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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
CUCURBITACE^. 
Alsomitra Muelleri. 
Cogniaux in the Proc. L. S. of N.S.W. ii. 422 (1887). 
Southern New Guinea ; Baeuerlen. 
Melothria Papuana. 
Cogniaux inedit. 
Sonthern New Guinea ; nearest to M. Peneyana. 
GOODENIACE^. 
SC^VOLA OPPOSITIPOLIA. 
Roxburgh, Flora Indica, ed. Carey i. 148. 
Base of the Owen-Stanley’s Ranges ; H. 0. Forbes. 
ERICACE^. 
Rhododendron Carringtoni.®. 
P. T. M. in the Victorian Naturalist iv. 110 (18). 
On mountains at elevations of 6- 7,000 feet near Mount Obree ; 
Cuthbertson and Sayer. 
In reference to the affinities of this plant it may still be added, 
that it differs from R. jasminiflornm in less copious flowers of about 
double length, in its ovulary being beset with spreading hairlets and 
being attenuated at the base, also in much longer style. 
Catanthera ltsipetala. 
F. v. M. in Britten’s Journal of Bot. xxv., Oct. 1886. 
Sogore, close to the south of the Owen-Stanley’s Ranges ; H. 0. 
Forbes. 
Dimorphanthera Forbesii. 
F. v. M. in Britten’s Journal of Bot. xxv., Oct. 1886. 
Sogore and Mount Worri-Worri, 5,000 feet; H. O. Forbes. 
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SCROPHULARIN^. 
Limnopiiila gratioloides. 
R. Brown, prodr. 442. 
Fly-River; Sir Will, Macgregor. 
