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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Muehlenbeckia gracillima, 
Meissner in Cand. Prodr. xiv, 145. 
On the Fly-River ^ D’Albertis. 
The specimens brought are females without ripe fruit, but so far 
accord precisely with the East- Australian plant. 
This is an apt opportunity to notice, that M. platyclada (F. v. M, in 
Hook, Bot. Magaz. t. 6382) has recently been found in New Ireland by 
the Rev. G. Brown. 
URTICE^. 
Ficus opposita. 
Miqnel in Hooker’s London Journal of Botany, vii. 426. 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
I have seen no receptacles, but the leaves are precisely like the deeply 
trilobed variety of the above-mentioned Australian species, 
PiPTURUS VELUTINUS. 
Weddell in Annales des Scienc. Natur. quatr. serie i. 196. 
Port Moresby; Goldie. Fly-River; D. Albertis. 
A small-leaved variety with a very thin vestiture and unbranched 
peduncles. 
EUPHORBIACE^. 
CODI^UM CHRYSOSTICTUM. 
Rumphius, Herbar. Amboin. iv. 66. 
Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner. 
HALORAGE^. 
Ceratophyllum demersum. 
Linne, Sp. Plant. 992, 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
ONAGREiE. 
JUSSI,®A REPENS. 
Linne, Sp. Plant. 388, 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
JuSSIJEA SUFFRUTICOSA. 
Linne, Sp. Plant. 388. 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
