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Flores brevi pedicellati. Calyx 5-lobus, lobis dentiformibus parvis. Corolla apice 
5-cristata, crista brevi rotundata; tubus brevis latus fauce dense hirsuto lobi tubo 
equilongi. Ovarium dense tomentosum. Stylus glaber. Capsule ad ramos secund», 
breviter pedicellate, scaberule. 
Leaves 75-100 mm. long or shorter, 40-45 mm. broad. Petiole 15 mm. 
long. Peduncle 10-20 mm. long. Fruiting-branches 5°5 cm. long. 
Hab. Schouten Islands, Bosnik, Wiak, under strand trees on “ korang.” 
Small plant +2 dm. high. Fl. (white), Fr. Jan. 6284. ‘ 
Collected also by Gjellerup in 1911. 
GEOPHILA RENIFORMIS Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 136 ; Schum. & Laut. 584 ; 
Nova Guinea, viii. (1911) 485; Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. 
ix. (1916) 77. 
Manokoeari, common creeping undergrowth in forest. Fl., Fr. 6181. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.S8.W., Etna Bay, Koch; Utakwa River, Kloss ; 
N.E. & S.E. and adjacent islands). Cosmopolitan in Tropics. 
AMARACARPUS WICHMANNI Val., sp. nov. (A. cuneifolius Val., var., in Nova 
Guinea, viii. (1912) 769 et (1911) 502, p. p.) 
Fruticulus ramis bilateralibus, horizontaliter expansis, ramulis haud regulariter 
pinnatis, potius quasi dichotomis. Rami abbreviati, secus ramulos oppositi et alterni ; 
omnes grosse rufo-villosi. Stipule minute, ovate, longe 2-aristate, rufo-hirsute. 
Folia subsessilia, obovato-cuneata, acuta vel obtusa, basi crasse membranacea, 
siecando supra glaucescentia, subtus fusca, glabra, costa media prope basin cum 
petiolo pulverulento-villosula, nervi laterales utrinque 4 cum costa prominuli, ante 
marginem arcuatim conjuncti. F/ores in apice ramorum abbreviatorum sessiles, 
nunc 3 glomerati, bracteis et stipulis setaceis suffulti. Calyx cum ovario glabro, 
campaniformis, lobis 4 ovatis, acutis, recurvis, ciliatis. Corolla breviter tubulosa, 
limbo subpatulo, tubo circa wxquilongo, lobis oblongis crassis, tubus circa antheras 
fauce sessiles barbatus. Stylus corolle xquilongus. -Drupa calyce parvo coronata, 
pyrene semiobovoidez, ventre plano, dorso profunde 8-4 sulew tricostate.—Ramuli 
nune 50-300 mm. longi, brachyblastis 10-25 mm. longis dense obsessi. Folia secus 
ramos subpersistentia, in apice ramorum abbreviatorum sepe 4-verticillata, 8-20 mm. 
longa, 6-9 mm. lata. Flores 7 mm. longi; corolla 4°5 mm. longa. Drupe 3-5 mm. 
longe, pyrene 2:5 mm. late. 
Hab. Manokoeari, common undershrub in forest. Fl., Fr. Jan. 6185. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Wichmann). 
“ Shrub, 1-1:50 m. Branches dorsiventral, symmetrical; white flowers. 
Also abundant at Warén up to the foot-hills of the Arfak.” 
MyrMecopia PULVINATA Becc. Malesia, ii. 103. 
Manokoeari, epiphytic in high forest, 300’. Fl. (white)., Fr. (red). 
Jan. 6197. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Andai, Beccari). 
