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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
APOCYNEiE. 
Alyxia ruscifolia. 
R. Brown, Prodrom. Plor. Nov. Holland. 470. 
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S, Macfarlane. 
The plant was not obtained in flower or fruit, but otherwise it accords 
with the East- Australian species, 
Chcetosus volubilis, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot ii. 226, is 
known from New Guinea among- plants of this order, as also the fol- 
lowing : 
Neuburgia musculiformis, Miq. Flor. Tnd. Batav. ii. 403. 
Kopsia flavida, Blume Rumphia, p. 28, t. 181. 
Pseudochrosia glomerate, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 158. 
Cerbera Odoliam, Gsertn. de Fructib. ii. 193, t. 124. The last men- 
tioned plant was recently recorded by Prof. Oliver from Dr. A. B. 
Meyer’s small collection formed at Geelvink’s Bay, in the Journ. of the 
Linnean Society, 1875, p. 29. Dr. Mej^er found there also Penta- 
phragma macrophylla (Oliv.), Sctevola Kcenigi, recorded previously by 
A. Richard, and a species of Hedychium allied to H. angustifolium. 
Dr. Scheffer in his “ Enumeration des Plantes de la Nouvelle Guinee” 
in the new periodical mentioned adds the following- apocynaceous plants : 
Tabernsemontana pentasticta, Schefi*. Obs. Phyt. i. 22. 
Tabernsemontana Novo-Guineensis, Schefi*. Annul, i. 30. 
Plumiera Papuana, Schefi". Annul, i. 30. 
Among the plants, transmitted by the Rev. S. Baxter, occurs also a 
Carissa, but without flowers and fruits. 
PROTEACE/E. 
Banksia dentata. 
Linn. fil. Suppl. Plant. 127. 
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
The flowers and fruits do not occur in the collection, but the leaves 
agree with the plant described by the younger Linne from Sir Joseph 
Banks’s specimens secured at Endeavour-River. As this one is the 
only species known to extend along the coast-tracts of North Australia, 
it may fairly be assumed, that the Papuan plant will prove identical with 
