 218 ; S. hortensis, C. Bauh. Pin. 218 ; Lavandula latifolia, C. Bauh. Pin. 216; L. angustifolia, C. Bauh. Pin. 216; Ocimura minimum, C. Bauh. Pin. 226 ; Marrubium vulgare, Clus. Hist. ii. 34 ; Prunella hyssopifolia, C. Bauh. Pin. 261 ; Finns silvestris, C. Bauh. Pin, 491 ; Juniperus Bermudiana, Hermann Hort. Acad. Lugd. Rat. 345, t. 347 ; Sparganium ramosura, C. Bauh. Pin. 15 ; Colchicura montanum, Clus. Bar. Stirp. Hisp. Hist. 266 ; Crocus sativus, C. Bauh. Pin. 65 ; Narcissus serotinus, Clus. Hist. i. 162 ; Allium sativum, Bauh. Pin. 73 ; A. ursinura, Fuchs de Hist. Stirp. Comment. 739 ; Fritillaria Pyrenaica, Clus, Hist. ii. 256 ; Ornithogalum Pyrenaicum, Clus. Cur.Postr. 21 ; O. Arabicum, Clus. Hist. 189 ; Hyacinthus Orientalis, Bauh. Pin. 44; Hordeum distichum, C. Bauh. Pin. 22 ; Equisetum silvaticum, Tabernacm. Krasuterb. 562 ; Ophioglossum vulgatura. C. Bauh. Pin. 364 ; O. palmatum, Plumier Filicet. American. 139, 1. 163; Polypodium vulgare, C. Bauh. Pin. 359. Linne himself made already in 1737 exceptionally use of the merely dual appellation of plants in his Flora Lapponica. EUPHORBIACE^. Securtnega Abyssinica. A. Richard, Teutam. FI. Abyssin. ii. 256. Darnley’s Island 5 A. Goldie. Euphorbia Atoto. G. Forster, Florul. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 36. Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie. URTICE^. Trema cannabina. Lonreiro, Flora Cochinchinensis, edit. Willd. 689. Port Moresby ; A. Goldie, Fleurya interrupta. Gaudichaud, Voyage de PUranie, Bot. 497. Darnley’s Island. PoUZOLZIA QUINQUENERVIS. Bennett in Horsfield. Plant. Javan. Rarior. 66. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. Blume and Miquel have recorded already from New Guinea the following* Urticem ; Celtis paniculata, Planchon in Annales des Scienc, Nat. 1848, p, 305. 41 • Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Celtis Zippelii^ Planch. 1. c. Celtis latifolia, Planch. 1. c. Gironniera rhamnifolia, Bl. Mns. Bot. Lugcl. ii. 74, Fleurja ruderalis, Gaud. Voy. Uran. 497. Villebrunia murina, Blume Mus. Bot. Lug-d. 160. Villebrunia rufescens, Bl. 1. c. Villebrunia rhodopleura, Bl. 1. c. All three doubtful^ so far as generic position is concerned^ and transferred by Miquel to Oreocnide. Cypholophus latifolius^ Wedd. in Cand. Prodr. xvi. 235. Cypholophus vestitus, Miq, FI. Ind. Bat. i. pars. alt. 263. Cypholophus prostratus, Wedd. 1. c. Cypholophus melanocarpus, Miq. 1. c. Streblus asper, Lour. FI. Cochin, ii. 615. Ficus pilosa, Reinw. in Miq. Annal. iii. 260. Ficus cuspidata, Reinw. in Bl. Bijdr. 464. Ficus obscura, Bl. Bijdr. 474. Ficus ang’ulidens, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pars. alt. p. 310. Ficus parietalis, Bl. Bijdr. 462. Miquel (Annal. iii. 274) mentions that 30 species of Ficus were already gathered in New Guinea by Zippelius, who however did not preserve specimens of thfem, but wrote their descriptions on the spots of discovery. Weddell (in Cand. Prodr. xvi. p. L 169) mentions further from New Guinea : Pellionia elatostemoides, Gaudichaud, Botaniq. Voy. Freycen. t. 119. * AMARANTACE^. Deeringia celosioides. R. Br. Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. 413, Port Moresby 5 A. Goldie. Moquin-Tandon (in Candolle's Prodr. xiii. tom. ii. pag. 326) gives as Papuan : Cyathula geniculata, Loureiro, Flora Cochinchinensis, i. 101. LEGIJMINOS.E. PSORALEA ArCHERI. P. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr, iv. 21, Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane, 42 Deseriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Desmodium umbellatum, Cand. Prodr. ii. 325. Port Moresby ; Macfarlane and Goldie. Sent also by Signor D’Albertis. Indigofera linifolia. Retzius, Observation. Botan. iv. 29. Port Moresby^ Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island; A. Goldie. Indigofera trifoliata. Linne, Amoen. Acad. iv. 327. Yule’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie. Pyonospora hedysaroides. R. Brown in Wight et Arnott Prodr. Plor. Penins. Ind. 197. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. Crotalaria linifolia. Linne fil. Supplem. Plantar. 328. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. Canavalia obtusifolia. Candolle, Prodrom. Syst. Nat. Regn. Yeg.' ii. 404. Port Moresby; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Galactia tenuiflora. Wight et Arnott, Prodr. 206. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. Uraria cercifolia. Desvaux, Journal de Botanique, iii. 122, t. 5, f. 19, Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. SOPHORA TOMENTOSA, Linne, Spec. Plant. 373. Darnley’s Island; A. Goldie, Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 43 C^SALPINIA BoNDUCELLA. Fleming, Asiatic Researches, xi. 159. Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie, Fruit not seen. LYTHRACE^. Pemphis acidula, R. et G. Forster, Characteres Generum, 67, t. 34. Darnley’s Island; A. Goldie, RUBIACEtE, Knoxia corymbosa. Willdenow, Spec. Plant, i. 582. Yule’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie, GuETTARDA SPECIOSA. Linne, Spec. Plant. 991. Darnley’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie. COMPOSITE. Bibexs pilosus, Linne, Spec. Plantar. 832. Port Moresby and Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie. Pterocaulon Billardiert. Monenteles spicatus, Labillard. Sert. Austr. Caled. 43, t. 43. Port Moresby; A. Goldie. Bentbam (J. H. et B. Gen. Plant, ii. 294) has reduced Monenteles to Pterocaulon; in the latter Labillardiere’s species-appellation is already preoccupied by a Brazilian plant. Wedelta biflora. Candolle in Wight’s Contributions, 18. Darnley’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie, 44 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Erigeron linifolius. Willdeno-w, Spec. Plant, iii. 1955. China-Straits; Rev, S, Macfarlane. ASPERIFOLI^, CORDIA SUBCORDATA. Lamarck, Illustrat. des Genr. 1899. /Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. SOLANACE^. SOLANUM VERBASCIFOLIUM. Linne, Spec. Plantar. 184. Port Moresby; A. Goldie. Found at Port Doreh already during the explorations of the French corvette Astrolabe, Other Solanaceae, known as Papuans ; Solanum Schefferi (S. incanura, Scheff. in Annal. du Jardin Botaniq. de Buitenz. 1876, p. 39^ non Linne). INearAndaj; Teysmann. Solanum lasiocarpum (Dunal^ Histoire des Solan, 222). Wear Port Doreh, according to Botanique de FAstrolabe, 1832, p. xxi. Solanum pulvinare (Scheff. 1. c.). Ajambori, Teysmann. The cushion-like appearance, which the spe- cific name would imply, is quite exceptional among the many hundred species of Solanum hitherto described. COWVOLVULAOE.^. Ipomcea quinata. R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 486. Yule’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie. LABIATiE. Anisomeles salvifolia. R. Brown, Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. 503. Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 45 Orthosiphon stamineus. Bentham in Wailich's Plant. Asiatic. Earior. ii. 15. Yule’s Island; A. Goldie. A variety with toothless leaves. Neither Miquel nor Scheffer (An- nales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzor^^ 1876) have any plant of the LabiatEe in their lists of New Guinean plants. The missionaries have sent a Plectranthus also, but not in flower for exact naming. XEROTIDE^. Xerotes Banksii. R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 263. On Baxter’s River; Jam, Orkney. The specimens are without flowei's and fruits ; but there seems no doubt, that they belong to the genuine Banksian plant, which the writer has also ascertained to extend to New Caledonia. Mr. Orkney gathered several other plants, all communicated to me by R. Br. Smjth, Esq. ; but they are identical with the species previously recorded in these pages. IIYDROCHARIDE^. Enhalus acoroides. Ii. C. Richard in Memoir, de I’Institute, 1811, tom. ii. p. 64. Frequent on some parts of the New Guinean coast; Dr. F. Naumann. Observed during the voyage of the Imperial German corvette Gazelle, according to Dr. Ascherson, the able monographer of the oceanic Mono- cotyledonese. See Annalen der Hydrographie und Maritimen Meteoro- logie, March 1876. COMMELYNE.Tl. COMMELYNA ENSIFOLIA. R. Brown, Prodrom. FI. Nov. Holl. 269. Port Moresby and Darnley’s Island; Rev. S. Macfarlane and A. Goldie, CYPERACEiE. Cypeuus monocephalus. F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. viii. 271. Darnley’s Island ; Goldie. 46 Descnj>twe Notes on Papuan Plants. ISOLEPIS BAKBATA. R. Brown, Prodr. PL Not. Holl. 222. Port Moresby ; Macfarlane and Goldie. GRAMINE^. Saccharum spontaneum. Linne, Mantissa Plantarum, 183. Yule’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie. Recorded already by Ach. Richard from Port Doreh. Apluba mutica. Linne, Spec. Plant. 82. Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Andropogon rottbcellioibes. Steudel, Glumac. i. 382. Darnley’s Island ; A. Goldie. Coelorachis muricata (Brog’n. in Duperrey’s Voy. Bot. 65, t. 14), which undoubtedly represents the Ischaemum rottboellioides (R. Br. Pr. 205) is by Steudel adduced to Ischsemum pectinatum (Trin. Act. Petro- pol. 296). Andropogon annulatus. Porskaal, Plor. -®gypt. Arabic. 173. Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane. The form with long-bearded bracts and elongated awns, described by R. Brown as A. sericeus. Andropogon contobtus. Linne, Spec. Plantar. 1045. Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. The Eucalyptus-countr}'' inland also is densely covered with this grass, except low swampy localities, according to Mr. Goldie’s note. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 47 Andropogon haleppensis. Sibthorp et Smith, Mora Gr^ca, t. 68. Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. The variety -with smaller spikelets, considered by some to have claims as a species, namely A. tropicus (Spreng. Syst. Veg\ i. 287). Anthistiria ciliata, liinne fil. Dissertat. de Nov. Gramin. Gener. 35. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. Panicum virgatum. Linne, Spec. Plant. 59, Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane. Panicum sanguinale. Linne, Spec. Plant. 57. Port Moresby ; Macfarlane and Goldie. The form with elongated spikes, superposed on an extended axis. See Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. viii. 154. Eleusine cruciata. Lamarck, Encycl. Methodiq. t. 48, f. 2. Darnley’s Island ; A. Goldie. Perotis rara. R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 172. Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfrrlaue. Leptaspis Banksii. R. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 211. Port Moresby; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island; A. Goldie. Miquel records as Papuan grasses : Aristida ramosa, R. Br. Pr. 173. Centotheca lappacea, Desv. Journ. de Bot. 1813, p. 70. Saccharum macilentum, Chauv, in Sleud. Glum, 406. 48 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, FILICES. Cheilanthes tenuifolia, Swartz. Synops. Filic. 129. Yule’s Island ; Goldie. Polypodium irioides. Poiret in Lam. Encycl. Meth. v. 513. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. Polypodium phymatodes. Linne, Mautiss. Plant. 360. Darnley’s Island* A. Goldie. Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. iii.) gives the following species from Papuan collections : P, sinuosum^ Wall. Catal. 2231. P. linguiforme, Mett. Pil. Ind. 225. P. quercifblium, Linne^ Sp. PI. 1087. P. Linnoei, Bory in Annal des Sc. Nat. v. 464, t. 12, P. rigidulum, Sw. Syn. Pil. 38. P. femigineum, Bak. in H. et B. Syn. Pil. 318. P. acrosticlioides, G. Porst. Plorul. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 81. Baker (in Hooker’s Synops. Pil. sec. edit. p. 350) notes as Papuan : P. stigmosum, Swartz. Synops. Pil. 29. Aspidium ramosum. Beauvois, Flore d’Oware, 91. South-East Papua j D’ Albertis. Mettenius has shown, that the following congeners exist also in New Guinea : A. immersum, Bl. Enum. Pil. Jav. 156. A. truncatum, Gaudich. in Pj-eyc. Yoy. t. 10. A. Pica, Desv. in Berl. Mag. v. 319. A. acutmn, Sclikulir Kryptog. Gewsechs. 32, t. 31. A. exaltatiun, Swartz Syn. Pil. 45. If Oleandra becomes reduced to Aspidium, as well might be done, then 0. neriiformis (Cavanill. Prsel. 1801, n. 623) requires to be recorded on 49 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, this occasion as an additional Papuan Aspidium (A. neriiforme, Sw. Sjn, Fil. 42), according* to Hook, et Bak. Syn. Fil. second edit. 302, 0. museefolia, Kunze in Metten. Filic. Ind. 240, stands also on record from New Guinea, according* to Miq. Annal. i. 240, Adiantum lunulatum, Burmann, Flor. ludic. 235. Darnley’s Island; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Davallia elegans. Swartz Sjnops. Felic. 132, China-Straits; Rev. S. Macfarlane, Asplenium Scolopendropsis. Entirely glabrous ; steins creeping and rooting ; fronds simple, thinly chartaceous or almost membranous, elongate narrow-lanceolar, more or less sinuate-denticulate, gradually narrowed into a long wingless stipes ; veins simple or consisting of two branches, prominent, extending in almost parallel lines to the edge ; sori broad, in pairs, traversing the whole width of the frond from the stout midrib to the margin ; the indusia of each pair touching each other with their edge, but disunited from the commencement; sporangia of each indusium separated from those of the other in each pair by an ample empty interstice. In the South-East pai’t of New Guinea; D’ Albertis. Rootlets, so far as seen, distant and not much branched, either very short or extending to simple wiry fibres sometimes over a span long. Fronds |-1 J foot long, to about 1 inch broad, very gradually acumi- nated ; the margin often wavy and with rather distant and irregular denticulations ; veins very spreading. The paired sori somewhat distant from each other ; the very tender indusia of each pair covering a width of about one line or rather more. This remarkable Asplenium invalidates still more the limits of Scolo- pendrium as a genus, the reunion of the latter with the former becoming almost unavoidable. The sori of the typic Scolopendrium vulgare (Smith in Memoir. Acad. Roy. des Scienc. Turin, v. 421, t. 9, f. 2) are however at the early state of growth covered by indusia, which overlap each other, the sporangia within forming a crowded uninterrupted mass. Specific distinctions to separate this new species from the ordinary 8colo- pendrium are further easily derived from the total absence of a scaly 50 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, covering of the stipes and midrib, the long creeping stems, the generally more tender consistence of the fronds, their narrowness, acute base. Ions* acumen and often manifest denticulations, the very conspicuous not almost concealed veins, and the sori approaching as well to the edge as to the midrib. There is on record an evidently allied Scolopendrium from the Philippine -Islands, namely S. longifolium (PresL Reliquije Haenkean. 48, t. 9, f. 1), which Sir Will, Hooker united with the later described S, pinnatum (J. Smith in Hook, Journ. of Bot. hi. 406), This I have here been unable to compare ; but also Baker (in Hook, et Bak. Syn. Fil. 247) describes the fronds as subcoriaceous ; nor is there any tendency in Signor D’Albertis’s plant, of which we have several specimens, to any division pinnate or otherwise of the fronds. Mettenius however keeps the simple -fronded plant distinct as Micropodium longifolium (Filic. Ind. ii. 233). Other species of this genus, known as Hew Guinean, according to Hooker, Mettenius and Baker : A. scandens, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. hi. 408. A. cyatheefolium, Bory in Rich. Voy. d’ Astro], Bot. 19. A. vulcanicum, Bl. Enum. Fil. Jav. 176, A. Nidus, Linne Sp. PI. 1079. A. decussatum, Sw. Syn. Fil. 76. A. tenerum, G, Forst. Prodr, 80. A. LATIFOLIUM, D. Bon., Prodrom. PI. Nepalens. 