158 ME. H. N. EIDLEY ON PLANTS 



Maoutia lanceolata, Ridl., sp. nov. 



S^iffrutex, ramis gracilibus, cortice rugoso verrucoso. Folia alterna, tenuiter coriacea, 

 lanceolata, longe acuminata, basi rotunclata, obscure (vel in juvenilibus conspicue) 

 crenulata, 8 cm. longa, 1"5 cm. lata, subtus alba, nervis 3 cum neryulis subtus 

 hirtis, petiolis gracilibus 1'2 cm. longis. Stipnlce lanceolatse, acuminatae, caudatae, 

 albo-sericese, 3 mm. longse. Flores masculi in paniculas gracile breviramosas 1'5- 

 2 cm. longas glomerulati, rhachi albo-pubescente, pedicellis brevibus. Sepala acuta, 

 lanceolata, pubescentia. Stamina 4, filamentis sepalis aequalia, antheris ellipticis. 

 Pistillodiimi albo-lanuginosum. 

 Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



Very distinct in its narrow lanceolate leaves and slender unisexual panicles. The 

 flowers are borne in small glomerules of 4 or 5 together and shortly pedicelled. 



CUPULIFER^. 



QuERCTJS iMPERiALis, Seemen, in Sebum. & Lauterb. PL Deutsch. Scbutzg. Siidsee, 

 263, fig. iv. P. 

 A single fruit, with a rather more cone-shaped acorn than in the figure above-quoted. 

 The type of this species is also a single fruit without specific locality. Foliage and 

 flowers unknown. 



CONIFEII.E. 



PoDOCARPirs PAPTJANUS, Ridl., sp. nov. 



Arbor elata, ramis patulis. Folia dimorpha, alia in ramulis sterilibus decurrentia, 

 plana, oblonga, obtusa, mucronata, mucrone ascendente parvo, 2 mm. longa fere 

 1 mm. lata, costa crassa rigide coriacea, alia in ramis fertilibus lanceolata, mucro- 

 nata, crassa, rigide coriacea, ad 5 mm. longa. Amenta mascula cylindrica, obtusa, 

 6 mm. longa, 2 mm. crassa, squamis ovatis acutis ; antherae loculis 2 ad basin 

 globosis. Flos femineus in ramulo laterali. Semen x-eceptaculo 3 mm. longo 

 insidens, globulosum, Iseve, baud apiculatum, 5 mm. longum, nervis prominulis. 

 Camp III, 2500 ft. ; Camps XI to XII, 8300 to 11,000 ft. 



Distrib. British New Guinea: Wliarton Range, 11,100 ft. (Giulianetti) ; between 

 south coast and Owen Stanley Range {Burke, in Herb. Kew.) ; according to Koorders 

 (under Dacrydiiim sp., in Lorentz, Nov. Guin. viii. 178) also on the summit of Hellwig 

 mountain, 7000 ft. [coll. Lorentz). 



The specimens collected by Kloss are males. The description of the fruit is taken 

 from Giulianetti's specimen. This species is allied to Fodocarpus imbricata, Blume 

 (P. cupressiiia, R. Br.), a mountain-tree of the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Celebes, and the Philippines : but it differs (1) in the much thinner longer leaves of 

 the sterile branches, which are much longer in proportion to their breadth than in 



