COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 229 



LILIACE.E. 

 (By 11. N. RiDLEi.) 



Smilas LEUCOPnYLLA, Blume, Euum. 18., 

 Camp VI b, 3900 ft. 

 Distrih. Malaya. 



Smilax melanocarpa, Ridl., sp. nov. 



Canles iuermes, quai^drangiilares. Folia teuuiter coriacea, glabra, concoloria (sicca 

 brunnea), Janceolata, basi lata, rotundata, 16-20 cm. longa, 55-9 cm. lata, costa et 

 nervis duobus elevatis, nervo marginal! tenuiore, reticulationibus conspicuis laxis, 

 petiolis validis a medio vaginautibus 1^-2 cm. longis. Bracfece ovatse, acutiie, 

 1 mm. longse. Umbelhe solitariae, axillares, pedunculis 3 cm. longis. Flores 

 circiter 12, viridi-bruuuei, in pedicellis 1 cm. longis. Alahastra oblongosub- 

 globosa, 4 mm. longa. Sepala elliptico-ovata, apice rotundata. Bacca nigra, 

 magna, globosa, 2 cm. longa, in pedicello Vo cm. longo ; semina duo, ellipsoidea, 

 o'bscure triquetra, dorso convexa, utrinque obtusa, 12 cm. longa, 6 cm. lata, 

 castanea. 



Canoe Camp, 150 ft. ; Camps X to XI, 6700 to 8300 ft. 



Flowers greenish and brownish red ; fruits blackish. 



This species is remarkable for its very large fruit, as big as those of S. megacarpn, 

 A. DC, from which it differs in the absence of thorns and the different form of the seed. 



Smilax australis, R. Br. Prodr. 293. 

 Camps VIII to IX, 4900 to 5500 ft. 



Specimens only in fruit and not quite typical, but probably of this species. 

 Bistrih. Australia and New Guinea. 



CouDYLiNE STRICTA, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. (1836) 162. 

 Utakwa Valley, without precise locality. 

 Blstrib. Australia. 



CoRDYLiNE TERMiNALis, Kunth, Euura. V. 25. 

 Camps VI a, and VII to VIII, 3100 to 4.900 ft. 

 Bistrib. New Guinea to Australia ; commonly cultivated elsewhere. 



CORDYLINE RACEMOSA, Ridl., Sp. nov. 



Caulis gracilis. Folia oblanceolata, acuminata, apice setacea, basi angustata, 17 cm. 

 longa, 5 cm. lata, superiora minora, magis ovata, sicca grisea, petiolis vaginantibus 

 6 cm. longis. Eacemus simplex, 8-10 cm. longus. Flores solitariii circiter 50 in 

 racemum flavescenti-album collecti, apice purpurei, pedicellis 1 mm. vel brevioribus, 

 articulatis. Bractece 2, inferior lanceolata, acuminata, 2 mm. longa, superior 

 brevier, ovata, acuminata. Terianthium 14 mm, longum ; petala et sepala sub- 

 similia, ultra medium couuata, lanceolata, obtusa, 2 mm. lata. Staminum 

 filamenta, tenuia, lata, complanata, apice obtusa, connectivo pauJlo excurrente; 