8. About 15 miles inland from Port Moresby; A. Goldie. The sender found the stem three feet high, hence mentions this as a small treefern. It is still necessary, that from living plants the full characteristics of A. latifolium, A. Schkuhrii and A. silvaticum should he more clearly set forth. A. decussatum, which also bears much resemblance, has simply pinnate fronds and anastomosing veins. Achostichum scandens. J. Smith in Hooker’s Joiurnal, iv. 149. China-Straits ; Rev. S. Macfarlane, Mettenius in Miq. Anna!, iv. 294 notes his Lomariopsis spectabilis, which according to Baker (Hook, et Bak. Syn. Fil. sec. edit. 412) must be regarded as one of the many forms of A. sorbifolium, L. Sp. PI. 1069. DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPDAN PLANTS, BT BAEON FEED. YON MUELLEE, I. & PH.D., F.E.S. IV. The following pages will give an account of a portion of the plants, collected during the latter part of this year by Signor D’Albertis along the Fly- River, and by Mr. A. Goldie in the country beyond Port Moresby. The remaining portion of the collections, kindly submitted to me by these courageous travellers, will be noted in a subsequent part of the present publication. In the first exploration of an unknown country, the means for elucidating its natural products are never perfect ; hence also in this instance some of the plants must be retained until further searches may complete the material needful for accurate investi- gation, especially as the lowland-jungle plants of New Guinea stand in close relation to those of insular India, the Philippines and Polynesia, a close analytic comparison of the species being therefore needful. The learned Dr. Beccari has commenced to prepare at Florence the descriptions of his Papuan Plants for Caruel’s Giorale Botanico Italiano ; but the portion of that* im- portant periodical, relating to the New-Guinean collections, has not appeared or at all events not yet reached Australia. But Dr. Beccari examined the vegetation of some of the north-western portions of the great Papuan Island, whereas Signor D’Albertia E 52 Descnptwe Notes on Papuan Plants. and Mr, Groldie explored in the south-east, a considerable difference of the vegetation in the two extremes of the large island being not unlikely. It remains for me to record on this occasion the friendly interest evinced by Dr, Gr. Bennett, the Kev. S. Macfarlane and the Rev. Dr. Turner in promoting my studies of the Papuan Plants, and I shall gladly continue these researches, to obtain a clear insight into the relation, in which the jungle-plants of New Guinea are standing to those of tropical Australia, where I instituted field-observations in 1855 and 1856, while the comparison of the alpine plants of New Guinea hereafter with the vegetation of the Australian Alps, investigated by me fully in 1853, 1854 and 1857-1861, will have to me a particular charm, inasmuch as the Papuan Alps are the nearest northward to those of Australia. Melbourne, December 1876. NEPENTHACE^. Nepenthes ampullaiua. Jack in Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist, iy, n. 13. Fly-River; DAlbertis. The only specimen consists of a young plant, with pitchers on leafless stalks. Although leaves, flowers and fruits are unknown yet from New Guinea, there seems to be no reason to doubt the identity of the plant with that of Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo, the species being easily recognized by the proportionately broad peristome of the turgid ascidia and by the narrowness of the operculum. CAPPARIDE^. Cleome viscosa. Linne, Spec. Plant. 672, Port Moresby ; Goldie. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 53 OLACIN^. Opilia amentacea. Roxburgh, Plants of Coromandel, ii. 31, t. 158. O. pentitidis, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 24:6. Port Moresby j Goldie. Lasianthera litoralis. Miquel, Flor. Ind. Batav. i. 792, Fly-River; D’ Albertis. It is supposed, that it is this species, which Blume (Mus. Bot. Lugd. Batav. i. 250) had in view, when he described it, without having flowers or fruits, as a Stemonurus. D’Albertis’ plant approaches Lasianthera Australiana (F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 3 et 253), but the leaves are still larger, the fruit is nearly double the size, and the albumen splits into halves, while in the Queensland species the albumen remains consoli- dated. Flowers of the New-Guinean plant have not yet been obtained ; those of L. Australiana show naked anthers with parallel cells. Blume and Scheffer quote as olacinaceous plants from New Guinea ; Jodes ovalis, Bl. Bijdr. 30. Cardiopteris lobata. Wall, list, 8033. Gonocaryon macrocarpum, Schefier, Annales du Jard. Bot. de Buiten- zorg, i, 13. MELIACE.E. TuRRiEA PUBESCENS. Hellenius in Kongl. Swensk Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 1788, p. 26, t. 10, f. 3. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. A lengthened description of this species was published in 1860 by me in the essay on Fitzalan’s plants from the estuary of the Burdekin- River. To that may be added ; Seeds sometimes black. Arillus carnu- ient, orange-colored, clasping the inner side of the seed. SAPINDACE^. Carbiospeumum: Halicacabum, Linne, Spec. Plant. 366, Port Moresby ; Goldie, E 2 54 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. BIXACE^. CoCHLOSPEimUM Gillivrayi. Bentham, Plor. Austral, i. 106. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. It remains doubtful, whether this can specifically be separated from the previously described C. Gregorii (F. v. M. Fragm. i. 71) ; the width of the leaf-segments affords no characteristic, and the extent of the cleavage of the leaves is also subject to considerable variations. Fruits of the New-Guinean plant have not been accessible for comparison ; the flowers are rather smaller than in the Australian typical plant. The downy vestiture, less divided leaves and larger flowers distinguish already the Indian C. Gossypiuin. Flacourtia cataphracta, Boxb. in Willd. Spec. Plant, iv. 830, is men- tioned by Dr. Scheffer as a New-Guinean plant. RUTACE^. Micromelum pubescens. Blume, Bijdragen tot cle Mora van Nederlandsch Indie, 137. Euobia hortensis. R. et G. Borster, Char. Geuerum, 14, t. 7. Fly-River 5 D’Albertis. Glycosmis pentaphylla. Correa in Annales du Musee, vi. 384. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. ANACARDIACE^. Semecarpus Cassuvium. Roxburgh, Flora Indica, ii. 85. Fly River ; D’Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie, Only leaves have been obtained. Miquel and Scheffer add the following Papuan plants as coordinal : Mangifera Taipan, Hamilt. in Transact. Wern. Soc. Mangifera mucronulata, Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 201. Buchanania macrophylla, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 185, Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 55 STERCTJLIACE.^. Melhania incana. Heyne in Wight et Arnott’s Prodr. 68. Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner. Melochia corchorifolia. Dillenins, Hort, Elth. 221, f. 217 ; Linne, Spec. Plant. 675. Port Moresby ; Goldie, Melochia Vitiensis.. Asa Gray, Botany of the United States Exploring Expedition, 193. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. This species is very closely allied to the Indian M. tiliEefolia (A. Gr. 1. c. ; Riedleya tiliEefolia, Cand. Prodr. i. 491), a main distinction consisting in the coherence of the stamens only at the suddenly dilated base, the greater part of the filaments being capillary and free. The winged seeds distinguish our plant already from M. odorata (L. fil. Suppl. Plant. 302), which occurs in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. See F. v. M. in Campbell’s New Hebrides, Append, p. 9'^ MALVACE.^. Urena lobata. Linne, Spec, Plant. 692. Port Moresby ; Goldie, SiDA SPINOSA. Linne, Spec. Plant. 683^ Port Moresby ; Goldie. Abutilon auritum. G. Don, Gen. Syst. of Uichlam. Plants, i. 500. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. Very closely allied to A. Indicum. The shape of the stipules is subject to considerable variation. This species occurs also in New Caledonia, according to Mons. Puncher’s collection, Abutilon Indicum:. G. Bon, Gen. Syst. of Uichlam. Plants, i. 504. Port Moresby; Rev. Br. Turner. Barnley-Island; Reedy. Collected also in New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown. 66 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Hibiscus ttliaceus. Linne, Spec. Plant. 694. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Recorded also by Achilles Richard from Port Doreh. Hibiscus ficulneus. Linne, Spec. Plant. 695. Port Moresby ; Goldie, Hibiscus Abelmoschus. Linne, Spec. Plant. 696. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Hibiscus Notho-Manihot. P. V, M. Pragm. Pliytogr. Austr. v. 57. Port Moresby; Goldie. The Papuan plant dilFers slightly from that of Queensland in the spathaceous not bilabiate coherence of the sepals. The ripe capsule is about 1 J inch long, ovata, 5-angular, soft-hairy, narrowly contracted at the summit; seeds numerous, oblique 'ovate-globular, short-downy. To this species is perhaps referable H. angulosus (Masters in J. Hookei*’s Flora of British India, 341 ; Abelmoschus angulosus, Wallich in Wight et Arnott’s Prodr, FI. Penins. Ind. Orient. 63). The Indian plant according to Wight’s illustration 951 is far more hispid, but seems to agree with ours in other respects. Thwaites (Enum. Plant. Zeil. 26) distinguishes varieties with yellow and purple petals. The real Hibiscus Manihot (L. Sp. 696) has longer and less acuminated lobes of the leaves, with lesser and larger indentations and deflexed pedicels ; but the value of all these characteristics has by reiterated examination of copious specimens again to be tested. Roxburgh (Flora Indica, iii. 212) describes the capsules of H. Manihot (his H. pentaphyllus) as 6-seeded, but probably had 5-seeded fruit-cells in view. Hibiscus vitifolius. Linne, Spec. Plant. 696. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Hibiscus D’Albertisii. (Sect. Ketmia.) Woody, minutely star-hairy; leaves large^ cordate-roundish^ without lobes and teeth ; stipules broad, early deciduous ; pedicels solitary, much 57 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, shorter than the flower ; involucel consisting of Jive cordate-lanceolar segments ; calyx nearly twice as long as the involucel; its lobes longer than the tube, ovate-lanceolar, overlapping at the margin, faintly three- nerved ; petals large, beset with scattered star-hair at the outer side ; staminal tube to near the middle without filaments and densely star- hairy ; filaments considerably longer than the dark anthers ; styles short- exserted. Fly- River; D’AIbertis. Likely a tall plant. Branches robust. Leaves measuring from 3 to 7 inches, paler beneath, almost glabrous above. Petioles 1-4 inches long. Stipules oval-lanceolar or at the base cordate, 4-6 lines long. Pedicels axillary, about ] inch or less long. Involucel persistent, folded at the base. Calyx nearly IJ inch long. Petals measuring nearly 3 inches in length. Staminal column almost as long. Styles to the extent of 2 or 3 lines exserted. Fruit unknown. This grand species comes in its affinity nearest to H, tulipiflorus (Hook. Icon. t. 70?) from Dominica and Guadeloupe ; the leaves are however not obviously crenated, nor form a deep basal sinus; the flower- stalks are very much shorter; the involucel consists only of 5 (not 7 or 8) segments, which are not narrowed at the base ; the petals are not silky-velvety at the back. Probably the comparison of the fruit may offer further distinctions. Our new Papuan species bears also some resemblance to the Javan II. venustus (Plume’s Bijdrag. 71); the leaves are however lobeless and teethless and not densely tomentose beneath ; the flowers so far as seen are not corymbose. H, micans (Cav. Dissert. 167, t. lx.) differs already in its angular serrated leaves, shining-downy on both sides, and in somewhat narrower segments of the involucel. H. fragrans (Roxb. FI. Indie, iii. 195) is distinguished also by serrated leaves, paniculate flowers, segments of the involucel ovate and towards the base connate. H. platycalyx (Masters in Oliver’s Flora of Tropical Africa, i. 202) differs in sinuous denticulated leaves, persistent very narrow stipules and anthers only towards the summit of the column. Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis. Linne, Spec. Plant. 694. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie. It seems truly indigenous. 58 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, TILIACE^. Grewia pleiostigma. F, V. M, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. yiii. 4. Fly-River; D’Albertis. The specimens from New Guinea, which precisely accord with those of North-Queensland, are also without fruit; hence the generic position of this plant remains still unsettled. Dr. Scheffer gives as a coordinal Papuan plant : ElseoCarpus edulis, Teijsm. et Binn. in Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxvii. 25. AMARANTACE^. Achyranthes aspera. Liuue, spec. PJant. 204. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Alternanthera sessilis. K. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 417. Port Moresby ; Goldie. PLUMBAGINEiB. Plumbago Zeilanica. Linne, Spec. Plant. 151. Port Moresby; Goldie. In distributing’ the monochlamydeous orders among the Thalamiflorm and Calyciflorse, as I have done in many recent writings, it was deemed expedient also to place the PIumbagineEe, usually regarded as synpeta- lous or monopetalous, along with the other orders, recognized by their amylaceous albumen. The petals are free in many species of Statice and Armeria, while the straight embr}^ (leaving Dianthus and Pisonia out of consideration) places the Plumbaginem near to the Franlceniaceae among orders with mealy albumen, these two ordinal groups being also in other respects closely allied, NYOTAGINE^. Bcerhaavia biffusa. Linne, Spec. Plant. 3. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Nyctaginese are also best left along with the curvembryonate orders, producing amylaceous seeds and a tubular calyx. 59 Descriptive Notes on Papxian Plants. B. diffusa is a plant of the widest distribution within the tropic circles, except in America, reaching* in Australia far beyond the tropics to the south-coast, but advancing- neither to Tasmania nor New Zealand. Thus it is one of the very few plants, occurring in the small coral-islands of the Union- Gilbert- and Ellice-Groups, from whence collections of plants are placed at my disposal by the Rev. S. T, Whit- mee, who with a most enlightened zeal sent specially an emissary, Mr. Jensen, to gather all the plants of these isolated specs in the wide Pacific Ocean. Inasmuch as the vegetation of Polynesia has manifold bearings on that of New Guinea, I avail myself of this opportunity to record briefly the result of my examination of Mr. Jensen’s collection. Plants of the Gilbert- (or Kingmills-) Group : Triumfetta procumbens Forst., Boerhaavia diftusa L., a Pisonia, a Ficus, a Sida, Pemphis acidula Forst., Guettarda speciosa L., Tournefortia argentea Forst., Scaevola Koenigii Vahl, Fimbristylis glomerata Nees, Lepturus repens R. Br., Polypodium phymatodes L. In the Tokelau- or Union-Group (comprising the Fakaofo- and Atahu-Islands) occur besides all the above-mentioned plants, also ; Cardamine sarmentoea Soland,, Acln^ranthes aspera L., Morinda citri- folia L., Cordia subcordata Lam. and Asplenium Nidus L, Mr. Jensen noted besides a Portulaca and a Pandanus. The Ellice-Group (com- prising Nukulselse, Funafuti, Vaitupu, Nui, Nanume and Nanumanga) contains all the plants of the two other groups, also besides : Suriana maritima L., Hibiscus tiliaceus L., a Terminalia, Rhizophora mucronata Lam,, Lumnitzera coccineaW. et A., Cassytha filiformis L., an Acalypha, Pipturus velutinus Wedd., Fleurya ruderalis Gaudich., Canavallia obtusifolia D.C., Gardenia Tahitensis D.C., Premna obtusifolia R. Br., an Ocbrosia, Psilotum triquetrum Sw., Pteris tripartita Sw,, Aspidium exaltatum Sw., Lindsaya lanuginosa Wall, and a seemingly new rubiaceous plant. POLYGONEiE. Polygonum barbattjm. Linne, Spec. Plant. 362. Near Port Moresby; Goldie. Other Papuan plants of this order : Polj^gonum pubescens, Blume, Bijdr. 532. Polygonum Zippelii, Meissn. in Miq. Annal. i. 64. Polygonum polyanthum, Bruyn in Plant. Junghuhnian 304. 60 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Muehlenbeckia gracillima, Meissner in Cand. Prodr. xiv, 145. On the Fly-River ^ D’Albertis. The specimens brought are females without ripe fruit, but so far accord precisely with the East- Australian plant. This is an apt opportunity to notice, that M. platyclada (F. v. M, in Hook, Bot. Magaz. t. 6382) has recently been found in New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown. URTICE^. Ficus opposita. Miqnel in Hooker’s London Journal of Botany, vii. 426. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. I have seen no receptacles, but the leaves are precisely like the deeply trilobed variety of the above-mentioned Australian species, PiPTURUS VELUTINUS. Weddell in Annales des Scienc. Natur. quatr. serie i. 196. Port Moresby; Goldie. Fly-River; D. Albertis. A small-leaved variety with a very thin vestiture and unbranched peduncles. EUPHORBIACE^. CODI^UM CHRYSOSTICTUM. Rumphius, Herbar. Amboin. iv. 66. Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner. HALORAGE^. Ceratophyllum demersum. Linne, Sp. Plant. 992, Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. ONAGREiE. JUSSI,®A REPENS. Linne, Sp. Plant. 388, Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. JuSSIJEA SUFFRUTICOSA. Linne, Sp. Plant. 388. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 61 LEGTJMINOS^. Indigofera viscosa. Lamarck, Encycloped. Methodiq. iii. 247. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. Inbigofera enneaphylla. Linne, Mantiss. 272, Near Port Moresby; Goldie. Crotalaria juncea, Linne, Spec. Plant. 714. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie, Yields the well known Sunn-Hemp. Crotalaria verrucosa. Linne, Spec. Plant. 715. Port Moresby ; Goldie. BaUHINIA WlLLIAMSII. (Sect. Phanera.) Climbing; tendrils circinate, simple; leaves cordate y glabrous , quite entire or at the apex bilobed^ 5-7-nerved from the base; racemes densely many-flowered, brown-silky ; bracts linear-subulate y recurved ; flowers small; calyx with jive blunt very short teeth, finally bilabiate ; petals oval-spatular ; fertile stamens three; staminodia minute, tooth- like ; stigma hardly broader than the style ; ovary brown-silky. