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The Australasian Scientific Magazine. [Sept, i, 1885. 
Papuan collections were accumulated in the north-western part, except 
some of those, which from Signor D’Albertis’s second dashing expedition 
passed into his hands. An additional reason for resuming, with ministerial 
sanction, the Victorian publication on Papuan plants is given by the recent 
despatch of an Expedition under Capt. Everill through the Geographic 
Society of Australia and under the auspices of the Governments of New 
South Wales and Victoria, to the Aird-River and the mountainous tracts of 
country beyond, — rich results also for phytology being expected from that 
expedition, to be rendered known from Australia. Moreover the almost 
simultaneous start of Mr. H. O. Forbes, to ascend the Owen Stanley’s 
Ranges from Port Moresby, a feat long urged by the writer of the present 
essay, holds out further great hopes of addi*ng very extensively also to our 
knowledge of the Papuan Flora, and that from regions, in which the 
endemic characteristics of the vegetation must culminate. Also from this 
expedition, though planned by scientific societies of Britain, we in Aus- 
tralia may expect to benefit in our own Papuan researches, half of the 
expenditure of Mr. Forbes’s enterprise being defrayed by our Geographical 
Society here from the Government fund under its control. Thus it 
becomes really requisite now, to collect the scattered notes of the New 
Guinea Flora, which appeared since the discontinuance of the “Papuan 
Plants ” in various local periodicals from researches of the writer of this 
work ; and it seems also advisable, to add notes on those records of Dr. 
Beccari’s New Guinean plants, which did not appear in the Malesia, but in 
different monographic essays mostly by other authors. Through the means, 
now here adopted, the furtherance of elucidations of the New Guinean 
vegetation will become facilitated, as well in Florence as in Melbourne and 
indeed elsewhere also, more particularly so as likely through methodic 
explorations under the aid of all the Australian Colonial Governments the 
resources of the great Papuan Island, in which we here are so prominently 
interested, will become early and extensively revealed. 
Melbourne, June 1885. 
NYMPFLFACEAE. 
Barclaya Mottleyi. 
J. Hooker in transact. Linn. Soc. xxiii. t. 21. 
Fly River ; D’Albertis. 
Noted by Dr. Beccari in Signor D’Albertis’s “ New Guinea,” ii. 396. 
MENISPERMEaF. 
Stephania hernandi folia. 
Walpers, repertor. hot. syst. i. 96. 
Near Port Moresby : Rev. W. G. Lawes. 
MONIMIACEAE. 
Mollinedia Huegeliana. 
Tulasnein Annal. des scienc. nat. ser. quatr. iii. 45. 
Lome Range ; Rev. J. Chalmers. 
Fruit-bearing branchlets seen, apparently belonging to this species. A 
second species occurs on Owen Stanley’s Range, but is known only from 
very imperfect specimens. 
LAURINEAE. 
Massoia aromatica. 
Beccari in D’Albertis, New Guinea ii. 398. 
On the Fly River and in various other localities. 
