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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Prodr. xiii. 674) and Miquel (FI. Ind. Batav. ii. 735). Asa Gray’s 
diagnosis (Journ. of tlie Linnean Soc. I860, p. 23) is also very short, 
The Papuan plant is quite glabrous. Fibres ot the perhaps annual root 
few. Leaves in distant pairs, scalelike, membranous, deltoid, line 
long. Flower only one, terminal. Calyx about 2 lines long’, to less than 
half its length divided into semi-lanceolar lobes. Corolla 4-5 lines long, 
cleft beyond the middle into four lanceolar segments, which are not 
narrowed at their base ; their position in bud contorted-imbricate. Fila- 
ments hardly a line long. Anthers from a broad and obtuse base linear- 
cylindrical, basifixed. Pollen-grains when moist tetrahedro-globular, 
smooth, opening at the extremity of the angles. Style 2 lines long, 
thinly filiform. Stigma minute, capitellate. Ovary free, globular. Ripe 
fruit unknown. 
MYRSINE^. 
^GICERAS FRAGRANS. 
Kcenig. in Armais of Botany, i. 131, t. 3. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
convolvulace.f:. 
Convolvulus parviflorus, 
Vahl, Symbol, iii. 29. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
The velvet-downy variety from thence. 
IPOMCEA ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
Jacquin, Collectan. ii. 367. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Ipomcea eriocarpa. 
R. Bro>vn, Brodroin. FI. NTov. Holl. 484. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Ipomcea hederacea. 
Jacquin, Collectan. i. 124. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
APOCYNE^. 
Alstonia scholaris. 
R. Brown, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, i. TS'. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie, 
