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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants 
LOGANIACE^. 
Mitrasacme elata. 
li. Brown, prodr. 453. 
Mai-Kussa ; Sir Will. Macgregor. 
A variety with smaller flowers. Fruit not seen. 
FragRjEA Woodiana. 
r. V. M. in the Austral. Journ. of Pharm. Sept. 1886. 
Base of the Owen-Stanley’s Eanges ; H. 0. Forbes. 
C0NIFERA3. 
Araucaria Cunninghami. 
Aiton in Sweet’s Hort. Brit. 475. 
On ranges near Mt. Obree from 6,000 feet upwards. There first 
seen by Mr. C. Hartmann. Notes on this Araucaria as Papuan 
occur in the Victorian Naturalist of December 1887. 
ORCHIDE^. 
Crypripedium Rothschildiangm. 
Sander in the Gardener’s Chronicle 1888, p. 457 and 554. J. Hooker, Bot, 
Magazine 7102. 
Introduced from New Guinea into England as a hot-house plant. 
Probably other species of this extensive genus will be found yet in 
New Guinea, where it seems to reach its southern boundary, as 
hitherto we have searched for it vainly in Australia, even in the 
jungle-country of Northern Queensland. 
' Eria Kingii. 
F. v. M. in the Southern Science Record ii. 71. 
Mentioned already as also Papuan in the Proc. of the L. S. of 
N.S.W., sec. ser. ii. 422 (1887). 
Dendrobium arachnostaciiyum. 
G. Reichenbach in the Gard. Chron. 1877, p. 334. 
Cultivated in British hot-houses from New Guinea. Allied to D. 
Mirbelianum. Notes on D. spectabile from a living cultivated plant 
occur in the Victorian Naturalist June 1884. 
