384 C. Lauterbach, Beitráge zur Flora von Papuasien. VII. 
45. B. insidiator (Becc.) Harms in Engler-Prantl, Nat. Pflzfam. IIT. 8 
(1894) 32. — Osmoxylon insidiator Becc. Malesia 1 (1877) 195. — Esch- 
weileria insidiatrix (Becc. Boerlage in Ann. Jard. bot. Buitenzorg VI 
(1886) 120. 
Westl. Neu-Guinea: Ramoi (Beccari). 
16. B. pachycephalum Harms in Nova Guinea VIM. 2 (1910) 271. 
Südwestl. Neu-Guinea: am Noordfluß (G. M. Verstees n. 1029. — 
Blühend Mai 1907). 
Die Art steht dem B. insidiator (Becc. Harms sehr nahe, unterscheidet sich aber 
durch die viel dickeren Kópfchenstiele und Kópfchen. 
Art unsicherer Stellung. 
B. insigne (Miq.) Harms in Engler-Prantl, Nat. Pflzfam. III. 8 (1894) 
39. — Trevesia insignis Miq. in Ann. Mus. bot. lugd. bat. I (1864) 220. 
— Osmozxylon insigne Becc. Malesia I (1877) 195. — Eschweileria in- 
signis Boerlage in Ann. Jard. bot. Buitenzorg VI (1886) 122. 
Diese von der Molukken-Insel Batjan beschriebene Art gibt F. MuerLer (Notes on 
Papuan Pl. V [1877] 89) für Neu-Guinea an; nach BorenLack sind Blüten der Art nicht 
bekannt; das Vorkommen auf Neu-Guinea ist ganz zweifelhaft. 
4. Osmoxylon Miq. 
0. Miquelii Boerlage in Ann. Jard. bot. Buitenzorg VI (1886) 125 t 16. 
— Gastonia simplicifolia Zipp. ex Boerlage 1. c. — Osmozxylon ambot- 
nense Miq. Ann. Mus. bot. lugd. batav. I (1863) 6 p. p.; Scheffer in Ann. 
Jard. bot. Buitenzorg I (1876) 26; Beccari, Malesia I (1877) 194; F. Muell., 
Notes on Papuan Pl. V (1877) 89. 
»Nova Guinea (ZirPzLiUs)«. 
5. Meryta Forst. 
Meryta colorata Bailey in Queensland Agric. Journ. III. 4 (1898) 283. 
»À tall succulent shrub attaining 8 or more feet in height; the whole plant 
more or less clothed with somewhat pungent deciduous hairs. Leave? 
alternate, the lower ones more than 2 feet long and 6 inches broad, lan- 
ceolate in outline, margins much undulate and often broken, lateral nerve 
prominent, parallel with thinner cross reticulations, colour somewhat dark 
purple, petioles very stout, about 6 inch. long; the leaves on the upp® 
part of the plant near the inflorescence much smaller on shorter petioles. 
Flowers in terminal panicles, probably becoming lateral by the growth 0 
the terminal shoot. Peduncle about 11: inches long, branches dichotomouS, 
purple, bearing small sessile clusters of small flowers. Calyx 4-loobed. 
Petals 0. Stamens 4, filaments broad, spreading.  Anthers large ES 
2-celled. Ovary sessile, depressed, somewhat 4-angled. No fruit obtained. * 
»Hab. Gira River, New Guinea.« 
