Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
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GRAMINEiE. 
Coix Lacryma Jobi. 
Linne Spec. Plant. 972. 
On tlie Upper Fly-River 5 d’ Albertis. 
Specimens from the above locality were sent me by Dr. G. Bennett, 
who for nearly half a century has advanced researches in natural 
sciences among- us, and who has taken a vivid interest in the important 
exploits of the Italian Naturalist in New Guinea. 
Ach. Richard noted from Port Doreh : 
Centotheca lappacea, Beauv. Agrostogr. t. 14, f. 7. 
Panicum compositum, L. Sp. PL 57. 
Panicum multinode, Lam. Encycl. iv. 747, which seems referable to 
P. repens, L. Sp. PI. edit. sec. 87. 
CYPERACE^. 
Cyperus diffusus. 
Vahl Enumerat. Plantar, ii. 321. 
On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
This stately Galingale must have a wide range through the Papuan 
Island,, as it has been met also on the north-west coast near Port Doreh, 
from whence already Lesson brought it in 1827, according to the record 
by Acliille Richard, who inserted the plant as C. longifolius (Poir. 
Encycl. Methodique x. 270) into the botanical volume of the voyage 
de FAstrolabe. Ivunth (Enum. ii, 30) was inclined to unite Poirefs 
with Vahl’s plant, in which conjecture of their identity he seems to 
have been fully justified, although more recently Boeckeler (in Linnma 
1808, p. 534 et 535) holds yet both distinct. I find that C. diifusus 
extends to Ceylon (Thwaites 3931). As well shown by Boeckeler and 
as also seen by myself, C. Lagorensis (Steud. Glumac. ii. 36) and C. 
pubisquama (Steud. 1. c. 20) are clearly referable to C. diffusus. Of 
this order of plants are on record as Papuan : 
Kyllingia monocephala, Rottboell. Plant. Nov, 13, t. iv. 
Carex cryptostachya, Brogn. Bot. Voy. Duperr. 152, t. 25 (Boott. 
Illustr. Caric. 103, t. 310); also a species of Scleria and another plant, 
distinguished generically as Cyclocampe, both requiring identification. 
