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Injlorescentia gracilis, pedunculo pubescent'% foliis 2 parvis remotis. Flores pauci, 

 albi, purpureo-tiucti ; panicula 6 cm. loiiga (fi-uctit'cra ad 4 era. louga), rarais 

 verticillatis 2-5 mm. loiigis aibo-pubesceiitibus et ciliatis, pedicellis lougiusculis. 

 Braeteae paten tevS, liiieares, oblongae, obtusse. Bracteolce ovatse. Sepala ovata, 

 obtusa, 2 mm. longa, glabra. Fetala liueari-oblouga, 4. mm. longa, glabra. 

 ^7aw/«rt 3,petalis suba^quilonga. Staniinodia^, hveYiovSi, omnia glabra. Ovarium 

 glohosum. Stylus petalis requilongus. Bacca ellipsoidea, cyanea, nitida, 7 mm. 

 longa. Semina plura, complanata, tenuia, angulata, brunnea. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft., and Camps VIII to X, 4900 to 6700 ft. Also on Mt. Scratchley, 



at 4000 ft. (Macgregor in Herb. Kew.). 



Allied to P. sorzogoiieiisis, differing in the verticillate branches and long silky 



pedicels. 



PoLLiA soRZOGONENSis, Endl. Gen. 1029. 

 Camps I to III, 500 to 2500 ft. 

 Dislrlh. Tropical Asia. 



COMMELINA NUDIFLORA, Linn. Sp. Pi. 41. 

 Camps III to VIII, 2500 to 4900 ft. 

 Didrlh. All warm countries. 



PoRRESTiA HISPIDA, Rich. Sert. Astr>jl. 2, t. 1. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. 

 " Purple orange." 

 Dislrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 



JUNCACE.E. 

 (By H. N. Ridley.) 



JuNCUS LAMPROCARPUS, Ehrh. Calam. 126, fide Davies, in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. (1810) 13. 



Camp VI b, 3900 ft., on the side of a ridge. 



This is a weak spreading green form with oblong fruit pale yellowish in coloiir, and 

 no lon"-er than the petals. The same form occurs in China and the Philippines. I find 

 no allusion to it in Buchenau's Juncacese, published in Engl. Pflanzenreich, H. 25. 



FLAGELLARIACE.E. 



(By H. N. Ridley.) 



Elagellaria indica, Linn. Sp. PI. 333. 



Camps III, 2500 ft., VI b, 3900 ft., and VI c, 5500 ft. 



Var. minor. Hook. f. El. Brit. Ind. vi. 391. 



Camps I to III, 500 to 2500 ft. 



Blstrlh. (of species). Tropics of the Old World. 



It is not usual to find this plant so far inland nor at such an altitude as 2500 ft., it 

 being usually a seashore plant. 



