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expanded flower about 1; in. in diameter, at first somewhat greenish, 
ultimately almost ivory, white or very pale-yellow. Calyx-segments very obtuse,. 
2 lines long, tomentose. Corolla-tube swelled, very short, the inside lined with 
simple silky hairs; lobes broad with strongly reflexed margins, glabrous and 
glossy above, stellate-tomentose beneath. Corona-segments colour of the corolla,. 
about 1 line in diameter, 2-ribbed on the underside. The flowers seem very 
near H. coronaria, Blume, but without the scattered purple dots on the flowers 
of that species. i 
Hab. : Twining up trees on the margins of a small bay, foot of Mount Trafalgar, New Guinea. 
Order LOGANIACEZ, 
FAGRA‘A, Thunb. 
F. obovata, var. papuana (n. var.) A tall shrub or dwarf spreading tree; 
branchlets stout, covered with the scars from fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at 
the ends of the branchlets, thick-coriaceous, dark-green above, pale beneath, 
5 or 6 in. long, 2 or 3 in. broad, oblong, obtuse or very shortly and bluntly 
acuminate, slightly cuneate or rounded at the base. Primary nerves rather 
distant, parallel, distinct above, indistinct on the underside. Petioles often 
exceeding 1 in., with 2 short, shield-like, blunt, thick stipules attached to their 
base. Flowers very fragrant, white, in stout terminal cymes, each branch 
usually bearing 3 puberulous subcoriaceous flowers on short pedicels, the pair 
of bracts under the branches oblong and about 6 lines long, recurvely spreading, 
those subtending the flowers triangular, very short and thick. Oalyx-tube 
yery short; lobes obtuse, about 3 or 4 lines long, very thick. Corolla soon 
white turning to a cream colour; tube about 2 in. long, constricted at the top 
of the calyx, from thence slightly enlarging upwards, the inside to the attachment 
of the stamens or three-quarters the length of the tube with transverse corruga- 
tions ; lobes 5, oblong-cuneate, about 8 lines long. Filaments 5, 24 lines long, 
suddenly bent back at the top. Anthers erect, longer than the filaments. 
Style glabrous. Stigma with 2 short spreading broad lobes. Ovary glabrous. 
Fruit obovate, about 14 in. long. Seeds curved, glossy, tuberculate, very 
numerous, about 1 line long, immersed in a white pulp. 
Hab. : On the edge overhanging the water of the small bays at the base of Mount Trafalgar, 
New Guinea. May, 1898. This plant approaches F. obovata, Wall., but differs in bracts, shortness 
of filaments, and length of anthers. The orifice of the tube also is much narrower than in that 
species, neither is it (J, obovata) described as corrugated on the inside of the tube. 
Order ACANTHACEZ, 
Trine JUSTICIEA. 
JUSTICIA, Linn. 
J. Gilligani (n. sp.) (After Mr. John Gilligan, one of the party.) A tall 
glabrous shrub; stipules soon deciduous, forming a sheath 8 or 4 lines long 
above the attachment of the leaves. Leaves on short petioles nearly sessile, 
lanceolate, 6 to 9 in. long, the points much elongated, margins repand with 
here and there minute glandular teeth. Racemes secund; lateral 2 to 4 in. 
long, scarcely pedunculate; rhachis puberulous; bracts small, lanceolate. 
Pedicels very short, bracteoles small. Calyx-lobes about 8 lines long, narrow. 
Corolla clothed with short hairs, of a wine-stained purple; tube narrow, } to #in. 
long, enlarging upwards to a very oblique orifice; limb 2-lipped, upper lip 
2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes reflexed narrow-linear, about 10 or 11 lines 
long, #-line broad. Filaments glabrous. Anthers sagittate, 2-celled and 
often divided at the summit, thus 2-lobed. Style slightly exceeding the stamens, 
glabrous filiform; ovary glabrous. Capsule exceeding 1 in. in length, hard, 
contracted into a solid seedless base, beaked at the apex. Seeds 4, flattish, 
cordate, strongly tuberculate, of a deep purple when first gathered. 
ab.: Bay, foot of Mount Trafalgar. 
