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punctata secabra, 40 em. longa, 18 cm. lata, petiolo 12 em. longo. Stipule persis- 
tentes lanceolate acuminate hirte, 2 em. longe vel ultra. Syncarpia rubra globosa 
2 cm. crassa (in sicco) parce hirta, bracteis 2 lanceolatis acutis dissitis in dorso. 
Bractee basales nulla. Pedunculus -5-1 em. longus bracteatus. Bractee ad 
ostiolum lanceolate acuminate hirte, plures erectee. Flores masculi ad ostiolum 
monandri, pedicellati, sepala 4 lanceolata subacuta, anthera reniformi magna trans- 
versim biloba. Feminei plerumque longe pedicellati, pistillo oblongo, stylo laterali. 
Hab. Humboldt Bay, ridge behind “kampong.” Fr. Jan. 6260. 
A specimen of what appears also to be this species is in Herb. Brit. Mus. 
labelled “ Java, Straits of Sunda J(oseph) B(anks).” 
I cannot match this fig with anything yet described. It seems in some 
points to be most nearly allied to F. Beccarii, but the fruits in this and its 
allies are all borne on separate branches. The persistent and large stipules 
are peculiar. The leaf, which is large, has just the texture and scabrid feel, 
as well as the whitish dottings, of Conocephalus. The only figs seen contained 
male flowers and gall flowers, some of which have, like the male flowers, 
long stalks, while others are almost sessile. 
URTICACES. 
LaporTeEa ARMATA Warb, in Eng]. Bot. Jahrb. xiii. (1891) 293; Schum. 
& Laut. 289. 
Manokoeari, undergrowth in high forest, on “korang,” gregarious in 
damp places, 500%. FIL, g 9. 6186. 
Distrib. N.E. New Guinea. 
These plants, with herbaceous slender stems, 1-2 m. high, very stinging 
leaves, grey in colour, and green flowers, formed a colony in a small soak 
area on the top of the forest ridge which rises behind Manokoeari. As 
Warburg’s description only covers the ? plant, that of the ¢ is appended. 
Inflorescence 2°5 em. long, branched, with peduncle 7 cm. long. Flowers 
arranged in small sessile glomerules, 2 mm. across, on the secondary branches 
of the rhachis, composed of more numerous flowers than the ?, which 
are mostly single in my specimens. Perianth 4-partite, 1°5 mm. across, 
with lanceolate-acute segments, 1°5 mm. in length, covered with a few scat- 
tered white hairs. 
FLEURYA RUDERALIS (Forst.) Gaud. Voy. Uranie, 497 ; Schum. & Laut. 
291 ; Scheffer in Ann. Jard. Buit. i. (1876) 48; F. Muell. Pap. Pl. 
41, 59. 
Schouten Islands, Wiak, Bosnik, under trees by sea-shore. Fr. Jun. 
6279. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Teysmann ; N.E.; S8.E.). Java, Marshall 
and Solomon Islands, Ellice and Union Group ; Tahiti. 
Herbaceous, with pink stems and white flowers. 
