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or less strigose and stupose-barbate at the nodes. Cymes generally few-flowered. 
Calyx short. Flowers rose-pink or reddish purple (H. O. Forbes). Petals ovate. 
Noticeable on account of the fruit being covered with white silvery hairs. | 
MEMECYLON EDULE, Roxb. Corom. PI. i. t. 82. 
Canoe Camp, Nov. 12th, 1912. 
Distrib. India, Ceylon, Tonkin, Malacca, Malaya. 
MEMECYLON NOVOGUINEENSE, Bak. fil., sp. nov. 
Rami graciles, teretiusculi, ramulis angustis glabris. Folia parviuscula, oblonga 
vel oblongo-ovata, apice in acumen longum attenuata, basi acuta, in petiolum 
brevissimum attenuata, omnino glabra, 50-70 mm. longa, 16-20 mm. lata, 1-nervia, 
nervulis transversalibus valde indistinctis, petiolo 2-5 mm. longo instructa. Flores 
pauci, axillares, tetrameri. Calycis tubus campanulatus, dentibus triangularibus 
acuminatis. Petala et stamina in speciminibus mihi obviis delapsa. Stylus tenuis, 
filiformis. Bacce subglobose, apice calyce coronatz, breviter pedicellate. 
Camp III, 2538 ft. 
This plant belongs to the section Zumemecylon and to the series in which the leaves 
are l-nerved, with very indistinct transverse nerves. Branches terete, branchlets 
angled. Leaves very acuminate, base cuneate. Flowers few, axillary, sessile or sub- 
sessile, tetramerous. Calyx 1-1:5 mm. diam., the teeth acuminate and conspicuous. 
Allied to M. lanceolatum, Cogn., and M. gitingense, Elmer. 
ONAGRACEJE. 
(By H. N. RIDLEY.) 
JUSSUEA SUFFRUTICOSA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 555. 
Canoe Camp, and Camps VI a to VI d to VII & VIII. 
Var. HIRTA, Ridl., var. nov. 
A typo distat foliis hirtis. 
Camps VIII to IX, 150 to 5500 ft. 
Distrib. All the tropics. 
EPILOBIUM PAPUANUM, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Caules ascendentes, seepe ramosi, 15 cm. alti, furfuraceo-pubescentes. Folia sub- 
coriacea vel coriacea, alterna, approximata, ovata vel elliptica, obtusa, glabra, 
3-4 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, petiolis 1 mm. longis vel brevioribus alatis. Flos 
unicus, terminalis, in pedicello gracili 6-9 cm. longo. Sepala lanceolata, acuta, 
‘glabra, 2 mm. longa. Petala oblonga, apice biloba, lobis rotundatis, 3 mm longa, 
rosea vel atro-rosea. Stamina breviora, vix pistillum superantia, antheris ellipticis. 
Ovarium 2:5 cm. longum, pubescens. Stylus crassus, stigmate magno. Capsula 
angusta, cylindrica, 3 em. longa. Semen oblongum, utrinque obtusum, pustulatum, 
coma 7 mm. longa. : 
Camps IX to XI, 5500 to 8300 ft. | 
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