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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
Cynometba minutiflora. 
F. V. M. (inediteci). 
Soulh-easteni part of New Guinea ; Rev, J. Chalmers. 
A description of this species and of Pterocarpiis Papuauns will appear 
in the April number of the Australian Journal of Pharmacy. 
RIIlZOPHOREiE. 
Bruguieka Rheedei. 
Blume, emimer. pi. Javan. 92. 
Coast of South-eastern New Guinea ; Rev. W. G. Lawes. 
ARISTOLOCHIACEiE. 
Aristolociiia Indica. 
Linn4, spec, plant. 960. 
At the Papuan Gulf ; Rev. S. Macfarlaue. 
Leaves to 7 inches long. 
RUBIACEiE. 
Uncaria Bernaysii. 
F. V. M. in Austral. Journ. of Pharmacy, Febr. 1886. 
On the Strickland-River ; Dr. Beruays and W. Baeuerleu (Expedition 
of the Geographic Society of Australasia). 
Nauclea Ciialmersii. 
Branchlets short-downy, soon glabrescent ; leaves almost lanccolar, 
somewhat acuminate, nearly sessile, shining above, paler beneath, 
glabrescent ; flower-heads solitary, the peduncle somewhat longer ; lobes 
of the calyx elongated in setaceous-linear imperfectly silky thinly 
stipitate appendages, the remaining portion finally semilanceolar, 
prominently one-uerved and somewhat pointed ; tube obverse prismatic- 
conical ; corolla glabrous, its lobes deltoid-semilanceolar, corniculatcd, 
several times shorter than the slender upwards gradually widened tube ; 
filaments very short, curved ; anthers almost hastate-oblong, nearly 
enclosed ; style filiform, glabrous, half-cxsertcd ; stigma globular-ovate ; 
fruits small, seceding up to the calyx-lobes into four valves ; seeds 
