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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants^ 
MELIACE^. 
AgLAIA ELiEAGNOIDEA. 
Benth. Flor. Austral, i. 383. 
Eatau-Rivei*. 
Miquel (Annal. Miis. Bot. Lugd, Batav. vol. i. part ii.) adduces the 
subsequent Meliacese from New Guinea : 
Dysoxjlon caulostachyum, Miq. 1. c. 12. 
Dysoxylon lasiocarpum^ Miq. 1. c. 13. 
Dysoxylon Kunthianum, Miq. 1. c. 13. 
Dysoxylon amooroides, Miq. 1. c. 16, 
Dysoxylon mollej Miq. 1. c. 
Aglaiopsis glaucescens, Miq. 1. c. 58. 
Carapa Moluccensis, Lam. Diet. i. 621 ; Miq. 1. c. 62, Besides four 
species of Aglaia requiring comparison with A. elceagnoidea. 
Heritiera litoralis. 
Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 546. 
Eatau-Kiver and coast opposite Yule-Island. 
TILIACE.^. 
ELAiOCARPUS Arnhemicus. 
F. M, Report for the Intercol. Exhib. of 1867, p. 24 ; E. obovatus var. foveolata, 
Benth. Flor. Austr. i. 281. 
Yule-Island. 
Eeedy’s only flowering specimen is referred here with doubt ; the 
leafstalks are conspicuously longer, and the fruit when obtained would 
need comparison. The typical E. obovatus has the petioles extremely 
short, the leaves smaller, particulaidy narrower and attenuated gradually 
into a cuneate base, their denticulations are rather less acute and' 
numerous, the fringes of the»petals seem fewer and therefore broader, 
the anthers are slightly downy not smooth, the ovary is glabrous not 
somewhat silky. The fruits of all three plants may be different ; that of 
E. Arnhemicus is twice or thrice as large as that of E. obovatus. To 
the latter species belongs unquestionably E. parviflorus (A, Eich. Voy. 
d’Astrolabe, Botaniq. pp, 67-69, t, 24), although Delile’s drawing 
