DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPUAN 
PLANTS, 
BY 
BAEON FEED. VON IDELLEE^K:.C.I.&., M. & PH.D., F.E.S. 
VI. 
From 1875 to 1877 the writer of the present notes issued five 
small parts of a publication on “Papuan Plants,” for which 
issue the material became directly available to him and this 
largely through the kindness of the Missionaries in the south- 
eastern parts of New Guinea. Since then the work was 
discontinued, not only because the access of actually new 
additional material proving scanty, hut also because Dr. B. 
Beccari, who was personally engaged in Papuan Explorations, 
had commenced in 1877 his learned and splendidly illustrated 
“Malesia,” in which work the Papuan plants, gathered mainly 
by this distinguished Naturalist, were to appear along with 
numerous others, obtained by him in the Sunda-Islands 
Although now six parts of the “ Malesia ” have appeared, the 
last in 1884, only a very limited number of natural orders 
became as yet investigated, which is not surprising, when the 
vastness of the material, accruing from Dr. Beccari’s long 
itinerations, is considered. Under these circumstances it seemed 
not advisable, to postpone Australian researches concerning the 
Flora of New Guinea any longer, merely on account of similar 