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. Leaves measuring 2-^-4 inches, shining above, on rather long slightly hairy soon glabrescent petioles. Cin'hi short. Racemes almost panic- ulate. Bracts nearly 1-^ line long. Pedicels about as long as the calyx, beset with minute narrow bracteoles towards the middle. Calyx about 3 lines long, articulated at the pedicel ; its tube as long as the lips and invested by the disk. Petals scarcely above 3 lines long, silky outside, purplish inside and there almost glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Fertile filaments hardly longer than the petals. Anthers dorsifixed. Style less than 2 lines long. Ovary with few ovules, gibbous at the base ; ovules imbedded along the middle of the cavity. Stipes of the ovary very short, inserted near the upper end of the calyx-tube. Ripe fruit as yet unknown. 62 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. This showy species is dedicated to the gentleman, under whose auspices the important travels of Mr. Goldie originated. It is closely allied to B, scandens (Willd. Sp. Plant, ii. 508); the tendrils are shorter, the vestiture darker, the bracts narrower, the teeth of the calyx much smaller, the petals not roundish, nor with suddenly narrowed base, nor silky inside, the fertile stamens less elongated. Comparison of the fruit is needed. The only other species, which among those known to me bears any close resemblance to ours, is one distributed under the name Phanera rufa Benth, from the Kbasian collections of Drs. Hooker and Thomson ; its leaves are larger and strongly nine-nerved, the tendrils are longer, the bracts broader, while the buds of the calyx are slightly acute not rounded-blunt. I cannot carry further the comparisons, having not seen any well- developed flowers of the Kbasian and Assam plant. The specific name of the latter cannot be maintained, inasmuch as a Brazilian species was described as B. rufa by Bongard (Memoir de I’Academ. Imper. des Scienc. de St. Petersburg, ser, vi. vol. iv. 116). B. piperifolia (Roxb. Plor. Ind. ii. 327) has the leaves more cleft at the summit, the flowers corymbose and on much longer pedicels, their indument paler, the ovary glabrous. B. ferruginea (Roxb. FL Ind. ii, 331) differs in its leaves not quite glabrous, cleft at the base and summit and narrower, in the paler and scantier silk of the racemes, the larger flowers, the broader stigma and probably in other respects. The foliage of B. Williamsii has considerable similarity to that of Barklya syringifolia (F. v. M. Fragm. Phytogr, Austral, i. 109, t. Hi.), which plant might readily be transferred to the tribe of Bauhiniese, more particularly as Oligostemon (Benth. et Hook. Gen, PL i. 570) among Cassiece has also the upper petal placed exteriorly. Sesbania aculeata. Persoon, Synops. Plant, ii. 316. Port Moresby ; Goldie, Abrus precatorius. Linne, Syst. Veg. ed. xii. 472. Hear Port Moresby ; Goldie, Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 63 Flemingia lineata. Eoxburgh, Hort. Beng. 56. Port Moresby; Goldie. Mucuna Bennetti. Leaflets lanceolar-oval, glabrous ; racemes sliortj almost sessile, few- flowered ; calyx densely beset with very short hair and very scantily hispid ; upper lip of the calyx as long as the tube, as well as the lobes of the lower lip narrow and acuminate ; upper petal almost deltoid above the middle^ two-teethed at the apex, as well as the lateral petals not bearded at the edge ; lower petals rery long, arched and upwards very narrow ; lateral petals gradually much narrowed upwards ; anthers of the upper stamen and of the four interjacent lower filaments much shorter than the rest and bearded ; style almost glabrous ; ovary silky. At the Fly-lliver ; D’Albertis. Branches soon glabrous. Petioles up to the pair of leaflets 1-2 inches long; lateral petiolules very short. Leaflets 3-4 inches long, about inch broad. Peduncles, together with the racliis, only about 1 inch long, together 'with the pedicels almost silky ; the latter crow^ded, neaily 1 inch long. Bracts early dropping. Tube of the calyx about ^ of an inch high ; the lowest lobe attaining* ^ an inch in length, the lateral lobes about half as long. Upper petal about inch long; lowest petals nearly 3 inches long, their greatest wddth not over 3 or 4 lines, of firmer consistence at the summit ; lateral petals not much shorter, but considerably broader. Nine of the stamens united to nearly -| of their length. Five of the anthers oblong-linear, nearly 1 line long. Stigma short-bearded. Fruit unknown. The flowers of this new species— which is dedicated to the main pro- moter of Signor D’Albertis’ last expedition, Dr. G. Bennett of Sydney — are nearly as long as those of M. macrobotrya (Hance in Walp, Annal. ii. 422) ; the leaflets of that species are however much larger and conspicuously acuminate, the racemes are elongated, the upper lip of the calyx is much shorter than the tube, the lower lip is also proportionately shorter and its teeth are broader ; the low’er petal is doubly as broad and mucli less curved ; the other petals are also broader, but almost rounded- blunt at tlieir summit and bearded at the edge, while the stamens are to a greater extent disconnected. Likely also the color of the fresh petals and the form of the pods will afford further marks of discrimination. 64 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Except the bearded petals all the above-mentioned characteristics dis- tinguish also M. macrocarpa (Wall. Plant. Asiat. rarioFj i. 43, t. 47). Mucuna monosperma (Cand. Prodr. ii. 406) is easily separated by broader leaflets on longer stalks, by more expanded corymbs, short lobes of the calyx, straighter lower petals and perhaps its fruit. M. Novo- Guineensis (Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. i. 18) is also de- scribed as producing only short teeth of the calyx, with an inflorescence of 5 inches in length and comparatively large leaflets ; but in respect to the latter characteristics M. Bennetti may be subject to variations. The petals of Mr. Tijesmann’s plants are brilliantly orange. Baker (in J. D. Hooker’s Flora of British India, ii. 185) mentions as perhaps allied to M. imbricata (Cand. Prodr. ii. 406) the as yet undescribed M. acuminata (Grab, in Wall, list, 5621); this seems allied to our plant in respect to the lobes of the calyx, but the petals are shorter according to Baker’s note. Mucuna Albertisi. Branchlets and petioles rusty-toinentose ; lateral leaflets oblique rhomboid-orbicular, the terminal roundish, all slightly pubescent and scantily hispid above, almost brown velvet-downy beneath; panicle con- sisting of several short racemes; pedicels shorter than the calyces or hardly as long, with them velvet-downy and partially hispid ; teeth of the calyx shorter than the tube ; lateral and lower petals almost of equal lengthy upper petal about one-third shorter ^ the lower petals very narrowj gradually falcate ; the five shorter anthers woolly -bearded ; the five longer anthers somewhat hairy ; style and ovary beset with oppressed hair. On the Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. Stem probably woody. Length of the petiole up to the lateral leaflets usually about 3 inches, rarely much shorter. Stipules early deciduous or inconspicuous. Stipellae subulate, hardly exceeding 1 line. Leaflets of firm consistence ; their length mostly from 3 J to 5 inches ; the lateral nerves and also the veins beneath prominent; the apex of the leaflets often slightly acuminated. General peduncle a span long or variously shorter. Racemes few-flowered or branched, forming almost corymbose or cymose clusters or bunches. Bracts lanceolar, acuminate, 3-4 lines long, early dropping. Calyx inch long; the upper lip deltoid, usually about 2 lines long ; the lateral lobes of the lower lip hardly above 1 line long, lanceolar- deltoid ; the lowest lobe nearl}^ 3 lines long, narrowly semilanceolar. Upper petal orbicular-ovate; lateral 65 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. petals about Ij inch long-, falcate-lanceolar, towards the middle ^ of an inch broad, short-stalked at the outward auricular base; lowest petals at the middle scarcely 3 lines broad, gently not suddenly curved ; all petals slightly hairy outside towards the base. Nine of the stamens to I or more of their length united. Style towards the summit glabrous. Stigma minute, capitellate, very finely bearded. Fruit unknown. So far as can be judged in the absence of the pods this species approaches nearest M, monosperma (Cand. Prodr. ii. 406 ; M. anguina, Wall. PI. Asiat. rarior, iii. 19, t. 236), which has however shorter peduncles, a more bristly hairiness, the flowers less distinctly racemose and the upper part of the carinal petals suddenly ascending. M. macro- carpa (Wall. PI. Asiat. rar. 41, t. 47) shows not the dense indument, its leaflets are almost glabrous, the flower-clusters are less ramified, the free portion of the peduncle is shorter, the calyces are larger on longer pedicels, the petals are considerably broader and of a different color, the five shorter of the anthers much less bearded. M. macrophylla (Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 213) is quite unknown as far as flowers and fruits are concerned. I have without result endeavored to trace out in the very much scattered recent literature of tropical Asiatic plants any other species, closely allied to this one from New Guinea. Dr, Bennett informs me, that the distinguished Italian traveller saw a third leguminous climber, supposed to belong to this g*enus, on the Fly-River. I have discerned only two species in the collection. It is probably the very rare species, found in latitude 6° S., bearing blue flowers, which I have not before me. M. Bennetti has red petals according to Signor D’ Albertis, thus differing from M. pruriens and M. monosperma in this respect; therefore this, if I rightly understand, is the one, about which the dis- coverer expresses himself in rapture, as it was one of the most gor- geous sights there in the whole floral kingdom.” He describes the red color of the flowers as similar to that of Methonica or Gloriosa, and adds, that the plant grew in the greatest abundance on the banks of the Fly-River,” and that to see the pendulous masses of such flowers, covering the trees from the base to the summit even of the most lofty was one of the most beautiful sights to behold.” M. Albertisi, so I learn, has yellow flowers. The collection contains also two pliyllodinous Acacice from the Fly- River, both distinct from A. Simsii, but neither bearing flowers or fruit at the time of gathering. 66 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. COMBRETACE^. COMBRETUM GoLDIEANTJM. Leaves large, oval, almost blunt or but slightly acuminated, quite glabrous; spikes axillary, solitary, one-sided; flowers large; calyx imperfectly grey-silky, with 5 very short teeth ; petals 5, silky-downy outside ; stamens ten^ long^ crimson ,* anthers ellipsoid ; young fruit slender, 5-anguled. JN^ear Port Moresby; Goldie, Branchlets very soon glabrous, hardly angular or quite terete. Leaves opposite, 4-0 inches long, 2-3 inches broad, prominently ribbed, finely veined, minutely and transparently dotted. Petioles -J-1 inch long. Spikes on very short stalks, 2-4 inclies long, with numerous flowers. Calyx at the time of flowering about \ an inch long, above the ovary gradually dilated, the deciduous portion inside towards the middle silky- bearded. Petals oblong-lanceolar, scarcely exceeding one line in length. Filaments about § of an inch long. Anthers dark-red, a line long. Style crimson, measuring nearly an inch in length. Ripe fruit as yet unknown. The leaves of this elegant species are much like those of C. latifolium (Bl. Bijdr. 641), while the color of the stamens is that of C. coccineum (Lara. Diction, i. p. 734) and the length of the filaments that of C. micropetalum (Gaud. Prodr. iii, 19). Among red-flowered species this new one differs from C. coccineum already by broader leaves, not glabrous spikes, longer not suddenly campanulate calyx, smaller petals, longer stamens and not obcordate anthers ; from C. grandiflorum (G. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1824, p. 347) in longer leafstalks, smaller and fugacious bracts, elongated spikes with smaller flo\vers, long exserted stamens, narrow not yellow anthers; from C. comosum (G. Don in the Transact, of the Linnean Society, xv. 433) in larger leaves, disposition of flowers, slender limb of calyx and smaller petals. The only other combretaccous plant, as yet knowm from New Guinea, is Lumnitzera racemosa, Willdenow in den Verhandlungen der natur- forsclienden Freunde zu Berlin, iv. 186. The flowers bring to our recollection both Metrosideros and Callis- temon, whereas the very copious minute dots of the leaves point also to some affinity of Combretacem to Myrtacem. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 67 LYTHRACE.E. Ammannia Senegalensis. Lamarck, Eucyclopedie, t. 77, f. 2. Port Moresby ; Goldie. For synonymy see Hiern in Oliver’s Flora of Trop. Africa, ii. 477. Closely allied to A. latifolia (L. Sp. 119), which also as an Indian plant is mentioned by Grisebach (Flora of British West India, 270). Ammannia baccifera. Liuue, Spec. Plant. 120, Port Moresby ; Goldie. BEGONIACE^. Begonia Malabarica. Lamarck, Encycl. Method, i. 393. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. The almost glabrous less denticulated leaves, the smallness of the flowers and the truncate wings of the fruit separate this species from B. dipetala (Grab, in Hook. Bot. Magaz. t. 2849), as well pointed out by Alph. de Candolle (Prodr. xv. 391-392). The placentas of our plant are however consisting of two plates, and this character would bring the Papuan species to B. fallax (A. de Cand. Prodr. xv. 329), if the flowers were petaliferous and the base of the fruit more acute. Begonia spilotophylla. Leaves from a semicordate base oblique oblong-lanceolate, long- acuminate, minutely denticulate, glabrous, white- or pale-spotted ; stipules subulate-linear; peduncules few-flowered; sepals 2, small, orbi- cular; petals none ; stamensarising from the depressed torus; anthers about as long as the filaments, their connective not produced beyond the cells; fruit-wings three, shorter than the au'is, not extending to the pyramidal summit of the fruit ; placentas bilaminate; seeds furrowed. Near the Fly-Rivei' ; D’Albeiiis. Leaves 5-9 inches long, mostly (so fas as known) from 1|~3 inches broad. Petioles 1-1 1 inch long. Stipules 3-4 lines long. Peduncles of the only flowering specimen seen b}^ me about 1 inch long. Second- ary peduncles and pedicels nearly as long. Sepals measuring about ^ of an inch. Anthers at the summit rounded-blunt. Styles not seen. Cap- F 68 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. sule (an only one obtained) § of an inch long, thickened along the middle of the valves ; the wings roundish-semirhomboid, of firm consistence, not membranous. Seeds pale-brown, ovate, prominently few-streaked. This elegant species bears in its spotted foliage much resemblance to the Brazilian B. maciilata (Baddi Quaranta Plante Nuove del Brasile, p. 27), but should systematically be placed into the section Haagea, although the fruit-wings are not surrounding the basis and apex of the capsule. PASSIFLORE^. Passiflora aurantia. G. Forster, Florul. Insul. Austr. Frodr. 62. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Forster’s plant came from New Caledonia, from whence Labillardi^re (Sert. Austr. Caled. 78) calls the petals purplish. Some notes on this and allied species are offered in Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. ix. 68-69. CUCURBITACE^. Mukia scabrella. Arnott in Hooker’s Journ. iii. 276. Port Moresby; Goldie. Luffa -^Egyptiaca. Miller, from Luffa arabum, Alpinus et Vesting de Plantis jEgypti, 199, t. 58 et 59. Var. leiocarpa. Port Moresby ; Goldie. RUBIACE^. Randia Macarthuri. Thornless, glabrous ; leaves large^ on short petioles, lanceolar-ohovate, slightly acuminate, acutely attenuated at the base ; stipules long, con- nate into one of ovate-lanceolar form, free at their acuminated apex; peduncles short, few-Howored ; calyx truncate; tube of the corolla some- what turgid, nearly thrice as long as the calyx, unbearded inside, almost as long as the five narrow-lanceular lobes ; anthers enclosed, long, linear, blunt; berry large, globular, almost sessile; pericarp hard. On the Fly-River ; D' Albertis. Bianchlets thick. Leaves 5-9 inches long, seldom shorter, usually between 2-4 inches broad, thinly chartaceous. Pedicels a few lines long. 69 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Tube of the calyx 3-4 lines in length. Tube of the corolla about § of an inch long, 3-4 lines wide. Anthers about 4 lines long. Berry measuring nearly two inches, completely two-celled by a membranous septum. Ripe seeds as yet unknown. The nearest approach of this species is to R. Fitzalani (F. v. M., Report on the Plants from the Estuary of the River Burdekin, 12) ; but the leaves are larger, of a thinner consistence, their surface shows not the same oily lustre, the nerves are more numerous, the veins more conspicuous, the stipules much larger, the flowers nearly double as long, the lobes of the corolla proportionately narrower, the anthers also twice as long, the fruitstalks on an only specimen almost absent. R. stipularis (R. stipulosa, F, v. M. Fragm. vii. 47, ix. 70 et 180, non Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. ii. 228) differs with exception of the stipules in similar notes, besides the proportionately broader leaves and longer petioles. I have dedicated this- noble species to the Hon. Sir. Will. Macarthur, from whom I experienced many acts of kindness in my scientific career, and to whose disinterested friendliness the plants of Mr. IMcLeay’s New- Guinean Expedition, the first which I saw from that island, were placed at my disposal. IxoRA Pavetta. Roxburgh, Flora Indica, i. 385. Port Moresby j Goldie. COMPOSITE. Adenostemma viscosum. R. et G. Forster, Charact. Generum 89, t. 45. Port Moresby; Goldie. GENTIANE^. Limnanthemum Indicum. Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeil. 205- Fly-River ; D’Albertis. COTYLANTHERA TENUIS. Blume, Bijdr. 707. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. I am not certain, whether the Papuan plant is identical with the typic species from Java, which is only briefly defined by Blame, his descrip- tion being merely copied by Endlicher (Gen. PI. 008), Dunal (Cand. V 2 ?0 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Prodr. xiii. 674) and Miquel (FI. Ind. Batav. ii. 735). Asa Gray’s diagnosis (Journ. of tlie Linnean Soc. I860, p. 23) is also very short, The Papuan plant is quite glabrous. Fibres ot the perhaps annual root few. Leaves in distant pairs, scalelike, membranous, deltoid, line long. Flower only one, terminal. Calyx about 2 lines long’, to less than half its length divided into semi-lanceolar lobes. Corolla 4-5 lines long, cleft beyond the middle into four lanceolar segments, which are not narrowed at their base ; their position in bud contorted-imbricate. Fila- ments hardly a line long. Anthers from a broad and obtuse base linear- cylindrical, basifixed. Pollen-grains when moist tetrahedro-globular, smooth, opening at the extremity of the angles. Style 2 lines long, thinly filiform. Stigma minute, capitellate. Ovary free, globular. Ripe fruit unknown. MYRSINE^. ^GICERAS FRAGRANS. Kcenig. in Armais of Botany, i. 131, t. 3. Port Moresby ; Goldie. convolvulace.f:. Convolvulus parviflorus, Vahl, Symbol, iii. 29. Port Moresby ; Goldie. The velvet-downy variety from thence. IPOMCEA ANGUSTIFOLIA. Jacquin, Collectan. ii. 367. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Ipomcea eriocarpa. R. Bro>vn, Brodroin. FI. NTov. Holl. 484. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Ipomcea hederacea. Jacquin, Collectan. i. 124. Port Moresby ; Goldie. APOCYNE^. Alstonia scholaris. R. Brown, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, i. TS'. Port Moresby ; Goldie, Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 71 ACANTHACEiE. Dicliptera spicata. Decaisue in Annal. du Mas. 1834, tom. iii. 56. Port Moresby; Gioldie. Hypoestis floribunda. R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 474. Port Moresby ; Goldie. LABIATE. Moschosma polystachya. Bentham in Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticse Rariores, ii. 13. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Leucas flacciba. R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov, Holl. 506. Port Moresby ; Goldie. JASMINES. Jasminum ^mulum. R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 521, Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. ASPERIFOLI^. Tournefortia mollis. F. V. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. i. 59. Near Port Moresby ; Goldie, CYCADE^. Cycas Papuana. Petioles unarmed ; seg-m exits of tbe leaves rather short and narrow^ flat, glabrous, opaque beneath, not pungent, sessile with broad slightly decurrent base ; fruit-rachis velvet-downy, long-stalked ; its terminating lamina hard, rliomhoid, acuminate, toward the summit toothed, at the apex short-laciniated, on the upper side Anally glabrescent ; fruits several, ovate-globular, from the commencement glabrous. On the Fly-River ; D^Albertis. 72 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants^ This sppcies ajrrees in its teethless petioles with C. inemis (Lour. Flor. Cocliinchin. ii. 770); in tlje witlth and the beneath not shining lejitiets with C. media and C. angulata, (R. Br. Prodr. 348) and with the hitter also in the form of the lamina of the female raehis. It differs from the two last-mentioned species in the absence of teeth on the petioles, in shorter perfectly Hat and less rigid segments of the leaves ; from C. circinalis (L. Sp. PI. 1188) in paler, shorter and narrower leaf- segments, which are not very conspicuously narrowed at the base, also in a less elongated and less incised plate of the female raehis. The male inflorescence, as yet unknown, may offer other distinctive notes. C. pectinata of Griffith seems only known by name. Ach. Richard (Voyage de TAstrolabe, Botanique, xxiii) mentions C. circinalis from Port Doreh. HYDROCHARIDE^. HYDUOCHAniS MoRsrs ranje. Linne, Spec. Plant. 1036. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. The specimens, secured in New Guinea, are devoid of flowers and fruit, but the anatomic structure of the leaves leads readily to the recognition of the species, which otherwise from foliage alone might he confounded with some Limnanthemnms. Like Australian specimens, which were obtained at Moreton’s Bay by Mr. Walt, Hill and at Rockhampton by Mons. A. Thozet, so the Papuan plant also shows only a shallow sinus of the base of the leaves ; but this characteristic proves not absolute. The plant at the Fly-River is accompanied by Ceratophyllum demersum. Griffith found H. Morsus ranse in India according to his posthumous papers, t. 57. H. Asiatica (Miq. FL Ind. Batav. iii. 239j, if really referable to this genus, is at once distinguished by its oval leaves. Bentham (FL Austr. vi. 256) expresses some doubts, whether the Australian plant is really indigenous ; hut as it is associated with Drosera Aldrovandi and Cahomba peltata, neither of which was here ever cultivated, we have no reason to assume any of these plants to he introduced. ORCHIDE^. Dendrobium undulatum. R. Brown, Frodr, 332. On the Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. 73 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, The Papuan plant, known from a solitary specimen, constitutes a variety (var. Albertisiana), remarkable for the shortness and form of the end-lobe of the labellum ; this lobe is renate-obcordate, neither pointed nor crisped; the outer sepals are also much more undulated. tended observations on ampler material may possibly raise this variety to specific rank. Calanthe veratrifolia. R. Brown in Edw. Bot. Regist. t. 720. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. » A larg;e form with leaves fully a span broad and with an unusually long- spur of the ilowers, AMARYLLIDE^. Eurycles silvestris. Salisbury in the Transact, of the Hort. Soc. of London, i. 337. Fly-River ; Albertis. LILIACE^. DRAC.3EISrA ANGUSTIFOLIA. Roxburgh, Flor. Indie, ii. 155. On the Fly-River; D’Albertis. Schelhammera multiflora, R. Brown, Prodr. 274. On the Fly-River ; D’Albertis. A full account of this rare plant has been given in the Fragm, Phytogr. Austr. vii. 71, where the close affinity of the genus toDisporum was also demonstrated. As many as 17 pedicels occur on Papuan specimens. Flagellaria Inbica. Linne, Spec, Plant. 333. Port Moresby; Goldie, CYPERACE^. Cyperus distans. Linne fil. Suppl. Plant. 103. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Found also in New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown. The variety with less remote florets, mentioned in the Appendix to Campbell’s New Hebrides, p. 25. 74 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Rhynchospora aurea, Valil, Enum. Plant, ii. 291. Port Moresby ; Goldie. GRAMINEiE. Phragmites communis. Trinius, Fundam. Agrostogf. 134. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. Eriochloa punctata. Hamilton, Prodr, Plant. Tnd. Occ. "S. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Panicum compositum. liinnA Spec. Plant. 57. Fly-River; D’Albertis. At Port Moresby occurs a Panicunij closely related to P. foliosum (R. Br. Pr. 191). Paspalum longifolium. Roxburgh, Flor. Indie, i. 280. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Cenchrus echinatus, Linne, Spec. Plant. 1050. Port Moresby ; Goldie. This is probably the C. spinifex, mentioned as doubtful from Port Doreh by Achilles Richard. LYCOPODIACE^. Lycopodium Phlegmaria. Linne, Spec. Plant. 1101. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Lycopodium squarrosum. G. Forster, Florul. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 8G. Fly-River; D’Albertis. Lycopodium cernuum. Linne, Spec. Plant. 1103. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Brought also from New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown, like the following. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, ?5 Selaginella flabellata. Spring, Monogr. Lycopod. ii. 174. Flj-River; D’Albertis. This, according to Grisebach’s definition (Flora of the Brit. West Ind. Isl. 646) is the original Lycopodium flabellatum (L. Sp. PI. 1105). The cilia and serratures are absent in our as in many conspecific plants from other localities. Selaginella caudata. Spring, Monogr, Lycopod. ii. 139. Fly- River ; D’Albertis. The secondary ramification is less regularly pinnate than in the preceding species, the leaves are larger and those of the anterior series mucronate. I draw to this species Lycopodium D’TJrvillei (Bory, Voy. de la Coquille, Bot. 247, t. 25) although analytic details in the illustra- tive plate are wanting. Selaginella caulescens. Spring, Monogr. Lycopod. ii. 158. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. OPHIOGLOSSE^. Helminthostachys Zeilanica. Kaulfuss, Enum. Eil. Chamias. 28, t. 1. Fly- River ; D’Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie. SCHIZ^ACE.^. Lygodium Japonicum. Swartz, Synops. Eilic. 154. Fly-River; D’Albertis. Imperfect specimens of an other Lygodium occur in Signor D’Albertis’ collection. These may belong to one of the numerous forms of L. dicho- tomum (Sw. 1. c.). SCHIZA5A FoRSTERI. Sprengel, Anieitung zur Kenntniss der Gewgechse, iii. 175. Fly-River; D. Albertis. 76 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. GLEICHENIACE^. Gleichenia Hermanni. R. Brown, Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. 161. Fly-River ; D’Albertis, FILICES. Acrostichdm aureum. Linne, Spec. Plant. 1069. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Acrostichum drynaroides. Hooker, Spec. Pilic. v. 282 ; var. sessilis. Fly-River ; D. Albertis. I have not ventured to describe this as a new species^ not having the advantage of comparing the typical plant. From that as described ours seems to differ in somewhat smaller size, and more particularly in having the lowest portion of the frond cleft only into short and blunt lobes, the fronds with their very dilated base being* almost sessile, thus far resembling the sterile frondlets of Polypodium quercifolium and P. rigid- ulum in manner of growth and reminding also of the mode of attach- ment of the Platyceriums. The rachis of the Papuan plant furthermore does not secede with great readine.ss from the frond. Unless the frond narrows into an attenuated winged base under changed circumstances or perhaps in older plants, then ours can be raised to a separate specific position under the variety-name meanwhile adopted. The frond is occasionally destitute of terminal fertile pinme. Platycerium grande (J. Smith in Hook. Journ. iii. 402) was found in New Guinea by Zippelius. Dicksonia Papuana. (Sect. Dennstsedla.) Rachis and racheoles along the upper side somewhat tomentose ; pinnae numerous, protracted into a serrated long acumen j pinnules ohlong-lanceolar, serrulated^ slightly falcate, at the base truncate, chartaceous, shining and glabrous on both sides, vividly gTeen beneath; sori minute, exserted; involucre almost cupshaped ; inner valve very short or obliterated. Fly-River; D’ Albertis. 77 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Fronds about 4 feet lonj^. Eachis unarmed. Middle pinnae hardly above a span lon^. Well developed pinnules nearly an inch lon^ and about ^ inch broad ; the fertile and sterile pinnules or segments of nearly the same width. Veins simple or branched into two, except the lowest, which are generally divided into three or four branches. Veinlets none. Outer valve of the indusium in texture and color similar to the frond, unless towards the margin ; inner valve rudimentary, membranous. Sporangia partly protruding. The definition of this species rests on two fronds, and it remains to be recorded, whether this is an arborescent or stemless species. Base of rachis yet unknown. This Papuan Dicksonia verges to the section Deparia, the sori forming teethlike lobules along the pinnules. The nearest approach to our new species seems to be formed by D. Smithii (Hook. Sp. Filic. i. 80, t. 28), from which ours is easily distinguished by larger and glabrous ultimate pinnules, with only minute serratures and a free truncate not attenuated base, while the sori are terminating minute lobules and are not seated in a sinus. It is possible, that what I have regarded as a whole frond may be only a primary pinna of a three-pinnate frond ^ in such a case the supposed pinnules are ultimate segments, and then this must be a magnificently fronded gigantic fern. Another Dicksonia, verging fully to the section Microlepia of Davallia, occurs among the plants from the Fly-Eiver. To this the name D. delicata might be given. From D, davallioidea (R. Br. Pr. 158), which I have lately found as far south as the Cape Otway ranges, and to which perhaps Cheilanthes dicksonioides (Endl. Prodr. FI. Norfolk, 15) belongs, it differs much in outline, the fronds being less compound, but the pinnffi and pinnules longer, while the secondary pinnules are larger and generally deeper dissected, with lobules less cleft and more distant. From D. cuneata (Hook. Sp. Filic. 80, t. 28) it differs in a similar mode, besides in more membranous fronds and as well as from D. Samoensis (Bak. Synops. 462) in the deeper cleavage of the ultimate pinnules. To arrive at a final decision in reference to the distinctions of these species it is still needful to observe their manner of growth and also the nature of their rhizome. Davallia Blumeana. Hooker, Spec. Filic. i. 177, t. Ur A. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 78 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants^ This lovely and delicate fern occurs also in New Ireland, according to the collection formed b}'’ the Rev. G. Brown. Java and Xeyte I see only mentioned as its known native places. Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. iv. 277) mentions as occurring in Papua : D. triquetra, Baker in H, et B. Syn. Fil. 93, which may be a simply pinnate state of D. Blumeana. D. elata (Sw, Syn. Fil. 131) occurs also on the Fly-River, and I have it likewise from Timor. D. Fijensis (Hook. Sp. Fil. 166, t. 55) has been brought with less divided fronds from New Ireland. It approaches closely to D. Mamd- tiana (Hook. 1. c, 164) according to specimens of the latter, sent by Lady Barkly. Its precise relation to D. solida (Sw. Syn. Fil. 132) needs yet to be further traced. Lindsaya pectinata. Blume, Plor. Jav. Filic. 217. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Indusium almost nephroid. Lindsaya lobata. Poiret, accord, to Hook, et Bak. Syn. Pilic. 111. Fly-River; D’Albertis. Also in New Ireland (Rev. G. Brown). Recorded from New Guinea is already by Hooker from Dr. Hinds’ collection : L. cordata, Gaudichaud, Bot. Voy. Freyc. 379, t. 16. L. acutifolia, Desv. and L. lanceolate, Labill, Nov. Holl. Plant. Specim. . ii. 98, t. 248, are also traced to New Guinea. L. Amboinensis, Metten. 1. c. iv 278, occurs at Waighiou. PtERIS SEMIPINNATA. Linne, Spec. Plant. 1076. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. P. Zippelii (Baker, Synops. 477; Allosorus Zippelii, Miq. Annal. iv. 98) is also an inhabitant of New Guinea, as are the following : Pteris longipes, D. Don, Prodr. FI. Nepal. 15. Pteris excelsa, Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Freycen. 388, Lomaria euphlebia. Kunze in der Bot. Zeitung, yi. 52’ Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Descriptice Notes 07 i Papuan Plants. 79 AsPIDIUM PTEROIDES. Nephrodium pteroides, J. Smith in Hook, et Bak. Syn. Pil. 289. Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. This has been identified by Mr. Baker, who through the direct facilities afforded him by the vast collections of ferns, brought together in more than half a century by Sir Will. Hooker, has become the most experienced among' the present pterilogist. Aspibium acutum. Schkuhr, Cryptog. Gewaschse, 32, t. 31. Fl}^- River; D’ Albertis. Sent also from New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown. An allied larger species or perhaps merely variety with exauriculated pinnse and with sori remote from the edge inhabits also the banks of the Fly-River. Aspibium ramosum. Beauvois, Plore d’Oware, t. 91. