COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. - 227 



MARANTACE.E. 



(By H. N. EiDLEY.) 



DoNAX CANN^roRMis, K. Schum. in Eugl. Bot. Jalub. xv. (1892) 410. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. 

 Flowers white, fruit whitish yellow. 

 Distrib. Eastern Malaya to Polynesia. 



CoMiNSiA GUPPYI, Hemsl. in Ann. Bot. v. (1891) 508, t. 1. Phryninm giganteum, 

 Scheff. in Ann. Gard. Buitenz. i. 58. P. heliconiokles, Lanterb & K. Schura. El. 

 Deutsch. Schutzg. Slidsee, 238. Cominsia gigcmtea, K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzea- 

 reich, H. 11 (1902) p. 58. 



Camp I, 500 ft. 



Flowers white, fruit dull waxy green. 



Distrib. Ilalmahera, New Guinea, Bismarck Islands, and Solomon Islands. 



Phrynium sp. 



Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



This is possibly /•'. ^ec?M»<7M/a^«»i, Warl). in Eugl. Pflanzenreicb, /. c. p. 55. Unfortu- 

 nately there are no flowers in the specimen. The inflorescence is a simple raceme, 

 with thin- textured bracts. 



MUSACEiB. 



(By H. N. BiDLEY.) 

 Heliconia Micholitzii, Ridl. in Agric. Bull. Straits Settl. xii. (1908) 132. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. 

 Distrib. Recorded originally from New Ireland. 



HYPOXIDACEiE. 



(By H. N. PiDLEr.) 



CuRCULiGO LATIFOLIA, Dryand. in Aiton, Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, ii. 253. 

 Canoe Camp, about 150 ft., and Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 

 Distrib. Burmah and Malaya. 



DIOSCOREACE.E. 

 (By H. N. PiDLEY.) 



DiOSCOREA PAPTJANA, Pidl., sp. nOV. 



Caules tenues, teretes. Folia anguste lanceolata, acuminata, cordata, lobis rotundatis 

 vel basi rotundata, in utraque pagina lucida, 6-9 cm. longa, 1-2 cm. lata, petiolis 

 graciUbus 2-2| cm. longis. S2nc(B graciles, 5-6 5 cm. longge, 4 in pedunculo 1 mm. 

 longo. Flores remoti, 1 mm. longi, alabastris oblongis. Bractece ovatae, cuspidatae. 

 S&pala late oblonga. Petala minora, lanceolata, obtusa. Stamina 6, brevissiraa, 

 antheris oblongis. Pistillodia minuta. Capsula oblonga, 2 cm. longa, 15 cm. 

 lata, alls spqualibus rotundatis. 



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