Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
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LEGTJMINOS^. 
Indigofera viscosa. 
Lamarck, Encycloped. Methodiq. iii. 247. 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Inbigofera enneaphylla. 
Linne, Mantiss. 272, 
Near Port Moresby; Goldie. 
Crotalaria juncea, 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 714. 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie, 
Yields the well known Sunn-Hemp. 
Crotalaria verrucosa. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 715. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
BaUHINIA WlLLIAMSII. 
(Sect. Phanera.) 
Climbing; tendrils circinate, simple; leaves cordate y glabrous , quite 
entire or at the apex bilobed^ 5-7-nerved from the base; racemes 
densely many-flowered, brown-silky ; bracts linear-subulate y recurved ; 
flowers small; calyx with jive blunt very short teeth, finally bilabiate ; 
petals oval-spatular ; fertile stamens three; staminodia minute, tooth- 
like ; stigma hardly broader than the style ; ovary brown-silky. 
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Leaves measuring 2-^-4 inches, shining above, on rather long slightly 
hairy soon glabrescent petioles. Cin'hi short. Racemes almost panic- 
ulate. Bracts nearly 1-^ line long. Pedicels about as long as the 
calyx, beset with minute narrow bracteoles towards the middle. Calyx 
about 3 lines long, articulated at the pedicel ; its tube as long as the 
lips and invested by the disk. Petals scarcely above 3 lines long, silky 
outside, purplish inside and there almost glabrous. Stamens glabrous. 
Fertile filaments hardly longer than the petals. Anthers dorsifixed. 
Style less than 2 lines long. Ovary with few ovules, gibbous at the base ; 
ovules imbedded along the middle of the cavity. Stipes of the ovary 
very short, inserted near the upper end of the calyx-tube. Ripe fruit 
as yet unknown. 
