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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
MYRSINACEJ3. 
Akdisia poranthera. 
F. V. M. and C. Moore in Transact. R. S. of N.S.W., June 1886. 
Described from a plant of N. G., cultivated in the Sydney Botanic 
Garden. 
BIGNONIACEiE. 
Tecoma dendrophila. 
Blume, Rumphia iv. 35, t. 190. 
Near the base of the Owen-Stanley’s Ranges ; II. 0. Forbes. 
Ipomcea chryseides. 
Ker in Bot. Regist, t. 210. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Mentioned by me as Papuan in the Proc. of the L. S. of N.S.W., 
sec. ser. ii. 422 (1887). The pubescent variety of I. congesta has 
been sent from New Britain by Mr. Parkinson. 
LABIATiE. 
Plecteanthus longicornis. 
F. T. M. Fragm. v. 51. 
Wasi-Kassa; Sir Will. Macgregor. 
apocynacea:. 
Alyxia spicata. 
R. Brown, prodr. fl. Nov. Holl. 470. 
Hynes-River ; Sir Will. Macgregor. 
The lateral venules of the leaves are on the upper side more or 
less prominent. The ripe fruit is yellow outside. 
This species occurs in Australia westward to Port Darwin. 
AlYXI.A LAURIXA. 
Gaudichaud, voy. Freyc. 451, t. 62. 
New Guinea ; Hinds. Recorded by Beutham in Hooker’s London 
Journ. ii. 226. Also mentioned by Schumann. The genus Orchi- 
peda, of which one species was described in vol. ii. 30 of this work, 
has become superseded by the older Voacanga. 
