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Descriptive Notes on Pap^(an PlaJits, 
Full comparisons with the imperfectly described G. rostrata (Benth. 
and Ilooh. Gen. i. 174 3 Discostig*ma rostraturrij Hassk. Cat. Hort. 
Bogor. 212) require yet to be instituted ; but the bicelled ovary removes 
it already from our new plant. Another evidently allied species is G. 
rigida (Miq. Prodr. Flor. Sumatran. 493), the leaves of which are 
described as rounded at the base, and the internal structure of its fruit 
is unknown. 
Other Papuan Guttiferee are : 
Garcinia picrorrhiza, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 209. 
Garcinia Teysmanniana, Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Biiitenz. 7. 
VINTFER^. 
VlTIS TRIFOLIA. 
Linnc, Spec. Plant. 203. 
Port Moresb}^ ; Goldie. Fly-River j D’Albertis. 
CARYOPIIYLLE.F. 
DrY3IAR1A diandra. 
Plume, Bijdr. tot de PI. van Ncdcrl. Indie, 63. 
Leaves glabrous, rhomboid- or cordate-orbicular, conspicuously stalked ; 
stipules fringy-cleft ^ cymes paniculate, with elongated glandular-powdery 
peduncles ; flowers small ; sepols only slightly scarioxis, their middle nerve 
forming a narrow pulvendent heel; petals deeply cleft into two seg- 
ments; stamens usually two; style almost none; stigmas 
valveless or imperfectly two-vahed ; seeds large^ one rarely two, closely 
filling the cavity of the pericarp, black, opnque, granular-scabrous. 
JNear Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
From inspection of original material 1 find this to be the D. cordata of 
Thwaites’s Enum. PI. Zeilan. 25, and of J. Hooker’s Flora of British 
India, i. 244 ; to this may also belong the plants of Bentliam’s Flora 
Ilongk. 22, and of Oliver’s Flora of Tropic Africa, 143 ; yet it is not 
specifically combinable with the real D. cordata (Willd. in Roem. and 
Schult. Syst. Veg. v. 406), which is frequent in the warm regions of the 
western hemisphere, but rare and perhaps introduced only in the eastern. 
That typic plant has a tendency to hairyness, has broader very scarious 
calyces, not distinctly keeled along the sepals, has longer stigmas and a 
deeply three-valved capsule with several minute pale-brown seeds. 
