282 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ocr., 1898. 
Order APOCYNACEZ, 
CERBERA, Linn. 
C. Odollam, Linn., var. Mugfordi. A small tree or large shrub. Peduncle 
terminal, often appearing lateral from growth of shoot, 2 to 5 in. long, then 
once or twice forked; the branches as long as the peduncle. Flowers rather 
large, white with a red centre, very fragrant. Fruit roundish-oval, somewhat 
compressed, 23 in. long, 2 in. broad, purplish-crimson when fully ripe. 
Hab. : Mourilyan Harbour, near high-water mark, Wm. Mugford. I find nothing to separate 
this plant from what may be called the normal form without it is the colour of the fruit, in 
which respect it differs from all others of the genus except, judging from pl. 2968, Bot. Mag., of 
C. Tanghin, Hook. : 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF NEW GUINEA. 
Continued from Vol. ILL, page 203. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F-1.8., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order BURSERACEAE. 
BURSERA, Linn. 
B. Macgyegorii (n. sp.) (After Sir William Macgregor, K.C.M.G.) Tree of 
medium size, the branchlets covered with prominent resinous lenticels. Leaves 
alternate, pinnate, mostly of 5 leaflets; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 13 to 2 in. 
long, 1 in. broad, subcoriaceous, petiolules 4 to 6 lines long, petiole 1 to 14 in. 
long. Inflorescence short, slender panicles in the axils of the upper leaves of 
the branchlets. Flowers minute, white, pedicels about as long as the flowers. 
Calyx-lobes very minute, orbicular. Petals 6, twice as large as the calyx-lobes. 
Stamens 12, shorter than the petals, filaments flattened, anthers triangular. 
Ovary crowned by a 5-lobed, sessile, stellate stigma. Fruit (unripe) entire, 
globular, or almost didymous. 
Hab. : Taupota, British New Guinea. Ihave but a single specimen, which was collected by 
Sir William Macgregor, and given to me while on board the ‘‘ Merrie England,” May, 1898, 
Order MELIACEZ, 
VAV ASA, Benth. 
(From Vavas, the name of one species at the Friendly Islands, Benth.) 
(Plate LIIT.) 
V. papuana (n. sp.) <A tree of medium size, the branchlets with prominent 
lenticels. Leaves opposite or alternate, crowded at the ends of the flowering 
branches, resembling in this some species of Zerminalia, oblong-lanceolate, 
7 to 9 in. long, and from 8 to 4 in. broad about the middle; petioles very short. 
Peduncles terminal on the lateral branches, 4 or less together, about 1} in. 
long, rather slender, cach bearing 5 or 6 flowers at the end. Calyx-tube 
about 14 line, teeth 4, blunt, shorter than the tube. Petals white, 4, linear, 
ligulate, exceeding 2 in. in length, about 2% lines broad. Stamens 12, 
monadelphous, the tube about 1 in. long, split for some distance down one side, 
the inside slightly hairy and with a band of glands at the base, free portion of 
filaments nearly as long as the tube. Anthers somewhat Iunate, narrow, 
versatile. Style slender, long as the stamens, glabrous except for a few short 
. strigose hairs towards the base. Stiginacapitate, d-angled. Ovary tomentose, 
sall, 12-ribbed, with a purple dot at the bottom of each, 4-celled. Fruit 
globose, the only one obtained immature. 
Hab. : Small bay, foot of Mount Trafalgar. A showy plant well worthy of cultivation, the 
rather large clusters of white flowers forming a striking contrast with the dark-green foliage. 
Also from the same locality specimens were obtained of the Scitamineous plant—Clinogyne 
grandis, Benth. The specimens were poor, but seemed to favour C. grandis rather than 
C. dichotoma, Salisb. 
