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obscure serrata, coriacea. Racemi axillares, solitarii vel a basi trifureati, petiolo 
duplo vel triplo longiores. Flores sessiles, bracteis 3 subequalibus, squamiformibus, 
ciliatis. Calyx 5-lobus, lobi rotundati, incisi, ciliati. Corolla patelliformis, ad basin 
fere partita, calyce duplo longior, 5-lobata, lobi ciliati. Stamina  inxquilonga, 
indistinete pentadelphia. Stylus fere glaber. Ovarium hirsutum, 3-loculare, loculis 
2-ovulatis. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., edge of forest by 2 lake, 7000’. FI. Dec. 5574, 
5741 bis. 
Largest leaves 8°5 cm. by 4 em., midrib prominent below, the lateral 
veins 5-8, forming tertiary reticulations. Petioles 1-2 em., channelled above. 
Leaves and petioles yellow-green (dried). Racemes +3 em. long, the two . 
lateral branches 2 cm. Flowers 6 mm. across. Calyx 2 mm. long, lobes 
spreading. Corolla 3 mm. long, tube 1 mm.long. Longest stamens +2 mm. 
long, the filaments broadening towards the base, with minute anthers. Style 
with stigma 3 mm. long; stigma 3 mm. broad. 
This plant is near S. spicata Roxb., but is distinguished by the less acute 
leaves, fewer flowering racemes, ciliate bracts and calyx-lobes, smaller flowers 
with narrower and more spreading corolla-lobes, and stamens much shorter 
than the corolla. 
Symp.ocos (CORDYLOBLASTE) NOVO-GUINEENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramuli teretes, cortice strigoso-fuscescente cincti. Folia petiolata, 
oblongo-elliptica, acutiuscula vel obtusa, basi cuneata, integerrima, chartacea, glabra, 
costa media supra impressa subtus prominula. Racemi simplices, axillares, pauci- 
flores, subumbellato-racemosi, rhachis griseo-pubescens, pedunculi petiolo breviores. 
Bractee sub calyce 2, minime. Calyx lobis 5, rotundatis, campanulatis. Corolla 
extus pilosa, calyce 4-plo longior usque medium divisa, lobis 5, ciliatis. Stamina 
4-serialia, apice libera, basi in tubum coalita. Stylus hirsutus, stigmate parvo. 
Ovarium 3-loculare. 
Hab. Arfak Mts., edge of forest by ? lake, 7000’. Fl. Dec. 5578. 
Leaves 6 em. long by 3 cm., midrib reddish in colour (dried), latera! veins 
4—6, irregularly pinnate; with reticulations arcuate and anastomosing on the 
margins. Petiole 1 em. long, dark red in colour, channelled on the upper 
surface. Inflorescence 2 cm. long, common peduncle, also pedicels +5 mm. 
long. Flower +1°5 em. long. Calyx 5 mm. long. Corolla white, 1 em. 
long. Staminal tube 3 mm. long, adnate to and produced above the corolla- 
tube. Anthers 5 mm. long, filaments flat, 1 mm. broad, free at the sess 
Style 9 mm. long. 
This plant is very near 8. Scortechinii King & Gamble. It differs in the 
smaller leaves less conspicuously veined, in the almost glabrous pedicels, 
calyx, and corolla, with the calyx more deeply lobed and the style less pilose. 
With S. Scortechinii and 8. Maingayi Benth. this species shows a 3-celled 
ovary which Brand gives as unknown to him in § Cord yloblaste, but these 
plants seem to fit into no other section. 
