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HALORRHAGACESR. 
*HALORRHAGIS MICRANTHA (Thunb.) R. Br. ex Sieb. et Zuce. FI. Jap. Fam. 
Nat. i. 25. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake, 7000’. Fl. Dee. 5918. 
Distrib. India, Indo-China, China, Japan; N. Borneo, Philippines; 
Australia, Tasmania ; New Zealand. 
HALORRHAGIS SUFFRUTICOSA Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Planta robusta, suffruticosa, erecta. Folia 3-4-verticillata, satacestiie obovato- 
lanceolata, acuta, basi in caulem decurrentia angulum satis prominentem formantia, 
serrata, coriacea, supra glabra, nitida, subtus pilis albis sparsis adpressis inspersa, 
demum glabrata. Inflorescenti@ ad apices caulis dense. racemoso-panniculate. 
Flores hermaphroditi, rubri, in bractearum axillis solitarii. Calya 4-lobus, hirsutus. 
Petala 4. Stamina 8, filamentis tenuissimis, brevibus. Ovarium _4-loculare, 
8-costatum. Styli 4 sessiles, stigmatibus papillosis. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by 9 lake, 7000’, abundant. 
Fl. (g stage). Dee. 5555.—Fl. (2 stage). 5942. 
A shrubby herbaceous plant, also seen in the mossy forest on the crest of 
the S.W. ridge, the single shoots 1:2 m. high, rigid from the hard texture 
of the leaves, with hirsute stems 3 mm. thick. Leaves in crowded or 
more remote verticels, with hard spinous teeth and tips, 2 em. by 1 em., 
reticulately veined, with impressed midrib and inconspicuous cystoliths on 
the upper surface, while on the lower the midrib is raised and covered with 
hairs. Inflorescence spreading at the base, 11-16 by 2°5-8 cm. Flowers on 
hirsute pedicels 1:5 mm. Sepals 1°5 mm. long, acute to acuminate. Petals 
+2°5 mm. long, boat-shaped, pilose on the cucullate apex, which is carinate, 
inflexed. Anthers 1°5 mm. long; filaments +°5 mm. long. Stigma red, 
+°5 mm. long. 
The affinity is with H. haleonensis Merr., but the plant is distinguished 
by the more robust habit, the glabrous, spinescent leaves and bracts, broader 
inflorescence, and the hirsute calyx with shorter lobes. 
ARALIACEA, 
SHEFFDERA (USHEFFLERA) ARFAKENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Frutex parvus; ramuli glaberrimi, cortex (in sicco) flavescens, longitudinaliter 
striatus. Folia 5-digitata, glabra, longe petiolata; foliola inwqualiter petiolulata, 
petioluli, egre alati, ad apicem articulata ; foliola obeuneata, apice obtusa, integer- 
rima, incurvata, coriacea, nervis subtus magis prominentibus. Jnflorescentia axillaris 
vel pseudo-terminalis, racemosa, racemi 1—4 in axillis foliorum superiorum dispositis, 
peduneuli pedicelli calycesque squamulosi. Colwmna stylorum in floribus subplana, 
in fructibus immaturis 5-angulata et leviter conico-elevata, apice in lobos 5 stigmaticos 
divisa. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, in forest by ¢ lake, 7000’. FI., Fr. (yg.). 
Dec. 95621]. 
