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dark green foliage, covered with the small orange-yellow flowers. Leaves 
+ 1-15 em. by 6-8 mm., with midrib impressed on the upper surface. 
Petiole + 2 mm., villous when young. Cymes 1°5 cm. long. Peduncle 
+5 mm. long, densely fulvo-villous. Pedicels 2 mm. long, with two 
unequal bracteoles at the base, 1-3 mm. long. Calyx-tube 1 mm. long ; 
lobes 2°5 by 2 mm., concave, from a broad base acute. Petals ciliate, 
concave, broad at base, 4 by 3mm. Stamens pluriseriate, longest + 6 mm. 
in length. Style 6 mm. long. Ovary 1 mm. by 15 mm., almost superior. 
Fruit red, capsular, rising well above the calyx-tube, of which the persistent 
lobes spread stellately around the base. In each coccus dehiscence down the 
centre is indicated, 
In the small vaccinioid leaves this plant is so far distinct in the genus. 
It approaches B. aurea Ridl., collected on Mt. Carstensz, in the non- 
. petaloid lobes of the calyx, which distinguish both plants from the known 
Australian representatives of this genus, and the 3-celled ovary, but it differs 
in the dense pubescence of the young petioles and inflorescence, and in the 
small axillary cymes. The structure and size of the flowers is more or less 
identical in both species, the calyx being densely villous and the petals 
fringed in the Arfak plant, which is quite xerophytic in habit, rather 
recalling some species of Leptospermum. : 
METROSIDEROS ARFAKENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, tota glabra; ramuli teretes, junioribus quadrangularibus, cortice 
griseo. Folia parva, opposita, petiolata, ovato-obtusa vel acutiuscula, basi sub- 
cordata, plana vel leviter revoluta, coriacea. Flores rubri, pedicellati, pedicellis 
bi-bracteolatis, fasciculatis, fasciculis ex axillis foliorum delapsorum e ligno vetere 
oriundis. Calycis tubus campanulatus, 5-lobatus, lobis rotundatis, ciliatis. Petala 5, 
orbicularia, basi angustata, membranacea. Stamina circa 16 uniseriata, filamentis 
glabris, rubris, antheris cordatis, nigrescentibus. Ovariwm inferum, triangulare, 
3-loculare. Stylus longus, truncatus. 
Hab, Arfak Mts., edge of forest by 9 lake, 7000’. Fl. Dee. 5529. 
Tree with slender erect branches, very few showing any flowers, which 
were only seen on the old wood. Flowering branches 3-6 mm. thick 
with internodes very close together, the point of insertion of the flower 
fascicles being raised. The small leaves are crowded towards the apices of 
the branches, the largest + 2-2 cm. by 6 mm., gland-dotted, with raised 
midrib on both surfaces. Petiole 1:5 mm., flattened above. Flowers on 
glandular pedicels 4 mm. long, with two gland-dotted, narrowly linear 
bracteoles towards the base, +2 mm. long. Calyx gland-dotted, with 
tube 3 mm. long by 3°5 mm. broad at apex; lobes glandular, pellucid, 
1 mm. long by 15 mm. broad. Petals 2 mm. long and the same in breadth. 
Stamens 1°3 cm. long. Anthers + 5mm.long. Style 1-1 cm. long, depressed 
in the centre of ovary, which is 1:5 mm. long with three prominent angles. 
