144 C. Lauterbach, Beitrage zur Flora von Papuasien. V, 



Nacli der Besclireihung halte ich es fiir sehr wahrscheinlich, daB die Art in die 

 Verwandtscliaft von E, fuhus Scliltr., also in die Sektion Coilopetalum gehort. Leider 

 sind abcr keine MaCe angegebcn. 



Da die von F. v. Mueller angegobene Beschreibung der Art nicht leicht zuganglich 

 st, lasse ich sic hier folgen: 



Leaves conspicuously stalked, of very fine texture, mostly obovate 

 but rounded towards tbe upper end or even somewhat truncate, almost 

 flat, minutely and distantly denticulated, above soon glabrous, beneath 

 bearing a brownish close vestiture and there prominently and ascendingly 

 costulated; flowers small several or only few in mostly axillary racemes; 

 stalklets hardly longer than the sepals and as well as these and the 

 peduncles closely beset with brownish hairlets; sepals linear-semilanceolar; 

 petals fringed to nearly one-third of their length, imperfectly invested with 

 appressed colourless hairlets outside; stamens 16 — 20; anthers pointed, 

 about as long as the filaments; ovulary as well as the lower part of the 

 style beset with appressed hairlets. 



On the Musgrave-Range, at an elevation of about 8000 feet. 



E. coriaceus Ilook. (Icon. 154; E. ohovatus Arnott 1836 not G. Don 

 1831) approaches in form of leaves and in several other characteristics to 

 this Papuan subalpine species; but the absence of copious vestiture, the 

 shorter petioles, the mostly terminal racemes, the somewhat larger flowers, 

 the shorter filaments and the blunt anthers distinguish that Ceylon con- 

 gener well; the fruit of our new plant is not yet known, and may also 

 be different. E. foveolatus possesses the vestiture of E. latescens, but is 

 otherwise still more distinct from it. E. fermgineus, which comes evidently 

 near Blume's E. tomenfosus, is larger in all its organs and has acuminate 

 leaves. E. Jackii [Monocera ferruginea Jack in Hookers Bot. Miscell. II. 86) 

 differs in much larger and pointed leaves, and is likely also distinct in its 

 flowers, they remaining hitherto undescribed. E. montanus is easily se- 

 parable by its larger leaves with foveols at the midline beneath and with 

 lesser vestiture, by somewhat broader sepals, by longer petals much beset 

 with hairlets on both sides, by blunt anthers and perhaps also by its fruit. 

 What MiQUEL mentions as conspecific with E. reticulatus from Timor, is 

 probably referable to E. Arnhemicus. 



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55. E. Muellerianus Schltr. nom. nov. 



Elaeocarpus Ganitnis F. v. M., in Journ. Bot. (1 91 3) p. 321 (nee Roxbg.)- 

 Sudostl. Neu-Guinea: Ohne nlihere Standortsangabe, wahrscheinlicb 

 Sogeri-Distrikt (H. 0. Forbes n. 676 — in den Jahren 1885—1886). 



Die Pflanze ist sicher verschicden von E. Oanitrus Roxb. und mag daher den 

 obigen Namcn erhalten. Sehr wahrscheinlicli gehort sie zur Sektion Ptilanthus. 



56. E. Reedyi F. v. M., in Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. XXIX, pars II. (1 888) 

 p. 175. 



Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F. v. M., Papuan F 

 Sudostl. Neu-Guinea: Yule Island (Reedy). 



(1875) p. 6. 



