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triangulares, subacuti ; stamina 0; ovarium inferum, lineare; stylus brevis, stigmate 
4-lobo coronatus. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., slopes of Koebré Mt., 8000’, epiphytic in forest. F., 
dG Re Ded. 5620. 
A green epiphyte with thick leaves. The mature leaves are generally 
deflexed (when dried), 8 by 3:5 mm., with margins and apex convexly 
incurved—spread out after boiling, they are +8 mm. long and 5 mm. 
across. The apiculus often disappears in the mature state, when the apex 
is just rounded and incurved. The flowering branches are 4:9 em. long. 
The g flowers are fasciculate and extremely minute, 1 mm. long. The 
? flowers are 2 mm. long, generally binate. Fruit +5 mm. long and 
3 mm. broad, angular and curved, crowned with the persistent lobes of 
the perigonium. 
This plant, in its very minute thick leaves, with the incurved apiculus, is 
distinct from all members of the genus so far known. 
PoLYGONACES. 
*PoLyconum stTricosum R. Br. Prod. 420. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake. FI., Fr. Dec. 5941. 
Distrib, Burma and Malay Peninsula; Java, Philippines; N.E. to 
S.E. Australia and Tasmania. Africa. 
A very glabrous form with white flowers. 
Ponye@onum ALATUM Hmlt.ex Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. (1825) 72; Ridl. in Trans. 
Linn. Soe. ser. 2, ix. (1916) 139. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, common in open marsh by : lake, 7000’. F'., 
Be. SOLS. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.8.W., Mt. Carstensz, Kloss). ripess Arete 
Java, Japan, N.W. and S.W. China to India. 
Po.yconum BarBaTum L. Spec. Pl. i. 362; Schum. & Laut. 302. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, in open marsh by ? lake, 7000’. FI., Fr. Dec. 
5940. 
Distrib. New Guinea (N.E.). Polynesia, N.E. Australia, Malaya, N.W. 
to S. Asia. Tropical and 8S. Africa. 
A rather reduced form with pink flowers. 
MAGNOLIACES. 
Drimys (TasMANNIA) BeccartAna Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Frutez omnino glaber, dioicus, ramuli teretes, cortice cinnamoneo obducti. 
Folia obovato-lanceolata, obtusiuscula, basi sensim in petiolum angustata, margine 
revoluta, integerrima, coriacea, glanduloso-punctata, rete nervorum utrinque pro- 
minente nervis lateralibus ante marginem arcuatim anastomosantibus. ores in 
axillis foliorum fasciculatim dispositi. Flos ¢ sepala 2, late oblonga, glanduloso- 
