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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
clusters ; tube of the calyx as well as the bracts bearing a silk-like 
indument ; calyx-lobes almost semi-orbicular, nearly glabrous ; petals 
obovate-orbicular, conspicuously longer than the calyx ; stamens about 
twenty-five ; anthers globular-ovate ; style short ; stigma depressed ; 
ovulary beset with minute hairlets. 
Mai-Kussa; Sir. W. Macgregor. 
This agrees in most of the characteristics, given by Blume, but 
the flowers are terminal. Fruits of the Papuan plant have as yet 
not been obtained. The variety-name could become specific, should 
this plant prove to be a distinct species. 
Fenzlia obtusa. 
Endlioher, Atacta 19, t. 17. 
Hynes-River ; Sir Will. Macgregor. 
The aspect is almost that of a Boronia. F. retusa should probably 
be considered a mere variety. The genus was under the name 
Lithocarpus first recorded as myrtaceous in the Proc. of the L. S. 
ii. 185. 
Eugenia Baeuerleni. 
P. V. M. in the Austral. Journ. of Pharm., June 1886. 
On the Strickland-River ; W. Baeuerlen. 
In the above publication notes also on Cleistocalyx and Acica- 
lyptus were oflTered. 
BEGONIACE^. 
Begonia Siiarpeana. 
F. V. M. in Proc. of the L. S. of N.S.W., sec. ser. ii. 420, t. 7 (1887). 
Aird-River ; Th. Bevan. 
araliacea;:. 
Panax fruticosa. 
Liune, sp. pi. edit. sec. 1.513. 
Aroa-River ; Armit. 
Mentioned in the Proc. of the L. S. of N.S.W., sec. ser. ii. 422 
(1887). 
The Rev. S. Whitmee sent specimens with much dissected leaves 
from Samoa, where the popular name of the plant is Tani-Tani ; he 
saw it wild in Manna. 
