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SrypHELia TROcHOcARPOIDES F’, Muell. Pap. Pl. i. 107. 
Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest patch by ¢ lake, 7000’. Fr. 
Dec. 5583. 
Distrib. New Guinea @. N.W., Arfak Mts., near Hatam, Beecari). 
The specimen seen is only in fruit, nak I have no doubt that the 
determination is right. 
Small tree, flowers white, berries black. 
Eritcaces. (J.J. Smirn.) 
The number of Ericaceze amounts to 17, representing 14 species, viz. 
6 Rhododendron (2 new), 1 Diplycosia (new), and 7 Vaccinium, of which 
4 are new, whereas the remaining 3 are forms or varieties of previously 
described species. 
RHODODENDRON UNDULATICALYX J.J. 5S., sp. nov. 
Frutex, innovationibus c. 5 em. longis, inferne nonnullis cicatricibus folioram 
rudimentarium instructis, ramulis teretibus, glabrescentibus. Folia c. 3-4 spurie 
verticillata, petiolata, obovata et elliptica, obtusiuscule vel acute acutata, obtusa vel 
rotundata, basi acuta vel obtusiuscula, brevissime in petiolum acuminata integerrima, 
supra sparse lepidota et basi minute puberula glabrescentia, subtus sicco pallida den- 
sius sparse minute lepidota, in utraque parte cost mediew subtus obtuse prominentis 
nervis lateralibus c. 7 patentibus satis irregularibus intra marginem anastomosantibus 
tenuibus sicco supra subtusque prominulis, venis supra subtusque partim prominulis, 
coriacea, ¢. 3°6—5°7 em. longa, 2—2°8 em. lata; petiolus subsemiteres, minute puberulus 
et parce lepidotus, ¢. 0-6—-0°8 em. longus. Inflorescentie c. 5-florw, rhachide breviter 
conica. Bractee (1 adest) lineares, apice paulo dilatate serrateque, acute, ciliolata, 
e. 1:3 cm. longe. Flores mediocres, pedicello tenui, tereti, minute puberulo et parce 
minute lepidoto, bene 1 em. longo. Calya valde undulatus, obliquus, subquinque- 
lobulatus, ciliolatus, c. 0°275 em. diam. Corolla oblique hypocrateriformis, curvata, 
5-loba, extus glabra, non lepidota, intus in tubo puberula, explanata c. 3°25 em. longa, 
limbo 2°85 em. lata, tubo obliquo ec. 1°6-2°15 em. longo, 1 em. lato, lobis ovalibus vel 
plus minusve obovatis, 4 obliquis, 1 recto, rotundatis, c. 0-9-1 em. longis, 0:63-0°8 cm. 
latis. Stamina 10, ¢. 2°37-2°73 cm. longa; filamentum lineare, fere 2 partibus 
inferioribus parcius hirtello-puberulum ; anthera dorsifixa, oblonga, basi retusa, apice 
oblique truncata, thecis antice suleo separatis poro introrso obliquo subsemirotundo 
hiantibus, c. 0-225 em. longa. Ovarium subfusiformi-conicum, 10 sulcatum, erecto- 
patenter villosulum, ec. 0-4 em. longum; stylus filiformis, teres, ima basi tantum 
pilosus, apice in stigma capitatum manicatum incrassatus, e. 1-9 em. longus. Discus 
annularis, 10-dentatus, pubescens, inferne glaber, c. 0-175 em. diam. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest patch by $ lake, 7000’. 
Fl. Dec. 5549. 
Very near Lh. angiense J. J.8., but differing in the downy pedicels, 
undulate calyx, non-lepidote corolla: from Rh. arfakianum Bece., which 
also has a glabrous corolla, in the corolla-lobes not being twice as long as 
the tube and the separated non-ovate anthers, 
A shrub with pink flowers, 
