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(Xo. la.) What I suppose to be this variety is a fine plant:, grooving 

 evidently in a ponJuloiis condition, Nvitli very long flexnose stems of over a 

 foot in lenoth, Avith distant spreading leaves rather smaller than in tlie usual 

 form. Geheeb records that F. Mueller sent it from tlie Owen Stanley I?ango. 



DiCRANOLOMA BnArxii (0. Muelh); l^ar. Ind., Ed. IL 



(No. 4.) Forma hrevifolia. A plant with extremely short leaves for this- 

 species (C-7 mm.), but structurally agreeing, T think, in every way. I am 

 inclined to think this is a highly variable species, and rathei^ widely spread,. 

 Kev. "\V. W. AVatts has recently recorded it from the New Hebrides. 



DicuAXOLOMA DiCARPUM (Hornsch.), Par., op. cit. 



(No. 2.) Agreeing exactly with the Australasian plant. New to New 



Guinea. 



Blstrihntion. Australia, Tasnuuiia, New Zealand. 



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(No. 3), c. fr. This agrees quite well with the somewhat meagre description 





fiven by Geheeb. 



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Imt tlie structure is nearer to 1), B'dlardier'i^ Scliwaegr., and this relationship 

 is confirmed hj the fruity which had hitherto not been found. The peri- 

 cha'tium is tubular, 5-G mm. long, the |,hracts verij sJiorLli/ apicidate. Setfe- 

 about 1'75 cm. long, capsule cjliudrical, lightly curved^ with a tapering, not 



strumose, neck. 



The same plant occurs in "Rev. 0. H. Binstead's herbarium as " Leucoloma 



DonahUi, Brotli., n. sp. ; Tlie Gap, Mt. Owen Stanley liange, Brit. New- 

 Guinea, 1899, leg. J. McDonald." Many of the leaves here are strongly 

 transversely undulate or rugose, but I believe this to be a merely sporadic 

 variation, as in another tuft of the same gathering they are quite without 

 this feature. This plant, too, is In fruit. I cannot separate it in any 



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way from Mr. Ulark s plant, ana i ueiieve uotn ro oeiong lo j/.uvi 

 L. Donaldii is an unpuljlislied name. 



DlCRANOLOMA NOVO-GUINEXSE (Brotli. k Gel].), Par.^ op. cit, 

 (No. 6.) I have not seen an authentic specimen^ but this agrees well with 

 the d(^scriptiou. From tlie d6SGr4)tion, as well as from this specimen, I 

 should scarcely have compared it with 1), dicarpnm, as the authors do, but 

 rather with I), rolustum (Hook. f. & Wils.), which is very near it. Renauld 

 places the species under the Section LepUmeuron^ but the description scarcely 

 seems to imply this. The nerve in Mr. Clark's plant is rather narrow below 

 and wider above, as in 7^. setositm (Hook. f. & Wils.). 



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DlCHANOLOMA AUMITII (C. Mucll.), Par,^ op. cit. 



(No. 6)j c. fr. 



