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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
This plant bears a singular rcscmljlanco to some Buddloas. Among 
several allied congeners the Papuan species approaches nearest to 
W. tinctoria j but the brauchlets are thicker and not distinctly angular, 
the loaves larger, the stijDules of much greater size also of more 
foliaceous texture and slit, the flower-clusters frecpieutly alternate and 
the tube of the corolla rather less slender ; fruits with ripe seeds need 
yet to be compared. 
The bark of this new Wendlandia can probably likewise be utilized 
for dye-purposes. 
COMPOSITE. 
SrH^ERANTIIUS MICROCErilALUS. 
Willdenow, spec, plant, iii. 2395. 
Saibai-Island ; Stewart. 
ERICACEiE. 
Agaretes Moorhousiana. 
F. V. M. in Whig’s Southern Science Record, new ser. vol. ii. Febr. 1886. 
South-eastern New Guinea ; Rev. J. Chalmers. 
ASCLEPIADEiE. 
Gymnantiiera nitida. 
R. Brown, jirodr. fl. Nov. Holl. 464. 
South-eastern Now Guinea ; Rev. J. Chalmers. 
VERBENACE^. 
Gmelina macropuylla. 
Bentliam, flor. Austral, v. 65. 
Saibai-Island ; C. Stewart. Fly-River ; W. Baeuerlen. 
The length of the petioles is variable, so the width of the leaves, 
particularly at their base, and also the degree of paleness underneath. 
Earauaya Albertisii. 
Climbing ; leaves all opposite, lanceolar-ovate, conspicuously acumi- 
nate, of thick-chartaceous texture, not shining, their ascending lateral 
nerves very prominent underneath, the veins also particularly con- 