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. POLYPOBIUM ACROSTICHOIBES, B. Brown, Prodr. 146. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. POLYPOBIUM IRREGULAUE. Presl, Reliq. Hsenk. i. 25, t. 4. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. POLYPOBIUM LiNNA3I. Bory in Annal. des Scienc. Nat, v, 464, t, 12, Port Moresby; Goldie. Fly-River; D’Albertis. This was collected also at Makado (Duke of York^s Island) by the Rev. G. Brown. The segments of the fronds secede readily from the rachis like those of Acrostichum diynaroides, with which species to some extent this also agrees in habit. Not always easily separated from P. querci- folium (L. Sp. 1087). POLYPOBIUM HERACLEUM. Kunze in der Bot. Zeitung, vi. 1 1 7. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. The Papuan plant is slightly hairy on the under-page of the frond. 80 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Polypodium nighescens, Blume, Flora Javae Filic. 101, t. 70. Fly-River ,■ D’Albertis, Also in the collection formed by the Rev. G. Brown in New Ireland. It requires some caution to distinguish this species from some forms of P. phymatodes. Polypodium lingoiforme. Mettenius in Miq. Annal. Mus. Lugd. Batav. ii. 228. Fly-River; D’ Albertis. This might passingly be very easily confused with P. musEefolium (Bl. FI. Javse Filic, 171, t. 79), which has also been brought by Signor D’Albertis. Polypodium decorum. Brakenridge in Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped. Filic. 7, t. 2. Fly-River ; D'Albertis. Like in specimens from Ceylon, so in those from New Guinea the well developed sori are not much immersed in the frond, but become conspicuously exserted. The same species was found by the unfortunate Bishop Patteson in Erromang’a. This fern differs mainly from P. nutans (Blume, Flora Javse, 182, t. kxxvi. a) in the almost complete absence of a distinct stipes. To Blume’s plant seems also to belong P. contiguum (Brakenr. 1. c. 6, t. 2, f. 1 ; P. blechnoides, Hook. Sp. Fif iv. 180). ^ Polypodium albo-squamatum, Blume, Flora Javae Filic. 137, t. Ivii. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. A small form, some specimens altogether only a span high, the pinnm not half as broad as in the narrowest variety, figured as P, varians by Blume on t. Iviii,, also not caudate-acuminate. Polypodium proliferum. Roxburgh in Wallich’s list, 312. Fly-River; D’Albertis. On the same place occur also an Alsophila and a Cvathea, but without means of studjung the structure of the stem, it is difficult to determine the name of these and most other ferntrees. The collections contain still two other species ; one of these, gathered at Port Moresby by the Rev. Dr. Turner, is allied to P. barbatum (Hook. 81 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Spec. Fil. V. 11), differing in smaller pinnse, in the soft-downy rachis and in the sori occupying* extensively the lower page of the pinnce. The same fern occurs in the New Hebrides, where it was found by Capt. Fraser; but I do not find it included in the elaborate list of 132 ferns given by Dr. M. Kuhn (in den Verliandlungen der K. K. Bot. Gesel- schaft in Wien 1869) as occurring in these islands. The second ad- ditional species came from the Fly- River ; it touches in its affinity P. appendiculatum (Wall, list, 349), receding chiefly on account of the position of the sori, not close to the midribs of the lobes. Antrophyum reticulatum. Kauliuss, Enum. Eilic. 198. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. A. plantagineum (Kaulf. 1. c.) has been brought by the Rev. G. Brown from New Ireland. Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. iv. 171) mentions as Papuan species: A. pumilum (Kaulf. 1. c.) and A. stric- turn (Mett. 1. c.). Blechnum orientale. Linne, Spec. Plant. 1077. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. In the first edition of Linnd’s Species Plantarum the names of B. orientale and B. occidentale are transposed, a typographic error, corrected in the second edition. The form with narrow pinnse approaches to B. serrulatum (Richard in Actes de la Society d^Hist. Nat. de Paris 1792, p. 114 ; B. striatum, R. Br, Pr. 152). ViTTARlA ELONGATA. Swartz, Synops. Eilic. 109. Fly-River; D’ Albertis. V. Bcolopendrina (Sclikuhr, accord, to Hook* et Bak, Synops. 396) is recorded from New Guinea. This is readily transferrable to the genus Teenitis, although the veins are longitudinal and not united in meshes. Asplenium scolopendroides. J. Smith in Ilooker’s Journal of Bot. iii. 408. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Our specimens accord with the illustration of Cuming’s plant from the Philippine Islands (Hook. Icon. 930). The shoitness of the stipes distinguishes it mainly from A. Amboinense (Willd. Spec. Plant, v. 303) ; the want of an intramarginal vein from A. Phyllitidis (D. Don, Prodr. 82 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, FI. Nepal. 7) ; the not almost horizontal indusia from A. simplicifrons (F. V. M. Fragm. v. 74). Asplenium myriophyllum. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 90. Fly-River ; D' Albertis. The Papuan plant belongs to this species^ if Sprengel’s is adopted in the meaning of Grisebach (FI. of Brit. West. Ind. 684). Nevertheless it may prove only a form of A. cicutarium (Sw, Prodr. 130), Aspleniun speciosum. Mettenius, Asplen. p. 185, t. 5, f. 5. Fly-River 5 D’Albertis, Our plant agrees with Java specimens distributed from the Bot. Museum of Leyden; but the Javanic plant also is destitute of the scaly vestiture of the rachis, described b}^ Blume, nor are the sori diplazoid. From the same river we have a variety singular for its segments serrated only at the summit, and with the basal segments often much and suddenly reduced in size. Asplenium esculentum, Presl, Reliq. H^enk. i. 45. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Sometimes the indusiura is so obliterated, that this plant might be taken for a Grammitis. Asplenium lunulatum, Swartz, Syuops. Pilic. 80. Fly-River; D’Albertis. The specific name, adopted as the oldest, does by no means well apply. The pinnae attain a length of 3 inches. FUNGI. Capnouium Fuligo. Thuemen in Litteris. Acervules epiphyllous, forming large black indetermined spots; spores elongate- or clavate-oval, straight or rarely somewhat curved, 4- or rarely 3 -septate, not constricted at the dissepiments, fuliginous; para- physes absent. On the Katau-River, occupying the leaves of fig-trees; communicated by the Hon. Sir Will. Macarthur. DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, BY BARON PERD. VON MUELLER, C.M.G., M. & PER., P.R.S. V This fifth contribution towards a list of Papuan plants contains the rest of the species, gathered last year by Messrs. D’Albertis and Groldie, except some which were not found in a state of develo|)ment sufficient for exact examination. Among their yet omitted plants are species of the genera AVormia, Myristica, Pittosporum, Dysoxylon, Harpullia, Vitis, Gomphrena, Acalypha, Piper, Quercus, Oonnarus, Cynometra, Albizzia, Eugenia, Psycho- tria, Ixora, Tournefortia, Coleus, Ipomoea, Sideroxylon, Costus, Pothos, Calamus, Hyp^elyptum, Scleria, Cyperus ; besides some representatives of other genera belonging to Anonacea?, Menisperme^e, Rutacese, Anacardiace^e, UrticeaB, Euphorbiacete, Laurinese, Melastome^, Myrtacese, Acanthaceaa, Gesneriacefc, Orchideaa, Scitamineaa and Palms. Melbourne, February 1877. o 81 Bescviptim Notes on Papuan Plants, MELIACE/E. Elindersia Papuana. Ply- River ; D’ Albertis. Only a solitary fruit witboiit well developed seeds has been as yet obtained. It is not dissimilar to that of F. Bennettiana and F. Oxleyana in tubercular roughnessj while the seeds, like those of the latter, are also winged on both ends. It differs from F. Schottiana in fruits of onl}^ half the size. The only hitherto recorded Extra- Australian species is F. Amboinensis (Poiret, Encycl. Methodiq. Suppl. iv. GoO) ; it differs from the Papuan Flindersia according to Rumphius’s illustration (Am- boinsch Ivruid-Boek, iii. 201, t. cxxix.) in smaller and therefore more numerous and also more acute tubercles of the fruit- valves ; it belongs to that series of species, which have their leaflets provided with con- spicuous stalklets. Our Papuan plant received a temporary specific ap- pellation, to place it on record, until foliage and flowers can be compared with that of its congeners. The Amboina Flindersia is described as pi’oducing fruits 5-G inches long, though the plate represents them only about half that size ] the leaflets are glabrous. TILIACE.E. SlOANEA PARADISEARUM. (Sect. Ecliinocarpus.) Branchlets glabrous ; leaves oblong-oval, narrow-acuminate, quite entire, on very short petioles ; ‘eery large^ broadly oval, four-valved, red outside, thick-woody, densely invested by short closely set setaceous prickles ; seeds numerous in each cell ; cot^dedons much thinner than the albumen. Upper Fly-River; B’ Albertis. A tree, attaining a height of 40 feet. Petioles 2-3 lines long. Leaves scattered, 4-6 inches long*, inches broad, blunt at the base, glabrous. Flowers unknown. Fruit nearly 4 inches long ; the innumerable bristles 1-1 J lines long. Seeds forming two rows and numbering about IG in each cell, sessile, descending, oval-elliptical, angular from mutual pressure, entirely included in a yellow or orange- colored ariilus, thus rather above J an inch long. Cotyledons almost as long as the albumen ; radicle extremely short. 85 DescrqHice Notes on Papiuin Plants, Tins notable species ap])roacbes in size of the fruit closely to S. Jamaicensis (Hook. Icon. C03-G96), thus far excelling any of the Sloaneas of the eastern hemisphere, so far as they are known, in the magnitude of the fruit. The petioles are much shorter than those of S, Jamaicensis, the covering- bristles are finer and of less length, while the seeds are more numerous, closely packed along- the whole cavity and not of almond-size. Bentham and J. Hooker (Gener. Plant, i. 239) ascribe to the genus a 1-4-seeded capsule 5 but Sir Will. Hooker found already 8 or more seeds in S. Jamaicensis, and he figures also a 5-valved fruit. The nature of the wood of the Pa|)uan species should be tested, that of the Jamaica Sloanea being* so hard as to have given rise to the name Brake- Axetree. The seeds of the Papuan plant are probably also of agreeable taste. I have given this plant its particular specific name, because it cames from the forest-haunts of the birds of Paradise. The Rev, Dr. Turner has brought a Corchorus from Port Moresby, but the plant is not in fruit for specific determination. GTJTTIFERH]:. Gaucinia subtilinervis. Glabrous ; branchlets quadrangular ; leaves coriaceous, oval-lanceo- late, with a short and blunt acumen ; nerves and veins of the leaves extremely subtle, almost concealed^ petioles short; sepals four, very unequal; stigma undivided, depressed, sessile, orbicular; berry globular, eight-celled. Ely- River; D’ Albertis. Leaves 3-5 inches long, 1-1 J inch broad. Petioles of J- an inch or less length. Flowers unknown, except the persistent sepals, the two larger of which measuring \ an inch, the two others about half the size. Stigma fiat, rough, of about f of an inch diameter. Fruit measuring about inch. Seeds brown, much compressed. Foliage and fruit are not unlike G. Cowa (Roxh. FI. Indie, ii. G22), hut the stigma places the Papuan species near to G. anomala (Planch, et Trian. mem. Guttif. 174) and G. Maingayi (.J. Hook. Flor. of British Ind, i. 2G7), both of which Lave fewer-celled fruits. Ours has also some resemblance to G. multifiora (Champ, in Hook. Ivew Miscell. iii. 310), but the leaves are not so conspicuously veined, the sepals are not equal in size, and the fruit of the Hongkong plant remained hitherto un- known. 86 Descriptive Notes on Pap^(an PlaJits, Full comparisons with the imperfectly described G. rostrata (Benth. and Ilooh. Gen. i. 174 3 Discostig*ma rostraturrij Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 212) require yet to be instituted ; but the bicelled ovary removes it already from our new plant. Another evidently allied species is G. rigida (Miq. Prodr. Flor. Sumatran. 493), the leaves of which are described as rounded at the base, and the internal structure of its fruit is unknown. Other Papuan Guttiferee are : Garcinia picrorrhiza, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 209. Garcinia Teysmanniana, Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Biiitenz. 7. VINTFER^. VlTIS TRIFOLIA. Linnc, Spec. Plant. 203. Port Moresb}^ ; Goldie. Fly-River j D’Albertis. CARYOPIIYLLE.F. DrY3IAR1A diandra. Plume, Bijdr. tot de PI. van Ncdcrl. Indie, 63. Leaves glabrous, rhomboid- or cordate-orbicular, conspicuously stalked ; stipules fringy-cleft ^ cymes paniculate, with elongated glandular-powdery peduncles ; flowers small ; sepols only slightly scarioxis, their middle nerve forming a narrow pulvendent heel; petals deeply cleft into two seg- ments; stamens usually two; style almost none; stigmas valveless or imperfectly two-vahed ; seeds large^ one rarely two, closely filling the cavity of the pericarp, black, opnque, granular-scabrous. JNear Port Moresby ; Goldie. From inspection of original material 1 find this to be the D. cordata of Thwaites’s Enum. PI. Zeilan. 25, and of J. Hooker’s Flora of British India, i. 244 ; to this may also belong the plants of Bentliam’s Flora Ilongk. 22, and of Oliver’s Flora of Tropic Africa, 143 ; yet it is not specifically combinable with the real D. cordata (Willd. in Roem. and Schult. Syst. Veg. v. 406), which is frequent in the warm regions of the western hemisphere, but rare and perhaps introduced only in the eastern. That typic plant has a tendency to hairyness, has broader very scarious calyces, not distinctly keeled along the sepals, has longer stigmas and a deeply three-valved capsule with several minute pale-brown seeds. 87 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. The Javanic plant was cautiously disting'uished by Miquel (Plant. Junghuhn. i. 391) as var. Indica. The specific name, given by Bliime, would become ambiguous unless it coincides with the homonymous appel- lation, bestowed by Macfadyen on an Antillan plant, the Holosteum diandrum (Swartz Prodr, Deser. Yeget. Ind. Occid. 27), which however is reduced as a variety to D. cordata by Grisebach (FI. of the British West Indian Islands, 56). Should further researches prove Blume’s and Macfadyen’s plants distinct, then I would propose the species-name D. gerontogea for the former. Our species verges in structure of calyx somewhat to Polycarpon ; its wide dispersion through the tropic zone of the eastern half of the globe leads to anticipate, that this species will yet be found in North Queensland. A thorough systematic revision of all congeners is needed. AMARANTACEiE. Euxolus interhuptus. Moquin, in Caud. Prodr. xiii. Part ii. 272. Port Moresby ; Rev. Dr. Turner. EUPHORBIACEiE. Phyllanthus Urinaria, Linue, Spec. Plant. 982. Port Moresby 5 Goldie. Phyllanthus Niruri. Linne, Spec. Plant. 981. Darnley’s Island ; Reedy. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Mallotus ricinoides. J. Mueller, in Linuaja xxxiv. 187. Port Moresby; Goldie. Mallotus Philippinensis. J. Mueller, in Liniisea xxxiv. 196. Port Moresby; Goldie. 88 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, LEGUMINOSiE. Desmodium Gangeticum. Candolle, Prodr. ii. 327. Port Moresby; Goldie. It was also found in Ne\T Britain by Mr. C. Walter, while collecting there for Baron Anthole von liueg’eL Desmodium dependens. Blmne, in Miq. Plor, Ind. Batav. i. 248. Port Moresby ; Goldie. This also was found in New Britain. Phaskolus Max. Linno, Spec. Plant. 725. Port Moresby ; Rev. Dr. Turner. Also in New Britain. The specific name here adopted is the oldest. Doliciios Lablab. Linne, Spec. Plant. 725. Port Moresby ; Goldie. A variety with small pods, not conspicuously rougli at their edge. MYRTACE.D. Melaleuca Leucadendron. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. ARALIACE.ZE. CiSSODENDRON AuSTRALIANUM. Secmann, Journal of Botany, iii, 201. Var. disperma; fruits two-celled and two-seeded. Fl}'-River ; D’ Albertis. The specimens are all in fruit, but so far show no differences to distinguish them from the Queensland species, except in the number of the cells and seeds of the fruit. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Sd By this variety or perhaps new* species an approach to the genus Sciadoj)anax is estahlishecl. The albumen is rather sinuous and wrinkled than really ruminate, whereby a clearer distinction of Cissodendron from Iledora can be drawn. The testa also is of bony hardness not thin as in the last mentioned genus. The minute embryo lodges at the summit of the albumen and is proportionately much shorter than that of Iledera. The following araliaceous plants are from New Guinea on record : Brassaia macrostachya, Seem. Eevis. of the Hederac. 10. Tetraplasandra paucidens, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd, Bat. i, 4. Polyscias Papuana, Seem. Revis, 5G. Osmoxylon Amboinense, Miq. Annal. