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the New Guinea tree not having been scen by me, I extract from Hooker’s 
Flora of British India, Mr. J. G. Baker’s description of them from Indian 
trees :—‘‘ Flowers in copious terminal and axillary panicles with subsecund 
racemose branches, clothed with fine brown pubescence; pedicels 3 or 4: lines, 
furnished with a pair of linear spreading caducous bracteoles at the apex. 
Calyx about 8 lines, finely brown-silky; teeth rounded, the two upper much 
the largest. Corolla exceeding the calyx; standard about 4-in. broad. Stamens 
in two or three bundles.’’ Pods more or less silky, shortly stipitate, 2 or 3 in. 
in diameter, including the broad wing by which it is surrounded, more or less 
strongly veined. 
Hab. : Around the small bays, foot of Mount Trafalgar. I have also fruiting specimens from 
Mr. W. E. Armitt of the same tree, so perhaps it is common in New Guinea. Judging from what 
I saw of the'tree, it differs from the Indian form in size only. Gamble (‘Indian Timbers”) says : 
*‘ A lofty tree, sometimes evergreen ’; and, furthermore, that ‘‘The plank sent to the Paris 
Exhibition of 1878 measured nearly 4 feet across, and that a portion of the same log from which 
the plank was cut fetched a price of £17 10s. per ton.” All botanists who have examined 
specimens of the New Guinea tree seem to have come to the same conclusion—viz., that they 
belonged tc P. indicus, Willd. It probably, however, is a small growing variety, for in a count” 
so deficient of useful timbers as New Guinea if this tree attained anything like its Indian eranth 
we should long since have heard of it. 
Order RUBIACER. 
MUSSAINDA, Linn. 
M. procera (n.sp.) A tall, rambling, velvety, pubescent shrub; its height in the 
scrubs being traceable by the white calycine leaves to 20 or 30 ft.; branchlets 
marked with white lenticels. Leaves lanceolate, 3 or 4 in. long, on petioles 
of about 14 in.; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of midrib, mostly opposite 
and very prominent; stipules 4 lines long, hairy. Flowers in trichotomous 
terminal cymes, pedicels short the flower on the forks usually sessile. Bracts 
very small, narrow,andhairy. Calyx-lobes very narrow, persistent; the largely 
developed one white, with a stalk 1 in. long; the lamina ovate-lanceolate, 13 in. 
long. Corolla a deep-orange yellow, tube slender, about 14 in. long, swelled 
near the top around the anthers; lobes 5, about 4 lines long, tapering to 
narrow points, densely bearded at the orifice and inside of the tube. Anthers 
linear. Style with a rather thick 2-lobed stigma. 
Hab. : Porlock Bay and Mambare River, New Guinea, May, 1898, 
I am under the impression that specimens which have from their imperfect character been - 
received from New Guinea of this species by botanists;have in some, if not in all, cases been 
recorded under the old species, I. frondosa, Linn., to none of the forms of which in my opinion 
does the present plant well agree. Therefore, at least for the present, it had better be known 
under the above distinctive appellation. 
GARDENTA, Linn. 
G, Lamingtonii (n. sp.) (After His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord 
Lamington, K.C.M.G.) ‘Tall spreading glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long; abruptly-acuminate, tapering to a petiole of 
about 5 or 6 lines, glossy above, pale on the underside; lateral nerves 8 or 9 
pairs, with rather prominent glands in the axils where they join the midrib on 
the back of the leaf. Stipules soon deciduous, 1 in. long, flat. Towers solitary 
in the upper axils, white in the early morning, but soon turning a dark-yellow 
and keeping expanded all the day, nearly sessile. .Calyx-limb loose-tubular 
about 1 in. or 14 in. long, membranous, often split down oneside for a quarter 
of its length, irregularly lobed at the top. Corolla-tube slender exceeding 
the calyx by about 2 in., lobes 6, oblong, somewhat suddenly narrowed at 
the base, 1 in. long. Anthers attached by their backs just below the 
tube, the base produced into a filiform appendage about 4-in. long, 
narrow, only about half appearing above the orilice of corolla-tube. Style in 
the upper part clothed with erect hairs; stigma with short lobes, ovary 6- 
ribbed, 6-celled, ovules numerous. fruit (not ripe) oblong-globose, about L in. 
long, still crowned by the long tubular calyx. Seeds glossy, reticulate. 
, Hab.: Margins of small bay, foot of Mount Trafalgar, 
