MB. T). 0L1TEB ON PLANTS COLLECTED IN NEW GUINEA. 29 



I called at the Botanic Gardens, Bourbon, when on my way to 

 the Seychelles ; and I am glad to say that they are very much im- 

 proved since I saw them last. The Government of the island has 

 taken the management of them into its own hands. 



List of Plants collected in New Guinea by Dr. M B. Meyer, 

 sent to Kew December 1874. By Daniel Oliver, Esq., F.E.S. 



&L.S. 



[Read April 15, 1875.] 



Dr. Adolf Bernharo Meyer, Director of the Royal Natural- 

 History Museum of Dresden, recently forwarded to Dr. Hooker, 

 for the Kew Herbarium, the few dried plants which he was able 

 to preserve during his visit to New Guinea (with a view to zoolo- 

 gical and anthropological research) in 1873. 



As he requested that in case any of the species proved to be 

 new they should be published, I have drawn up the annexed list 

 of the whole (there are but ten altogether), with descriptions of 

 the two novelties, for the Linnean Societv. 



Kew, December 30, 1874. 



No. 5. Canavalia obtusifolia, DC. 



Hab. Elefantgeberge, Geelvinksbay. 



Nos. 9 &• 11. Pentaphragma macrophylu, 0/*i?., sp. nov. Foliis 



amplis oblique ellipticis breviter acuminatis basi inaequilateris penni- 



veniis, margine dentibus erebviusculis sequilongis saepe incurvis ele- 



ganter semuis, supra glabris, subtus vernatione tornentellis, racemis 



axillaribus multifloris pedunculis incrassatis, calycis lobis lineari-lan- 



ceolatis acutis corollae erassiusculae lobis oblongo-ovatis 2plo longi- 

 oribus. 



Folia alterna, 15 poll, longa, 6-/ poll, lata; petiolus 1 £-3^ poll, longus. 

 Pedunculus |-2 poll, longus ; bracteae lineari-lanceolatae \-\ poll, 

 longae. Calyx (cum pedicello) 2 poll. ; tubus teretiusculus lsevis, lobi 

 ^-f poll, longi. 



Hab. Geelvinksbay. 



Mo. 6. Sc^evola Kcenigii, Vahl. 

 Hab. Elefantgeberge, Geelvinksbay. 



