'50 DescripfAve Notes on Papuan Plants. 
spikc-like, ou a very short stalk, much elongated ; rachis prominently 
angular ; flowers exceedingly numerous, crowded but individually 
scattered ; bracts ovate-lanceolar, somewhat acuminate ; stalklets 
spreading, not quite half as long as the fruit, also considerably shorter 
than the hracts ; capsules oblique-ellipsoid, longitudinally traversed by 
six narrow membranes. 
Ou the stems of trees at the Laloki-Eiver ; W. Armit {Argus- 
Expedition). 
The specimen obtained about foot high. Leaves distichous, the 
upper attaining a length of 7 inches and a breadth of about J inch, the 
others downward gradually decreasing in size. Raceme terminal, 
ahont 6 inches long, solitary. Flowers withered on our only specimen. 
Fruit seen merely in a semimature state, then about | inch long. 
This species has its upper leaves nearly as long as those of O. acaulis, 
though they probably never gain the same breadth ; in drying they 
become membranous ; the spike or raceme is also as long as in that 
congener, but the stature is widely different ; the rachis is lined with 
very narrow yet conspicuous membranes, and so the tube of the calyx, 
while the flowers stand in a less close approach to each other. Our 
plant might be placed near O. miniata, from which the more numerous 
leaves and glabrous stalklets already distinguish it. As regards the 
membranously lined fruit O. hoxaptera has some counterpart in O. 
microphylla, of which Blume distinctly says, that it has triquetrous 
capsules. 
SCITAMINEiE. 
Musa Maclayi. 
F. V. M. in proceed, of the Linn. Soc. of New South Wales x. 355. 
Eastern Now Guinea ; N. de Miklouho-Maclay. 
A second Papuan native Musa is alluded to on the same occasion. 
COMMELYNEiE. 
Floriscopa scandens. 
Loureiro, flor. Cochinohm. i. 193. 
J.,aloki-River ; W. Armit (Mrg'j^s-Expeditiou). 
