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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
Tube of the calyx 3-4 lines in length. Tube of the corolla about § of 
an inch long, 3-4 lines wide. Anthers about 4 lines long. Berry 
measuring nearly two inches, completely two-celled by a membranous 
septum. Ripe seeds as yet unknown. 
The nearest approach of this species is to R. Fitzalani (F. v. M., 
Report on the Plants from the Estuary of the River Burdekin, 12) ; but 
the leaves are larger, of a thinner consistence, their surface shows not 
the same oily lustre, the nerves are more numerous, the veins more 
conspicuous, the stipules much larger, the flowers nearly double as long, 
the lobes of the corolla proportionately narrower, the anthers also twice 
as long, the fruitstalks on an only specimen almost absent. R. stipularis 
(R. stipulosa, F, v. M. Fragm. vii. 47, ix. 70 et 180, non Miq. FI. Ind. 
Batav. ii. 228) differs with exception of the stipules in similar notes, 
besides the proportionately broader leaves and longer petioles. 
I have dedicated this- noble species to the Hon. Sir. Will. Macarthur, 
from whom I experienced many acts of kindness in my scientific career, 
and to whose disinterested friendliness the plants of Mr. IMcLeay’s New- 
Guinean Expedition, the first which I saw from that island, were placed 
at my disposal. 
IxoRA Pavetta. 
Roxburgh, Flora Indica, i. 385. 
Port Moresby j Goldie. 
COMPOSITE. 
Adenostemma viscosum. 
R. et G. Forster, Charact. Generum 89, t. 45. 
Port Moresby; Goldie. 
GENTIANE^. 
Limnanthemum Indicum. 
Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeil. 205- 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
COTYLANTHERA TENUIS. 
Blume, Bijdr. 707. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
I am not certain, whether the Papuan plant is identical with the typic 
species from Java, which is only briefly defined by Blame, his descrip- 
tion being merely copied by Endlicher (Gen. PI. 008), Dunal (Cand. 
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