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XYRIDACER, 
*Xyris PAUCIFLORA Wildm. Phytogr. i. 2, t. i. f. 1. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, common in open marsh by ¢ lake. F., Fr. 
Dec. 5928. 
Distrib. India (“ Foot-hills of the Himalayas, in marshes, from Nepal 
eastwards, N. Bengal to Burma,” Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi. 365), Ceylon, 
Malay Peninsula, N. Borneo, Celebes, Philippines, and China, N.E. Australia. 
HRiOcAuULACES. (A.B. RENDLE.) 
ErI0cAULON LEUCOGENES! Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ix. (1916) 
240. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, common on marsh by ¢ lake, where open and 
sandy, 7000’. Fl. Dec. 5567. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Mt. Carstensz, Kloss). 
“Flower heads mauve.” The plants show a great range in size from 
6 cm. to 20 cm., the heads varying in diameter from *5 to 1 cm. 
Juncaceaz. (A. B. RENDLE.) 
Junous tampocarpus Ebrh. Calam.n. 126; Rid]. in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, 
Bot. ix. (1916) 231. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by @ lake, 7000’. FI. Dee. 5927. 
Distrib. Temperate Europe and Asia, N. and E, Africa, Eastern N. 
America, 8.E. Australia and New Zealand. 
LILIACEA. 
DIANELLA C@RULEA Sims, Bot. Mag. (1801) t. 505 ; Schum. & Laut. 219 ; 
Nova Guinea, viii. (1914) 996 ; Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. 
ix. (1916) 230. 
Arfak Mts., in high forest below, and in open spaces on the 8.W. ridge, 
running up to Angi lakes, also in open marsh by ? lake, 7000-8000’. I'l. 
Dec. 5519. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Gjellerup; D.S.W., Gelieb, 
Brandenhorst; Mt. Carstensz, Kloss; N.E.). Philippines, New Caledonia, 
and Fiji; N.H. Australia’to Tasmania. 
Acaulescent, and with light blue flowers. 
LvuzuRIAGA ASPERICAULIS Hall. f. in Nova Guinea, viii. (1914) 991, 
t. clxxxi. 
Arfak Mts., twining in mossy forest on 8.W. ridge running up to Angi 
? A species of Eriocaulon was also collected by Miss Gibbs on Mt. Kinabalu at 12,000’ 
(no. 4209) by Kadamaian torrent, on the granite core near the summit of the mountain; 
it was mixed with Centrolepis kinabaluensis Gibbs (no. 4209) (see p. 99). It is a cxespitose 
plant, forming small cushions 25 em, high, with glabrous leaves 2-2°5 em. long, +1 mm. 
wide in the middle, linear-tapering from a broad membranous base, The specimens are all 
sterile. No Eriocaulon has hitherto been recorded from the granite core of the mountain. 
