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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
Brachtchiton Carrtjthersi. 
F. V. M. in Viet. Naturalist iii. 60. 
Mountains close to the south of the Owen-Stanley’s Ranges ; 
H. 0. Forbes. 
TILIACEiE. 
Triumfetta rhomboidea. 
N. Jacquin, Select. Stirp. Americ. Hist. 147, t. 90, var. angulata. 
Aroa-River; Arrnit. 
Mentioned as Papuan already in the Proc. L. S. of N.S.W., sec. 
ser. ii. 422. 
Triumfetta pilosa. 
Both, Nov. Plant. Spec. 223. 
Southern base of Owen-Stanley’s Ranges and South-Cape; Rev. 
James Chalmers. Collected also in Mioko by Betche. 
El.eocarpus Sayeri. 
F. V. M. in the Transact, of the R. S. of Viet. 1887, p. 6-7. 
At elevations of about 7,000 feet near Mt. Obree ; Sayer. 
A reference is made in the above print also to E. Reedyi. 
MELIACE^. 
Cedrela Toona. 
Roxburgh, Plants of Coromandel iii. 33, t. 238. 
Fly-River; Sir William Maegregor. 
The material is not sufficient for exactly determining the species, 
but seems to indicate identity of this Papuan with the “ Singapore 
Red Cedar,” with which the C. australis appears not to be absolutely 
identical, particularly in its far cxtra-tropic state, that congener 
approaching in its affinity closely C. microcarpa. The diagnostic of 
some of the Cedrelas needs yet more extended disquisition. Thus 
Surgeon-Major Dr. G. King in a direct communication to the writer 
of these pages pointed out some years ago, that C. serrata differs 
from C. Toona in habit, in growth at always higher elevations, in 
wood, inflorescence and seeds, the latter having the membranous 
expansion only at one end. Shipments of “Cedar-timber” (or rather 
“ Cedrel-timber ”) have now and then been brought to Melbourne. 
