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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
GOODENIACE^. 
SC^VOLA Amboinensis. 
Miquel, Annal. Mus. bot. Lugd. Batav. i. 210. 
Mount Astrolabe ; G. Belford. 
ERICACEiE. 
Rhododendron Toverenas. 
F. V. M. in Viot. Naturalist i. 101 (1884). 
On Mount Owen Stanley’s Range, at a height of several thousand 
feet ; C. Hunstein. 
SAPOTACEiE. 
Illipe Maclayana. 
F. V. M. in Viet. Naturalist i. 168. 
Near the Finisterre-Mountains. 
Illipe Erskineana. 
F. V. M. in Melbourne Chemist, April 1885. 
South Cape ; Rev. J. Chalmers and Rev. W. Gill. 
Since the description of this economically important species was 
published, the telling work of the Rev. Will. Wyatt Gill and the Rev. 
James Chalmers (on their missionary travels in New Guinea from 
1877-1885) has reached me, in which at p. 329 is referred to the 
Poti-Poti as an umbrageous tree, attaining 60 feet in height, and yield- 
ing a globular one-seeded fruit as much as three inches diametrically 
wide, of apple-smell and agreeable peculiar taste. 
APOCYNEAE. 
Tabernasmontana aurantiaca. 
Gaudioliaud in Freyc. voy. 50 et 55, t. 61. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Identified by Dr. Beccari. 
ACANTHACEiE. 
Eranthemum variabile. 
R. Brown, prodr. 477. 
Lorne-Range ; Capt. Bridge. 
