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PELLIONIA VANHASSELTI Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Herba decumbens, glaberrima; caulis simplex, plurisuleatus. Folia alterna 
petiolata vel subsessilia, elliptico-lanceolata, basi uno latere subrotundata, altero 
cuneata, apice in acumen longum acutissimum sensim attenuata, infra medium 
integerrima, superne grosse inzqualiter obtuse-dentata, penninervia, fere equilatera 
(basi excepta), viridia, carnosa, supra cystolithis linearibus haud densis, subtus palli- 
diora, cystolithis minutis densissime obtecta. Flores feminei albidi, pedicellati, 
laxiuscule glomerati. Perianthiwm 5-merum, persistens, segmentis apice leviter 
retusis, longe aristatis, setis perianthio duplo longioribus. Staminodia 5, parva, 
segmentis opposita, inflexa. Acheniwm compressum. 
Hab. Manokoeari, epiphytic or terrestrial in high forest, 500’. Fr. Jan. 
6168. 
This plant, up to 5-4 dm. in height, more or less decumbent in habit, 
was found growing massed on the dead prostrate trunk of a tree, and also 
beneath on the ground. Leaves dark green when dried, fleshy when 
growing, +18 cm. long, including the acumen +3 ecm. long, 4°5 mm. broad. 
Flower fascicles 15-2 cm. across. Pedicels +3 mm. long. Perianth- 
segments 2 mm. long, with mucro 3 mm. long. Staminodes +°5 mm. long, 
when expanded +1 mm. long. Achene 1°5 mm. by 1 mm., light brown in 
colour. : 
Near P. nigrescens Warb., but differs in the deeply dentate leaves, with 
fewer veins, drying dark green in colour. 
This species is named in honour of Mr. R. F. J. van Hasselt, Chief 
Missionary at Manokoeari, who, from long residence and perfect knowledge 
of Papuan dialects, enjoys the confidence of these people, and to whom I 
was much indebted for valuable information and help, most kindly given. 
LoRANTHACER. 
Lorantaus VerstTercu Laut. in Nova Guinea, viii. (1910) 289. 
Manokoeari, epiphyte on trees in clearings. Fl. Jan, 6175. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.8.W., Noord River, Versteeg; Bian River, 
Brandenhorst ; 8.E. Sogeri Region, Forbes (499, Herb. Mus. Brit.)). 
A very distinct plant with many long hanging shoots, 2-3 m. in length, 
bearing single, and sometimes binate, densely-Aowered racemes in the axils 
of the leaves on the old wood, for about halfway down each shoot. The 
flowers are red at the base and yellow-green from about the middle. Some 
of the racemes are longer than in the type, and some shorter, and the flowers 
are somewhat longer ; but these are no doubt variable features. In Forbes’s 
plant the leaves are narrow, as in Brandenhorst’s 278 (Herb. Kew.), acute, 
and decurrent at the base, with corollas 5 em. long, pubescent on the outer 
surface. 
