Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
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Flemingia lineata. 
Eoxburgh, Hort. Beng. 56. 
Port Moresby; Goldie. 
Mucuna Bennetti. 
Leaflets lanceolar-oval, glabrous ; racemes sliortj almost sessile, few- 
flowered ; calyx densely beset with very short hair and very scantily 
hispid ; upper lip of the calyx as long as the tube, as well as the lobes 
of the lower lip narrow and acuminate ; upper petal almost deltoid above 
the middle^ two-teethed at the apex, as well as the lateral petals not 
bearded at the edge ; lower petals rery long, arched and upwards very 
narrow ; lateral petals gradually much narrowed upwards ; anthers of the 
upper stamen and of the four interjacent lower filaments much shorter 
than the rest and bearded ; style almost glabrous ; ovary silky. 
At the Fly-lliver ; D’Albertis. 
Branches soon glabrous. Petioles up to the pair of leaflets 1-2 inches 
long; lateral petiolules very short. Leaflets 3-4 inches long, about 
inch broad. Peduncles, together with the racliis, only about 1 inch 
long, together 'with the pedicels almost silky ; the latter crow^ded, neaily 
1 inch long. Bracts early dropping. Tube of the calyx about ^ of an 
inch high ; the lowest lobe attaining* ^ an inch in length, the lateral 
lobes about half as long. Upper petal about inch long; lowest 
petals nearly 3 inches long, their greatest wddth not over 3 or 4 lines, of 
firmer consistence at the summit ; lateral petals not much shorter, but 
considerably broader. Nine of the stamens united to nearly -| of their 
length. Five of the anthers oblong-linear, nearly 1 line long. Stigma 
short-bearded. Fruit unknown. 
The flowers of this new species— which is dedicated to the main pro- 
moter of Signor D’Albertis’ last expedition, Dr. G. Bennett of Sydney — 
are nearly as long as those of M. macrobotrya (Hance in Walp, Annal. 
ii. 422) ; the leaflets of that species are however much larger and 
conspicuously acuminate, the racemes are elongated, the upper lip of the 
calyx is much shorter than the tube, the lower lip is also proportionately 
shorter and its teeth are broader ; the low’er petal is doubly as broad and 
mucli less curved ; the other petals are also broader, but almost rounded- 
blunt at tlieir summit and bearded at the edge, while the stamens are to 
a greater extent disconnected. Likely also the color of the fresh petals 
and the form of the pods will afford further marks of discrimination. 
