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Bescviptim Notes on Papuan Plants, 
MELIACE/E. 
Elindersia Papuana. 
Ply- River ; D’ Albertis. 
Only a solitary fruit witboiit well developed seeds has been as yet 
obtained. It is not dissimilar to that of F. Bennettiana and F. Oxleyana 
in tubercular roughnessj while the seeds, like those of the latter, are 
also winged on both ends. It differs from F. Schottiana in fruits of 
onl}^ half the size. The only hitherto recorded Extra- Australian species 
is F. Amboinensis (Poiret, Encycl. Methodiq. Suppl. iv. GoO) ; it differs 
from the Papuan Flindersia according to Rumphius’s illustration (Am- 
boinsch Ivruid-Boek, iii. 201, t. cxxix.) in smaller and therefore more 
numerous and also more acute tubercles of the fruit- valves ; it belongs 
to that series of species, which have their leaflets provided with con- 
spicuous stalklets. Our Papuan plant received a temporary specific ap- 
pellation, to place it on record, until foliage and flowers can be compared 
with that of its congeners. The Amboina Flindersia is described as 
pi’oducing fruits 5-G inches long, though the plate represents them only 
about half that size ] the leaflets are glabrous. 
TILIACE.E. 
SlOANEA PARADISEARUM. 
(Sect. Ecliinocarpus.) 
Branchlets glabrous ; leaves oblong-oval, narrow-acuminate, quite 
entire, on very short petioles ; ‘eery large^ broadly oval, four-valved, 
red outside, thick-woody, densely invested by short closely set setaceous 
prickles ; seeds numerous in each cell ; cot^dedons much thinner than 
the albumen. 
Upper Fly-River; B’ Albertis. 
A tree, attaining a height of 40 feet. Petioles 2-3 lines long. 
Leaves scattered, 4-6 inches long*, inches broad, blunt at the 
base, glabrous. Flowers unknown. Fruit nearly 4 inches long ; the 
innumerable bristles 1-1 J lines long. Seeds forming two rows and 
numbering about IG in each cell, sessile, descending, oval-elliptical, 
angular from mutual pressure, entirely included in a yellow or orange- 
colored ariilus, thus rather above J an inch long. Cotyledons almost as 
long as the albumen ; radicle extremely short. 
