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410 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Ocr., 1901. 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF NEW GUINEA. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
On his recent arrival in Brisbane, His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor 
of British New Guinea (G. R. Le Hunte, Esq.) handed to me for identification 
a small packet of botanical specimens which he had collected in that Possession, 
Following is a list of the plants contained in the. packet. I have also included 
the description of a new species of Cassia, specimens of which were brought to 
me by Captain F. R. Barton, of New Guinea :— 
Order PITTOSPOREZ. 
Pittosporum ferrugineum, dit. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 27. 
Order GUTTIFERA. 
Calophyllum inophyllum, Zinn. ; W. and Arn. Prod. i. 103. 
Order MELIACER. 
Carapa moluccensis, Lam. ; DC. Prod. i. 626. 
Order SAPINDACEZ. 
Allophyllus Cobbe, Blwme. Rumph. iii. 131. 
Order LEGUMINOSZ. 
Mucuna urens, DC. var. No ripe seeds with specimens. 
CASSTA. 
C, Bartonii, Bail. A tree of about 40 feet in height, head spreading, young 
growth and foliage velvety pubescent; branchlets dark, angular in decurrent 
lines. Leaves numerous, 6 to 8 in. long, including the petiole of about 
lin. ; leaflets, 12 to 16 pairs, oblong, minutely apiculate, 1 to 13 in. long, 
4 to 8 lines broad, the petiolules seldom exceeding 1 line, unequal-sided at the 
base, parallel-nerves rather numerous, visible on the under side, but the 
reticulate veins hidden by the downy hairs, the hairs less dense on the upper 
surface, hence both nerves and yes showing, stipules nearly 3 in. long and 
3 lines broad, somewhat reniform, attached near the middle, the lower portion 
narrower than the upper the upper long apiculate by the exsertion of the 
midrib, veins more conspicuous than those of the leaflets, pubescent. Racemes 
lateral, 4 to 5 in. long; bracts about 4: lines long, acuminate, slightly dilated 
at the base, pubescent. Pedicels 1} in. long, sepals ovate-oblong, 3 lines 
long, pubescent on both sides, the outer side probably dark-coloured. Petals 
yellow, about 9 lines long, ovate-obtuse, tapering much towards the base, 
pubescent, and prominently veined. Filaments of the three long lower stamens 
much longer than the petals, and swollen into a globular appendage near the — 
middle, with oblong anthers, the other stamens shorter than the petals. Pod 
hard, terete 18 to 20 in. long, 8 to 9 lines in diameter. Seeds thick, light- 
brown, roundish-oyal, 3 lines in diameter, enclosed in a spongy, grey testa 
2 lines thick. 
Hab. : Mikanagoro, British New Guinea, Capt. /. R. Barton. 
