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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Desmodium Gangeticum. 
Candolle, Prodr. ii. 327. 
Port Moresby; Goldie. 
It was also found in Ne\T Britain by Mr. C. Walter, while collecting 
there for Baron Anthole von liueg’eL 
Desmodium dependens. 
Blmne, in Miq. Plor, Ind. Batav. i. 248. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
This also was found in New Britain. 
Phaskolus Max. 
Linno, Spec. Plant. 725. 
Port Moresby ; Rev. Dr. Turner. 
Also in New Britain. The specific name here adopted is the oldest. 
Doliciios Lablab. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 725. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
A variety with small pods, not conspicuously rougli at their edge. 
MYRTACE.D. 
Melaleuca Leucadendron. 
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. 
ARALIACE.ZE. 
CiSSODENDRON AuSTRALIANUM. 
Secmann, Journal of Botany, iii, 201. 
Var. disperma; fruits two-celled and two-seeded. 
Fl}'-River ; D’ Albertis. 
The specimens are all in fruit, but so far show no differences to 
distinguish them from the Queensland species, except in the number of 
the cells and seeds of the fruit. 
