Descriptive Notes on Fainum Planis. 
Davallia flaccida. 
U, 33r. Prodr. 157. 
On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. M acfarlane. 
The near relationship of this fern to Dicksonia flavallioides was j>oimetl 
out already ten years ago in my Fragmenta, v. 118. R. Brown’s name 
will probably have to give way to the older of D. multifida (Sw. Syn. 
Fil. 137). 
Ach. Richard records as occurring at Port Doreh : 
Vittaria elongata, Sw. Syn. Filic. 19y. 
Aspidium umitumj Sw. 1. c. 47. 
Lygodium circinnatum, Sw. 1. c. 153. 
Acrostichum aureiim, L. Sp. PI. 1069. 
Besides, Richard mentions several species of Asplenium and Aspidium, 
some of which were then regarded as new, all requiring yet final identi- 
fication, being overlooked by the principal writers on ferns. 
Trichomanes Filicula, Bory in Bot. Voy, Duperr. i. 283. This little 
and delicate fern was found at Geelvink-Bay by Dr. Meyer. 
Beyond the plants, alluded to already in this and the previous publi- 
cation, we are now acquainted mainly through Dr. Scheffer’s important 
writings also with representatives of the following genera from within 
the limits of New Guinea : Clematis, Uvaria, PhaBanthus, Flacourtia, 
Garcinia, Eurya, Gordonia, Rhyssopterys, Gonocaryum, Jodes, Euodia 
(the Euodia suaveolens, just described by Dr, Scheffer, may perhaps 
prove to be a form of E. longifolia, A. Rich. Voy. de 1’ Astrolabe 61, 
t. 22), Soulamea, Hibiscus, Impatiens, Begonia, Celosea, Achyranthes, 
Smythea, Buchanania, Semecarpus, Sonneratia, Melastoma, Astronia, 
Rubus, Melothria, Pisonia, Loranthus, Hernandia, Beilschmiedia, Piper, 
Phaleria, Viburnum, Polyscias, Bidens, Scasvola, Msesa, Myrsine, 
Payenia, Jasminum, Visiania, Chionanthus, Thylophora, Ipomoea, 
Lepistemon, Solanum, Ocimum, Cyrtandra, Ruellia, Justicia, Peristrophe, 
Callicarpa, Clerodendron, Gmelina, Tectona, Faradaya, Avicennia, 
(Juercus, Araucaria, Cycas, Pandanus, Heliconopsis, Maranta, Hedy- 
chiuni, Phiynium, Arum, Sagus, Commelyna, Pollia, Flagellaria, 
Scleria, Carex, Aristida, Rottboeilia, Cenchrus and Saccharum, 
Dr. Bennett has drawn my attention to some notes on Dr. Odoardo 
Beccari’s Papuan Plants in Guido Cora’s Cosmos, 1875, p. 94, a copy 
of which work was obligingly placed at my disposal by tlie Chevalier 
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