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 5, Panax Zippelianum, Miq, 1. c. 15, Arthrophyllum pinnatum, Seem. 1. c. 102. Trevesia insignis, Miq. 1. c. i. 220. Trevesia Novo-Guineensis, Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. i. 20 . IIeptapleurum pimbriatum. Leaves simply digitate ; stipules disseeted into copious narrow fringes ; leafets cliartaceous, 5-6, on long stalklets, glabrous, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, at the base acutely narrowed 5 racemes spilce- like, the racliis rigidly tomentose ; fruits verging’ from an oval to a roundish form, 5-seeded, the vertex conspicuously emersed. On the Ply- River ; D’ Albertis. Petioles attaining a length of 1^ feet. Stipules dry, long-persistent, broadly expanded, J inch long. Leaflets 5-8 inches long, 1q-2^ inches broad, with ascending conspicuous lateral nerves, finely net-veined, slightly rough from minute dots; their stalklets 1 - 2 |- inches long. Flowers unknown. Spikes about a sj)an long. Pedicels less than a line long or almost obliterated. Fruits aborxt 2 lines long, crowded at intervals along the racliis, terminated by a very short thin style. Pyreme obliquely narrow-elliptical, slightly turgid, smooth, hardly longer than 1 line. I am not acquainted with any other Heptapleurum, which is provided with similar stipular fringes, except Trevesia Novo-Guincensis, which with all other Trevesias is transferable to IIeptapleurum. D’ Albertis collected a second species of this genus, but without fruit. 90 DescriptAve Notes on Papuan Plants. RUBIACEiE. Myrmecodia echinata. Gaudichaud, Yoy. Freycinet. t. 96. Fly-River; D’Albertis. In Mr. Goldie’s collection from Port Moresby are fragments of an Uncaria. COMPOSURE. Blumea hieracifolia. Candolle, Prodr. v. 442. Port Moresby; Goldie. SCROPHULARIN^. VandELLIA CRUSTACEA. Bentliam, Scrophulariu. Iiidic. 35. Fly-River ; D’Albertis, Vandellia pedunculata. Bontliam, Scropliularin. Indie. 37. Port Moresby; Goldie. LABIATiE. OciMUM SANCTUM. Linne, Mantiss. Plantar. 85. Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner. The same species I have seen from New Britain^ where also 0. Basi- licum (L. Sp. 50?) occurs. Plectranthus parviflorus. Ilenckel von Bonnersmarck, Adumbrat. Plant. Hort. Halens. 1806. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. VERBENACE.E. Clerouendron floribundum. R. Brown, Prodr. Plor, Nov. Holl. 511. Port Moresby ; Goldie. The specimens are in fruit only, but so far agree with the broad- leaved form of the Australian plant. Descriptive Notes o)i Papuan Plants, 91 Clerodendron Tracyanum. E. V. Mueller, in Benth. Elor. Austr. v. 62. Flj-River; D’ Albertis. Flowers could not be obtained, but otlierwise it seems not to differ from the Queensland typical plant, Miquel and Scheffer mention as Papuan Yerbenacese : Clerodendron Papuanum, Scheff. Annal. du Jardin de Buitenz. 41. Callicarpa erioclona, J. C. Schauer in Cand. Prodr, xi. 643. Gmelina lepidota, Scheff. 1. c. 41. Faradaya Papuana, Scheff. 1. c, 43. Avicennia officinalis, L. Sp. PI. 110. SOLANACE^. SOLANUM REPANBUM. G. Forster, Elorul. Insul. Austr. Prodrom. 18. Fly-River ; D’AIbertis. Differences between the Papuan plant and that figured by Seemann (Flor. Vitiens. xxxviii.) are not observable, except that the branchlets are minutely aculeolate. CONVOLVULACE^. Ipomcea pes capr^, Roth, Nov. Plantar. Spec. 109. Port Moresby ; Goldie. Signor D’Albertis brought from the Fly-River an Tponioea, allied to I. cymosa (Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. iv. 241), but differing in its broadly cordate leaves and entirely glabrous corolla ; the fruit is as yet unknown. APOCYNE.®. Tabern.2emontana pubescens. R. Brown, Prodrom. FI. Nov. IIoll. 468. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. A variety with leaves protracted into a long acumen. Fruit not yet seen. Alstonia uongissima. Glabrous ; leaves large 3-4 in a whorl, decurrent into a very short petiole, lanceolar-oval, with very spreading nerves, hardly paler heneath; fruits very long ; cilia longer than the seeds. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. u Q'2 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Leaves about a span long', 2-3 inches broad, of cliartaceous consistence, distantly ribbed, almost equally g'reen on both sides. Elowers unknown. Fruits about 1 1 foot long*, ^ inch thick. Seeds scarcely 3 lines long, very slightly downy, rounded-blunt at the base, narrow-acuminate at the apex, on both extremities softly bearded. I failed to identify this among Indian species, but it seems nearest to A. spectabilis (R. Browm in the Mem. of the Wernerian Society, i. 75). MYESINEiE. MiESA HAPLOBOTRYS. F. v, Mueller, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. v. 161, Fly-River ; D’Albertis. The Papuan and Australian plants seem identical. The width of the leaves is particularly variable. The infloresence is almost spicate. M^sa protracta. Glabrous, leaves lanceolate^ gradually long-acuminate^ slightly wavy at the margin, decurrent into the petiole ; racemes simple, axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, solitary or 2 or more together; pedicels as long as the floAvers or somewhat longer, twice or thrice as long as the bracts; corolla hardly half exserted, as well as the calyx 5-cleft; fruit ovate-globular, about as long as the pedicel. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Leaves 4-7 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, cliartaceous, on a petiole of less than one inch length ; their dots extremely minute ; pellucid lines almost absent. Racemes 3 inches long or variously shorter. Corolla hardly above one line long; its roundish lobes nearly equalling the tube in length. Fruit scarcely two lines long. This Mmsa verges towards M. acuminata (A. de Candolle, Prodr, viii. 77) from Nepal, but the leaves ^re longer and not quite entire; besides there are likely other differences between them, which D. Doffs diagnosis (Prodr. Flor. Nepal 149) does not admit of pointing out It comes also very near M. Novo-Guineensis (Scheff. Annal. du .Tardin Bot. de Buitenz. 32); the leaves of the latter are considerably larger, and the flowers are described as three times as long as the calyx. Other Myrsinem of Papua are : Mit'sa verrucosa, Scheff. Commentat. de Myrsinac. Archip. Indie. 10. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, U3 Msesa laevigata, ScbefF. 1. c. 17. Maesa mollissima; A. de Cand. in tlie Transact, of tlie Linn. Soc. xvii- 134. Myrsine densiflora, Sclieff. Comm. 70. EBENACE.E. Maba elliptica. R. and G. Forster, Charact. Generum, 122, t, 61. Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. The plant from this locality has its fruits covered by a rust-colored velvet. It is on the authority of Hiern (Transact, of the Cambridge Philos. Society, xii. 122), that I place D’ Albertis^ plant in this specific position, that able monographer regarding the presence or absence of the vestiture of the fruit of no avail for specific characteristic. Our specimens are without flowers. Plants of this order, producing Ebony- wood, occur doubtless in New Guinea. CONIFERS. Nageia Rumphii. Podocarpns Rumphii ; Blume, Eumphia ili. 214. New Guinea ; Zippelius. This is mentioned on the present occasion to refer to another Nageia, the fruits of which were brought from the Fly-River by Signor DAlbertis, to whom the species may be dedicated, should it prove new. The nut is globular like that of N. Blumei (Gordon, Pinet. 135, Podocarpns agathifolia ; Blume, Rumphia iii. 217, t. 173), but slightly larger, the receptacle a good deal thicker and the embryo rather more like that of N. bracteata (Podocarpns bracteata, Blume Enumerat. Plant. Javse, 88). I see no reason why the genus Nageia should be discarded in favor of Podocarpns ; the former was fully established by Gsertner already in 1788 (de Fructib. et Seminib. i. t. 39) on N. Japonica, whereas L'Heritier’s genus Podocarpns seems really to have been published only in 1806 (Labillardiere, Novae HolL Plant. Specimen ii, 71, t. 221). Suum cuique.” As yet no other Coniferse are on record from New Guinea, except Nageia thevetiaefolia (Podocarpns thevetiaefolius, Bl. Rumphia ii. 213) and the Araucaria mentioned by Dr. Beccari ; but it may be expected 94 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, that this order of plants is well I’epresented in the colder altitudes of the island. Of the allied Gnetacese we know as Papuan : Gnetum Gnemum, L. Mantiss. 125 and Gnetum latifolium^ Blume Nov. Plant. Famil. 30. The occurrence of Nag'aias within the tropics indicates usually an approach to elevated regions. From such probably came also the acorns of two species of Quercus^ brought by Signor D’AlbertiS; and which may have been washed by mountain-torrents to the upper waters of the Fly-River, or may perhaps have been carried as articles of food by the natives down from the mountains. PANDANE^. Freycinetia Gaudichaudi. E. Brown, in Horsfield’s Plantaa Javan. Rarior. 31, t. ix, Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Blume and Miquel record from New Guinea: Freycinetia scandens, Gaudich. Voy. Freycenet. Bot. 432, t. 42. Freycinetia marginata, Blume, Rumphia i. 159. The specific position of the Papuan Pandani remained hitherto un- ascertained. DESCEIPTIYE T^OTES OY PAPUAN PLANTS, BARON FEED. VON MUELLER, 0 . 1 . 0 ,, M. & PH.I)., P.R.S. APPENDIX. Piipuan Plants, recorded by Blurne, Miquel and Scheffer, not yet mentioned specifically in the foregoing pages. Nymph^ace^. Nymplma gigantea^ Hook. Bot. Magaz. 4647. Anonace;e. Polyalthia Idvta^ Benth. et Hook, Gen. PI. i. 956 ) Monoon hirtuin, Miq. Annal. ii. 16. Polyalthia macropoda, Benth. et Hook. 1. c. ; Monoon macropoduni, Miq. 1. c. Polyalthia chloroxantha, Benth. et Hook. 1. c. 5 Monoon chlorox- antlium, Miq. 1. c. Polyalthia glauca^ Benth. et Hook. 1. c. ; Monoon glaucurn, Miq. 1. c. Uvaria Rosenbergiana, Scheff. Ann. Jai-d. Buit. 2. Popowia Novo-GuineensiSy Miq. Ann. ii. 21. Orophea ovata, Scheff. Ann. Jard. Buitz. i. -3. Orophea aurantiaca, Miq. Ann. ii. 25. Goniothalamns longirostrisy Scheff. Jard. Buitz. 4. Goniothalarmis caloneurus, Miq. Ann. ii. 34. Artahotrys inodora, Zipp. in Miq. Ann. ii. 41. Phrpavthtis nntanSj J. Hook, et Thoms. Flor. Ind, i. 147. I OG IJesovipthe Notes on Papnan Plants. MyKISTICK.53. Mynstica stibcordata, BL Rumph. 186. Myristica fatua^ Houtt. Nat, Hist. ii. 33?. Myristica tuhiflora, Bl. Rumph. 182, t. 56. Mynstica suhahdata, Miq. Ann. ii. 4?. Myristica lepidota^ Bl. Rumph. 183^ 57. Myristica morindifolia^ Bl. 1. c. 186. Myristica nesophila^ Miq, Ann. ii. 49. Myristica pinnmformisy Zipp. in Miq. Annal. ii. 49. Myristica, Aruana^ BL 1. c. 191. Myristica Zippeliana, Miq. 1. c. 50. Myristica suhtilis^ Miq, 1. c. 50. Myristica Papuana^ SchefF. Annal, du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. 46. Menispermete. Stephania Zippeliana, Miq. Annal, iv. 86. Pycnarrhena Novo- Guineensis, Miq. 1. c. iv. 88 CMccnandra ovata, Miq. 1. c. iv. 84. Anamirta panicuJata, Colebr. in Transact. Linn. Soc. ziii. 52. Laurace^. Hernandia Sonora, L. Sp. PI. 981. Cinnamomum xanthoneurum, Bl. in Tijdschr. vor Naturg-esch. i. 66. Bcilschmiedia caloneura, SchefF. Annal. du Jardin. Bot. de Buit. 47. Tetranthera ohscura, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 886. Tetranthera macropliylla, F. v. M. ; Cylicodaphne macrophylla, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. ii. 14. Tetranthera amaro, Nees Syst. Laur, 551. Litscea latifolia, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 349. CAPPARlDEiE. Capparis Zippeliana, Miq. Tllustr. de Flor. de LArchip. Ind. 25 xiv. PiTTOSPOKEjE. Pittospornm chelidospermum, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 160, fig*. 33 Pittosporum Novo-Guineense, Miq. Illustr. 79. Pittospornm sinuatum, Bl. 1. c. Pittosporum Rumpliii, Putterl. Synops. Pittospor. 7. 0 ? Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, POLYGALACE^E. Polygala liyalina^ Bentli. et Hook. Gen. Plant, i. 974. Ternstroemiace^. Saurauja brevirostrisy Zipp. in Miq. Annal. iv. 100. Saurauja altissima, Zipp. in Miq. Annal. iv. 108. Smtratija tristyla, Cand. Memoir. Soc. Genev. i. 420. Saurauja Novo-Guineeiisis, SchefF. Anna!, du Jard. Buit, i. 7. Saurauja monadelphay SchefF. 1. c. 8. Eurya tricJiocarpay Kortlials in Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 114. DlPTEROCARF>EiE. Ardsoptera polyandra^ Bl. Mas. ii. 42. Geraniaceae. Impatiens latifoliay L. Sp. PL 937. Impatiens Zippelii, Miq. Illustr. de Floi^e de LArchipel Indien^ 94. Tiliaceae. ElmoearpxLs edulisy Teysm. et Binn. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxvii. 25. CELASTRINAi:, Salacia prinoides, Cand. Prodr. i. 571. Salaeia sororia, Miq. Annal. iv. 151. Hippocratea paucifloray Miq. Ann. iv. 154. 1 Hippocratea Zippeliana-y Miq. Ann. iv. 153. Rut ACE a:. Melanococca tomentosa, BL Mus. i. 236. SlMARUREA-:. Soulamea amaray Lam. Diet, i. 449. Anacaruiace.e. Semecarpus Cassuviuniy Spreng. Syst. i. 936. Odina speciosay Miq. Ann. iv. 023. 98 Descriptive Notes on Fap-uan Plants. Mangifera Taipan, Hamilt. in Transact. Wern. Soc. 3Iangifera mncronulata, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 201. Burserace^:. Canarium rigidum, Zipp. in Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. i. part ii. 648. Canarium asperum^ Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. ii. 215, Canarium angustifolnim, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 226. Oanophyllum falcatum^ BL Mus. Bot. i. 230. Thymelea^. Drymispermum urens^ Reinw. Sylloge in der Regensb. Bot. Zeit. 1828, 15, t. 2. Drymispermum macrocarpum, Scheff. Annal. du Jard, de Buit. 46. Rhamnaceje. Smythea Novo-OuineensiSy SchefF. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buiten- zorg', i. 14. NyCTAGINEA£. Pisonia Brunoniana^ Endl. Prodr. Flor. Insul. Norfolk, 43. Pisonin caulifloray Scheff. Observ. Phytogr. iii. 95. Casuarine.e. Casuarina eqtdsetifolia, R. et G. Forst. Char. Gen. Plant 103, t. 52, PiPERACEiE. Piper fragile, Benth. in Hook. Journ. ii. 234. Piper Barclayanum, Gas. de Cand. Prodr. xvi. 336. Piper caninvm, Blume in Verb, der Bot. Genootsch. xi. 214. Piper P'orstenii, Cas. de Cand, Prodr. xvi. 348. Piper metliysticum, G. Forst. Plant. Escul. 76. RoSACEA5. Rubus MohiccanuSy L. Sp. PI. ed. sec. 707. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 99 Melastomace^>. Osbeckia Australiana, Naud. in Annal. des Scienc. Nat. ser. trois, xiv. 59. Melastoma 3Ialahathricum, L. Sp. PL 390. Medinilla hracteata, BL Bijdr. 219. Medinilla Papitana^ Scheff, Ann. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz, 24. Astronia macrophylla^ BL Bijdr, 1080. Memecylon pauciflorum, BL Mus. Bot. 257. lllllZOPHORE^. Ceriops Candolleana\ Arnott in Annals of Nat. Hist. i. 3(33, Kandelia Pheedei^ Wight et Arn. Prodr. i, 310. Phizopliora conjugata, L. Sp. PL 443, Rhizophora mucronata, Lam. Diet. vi. 169. Hamamelidea-:. Liquidamhar Altingia, BL FL Javtie, 8, t. 1-2. SAMYDACEiE. Casearia salacioides^ BL Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 252. Casearia clutmfoVia^ BL 1. c. 255. CuGURBITACEiE. Melotkria Rumphiana^ Scheff. Ann. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. 25. LoRANTHACEiE. Visewn orienlale^ Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 737. Lorantlms verticillatus ^ Dendrophtoe verticillata, Scheff. 1. c. 27. Caprifoliace^. Lonicera ChinensiSj Wats. Dendr. Brit. t. 117. Vihuimum Zlppelii, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 122. Logan 1ACEA3. Geniostoma Lasiostemony BL Mus. Bot. i. 239, fig. xxxv. Fagr(m voJubiliSy Jack, in Roxh. FI. Ind. ii. 36. 100 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Fiujrcea coarctata, Bl. Run]])b. ii. 33. Fagreea rosfA'ata, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 168. Fagrcea cuspidata^ Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 170. Bignoniaceje. Tecoma dendrophila^ Blume Rumpliia, iv. 35, t. 190. Tecoma leptophylla^ Bl. 1. c. Tecoma CeramensiSy Te^^sm. et Binn. in Miq. Annul, i. 197. CoNVOLVUlACEiE. Ipomoea dissecta, Willd. Sp. PL i. 880. LepistemonJiavescenSj BL Bijdr. 722, ACANTHACEiE. Ihiellia repanda, L. 8p. PL ed, sec. 886. Peristrophe tinctoria, Nees in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rariorj iii. 103. MvRSINEiE. JEgiceras jiondum, Roein. et Sclmlt. Syst. Veg*. iv. 512. SAPOTACEiE. Chry Sophy Hum Javanicum, Steud. Noinencl. Bot. ed. secund. 359. Payenia Bumm, Sclieff, Annul, du Jard. de Buit. 33. Lticuma Cocco i Bassia Cocco, Scheff. 1. c. 3d. OLEAOEAi:. Cliionanthus ramijiorits, Roxb, PL Indica, i. 107. Asclepiade.^. Tylophora cvspidata, Zipp. in Annul, des Scienc. Nat. ix. 274, t. 10. IJoya Ariadna, Decaisne in Cand. Prodr. viii. 635. Iloya apiculata, ScbefF. Annul, du Jard. de Buitenz. 37. Pandanace^. Nipa fruticans, Wiiruib in Verb. Batav. Genootscb. i. 340. 101 Descrvptive Notes 07i Papuan PJayiis. AnoiBEii:. Cryptocoryne ciliata, Fisch. in Schott. Melet. 10. Amorphopliallus campanulatus, Bl. in Annal. du Mus. iii. 800. Xenophya hrancifolia, Schott, in Miq. Annal. i, 124. Rhapliidophora amplissiwa, Schott. 1. c. 129. RhapMdopliora Zippeliana, Schott. 1. c. Pothos Zippelii, Schott. 