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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
Dr. Scheffer enumerates additionally the following plants of this order 
as inhabitants of New Guinea : 
Phylacium bracteosum^ Bennett in Horsfield’s Plant. Javan. Rarior. 
p. 159, t. 23. 
Mucuna Novo-Guineensis, Scheff. Annal. Hort. Buitenzorg, 1876, p. 9. 
Remarkable for brilliantly orange-colored flowers, 
Derris scandens, Benth. Synops, Dalberg, p. 103. 
Csesaljnnia (Guilandina) Bonducella, Fleming in Asiat. Res. 11, 159. 
Bauhinia Teysmanniana, Scheff. 1. c. p. 10. This may be the species 
recorded by Bentham as B. ferruginea. 
Afzelia bijuga, A. Gray, Bot. of Wilk. Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped. 
467, t. 51, Identified by Dr. Scheffer with Intsia Amboinensis, thus 
widely a representative of the tropic maritime vegetation in the eastern 
hemisphere and as such extending also, as now for the first time shown, 
to the northern parts of Queensland. 
Maniltoa grandiflora, Scheff. 1. c. 20, Regarded as closely allied to 
Cynometra grandiflora, A. Gr. 1. c. 470, t, 52. 
Albizzia sessilis (Pithecolobium sessile, Scheff. 1. c. p. 22). 
Albizzia Papuana (Pithecolobium Papuanum, Scheff. 1. c, p. 22). 
Acacia pseudo-arabica, Blume in Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 8 . The dis- 
tinctive characters, by which this can be separated from A, Arabica or 
perhaps A. Seyal, need yet to be pointed out more clearly. 
Acacia Simsii. 
All. Cunningham in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. i. 368. 
On the Baxter’s River 5 Rev. S. Macfaidane. 
No differences could be discerned between specimens in young fruit, 
brought from New Guinea, and the Australian plant. Among known 
extra- Australian congeners it bears some resemblance to A, Richii (A. 
Gr. in Wilk. Exped. Bot. i. 482, t. 53) ; the phyllodia of the latter 
however are broader and often falcate, with more nerves and somewhat 
reticular veins, the peduncles of the flower-heads are not placed solitary, 
the fruit is much broader and the seeds are placed transversely, not as 
in A. Simsii longitudinally. The foliage of A. spirorbis (Labill. Sert, 
Austro- Caled. t, 69) is not dissimilar, but the arrangement of the 
flowers and the form of the fruits are very different. • 
A. Richard noted from Doreh already ; 
Ccesalpinia pulcherrima, Swartz Observ. 165. 
Clitoria ternatea, L. Sp. PL 753. 
