Reduction of two endemic monotypic Papuan genera

Among the rather numerous monotypic endemic genera described from New Guinea there are some of which the position is doubtful. One of them is Lamiofrutex Lauterbach (Nova Guinea 14 : 147. 1924) referred by its author to the Rutaceae, presumably on account of its pellucid-dotted leaves. Engler (Nat.Pfl.Farmed.2, 19a : 330. 1931) had little hesitation to insert it in the Aurantioideae next to Atalantia. The plant of which authentic material is preserved both at Bogor and Leiden appears to represent a species of Vavaea, of the Meliaceae.