158 MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON PLANTS 
MAOUTIA LANCEOLATA, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Suffrutex, ramis gracilibus, cortice rugoso verrucoso. Folia alterna, tenuiter coriacea, 
lanceolata, longe acuminata, basi rotundata, obscure (vel in juvenilibus conspicue) 
crenulata, 8 em. longa, 1'5 cm. lata, subtus alba, nervis 3 cum nervulis subtus 
hirtis, petiolis gracilibus 1:2 em. longis. Stipule lanceolate, acuminate, caudate, 
albo-sericeze, 3 mm. longs. Flores masculi in paniculas gracile breviramosas 1:5— 
2 em. longas glomerulati, rhachi albo-pubescente, pedicellis brevibus. Sepala acuta, 
lanceolata, pubescentia. Stamina 4, filamentis sepalis zequalia, antheris ellipticis. 
Pistillodium albo-lanuginosum. 
Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 
Very distinct in its narrow lanceolate leaves and slender unisexual panicles. The 
flowers are borne in small glomerules of 4 or 5 together and shortly pedicelled. 
CUPULIFER A. 
QuERCUS IMPERIALIS, Seemen, in Schum. & Lauterb. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzg. Südsee, 
263, fig. iv. F. 
A single fruit, with a rather more cone-shaped acorn than in the figure above-quoted. 
The type of this species is also a single fruit without specific locality. Foliage and 
. flowers unknown. 
CONIFER. 
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PODOCARPUS PAPUANUS, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Arbor elata, ramis patulis. Folia dimorpha, alia in ramulis sterilibus decurrentia, 
plana, oblonga, obtusa, mucronata, mucrone ascendente parvo, 2 mm. longa fere 
1 mm. lata, costa crassa rigide coriacea, alia in ramis fertilibus lanceolata, mucro- 
nata, crassa, rigide coriacea, ad 5 mm. longa. Amenta mascula cylindrica, obtusa, 
6 mm. longa, 2 mm. crassa, squamis ovatis acutis; anthere loculis 2 ad basin 
globosis. Flos femineus in ramulo laterali. Semen receptaculo 3 .mm. longo 
insidens, globulosum, leve, haud apiculatum, 5 mm. longum, nervis prominulis. 
Camp III, 2500 ft. ; Camps XI to XII, 8300 to 11,000 ft. 
Distrib. British New Guinea: Wharton Range, 11,100 ft. (Giulianetti); between 
south coast and Owen Stanley Range (Burke, in Herb. Kew.); according to Koorders 
(under Dacrydium sp., in Lorentz, Nov. Guin. viii. 178) also on the summit of Hellwig 
mountain, 7000 ft. (coll. Lorentz). 
The specimens collected by Kloss are males. The description of the fruit is taken 
from Giulianetti’s specimen. This species is allied to Podocarpus imbricata, Blume 
(P. eupressina, R. Br.), a mountain-tree of the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 
Celebes, and the Philippines: but it differs (1) in the much thinner longer leaves of 
the sterile branches, which are much longer in proportion to their breadth than in 
