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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
Eriosema Ciiinense. 
T. Vogel in Meyen’s Beitr. zur Bot. 31. 
Near South Cape ; Eev. James Chalmers. 
Ekttiirina Indica. 
Lamarck, encycl. m4th. ii. 391. 
Yala-Eiver ; W. Armit. 
Cassia Absus. 
Linn^, spec, plant. 376. 
Port Moresby and Jervis-Island ; Eev. J. Chalmers. 
Adenantiieea pavonina. 
Linn^, spec, plant. 384. 
Fly-Elver ; D’Albertis. 
SAXIFEAGE^. 
POLTOSMA HELICIOIDES. 
Leaves on very short stalks, lanceolar-ovate, remotely and pointedly 
denticulated, when young beset on the under side with scattered 
appressed hair ; pedicels extremely short ; flowers rather small, very 
slender, outside imperfectly grey-silky ; anthers shorter than the fila- 
ments, the latter as well as the style slightly hairy. 
On Astrolahe-Eange ; George Belford. 
This plant seems specifically diflPerent from the Javanic P. ilicifolia 
already in still shorter leaf-stalks and more slender flowers ; the fruit 
remains unknown, and may exhibit further differences. Like other 
congeners this one also reminds of some Helicias in aspect. 
THYMELEiE. 
PiMELEA CORNUCOPIA. 
Solander in Vahl, enum. Plant, i. 305. 
Near Astrolahe-Eange ; George Belford. 
PUALERIA BlUMEI. 
Bentliam, flora Austral, vi. 38. 
Murray-Island ; Eev. James Chalmers. 
The length of the calyx seems subject to some variation. 
