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Descriptive Notes on Papuan PlaMs. 
downy ; stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tuho ; filaments 
densely bearded at the base ; anthers ovate, bilobed downward ; style 
glabrous ; ovary depressed-globular, four-furrowed, thinly velvety. 
In southern Ncav Guinea, collected during the Expedition of the 
Australian Geographic Society. 
This species is easily distinguished from F. splendida and F. Albertisii 
already by the shape of the leaves, not broader in the lower portion 
than in the upper, also by the very blunt and short calyx. Some 
allowance must be made for the imperfectuess of the definition, above 
sketched out, as only specimens in bud are as yet available for 
examination here. The ternate position of the leaves may not prove a 
constant characteristic. The form of the leaves bring our plant 
nearest to F. Vitiensis, but they are longer in proportion to breadth, 
also blunt at the base ; the crowded position of the flowers and the size 
and shape of the calyces are similar ; the full differences must be 
traced out at some future time. 
If F. amicorum and F. ovalifolia really belong to Clerodendron, then 
F. Powellii (Seem, journ. of Bot. 1868, p. 342) shoirld bo added to the 
same group of species within the genus. Mr. John Horne (A Year in 
Fiji, p. 275) indicates three species of Faradaya for the Fiji-Islands. 
ASPERIFOLI^. 
HeLIOTROPIUM OVALIFOLIUM. 
Porskael, Flor. A)gypt. Arab. 47. 
Islands of the Papuan Gulf ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
MYRSINEiE. 
Akuisia solanacea. 
Roxburgh, plants of the coast of Coromandel 27, t. 27 ( 1 795). 
Vur. luiplosciadca ; leaves of tender texture; peduncles iliin, all 
lateral, bearing 4-5 almost umbellate flowers on slender rather long 
2)cdicels. 
On the Stricklaiid-Rivcr ; W. Baouerlcn (Exped. of the gcogr. Soc, 
of Australasia). 
I have not ventured to separate this plant from the more robust 
