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Gjellerup ; D.S.W., Merauke, Versteeg ; Okaba, Brandenhorst ; N.E. ; 8.E.). 
India. Indo-China, Philippines and Formosa, Malay Archipelago and 
N.E. Australia. 
Common, but not in flower about Manokoeari. 
DRACENA NOVO-GUINEENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Caulis simplex, fruticosus. Folia petiolata, ascendentia, spiraliter arcte imbri- 
cata, lineari-lanceolata vel oblanceolata, acuta vel acuminata, membranacea, viridia, 
oblique parallele costata. Panicula longe pedunculata, quam folia brevior. Flores 
solitarii vel bini, pedicellis graciliter dispositis. Bractee membranacee, deltoideo- 
acuminate. Perianthium albo-viridulum, lobis ultra medium liberis, obtusis, apicem 
incurvatis, tubo basin versus angustato. Stamina gracilia, filamentis complanatis, 
antheris basi divaricatis. Ovariwm sessile: stigma 3-lobatum. Bacca disperma. 
Hab. Manokoeari, common undergrowth in high forest on “ korang.” 
500° Fil., We. Jan. 6195. 
A very characteristic little plant, 25-50 m. in height, well marked by 
the spirally twisted leaves, like a screw pine in appearance. Leaves 3-4°6 dm. 
in length, including linear petiole +1 dm. long, slightly broader and sheathing 
at the base, by 3-3°5 em. broad, the shorter leaves being the broadest. In- 
florescence 1°3—2°7 dm. long, including peduncle 1-1°4 dm. long and 6 cm. 
broad, generally branching three times, but in the single fruiting example 
unbranched and epedunculate. Bracts +3 em. long, those subtending 
flowers 3 mm. long; bracteoles 2 mm. Perianth 1°3 cm. long, with 
segments 7 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, Stamens 5 mm. long ; anthers 
3 mm. ; filaments 2°5 mm.by1mm. Style 1:1 em. long, with minute stigma. 
Ovary 2mm. long Fruit +6 by 7 mm.. 
This species seems distinct from the Malayan Draczenas, so far known, in 
the lengthily petiolate spirally arranged leaves, with very straight linear 
petioles, and the strap-shaped filaments to the anthers. This is the first 
member of the genus to be described from New Guinea. 
OrcHIDACESR. (J.J. Smita.) 
VrypaGzynEA ELONGATA BI. FI. Jav. n. ser. 1, 61, t. 28, f. 1, ete. 
Island of Roon, ridge beyond Djende, terrestrial in forest. FI. Jan. 
6240. 
Distrib. N.E. New Guinea. 
HiprropHyLtuMm ALBoviripg J. J. 8. in Fedde Rep. xi. (1912) 135; in 
Nova Guinea, xii. (1915) 217, t. Ixxi. 123. 
Schouten Islands, Island of Wiak, Bosnik, epiphytic on strand tree. 
Fl. (white). Jan. 6283. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Tor River, Gjellerup). 
