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margin, lateral nerves very oblique and few, transverse reticulate veinlets 
numerous, apex emarginate. lowers white in dense axillary, spike-like 
racemes, at first covered by the oblong bracts which fall as the flowers open. 
Peduncles very short. Bracts ovate or nearly orbicular, brown, closely 
imbricate, the upper ones of the raceme whitish, and nearly 1 in. long and 4 lines 
broad, hairy at the end. Pedicels 1 in. long, white, angular, enlarging under 
the flower; sepals and petals about 3-in. long, very delicate and deciduous. 
Stamens numerous in more than one series, filaments flexuose, bearing (when 
fresh) white hairs (rusty when dry), about 1 in. long, anthers 2-celled. 
Style long, flexuose. Ovary ferruginous hairy, very oblique, shortly stipitate. 
Hab: Small bay, foot of Mt. Trafalgar. This plant is given under Dr. Schumann’s name, 
for one reason to prevent it being confused with Cynometra grandiflora, A. Gray—a plant to 
aed it bears some resemblance, but, as Dr. Schumann says, differs considerably in both leaf and 
ower, 
Order APOCYNACER. 
TABERNAMONTANA, Linn, 
T. aurantiaca, Gaudich. (Rejona aurantiaca, Gaudich.) The Orange-fruited. 
Taberne. A small tree or large shrub. Leaves 6 to 93 in. long, 44 in. 
broad towardsthe upper end, oblong, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, often tapering much 
from above the middle to a petiole of from % to 1 in. long, apex obtuse or 
obtusely-acuminate, pale on the under surface; lateral nerves prominent, 
curved, almost parallel, 12 or more on each side of the midrib. lowers white, 
fragrant, usually in two terminal dichotomous cymes. Peduncles about 2 in. 
long, the branches bearing 2 or 3 pedicellate flowers at their extremities. 
Pedicels 7 or Slines long. Calyx-tube cylindrical, about 6 lines long, with a 
dense ring of oblong glands at the base inside ; the lobes 5, very short, rounded, 
and for the most part hyaline. Corolla-lobes obovate-cuneate, 7 or 8 lines 
long and nearly as broad at the end; the tube within the calyx spirally twisted, 
swelled, and then constricted at the top. Cone of anthers pointed ; hypogynous 
scales truncate. Fruit indehiscent, very light, nearly globose or oval, the 
largest seen 3 in. in diameter, some orange, others lemon-coloured, marked on 
one side by 2 longitudinal ribs. Epicarp membranous, the inner substance 
surrounding the seeds white and very spongy; seeds rather numerous, cuneate, 
6 lines long, 8 lines broad at the wide énd, deeply marked with longitudinal 
wrinkles. 
Hab. : The flowering specimens were gathered near the Musa River. The fruit, which in 
appearance somewhat resembles an orange, was often met with on the Mambare beach washed 
about by the tides, but here [ saw no plants ; the fruit had probably been brought down the river 
by the current. The plant has previously been recorded from New Guinea. The present 
description is given to enable persons visiting the New Guinea rivers to identify the fruit or plant 
when met with. From the same locality a small shoot bearing a single fruit of that curious- 
fruiting plant, Veuburgia musculiformis, Miq., was gathered by one of the party. 
- Order PALM 24. 
Susrrise PTYCHOSPERME. 
DRYMOPHLMUS, Zippel. 
D. mambare (n. sp.). Stem rather slender, about 20 ft. high. Leaves 
pinnate, 5 ft. long, deep-green, glabrous; segments opposite, numerous, 
folded and attached to the face of the rhachis, often meeting at the centre 
ridge, about 18 in. long and 12 in. broad, midrib sharp above the underside 
bearing curled distant scales, the apex obliquely truncate, more or less torn, 
each margin elongating into a jagged point, but not the midrib. Panicle 
below the leaves; peduncle short, flattish, the branches or spikes whitish, 
rather thick, Flowers usually in threes, the centre one developing later than 
