COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 251 



PoA MiNiMiFLORA, Stapf, in Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 2608. 

 Camp XIII, 10,500 ft. 

 Dlstrlb. Endemic in New Guinea. 



PoA NivicoLA, Piidl., sp. nov. 

 Herba csespitosa. Folia basalia brevia, angusta, linearia, acuminata, svibacuta, 7 cm. 

 longa, 1 mm. lata, ligula nulla ; caulina lanceolata, acuminata, 3 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata. 

 Cahmis longus vel minor, teres. Panicula laxa, ramis paucis tenuissimis 2-4j mm, 

 longis. SpiculcB 8-10 in ramo, pedicellis gracillimis, triflorte, rliachilla producta. 

 Glumoe distichse, i. et ii. lanceolatse, acutse, coriacese, purpurascentes, pubescentes, 

 4 mm. longge ; iii. (florens) lanceolata, acuta, nervis 4> ad apicem confluentibus. 

 Palea lanceolata, bicarinata, carinis in apice 2 productis. Staminum antberse 

 brunnese. Stigmata pluuiosa, gossipiua, all^a. LodiciUi breves, late lanceolatae, 

 cuspidatse. 

 Camps XIII to XIV, 10,500 to 12,500 ft. 



Near P. alpina, Linn., but the spikelets are narrower and the flowering glumes not 

 silky. 



PoA LUZONiENSis, Merrill, iu Philipp. Joaro. Sc. i. Suppl. (100(5) ISO. 



Distri,b. Utakwa Valley, with no precise locality. 



Identical with a plant from the mountains of Java [at Nyadasar at 2000 metres 

 (Koorders) and probably Tosari (Hullett)]. I have seen no Puilippiae specimens, but 

 the description by Merrill suits this plant. 



Dendrocalamus Forbesii, Ridl. in Journ. Bot. xxiv. (1880) 16. 

 Distrib. British New Guinea. 



EILICES. 

 (By H. N. Ridley.) 



Cyathea Macgregorii, F. Muell. in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. i. (1889) 40. 

 The specimens have remarkably scaly young fronds. 

 Camp XIII, 10,500 ft. 

 Distrif). Endemic in New Guinea. 



Cyathea Klossii, Ridl., sp. nov. 



Caudex gracilis, 2 cm. diametro, squamis elongatis acuminatis 5 mm. longis tecta. 

 Frondes pinnatae, 60 cm. longse, 13 cm. latte, stipitibus 10 cm. longis basi squamis 

 acuminatis armatis superne pvirpureu-brunneis rudibus. Ehachis superne canali- 

 culata, hirsuta, capillis atris, subtus squamis copiosis tecta. PimicB in media 

 fronde lougiores, 5 cm. longte, 15 cm. latte, papyracese, glabrae, subtus glauces- 

 centesj lobis 11-paribus oblongis obtusis ad f latitudinis pinnse fissis, nervis ad 12 



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