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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
The Papuan plant, known from a solitary specimen, constitutes a 
variety (var. Albertisiana), remarkable for the shortness and form of the 
end-lobe of the labellum ; this lobe is renate-obcordate, neither pointed 
nor crisped; the outer sepals are also much more undulated. 
tended observations on ampler material may possibly raise this variety 
to specific rank. 
Calanthe veratrifolia. 
R. Brown in Edw. Bot. Regist. t. 720. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. » 
A larg;e form with leaves fully a span broad and with an unusually 
long- spur of the ilowers, 
AMARYLLIDE^. 
Eurycles silvestris. 
Salisbury in the Transact, of the Hort. Soc. of London, i. 337. 
Fly-River ; Albertis. 
LILIACE^. 
DRAC.3EISrA ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
Roxburgh, Flor. Indie, ii. 155. 
On the Fly-River; D’Albertis. 
Schelhammera multiflora, 
R. Brown, Prodr. 274. 
On the Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
A full account of this rare plant has been given in the Fragm, Phytogr. 
Austr. vii. 71, where the close affinity of the genus toDisporum was also 
demonstrated. As many as 17 pedicels occur on Papuan specimens. 
Flagellaria Inbica. 
Linne, Spec, Plant. 333. 
Port Moresby; Goldie, 
CYPERACE^. 
Cyperus distans. 
Linne fil. Suppl. Plant. 103. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Found also in New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown. 
The variety with less remote florets, mentioned in the Appendix to 
Campbell’s New Hebrides, p. 25. 
