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incomplete (all the bracts having fallen) to describe adequately, 

 but it is evidently an undescribed plant allied to Monophrynium 

 and Cominsia. 



Phacelophrynium sp. 



Caules graciles 60 cm. alti. Folium lineari-oblongum ; 

 valdevenosum costa alte elevata basi cuneato 32 cm. longum 

 6 cm. latum, petiolo 18 cm. longo. Panicula brevis 8 cm. longa, 

 pauce ramosa. Bracteae tenuiter papyracea lanceolata 

 acuminata 3 cm. longa 5 mm. lata. Flores non visi. Panicula 

 fructifera ramis validulis 4 cm. longa 5 cm. lata. Capsula 

 obtuse triquetra globosa 1 cm. longa et lata. 



Deva Deva (632) ; Central Division (825). 



This species is notable for the prominence of the nerves, 

 especially on the back of the leaf when dry, and the small 

 size of the few-branched panicle with the thin lanceolate brown 

 bracts. 



The collection also contains another more typical 

 Phacelophrynium M'ith large leaves and a panicle of 3 

 branches 15 cm. long of distichous stout bracts 3-4 cm. long, 

 2 cm. Avide, in which are smooth, polished, yellow, triquetrous 

 capsules 15 cm. long in pairs on very short peduncles. It is 

 to be hoped that complete specimens of this fine plant may be 

 obtained. Sogeri (No. 406). 



Family ORCHIDACEiE. 



A complete account of the Orchidaceae collected has 

 already been published under the joint authorship of Dr. R. S. 

 Rogers, M.A., and myself in the " Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia," vol. xliv, 

 pp. 110-119, plates v-viii. 



DICOTYLEDONE.^. 



Family CASUARINACE.E. 



Casuarina nodiflora G. Forst. F. Muell. Pap. PL, ii (vi), 6. 

 Astrolabe Range and Mafulu District. A very common tree 

 in the first- mentioned locality. 



C. equisetlMia R. & G. Forst. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (i) 

 12 ; Bail. Rep. Visit B.N.G., 28, and Queens. Agric. Journ., 

 xxii, 149 ; Foxworthy Ann. Rep. Papua, 1909-10, 114. I did 

 not see this groAvmg wild, but there is a fine avenue of these 

 trees planted along the esplanade road at Port Moresby. 



