€0NTl{IBUT[()N8 TO THE NI^W GUINEA FLORA. 



By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L..S. 



Colonial Botanist. 



(Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 14th March, 1903. J 



For some years past I have had the good fortune of including 

 €iipt. F. R. Barton, private secretary to the Lieut. -Governor of 

 New Guinea, among my correspondents. This gentleman is a 

 <3are['ul observer and a great lover of plants, and through him 

 some new and several interesting plants have come to our 

 knovpledge, as well as information regarding the uses to which 

 the plants are applied by the aboriginal inhabitants of that land. 

 In a small packet of specimens recently to hand from Capt. 

 Barton there are several new species, and thinking that a short 

 paper on the subject might be of interest to the members of the 

 Royal Society, I beg to offer the same to you. 



Order Geraniace.e. 

 tribe balsamine.15. 

 Impatiens, Riv. ex Linn. syst. ed. 1. 

 7. latifoiin, Linn. Sp. PI. 937. 



Hab. St. Joseph River, Flowers very brilliant verinillion. 

 <Capt. F. R. Barton. 



Order Leguminos^. — Sub-order C.esalpinie^. 



TRIBE EUC^SALPINIE.E. 



Ccesalpinia, Linn. Sp. PI. 380. 

 C. niKja, Ait. DC. Prod, ii, 481. 

 Hab. Mekeo. Capt. F. R. Barton. 



TRIBE GASSIER. 



Cassia, Tourne. ex. Linn. syst. ed. 1. 



C. Bartonii, Bail, Ql. Agri. .Journ. ix, 410. 



Hab. Mambare River. Sir Francis Winter. (Capt. Barton.) 



