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or less strigose and stapose-barbate at the nodes. Cymes generally few-flowered. 

 Calyx short. Flowers rose-pink or reddish purple {H. O. Forbes). Petals ovate. 

 Noticeable on account of the fruit being covered with white silvery hairs.] 



Memectlon edule, Eoxb. Coi-om. PI. i. t. 82. 

 Canoe Camp, Nov. 12th, 1912. 

 Distrib. India, Ceylon, Tonkin, Malacca, Malaya. 



i/ Memecylon novoguineense, Bnk. fil., sp. uov. 



Mami graciles, teretiusculi, ramulis angustis glabris. Folia parviuscula, oblonga 

 vel oblongo-ovata, apice in acumen longum attenuata, basi acuta, in petioluiu 

 brevissimum attenuata, omnino glabra, 50-70 mm longa, 16-20 mm. lata, 1-nervia, 

 nervulis traosversalibus valde indistinctis, pctiolo 2-5 mm. longo iustructa. Flores 

 pauci, axillares, tetrameri. Ccdycis tubus campanulatus, dentibus triangularibus 

 acuminatis. Fetala et stamina in speciminibus milii obviis delapsa. Stylus tenuis, 

 filiformis. Bacccs subglobosse, apice calyce coronatse, breviter pedicellatse. 

 Camp III, 2538 ft. 



This plant belongs to the section Eumemecylon and to the series in which the leaves 

 are 1-nerved, with very indistinct transverse nerves. Branches terete, branchlets 

 angled. Leaves very acuminate, base cuneate. Flowers few, axillary, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, tetramerous. Calyx 1-1'5 mm. diam.. the teeth acuminate and conspicuous. 

 Allied to M. lanceolatum, Cogn., and M. gitingense, Elmer. 



ONAGRACE^E. 

 (By H. N. PtiDLET.) 



Jussi^A suFFETJTicosA, Linn. Sp. PL 555. 



Canoe Camp, and Camps VI a to VI b to VII & VIII. 



Var. HiRTA, Bidl., var. nov. 

 A typo distat foliis hirtis. 

 Camps VIII to IX, 150 to 5500 ft. 

 Distrib. All the tropics. 



^ Epilobiitm papuanum, Ridl., sp. nov. 



Caules asceudentes, sajpe ramosi, 15 cm. alti, furfuraceo-pubescentes. Folia sub- 

 coriacea vel coriacea, alterna, appi'oximata, ovata vel elliptica, obtusa, glabra, 

 3-4 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, petiolis 1 mm. longis vel brevioribus alatis. Flos 

 unicus, terminalis, in pedicello gracili 6-9 cm. longo. Sepala lanceolata, acuta, 

 glabra, 2 mm. longa. Fetala oblonga, apice biloba, lobis rotundatis, 3 mm longa, 

 rosea vel atro-rosea. Stamina breviora, vix pistillum superantia, antheris ellipticis. 

 Ovarium 2'5 cm. longum, pubescens. Stylus crassus, stigmate magno. Capsuln 

 angusta, cylindrica, 3 cm. longa. Semen oblongum, utrinque obtusum, pustulatum, 

 coma 7 mm. longa. 

 Camps IX to XI, 5500 to 8300 ft. 



second series. — BOTANY, VOL. IX. I 



