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25-3 em. long, bearing small capitula, over 5 mm. across, of 6-7 flowers, 
each flower subtended by a small caducous, concave, pubescent bract 1°5 mm. 
long. Calyx-lobes 2 by 1 mm., ovate acute, adnate to the ovary. Longest 
stamens with anthers 3 mm. long. Style 2°5 mm. long, subulate with 
minute punctiform stigma. Ovary 12 mm. long, pubescent, adnate to the 
axis. 
This plant is very near Callicoma Stutzeri F. Muell., first distributed by 
him as Stutzeria callicomoides, then reduced to Callicoma, as, in the absence 
of fruit, he considered the generic position dubious. It undoubtedly belongs 
to Pullea, the only descrepancy being in the position of the ovules, which 
are figured for Pullea (Engl. Bot. Jahrb. lii. (1914) 165, fig. 9) as lateral ; 
whereas in both the above plants they are inserted as described by 
von Mueller for P. Stutzeri, which is distinguished from Callicoma by the 
glands—erroneously called petals by him, but correctly described as glands 
by Bailey (‘ Queensland Flora,’ pt. ii. 536),—which occur opposite the inner 
whorl of stamens, and the more or less inferior to semisuperior ovary. The 
Arfak plant is distinct from the above in the obscurely dentate, obtuse, more 
reticulate leaves, the more compound, less densely capitate inflorescence, 
smaller flowers, greater number of glands, and the inferior ovary. 
CUNONIACES. 
SPIRHANTHEMUM BULLATUM Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramuli teretes, cinereo-pubescentes. Folia ternatim verticillata, 
petiolata, suborbicularia, rotundata, in petiolum brevem attenuata, margine integer- 
rima, revoluta, bullata, superne hirsuta demum glabra et nitentia, utrinque nervis 
hirsutis impressis, lateralibus 4-6 prope marginem arcuatim anastomosantibus, 
subtus prominentibus. Stipule subulate, pubescentes, mox caduee. Panicula 
axillaris vel terminalis, puberula, foliis longior. lores albidi, longe pedicellati, 
4-meri. Calyx lobis acutis. Stamina 8, alternatim inequalia, majora calycem 
superantia. Disci squamule 8, obtuse. Carpella 4, incano-pilosa, stylis staminibus 
zequalibus coronata. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest by ¢ lake and on S.W. 
ridge running up to the lakes. Fl. Dee. 5543. 
The leaves of this species are very distinct, the largest being 5 em. by 
over 3°5 cm., with veins so impressed on the upper surface that they limit 
raised lateral reticulate areas, which make the leaves very concave and 
bullate in appearance, the convex under surface being lighter in colour 
and tomentose. The young leaves are densely pubescent on both surfaces. 
Petioles 8 mm. long, pilose. Panicles 8-13 cm. by 4°3-4°5 cm., composed 
of ternately verticillate cymes, with bracts simulating foliage-leaves greatly 
reduced in size. Flowers 2 mm. long, sometimes 5-lobed, pilose with 
_ scattered dark glandular hairs, as are also the pedicels, which are 2 mm. long, 
