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Descrijitive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Branchlets thin. Petioles long. Leaves 3-5" long, not shining. 
Umbels deflexed. Whole calyx 3-4'" long. Fruit nearly long, about 
A" wide. 
The species seems distinct from E. clavigera in longer and narrower 
leaves with less prominent veins, in thinner petioles, in less numerous 
flowers on shorter pedicels, and perhaps in the form of the fruit. The 
discrimination of the likewise closely allied E. tesselaris is less difficult. 
The occasion is afforded of alluding here to the characteristics of the 
very few congeners properly known from beyond Australia. E. alba 
has the leaves nearly equilateral, the almost hemispherical calyx-lid 
protracted into an umbonate apex, the capsules 3-4 celled, the valves 
barely semiexserted and the seeds wingless. The identity ot E. tectifica 
with E. alba is not yet established beyond doubt. 
E. Decaisneana, aecordiiig to Timor specimens kindly sent by Dr. 
Scheffer, the Director of the Botanic Garden of Java, belongs to the 
series Normales, not to the Eenanthera3 ; its leaves are more or less 
conspicuously inEequilateral ; the margin of the calyx-tube is somewhat 
protruding beyond the vertex of the capsule at least in a young state. 
The collection transmitted by Sir Will. Macarthur contains the leaves 
of another Papuan species found along with E. Papuana, to all appear- 
ance belonging to this genus, and in foliage similar to E. platyphylla. 
This would indicate another extra-australian Eucalypt irrespective of 
E. raoluccana and E. multiflora, if these should really prove congeners. 
BaRRINGTONIA 8PECIOSA. 
R. and G. Forster Char. Genr. 76, t. 38. 
Ratau-River. 
Of this the fruit only occurs in the collection, but doubtless it belongs 
to this species. 
Among Myrtacese the following are specially recorded from New 
Guinea : 
Melaleuca Leucadendron, L. Mantissa Plant. 105, 
Eugenia Blumei (Jambosa ovalifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. 98), 
Eugenia lancifolia, Miq. Annal, Ind. i. 17, (Jambosa auriculata, Bl. 
1. c. 104). 
Eugenia Benthami (Syzygium nitidum, Beuth. in Hook. Loud, Journ. 
of Bot. ii. 221). 
