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Bauhinia sp. Port Moresby. A scrambling shrub ; 

 leaflets free to the base, obliquely oblong, about li in. (4 cm.) 

 long and about 1 in. (2 5 cm.) broad. Pods thick and woody. 

 Probably represents a new species but the flowers are unloiown. 



Cassia alata Linn. Ringworm Bush. Naturalised and very 

 common about Port Moresby. 



Csesalpinia Bonducella Roxb. Port Moresby. It is recorded 

 by Mueller in Pap. PL, i (iii), 43, from Darnley Island. This, 

 however, is Queensland territory. 



C. nuga Ait. Bafl. Rep. Visit B.N.G., 28 ; Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Queens., xviii, 1. Yule Island. 



Crotalaria juncea Linn. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iv), 61. Port 

 Mores b3\ 



C. linifoUa Linn. f. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iii), 42 ; Bail. 

 Rep. Visit B.N.G., 27. Port Moresby. 



C. calycina Schranck. Sapphire Creek. 



C. striata DC. Port Moresby. 



I saw this plant growing about the town but omitted to gather 

 specimens. 



Psoralea badocana (Blanco) Benth. Port Moresby ; Yule 

 Island. This rather pretty blue-flowered plant is very abundant 

 at the localities mentioned. 



Indigofera linifolia Retz. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iii), 42. 

 Yule Island. 



I. enneaphylla Linn. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iv), 61. Port 

 Moresby. 



I. trifoliata Linn. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iii), 42. Sapphire 

 Creek. 



I. viscosa Lam. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iv), 61. Port 

 Mores b^^ 



Tephrosia vestita Vog. Sapphire Creek and Astrolabe 

 Range. 



T. astragaloides R. Br. T. vsstita Bail. Queens. Agric. 

 Journ., xxiii, 218 {non Vogel). Port Moresby. 



A very common plant about Port Moresby. The flowers are whitish 

 or with a faint purplish tinge and are borne in elongated racemes. The 

 leaves are silky above, hence the Papuan plant would go under the 

 variety (?) macrostachya Benth. ; this variety, however, does not seem 

 a very well-marked one. The specimen referred to by Bailey I.e. as 

 T. vestita belongs here. 



