COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. _ 229 
LILIACEZ. 
(By H. N. RupLEY.) 
SMILAX LEUCOPHYLLA, Blume, Enum. 18. 
Camp VIb, 3900 ft. 
Distrib. Malaya. 
SMILAX MELANOCARPA, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Caules inermes, quandrangulares. Folia tenuiter coriacea, glabra, concoloria (sicca 
brunnea), lanceolata, basi lata, rotundata, 16-20 cm. longa, 5:5-9 cm. lata, costa et | 
nervis duobus elevatis, nervo marginali tenuiore, reticulationibus conspicuis laxis, 
petiolis validis a medio vaginantibus 11-2 cm. longis. Bractee ovate, acute, 
1 mm. longs. Umbelle solitarie, axillares, pedunculis 3 cm. longis. Flores 
circiter 12, viridi-brunnei, in pedicellis 1 cm. longis. Alabastra oblongo: sub- 
globosa, 4 mm. longa. Sepala elliptico-ovata, apice rotundata. Bacca nigra, 
magna, globosa, 2 cm. longa, in pedicello 1:5 em. longo; semina duo, ellipsoidea, 
obscure triquetra, dorso convexa, utrinque obtusa, 1:2 em. longa, 6 cm. lata, 
castanea. 
Canoe Camp, 150 ft. ; Camps X to XI, 6700 to 8300 ft. 
Flowers greenish and brownish red; fruits blackish. 
This species is remarkable for its very large fruit, as big as those of S. megacarpa, 
A. DC., from which it differs in the absence of thorns and the different form of the seed. 
SMILAX AUSTRALIS, R. Br. Prodr. 293. 
Camps VIII to IX, 4900 to 5500 ft. 
Specimens only in fruit and not quite typical, but probably of this species. 
Distrib. Australia and New Guinea. 
CORDYLINE sTRIOTA, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. (1836) 162. 
.  Utakwa Valley, without precise locality. 
Distrib. Australia. 
CoRDYLINE TERMINALIS, Kunth, Enum. v. 25. 
Camps VI a, and VII to VIII, 3100 to 4900 ft. 
Distrib. New Guinea to Australia; commonly cultivated elsewhere. 
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CORDYLINE RACEMOSA, Ridl., sp. nov. ! 
Caulis gracilis. Folia oblanceolata, acuminata, apice setacea, basi angustata, 17 em. 
longa, 5 cm. lata, superiora minora, magis ovata, sicca grisea, petiolis vaginantibus 
6 cm. longis. Racemus simplex, 8-10 em. longus. Flores solitarii, circiter 50 in 
racemum flavescenti-album collecti, apice purpurei, pedicellis 1 mm. vel brevioribus, 
articulatis. Bractee 2, inferior lanceolata, acuminata, 2 mm. longa, superior 
brevior, ovata, acuminata. Perianthium 14 mm. longum; petala et sepala sub- 
similia, ultra medium connata, lanceolata, obtusa, 2 mm. lata.  Staminum 
filamenta, tenuia, lata, complanata, apice obtusa, connectivo paullo excurrente; 
