Descriptive Notes o)i Papuan Plants, 
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Clerodendron Tracyanum. 
E. V. Mueller, in Benth. Elor. Austr. v. 62. 
Flj-River; D’ Albertis. 
Flowers could not be obtained, but otlierwise it seems not to differ 
from the Queensland typical plant, 
Miquel and Scheffer mention as Papuan Yerbenacese : 
Clerodendron Papuanum, Scheff. Annal. du Jardin de Buitenz. 41. 
Callicarpa erioclona, J. C. Schauer in Cand. Prodr, xi. 643. 
Gmelina lepidota, Scheff. 1. c. 41. 
Faradaya Papuana, Scheff. 1. c, 43. 
Avicennia officinalis, L. Sp. PI. 110. 
SOLANACE^. 
SOLANUM REPANBUM. 
G. Forster, Elorul. Insul. Austr. Prodrom. 18. 
Fly-River ; D’AIbertis. 
Differences between the Papuan plant and that figured by Seemann 
(Flor. Vitiens. xxxviii.) are not observable, except that the branchlets 
are minutely aculeolate. 
CONVOLVULACE^. 
Ipomcea pes capr^, 
Roth, Nov. Plantar. Spec. 109. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Signor D’Albertis brought from the Fly-River an Tponioea, allied to 
I. cymosa (Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. iv. 241), but differing in its 
broadly cordate leaves and entirely glabrous corolla ; the fruit is as yet 
unknown. 
APOCYNE.®. 
Tabern.2emontana pubescens. 
R. Brown, Prodrom. FI. Nov. IIoll. 468. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
A variety with leaves protracted into a long acumen. Fruit not yet 
seen. 
Alstonia uongissima. 
Glabrous ; leaves large 3-4 in a whorl, decurrent into a very short 
petiole, lanceolar-oval, with very spreading nerves, hardly paler heneath; 
fruits very long ; cilia longer than the seeds. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
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