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Descnj>twe Notes on Papuan Plants. 
ISOLEPIS BAKBATA. 
R. Brown, Prodr. PL Not. Holl. 222. 
Port Moresby ; Macfarlane and Goldie. 
GRAMINE^. 
Saccharum spontaneum. 
Linne, Mantissa Plantarum, 183. 
Yule’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie. 
Recorded already by Ach. Richard from Port Doreh. 
Apluba mutica. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 82. 
Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
Andropogon rottbcellioibes. 
Steudel, Glumac. i. 382. 
Darnley’s Island ; A. Goldie. 
Coelorachis muricata (Brog’n. in Duperrey’s Voy. Bot. 65, t. 14), 
which undoubtedly represents the Ischaemum rottboellioides (R. Br. Pr. 
205) is by Steudel adduced to Ischsemum pectinatum (Trin. Act. Petro- 
pol. 296). 
Andropogon annulatus. 
Porskaal, Plor. -®gypt. Arabic. 173. 
Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
The form with long-bearded bracts and elongated awns, described by 
R. Brown as A. sericeus. 
Andropogon contobtus. 
Linne, Spec. Plantar. 1045. 
Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. 
The Eucalyptus-countr}'' inland also is densely covered with this grass, 
except low swampy localities, according to Mr. Goldie’s note. 
