ME. D. OLlVEE ON P U N T S COLLECTED IN HEW GUINEA. 29

I called at the Botdnic Gardens, Bourbon, when on my way to the Seychelles ; and I am glad to say that they are very much im- proved since I saw them laat. The Governwent of the island has taken the management of them into its own hands.

List of Plants collected in New Guinea by Dr. A. B. MEPEE, By DANIEL OLIVEB, Esq., F.R.S. sent to Kew December 1874.

& L.S.

[Read April 15, 18’75.1

DR. ADOLF BEBNIIAED MEYE=, Director of the Royal Natural- History Museum of Dresden, recently forwarded to Dr. Hooker, for the Kew Herbarium, the few dried plants which he was able to preserve during his visit t6New Guinea (with a view to zoolo- gical and anthropological research) in 1873.

As he requested that in case any of the species proved to be new they should be published, I have &awn up the annexed list of the whole (there are but ten altogether), with descriptions of the two novelties, for the Linnean Society.

Kew, December 30,1874.

No. 5. CANAVALIA OBTUBIFOLIA, DC. Hub. Elefantgeberge, Geelvinksbay.

Nos. 9 & 11. PENTAPEXRAGMA MACROPHYLLA, oh., sp. nov. Foliis am+ oblique ellipticis breviter acuminatis basi inzquilateris penni- reniis, margine dentibus rrebriusculis aeequilongis saepe incurvis ele- ganter serraiis, supra glabris, subtus vernatione tomentellis, racemis axillaribus multifloris pedunculis incrassatis, calycis lobis liueari-lan- ceolatis acutis corollae crassiusculae lobis oblongo-ovatis 2plo longi- oribus.

Folia alterna, 15 poll. longa, 6-7 poll. lata ; petiolus 16-31 poll. longus. Pedunrulus 4-2 poll. longus ; bracteae lineari-lanceolatce $-+ poll. longae. Calyx (cum pedicello) 2 poll. ; tubus teretiuscnlus Isevis, lobi +-$ poll. longi.

Hab. Geelvinksbay.

Mo. 6. SCBVOLA KCESIGII, VuhZ. Hab. Elcfautgeberge, Geelviuksbny.

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NO. 8. WEDELM BIFLOUA, DC. Hub. Elefantgeberge, Geelvinksbay.

No. 7. CERBERA ODOLLAM, Garb., var. OBTUSIFOLIA.

Hub. Elefantgeberge, Geelvinksbay.

Folia subpedalia 12-15 lin. lata. Racemus simpiex laxus, floribus subsessilibus infundibuliformibus 2 lin. longis, segmentis basi brevis- sime coalitis.

Differs from var. sepiaria of the Fiji Islands in its smaller leaves, simple subspicate raceme, and shorter funnel-shaped perianth. (ex c. B.)

HO. 4. CORDYLINE TERMINALIS, Kth., var. INFUNDIBULARIS, Baker.

Wab. Geelvinksbay.

Nos. 1 & 2. DENDROBIUM TRICHOSTOMUM, Beich.fil. MSS. (I Pla- nifolia, Reich. f. in Wulpws's Ann. \&. 232). Caulibus fasciculatis elongatis gracilibus saepius foliosis, foliis distichis ovato-lanceolatis vel ellipticis acutis tenuibus, vaginis granulato-scabridis, floribus axillaribus folio.brevioribus fasciculatis v. breviter racemosis (ut vide- tur pallide roseis) bracteatis, bracteis brevibus ov&k sepalis subequilongis oblongis ohtask, p&&s mdam&m, mento obtusis- aimex, l+db ateitOrrni ktegro &veto-oblongo obtuso longitudinr- Eta nervOgO margine incurvo fimbriato extus infra marginem pube- rulo, columna brevissima glabra.

Bractea $-a poll. longze. Sepala Q poll. lata. Mentnm &-i poll. longum.

Caulis l-l+-ped.

Hab. Geelvinksbay.

NOS. 3 & 10. HEDYCHIUM, aff. H. angustifolio, Roxb. Hub. Geelvinksbay. (Besides the above mrmbered specimens, the two following

!%&muam$fiEiczcla, Borp, var. PoE;p.podiwm nndistinguishable in its barren state from P.

Folia 1 $-2 poll. Jonga, 4-2 poll. lata.

Ferns were f ~ d entsngled in the Dendrobium.

(Pteuvidium) selligweoides, Baker. (J. a. B.)

Notes on Algs from the Island of Mangaia, South Ptlcicic. By G. DICKIE, M.D., F.L.S.

[Read April 15,1875.1

FOR the collection to which this communication refers I am in. debted to the kindness of the Rev. W. W. Gill, who for many