Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
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STERCTJLIACE.^. 
Melhania incana. 
Heyne in Wight et Arnott’s Prodr. 68. 
Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner. 
Melochia corchorifolia. 
Dillenins, Hort, Elth. 221, f. 217 ; Linne, Spec. Plant. 675. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie, 
Melochia Vitiensis.. 
Asa Gray, Botany of the United States Exploring Expedition, 193. 
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. 
This species is very closely allied to the Indian M. tiliEefolia (A. Gr. 
1. c. ; Riedleya tiliEefolia, Cand. Prodr. i. 491), a main distinction 
consisting in the coherence of the stamens only at the suddenly dilated 
base, the greater part of the filaments being capillary and free. The 
winged seeds distinguish our plant already from M. odorata (L. fil. 
Suppl. Plant. 302), which occurs in New Caledonia and the New 
Hebrides. See F. v. M. in Campbell’s New Hebrides, Append, p. 9'^ 
MALVACE.^. 
Urena lobata. 
Linne, Spec, Plant. 692. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie, 
SiDA SPINOSA. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 683^ 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Abutilon auritum. 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. of Uichlam. Plants, i. 500. 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Very closely allied to A. Indicum. The shape of the stipules is 
subject to considerable variation. This species occurs also in New 
Caledonia, according to Mons. Puncher’s collection, 
Abutilon Indicum:. 
G. Bon, Gen. Syst. of Uichlam. Plants, i. 504. 
Port Moresby; Rev. Br. Turner. Barnley-Island; Reedy. 
Collected also in New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown. 
