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Family PIPERACE^. 



Piper miniatum Bl. Bisiatabu. A climbing Pepper with 

 long red fruiting-spikes. 



Family FAGACE^. 



(Order Cupulifer.e.) 



Quercus sp. Deva Deva. 



Castanopsis Schlenckerse Bail., Queens. Agric. Joum., 

 xxii, 149. Mafulu. Large tree, dense foliage, common. 



Family ULMACE.E. 



Trema virgata Bl., var. scabra Bl. Lauterbach Beitr. Fl. 

 Pap., iii, 312 ; {T. cannabina F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (iii), 40 ; 

 T. aspera BL, var. riridis (BL) Benth.). Port Moresby. 



Family HORACES. 



Fatoua japonica Bl. Yule Island ; Port Moresby, E. 



Coicle'j. 



Cudrania javanensis Trecul. Laloki River. 



Artocarpus incisa Forst. Becc. in D'Albertis' " New 

 Guinea," ii, 398 ; Bail. Rep. Visit B.N.G., 27. Port Moresby ; 

 Laloki River; Mekeo District; Yule Island. Not collected, 

 but common wild or cultivated through the whole of the coastal 

 country. 



Ficus infectoria Roxb. Sapphire Creek. 



F. Rigo Bail., Queens. Agric. Joum., i, 235. Yule Island. 

 A handsome tree, much planted about Port Moresby. 



F. retusa Linn. Yule Island. For ornamental planting 

 this tree is one of the very best of the Figs, having a great 

 spread of dense dark-green foliage. 



[F. fistulosa Reinw. Ambasi, Rev. Copland King ; S.E. 

 New Guinea, H. 0. Forbes (ex Nat. Herb. Melb.) ; Sogeri, 



H. 0. Forbes (ex Nat. Herb. Melb.)] 

 F. myriocarpa jNliq. Javararie. 



It is with some hesitation that I refer these specimens to F. 

 myriocarpa; the leaves are densely hirsute but scarcely hispid and 

 certainly not hispid on both surfaces. The identification wants confirming 

 with better material. 



