DESCEIPTIYE I^OTES ON PAPUAN 
PLANTS, 
BY 
BARON FEED. VON MUELLER, K.C.M.G, M. & PH.D., E.R.S. 
IX. 
After a long interval another part of this publication is offered, 
the author’s attention having for the last few years been much 
absorbed in other literary engagements, mostly unforeseen and 
officially urgent. Meanwhile Beccari’s celebrated “ Malesia,” 
which is largely devoted to Papuan plants, has advanced to 
the end of the third volume. Also a valuable enumeration 
appeared in Britten’s Journal of Botany, vol. xxiv., by Mr. H. 
N. Ridley, comprising the Monocotyledoneaa of Mr. H. 0. Forbes’ 
Papuan collections. Furthermore an important treatise was 
issued at the close of 1889 by Dr. K. Schumann and Dr. M. 
Hollrung on the “Flora of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Land,” while 
simultaneously the Royal Society of Victoria in a special essay 
has published the observations on the highland-plants, dis- 
covered by His Excellency Sir William Macgregor during his 
memorable ascent of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. As these 
four publications, irrespective of some connected w'ritings on 
Acotyledonem, are extensive as well as special and compact, it 
will not he necessary, to transfer any details from them to the 
pages of this work ; but scattered minor data, obtainable from 
various sources, since the Eighth part was issued, have been 
brought together in the Ninth now for convenience of reference. 
VOL. II. 
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