[From “Wing's Southern Science Record.” (new series), foe February, 188G. Vol. ii V)escrtvtion of a new Papuan vacciniaceops Plant : By Baron Feud, vox Ml iu.i.ku . K.C.M.G., M.D., Pli.D., F.R.S., T.G.S., F.C.8. &c. Agape fee Moo Aw ux iana. (Dimorphsinthera, Moorhousiana.) Branch lets beset with dark short spreading hairs ; leaves on short stalks, ovate-lanceolar, eiitire, acuminate, flat, glabrous except at the base, paler beneath, two of the longitudinal nerves on each side of the midrib more prominent beneath, main areoles of veins largo ; pedicels about as long as the flowers, thinly fili- form, glabrous, bearing two minute bracteoles above the base ; calyx small, its tube hemispheric, not angular; limb entire, ex- panding ; corolla red, rather membranous, almost bell-shaped, outside slightly downy ; lobes nearly deltoid, much shorter than the tube ; stamens about three times shorter than the corolla, five larger, alternating with as many smaller, all in one row ; filaments closely approximated, but disconnected, flat, pubescent ; anthers hardly longer than the filaments, the large) 1 bifid to the middle and two-celled, the smaller undivided and one-celled, tho cells turgid, acute at the base and summit, each opening at its upper part anteriorly by a largo pore; style glabrous, about us long as the corolla; stigma truncated; epigenous disk annular velvety; ovary five-celled, with very numerous ovules in each cell. South-eastern Mew Guinea; Rev. James Chalmers. Probably an epiphyte. Leaves (two only seen) about 3 inches long and nearly one inch broad, of chartaceous consistence when dry, die longitudinal nerves starting from the lower portion of the midrib. Flowers probably in fascicles, unless solitary. Stalklets of flowers about one inch long, jointed with the calyx. Bracteoles ovato-lauceolar. F! w big calyx not fully •} inch wide. -Corolla about inch glabrous inside. Filaments of the larger stamens considvrabiy b’oader than the other. Anthers towards their base urmfixed, yellowish, hardly J inch oug. the larger almost, obcordare-sagittate ; the connective not extending beyond the sinus ; the cells of all nearly four times longer than broad, without any appendages ; the single cells of the smaller anthers interjacent to those 1 of the larger on each side, the whole closely fitting (while the stamens are in bud) into one continuous mass, the pores of the larger anthers mutually contiguous, and the single pore of the small anther also in immediate approach beneath. (style very slender, sometimes twisted at the base. Placentas and ovules normal, Ripe fruit unknown. Biformous anthers are not on record among Vacciniece, except in Agapetes amblyoruidis and A. meliphagidum, concerning which Dr. Bcccari noted (Mulesia 1, 208 and 2(>9) similarly dimorphous stamens, attributing however two contiguous cells to the smaller anthers of those plants. I have therefore left this new species though reluctantly in the genus Agapetes, as the fruit also remains unknown. Nevertheless it would he best, to separate these three Papuan plants under the generic appellation Di- morphanthera. The five shorter one-celled anthers of our plant resemble much those of the Audiue genus Macltania, which like- wise has the calyx-limb undivided. From l). amblyornidk our plant differs specifically in much shorter petioles, smaller leaves and (lowers, and further in the calyces not being distinctly denti- culated, probably also in the fruit From 1). meUphagidum ours is more distinct, thus it has neither the prolongation of the connec- tive of the anthers. Dr. Beccari mentions that thc- e kinds of plants are much frequented by honey-sucking birds. At the verge of the departure of the Right Reverend Dr. Moorhouse,— who during the last ten years has been the highly esteemed Lord Bishop of Melbourne, — for the See of Manchester, the lovely plant, just recorded, is offered as a phvtologic souv- enir to this distinguished prelate, and named in grateful appre- ciation of much generous seutimeut extended also to the writer. .jC.