2 contributions to thk new guinea flora 



Order Myrtace-e. 



TRIBE LEPTOSPERME^. 



Metr'>si,l,'rus, Banks, ex. GiErtn. Fract. 1, 170, t. 34. 



M. lienelii, F. V. M. Trans. Roy. Soc, Vict. 



Hab. Yulu District, at an elevation of about 2,000ft.; found 

 climbing up the forest trees. Capt. F. R. Barton. First found 

 by Sir. Wui. McGregor, on Mt. Musgrave, at an altitude between 

 7,000 and 8,000 ft. 



TRIBE MYRTEiE. 



Euiinwi, Mich. ex. Linn. Syst. ed. 1. 



/','. I'xtrtonu, Bail. 



A small tree; branchlets slender angular-compressed, reddish. 

 Leaves narrow-lanceolate with often long acuminate points, 1 to 

 nearly 4in. long, 3 to 6 lines broad, dark-green above, pale 

 beneath, the erecto-patent lateral nerves somewhat distant, joining 

 an intramarginal one rather distant from the edge. Petioles 

 about 2 to 3 lines long, somewhat thickened and semiterete. 

 Inflorescence racemose about lOin. long, drooping, peduncle 

 flattened, about i line broad, rather longer than the rhachis or 

 flower-bearing portion. Bracts minute lanceolate several at the 

 base, a pair of setose ones about three-parts up the peduncle, 

 those under the terminal flowers larger than the rest and 

 lanceolate ; bracteoles minute setose, flowers pink, distant, 

 solitary or in pairs one of which is frequently nearly sessile. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate with numerous fine ribs, pink to a light- 

 brown, spreading and recurved at the top, lobes 4, short, broader 

 than high. Petals rotund-ovate, 3 lines long, 2^ lines broad, 

 concave, spreading and separately deciduous, stamens about lin. 

 long, numerous and fine, pink. Anthers often lunate. Style 

 somewhat longer than the filaments, ovules numerous. Fruit not 



seen. 



Hab. On banks of mountain streams, British N. Guinea, 



Capt. F. R. Barton. 



Order Begoniace.e. 



Beijonid, Tourn., Linn. Gen. ed. ii. 516. 



B. /ulvo-rillosa, Warbg. Engl. Bot. Jahr. 386. 



Hab. Central districts of British New Guinea at an elevation 

 of about 2,000 feet. Captain F. R. Barton. 



Order Bignoniace.'e. 



In the packet were a few seeds of some plant of this order, 

 but without further specimens it would only be conjecture to 

 sav to what plant they belong. 



