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NEW PAPUAN PLANTS. 
Descrisep By Baron Von Muster, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S. 
Aristotelia Gaultheria, sp. n.—Leaves rather small, on very 
short petioles, ovate- etek distantly and uh! or nee 
denticulated, gradually much contracte ad into cute 
rounded at ihe. base, above reticular-venulous car aeons at abe 
margin and along the median line) soon glabrous, beneath, as we 
as the young branchlets, bearmmg a dense brownish somewhat 
silk-like tomentum; flowers very small; pedicels of double or 
triple the length of the sepals and, as well as these, beset with AP 
i ; ithout any den 
the anthers, the a Sigel Sigs, ea Be ue as broad 1 
long; ovulary two-celled, as well as the style, glabrou 
On the aaa “of Mt. Yu le, in yey ae aS az pedition 
of the R. G. S. of Australia, Vict. 
Leaves 4-2 in. long, of rather firm te eae Sepals four or five, 
hardly 4 in. long. Petals slightly longer, cuneate-obovate, some- 
what inflexed, occasionally at the summit sinuous. Fruit unknown. 
On hurried inspection this plant might be taken for a Gaultheria, 
such as G. mundula, although nee and leaves are opposite. 
While the fruit remains unknown, the generic place of this remark- 
able plant cannot positively fe: pose but all the floral characters 
are congruous with those of Aristotelia, unless A perhaps definite 
A. racemosa, but contained in a much shorter panicle or racem 
e presence of this genus also in the New Hebrides se 
demonstrated by me before. 
Ternstroemia Britteniana, sp.n.—Glabrous. Leaves rather 
small on quite short petioles, mostly obovate-lanceolar, without 
any denticulation, somewhat brownish beneath, the venulation 
much sgasesioss pedicels ver ioe often twice as long a s the teat 
er about a as slong 3 the nx, disconnected to near the Ae ; 
stamens usually 20-25; anthers linear- elliptic, blunt ; filaments 
i: some as long pet the anthers; style stout, rather short, 
stigmas conspicuous, renate- semiorbicular ; ; fruit very 
a (omeee than the calyx, hollow, nearly globular or verging 
pete an ovate form, somewhat pointed at the summit, two-celled, 
9-11, maturing in each cell of well-developed fruits, con- 
the higher regions of Mount Yule. 
An often intricately-branched, and perhaps oceasionally dwarfed, 
shrub. Branchlets robust. Leaves easually 1$-24 in. long, generally 
somewhat recurved at the margin, their stalk } in. long, or 
shorter. Pedicels 3-1 in. long. Sepals roundish. Petals much 
overlapping in buds, the outermost then amply enveloping the 
