Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, U3 
Msesa laevigata, ScbefF. 1. c. 17. 
Maesa mollissima; A. de Cand. in tlie Transact, of tlie Linn. Soc. xvii- 
134. 
Myrsine densiflora, Sclieff. Comm. 70. 
EBENACE.E. 
Maba elliptica. 
R. and G. Forster, Charact. Generum, 122, t, 61. 
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. 
The plant from this locality has its fruits covered by a rust-colored 
velvet. It is on the authority of Hiern (Transact, of the Cambridge 
Philos. Society, xii. 122), that I place D’ Albertis^ plant in this specific 
position, that able monographer regarding the presence or absence of 
the vestiture of the fruit of no avail for specific characteristic. Our 
specimens are without flowers. Plants of this order, producing Ebony- 
wood, occur doubtless in New Guinea. 
CONIFERS. 
Nageia Rumphii. 
Podocarpns Rumphii ; Blume, Eumphia ili. 214. 
New Guinea ; Zippelius. 
This is mentioned on the present occasion to refer to another Nageia, 
the fruits of which were brought from the Fly-River by Signor DAlbertis, 
to whom the species may be dedicated, should it prove new. The nut 
is globular like that of N. Blumei (Gordon, Pinet. 135, Podocarpns 
agathifolia ; Blume, Rumphia iii. 217, t. 173), but slightly larger, the 
receptacle a good deal thicker and the embryo rather more like that of 
N. bracteata (Podocarpns bracteata, Blume Enumerat. Plant. Javse, 88). 
I see no reason why the genus Nageia should be discarded in favor of 
Podocarpns ; the former was fully established by Gsertner already in 1788 
(de Fructib. et Seminib. i. t. 39) on N. Japonica, whereas L'Heritier’s 
genus Podocarpns seems really to have been published only in 1806 
(Labillardiere, Novae HolL Plant. Specimen ii, 71, t. 221). Suum 
cuique.” 
As yet no other Coniferse are on record from New Guinea, except 
Nageia thevetiaefolia (Podocarpns thevetiaefolius, Bl. Rumphia ii. 213) 
and the Araucaria mentioned by Dr. Beccari ; but it may be expected 
