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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
VINIFERiE. 
VlTIS ADNATA. 
Wallich, numer. list. 5998. 
On the Strlckland-River ; W. Baeuerlen. 
PROTEACE.E. 
Helicia Forbesiana. 
F. T. M. in Viet. Naturalist iii. 63 (1886). 
Near Soyera ; H. 0. Forbes. 
The genus Cyanocarpus (Bailey) in Meston’s report on the Exped. 
to Bellenden Ker Range 21 (1889) is best referred as sectional to 
Helicia, inasmuch as the solitary characteristic, on which it rests, 
the succulence of the pericarp, is one of degree ; thus the fresh 
pericarpal layer is almost dry in some species and more or less 
moist in others. 
LORANTHACEiE. 
Nothothixos subaureus. 
Oliver in Journ. of the Linn. Soc. vii. 105. 
Base of Owen-Stanley’s Ranges; H. 0. Forbes. 
Mentioned already in the Proc. of the L. S. of N.S.W., sec. ser. 
ii. 422, as Papuan. Prof. Oliver has described in Hooker’s leones 
Plantorum, third series, 1519, a closely allied species under the 
name N. Molayanus. In examining the structure of the flowers of 
this genus closely in 1855 from living plants, I became aware, that 
it did not coincide with Viscum, but I was reluctant to publish 
isolated observations in an order of such structural perplexity, re- 
ferring the genus preliminarily to Tupeia. See Proceed. L. S. ii. 
156 (1857). 
RUBIACE^. 
Mussaenda Bevani. 
P. V. M. in the Proc. of the L. S. of N.S.W., sec. set’, ii. 419, t. 6 (1887). 
Aird-River ; Th. Bevan. 
LaSIOSTOMA LORANTIIIFOLItm. 
Bentham in Hooh. Lond. Journ. ii. 224. 
New Guinea; Hinds. See also Note by Schumann l.c. 
