R/ Schlechterj Die Elaeocarpaceen Papuasiens. ^45 



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Uber die Verwandtschaft dieser Art, die sehr oberflaclilidi Lcsclincbcn iiit, liiCt 

 sicli ebenfalls nichts sageii. Ich lasse die Beiiierkungen ihres Autors liiei* folgen: 



Through recent access to hetter material it has been ascertained, that 

 the Papuan plant, formerly regarded as a variety of E. Arnhcniicus^ con- 

 stitutes a distinct species, to which now the name E. lleedyi has been 

 given; it differs from E. amoenus already in smaller flowers on sliorter slal- 

 klels with almost glabrous petals and anthers, lesser number of stamens 

 and very short filaments; a very similar species occurs in New Caledonia. 



57. E. Sayeri F. v. M., in Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. XXIV, pars II. (July 

 <888) p. 174. ^ 



SiidostL Neu-Guinea: auf dem Mount Obree, ca. 2000 — 2100 m 



U. M, (CUTIIBERTSON ct SaYEU), 



Audi iibei^ diese Art laBt sich nicht viel sagen. Ich halte e3 nicht fur ganz aus- 

 gesclilossen, daG sic zu Blepharoceras zu stellen seiii wird. Da die Beschreibung dor 

 Art scliwer zuganglich ist, lasse ich sie hicr folgen: 



Tall-shrubby and straggling or finally arborescent; branchlets slender, 

 as well as leaf-stalks and inflorescence much beset with greyish short 

 soft hairlets; leaves comparatively small, firm, conspicuously stalked, mostly 

 ovute-lanceolar and gradually long acuminated, rounded at base, remotely 

 serrulate-crenulated, almost glabrous, their costular venules prominent 

 beneath, the ultimate venulets closely relicular-connecled^ racemes short; 

 flowers comparatively small, stalklets recurved^ slender; longer than the 

 flowers; petals about as long as the sepals, whitish, upwards broader, 

 beset with appressed shining hairlets particularly outside, acutely fringed 

 at and tow^ards the summit, stamens from 12—22, slightly invested with 

 niinute hairlets; filaments about half as long as the cells of the anthers; 

 terminal bristlet of the latter conspicuously curved, pistil beset with a 

 somewhat velvet-silky vestiture^ ovulary attenuated gradually into the 

 conical-filiform style, two-celled; torus conspicuously raised. 



On Mt. Obree, at an elev. of about 7000 feet (GuTuiiERxsoN and Saybr). 



E. Munroi^ w^hich among the numerous congeners comes nearest to 

 the new species above defined, differs in tali arboreous stature, w^ant of 

 general vestiture, leaves much paler beneath, larger flowers, more slender 

 style and possibly also in fruit. E. Graeffei is separated from the new 

 Papuan congener by much larger leaves,, quite short pedicels, somewhat 

 broader sepals, almost glabrous petals and stamens, as well as by the 

 thinner style. 



Es liegen in selir unvoUstandigem auf die Seklion nicht Lestimmharem Material 

 "*^th die folgenden Nuinmern vor, die alle sicher zu hier nicht genannlen Arlen gehuren: 



E. n. sp. 



Bismarck-Archipel: Neu-Pommern (R. Parkinson n, 27 — fruchtend 

 ^ra Jahre 1901). 



Verwandtschaft unbekannt. 



BoUuiKhe Jahrbucher. LIV. Bd. 10 



