DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPUAN 
PLANTS, 
BY 
Uim FEED. VON IDELEEE, K.C.I.O., I. & PI.D., F.E.S. 
VIII, 
The present part of this publication enumerates miscellaneous 
plants, obtained from various contributors, and will be early 
followed up by further elucidations of material already accii- 
mulated. This will help to gain gradually a fuller insight 
into the constituents of the Papuan Flora, so that the Australian 
element in it may be accurately determined, the differences be 
shown between the vegetation of the northern and southern 
slopes of the ranges, and further the peculiarities of the 
temperate and cool zones of vegetation be extensively set forth, 
irrespective of comparisons with the Floras of other countries 
also in this respect. On these subjects already some observations 
were offered in the last annual address, delivered at the Victorian 
branch of the Geograjdiic Society of Australasia. In the con- 
tinuation of these researches, the utilitarian considerations will 
likewise receive due attention ; thus some of the leading timber- 
trees will become systematically named, while likely new sources 
for Damar, Oambier, Caoutchouc, Gutta Perch a. Ebony, Santal- 
wood be pointed out, irrespective of what is known already of 
the Podocarpus-Pines, Cedar-timber, Teak, Cocos- and Pandanus- 
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