PAPUAN PLANTS. 
CAPPARIDE^. 
Capparis quinifloea. 
Cand. Prodr. i. 247 ; Benth. Plor. Austr, i. 94. 
Ratau-River and Sue-Island. 
The New G-ninea plant cannot be distingnished from the Australian 
typical speciesj which is now known also from Castlereagh’s Bay and 
Melville’s Bay, If C. subcordata (Spanoghe in Schlecht. Liniijea xv. 
166) from Timor should prove conspecific, as may he assumed from the 
short description, then our plant has probably a wide range through the 
Indian Archipelagus, Habit climbing. The petioles extend sometimes 
to the length of I inch. The stipidar spines are rarely present in the 
upper part of the plant and then very short and recurved ; but the lower 
branches are often strongly thorny. The pedicels occur from 2 to 7 
in a cluster. The fruit assumes sometimes an oval shape. Cleome 
viscosa (L. Sp, PI. 672, edit, secund, 938), which probably is to be found 
as commonly in New Gruinea as in North Australia and South Asia, has 
as' yet not been recorded specially from New Guinea, so far as I am 
aware, perhaps because this herb is of wide tropical distribution in the 
eastern hemisphere. In De Candolle’s great leading work and in most 
’other phytographic publications only the second edition of Linne’s 
Species Plantarum, published 1762-1763, Is quoted for this and all other 
earlier Linnean plants, whereas the first edition of this ever memorable 
foundation-work of universal phytography was issued already in l7o3 
with pagings very different to those of the second edition or of the third 
edition, which latter was published at Vienne in 1764 and is indeed 
merely a reprint of the second Stockholm issue. 
