150 
The terete and slender stems are 2 mm. thick, with very sharply serrate- 
dentate leaves, the largest being 6°5 cm. by 3 em.; the acute, reddish, 
membranous stipules 1 cm. long and 4 mm. broad at the base. The inflor- 
escence, + 2 mm. long, is branched at the base and consists of several pairs 
of bracts in the axils of which the ¢ flowers arise. The ¢ perianth is 
longly pilose, later glabrous, + °*8 mm. across at the base of the segments, 
and about the same in length. The fruit is 1 em. long and 16-2 cm. 
broad, the wings being *5 mm. in the middle and *6-9 mm. at the apex ; 
they may be unequally developed, and in one case four wings were seen. 
The capsules are generally binate, on pedicels ‘6-1 m. long, and peduncles 
7-8 mm. long, pubescent. 
This species is very near S. bracteosa Warb., but is easily distinguished 
by the white bracts, the thinner column and fewer stamens of the ¢ flowers, 
and the different shape of the wings of the capsule. : 
SYMBEGONIA PARVIFOLIA Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Herba, caule erecto, in sicco striato, rufo-pubescente, demum glabro. Folia 
minima, fere sessilia, anguste lanceolata, apice acuminata, basi obliqua, distanter et 
irregulariter dentata, supra sparse glanduloso-pilosa, subtus in nervis rufo-pubescentia. 
Inflorescentia sanguinea, terminalis, flores ¢ 1 vel 2 in axillis bractearum superiorum 
dispositi. Perianthio florum dg 2-segmentato, staminibus paucis in columnam 
tenuissimam ordinatis, antheris parvis, stipitatis. Fructus 3-alatus, alis erectis, 
protractis, faleatis, mucronulatis ut pedunculus glabris. 
Hab, Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, Koebré Mt., in small high forest, 7000’. 
Fl. 3, Fr. Dee. 5644. 
This little plant is 3-2 em. high, branching towards the apex, with 
stem, leaves, and indumentum red ; the stem is terete, 3 mm. thick at the 
base. Stipules are transparent, brown, + 5 mm. by 2 mm., with midrib 
produced as mucro +1 mm. long. Largest leaf is + 3 em. by 8°7 mm. 
The inflorescence is + 2 cm. long by ‘9 mm. with 2-5 pairs of red, ovate- 
lanceolate, petaloid bracts ; the lower or lowest pairs may be sterile. The 
flowers are pink, on pubescent pedicels 1 mm. long. Perianth ¢ glabrous, 
conspicuously net-veined, 7 mm. long and 5 mm. across at the base of the 
segments, which enclose the +4 cm. long column, of which the stamens 
are d mm. long. The fruit is 1:2 em. by 7 mm., with wings 2 mm. broad 
halfway up and 4 mm. at the apex of the capsule. 
This plant in its small stature and leaves is very distinct from all 
Symbegonias so far described. 
MYRTACES. 
Myrtus FLAVIDA Stapf in Hook. Te. Pl. t. 2290, var. aLABRESCENS Gibbs, 
var. nov. 
A typo differt habitu glabrescente, foliis majoribus, internodiis longioribus, 
nervis lateralibus minus conspicuis. 
