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Distrib. N.E. New Guinea and Caroline Islands. Wide in both hemi- 
spheres, except Europe, to Tasmania, New Zealand, and Patagonia. 
*HyprocoryLe vuLearis I. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 234; Schum. & Laut. 487. 
Arfak Mts., abundant in parts in open marsh by ? lake, 7000’. FI., Fr. 
Dec. 5943. 
Dstrib. Marshall Islands. Europe, through Transcaucasia to Caspian 
Sea (Astara § Enzeli), N.E. to S.W. Australia. N. and 8. America and 
West Indies. 
This is apparently the first record of this plant for E. Asia, as well as 
New Guinea. 
Hyprocoryite gavanica Thunb. Diss. Hydroe. n. 17, t. 2; Ridl. in Trans. 
Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ix. (1916) 62. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, in Papuan “kebuns” at foot of Koebré ridge, 
7000. Fl, Fr. Des. . $600. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.8.W., Mt. Carstensz, Kloss). Malay Peninsula 
and Archipelago, Philippines ; India, Ceylon, Indo-China ; China and Japan. 
DipIscus KOEBRENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Planta perennis, glaberrima; radix sat robusta; caules decumbentes, radiatim 
dispositi. Folia parva, ad nodos rosulata, in petiolum sensim abeuntia, 3-lobata, 
lobis plerumque unodentatis. Umbella multiflora, involucrum polyphyllum, 
parvum, pedicellis parvis. Calyx dentibus 2-3, plerumque protractis, subulatis, 
ceteris obsoletis. Petala parva. Fructus carpello uno abortivo vel minore; meri- 
carpia compressa, 6-vittata, apice plus minus acuta, basi rotundata. Stylus elongatus. 
Carpophorum indivisum, persistens. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., Koebré Mt., abundant on open burnt summit plateau. 
9000’. FI. Fr. Dec. 5606. 
A plant of rosulate habit, with smooth reddish stems, 4 dm. long or less, 
each shoot being densely invested with the old leaf-bases and bearing 
rosettes of leaves at the nodes. The leaves are gradually narrowed into the 
slender +2°5 cm. long petiole, with obcuneate lamina, +1°5 by 5 mm. ; 
towards the apex of the branches the petioles are shorter and the lamina 
larger, +2 by 1 cm. The umbels are 1°5 cm. across with many linear 
involucral leaves, +°5 mm. long, on naked stalks, +11 em, long, arising 
singly from the apical rosettes of leaves. The minute flowers are 4 by 2 mm., 
on pedicels +8 mm. long. Calyx-teeth +5 mm. long. Petals 15 by 1 mm, 
Fruit 2 mm. across, with mericarps +2°5 mm. long. 
This plant makes the third in Domin’s Pseudocalycina group with 
long drawn-out calyx teeth; in habit and shape of leaves it agrees 
with D. saniculafolius (Stapf) Merr., var. novo-guineensis Dom., from 
Mt. Scratchley in S.E. New Guinea, to which it is probably allied, but in 
the little material available of the latter it is impossible to determine the 
form of the calyx teeth. 
