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Descriptice Notes on Papuan Plants. 
Oldexlaxdia paxiculata. 
Linne, spec, plant, edit. alt. 1667. 
N ear the Stricklaiul-River ; W. Baeiieiieii. 
CUCURBITACE^E. 
CuCUMIS Chate. 
Linne, syst. nat. edit, decim. 5. 
Sabai-Islaud ; iStewart. 
COMPOSITiE. 
Eclipta alba. 
Hasskarl, plant. Javan, rar. 528. 
Near tlie Stricklaiid-River ; W. Baenerlon. 
LOGANIACEiE. 
Mitreola oldexlaxdioides. 
AVallicli, nnmer. list. 4350. 
Oil the Siricklaiid-River ; \\ . Baeiierleu. 
CONVOLVULACEiE. 
Ipomcea congesta. 
R. Brown, prodr. 485. 
On the Stricklaiid-River ; Baeuerleii. 
Ipomoea peltata. 
Choisy, Convolv. oriental. 70. 
On the Strickland-River ; Baeuerlen. 
APOCYNEAi. 
Orciiipeda Papuaxa. 
Branch lets angular ; leaves on short rather slender stalks, large, 
ovate-lanceolar, somewhat paler beneath ; peduncles elongated, two- 
branched, bearing the flowers in partly racemous cymes ; bracts ovate- 
roundish, herbaceous, shorter than the stalklets ; calyces campauulate- 
cylindrical, when flowering nearly three times as long as broad, lobes 
short semiovate-orbicular ; tube of the corolla slender, as long as the 
calyx ; lobes rhomboid-orbicular ; anthers inserted near the summit of 
the corolla-tube ; disk annular, not lobed. 
On tlie Ely-River ; D’Albertis. 