1. c. 131. SciTAMINEiE. Heliconopsis AmhoinensiSj Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. iii. 590. Alpiniapuhiflora, Benth.; Hellenia pubiflora ; Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. ii. 235. Alpinia macrantlia^ Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buit. 50. Alpima Papvana, Scheff. 1. c. Hedychmm lanatum, Scheff. 1. c. 57. Phrynmm maximum^ Bl. Enum. i. 37. Phrynium. capitatum^ Willd. Sp. PI. i. 17. Phrynmm gigantetwi, Scheff. 1. c. 58. DiOSCORIDEAi:. Dioseorea vulgaris^ Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. iii. 572. Amaryllidea^:. Crimimi Asiaticum, L. Sp. Pi. 292. COMMELYNACEAi. Forrestia hispida^ Ach. Rich. Voj. D’Astrol. Bot. ii. 2, t. 1. Pallia thyrsifloraj Endl. Gen. Plant. P25. PALMACEA5. Areca macrocalyx, Zipp. Bijdr. Nat. Wetens. v. 178. Kentia procera, Bl. Rumph. ii. 94^ tab. 100, 100. Orania regalis, Zipp. in Alg’. Kiinst-en Letterb. 1829, p. 285. Ptychosperma angyistifolia, Bl. Rumphia, 1. c. Ptychospcrma oliciformis, Mart. 1. c. ii. 122, t. 150. Ptychosperma appendiculata^ Bl. Rumphia, ii. 122, t. 84 et 119. Ptychosperma comimmiSj Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 31. 102 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Caryota furfuracea^ BL in Mart. Palm. 195. JAcuala pendentifiora, ^^PP* Bijdr. Nat. Wet. v. 178. Lictiala Ilumpliii, Bl. Rumph. ii. 41^ t. 89. Cocos nucifera, L. Sp. Plant. 1188. Kortlialsia Zippelii, Bl. Humph, 171, t. 130. Calamus harhatus, Zipp. in Bijdr. Nat. Wet. v. 178. Calamus heteracanthus^ Zipp. 1. c. Metroxylon Rtmplm^ Mart, Palm. 214 et 313, tab. 102 et 159. Alctroxylon filarCj Mart. Palm. 216 et 343. Equisetace^ Equisetum dehile, Roxb. in Vauch. Monograph, des Presles, 1822. Equisetum diffusum,^ D. Don, Prodr, El. Nepal. 19. Filices. Aspidium invisunij Swartz Synops. Filic. 48. Port Moresby j Rev. Dr. Turner. Aspidium Leuzeamm- ; Kunze in der Bot. Zeit. xiv. 474. Fly- River ; D’Albertis. Both these ferns have been named by Mr. Baker at Kew, who had access to authentic material. Lichenastua. Plagiochila Novm Gtdnece^ Lacoste in Miq. Annal. i. 292. Plagiochila Zvppelii, Lacoste, 1. c. 293. Clvdoscyphus Zollinger% Gottsche in Natuurk. Tijdschr. v. Nederl. Indie, 1853, 576. Thysanantlnis cmnosus, Lindenb. in Lehm. Pugill. viii. 25. Fliragmicoma polymorpha, Lacoste in Nederland. Kruidk. Arch. iii. 420. Frullania Billardieriana^ Nees et Mont, in Annal. des Scienc. IN at. 1843, 256. Frullania Zippeliiy Lacoste in Miq. Anna!, i. 313. Descriptioe Notes 07h Papuan Plants. loa ADDITION. LEGUMINOS^. Acacia holosericea. All. Cunn. in G. Don’s Gen. Syst. of Dichlam. PI. ii. 407. Geelvink-Bajj Beccari ; River, D’ Albertis ; Baxter’s Rivers Reedy. This Papuan acacia is here drawn doubtfully to Cunning-ham’s tropical Australian plant, as the spikes have been seen only in a very young- state and no fruits have as yet been gathered in New Guinea. Moreover the Papuan plant is almost glabrous, its phyllodia are towards the summit more narrowed, and the lower confluence of their nerves is not usually at or near but somewhat remote from the edge ] it shows however the same short peduncles and manifest petioles as those of A. holosericea, by which means it is removed from A. latifolia. The fact, that Dr. Beccari gathered A. Simsii also at Humboldt’s Bay, proves that more than one Australian acacia extends to the north coast of New Guinea. But another question arises, whether the Papuan plant is combinable with A. Mangium (W. Sp. PI. iv. 1053) as Bentham (Transact. Linn. Soc. xxx. 495) and also Beccari suppose. Rumph (Herbar. Amboin. iii. 123) describes the phyllodia 5 inches long and 1^ inches (by miswriting 1^ foot) broad, which accords with the Papuan plant, although he gives the size of the seeds smaller than flax-seeds ; his seemingly reduced figure leaves the question in doubts, which only can be solved by researching for the t}q)ical plant at tlie little islands close to Amboina. The short distance from thence to New Guinea speaks for the identity. A third phyllodineus acacia occurs on the Fly-River and Baxter’s River, with foliage not unlike that of A. polystachya, A. tumida, A. crassocarpa and A. auriculiforrais, but neither flowers nor fruits have been obtained. Mr. Allan Hughan gathered k. spirorbis (Labill. Sert. Austro-Caled. t. 09) or an allied species in the Loyalty-Islands, but in foliage only. 101 Desciiptlvo Notes on Piqnian Phints. MYRTACE/E. Tkistania macrospehma. Leaves scattered or few of the upper opposite^ oval-lanceolai’j soon glabrous ; cymes paniculate 5 peduncles, pedicels and petioles as well as the }■ oung branchlets finely tomentose 5 lobes of the calyx deltoid, hardly half as long as the tube, the latter almost glabrous; base of the petals and the short connate portions of the stamens fnely downy ; filaments in each bundle 11-13 ; stigma hardly broader than the style ; valves of the capsule half exserted ; fertile seeds winged at oneendxis well as the sterile ones large and flat. Geelvink-Bay ; Dr, Beccari. Well developed leaves 2-3 inches long, unless the upper ones smaller, attenuated into a slender petiole of ^ an inch or less length ; pellucid punctures hardly visible. Panicles trichotomous, terminal. Pedicels mostly shorter than the calyx; tube of the latter while petal-bearing about 1-| line long. Petals scarcely above 1 line broad, their color probably white or pale. Stamens longer than the petals ; their united portion shorter than the filaments ; anthers roundish-oval, versatile, opening by anterior longitudinal slits. Style capillary, about 2 lines long. Fruit three-valved, 3-4 lines high. Seeds forming one circular row, 11 or less in each cell, pendent from the placentas which terminate the finally seceding central column, filling the cavity to the bottom, both fertile and sterile of about equal size, brown, oval-semiorbicular, 1 ^- 2 J lines long. In external appearance the Papuan species resembles much T, suaveo- lens (Sm. in Rees’s C^xl. 1817); but the base of the })etnls and stamens is not unbearded, the number of filaments in each bundle is less, the stigma is not peltate-dilated, the fruit-valves are not remaining in height equal with the calyx tube, while the seeds are much less numerous, much larger and neither spreading nor very slender, but the fertile ones pro- vided with a membranous appendage. Whether considerable distinctions exist in bark and wood, remains to be ascertained. In some respects the approach of this new plant is nearer to T. exiliflora (F, v. M. Fragm. v. 11 ), notwithstanding the narrower leaves, the minute flowers, paucity of stamens and turgid and shorter seeds of the hitter. Among Indian congeners the Papuan one ditfers from T. obovata (Bennett in llorsf. PL Javan. Rarior, 127, t. xxvii.) in acute leaves, longer ]»etioles, lurger 105 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Planis. flowers, more numeroTis stamens, broader capsule and much broader seeds, which latter however are arranged like those of T. macrosperma. T. rufescens (Hance in Trimen’s Journal of Bot. 187b, p. 259) from Cambqja is easily distinguished by its vestiture and fewer stamens. The New Caledonian species, as far as known to me, namely T. Guillamii (Veil!. Coll. 2221), T. Callobuxus (Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 709), T. glauca (Brogn. et Gris ; Panch. n. 70, Veill. n. 907), T. capitulata (Panch. in Annal. des Scienc. Nat. ser. cinq. ii. 130) and T. Veillardii (Brogn. et Gris 5 Veill. 2179) are all except the one last mentioned very distinct from the Papuan species; T. Veillardii differs however in blunt leaves somewhat decurrent into the petiole, in smaller flowers, obtuse lobes of the calyx, stamens not exceeding the petals and perhaps its fruit, which I have not seen. T. Burmanica (Griff. Plant. Cantor, 49) is not available to me for comparison. It may be here incidentally remarked, that the Melaleuca pungens of Brogn. et Gris, 1. c. 139, has to change its specific name, which is pre- occupied by a West- Australian plant (Schauer in Lchm. PI. Preiss. i- 138) ; the New Caledonian species might be named 31, Brogniartii in memory of the great savant, who recently passed away from his luminous career, and who so largely elucidated the New Caledonian vegetation. That the length of the stamens is not of absolute generic value in Myrtaceas became demonstrated by the extreme shortness of the fila- ments of some species of Tristania and also of Eucalyptus and other cognate genera ; hence it is advisable to transfer all the Cloezias to Metrosideros. In the latter genus occur species with a five-celled ovary. Myrtella. Lohes of the calyx 5, almost vahate before expansion, not scarious, as long or somewhat shorter than the petals. Stamens uniseriate,free, about 30, scarcely longer than the lobes of the calyx. Cells of the anthers slit longitudinally. Style short. Stigma very minute. Ovary three-celled', ovules few or several in each cell, aflixed to the axillary placentas. Fruit unknown. Papuan shrubs with small oppo>site leaves, axillary solitary small flowers and long - persistent bracteoles. Tlie absence of ripe fruits renilers it impossible to designate even the tribe of Myrtacem. into which this genus should be placed, whether Bmckeacete or Myrtca^; meanwhile the characteristics of the genus rest mainly on the nearly valvular proflorescence of the calyx. 10 () Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, Mvrtelj.a Beccauii. Young- branclilets slightly downy ; leaves ohlong-elliptical, glabrous except their very obtuse base, on exceedingly short stalks, slightly recurved at the margin ; flower-stalklets several times shorter than the leaves; bracteoles seated at the base of the calyx, linear; tube of the calyx shorter than the bracteoles and hardly as long as the lobes ; petals scarcely longer than the calyx-lobes ; ovary with few ovules in each cell. Humboldt’s Bay; Dr. Beccaid. Shrub with the habit of a Bteckea or a Thryptomene. Branchlets numerous and spreading. Leaves chartaceous, hardly 3 lines long, shining above, paler beneath, copiously dotted, spreading. Pedicels about 1 line long. Bracteoles measuring* 1^-2 lines in length. Lobes of the calyx semilanceolar, 1 line long or little longer, ciliolate ; tube comparatively broad, quite smooth, turgid. Petals subtle-downy, oval. Filaments capillary; anthers roxindisb, with a conspicuous connective. Style about 1 line long. Stigma hardly dilated. Young fruit semiovate. IVIyKTELLA IIIKSU'l’ULA. Leaves oval-lanceolar, at the lower page as well as the branchlets and calyces densely hairy, their surhice beset with scattered hair ; petals nearly twice as long as the calyx-lobes, ovules several or many in each cell. On Mount Arfak, at a height of 5-6,000 feet ; Dr. Beccari. A shi’uh with the habit of a small Myrtus. Indument of branchlets and underside of the leaves almost brownisL-tomentose. Leaves inch long, thinly coriaceous. Flowers described from a sketch of Dr. Beccari, who found the anthers cordate and the ovules adscendent and anatropal. Dr. Beccari’s collection contains another remarkable myrtaceous plant, with the liabit of a Psidium, probably referable to the genus Eugenia, hut of which the fruit remains unknown. The only flower available for examination showed 8 petals, being double the number of the calyx- lobes. Unless this augmentation arose from monstrous growth, we obtain a species abnormal not only in the g’enus Eugenia (and to which the name E. pleiopetala might be given), hut also in the whole order of Myrtacere, except Gustavia. The leaves are oval and 2-3 inches long ; the flowers are solitary, axillary and placed on very short peduncles ; the Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 107 four lobes of the calyx are almost renate and much overlapping ; the petals are oval or oblong and nearly 1 inch long ; the stamens number about 30, and the rather narrow ovary reminds of that of Myrtus (Rhodomyrtus) macrocarpa, BiECKEA FRUTESCENS. Linne Sp. PI. 358. Geelvink-Bay ; Beccari. CRASSULACE^. Bryophyllum calyctnum. Salisb. Paradis. Londin. t. 3. A cultivated plant, obtained in New Guinea during Capt. Moresby’s discovery-voyage was sent to me by Richard Merricks, Esq., of the Naval Depot of Auckland, CUCURBITACE/E. Alsomitha Hooke ri. F. V. M. Fragm. vi, 188. Audai ; Dr. Beccari. 'rhe staminate plant, which alone I have seen, accords with Queens- land specimens. The tendrils are often bifid. The uniformly three- lobed calyx, exceptional in the order of Cucurbitacese, distinguishes mainly, if not solely, Alsomitra from Zanonia, inasmuch as simple and compound leaves occur also in Momordica, Anguria, Trianosperma and Cyclanthera. EPACRIDEZE. Styphelia troctiocarpoides. Mount Arfak, at a height of about G,000 feet ; Dr. Beccari. This is the first epacrideous plant, rendered known from New Guinea, though in all likelihood others will yet be detected there in the higher mountain-regions. The finder obtained neither flowers nor fruit, but the foliage leaves no doubt about the ordinal position of the plant, although its generic place remains thus uncertain. The leaves are scattered, lanceolar, gradually long-acuminated, flat, shining on both sides but paler 108 ])esoriptwe Notes on ]\ipnan J^Jants. beneath; 5-7-nerved; conspicuously stalked and as well as the branchlets glabrous, not pungent-pointed; their length varies from inches, the width is about J an inch. They are not dissimilar to those of the smaller form of Trochocarpa laurina. Among extra-australian species the plant bears comparison to Styphelia dammarifolia (Leucopogon dammarifolius, Brogn. et Gris Fragm. d’une Flore de la Nouv. Cale- donie 1864, p. 83) but the leaves are thinly petioled, much shorter, much more acute and more prominently nerved. The Papuan plant differs also from Styphelia Pancheri (Brogn. et Gris 1. c.) in leaves not blunt nor only very finely streaked. INDEX Papre Page Abelmoschus angulosus ... 56 Alpiuia ... 13 Abroma augusta ... 36 inacrantha 101 fastuosa 21 Papuana ... 101 Abrus precatorius 8,62 pubiflora ... 101 Abutilon auiitum ... 55 Alsomitra Hookcri 107 Indicum ... 55 Alstonia 91 Acacia ... ... 13 scholaris ... 70 Arabica 24 spectabilis 92 holosericea 103 Alternanthera sessilis 58 Mangium 103 Alyxia ruscifolia 28 pseudo-arabica ... .. . 24 Ainarantacese 41, 58, 87 Eichei 24 Amaryllideae 73 Seyal 24 Ammannia baccif era 67 Simsii 24, 65 latifolia 67 spirorbis ... 24 Senegalenis 67 Acalypha 59,83 Amorphophallus ... 13 Acanthaceae 12,71 campauulatus lOl Acanthus ilicif olius 12 Anacardiaceas 54 Achras 13 Anamirta ... 13 Achyranthes 33 Anamirta paniculata 96 aspera ... 58,69 Ancistrocladus ... 13 Acrostichum aiireum 33, 76 Andropogan anuulatus . . . 46 dryuaroides 76 contortus ... 46 scandens ... 50 Haleppensis 47 sorbifolium 50 rottboellioides 46 Adenostemma viscosum . . . 27, 69 tropiciis 47 Adiantum ASthiopicum ... 15 Anisomeles salvifolia 44 caudatum ... 32 Anisoptera 13 hispidulum 32 polyandra 97 lunulatum 49 Anonacea3... 95 -^giceras ... 13 Anthistiria ciliata 47 floridum 100 Antrophyum pumilum ... 81 f ragans 70 reticulatum 81 Afzelia Amboinensis ... 8 strictum ... 81 bijuga 24 Apluda mutica 46 Aglaia elasagnoidea ... 6 ApocynesD 28, 70,91 Aglaiopsis glaucesccns ... 6 Aporum incrassatuni .30 Albizzia ... . . . 83 Serra 29 Papuana ... . . . 24 Apostasia 13 rotuudata ... 8 Wallichii ... 30 saponaria 8 Appendicula 13 sessilis . . . 24 penicillata 30 Alchornea Javensis 7,23 Araliacea3 88 Allophylus 13 Araucaria... ,. 33,34 Cobbe . . . 21 Areca 13 Sundanus 21 i macrocalvx 101 ] 1 Tnd('.r. rage Aristicla 33 Bauhinia scandcns 62 ramosa 47 Teysmaimiaiia 24 Aroidea3 ... 101 WilliawsH ... 61 Artabotrys 13 Begonia 33 inoclora 95 dipetala 67 Arthrophyllum piunatmii 89 fallax 67 Anmi 33 maculata ... 68 Asdepiadese 12 Malabarica 67 Asperifoliaj 11,44,71 spilotophylla 67 Aspidiiim acutum ... 48,79 Bcgoniaceee 67 exaltatum ... ... 48, 59 Beilschmiedia 33 immersum .. 48 caloneura ... 96 invisTim 102 Bidens 33 Jveuzeamuii 102 pilosns 43 Menyanthidis 15 Bignoniacese 100 molle 1.5 Bixaceje 54 neriifornie ... 49 Blcchniim orientale 81 padiypbyllum 15 serrulatum 81 Pica 48 striatum ... 81 pteroides ... 79 Blumea hieracifolia 90 ramosum ... ... 48,79 Boehmeria 13 trmicatum 48 Boerhaavia diffusa 58 nriitiim 33 Bolbopiiyllum grandilloruni 30 Asplenium Amboiiiense ... 81 Brassaia niacrostacbya ... 89 cicutarium 82 Bryophyllum calycinum 107 cyatbaafolinm 50 Buchanania 33 clecussatuni 50 macrophyila 54 esculentum 82 Burseracese 98 t'alcatmn 16 Cadetia 13 laserpitifoliiim 15 similis 30 latifolium ... 50 iimbcllata 30 lunulatuin... 82 Cajsalpinia Bonducella ... ... 24,43 niyriopbyllum 82 pulcherrima 24 NiduR ... 50,59 Calamus ... 13,83 Pliyllitidis 81 barbatus ... 102 vScamlc'US ... ... 15,50 heteracanthu.s 102 Schkuhrii 50 Calanthe veratrifolia 73 Rcolopendroides . . . 81 Callicarpa 33 Scolopendropsis . . . 49 eriocloiia ... 91 silvaticum 50 Calophyllum 13 simplicifrons 81 inophyllum 36 speciosum ... 82 Canarium ... 13 teiierimi 50 angustifolium 98 vulcanicuiii 50 asperum ... 98 Astronia 33 rigidum 98 macrophyila 99 Canavalia obtusifolia 25, 42, 59 Avicermia 33 Canthium Molluccaiium 26 officinalis ... 91 Capnodium Fuligo 82 Bcca Commersoni ... 14 Caprifoliacea3 99 Bscckca f rutescens 107 Cax}paridea3 ... 5,52 Balanophora 34 Capparis quiniflora 5 Banksia dentata ... 