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uating membrane somewhat curved. This species extends to the Blue 

 Mountains (Mrs. Calvert), to Illawarra (Kirton), to the Hunter- 

 River (L e i c h h a r d t). Mr. B a i 1 e y records both species from Queens- 

 land. 



X. occidentale I noticed on the Blackwood-River. Not rarely 2 or 

 3 pair of spikes terminate the branchlets. 



X. angustifolium is already quite distinct from the other species in 



the form of its pericarp, in the shape and coloration of the seed and 



in the comparative shortness of the membraneous appendage. No 



representative of the genus Xylomelum is known nor likely obtainable 



from between 120o and 145o longitude east of Greenwich ; and this can 



be said also of a considerable number of other genera , endemic to 



Australia."] 



Mueller, Ferd. Barou v., Description of two unrecorded Leguminous trees 



from New Guinea. (Extra print from the Australaaian Journal ofPharmacy. 



April, 1886.) 



[Cynometra minutiflora. — Branchlets thin, subtle-hairy ; leaves 

 consisting generally of two paii- of leaflets, short-stalked or almost 

 sessile , the petiole and rachis minutely hairy ; leaflets comparatively 

 small, chartaceous, sessile, oblique ovate-lanceolar, gradually protracted 

 into a short-bilobed summit, hardly paler beneath, glabrous on both 

 sides ; fascicles of flowers almost capitate , emanating often from near 

 the base of the petiole ; peduncle obliterated : bracts minute, roundish ; 

 pedicels very short, subtle-downy ; calyces minute, their segments al- 

 most ovate, glabrous ; stamens ten , about twice as long as the calyx- 

 segments; anthers roundish; ovary short-stipitate, as well as the style 

 glabrous; stigma not dilated; fruit comparatively small, almost semi-or- 

 bicular-ovate, oblique, short-stipitate, slightly rough, rather turgid, in- 

 dehiscent, one-seeded. 



In the south-eastern part of New Guinea; Rev. J. Ch almers. 

 Leaflets of the lower pair usually only about half as long as those of 

 the Upper, the latter 1— IV2 inches long, and much more narrowed to- 

 wards the summit. Fascicles of flowers reminding of little flowerheads 

 of Acacias ; segments of the calyx not fully V^ ^^^^ long. Petals ob- 

 literated, unless fugacious, none seen in any of the advanced flowers 

 available. Style thicker than the filaments. Fruit resembling that of some 

 Grevilleas, though not bivalvular, attaining a length only of 3/4 of an 

 inch; pericarp rather thick. Seed turgid. The smallness of the leaves, 

 the minuteness of the flowers and the smoothness of the ovary separate 

 this species from all others, except C. Travancorica , the flowers of 

 which are also exceedingly small ; but that species has the leaflets in 

 Single pairs and of large size, while the ovary is downy and the fruit 

 flat. Should further observations confirm the absence of petals in this 

 Cynometra, then a still closer approach to the genera Hardwickia, 

 Prioria, Copaifera, Crudia and Detarium would be indicated. Some 

 South-American species of Cynometra yield a kind of Capal. 



Pterocarpus Papuanus. — Branchlets almost glabrous; leaflets 

 often 5-7, thinly chartaceous, scattered, soon glabrous, ovate or roundish- 

 ovate, protracted into a narrow acumen; racemes axillary, simple or 

 but little branched; pedicels about as long as the calyx during an- 

 thesis; calyces beset with subtle appressed hair outside, only short- 

 protracted at the base; teeth somewhat deltoid, the lower smaller and 

 more acute; petals glabrous, the upper and the lateral crispated, the 

 two lower the shortest; tube of stamens cleft into halves; ovary silky- 

 hairy ; style almost glabrous ; pod on a stipes of hardly the length of 

 the calyx , thinly silky , all around expanded into a broad membrane, 

 witlx a small sinus in front not far above the base of the fruit , the 

 anterior portion of the membranous expansion also above its middle 

 forming a short protruding angle. 



At Maiva and Kerepuna in New Guinea; Edelfelt. A tall tree, 

 with redish wood , according to the collector's notes. Specimens ob- 

 tained through Th. Gulliver, Esq. I should have i-eferred the Pa- 



