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Descriptive, Notes on Papuan Plants. 
methodic explorations under the aid of all the Australian Colonial 
Governments the resources of the great Papuan Island, in which 
we here are so prominently interested, will become early and 
extensively revealed. 
Melbourne, June 1885. 
NYMPHiEACE^. 
Baeclata Mottleyi. 
J. Hooker in transact. Linn. Soc. xxiii. t. 21. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Noted by Dr. Beccari in Signor D’Albertis’s “ New Guinea,” ii. 396. 
menispermea:. 
Stephania heenandifolia. 
Walpers, repertor. bot. syst. i. 96. 
Near Port Moresby ; Rev. W. G. Lawes. 
monimiacea:. 
Mollinedia Huegeliana. 
Tulasne in Annal. des scienc. nat. s4r. quatr. iii. 45. 
Lorne-Range ; Rev. J. Chalmers. 
Fruit-bearing branchlets seen, apparently belonging to this species. 
A second species occurs on Owen Stanley’s Range, but is known only 
from very imperfect specimens. 
laurinea;. 
Massoia aeomatica. 
Beccari in D’Albertis, New Guinea ii. 398. 
On the Fly-River and in various other localities. 
The spicy bark of this tree is much sought by the Malays and may 
possess medicinal virtue. 
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