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Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Waigiou, La Billardiére; Ramoi, Jobi 
Island, Ansus, Beccari). Amboina, Gelebes, Borneo, Java, Philippines, 
Malay Peninsula. 
A beautiful tree, about 40 m. high, with straight white shaft branching 
at the very top into a small, not very spreading crown with yellowish- 
green foliage. 
The distinct habit of these trees, of which three to four were growing 
near together, the crowns rising above the surrounding forest, was especially 
noted, to be confirmed by the excellent description given by Rumphius above, 
quoted by Parlatore (DC. Prod. xvi. 2, 374). Great lumps of white resin 
stood out on the straight white trunks. 
The trees were all too big to climb, so it was only possible to collect the 
old scales underneath, still in sound condition and in some cases attached 
to the axes of the cones. Many young trees, +20 m. high, showed the 
fastigiate youth form characteristic of the genus (16, t. ix. f. 1). The leaves 
in the above collection were from a young plant +2 m. high, with one whorl 
of single branches +2°75 m. long. As the leaves vary in size and texture 
with the age of the plant, it is impossible to base a species on vegetative 
characters alone, and A. Labillardiert Warb. is no doubt synonymous with 
the above, as already suggested by Lauterbach, 1. c. 
Araucakia Beccartt Warb. Monsunia, i. 187. A. Cunninghamii Bece. in 
Malesia, i. 180 (non Ait.). A. Cunninghamii Ait., var. papuana Laut. 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 1, (19138) 51. 
Arfak Mts., gregarious in parts in forest by 2 lake. Seedlings. Dee. 
534. Young plant (1 m.). 5748. Old foliage and cones (pro-embryo 
stage). 5749. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Hatam, Beccari). 
These handsome trees were guite abundant on the eastern bank of the 
lake. They were about 25 m. in height and mostly in fruit. The large 
erect cones are borne on the horizontal uppermost branches of the trees. 
Many of the mature cones seen on the largest trees must be double the size 
given by Beccari, but the indurated bases of old leaves densely investing the 
trunks rendered climbing out of the question, and, having no axes with us, 
they could not be felled. A smaller tree, felled by ‘‘ parang,” yielded two 
? cones, one of which approximated to Beccari’s measurements, while the 
other was smaller. Both the cones were in pro-embryo stage, with the seed- 
coat already quite indurated. ‘The ovuliferous scale, not shown in A. Cun- 
ninghamii, is very noticeable in this species, as Beccari has described, and in 
this character it approximates to A. Hunsteinii K. Schum. (FI. Kais. 
Wilhelmsland, 12 (1889)). The cone-scalesare more elongate than in A. Cun- 
ninghamii, with narrower base, more swollen apophysis, and a more pungent 
apex. he leaves of the fertile branch are more spreading, 1 cm. long and 
