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NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS. 
By Baron Ferp. von MUELLER, K.C.M.G., M. & Pa.D., F.R.S. 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1892, P. 17.) 
may become cea ee to 25, or be increased to 60, or even more. 
Sir William Macgregor has sent separate A nae from Milne Bay, 
eEperently referable to this species. LE. persicifolius (Brongn. & 
Gris nn. Se, Nat. 1864, p. 856), from New Caledonia, may also 
prove ebaeenitc The East Dee, £. grandis is another closely 
allied plant. vag of the genuine HE. Ganitrus have also been 
received from the New Hebrides, where, however, the Rev. D. 
Macdonald Sotectea another Ela@ocarpus ‘of the Ganitrus series, 
which has probably the largest leaves of any species in this genus, 
unless #. undies and H. Milnei. They measure to fully 1 ft. in 
length, and to 5 in breadth, with petioles about 14 in long; they 
ie therefore “asger than those of E. Parkinsonii (Warburg in Engl. 
- Jahrb. xiii. 877), from which this species already differs in 
ierres et ‘at the a broadest rather below the middle, 
slightly undular at the margin, although not distinctly serrulated, 
and without any lustre, but contrarily gt equal dull green on both 
sides, and the secondary venulation more prominent, further i in only 
slightly laciniated petals; but it neroee with the plant from Ralun, 
in contrast to LE. Ganitrus, as regards the vestiture of the sepals, 
the much elongated setule of ag anthers, and the length of the 
filaments. Fruits have not been obtained. This singularly con- 
.> oe 
imperfectly known E. Milnei, to > hian Seemann attributes leaves 
gradually Sacieeel at the base, and flowers with only about aig 
stam is new plant impairs still ase Re strength of tl 
before me) the petals, which are of saiee thickish prere seem 
to cohere almost permanently, upwards particularly, forming the 
nearly conical corolla of that genus. Antholoma Billardierii 
(Vieillard, Pl. de la Nowv. Caled. 5, anno 1865) is also a large- 
leaved species. 
Exxocarpus epuuis Teijsm. & Binn. Nat. Tijdschr. Ind. xxvii 
25.— Leaves nearly opposite, on very short petioles, of rather thin 
texture, mostly lanceolar-ovate, somewhat acuminate, mucronular- 
denticulated, above ig beneath more copiously, beset with 
hairlets ; flowers axillary, few or occasionally only two gpl : 
sepals five, n narrow-lanceolar, outside brown-velvet ety, hardly o 
ego spreading; petals ates & slightly longer, elongate- oni 
t the upper end irregularly lobulated, outside except the margin 
Rea. pat except the upper part silky- -velvety; stamens — 
JournaL OF Borany.—Von. 81, [Novy. 1898.] Y 
