COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 87 
papillosi, apice obtusissimi, 1 mm. longi. Achwnia subeylindrica, basi callosa, 
10-costata, brunnea, glabra, 2 mm. longa. Pappi sete inter se subsequilonge, 
scabriuscule, albze, 45 mm. longe. 
Camps X to XI, 6700 to 8300 ft. 
Apparently a branching perennial herb or subshrub, the ultimate branches much 
compressed. Leaves drying greyish green, margins of the leaf in its proximal half 
entire; petioles broad, at most 1 cm. in length, but usually less. Corolla of female 
florets with the limb very short and sometimes developed mostly upon one side, so as 
to form an incipient ligule. 
This is a plant of some significance when the Australasian predominance of the genus 
is kept in view. Its closest affinity is with the Australian Z. prenanthoides, DC., from 
which it is in many respects different. 
COMPOSITA: CICHORIACEÆ. 
CREPIS PAPUANA, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Herba scapigera. Folia pauca, subrosulata, oblanceolato-oblonga, obtusa vel obtusis- 
sima, apice ipso ssepius apiculata, basi in petiolum longum satis latum extenuata, 
margine sparsim ciliato-denticulata, membranacea, glabra, modice 4X1 cm., 
summum 7X2 em. Scapus ascendens, folia longe excedens, superne semel 
ramosus, raribracteatus, sparsim puberulus, deinde glaber, altitudine 10 cm. paullo 
excedens. Capitula pro rata parva, 7 X 4 mm., corymbum oligo- usque 10-cephalum 
densiusculum bracteatum 1 cm. longum 1:5 cm. latum constituentia, circiter 
12-flosculosa. Bractee subulatz, pedunculis propriis breviores.  Involucri phylla 
externa parvula, 3-seriata, ovato-oblonga, obtusa vel obtuse acuta, 2 mm. longa; 
phylla interna 8, anguste lineari-oblonga, obtusa, angustissime marginata, glabra, 
5 mm. longa. Receptaculum planum. Anthere basi caudato-acuminate, 1 mm. 
longs. Achenia compressa, lineari-oblonga, basi truncata callosaque, 5 mm. longa, 
faciebus 10-costatis, apice in rostrum gracile fere zequilongum desinentia, dilute 
brunnea, glabra. Pappus acheenio paullo brevior; sete scabriuscule, albe, 4 mm. 
longe. 
Camps XI to XII, 8300 to 11,000 ft. | 
Stem very short, emitting numerous rootlets below. Leaves about half a dozen to 
each plant, drying grey-green; petiole passing gradually into the blade, and, like it, 
sparsely ciliate-denticulate, up to 4 cm. in length, though usually shorter. 
This is a very distinct plant, easily recognised by the long-stalked leaves and rather 
dense corymbs borne on long scapes. The corymbs are much like those of some 
small-headed Hieracium., 
CREPIS JAPONICA, Benth. Fl. Hongkong, 194. 
Camps VIII to X, 4900 to 6700 ft. 
Distrib. From Mauritius, India, and China to Australia and Polynesia. 
