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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
The specimens obtained had not yet developed flowers ; hut as 
the foliage is so characteristic and as the species exist on the opposite 
Australian coast, no doubt need be entertained about the identity of 
the Papuan plant. 
POLYGALA CE^. 
Salomonia oblongifolia. 
De Candolle, prodr. i. 354. 
Hynes-River; Sir Will. Macgregor. 
POLTGALA ChINENSIS. 
Linne, Spec. Plant 704. 
Hynes-River ; Sir Will. Macgregor. 
TERNSTROEMIACE.^. 
Teematantheka Dufaueii. 
P. V. M. in Viet. Naturalist Oct. 1886. 
Jala-River; Armit. Base of Owen-Stanley’s Ranges; H. 0. Forbes. 
STERCULIACE^. 
Pteeygota Foebbsii. 
F. V. M. in Viet. Naturalist iii. 46. 
Near the southern base of the Owen-Stanley’s Ranges ; H. O. 
Forbes. 
In the same volume p. 63 the presence of a congener in Brazil is 
indicated, for which the specific name basiloxylon would be prefer- 
able to that of rex, as derived from the vernacular “Pao del Rey.” 
Steecelia Edelpeltii. 
F. V. M. in Viet. Naturalist iii. 47. 
Near the Astrolabe-Range ; E. G. Edelfelt. Allied to S. rufa. 
Steeculia oncinocaepa. 
F. V. M. and H. O. Forbes in the Viet. Naturalist iii. 49. 
Mountains close to the south of the Owen-Stanley’s Ranges ; 
H. O. Forbes. 
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