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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Premxa integrifolia. 
Liniie Mantiss. i’lant. 252. 
Ratau-River and Straits-Islands. 
The leaves of a Callicarpa are also contained in the collection. 
ASCLEPIADE^. 
Dischidia nummularia, 
R. Br. Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. 461. 
The specimens from New Guinea are flowerless, but appear to pertain 
to this species. 
Dischidia Timorensis. 
Decaisne in Nouv. Annal du Mus. 377, t. 17. 
To this seems to belong a species with ascidia from New Guinea and 
which extends to North-East Australia, but of which the flowers have 
on neither place as yet been obtained, 
Asclepiadese specially mentioned already from New Guinea are: 
Dischidia ovata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1843, p. 226. 
Dischidia peltata, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 148. 
Gymnema recurvifoiium, Bl. 1, c, 150. 
Pterostelma albiflorum, Bl. in Rumphia, iv. 33, t. 188. 
Iloya purpurea, Bl. in Rumph. iv. 30, t. 182. 
Iloya globulifera, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 44. 
Iloya pruinosa, Miq. El. Ind. Bat, ii. 525. 
ACANTHACEiE. 
Acanthus ilicifolius. 
L. Sp. PI. 639. 
Ratau-River. 
CASUARINEiE. 
Casuarina equisetifolia. 
R. et G. Porst. Charact. Gen 103, t. 52. 
Cocoa-nut Island. 
