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Descriptive Notes on Pcqnmn Plants. 
long stalks, broad-lanceolar, sliort-acuminateil, remotely serrulated and 
more prominently so towards the summit, soft-hairy on both sides, but 
only scantily above, hardly paler and somewhat shining beneath ; nerves 
strong, 20-25 from each side of the midrib, pointedly terminating the 
serratures ; panicle much elongated, distantly branched ; flowers some- 
what cymosely crowded j sepals densely short-hairy outside ; petals 
quite glabrous ; slits of anthers short, very divergent ; fruitlets rather 
large, one-seeded, soft-hairy outside, terminated by the slender beak-like 
style ; seed brown, much surpassed by the long-fringed pale arillus. 
Leaves to 9 inches long and to 3^ inches broad in the only specimen 
secured. General flowerstalk fully 2 feet long, the short portion of its 
vestiture close and crisp. Fruitlets usually three, extending consider- 
ably beyond the petals, measuring about ^ inch in length, the persistent 
style nearly ^ inch long. 
On the Strickland-River ; W. Baeuerlen. 
On this conspicuous and well-marked species, the first of the genus 
from the Papuan Island, I have bestowed the name of the eallant 
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leader of the Expedition, from which the discovery of this and other 
new plants resulted. 
Systematically this Tetracera should be placed near the Javanic T. 
sericea and near T. Sumatrana. 
ANONACEiE. 
Eupomatia laurina. 
R. Brown m Flinders’s voyage ii. 597, t. 2. 
South-Eastern New Guinea ; Rev. James Chalmers. 
POLYGALACEiE. 
Polygala persicarifolia. 
De Candolle, prodrom. i. 326. 
South-Eastern New Guinea ; Rev. James Chalmers. 
RUTACEAi. 
Ecodia alata. 
F. V. M. fragin. vii. 142. 
South-Eastern New Guinea ; Rev. J. Chalmers. From thence also 
obtained a species of Xanthoxylon. 
