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and the tender pink flowers in clusters on the bare stems of the old wood, 
Myrtus arfakensis with yellow flowers and black berries, and Poikilogyne 
arfakensis with spreading cymes of pink flowers, the size of blackberries; 
in the young plants of this,in which the long single wand-like shoots flower 
at 2 m., the flowers of the ample terminal cyme are larger. 
The very abundant Anomopanax arfakensis, Sheflera arfakensis of com- 
pact habit, and Aissodendron bipinnatum, with terminal bunches of enormous 
leaves and inflorescence, were interesting representatives of the Araliacese, a 
family generally typical of primitive forest, the first to disappear under 
secondary conditions. °Ahododendron Devriesianum, its huge white panicles 
just breaking into flower, °Styphelia trochocarpoides, with white flowers and 
striking bunches of black berries, one of Beccari’s Hatam plants, Vaccinium 
roseiflorum, with small massed racemes of waxy pink flowers, while Mesa 
fruticosa, the handsome Symplocos novo-guineensis with S. arfakensis, and 
° Timonius brevipes, all showed white flowers. 
Once inside this forest, it reminded me strikingly of Fijian conditions in 
the abundance of stictaceous Lichens, so absent through Malaya, the luxuri- 
ance of the moss and fern flora, and the many creeping terrestrial orchids 
with a wealth of graceful epiphytic forms. The slender epiphytes and 
climbing plants combined in a sensuous harmony of well-balanced growth- 
forms, amongst which the stately trunks of the Libocedrus, and the straight 
stems of °P. papuanus and Daerydium novo-quineense, with rough scaly brown 
bark, stood out amongst the smaller angiospermous forest trees. 
Undergrowth.—The ground was carpeted with those most beautiful 
mosses *Rhodobryum giganteum and °Hypnodendron diversifolium in fruit, 
and creeping between their soft tufts of delicate foliage, the pink-veined 
velvety-green leaves of ?°Hucosia papuana in fruit, Microstylis producta 
with shading orange-yellow spikes, and the white spikes of Goodyera 
arfakensis were equally distributed. Colonies of the two varieties elatior 
and longicalearata of Platanthera elliptica were abundant, also the ubiquitous 
*Lycopodium serratum, while many tiny clumps of the quaint endemic 
saprophytic genus, first discovered by Beceari in the Arfak, but now 
established for the whole of New Guinea, the wine-red °Corsia ornata, with 
little heads all pointing in one direction, gave a typically Papuan note. 
On the north-east side, creeping under the bracken, the fine Pterostylis 
papuana var. arfakensis, from cream to brown-pink in colour, Liparis lacus, 
a small plant with brown labellum and green petals, and a minute brown 
Stigmatodactylus sp. past flowering, grew on the forest edge. Taller plants 
were * Histiopteris incisa, °Phavus flavus var. papuanus, °Riedelia montana var. - 
arfukensis. Young plants of Pandanus sp. with Kentia Gibbsiana, a slicht 
tree-fern Cyathea fusca, 3 m. high, with Anomopanax arfakensis. °Rhodo- 
dendron Vonroemeri, the longly pedicelled small orange-yellow flowers 
recalling some Azalea Sp-, a very graceful plant, quite distinct in'the genus, 
