COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 103 
usque ad 16X 6 cm., sepe circa 14x 45 em. Flores longipedicellati, in paniculas 
(reductione forsan racemos) axillares plus minus laxas maxime anfractuosas crebro 
bracteatas rufo-hirsutas 4:5-7 cm. longas dispositi. .Bractec lineares, rufo-hirsut:e, 
seepissime 2-3 mm. longe. Calyx 2 mm. longus; segmenta lanceolata vel ovata, 
acuta, dorso rufo-hirsuta. Corolla campanulato-urceolata, 5-mera, usque ad medium 
divisa, fere 3 mm. diam.; lobi late rotundati, nigro-lineati, margine fere integri vel 
leviter erosuli, tandem patentes. Stamina ex corolla haud emergentia; filamenta 
brevissima ; anthere ovoideo-cblonge, obtusissime, 1 mm. longe, florum femineorum 
imminute filamentisque longioribus insidentes. | Ovarium vix 2 mm. longum, 
semisuperum, floris masculi fere omnino superum ; pars superior ovoidea, in stylum 
sequilongum desinens. 
Camp I, 500 ft. 
Leaves drying greyish green, slightly paler below; lateral nerves in 8-9 pairs, not 
very conspicuous; petioles 1-2 em. long or rather longer, rufous-hirsute. Pedicels of 
9 flowers up to 12 mm. in length, average about 8 mm.; of g flowers up to 8 mm., but 
usually shorter. 
The affinity of this is with M. rubiginosa, Bl., which, with a somewhat different indu- 
mentum, has smaller leaves with slightly crenate margins, inflorescences shorter than 
the petioles, flowers on pedicels only 3-4 mm. long, and stamens reaching clear of the 
corolla-tube. M. rufo-villosa, Mez, from New Guinea, is different in several points, e. g. 
in the leaves and flowers, which are borne on pedicels 1 mm. in length. 
The male plant has somewhat larger and longer stalked leaves than the female, with 
deeper toothing of the margins, more frequently branched inflorescences, shorter pedicels, 
large anthers, and scarcely any ovarial thickening under the calyx. 
MAESA COTINOIDES, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Ramuli graciles, bene foliati, glabri. Folia pro rata parva, 5:5-75 X 2°7-3°5 cm., 
brevipetiolata, ovata vel ovato-oblonga, breviter cuspidato-attenuata, apice ipso 
obtusa, basi obtusa, tenuiter coriacea, pagina utrinque glabra. Flores parvi, in 
panieulam terminalem pyramidalem patule ramosam permultifloram puberulam 
digesti. Bractee ovate, acute, nigro-punctate, circa 1 mm. longs; pedicelli 
subnulli, Calycis segmenta 0°75 mm. longa, ovata, obtusa, margine ciliolata, 
sparsissime punctulata. Corolla 5-mera, paullo ultra medium gamopetala, 1 mm. 
longa; segmenta obovata, obtusissima, calyce paullo longiora, maculis parvis per- 
paucis inspersa. Anthere subsessiles, ovoideo-oblonge, ex corolla haud eminentes, 
0:5 mm. longs. Ovarium (ut stylus) subevanidum. 
Camp VI a, 3100 ft. | 
Leaves drying brownish, paler below ; midrib flat or somewhat impressed. above, very 
prominent below (together with the lateral nerves and the moderately close reticulum); 
petiole usually about 8 mm. long, broadly channelled above, glabrous. Panicle with 
very patent side branches, of which the lower reach 4 or 5 cm. in length ; the whole 
inflorescence sometimes 10 cm. long, but often shorter, the pedicel (varying in length) 
at most 2 cm. long. Flowers rather more than 1 mm. in diameter. 
