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M. Stanleyi : Branchlets and panicle branches hirsute with long 

 spreading hairs ; leaflets 4-6.| in. (10-16-5 cm.) long ; calyx hirsute with 

 long brown hairs, 1 in. (2-5 cm.) long. 



Canavalia obtusifolia DC. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iii). 42 ; 

 Bail. Rep. Visit B.N.G., 27, 28. Port Moresby. 



Atyiosia scarabseoides Benth. Sapphire Creek. 



A. grandifolia F. v. M. Astrolabe Range. The Papuan 

 specimens have a more robust appearance and are more 

 densely pubescent than the Australian specimens but otherwise 

 agree with them. 



Rhynchosia Cunninghamii Benth. Yule Island. 



Flemingia strobiliiera R. Br. Bail. Queens. Agric. Journ.. 

 xxii, 147 ; xxiii, 220. Port Moresby ; Astrolabe Range. 



F. lineata Roxb., var. papuana n. var. A stronger growing 

 plant than the normal form ; branchlets densely ferruginous - 

 pubescent ; leaflets up to 4^ in. (10'7 cm.) long and If in. (4-5 

 cm.) broad ; panicles correspondingly large. 



Sapphire Creek. 



DoUchos Lablab Liim. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (v), 88. Astro- 

 labe Range. 



Family GERANIACEiE. 



Biophytum Apodiscias Turcz. Deva Deva (Mafulu Dis- 

 trict). 



Family RUTACE^. 



Evodia mollis Warb. Bella Vista (Mafulu District, 4.800 

 ft.). 



[E. alata F. Muell. F. Muell. Pap. PL, ii (vii), 26. Boku 

 (Papua), 3{rs. H. P. Schlencker ; near Finschhafen (late Kaiser 

 WUhelm's Land), Dr. Carl Weinlajid (No. 178) ; received from 

 Botanic Gardens, Berliii, as E. mollis Warb. 



Mrs. Schlencker'vS si^ecimen represents a very robust form 

 with leaflets nearly I ft. (31 cm.) long and 7 in. (18 cm.) 

 broad and with the main veins very prominent beneath, and 

 when flowers are available it may possibly prove a new variety 

 or species. 



E. mollla and E. alata are evidently closely allied, but can be dis- 

 tinguished by the following characters : — ■ 



E. mollis : Under surface of lamina of leaf closely covered by a dense 

 velvety stellate tomentum. 



E. alata : Veins and veinlets on the under surface covered (often 

 thinly) by a stellate tomentum.] 



