42 Descj'iptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
as long as the calyx, almost conical-orate ; the valves are gradually 
pointed ; the five cells subdivided by inflection of the valves ; seeds 
several in each cell, woolly-tomentose. Mr. Baeuerlen noted, that this 
Hibiscus attains a height of 40 feet. 
The Sida, mentioned at p. 59 of the first part of this work as 
occurring in the Gilbert-, Union- and Ellice-group, is S. fallax. 
EUTACE^. 
Lunasia amara. 
M. Blanco, flora de Pilipinas 783. 
On Lorne-Range ; Rev. J. Chalmers. On Astrolahe-Rangc ; Edelfelt. 
At first sight this might be taken for an urticaceous plant, if only 
seen in flower. The specimens obtained from New Guinea are all 
staminiferous only. Lobed and lobeless leaves occur sometimes on the 
same branch. The Papuan plant seems not distinct from that of the 
Philippine-Islands ; the latter has received likely additional elucidation 
from Don Sebastian Vidal y Soler in his notes on Cuming’s plants 
recently issued iu Manila, and referred to by Mr. J. Britten in his 
journal of Botany xxiv. 57. Perhaps the genus will prove to be 
monotypic, as Miqirel (Annal. mus. bot. Lugd. Bat. iii. 89) already 
expresed some doubts about the distinctness of the Sundaic species. 
The likely identity of Lunasia with Rabelaisia was as early as 1845 
indicated by Planchon. L. amara is doubtless of medicinal value. 
EUPHORBIACE^. 
Hemicyclia Australasica. 
J. Mueller in De Cancl. proclr. xv. pt. ii. 487. 
Fisherman’s Island ; Rev. J. Chalmers. 
ANACARDIACE^. 
Euroschinus falcatus. 
J . Hooker in B. & H. gen. plant, i. 422. 
Towards Port Moresby on shady watercourses ; Edelfelt. 
The specimens are only iu bud, but accord so far well with that form 
of this variable species, which produces more numerous narrower and 
almost glabrous leaflets. 
