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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
Eugenia litoralis, Bentli. et J. Hook. Gen, Plant. 719. (Jossinia lito- 
ralis, Bl. Mus. Bot. Engd. i. 124). 
Mjrtus laxiflora (Nelitris laxiflora, Bl. 1. c. 74). 
Myrtus Coriandri (Nelitris Coriandri, Bl. 1. c. 74). 
Ehodamnia glauca, Bl. 1. c. 79. 
Yast additions to the plants of this order may be expected from the 
forest-mountains of New Guinea. 
SANTALACEiE. 
Exocaepus latifolia. 
R. Br. Prodr. Flor. Not. Holl. 356. 
Ratau-River and Yule-Island. 
RUBIACE^. 
SCYPHIPHORA HTDROPHYLACEA. 
Gaertn. de Pruct. iii. 91, t. 196. 
Ratau-River. 
The collection contains also the leaves of a Morinda, probably M. 
citrifolia, of Myrmecodia echinata, Plydnophytum formicarum and 
several other rubiaceous plants. Miquel (Flora Ind. Batav. vol. ii. et 
Annal. vol. iv.) noticed from Papua : 
Saprosma arborea, Bl, Bijdr. 957. 
Uncaria appendiculata, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot, ii. 222. 
Morinda gemella, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 247. 
Morinda glomerata, Miq. 1. c. 247. 
Coelospermum scandens, Bl. Bijdr. 994. 
Pavetta Rothiana, Cand. Prodr. iv. 491. 
Pavetta Zippeliana, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd, iv. 201. 
Coffea Novo-Guineensis, Miq. 1. c. iv. 259. 
COMPOSITE. 
Pluchea Indica. 
Lessing in Schleclitend. Linnsea, 1831, p. 150, 
Ratau-River, A new Australian locality for this plant is Port 
Darwin. 