28 subcordata ... 5 Barklya syringifoHa 62 Zippeliaua 96 Barringtonia speciosa ... 9 Carapa Moluccensis 6 Bassia Cooco 100 Cardamiuc sarmentosa ... 59 Bauliinia ferruginea ... 8,62 Cardiopteris 13 pipcrifolia... 62 lobata 53 ruia 62 OardioRpermum halicacabum 53 Index. Ill Carex cryptostachya raf?o .31 Oarissa 28 Caryophyllese 86 Caryota .. 13 fiirfuracea 102 Cascaria 13 clutijefolia 99 salacioides 99 Cassia Javanica 23 mimosoidcs 8 Sophera 8 Gassy tha filiformis 59 Casuarina equisetifolia ... 12 Casnarineas 12 Celastrineaj 97 Celosia 33 Celtis 13 latifolia 41 paniculata 40 Zippelii 41 Cenchrus ... 33 echiiiatus ... 74 Ocntotheca 13 lappacea ... 31, 47 Ceratophyllurn demersiim 60 Cerbera Odollam 28 Ceriops 13 Candolleana 99 Chsetosus 13 volubilis 28 Chavica 13 Cheilanthes dicksonioides 77 tenuifolia 48 Cheirostylis 13 graiidiflora 30 Chiloscyphus Zollingeri... 102 Chionanthas 33 ramiflorus . . . 100 ChlaBandra 13 ovata 96 Chrysophyllum 13 Javanicum 100 Cinnamomum 13 xantboneurum 96 Cissodeiidroa Australianum 88 Clematis 33 Cleome viscosa 52 Clerodendrou 33 floribuudum 90 inerme 11 Papiiannm 91 Tracyamim 91 Clitoria teruatea 24 Clcezia 105 Coccoloba platyclada 14 Cocblospermum Gillivrayi 54 Gossypium 54 Gregory! 54 Cocos Page 13 uucifera 102 Codiaenm chrysostictuin 60 Ccelorachis muricata 46 Coslospermiini scandens 10 Coffca Kovo-GiiiTieeusis 10 Coix Lacryma Jobi 31 Coleus ... 83 Colubriua Asiatica 7 Combretaceffi 66 Combret um cocciu cum ... 66 comosum 66 Goldieanum 66 grandifiorum 66 latifolium 66 micropetalum 66 Coramelyna 33 ensif'olia 45 Commelyiieffi 45 Commersonia echinata . . . 21 Compositse 10, 27 43, 69, 90 Coniferje 93 Counarus 83 Convolvulacea3 44, 70, 91 Convolvulus parviflorus 70 Corchorus 85 Cordia subcordata ... 44, 59 Cordyline terniinalis 30 Costus 83 Cotylanthcra tenuis 69 Crassulacese 107 Crinum Asiaticuni 101 Crotalaria juncea 61 linifolia 42 verrucosa 61 Cryptocoryne 13 ciliata 101 Cucurbitaceaa 68 Cupania 13 Zippeliaua 21 Cyathula 13 gcniculata ... 41 Cycadeje 71 Cycas ... 13, 33 Cyoas angulata ... 72 circinalis 72 inermis 72 media 72 Papuana ... 71 pectinata ... 72 Cylicodapbne niacrophylla 96 Cynometra 83 Cyperacese 31, 45, 73 Cyperus 83 diffiisus 31 distans 73 Lagorensis 31 longifolius 31 K 1 1 2 Index, Cyperus tnonoeephalus I’age 45 Dicksonia Sraithii PaffC 77 pubisquama 31 Dicliptera spicata 71 Cypholopluis 13 Dilleuiacefe 20 iatifolius ... 41 Dioscorea 13 melanocarpus .... 41 vulgaris 101 prostratus ... ... 41 Dioscoridese lOl vestitus 41 Dipterocarpeje 97 Cyrtandra 33 Dischidia nummularia 12 Dfemonorops 13 ovata 12 Dalbergia densa ... ... ... 8 peltata Timorensis 12 monosperma 8 12 Davallia Blumeana 77 Discostigma rostratum 86 elata 78 Dodonoea 13 elegans ... 49 Burmanniana 21 Fijensis .. 78 viscosa 21 fiaccida 33 Dolichos Lablab ... 88 Mauritiana 78 Dracsena angustifolia 73 multifida ... 33 Draco 30 solida 78 Drymaria cordata 86 triquetra ... 78 dta7idra 86 Deeringia celosioides 41 gerontogea 87 Dendrobium anceps ... 29 Drymispermum macrocarpum 98 antennatum 14 urens 98 atropurpureum 15 Dysoxylon 13, 83 bifalce 14 amooroides 6 bilobum 14 caulostachyum 6 funiforme ... 30 Kunthiauum 6 heteroideum 30 lasiocarpum 6 hispidum ... 30 molle 6 iucrassatum 30 Ebenacese 93 insigne 30 Elseocarpus amceuus 7 Johannis ... 15 Arnhemicus 6 Macfarlanei ... 29 edulis 58 macranthum 14 laurifolms ... 7 tnacrophyilum ... 30 longifolius 7 micranthum 29 obovatus ... 6 Mirbelianum 14 parviflorus 6 Serra 29 rotundifolius 7 spectabile ... ... 15 Eleusine cruciata 47 Tokai 14 Emilia purpurea ... 27 trichostomum ... 30 Enlialus acoroides 45 tridentiferum ... 14 Epilobium... 34 umbellatum 30 Eqiiisetacea? 102 undulatum 72 Equisctum debile... 102 yeratrifolium 14 diffusum ... 102 Dendropbtoe verticillata ... 99 Erigeron linifolius 44 Denis scandens ... 24 Eriochloa punctata 74 Timoreusis 8 Eriocnide 13 uiiginosa ... 8 Eucalyptus 34 Desmodium dependens 7, 88 alba 9 Gangeticum 88 Decaisneana 9 pendulum ... . . 7 Moluccana 9 umbellatum ... 42 multiflora ... 9 Dicksonia cuneata 77 Papnana ... 8 dayallioides 77 platyphylla 9 delicata 77 1 Eugenia 83 Papuan a ... . . 76 .Benthami ... 9 Samoensis ... 77 i Blumei 9 Index. 118 I’lige t’age Eugenia laucif olia ... 9 Garcinia rostrata. . . 86 litoralis ... 10 subtilinervis 85 pleiopetala ... 106 Gardenia 13 Euodia hortensis ... 54 Geniostoma 13 longifolia ... . . . 33 Lasiostemon 99 suaveolens ... 33 Gentianeaa 69 Euphorbia Atoto ... 40 Geraniacese 97 piiulifera ... 23 Gironniera 13 Euphorbiacese ... 7, to p 60, 87 rhamnifolia 41 Eurya 33 Gleichenia Hermanni 76 trichocarpa 97 Glycosmis pentaphylla ... 54 Eur ycles silrestris 73 Gmelina 33 Euxolus inteiTuptus 87 lepidota 91 Exocarpus latifolia 10 Gnetum 13 Fagrgea ... 13 Gnemum 94 coarctafca ... ... 100 latitblium 94 cuspidata 100 Gomphrena 13, 83 rostrata 100 Goniothalamus 13 volubilis 99 caloneurus 95 Faradaya ... 33 longirostris 95 Fapuana ... 91 Gonocaryon 33 Ficus ... 13, 59 macrocarpum 53 angulidens ... 41 Gordonia ... 33 cuspidata Mr 41 Gramineje 3l', 46, 74 obscura ... 41 Grammitis 13 opposita ... 60 pinnata 32 parietalis 41 Grewia pleiostigma 58 pilosa 41 Guettarda speciosa 43,59 Filices 15, 32, 48, 76 Guilandiua Bonduc 8 Fimbristylis glomerata .. 59 Bonducella 24 Flacourtia .. . 33 Gunncra 34 cataphracta ... 54 Guttiferee 36,85 Flagellaria ... 33 Gymnema recurvifoliuni 12 Indica ... 73 Gynopachys Zippeliana ... 25 Flemingea lineata 63 Haloragese... 60 Fleurya ... 13 Hamamelidese 99 interrupta .. . 40 Harpullia 13, 83 ruderalis ... 41,59 cupanoides 21 Fliudersia Amboinensis .. .. . 84 rupcstris 21 Papuava ... ... 84 Hedychium 33 Forrestia ... 13 angustifolium 28 hispida . • . 101 lanatum 101 Freycinetia ... 13 Hedyotis borreroides 26 Gaudichaudi ... 94 carnosa 26 marginata... 94 cephalophora 26 scandens ... 94 hispida 26 Frullania Billardieriana . . . . . 102 inamoena ... 26 Zippelii 102 iodoneura 26 Fungi ... 82 Laperousii 26 Galactia tenuiflora ... 42 inacrophylla 26 Ganophyllum 13 membranacea 26 falcatum . . . 98 nodulosa 26 Garcinia .. . 33 prostrata ... 26 anomala 85 uncinella 26 Cowa . . . 85 Ileliconopsis 33 Maingayi ... 85 Amboinensis 101 multiflora ... 85 Ilelicteres angu.stifolia ... 20 rigida 86 scmiglabra ... 20 114 Index. I’iijic Hellenia pubifloni lUl Helminthostachys Zeilaiiic.-i 75 Heptapleurum 13 Jimbriatum 89 Hcritiera litoralis 6 Hernandia 33 Sonora 96 Hetaria 13 elongata ... 30 obscui’a 30 Hibiscus ... 33 1 Abehnosclius 56 1 angulosus ... 56 D^Albei'tisii 56 ficulneus 56 1 fragraus ... 57 Manihot 56 niicans 57 Notho-Manihot . . . 56 pentapbyllus 56 platycalyx 57 Ixosa^Sinensis 57 tiliaceus .. .56, 59 tulipiflorus 57 venustus ... 57 vitifolius ... 56 Hippocratea 13 pauciflora 97 Zippeliana 97 Holosteum diaiidrum 87 Hoya apiculata 100 Ariadna 100 globulifera 12 , pruinosa ... 12 purpurea ... 12 1 llydnophytuni fonuicarum 10 1 lauceolatum 26 montauum 26 llydrocharideaj ... 45, 72 Hydrocharis Asiatica 72 Morsus-Ranae 72 Hypaelyptum 83 Ilyi>oestis floribuuda 71 Impatiens 33 latifolia 97 Zippelii 97 Indigofera enneaphylla ... 61 linifolia 42 trifoliata ... 42 viscosa 61 Inocarpus edulis 25 Intsia Amboinensis 24 Iporacea ... ... .. 33,83 angustifolia 70 cymosa 91 dissecta 100 eriocarpa 70 hederacea 70 Ipomcea pes-capra* Page 91 quinata 44 Irina Diplocardia 2 1 Ischasnium pectinatuni 46 rottboellioides 46 Isolepis barbata 46 Ixora 83 Pavetta 69 Ja?gera 13 speciosa 21 Jarabosa auriculata 9 JasminefB... 71 Jasminum 33 semulum ... 71 didymum 11 rupestre 11 Jodes ... 33 ovalis 53 Josepliinia grandiflora ... 11 Jossinia litoralis ... 10 Jussisea repens 60 suffruticosa 60 Justicia 33 Kandelia 13 Rheedei 99 Kentia 13 procera 101 Ivleinhovia 13 bospita 21 Knoxia corymbosa 43 Kopsia 13 flavida ... 28 Korthalsia ... 13 Zippelii 102 Kyllingia monocephala 31 Labiatas 44, 71, 90 Lasianthera 13 Australiana 53 litoralis 53 Lauracea3 96 Leea ... 13 sambucina 36 Sundaica ... 37 Zippeliana 37 Leguminosaj ... 7, 23, 41, 61, 88 Lepistemon 33 flavescens 100 Leptaspis Banksii 47 Leptospermum Amboiuense 25 Lepturus repens 59 Leucas flaccida ... 71 Lichenastra 102 Licuala .. 13 pendentiflora 102 Rumphii 102 Liliacea} 30, 73 Limnanthemum Indicuni 69 Lindsaya acutifolia 78 Index. 1 1 rage rage Liiidsaya Amboiiiensis 78 Maranta 33 curdata 78 Medinilla 13 lanceolata ... 78 bracteata ... 99 lanuginosa 59 Papuana 99 lobata 78 Melaleuca Leucadendron ... 9,88 pectinata ... 78 Brogniartii 105 Liquidanibar 13 Melanococca ' 13 Altingia ... 99 tomeutosa... 97 Litssea 13 Melastoma 33 latifolia 96 Malabatbricurn 99 Loganiaceie 99 Melastomacea3 99 Lomaria eupblebia 78 Mclbania iiicana ... 55 J^omariopsis spectabilis .50 Meliacese 6, 53, 84 Lonicera 13 Melocbia 13 Chinensis ... 99 corcborifolia 65 Lorantbacea) 99 ludica 21 Lorauthus 33 odorata 55 verticillatus 99 pyramidata 36 Lucuma Cocco 100 tilisefolia 55 Luffa JEgyptiaca 68 Vitiensis ... 55 Arabum ... 68 Melotbria 33 Lumnitzera 13 Kumpbiana 99 cocciuea ... 59 Memecylon 13 racemosa ... 66 pauciflorum 99 Lycopodiacese 74 Menispermece 96 Lycopodium cernuum 74 Metroxylon 13 D’Urvillei... 75 blare 102 fiabellatum 75 liumphii 102 Plilegmaria 74 Micromelum pubescens ... 84 squarrosum 74 Micropodium longifolium 50 Lygodium circinuatuin 33 Monenteles spicatus 43 dicbotomum 75 Morinda citrifolia ... 10,59 Japonicum 75 gemella ... 10 Lytbracese 43,67 glomerata ... 10 Maba 13 Mosebosma polystaebya... 71 elliptica 93 Mucuna acuminata 64 Macaranga aleuritoides 21 AlbeTtisii ... 64 hispida 22 anguina 65 lougistipulata 22 JBennettli ... 63 stipulosa ... 22 imbricata 64 Mo3sa 33 macrobotrya 63 acuminata ... 92 macrocarpa 65 haplobotrys 92 macrophylla 65 la3vigata ... 93 monosperma 64 mollissima 93 Novo-Guineensis ... ... 24, 64 Novo-Guineensis 92 pruriens 66 protracta ... 92 Muehlenbeckia gracillima 60 verrucosa ... 92 platyclada... 60 Mallotus Pbilippineusis 87 Mukia scabrella 68 ricinoides ... 87 Musa 13 tilia?folius ... 7,23 Mussa?nda frondosa 25 Malpighiaceas 36 Myristica ... 13,83 Malvacea3 ... 36, 55 Aruana 96 Mangif era 13 fatua 96 mucronata. . . 64 lepidota 96 Taipan 54 raorindifolia 96 Maniltoa grandiilora 24 nesopbila ... 96 Mappa tanaria 7 Papuana 96 Index. Myriatica pimiteformis ... Page 96 1 Crania Page 13 subalulata ... 96 regalis 101 subcordata 96 1 Orchideaj U, 29 , 72 subtilis 96 Orophea 13 tubiflora 96 aurantiaca... 95 Zippeliana... 96 ovata 95 Myristicea? 96 Orthosiphon stamincus ... 45 Myrmecodia echinata ... 10,90 Osbeckia 13 Myrsine 33 Australiaua 99 donsiflora 93 Osmoxylon 13 Myrsinese 70 Amboinense 89 Myrtacese 8, 25, 88 Palmacea3 ... 101 Myrtella Beccarii 106 Panax 13 hirsutula 106 Zippeliaiium 89 Myrtus Coriandri 10 Pandaneaj ... 94 laxiflora 10 Pandanus ... 33 , 59 Nageia Blumei ... 93 Panicum conipositum ... 31 bracteata ... 93 foliosum 74 Japonica ... 93 multinode 31 liumpliii ... 93 repens 31 thevetisefolia 93 sauguinale 47 Nelitris Coriandri 10 yirgatum 47 laxiflora 10 Paspalum longifoliiim ... 74 Nepenthaceae ... 20,52 Passiflora aurantia 68 Nepenthes 13 Passifloreaa 68 ampullaria 52 Pavetta Boreensis 26 Kennedy! 20 Kothiana 10 pbyllamphora 20 Zippeliana 10 Nephelium 13 Payenia 33 Diplocardia 21 Ba^vuin 100 ferruginenm 21 Pedalineas ... 11 Nephrodium pteroides ... ... 79 Peliionia elatosteruoides 41 Neuburgia 13 Pemphis acidula ... ... *13 , 59 musculiformis 28 Pentaxjhragma macropbylla ... 28 Nipa 13 Peristrophe 33 f ruticans ... 100 tinctoria 33 Nyctagineaa 58 Perotis rara 47 Nymphosa 13 Pha3anthus 33 gigautea 95 nutans 95 Nymphaeaceae 95 Phaleria 33 Ochrosia 59 Plianera rufa 62 Ocimum 33 Phaseolus Max 88 Basilicum 90 Phragniicoma polymorplia 102 sanctum 90 Phragmites communis ... 74 Odina 13 Phrymium 33 speciosa 97 giganteum 101 Olacinece 53 maximum 101 Oleaceas 11 Phylacium bracteosum ... 24 Oleandra 13 Phyllauthus buxifolius ... 23 musajfolia 49 Niruri 87 neriiformis 48 Urinaria 87 Oligostemon 62 Piper ... 33 83 Onagreas 60 Barclayanum .»• 98 Ophioglossece 76 , caninum 98 Ophiorrhiza Mungos 25 1 Forsteri 98 Opilia 13 : fragile 98 amentacca ... 53 methysticum 98 pentitidis 53 1 Pipcracea? ... 98 Index. 117 Pipturus velutinus I’isonia Page 59, 60 Polypodium liuguiformo... Page 48, 80 33, 59 Linnsei 48, 79 Brunoniana 98 mussefolium 80 cauliflora 98 nigrescens 80 IMthecolobium Papuanum 24 nutans 80 sessile 24 phymatodes 48* 59, 80 Pittosporese 96 proliferum 80 Pittosporum 13, 83 punctatum 15 chelidosperraum ... 96 quercifolium 48 Novo-Guinense ... 96 rigidulum 48 Rumpliii ... 96 sinuosum 48 sinuatura 96 stigmosum 15,48 Plagiochila Novo-Gaineas 102 varians 80 Zippelii 102 Polyscias 33 P latycerium grande 76 Papuana 89 Plectranthus 45 Pongamia volubilis 8 parviflorus 90 Popowia 13 Plectronia Moluccana ... 26 NoYO-Guineensis ... 95 Pluchea Indica 10 Portulaca 59 Phimbagineas 58 Pothos 13, 83 Plumbago Zeilanica 58 Zippelii 101 Plumiera Papuana 28 Pouzolzia quinqucncrvis 40 Podocarpus 13 Premna integrifolia 12 agathifoUa 93 Pritzelia 13 bracteata 93 Procris 13 Rumphii 93 Proteacca3 28 thevetiajfolia 93 Pseudochrosia 13 Podochilus 13 glomerata 28 densiflorus 30 Psilotum triquetrum 59 scalpelliformis 30 Psoralea Archeri 41 Pollia 33 Psychotria 83 thyrsiflora 101 Pteris excelsa 78 Polyalthia... 13 longifolia 16 cliloroxantha 95 longipes 78 glauca 95 semipinnata 78 hirta 95 tripartita 16, .59 macropoda 95 Zippelii 78 Polygala 13 Pterocaulon Billardieri ... 43 hyalina 97 Pterostelma albiflorum ... 12 Polygalacese 97 Ptychosperma 13 Polygoneje 59 augustifolium 101 Polygonum 13 appendiculatum ... 101 polyanthum 59 commune 101 pubescens 59 oliviforme ... 101 Zippelii 59 Pycnarrhena 13 Polyphragmon pseudo-capitatum 26 Novo-Guineensis ... 96 rigidum 26 Pycnospora hedysaroides 42 Polypodiuni acrostichoidcs 48, 79 Quercus 33, 83 albo-squamatum ... 80 Randia densiflora 25 appendiculatum ... 81 Fitzalaui 69 barbatum 80 Macarihuri 68 blechnoides 80 stipularis 69 contiguum 80 stipulosa ... 69 decorum ... 80 Zippeliana ... 25 ferriigineum 15, 48 Rliamnacese 7 heracleum ... 79 Rbaphidophora 13 irioides 48 amplissima 101 irregulare 79 1 Zippeliaiia ... 101 118 hideoi'. Uluzophora 1 age 13 Semecarpus rivge ... 13,33 conjugata 99 Cassuvium 54 raucronata 59 Sesbania aculeata 62 Khizophorca3 99 Sida 59 Rhodamuia glauca ... 10 spinosa 55 Rhododendron ... 34 Sideroxylon 83 Rhynchospora aurea 74 Simarube® 97 Riedle}’a tiliasfolia 55 Sloanea Jamaiccnsis 85 Rosace® 98 parcuHscarum 84 Rottboellia ... 33 Smytliea 33 Rubiace® 10, 25, 43, 68, 90 Noyo-Guineensis ... 98 Rubus 33 Solanacc® ... 44,91 Moluccanus 98 Solanum 33 Ruellia 33 incanum ... 44 repanda 100 lasiocarpum 44 Rutacc® 54 pulvinare 44 Ryssopterys 33 repandiim 91 Timorcnsis 36 Schefferi 44 Saccharum 33 verbascifolmm 44 macilentura 47 Sonneratia 33 spontaneum 46 Sophora tomentosa 42 Saccolabiiim fasciculatiim 14 Soularnea 33 quinq^ucMum 14 amara 97 Sagus ... 33 Spanoghea f erruginea . . . 21 Salacia 13 Spermacoce l®vigata 27 prinoides ... 97 Papaana ... 27 sororia 97 Sponia 13 Samydace® 99 Stemonurus 53 Santalace® U) Stephania 13 Sapindace® 21 53 Zippeliana 96 Sapindus 13 Sterculiacc® 6, 20, 36, 55 cnspidatus 21 Streblus 13 Sapotacc® ... 100 asper 41 Saprosma arborca 10 Stypbelia trocliocarpoides 107 8arcopodium 13 damari-folia 108 Sauranja 13 Pancheri ... 108 altissima 97 Suriana maritima 59 brcvirostn's 97 Syzygium nitidum 9 monadelpha 97 Tabern®montana Novo-Guineensis 28 Kovo-Guineensis ... 97 pentasticta 28 tristyla 97 pubescens 91 Bc®vola 13 ,33 Tapeinocheilos pungens 13 Koenigii 28 , 59 Tecoraa 13 Schelhammera rnultiliora 93 Ceramensis 100 Schiz®a dichotoma 32 dcndrophila 100 h'orsteri . . . 32 ,75 leptophylla 100 Schiz®ace® 75 Tectona 33 Scitamine® 13 Tephrosia purpurea 7 Scleria . . . 33 ,83 Terminalia 59 Scolopendrium longifolium 50 Ternstr®miacc® 97 pinnatum 50 Tetrauthera 13 vulgare 49 amara 96 Scrophulariu® 90 macrophylla 96 Scyphipbora hydropliyllacca ... 10 obscura 96 Securinega Abyssinicu ... 40 Tetraplasandra ... 13 Selaginella caudata 75 paucidens ... 89 caulescens 75 Thespesia populnea 36 flabellata 75 Thymele®... 98 Tliysauauthus comosus ... i’age 102 Tiliacese fi, 58, 84 Tiuionins p.seu(Io-ca])itatus 26 rigidus 26 Tournefortia . 83 argentca ... 11, 59 mollis 71 sarmeiitosa fl Trema camiabina 40 Trevesia 13 insignis 89 Novo-Guineensis .. . 89 Tribulus terrestris 37 Trichomanes Pilicula ... 33 Triphasia 13 Tristania macrosperma 104 Tristellateia 13 Australasica 36 Triumfetta procumbens ... 59 Tnrrsea pubescens 53 Tylophora 33 cuspidata ... 100 Uncaria 90 appendiculata 10 Urena lobata ... 55 lirticese .. 40, 60 Uvaria 33 cercifolia 42 liosenbergiana 95 Vanda Hindsii 14 Vandellia Crustacea 90 pedunculata 90 Verbenacefe ... 1 1, 90 I'a.ice Vernonia cineren 27 Viburnum 33 Zippelii 99 Villebrunia murina 41 rliodopleura 41 rufescens . . . 41 Vinifera3 ... ... 36, 86 Viscum 13 orientale ... 99 Visiania ... 33 undulata ... 11 Yitex trifolia 11 Vitis ... 13, 83 cordata 36 diffusa 37 Papuana ... 36 pisocarpa ... 37 pubiflora . . . 37 rostrata 37 trifolia 86 Vittaria 13 elongata ... ... 33,81 scolopeudrina 81 Wedelia biflora ... ... 27. 43 Wormia ... 13,83 alata 20 castaneifolia 20 Xenophya ... 13 brancifolia 101 Xerotes Banksii ... 45 Xcrotidea3 ... 45 Zanonia 107 Zygophylleje 37 By Authoi:ity ; John FiumES, Government Printer, Melbourne. 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