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Orthosiphon stamineus. 
Bentham in Wailich's Plant. Asiatic. Earior. ii. 15. 
Yule’s Island; A. Goldie. 
A variety with toothless leaves. Neither Miquel nor Scheffer (An- 
nales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzor^^ 1876) have any plant of the 
LabiatEe in their lists of New Guinean plants. The missionaries have 
sent a Plectranthus also, but not in flower for exact naming. 
XEROTIDE^. 
Xerotes Banksii. 
R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 263. 
On Baxter’s River; Jam, Orkney. 
The specimens are without flowei's and fruits ; but there seems no 
doubt, that they belong to the genuine Banksian plant, which the writer 
has also ascertained to extend to New Caledonia. Mr. Orkney gathered 
several other plants, all communicated to me by R. Br. Smjth, Esq. ; but 
they are identical with the species previously recorded in these pages. 
IIYDROCHARIDE^. 
Enhalus acoroides. 
Ii. C. Richard in Memoir, de I’Institute, 1811, tom. ii. p. 64. 
Frequent on some parts of the New Guinean coast; Dr. F. Naumann. 
Observed during the voyage of the Imperial German corvette Gazelle, 
according to Dr. Ascherson, the able monographer of the oceanic Mono- 
cotyledonese. See Annalen der Hydrographie und Maritimen Meteoro- 
logie, March 1876. 
COMMELYNE.Tl. 
COMMELYNA ENSIFOLIA. 
R. Brown, Prodrom. FI. Nov. Holl. 269. 
Port Moresby and Darnley’s Island; Rev. S. Macfarlane and A. 
Goldie, 
CYPERACEiE. 
Cypeuus monocephalus. 
F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. viii. 271. 
Darnley’s Island ; Goldie. 
