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PLANTS FROM NEW CALEDONIA. 



tliere arc ten new genera. Tiio flora oE New Caledonia is oC exceptional 

 interest, especially in regard to the large number of peculiar endemic forms, 

 and Prof. Compton lias added materially to our knoAvledge of the vegetation 

 and its distribution. Tn addition to the large proportion of new genera and 

 species, a number are now recorded for tlie first time from the Island. The 

 latter include the anomahnis genus of Amaryllidacea?, Ctonpi/nema, hitlicrto 

 known only in one (or perhaps two) species from Tasmania, the Australian 

 ij-enusof Fnxi^hovhldoe^, RUiiiocarjnis, the lyialayan genns Luchum (Rubiacere), 



;iiul the Iiido-Mala}an and Australian 



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(Voi'bonacoa?) ami 



Tlio now o-enera aro Comptonella (lIutaceaB), Salaciojjsis (Celastriiiea}) 



(Auacardiacenc) 



(Kucrypliiaceie) 



Yvdcox), Merismostujma (Unl)iace;o), Tropalantlie (Sapotacese), Depanthus 

 (Gesncracea?), Adenodaphie (Launicea.^), and Dendropliyllanthm (Euplior- 



biucoa}). 



The four families reproseuted by tlic greatest nuiuLer of species in the 



colloction are Orchidace;i% Eaphorbiacoa.% Rubiaceio, and Myrtacco), and 

 thesie families also head the list in I^I. Guillanmin's ^' Oatalogno des plantos 



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dianero<^ameR de la Nouvellc-Calcdonie 



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(Ann. Musee Colonial do Mai 



1911), and provide a largo proportion of the novelties described in the 

 present paper. Tlio families Saxifragace^^, Apocynace^e, and Leguniinospe 



lire also well represented. 



In order to save space and reduce the cost of ])rintiug the systematic 

 account has been condensed as mucli as possible. Distribution is indicated 

 onlv in species which are not endemic. It has been convenient to follow 

 the arrann-cment of tlie families, under Monocotyledons ami Dicotyledon^;, 

 adopted in Bentham and Hooker's ' Genera Plantarum/ 



A* B. liENDLE. 



IVIONOCOTYLEDONS 



By A. B. Rendle. 



OBGIIIDACE^. 



MiCROSTYLis roLYriiYLL.v lUdb Comboui Mts.; forest humus; serpen- 

 tine ; 3000 ft. 2185. Flo\Yers dull red on yellowish ground, Up with deep 

 crimson blotch. 



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LiPARiS LA.XA Schlechter. Comboui Mts. ; bare rocks in Spevmolepis 

 forest, near stream ; serpentine ; 1500 ft. 2176. Flowers red-brown. 



Dendrobiqm fimetianum Schlechter. Ignambi ; epiphyte; forest; 

 ^500 ft. 1531>. Mt. Koo-hi; on tree-truidvs in forest; 30Q0 ft, 727. 



