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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
TILIACE^. 
Grewia pleiostigma. 
F, V. M, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. yiii. 4. 
Fly-River; D’Albertis. 
The specimens from New Guinea, which precisely accord with those 
of North-Queensland, are also without fruit; hence the generic position 
of this plant remains still unsettled. 
Dr. Scheffer gives as a coordinal Papuan plant : 
ElseoCarpus edulis, Teijsm. et Binn. in Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 
xxvii. 25. 
AMARANTACE^. 
Achyranthes aspera. 
Liuue, spec. PJant. 204. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Alternanthera sessilis. 
K. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 417. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
PLUMBAGINEiB. 
Plumbago Zeilanica. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 151. 
Port Moresby; Goldie. 
In distributing’ the monochlamydeous orders among the Thalamiflorm 
and Calyciflorse, as I have done in many recent writings, it was deemed 
expedient also to place the PIumbagineEe, usually regarded as synpeta- 
lous or monopetalous, along with the other orders, recognized by their 
amylaceous albumen. The petals are free in many species of Statice and 
Armeria, while the straight embr}^ (leaving Dianthus and Pisonia out 
of consideration) places the Plumbaginem near to the Franlceniaceae 
among orders with mealy albumen, these two ordinal groups being 
also in other respects closely allied, 
NYOTAGINE^. 
Bcerhaavia biffusa. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 3. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Nyctaginese are also best left along with the curvembryonate orders, 
producing amylaceous seeds and a tubular calyx. 
