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spiny, and has white or nearly white flowers. The PhiUppine fonn 

 which approximates your New Guinea specimen has purple or violet 

 flowers, and I am by no means certain whether it can be referred to 



S. fori'uni.'" 



S. repandum Forst. F. Muell. Pap. PI., i (v), 91. 8ogeri. 

 S. discolor R. Br. Bioto (Mekeo District). 



Family SCROPHULARIACE^. 

 Limnophila gratioloides R. Br. F. Muell. Pap. PI., ii (ix), 



63 ; Ann. Rep. B.N.G. 1889-90, 107. 



Vandellia cmstacea Benth. F. Muell. Pap. PL, i (v), 99 ; 

 Bail. Queens. Agric. Journ., xxii, 148 : Hemsley in Kew Bull. 

 1899, 107. Sogeri. 



Boimaya veronicsefolia Spreng. Laloki River ; Mekeo 

 District. 



Buchnera urticiiolia R. Br. Mt. Warirata. 



Family BIGNONIACE^. 



Diplanthera tetraphylla R. Br. Astrolabe Range and 

 Sogeri. A verj^ common tree. 



Family GESNERIACE^. 



Boea lanuginosa Sch. & Laut. Bisiatabu (on rocks). My 

 specimens are rather fragmentary but belong, I believe, to the 

 above. 



Rhjmcoglossum obliquum Bl. Deva Deva. A pretty 

 blue-flowered herb common along forest tracks in the Mafulu 

 District. 



Family ACANTHACE.E. 



An account of the Acanthacese collected will be found in- 

 a paper " Acanthacese Papuanse" by Mr. Spencer Le M. Moore, 

 B.Sc, F.L.S., in the '• Journal of Botany," vol. 58, pp. 190-195 

 (1920). 



Family RUBIACEiE. 



(By Spencer Le M. Moore, B.Sc. F.L.S., Dept. of Botany. 

 British Museum of Natural History, London.) 



Nauclea Chalmersii F. Muell. Pap. PL, ii (viii), 44. 

 Bisiatabu (357). 



[Uncaria pediceliata Roxb. Boku, Mrs. H. P. Schlencker.] 



[U. appendiculata Benth. B. N. Guinea (without precise 

 locality), W. E. AmiL] 



