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portion to the whole number, and the space to which we are limited too small to 
undertake it here, and a mere list of the few collected of too little interest for 
insertion. 
VI.—NEW GUINEA REGION. 
The plants collected during this portion of the voyage, were already published 
in a paper, inserted in the London Journal of Botany, vol. i. p. 669, and vol. ii. 
p- 211, before any arrangements were made for the separate publication of the 
Botany of the voyage. It was, it is believed, the intention of the Editor to 
reprint that paper, as well as a previous one on the Hong Kong collection (Lon- 
don Journal of Botany, vol. i. p. 476) in the present work, but the space to which 
we are limited now precludes any farther mention of them than the repetition of 
the descriptions of the five following species now figured. 
CuzrTosus volubilis, zen. nov. (Plate LVI.)\—New Guinea. 
Cuar. Gen. Calyx brevis, 5-partitus, sepalis zestivatione imbricatis. Corolle tubus brevis, 
ovoideus, faux leviter contracta, subnuda; limbi lacinia 5, oblongo-lineares, estivatione leviter 
contorta. Stamina 5, imo tubo inserta. Antherse exsertee, in conum connate. Glandulze hypo- 
gyne 5, conicee, ovario equilonge. Ovarium biloculare, ovulis in quoque loculo numerosissimis, 
placentis dissepimento adnatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma basi orbiculari impositum, oblongum, 
apice breviter bilobum. Bacca bilocularis, crustacea, polysperma, seminibus peltatis dissepimento 
affixis. 
C. volubilis. Frutex glaber, ramulis volubilibus. Folia opposita, petiolata, ovata breviter acuminata, 
penninervia, subtripollicaria. Stipule interpetiolares brevissimee, breviter a Cyme ee 
axillares, 2-3-chotomz, petiolo paullo longiores. Calyx 4 lin. longus. Corolla intus extaegne glabra, tu : 
lineam, limbi laciniis sesquilineam longis. Faux annulo obscuro aucta ; filaments crassinsculs, pilis igre 
hirtella, tubo corolle paullo longiora. Ovarium gynophoro crasso-carnoso impositum, et 
Baccee, in speciminibus immature, late obovoideo-globose, 4-5 lin. longe et late, nonnnllze loculo uno abor- 
tiente ovoidee incurve. Semina in quoque loculo 4-5, matura non vidi. (Benth. in Lond. Jour. Bot. 2. 
p- 226.) 
The central placentation and stipulary ciliz indicate the affinities of this 
genus rather with Loganiacee than with Apocynacee, and it is probably near to 
the imperfectly known genus Picrophieus of Blume. 
Plate LVI. fig. 1. flower; fig. 2. corolla cut open; fig, 3. stamen; fig. 4. nectarium, ovary and 
style ; fig. 5. longitudinal section of the ovary; all magnified. 
Leucosmia Burnettiana, gen. nov. Aquilarinearum (Plate LVII.)—Feejee inant. 
