824 NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, 
exhibits also large stipules and paired bracts, but they are connate, 
The requirement of abolishing Phenicospermum by reduction to 
Sloanea was surmised already (1872) by Baillon (Hist. des Plantes, 
p. 200), a suggestion acted on by Szyszylowics in his monograph 
of Tiliacee ; but Durand still upholds that genus. The quaternary 
or quinary division of the calyx and corolla in the genus Sloanea is 
not a constant mark of distinction, as shown also for S. australis by 
the late Rev. Dr. Woolls. 
W. MacG 
Schuurmansia, to 60 ft. high. The Papuan plant agrees so well 
with the definition and delineation given already (1797) by 
Cavanilles, that his species and ours seem unseverable. ‘The 
petals, however, are broader in proportion to their length, and the 
fruit enlarges variously into 8-5 primary expansions. In referring 
the New Guinea congener to the typical species, it should be 
dedication is quite out of place, when phytologically the memory of 
the great discoverer of Central America is to be honoured. 
Quinetia Maegregorii. — Almost glabrous; leaves on very 
conspicuous petioles, mostly cuneate-elliptical, entire, somewhat 
¢ e-costulated, beneath fuscescent and 
minutely dotted, the venules mmersed ; racemes simple ; pedicels 
longer stalked, the calyces are less angular, the style much shorter, 
d the fruit-valves are more emersed. Whe the ripe fruits of 
Q Pawkneri and the flowers of the Papuan species will be known, 
further distinctions may become obvious, 
is is the sixth species of the genus now on record, and it is 
the most northern; furthermore, it demonstrates how considerable 
psi aay various pervasion of the Australian element in the Papuan 
Geranium prtosum (Sol.) Forst, Prodr. 91.— i 
Stanley’s Ranges; SA W, eh : dig ale 
_ Fragments of this plant, clearly recognisable as belonging to 
this species, were obtained from intricately branched tufts of other 
highland plants of New Guinea, together with Coprosma repens or 
Some nearly cognate species, and with a new Hydrocotyle (H. 
azorellacea), much resembling a Huanaca in habit. 
