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Descnptwe Notes on Papuan Plants. 
and Mr, Groldie explored in the south-east, a considerable difference 
of the vegetation in the two extremes of the large island being 
not unlikely. 
It remains for me to record on this occasion the friendly interest 
evinced by Dr, Gr. Bennett, the Kev. S. Macfarlane and the Rev. 
Dr. Turner in promoting my studies of the Papuan Plants, and I 
shall gladly continue these researches, to obtain a clear insight into 
the relation, in which the jungle-plants of New Guinea are standing 
to those of tropical Australia, where I instituted field-observations 
in 1855 and 1856, while the comparison of the alpine plants of 
New Guinea hereafter with the vegetation of the Australian Alps, 
investigated by me fully in 1853, 1854 and 1857-1861, will have 
to me a particular charm, inasmuch as the Papuan Alps are the 
nearest northward to those of Australia. 
Melbourne, December 1876. 
NEPENTHACE^. 
Nepenthes ampullaiua. 
Jack in Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist, iy, n. 13. 
Fly-River; DAlbertis. 
The only specimen consists of a young plant, with pitchers on leafless 
stalks. Although leaves, flowers and fruits are unknown yet from New 
Guinea, there seems to be no reason to doubt the identity of the plant 
with that of Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo, the species being easily 
recognized by the proportionately broad peristome of the turgid ascidia 
and by the narrowness of the operculum. 
CAPPARIDE^. 
Cleome viscosa. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 672, 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
