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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
DILLENIACEiE. 
WORMIA ALATA. 
R. Br. in Cand. Regn. Veget. Syst, Nat, i. 434. 
Baxter’s Eiver; Kev. S. Macfarlane. 
In Australia this noble tree extends southward at least as far as 
liockingham’s Bay. Height up to 60 feet. The bark is outside thinly 
lamellar, inside red ; the wood rather soft. The leaves attain a length 
over 1 foot. The petals are yellow. 
The only other Dilleniaceous plant as yet on record from New Guinea 
is Wormia castaneifolia, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. iv. 78. 
NEPENTHACE^. 
Nepenthes Kennedyi. 
F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. v. 154. 
Baxter’s River j Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
The identification of the Papuan with the Australian plant remains 
uncertain, as of neither flowers or fruit are as yet known. The Papuan 
specimens, like some gathered by Mr. C. Moore at Cape Sidmouth, are 
slightly downy. The fact however that also in New Guinea this 
pitcher-plant is associated with Tapeinocheilos pungens, seems to speak 
for the correctness of the identification. 
N. phyllamphora, Willd. Sp. PL iv. ii. 874, to which our plant seems 
allied, has been gathered by Mr. Teysmann in New Guinea, according to 
Blume ; it is thus quoted by Dr, Hooker in his masterly review of the 
Nepenthacece for De Candolle’s Prodr. vol. xvii. 90-105. Most likely 
the Papuan Mountains will furnish yet many kinds of pitcher-plants. 
STERCULIACE^. 
Helicteres angustifolia. 
Linne Spec. Plant. 963. 
Baxter’s River ^ Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
The section Methorium, to which this species belongs, might well 
again be raised to generic rank. H. semiglabra, from tropical East 
Australia, seems merely a variety with shorter and woolly fruits. 
