ArA?fTiT.\CE.i- papi'an.t: 195 



Grnj)tophyUi(m Gillhjani S. Moore {Justicia Ginif/ani Bail.). 



Astrolabe Ivcinge ; ^F////<?, 23G, 353 : Mekeo district, No. 791. 



This is easily distinguishable from G. inctum Griff, by the narrow 

 lobes of the corolla. 



CaJycacanthus 3Iaf/m(siani(s K. Sclmm. 



BisiatLil)a, near Kona Falls; White, 360. 



The corollas are not yet expanded, the largest being only a little 

 over 2 cm. in length ; l)iit they agree with others at a similar stage 

 of Forbes's No. 887, which nndoubtedly belongs to this species. 



JDicliptera Burmanni T. And. 



Yule Island; Wlufe, 72'S. 



This is believed to be new for Papua. 



(To be continued.) 



NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 

 By H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.K.8. 



(Continued from p. 149.) 



^ Entada Schefferi, n. sp. 



Enfada scandens, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 332 

 (1845) was based on Mimosa scandens L., Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1501, which 

 includes at least five species of the genus, all distinct — E. Fiirscetha 

 DC. and E. monosfachya DC. from India and Ceylon, E. Rumpliii 

 Scheffer from Amboina and the Philij^pines, and two or more species 

 from Polynesia and South America. Bentham added some African 

 species ; De Candolle separated some of these, and Scheffer described 

 two — one the very distinct E. Rumpliii, the other he described 

 (Obs. Phyt. iii. 90, t. xvi, xviii A) as E. Eurscdtlia : this is not the 

 Indian E. Purscefha of De Candolle, but the species Avbich occurs in 

 the Malay Peninsula and Java. Prain's Entada scandens (in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. pt. 2, p. 242) includes E. Rurscetha from the 

 Andamans, and some specimens of E. spiralis Ilidl. as well as the 

 E. EurscBtlia Scheffer. This latter species I propose to separate 

 under the name of E. Scliejferi. 



E. Schefferi liidl. n. sp. E. EurscEtha Scheffer, Obs. Phyt. iii. 

 90, t. xvi, xviii A, not of De Candolle. Frutex scandens ad Is m. 

 longus, caule ad basin 1-50 cm. crasso, ramis gracilibus jDcndulis 

 glabris. Eolia 1-50 cm. longa, petiolo '5 mm. longo, cirrho termi- 

 nali; pinna) 4 oppositas 1-1-25 cm. longae, foliolis paucis subcoriaceis 

 atro viridibus obovatis vel oblongis obtusis vel apice rotundatis sa?pe 

 obliquis '25-31 mm. longis 12 mm. latis, breviter petiolulatis. Spicaj 

 singuhe extra-axillares 1*25-2 cm. longse, basi 25-50 mm. nuda% 

 rachide puberula. Elores 2 mm. longi dense congesti. Bractece 

 minuta3 acuminate persistentes. CaJyx cupulatus dentibus minutis. 

 Corolla tlava lobis oblongis obtusis, tubo calj^ci a.>quali. Stamina 10, 

 duplo longiora. Legumen 62 dm. longum, 1 dm. latum, margini- 

 bus sutura3 crassis latis dorso rotundatis obscure ad articulationes 

 indentatis, segmentis 13, oblongis rotundatis 1*6 dm. longis, 6 mm. 

 crassis.. Semen elliptieum rotundatum 37 mm. longum, 31 mm. 

 latum, 6 mm. crassum, atrobrunneum. 



