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The few widely distributed plants included comprise about 30 new 
records for New Guinea, of which the most interesting are Xyris pauciflora, 
Bulbostylis capillaris var. trifida, Spathoglottis aurea, Polygonum strigosum, 
Viola distans, and Hydrocotyle rotundifolia. 
Several of Beccari’s Hatam plants have been re-collected, viz. Riedelia 
orchioides, Palmeria arfakiana, in a g example, of which the ? is so far de- 
scribed, Styphelia trochocarpoides, and Dicrotrichium brevipes. Of Gjellerup’s 
plants, as would be expected in working over the same ground, the dupli- 
cate examples are more numerous, especially in the orchids, but even in 
that order Smith has described 20 new species with four new varieties, and 
in Ericacese two Lhododendrons, four Vaceiniums, and one Diplycosia prove 
new, with one variety in Stypheliad in Epacridacese. 
Collections made subsequently round Manokoeari (Dorei Bay) on some 
of the islands along the coast, and at Humboldt Bay, have been separately 
enumerated, no two species proving common to both the mountain and coast 
flora. About 150 plants are comprised in this list, which includes one new 
genus and several new species in ferns, with 27 new species in other genera, 
and interesting new records, of which the larger portion is more Malayan in 
type. Wide distribution of endemic plants is again a very marked feature. 
In working out these collections I must express my thanks to the expert 
botanists who have so kindly determined those orders in which they were 
interested. To Dr. J. J.Smith of Buitenzorg I am under especial obligation, 
not only for undertaking the Orchidacex, Hricaceze, and Epacridace, but 
also for many valuable,details concerning work already done in the Arfak, 
and in arranging for the services of one of his trained native collectors 
who accompanied me to New Guinea. Iam indebted to Dr. Odoardo Beccari 
for working out the Palme; Dr. Valeton for the Zingiberacee and 
Rubiacez ; and M. Casimir de Candolle and Professor J. Macfarlane for the 
Piperacese, Meliaceze, and the Nepenthaceze. In London my thanks are due 
to Drs. Stapf and Rendle and the staffs of Kew and the British Museum for 
much kind help; and in particular to Professor G. 8. West for the deter- 
mination of the Freshwater Algze ; Miss A. Lorrain Smith for the Lichens ; 
Dr. A. B. Rendle for Pandanacexe, Cyperacere, and Graminex, and a new 
genus in Urticacee ; Dr. O. Stapf for Utriculariacese and valued criticism ; 
Messrs. J. Ramsbottom, A. Gepp, LL. Hutchinson, E. G. Baker, H. N. Ridley, 
and J. R. Drummond for Fungi, Bryophytes and Pteridophytes, Euphor- 
biacexe, Melastomaceze, Moraceze, and Solanacez ; and to Mr. 8. Moore for 
the Labiate, Acanthacez, and Composite, and his great kindness in revising 
the proofs. 
The plants may be consulted at the British Museum, Kew, Leiden, and 
Buitenzorg, and in my own collection (on loan to the British Museum), 
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