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length. Racemes with the branches patent and themselves sometimes branching so as, 
strictly speaking, to constitute a panicle. Flowers about 5 mm. in diameter. 
Closely allied to the last described, but at once known from it by the foliage. 
TAPEINOSPERMA PAPUANUM, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Ramuli compressiusculi, superne foliati, minute ferruginei, citissime glabri. Folia 
usque 17 x 4 cm., seepius 12-14 X 3:5 em., oblongo-lanceolata, apicem versus attenuata, 
apice late obtusa, basi in petiolum brevem coarctata obtusa, margine obscure 
undulata, tenuiter coriacea, pluricostata, costis fere transversalibus, supra glabra, 
subtus minutissime furfuracea. Panicule terminales, quam folia breviores, pauci- 
ramoss, ramis ascendentibus ramulos breves apice floriferos procreantibus, minute 
ferrugineze, summum 10 cm. longæ. Pedicelli 1-4 mm. longi. Calyx 1 mm. longus, 
alte partitus; segmenta ovata, obtuse acuta, margine integra, presertim apicem 
versus paucipunetata, sspe paullo dextrorsum obtegentia. Corolla breviter 
gamopetala, vix 3 mm. longa; lobi ovati vel late ovato-oblongi, obtusi, integri, 
sub apice obscure punctati 1:5 mm. lati. Anthere basi sagittulatz, apice acute, 
corolla lobos vix adzequantes, 1:5 mm. longs; filamenta antheris duplo breviora. 
Ovarium subglobosum, 1 mm. longum, quam stylus crassus superne gradatim 
attenuatus plane brevius. Ovula 8, æquatoria. 
Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 
Leaves drying greenish or brownish ; lateral nerves 20 and even more pairs, inserted 
upon the midrib at or nearly at a right angle, and, like the midrib, more prominent 
below; petioles stout, broadly channelled, glabrous, 5-10 mm. long. Branches of the 
panieles not more than 5 in the specimens collected, 1:5-3 cm. long, the ultimate 
flowering branchlets 3-6 mm. in length. Bracts subulate, almost 1 mm. long. 
According to Mez's clavis (Pflanzenreich, Myrsin. p. 162) this runs down to the 
neighbourhood of T. scrobiculatum, Mez, and T. wagapense, Mez, from both of which it 
differs in many features. | 
The genus as hitherto known consists of upwards of 30 species, of which two are 
Australian and the rest natives of New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands. 
LaBisrA PUMILA, Benth. & Hook. t, Gen. Pl. ii. 645. Var. ALATA, Scheff. Myrs. Arch. 
Ind. 93. 
Canoe Camp, 500 ft. : 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
EMBELIA ($ EUEMBELIA) GRACILENTA, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Ramuli sat tenues, sursum paucifoliosi, glabri. Folia petiolata, ovato-oblonga vel 
oblongo-obovata, breviter cuspidata, apice ipso obtusa, basi cuneata, chartacea, 
. utrinque glabra et punctulis subobscuris creberrimis inspersa, plerumque 8-10 
X4-5:5 cm., raro usque ad 13 cm. longa. Inflorescentie caulem vel ramulos 
nonnunquam perbreves terminantes, e racemis paucis (circa 5-7) subumbellatis 
ascendentibus patentibusve gracillimis microscopice papillosis constantes, 4-5 cm. 
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