Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Sd 
By this variety or perhaps new* species an approach to the genus 
Sciadoj)anax is estahlishecl. The albumen is rather sinuous and wrinkled 
than really ruminate, whereby a clearer distinction of Cissodendron from 
Iledora can be drawn. The testa also is of bony hardness not thin as 
in the last mentioned genus. The minute embryo lodges at the summit 
of the albumen and is proportionately much shorter than that of 
Iledera. 
The following araliaceous plants are from New Guinea on record : 
Brassaia macrostachya, Seem. Eevis. of the Hederac. 10. 
Tetraplasandra paucidens, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd, Bat. i, 4. 
Polyscias Papuana, Seem. Revis, 5G. 
Osmoxylon Amboinense, Miq. Annal. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 5, 
Panax Zippelianum, Miq, 1. c. 15, 
Arthrophyllum pinnatum, Seem. 1. c. 102. 
Trevesia insignis, Miq. 1. c. i. 220. 
Trevesia Novo-Guineensis, Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. 
i. 20 . 
IIeptapleurum pimbriatum. 
Leaves simply digitate ; stipules disseeted into copious narrow fringes ; 
leafets cliartaceous, 5-6, on long stalklets, glabrous, broadly lanceolate, 
acuminate, quite entire, at the base acutely narrowed 5 racemes spilce- 
like, the racliis rigidly tomentose ; fruits verging’ from an oval to a 
roundish form, 5-seeded, the vertex conspicuously emersed. 
On the Ply- River ; D’ Albertis. 
Petioles attaining a length of 1^ feet. Stipules dry, long-persistent, 
broadly expanded, J inch long. Leaflets 5-8 inches long, 1q-2^ inches 
broad, with ascending conspicuous lateral nerves, finely net-veined, 
slightly rough from minute dots; their stalklets 1 - 2 |- inches long. 
Flowers unknown. Spikes about a sj)an long. Pedicels less than a line 
long or almost obliterated. Fruits aborxt 2 lines long, crowded at 
intervals along the racliis, terminated by a very short thin style. 
Pyreme obliquely narrow-elliptical, slightly turgid, smooth, hardly 
longer than 1 line. 
I am not acquainted with any other Heptapleurum, which is provided 
with similar stipular fringes, except Trevesia Novo-Guincensis, which 
with all other Trevesias is transferable to IIeptapleurum. D’ Albertis 
collected a second species of this genus, but without fruit. 
