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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
that this order of plants is well I’epresented in the colder altitudes of the 
island. Of the allied Gnetacese we know as Papuan : Gnetum Gnemum, 
L. Mantiss. 125 and Gnetum latifolium^ Blume Nov. Plant. Famil. 30. 
The occurrence of Nag'aias within the tropics indicates usually an 
approach to elevated regions. From such probably came also the acorns 
of two species of Quercus^ brought by Signor D’AlbertiS; and which 
may have been washed by mountain-torrents to the upper waters of the 
Fly-River, or may perhaps have been carried as articles of food by the 
natives down from the mountains. 
PANDANE^. 
Freycinetia Gaudichaudi. 
E. Brown, in Horsfield’s Plantaa Javan. Rarior. 31, t. ix, 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Blume and Miquel record from New Guinea: 
Freycinetia scandens, Gaudich. Voy. Freycenet. Bot. 432, t. 42. 
Freycinetia marginata, Blume, Rumphia i. 159. 
The specific position of the Papuan Pandani remained hitherto un- 
ascertained. 
