PLANTiK NOV^ PAPUAN55 295 



tubus 5-5 cm. long., in sicco 2 mm. lat. ; lobi circa 2 cm. long. 

 Antherse subinclusas, lineari-oblongao, obtusae, clorso pilosulse, 

 3 mm. long. Ovarium 5*5 mm. long. 



The same collector's No. 509, also from the Sogere region, is 

 conspecific with this, differing from it only in its lanceolate leaves, 

 8-13 cm. long and 3-3-5 cm. broad. 



This species is allied to the Papuan Ruellia Stricklandii 

 Lindau {Leptosiphonium Stricklandii F. Muell.), known to me 

 by description alone, but the leaves and calyx of the two are 

 different. 



B. Stricklandii has honeycombed pollen, according to Lindau,''' 

 who examined material F. Mueller sent him (Lindau incorrectly 

 says the plant is a native of Australia). A specimen at Kew, not 

 communicated by Mueller, the anthers of which contain spiny 

 pollen, C. B. Clarke has supposed to be conspecific with Mueller's 

 plant, in spite of Lindau's statement above, but neither this nor 

 any other specimen seen at Kew answers Mueller's description of 

 L. Stricklandi. 



Aporuellia versicolor, sp. nov. Caule herbaceo erecto ra- 

 moso ramis sparsim piloso-pubescentibus delude glabrescentibus, 

 foliis brevipetiolatis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis apicem versus 

 attenuatis apice obtusis basi obtusis vel obtusissimis raro late 

 truncatis margine undulatis membranaceis supra cito glabris 

 subtus praesertim in nervis fulvo-pubescentibus tandem glabris, 

 floribus magnis breviter pedicellatis in cymam terminalem brevem 

 paucifloram digestis, bracteis bracteolisque calyce certe breviori- 

 bus linearibus acuminatis puberulis, calycis alte partiti segmentis 

 elongatis linearibus acuminatis puberuHs, corollae tubo calycem 

 longe superante attenuato ipso sub limbo dilatato extus subtiliter 

 pubescente basin versus glabro lobis suborbicularibus tubo multo 

 iDrevioribus, antheris subinclusis, ovario anguste oblongo glabro, 

 stylo pubescente, ovulis pro loculo circa 20. 



British New Guinea, Mt. Sogere, 1750-2500 ft. ; H. 0. Forbes, 

 73, 781. 



Folia summum 14 x 5'5 cm., saepius 6-10 x 3-4 cm., in sicco 

 griseo- vel brunneo-viridia, pag. inf. pallidiora, cystolithis obscuris 

 dense obsita ; petioli ± 5 mm. long., late canaliculati, pubescentes. 

 Pedicelli summum 7 mm. long., sed ssepe breviores. Bracteae 

 bracteolaeque circa 7 mm. long. Calyx 22 mm. long. Corolla 

 gilva (No. 73) vel vivide aurantiaca (No. 781) ; tubus 6 cm. long., 

 2 mm. lat., basin versus 3 mm.; lobi circa 1*5 cm. long. Anthera? 

 oblongaB, obtuste, glabrae, 4 mm. long. PoUinis grana tuberculis 

 parvulis obsita. Ovarium 6 mm. long. 



Externally this is much like the plant just described, but, 

 neglecting other features, the pollen of the two is quite different. 

 Biiellia Guppyi Hemsl. is plainly a congener, for C. B. Clarke has 

 notified it (MS. in Hb. Kew.) as having spiny pollen, and it thus 

 becomes Aporuellia Guppyi Clarke ; from this plant, however. 



Pflanzenfam, iv. 3b, p. 309. 



