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spikes to 1:7 cm. long, 1:1 em. in diameter ; peduncle to 2°5 cm. long, 
3°5 mm. thick. Carpels 3 mm. long, about 1 mm. thick. : 
Recalls the Philippine species F’. ensifolia Merril] in its foliage and female 
spikes, but the dwarf fertile branches with the large spathe-bracts are 
distinctive. 
PANDANUS sp. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, isolated or gregarious, general in forest by 9 
lake, 7000’. Fl. g. Dec. 5969. 
** About 30 m. in height, with branched and unbranched crowns. Leaf 
3°75 m. long. Pedicel of the g inflorescence 4 dm. long. @ flowers 
yellow ; @ not seen or fruit.” Possibly a new species, but the material is 
too incomplete for determination. 
GRAMINE#. (A. B. RENDLE.) 
IscHZMUM ARISTATUM L., var. ARFAKENSE Rendle, var. nov. 
Planta circa 1 metralis, nodis et foliorum (superiorum) vaginis glabris. Spice | 
approximate, 7-9°5 em. long. Callus et pedicellus spicularum pilis albis instructi, 
spicule glabre. Spiewle sessiles, gluma prima nodulis marginalibus sepius 3 
obsoletis uno latere notata, 7 mm. longa. Spicule pedicellate, gl. prima «equilonga, 
glaberrima, gl. quarta aristam imperfectam ipsa breviorem gerens. 
Hab. Artak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake, 7000’. FI. Dee. 
5564, 5719. 
IsacHNE MILIACEA Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 58. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, in open by ? lake, 7000’. Fr. Dec. 5916. 
Distrib. East India. 
Seraria a@uauca Beauv. Agrost. 51; Schum. & Laut. 180; Ridl. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ix. (1916) 248. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake, 7000’. Fr. Dec. 5560. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Mt. Carstensz, Kloss; N.E.). Cosmopolitan. 
TRISETUM LATIFOLIUM Rid]. in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ix. (1916) 250. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, in open marsh by ? lake, 7000’. Fl. Dee. 
5900. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Mt. Carstensz, Kloss). 
Cyperaces. (A. B. RENDLE.) 
*BuLposTyLis CAPILLARIS Kth., var. TRIFIDA ©. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. India, 652. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, common in open marsh by ? lake, 7000’. Fl. 
Dec. 5565. 
Distrib. Wide in tropical and subtropical regions, 
