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LycopopIUM VOLUBILE Forst. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, scrambling up to 10 m. in forest spinneys by 
9 lake, 7000’. Dec. 5954.—S.W. ridge, scrambling in moss-grown forest, 
7000-8500’. 5982. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Beccari; S.E.). Malay 
Islands. Australasia. Polynesia. 
PsiiotumM FLACcIDUM Wall. 
Arfak Mts., Koebré Mt., epiphytic in forest, 7500’. Dec. 5633. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Beccari ; D.S.W., Noord 
Rivier, Versteeg; Mt. Carstensz, Kloss; N.H.). Tropics. 
SELAGINELLA ANGUSTIRAMEA F, Muell. & Baker, 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, terrestrial on edge of forest by ? lake, 7000’. 
Dec. 5726. ‘Growing in patches.” ; 
Distrib. New Guinea (N.E.; 8.E.). 
SPERMATOPHYTA. 
CONIFERZ. 
TAXACESR. 
DACRYDIUM NOVO-GUINEENSE Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, dioica, in statu juvenili erecta; ramulis foliis longioribus 5-seriatim 
imbricatis preditis, postea ramulis gracilioribus folia breviora gignentibus. Folia 
in statu plante juvenili laxiuscula, squarrosa, acicularia, incurvato-pungentia, sectione 
triangulare; folia in statu adultiori parva, dense imbricata, 5-seriata squami- 
formia, triangularia, apice pungentia, facie plana, dorso carinata; folia ramorum 
fertilium arete applicata, rhombica, acuta, dorso carinata, sectione sub-tetragona. 
Strobili masculi ignoti. Strobili feminei ad apicem ramulorum brevissimorum 
axillarium erecti, parvi; bractee +24, lineares, apice apiculate, incurvate, carinate, 
margine membranacez, basi incrassate, demum carnose, rubre, bractea fertilis 
unica, terminalis. Sguwama ovuligera fere usque ad basin libera, sub anthesi teres, 
cucullata. Ovulwm in statu pollinifero liberum, squama ovuligera adhue immatura 
circumdatum. Semina erecta vel obliqua, bracteam summum sterilem superantia, 
avoideo-angulata, viridia, nitida, basi ad 7 vel + squama ovuligera incrassato- 
cupuliforme cincta. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., crest of ridges and forest by ? lake, 7000-9000’. 
Seedling, 2 lake, 7000’. Dec. 5508.—Koebré ridge, open summit, 9000’. 
?. Fr. with mature foliage. 5648. 
Foliage of seedling branches 1 em. across, the leaves 4 mm. by °5 mm. ; 
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that of more adult branches 1:5 mm. across, the leaves 1:5 by -4 mm. ; 
foliage of fruiting branches 2 mm. across, the adpressed lozenge-shaped leaves 
17 mm. by 1 mm, _ Strobilus 7 mm. by 3 mm., imbricating, with bracts 
