COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 139 
AMARANTACEZE. 
AMARANTUS PANICULATUS, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1406. 
Camps III to VIII, 2500 to 4900 ft. 
Distrib. Throughout the tropics, 
POLYGONACEZ. 
PoLYGONUM MURICATUM, Meissn. Mon. Polygon. p. 74. 
Camps VIII to IX, 4900 to 5500 ft. 
Distrib. India. 
POLYGONUM ALATUM, Buch.-Ham. in D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 72, var. NEPALENSE, Hook. 
fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 42. 
Camps III to VI and VII to IX, 2100 to 5500 ft., and Camps XI to XIII, 8300 to 
10,500 ft. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa and Asia. 
NEPENTHACEZ. 
NEPENTHES AMPULLARIA, Jack, Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 271. 
Canoe Camp, 150 ft., and between Camps III and IV, 1100 to 2500 ft. 
“ Pitchers pale green and dull purple or yellowish or whitish green with blotches.” 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea. 
NEPENTHES PHYLLAMPHORA, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. pt. ii. 874. 
Camps I to VIII, 500 to 4900 ft. 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula and Malay Islands. 
NEPENTHES NEO-GUINEENSIS, Macfarlane, in Nova Guinea, viii. 340, fig. 67. 
Camps VI a, VIb, VI c, 3100 to 5500 ft. 
The lower globose ascidia, male flowers and fruit have not been described previously. 
The basal ascidia are urn-shaped, ventricose, 14 cm. long and 4 cm. across at the mouth, 
the wings 5 mm. wide, and ciliate. The margin of the peristomium is about 3 mm. 
thick, finely ribbed; the operculum is orbicular, cordate, 4 cm. long and 4'5 cm. wide, 
the apex quite rounded, densely covered with numerous circular glands on the inner 
face; the outer face is covered with a fine pubescence. The interior of the pitcher is 
purplish glaucous and glandular for the upper half, while the lower half is polished 
and densely glandular. The male raceme is 20 cm. long, very loosely flowered, the 
rachis covered with scattered ferruginous pubescence, 2 mm. thick, the peduncles 
.1'4 em. long, 2-flowered below, 1-flowered above. Of the 4 perianth lobes the 2 outer are 
ovate, obtuse, ferruginously pubescent outside and glandular within, the inner lobes being 
similar but narrower and oblong-ovate. The glabrous andreecium is 3-5 mm. long, the 
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