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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
sule (an only one obtained) § of an inch long, thickened along the middle 
of the valves ; the wings roundish-semirhomboid, of firm consistence, 
not membranous. Seeds pale-brown, ovate, prominently few-streaked. 
This elegant species bears in its spotted foliage much resemblance to 
the Brazilian B. maciilata (Baddi Quaranta Plante Nuove del Brasile, 
p. 27), but should systematically be placed into the section Haagea, 
although the fruit-wings are not surrounding the basis and apex of the 
capsule. 
PASSIFLORE^. 
Passiflora aurantia. 
G. Forster, Florul. Insul. Austr. Frodr. 62. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Forster’s plant came from New Caledonia, from whence Labillardi^re 
(Sert. Austr. Caled. 78) calls the petals purplish. Some notes on this 
and allied species are offered in Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. ix. 68-69. 
CUCURBITACE^. 
Mukia scabrella. 
Arnott in Hooker’s Journ. iii. 276. 
Port Moresby; Goldie. 
Luffa -^Egyptiaca. 
Miller, from Luffa arabum, Alpinus et Vesting de Plantis jEgypti, 199, t. 58 et 59. 
Var. leiocarpa. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
RUBIACE^. 
Randia Macarthuri. 
Thornless, glabrous ; leaves large^ on short petioles, lanceolar-ohovate, 
slightly acuminate, acutely attenuated at the base ; stipules long, con- 
nate into one of ovate-lanceolar form, free at their acuminated apex; 
peduncles short, few-Howored ; calyx truncate; tube of the corolla some- 
what turgid, nearly thrice as long as the calyx, unbearded inside, 
almost as long as the five narrow-lanceular lobes ; anthers enclosed, long, 
linear, blunt; berry large, globular, almost sessile; pericarp hard. 
On the Fly-River ; D' Albertis. 
Bianchlets thick. Leaves 5-9 inches long, seldom shorter, usually 
between 2-4 inches broad, thinly chartaceous. Pedicels a few lines long. 
