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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
fibre, native Sugar-cane, Massoy-bark, Sago, Bananas, Ginger and 
other indigenous vegetable products of the great island, available 
for utilitarian purposes directly there. 
Melbourne, March 1886. 
EANUNCULACEiE. 
Clematis glycinoides. 
De Candolle, syst. veg. i. 145. 
Towards Astrolabe-Range ; Rev. J. Chalmers. Also obtained by 
Mr. Edelfelt. 
A Clematis with much dissected leaves was sent from Lorne-Range ; 
but the specimens are not sufficient for naming. In the higher regions 
of New Guinea will doubtless yet be found many congeneric and also 
some other co-ordinal plants. 
DILLENIACEAi:. 
WORMIA MaCDONALDI. 
F. V. M. in Victorian Naturalist ii. 134. 
On the Strickland-River ; W. Baeuerleu (Expedition of theGeogi-aphic 
Society of Australasia). 
LAURINEiE. 
Hernandia reltata. 
Meissner in Cand. prodr. xv. 263. 
On the Strickland-River ; Baeuerleu. 
This is the plant previously mentioned on the authority of the Dutch 
Botanists as II. Sonora ; but it is specifically distinct from the genuine 
American species of that name. 
