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latus; lobi postici ceteris plane breviores. Stamina exserta; antherarum loculi 
basi breviter divergentes. Ovariwm stipite 8 mm. longo insidens, glabrum, 15 mm. 
longum, stylo brevi incluso crasso itaque glabro 4 mm. longo coronatum. Capsule 
25-35 em. longe, 1:5 mm. late, brunnee, glabre. | 
Camp VI? (fruit), Camps VIII to IX (flower), 3900 to 5500 ft. 
Leaves grey when dry, and almost the same shade on either side; petioles about 
2 cm. in length, pilose-villous. Longer filaments 18 mm., shorter 15 mm, long; anthers 
2:5 mm. long. 
A very distinct species, the like of which I have neither seen nor know of from 
description. The small leaves and flowers, the latter with a narrow tube especially 
when dry, together with the indumentum, are the plant's chief external features. 
The specimens taken to be the fruiting ones of this species were gathered, it will be 
observed, at a lower elevation than the flowering ones, which is only what one would 
expect. The calyces of the fruiting and flowering specimens agree exactly, but the 
flowers of the former seem to have been somewhat larger, unless, indeed, they have 
slightly increased during fruiting. 
MONOPHYLLJEA BREVIPES, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Caulis crassiusculus, presertim prope folium albo-furfuraceus. Folium late ovato- 
oblongum, apice verisimiliter obtusum vel obtusissimum, basi cordatum vel 
latissime rotundatum, margine leviter undulatum, membranaceum, 12-15 em. 
longum, usque ad 6-9 em. latum, supra fere glabrum, subtus pr:sertim in nervis 
minute albo-furfuraceum. Pedunculi sub floribus pro rata breves, tenues, his- 
pidule puberuli, tandem glabri, 5-15 mm. longi, postremo 50 mm. attingentes. 
Racemi abbreviati, pauciflori; pedicelli calyce breviores, 3-4 mm. longi, hispide 
pubescentes. Calyx ultra medium divisus, furfure albo pilis paucis intermixto 
preeditus, 6 mm. longus; lobi lanceolati, acuminati, 3:5 mm. longi, posticus ceteris 
plane longior, 6 mm. longus. Corolla calyci :equilonga, extus glabra, intus in 
e dimidio superiore papillosa; tubus 4x2 mm.; labium posticum 3 mm., anticum 
2 mm. longum, lobis suborbicularibus circa 2 mm. diam. Filamenta edentula; 
antheræ omnes coherentes. Ovarium ovoideum, 1 mm. longum, ut stylus 2 mm. 
longus puberulum. 
Camp III, 2500 ft. 
Stem of the specimens to hand 8 cm. long, when dry 2-25 mm. wide. Leaves 
somewhat glaucous above, whitish below, with about 16 pairs of nerves, of which the 
proximal 6 pairs are, as is the rule in the genus, closer together than the arcuate distal 
ones. Racemes at most of about 10 flowers, though usually fewer, not more than 5 mm. 
long. Corolla white. Filaments, shorter 1 mm. long, about half the length of the 
longer. 
M. papuana, Lauterb., has, according to the description, larger leaves, longer peduncles, 
racemes and pedicels, a smaller calyx divided almost to the base into elliptical, subacute 
segments, and a corolla only 4 mm. long. 
This is the second known species from New Guinea. 
