Q'2 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Leaves about a span long', 2-3 inches broad, of cliartaceous consistence, 
distantly ribbed, almost equally g'reen on both sides. Elowers unknown. 
Fruits about 1 1 foot long*, ^ inch thick. Seeds scarcely 3 lines long, 
very slightly downy, rounded-blunt at the base, narrow-acuminate at 
the apex, on both extremities softly bearded. 
I failed to identify this among Indian species, but it seems nearest to 
A. spectabilis (R. Browm in the Mem. of the Wernerian Society, i. 75). 
MYESINEiE. 
MiESA HAPLOBOTRYS. 
F. v, Mueller, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. v. 161, 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
The Papuan and Australian plants seem identical. The width of the 
leaves is particularly variable. The infloresence is almost spicate. 
M^sa protracta. 
Glabrous, leaves lanceolate^ gradually long-acuminate^ slightly wavy 
at the margin, decurrent into the petiole ; racemes simple, axillary and 
terminal, shorter than the leaves, solitary or 2 or more together; pedicels 
as long as the floAvers or somewhat longer, twice or thrice as long as 
the bracts; corolla hardly half exserted, as well as the calyx 5-cleft; 
fruit ovate-globular, about as long as the pedicel. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Leaves 4-7 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, cliartaceous, on a petiole 
of less than one inch length ; their dots extremely minute ; pellucid 
lines almost absent. Racemes 3 inches long or variously shorter. 
Corolla hardly above one line long; its roundish lobes nearly equalling 
the tube in length. Fruit scarcely two lines long. 
This Mmsa verges towards M. acuminata (A. de Candolle, Prodr, viii. 
77) from Nepal, but the leaves ^re longer and not quite entire; besides 
there are likely other differences between them, which D. Doffs 
diagnosis (Prodr. Flor. Nepal 149) does not admit of pointing out 
It comes also very near M. Novo-Guineensis (Scheff. Annal. du .Tardin 
Bot. de Buitenz. 32); the leaves of the latter are considerably larger, 
and the flowers are described as three times as long as the calyx. Other 
Myrsinem of Papua are : 
Mit'sa verrucosa, Scheff. Commentat. de Myrsinac. Archip. Indie. 10. 
