240 ; MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON PLANTS 
RAPHIDOPHORA PrepLA, Schott, in Bonplandia, v. (1857) 46. 
Camp VI 5, 3900 ft. 
Form with a rather large spadix, in fruit, 7 cm. long and 2 cm. across, with pistils - 
4 mm. across. 
Distrib. India and Borneo. 
RAPHIDOPHORA VznsTEEGII, Engl. & Krauss, in Nova Guinea, viii. Bot. 247. 
Camps I to III, 500 to 2500 ft. 
Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 
CYRTOSPERMA MACROTUM, Becc. ex Engl. in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ortic. iv. (1879) 295. 
Camps I to IIT, 500 to 2500 ft.; VI a, 3100 ft.; VIb, 3900 ft. 
** Spathe yellowish white." 
Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 
Pornos OLAVATUS, Engl. l. c. 266. 
Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 
Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 
PoTHos BREVISPATHA, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Caules et rami graciles, costati, 2 mm. crassi, internodiis 2 cm. longis. Folia lanceo- 
lata, acuminata vel elliptico-lanceolata, versus basin obtusam angustata, tenuiter | 
coriacea, 14-15 cm. longa, 3-5 cm. lata, nervis 10 inconspicuis a costa ascendentibus 
marginibus subparallelis, petiolis 1 cm. longis ad geniculum alatis haud complanatis. 
Pedunculi in axillis superioribus decurvi, 2:5 cm. longi. Spatha lanceolata, 
acuminata, deflexa, 6 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata. Spadiz sessilis, 2 mm. longus, - 
oblongus, in fructu ad 6 mm. longus. Bacca ellipsoidea, 5 mm. longa. 
Camp I, 500 ft. 
Allied to P. Cumingianus, Schott, but differing in the venation, the ascending 
primary nerves meeting and forming a marginal nerve, whilst the secondary nerves are 
transverse; the texture of the leaf is also different, being thinner, the petiole shorter - 
and broader and winged for its whole length. 
ERIOCAULACEA. 
(By H. N. RIDLEY.) 
ERIOCAULON LEUCOGENES, Ridl., sp. nov. | 
Herba humilis. Folia lanceolata, linearia, acuminata, glabra, 3 cm. longa, 2 mm. 
lata. Scapus gracilis, 11 mm. longus, tortus; vagina basalis viridis, apice 
lanceolata, 1:5 cm. longa. Capitulum hemisphericum, 4 mm. latum. 
Bractee involucrales oblonge, obovate, glabre, flavescentes, nitida. Bractee i 
florales obovate, oblonge, carinate, nigrescentes, apice plurimis pilis albis. 
Receptaculum glabrum. los à: sepala in tubum latum connata, apice albc 
