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CASUARINACES. 
CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. Aust. 103, fig. 52. 
Wariap, near, on a stony and open inundation area of the Momi River. 
Fr. Dec. 6126. 
Distrib. N.E. & S.E. New Guinea ‘and adjacent islands, Solomon and 
Marianne Islands, Polynesia, N.E. Australia, Malaya, India to E. Africa. 
PIPERACEA. (C. pe CANDOLLE.) 
Piper Bosnicanum C. DC., sp. nov. 
Ramulis glabris levibus ; foliis sat longe petiolatis glabris, limbo ovato-rotundato 
basi ima vequilatera acuto apice breviter et obtusiuscule acuminato, 5-nervio, petiolo 
basi ima vaginante ; pedunculo glabro quam petiolus breviore, spica matura quam 
limbus pluries breviore, rhachi hirsuta, bractee glabre pelta rotunda centro pedi- 
cellata, ovario libero rotundato glabro, stigmatibus ovatis brevibus, bacca ovate 
glabree stipite duo pluries longiore. 
Hab. Schouten Islands, Wiak, Bosnik. F., Fr. 6277. 
Dioicum, in arboribus scandens. Ramuli spiciferi 2 mm. crassi, collenchyma in 
fasciculos discretos dispositum et haud libriforme, fasciculi intramedullares 1-seriati, 
canalis lysigenus ventralis perphericique plures. Limbi in sicco formi pellucido- 
punctulati, usqua ad 10 em. longi et 7 cm. lati. Petioli 1:5 cm., pedunculi 1 em. 
longi. Spica matura 2 cm. longa, bractez pelta. 1 mm. diam. Stigmata 3 sessilia, 
bacea in vivo aurantiaca in sicco nigra 7 mm. longa et 5 mm. crassa.—Species primo 
adspectu P. buruanum, Miq. referens. 
Preer Foretentt C. DC. in Prodr. xvi. i. 348 ; Scheffer in Ann. Jard. Buit, 
i. (1876) 50; Nova Guinea, viii. (1914) 1007. 
Roon Island, ridge beyond Djendé, 300’, scandent in forest. Fl., 9. Jan. 
6233. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Doré, Teysmann ; D.8.W., near Alkmaar, 
von Roemer). Amboina, Halmaheira, Philippines. 
Liane, climbing up trunks of trees, with huge leaves and pendent yellow 
spikes, 4 dm. long and 3 em. thick. Also abundant in the high forest 
round Manokoeari, but only seen there in sterile condition. 
Prrer srpunctatum C. DC., sp. nov. 
Ramulis glabris; foliis breviter petiolatis, limbo elliptico-lanceolato basi #qui- 
latera acuto apice acuta, et sat longe acuminato supra glabro subtus puberulo, 
5-plinervio nervo centrali nervum adscendentem utrinque opposita vel alterne mittente 
quorum supremus a 2-2°5 cm. supra basin solutus, nervo laterali adscendente utrinque 
a basi soluto, petiolo puberulo basi ima vaginante ; pedunculo fere glabro petiolum 
superante, spica subflorente quam limbus pluries breviore, rhachi hirsuta, bractew 
glabre pelta rotunda centro pedicellata, staminibus 2, antheris ovatis 4-valvatis 
quam filamenta oblonga pluries brevioribus. 
Hab. Schouten Islands, Wiak, Bosnik (coral), in clearings. Fl. Jan. 
5709. 
