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umbels in fruit become apparently capitate. The number of segments of the 
enormous leaves were counted in the field, while the measurements given 
for the length of the leaves include 1°2 dm. of the peduncle, which does not, 
however, represent its entire length. Calyx 3mm. long. Disc and styles 
‘7mm. long. Fruit 4mm. by 4 mm., semi-superior, with disc and styles 
1 mm. long. Seeds laterally compressed, +3 mm. long. 
This plant comes into Husheflera on the strength of the pedicellate 
flowers, but the capitate heads of sessile fruit suggest Cephaloshefflera. 
In the pseudo-involucre of minute scales becoming longer in fruit, it seems 
distinct from either section. It belongs to the Heptapleurum group, in 
which the styles are joined in a short thick column. 
KIssODENDRON BIPINNATUM Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glaberrima. Folia alterna, petiolata, bipinnata, 5-juga, impari- 
pinnata ; foliola petiolulata, lanceolato-ovata, integerrima, membranacea, basi acuta 
vel obtusa, inzequilatera, apice breviter acuminata, Inflorescentia axillaris, bipedata, 
maxime composita, pedunculi primarii bipedati, elongati; secundarii vel tertiarii 
verticillati vel oppositi, summi tertiarii umbellati, umbelluli 10-14-flori. Flores 
parvi, pedicelli articulati. Calyx 5-dentatus. Petala 5, lineari-lanceolata, apice 
longe carinata. Filamenta quam anthere breviora. Ovarium triloculare. Stylus 
pyramidato-connatus. Fructus ignotus. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest by ¢ lake, 7000’. Dee. 
5581. 
A small tree with large deltoid leaves aggregated towards the top, the 
inflorescences arising in the axils of the upper leaves; in dried condition 
the wine-brown colour of the stems and rhachis of both leaves and inflor- 
escence is very characteristic. The petiole is 1:7 dm. long, dilated at the 
point of insertion, but contracted just above it, while the leaf is 3°3 dm. by 
6 dm. at the base, with the lowest pinnz 5-jugate and the upper 3-jugate, 
the largest folioles being 8°5 cm. by 3°6 em., with petiolules 1°3 em. long. 
The inflorescence (immature) is 4°5 dm. by 5°2 dm., with peduncle +12°5 dm. 
long. The secondary and tertiary branches are either opposite or verticillate, 
this arrangement being alternate to a certain extent ; the secondary branches 
are terminated by one umbel (in specimen) of mature flowers, which is sub- 
tended by a whorl of tertiary umbels on much longer peduncles, interspersed 
with single pedicellate flowers, all the umbels being surrounded by involucres 
of small linear bracts ; the tertiary peduncles are + 4-5 cm. long (very yg.) 
and bear bracts with, in some cases, single flower-buds in their axils at 4-3? 
of their length. All the young parts are covered with a rusty tomentum. 
Petals 2°3 mm. by 14 mm. Stamens short and erect, with anthers 1:2 mm. 
with median insertion, and filaments 1 mm.long. Ovary 2°4 mm. by 1°3 mm. 
with 1 ovule in each loculus. Style 1 mm. in length. 
This plant differs from the monotypic Kissodendron australiensis (F. 
Muell.) Seem. in the bipinnate leaves, the ovate-lanceolate shape of the 
