14 T'KOCEEDINGS OP THE ROYAL SOCIETY OP QliEENSLAND. 



Visit B.N.G., 27, and Queens. Agric. Journ., xxii, 149.) Mekeo 

 District (also observed but not collected on the road between 

 Sogeri and Javararie). 



C. media is a denizen of the tlry open forest or grass lands 

 characteristic of a good stretch of the coastal country in Sovithern 

 Papua, and I iiave a strong suspicion that the specimens referred to by 

 Bailey I.e. belong to it rather than to C. circinalis. However, I cannot 

 find any specimens in the Queensland Herbarium referred to G- papuana 

 by him. C. circinalis io, a very different looking plant and is an in- 

 habitant of the dense rain-forests of the mountains. Schumann and 

 Lauterbach (Fl. Deutssh. Schutz. Gebiete Sudsee, p. 153) place C. 

 Ruinphii Miquel as a synonym ; and as Hooker (Flora British India, 

 V, 657) places C. Scratchleyanum as only a form of this, that would 

 leave only two species recorded for the territory of Papua. 



Family PINACE^. 



(conifer/e.) 



Araucaiia Cunninghsmii Ait. F. Muell. Vic. Nat. iv, 121 ; 

 Pap. PL, ii (ix), 65. Mafulu (not very abundant). 



MONOCOTYLEDON-®:. 



Family PANDANACE^. 



(Determinations verified by Prof. U. Martelli (Firenze).) 



Pandanus Balenii Martelli. Between Sogeri and Javararie. 



Freycinetia angustissima Ridl. in Britt. Journ. Bot., xxiv, 

 359. Bisiatabu (Astrolabe Range). 



Family GR AMINES. 



(Grasses.) 



Coix Lacryma-Jobi Linn. F. v. M. Pap. PI., i (ii), 31; 

 Becc. in D'Albertis' " New Guinea,'" ii, 399 ; Bail. Rep. Visit 

 B.N.G., 28 ; Queens. Agric. Journ., iii. 162, xxii, 150. Java- 

 rarie (also noticed at Kabunah). 



Polyioca macrophylla Benth. Mt. Warirata and Mafulu. 



Dimeria ornithopoda Trin. Bisiatabu (Astrolabe Range). 

 A small grass growing on rocks in exposed situations. 



Imperata arundinacca Cyr. F. Muell. Pap. PI., ii (vi), 20 ; 

 Vic. Nat., Feb. 1885 ; Bail. Rep. Visit B.N.G., 28. Astrolabe 

 Range. Common in open forest country almost everywhere ; 

 a great pest in coconut plantations. 



